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. This technology, along with Varjo VST, jump-starts the immersive computing age overnight – VR is no longer a curiosity, but now can be a professional tool for all industries.” image courtesy Ubergizmo.

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VRScout

MAY 30, 2017

or later you can use the Gear 360 app (unfortunately, this is not a retrograde compatibility– it only affects the new 2017 version). THE STANDALONE MOBILE HEADSET THAT HTC IS KEEPING IN JAPAN. THE STANDALONE MOBILE HEADSET THAT HTC IS KEEPING IN JAPAN. AIRLINES TESTING AUGMENTED REALITY TO READ YOUR EMOTIONS.

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TechCrunch VR

JUNE 1, 2022

TRIPP/EvolVR’s group meditations can be experienced live on several platforms, such as Microsoft’s AltspaceVR and Meta’s Horizon Worlds. Other participants include Qualcomm, Amazon Alexa Fund, HTC and Pokémon GO maker Niantic, as well as existing investor Mayfield, which has been backing TRIPP for a while. ”

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MAY 21, 2017

Kim Pallister, the director of Intel’s virtual reality center of excellence, moderated a fireside chat about that topic with science fiction writer Austin Grossman at our recent GamesBeat Summit 2017: How games, sci-fi, and tech create real-world magic. Image Credit: Michael O’Donnell/VentureBeat.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

More or less AR in 2018 has gone as I predicted in 2017. 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. Magic Leap.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

.” Pixvana maintains that a preview version of their SPIN Player will be available soon, with the publisher close to follow in early 2017. As ‘platform agnostic’ player, we’re sure to see apps available for headsets such as Samsung Gear VR, HTC Vive, Google Daydream, and Oculus Rift.

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VeeR VR

OCTOBER 11, 2018

But you can have high-quality VR gaming experiences on your Playstation VR, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive even on your IOS and Android phones. We rounded up different types of VR games that worth playing on PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive IOS and Android to give you the premium gaming experience. Microsoft Windows Mixed Reality.

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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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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

MasterpieceVR is a 3D creation tool that’s looking to get an edge on the competition by offering something no other volumetric art program has so far; a multi-user, spectator-friendly, sculpting and painting tool that promises to house everything you need in a single place. VR was the medium to do this in.

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VRWorld

JULY 5, 2017

More sharp eyed readers of this post can see the pixel grid on both HTC Vive and Oculus Rift headsets, and this is where Varjo hopes to make the difference. “This technology, along with Varjo VST, jump-starts the immersive computing age overnight – VR is no longer a curiosity, but now can be a professional tool for all industries.”

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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

JULY 19, 2017

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies – CEO Dirk Ahlborn debuts their VR experience for the station and boarding and their AR collaboration tool Beem on the Microsoft HoloLens. A fully immersive experience in the cosmos using the HTC Vive VR platform, SUBPAC, and headphones. Also available in VR – with both forms being demoed.

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JANUARY 9, 2017

As we look forward to 2017 then, we’ve reached out to a bunch of industry experts and insiders to get their views on where we’re headed over the next 12 months. We asked all of these developers the same four questions: 1) What do you think will happen to the VR/AR market in 2017? 2) What NEEDS to happen to the VR AR market in 2017?

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The Holodeck Year 2: Growing the VR Ecosystem in 2017. Rikard Steiber (HTC), Joel Breton (HTC). As President of Viveport and Head of Vive Studios respectively, Rikard Steiber and Joel Breton are two of the most senior figures working on the HTC Vive today. Tagged with: GDC , GDC 2017 , VR talks.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

From time to time, I like to look at the adoption graph of XR shown by John Riccitiello (the CEO of Unity) in 2017 , where you can see that the real acceleration of immersive technologies should start around 2022-2023. Companies like Pico, HP, Valve, and HTC are already performing very well in this sector. The rise of enterprise.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

HTC has finally revealed the price of the Vive Pro : it will cost $799 just to have the headset (no controller and no base stations, so you must already have a Vive 1 kit) and will be available for pre-orders since April, 5th. But, as Road To VR has stated, maybe HTC should have clarified that in all its marketing material.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

We captured the transition from a couple companies shipping development tools to hobbyists into a fast-moving industry driven by some of the world’s largest tech companies, each of which is selling increasingly sophisticated systems directly to consumers. In December, these plans become known. January 2016.

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APRIL 5, 2017

10:35 am – 10:55 am | Expanding the VR Ecosystem hosted by Rikard Steiber of HTC . 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm | Creating Experiences for the Hololens with Unity hosted by Kat Harris and Adam Tuliper of Microsoft. The HoloLens is a new, mixed reality device from Microsoft. This workshop is an introduction to the HoloLens.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

A Horizon game is coming for this new headset, and some rumors talk also about Half-Life: Alyx potentially be available in the future; HTC has announced the Vive Wrist Tracker, a 6 DOF tracker for the Vive Focus 3. This is why companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Meta are exploring similar technologies.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

And I can’t help but notice that the difference from auto-stereoscopic 3D, VR was a technology and an ecosystem that is joined by a lot of leading global brands such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Huawei, etc. So business is growing stronger and stronger. It’s like when tablets came into a school. Kai: I agree.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

And I can’t help but notice that the difference from auto-stereoscopic 3D, VR was a technology and an ecosystem that is joined by a lot of leading global brands such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Huawei, etc. So business is growing stronger and stronger. It’s like when tablets came into a school. Kai: I agree.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

And I can't help but notice that the difference from auto-stereoscopic 3D, VR was a technology and an ecosystem that is joined by a lot of leading global brands such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Huawei, etc. So business is growing stronger and stronger. It's like when tablets came into a school. Tablets didn't replace teachers.

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Road to VR

MARCH 24, 2017

Today’s most immersive virtual reality systems, like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, rely on a bothersome tether to send power and high fidelity imagery to the headset at low latency. 265 profiles which can provide even better compression using tools like multi view and screen content coding tools. We will adopt future H.265

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Robert Scoble

JUNE 1, 2019

Some people denigrated early efforts, like the VR headsets that HTC and Oculus produced, as a fad, comparing it to the Segway or earlier 3DTV attempts. We saw dozens of people fly like birds while experiencing one of Chris Milk’s creations at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017.

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DECEMBER 14, 2016

While both it and the HTC Vive push forward in the high-end PC space, the desire for tetherless, more affordable products has given birth to smartphone-based mobile headsets like the Oculus-powered Gear VR, made in partnership with Samsung. Of course, we shouldn’t ignore Microsoft’s role in the mixed reality industry.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 2, 2019

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. We had a nice big bump at the beginning of the year with Microsoft. Are you seeing many people in the US using the HTC products at all, or is it mostly Oculus? Alan: Excellent.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 2, 2019

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. We had a nice big bump at the beginning of the year with Microsoft. Are you seeing many people in the US using the HTC products at all, or is it mostly Oculus? Alan: Excellent.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. Microsoft Hololens is a key player in the MR market. ARKit  — ARKit is one of the powerful AR SDK released by Apple on 2017 to build AR solutions using iOS devices.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 2, 2019

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. We had a nice big bump at the beginning of the year with Microsoft. Are you seeing many people in the US using the HTC products at all, or is it mostly Oculus? Alan: Excellent.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

And building those back-end tools, coding, setting up standards and everything, up to 2011. Alan: So how is IKEA using these tools now? So all the way up to-- we did VR stuff with ARKit in 2017 -- if I don't say wrong -- then all the way up to there it was marker based. Martin: That story has been told a few times.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

And building those back-end tools, coding, setting up standards and everything, up to 2011. Alan: So how is IKEA using these tools now? So all the way up to-- we did VR stuff with ARKit in 2017 -- if I don't say wrong -- then all the way up to there it was marker based. Martin: That story has been told a few times.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

And building those back-end tools, coding, setting up standards and everything, up to 2011. Alan: So how is IKEA using these tools now? So all the way up to-- we did VR stuff with ARKit in 2017 -- if I don't say wrong -- then all the way up to there it was marker based. Martin: That story has been told a few times.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond. You're seeing the world go digital and the creation tools to make such exploding. You have HTC in China dominating the Chinese market with their headsets. They bought a product called Vuforia back from Qualcomm, I believe in 2016 or 2017.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond. You're seeing the world go digital and the creation tools to make such exploding. You have HTC in China dominating the Chinese market with their headsets. They bought a product called Vuforia back from Qualcomm, I believe in 2016 or 2017.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond. You're seeing the world go digital and the creation tools to make such exploding. You have HTC in China dominating the Chinese market with their headsets. They bought a product called Vuforia back from Qualcomm, I believe in 2016 or 2017.

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Machine Learning Education Apple Technology 60

VRScout

DECEMBER 13, 2016

When the first consumer version of the Oculus Rift was launched in the spring, it was disappointingly bundled with a Microsoft Xbox controller – and we’ve eagerly been awaiting the native Touch Controllers. HTC VIVE LAUNCHES VIVE STUDIOS. HTC Vive is helping the big issue of the state of virtual reality today: lack of content.

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VRScout

JANUARY 24, 2017

Oculus on trial, HTC Vive building the ecosystem with tech and purpose, now you can smell your VR porn, augmented reality helping improve spinal surgeries, the first IMAX VR center lands in LA, investment and funding wrapup, and lots more… You can enjoy the full audio recording below: OCULUS ON TRIAL. MICROSOFT: WINDOWS 10 HOLOGRAPHIC.

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