The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

With much surprise for us all, HTC has just announced the Vive Focus Plus , its first full 6 DOF standalone headset! The Vive Focus Plus, in all its majesty (Image by HTC). Internal view of the Vive Focus Plus (Image by HTC). Do you want to know more? Well, you are in the right place. The Vive Focus Plus.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Old Enemies – HTC. While both Oculus’ Rift and HTC’s Vive hit the market right around the same time in 2016, the Vive was the first system with motion controllers and room-scale. A Tale of Two Headsets. With that, Vive also offered the most immersive VR experience. The Middle.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). For example, we invited senior executives from HUAWEI, JBD, HTC, Alibaba, iQIYI, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and so on.

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JANUARY 4, 2017

Vive (HTC). What We Know: Today at 1pm HTC will be hosting a press conference to discuss its HTC Vive virtual reality headset. The Vive released earlier this year and HTC has been fiercely committed to the product’s success ever since. What To Expect : HTC has made its tracking system open-sourced for public use.

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VRScout

AUGUST 24, 2016

billion in 2016 to more than $162 billion in 2020. More than half of the revenue will come from VR/AR hardware sales. HTC Vive most talked about headset on social media. According to the latest Adobe 2016 Gaming report , HTC Vive has been rising above the competition.

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2017

” 2016 saw the arrival of 3 major consumer virtual reality headsets, the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR. But it’s reasonable to say that the high cost of VR headsets and the gaming hardware needed to support them, is keeping high-end VR accessibility low right now. billion in 2016 to $18.6

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Road to VR

AUGUST 29, 2017

Yesterday’s announcement that Steam will support the forthcoming Windows VR headsets was big news which means that when owners get their hands on the headsets this holiday, they’ll have a strong library of VR content to draw from while Microsoft builds up its own library of VR games and apps on the Windows store.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

In the case of VR, we all remember the competition between HTC and Oculus in 2016, with HTC clearly winning the market until Oculus used Facebook’s money to slash the price of the Rift around 2017. To these, you have to add the companies that are already competing, like for instance HTC or HP. AR glasses.

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Road to VR

JULY 11, 2017

Zooming out, we see the blobby-guy avatar is in fact controlled by a person using an HTC Vive standing just out of frame, creating a digital sunflower with some species of art program like Tilt Brush (2016). Normal is building this on readily available, cost-effective hardware and it seems to work perfectly.

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AUGUST 26, 2022

Not only does the document chart Bellevue-based Valve’s evolution from a game development company to the proprietor of the dominant global games marketplace as well as a hardware maker, the booklet also highlights the technologies Valve worked on. “Valve will support Steam Deck and SteamOS well into the foreseeable future. .

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VRWorld

AUGUST 23, 2016

Microsoft and Intel are expected to reveal the Windows 10 Holographic Edition specs and 2017 PCs at the unveil of Kaby Lake processors, which should take place during the WinHEC Fall 2016 (Windows Hardware Engineering Community) conference which will take place in Shenzhen, China during December 2016.

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JULY 24, 2017

The first version of Valve’s SteamVR platform provided us with superior 360 degree room-scale tracking and position-tracked hand input at the hefty price of $799 via HTC’s Vive. Will HTC cut Vive’s price? But regardless of context, these moves put a heck of a lot of pressure on HTC’s Vive.

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Road to VR

JULY 5, 2017

inches diagonally that boast 3,000 pixels per inch (PPI)—a significant jump from Oculus Rift of HTC Vive’s 447-461 PPI. It’s also difficult to say how a hardware-based solution will stand up to everyday use since it requires lenses to physically move every time your eye shifts position. image courtesy Ubergizmo.

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VRScout

MAY 30, 2017

I’ve been a big fan of the cute little Samsung Gear 360 camera since its first unveiling in the spring of 2016, and always recommend it to people inquiring about the best consumer-friendly 360 cameras out there. The cost is lower than the 2016 version with a pricetag of $229 and you can record in up to 4K resolution.

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Road to VR

JUNE 14, 2016

The expo floor opens today, but this year’s E3 in Los Angeles has already kicked off with some big names in the industry making fresh commitments to VR on both the software and hardware side of things. Here we take a look at the top 5 announcements from Day 0 of E3, ranked in no particular order (because who would agree?):

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DECEMBER 11, 2016

It’s been about nine months since the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive officially launched the age of consumer-ready virtual reality and there’s no denying we’ve had some great times immersed in our personal holodecks. How do you grow the install base without those big games that are required to sell the hardware? You see the problem, right?

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The Oculus Rift and Touch, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR (PSVR), Google Daydream, Samsung Gear VR, and so many other headsets are all available for purchase. But if 2016 was VR’s debut year, then 2017 needs to be the year of VR content. On the hardware side, we don’t expect much news. What to Expect from HTC.

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Road to VR

MARCH 18, 2018

When it comes to HTC, most everyone’s mind is on the Vive Pro. With GDC being the last major event in Q1, hosted just a week before the end of the quarter, and given the presence of HTC at GDC in years past, it certainly seems like the appropriate place and time to reveal the price and release date of the Vive Pro, if not a delay.

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Road to VR

JUNE 13, 2016

Microsoft tonight dropped the bomb that it was indeed joining the VR race and it was developing the console hardware to power it’s offering, Xbox Scorpio. Phil Spencer took to the stage at Microsoft’s pre-E3 show tonight to rundown the division’s plans for hardware and Xbox’s future.

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MARCH 4, 2017

CES 2016 and the week of the initial Oculus Kickstarter campaign are both strong contenders. Sony kicked off the week by revealing it sold nearly 1 million PSVR headsets, and Oculus introduced huge $100 price cuts to both its Oculus Rift and Oculus Touch hardware. In fact, it was the industry’s best week yet.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

In 2014, 2015 and 2016 The Proto Awards were held to recognize some of the groundbreaking efforts pushing forward the emerging medium of VR content. Apple’s eye-catching ARKit is on the verge of release alongside a series of Microsoft-backed VR headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

On the contrary, Microsoft has worked a lot on the platform, to make it more appealing to enterprise customers. It has released experiences like Microsoft Remote Assist, that let different teams in a company work together to solve maintenance problems. Of course, it will exploit the already awesome Microsoft platform.

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APRIL 1, 2022

Guiding you through the world’s biggest projects, latest releases, and premiere launches within XR, hosts Daniel Colaianni and Nicola Rosa share their wealth of knowledge alongside special guests from around the world, including pioneers from ILMxLAB, NASA, Google and Microsoft. Between Realities. VR Download. Special Mention 1.

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VRWorld

APRIL 9, 2017

In a bid to cross the chasm between Augmented and Virtual Reality, Microsoft is starting to push the new buzzword: mixed reality. On Tuesday, Microsoft is hitting back. In a video below, Microsoft explains mixed reality in Windows 10 and the differences between AR and VR. HDMI: HDMI 1.4 with 2880 x 1440 @ 60 Hz, HDMI 2.0

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Thanks to the support of HTC, Rob is experimenting with Vive Trackers , and is very eager to tell you everything about his experiments with them, in a series of two very detailed posts. The post finishes also with the little surprise of an interview with HTC’s Shen Ye. HTC Vive Trackers (Image by Rob Cole). Introduction.

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VRScout

MAY 3, 2017

PlayStation looks to an arcade rollout, Shazam goes augmented, AMD wants to go wireless, HTC Viveport’s new subscription service, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… You can enjoy the full audio recording below: IT’S NOW WAY EASIER TO COMBINE 360 VIDEO AND ANIMATION. ICYMI: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW FROM FACEBOOK’S F8 CONFERENCE.

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VRWorld

JUNE 19, 2016

With the conclusion of E3 2016 trade show, which took place last week in Los Angeles, California – many international guests went on for the hunt for several hot ticketed items – HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and of course, Pascal-based GeForce GTX 1070 and GTX 1080. Kudos to Microsoft for in-store availability.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

The Odyssey VR headset has been long time coming ( since the leak of its name in early 2016 ), and a number of leaks have indicated that its formal announcement is coming very soon. The timing of this coincides with the upcoming Microsoft Mixed Reality Event next week and SDC next month. Let’s tackle a few of these.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

Ludwig presented a screenshot (seen at the top of this article) of SteamVR running on Linux (distribution undefined), powered by the open source graphics API Vulkan , in turn powering an HTC Vive VR headset. ” SEE ALSO Platform Politics: Inside the Oculus and 'Revive' Dilemma.

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VeeR VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

2014 was also the year that Samsung announced the Samsung VR gear that would eventually be released in 2016. . In 2016, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Playstation VR were all released. Because of how pricey the VR headsets and handsets were, most of the VR users in 2016 were underwhelmed with the VR's affordability.

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AUGUST 2, 2019

We’ve been working in XR Technologies — first virtual reality, and then augmented reality — since 2016. In September of 2016, I attended a group meeting with some folks in Dallas, and then by January of 2017, we had our first major product in a school. Or do they want you to come in with the hardware?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 2, 2019

We’ve been working in XR Technologies — first virtual reality, and then augmented reality — since 2016. In September of 2016, I attended a group meeting with some folks in Dallas, and then by January of 2017, we had our first major product in a school. Or do they want you to come in with the hardware?

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Over time we think AR and VR converge into a world that the Microsoft folks call “mixed reality.” So, for me, there’s a set of technological things that feel further off in terms of what you might call “high-end AR” compared to what we are seeing in a “high-end VR” experience like an HTC Vive.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

In January 2014, he launched his second print titled The Startup Monthly in May 2016, he launched — what I love — VRVoice.co, a content vertical on all things virtual reality. One my the reasons I started looking at VR again in 2016 was because of that video gaming interest. A lot of companies focusing on it.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

In January 2014, he launched his second print titled The Startup Monthly in May 2016, he launched — what I love — VRVoice.co, a content vertical on all things virtual reality. One my the reasons I started looking at VR again in 2016 was because of that video gaming interest. A lot of companies focusing on it.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 2, 2019

We've been working in XR Technologies -- first virtual reality, and then augmented reality -- since 2016. In September of 2016, I attended a group meeting with some folks in Dallas, and then by January of 2017, we had our first major product in a school. In 2016, moving into XR technologies was a natural transition for us.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

In January 2014, he launched his second print titled The Startup Monthly in May 2016, he launched -- what I love -- VRVoice.co, a content vertical on all things virtual reality. One my the reasons I started looking at VR again in 2016 was because of that video gaming interest. A lot of companies focusing on it. It has to be real-time.

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