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A Complete Guide to Virtual Reality

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Some of the leading companies like Meta Platforms, Pico Interactive, HTC VIVE, Lenovo, and Varjo Technologies, among others, have been leading global markets with their devices. Meta, Pico, HTC VIVE, and Varjo headsets all incorporate this new technology. The History of VR.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.11.09): PS5 doesn’t improve PSVR, VRChat reaches 24,000 concurrent users, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Portugal, Poland, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. This is even more than the 20,000 concurrent users of early 2018 when the app went viral on Twitch. HTC Vive celebrates the holidays giving 100% rev share to developers.

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The Virtual Arena: Educators Learn Their VR

Peter Graham

This column previously covered the 2018 BETT show and how VR was immerging as a possible EdTech trend – but with BETT 2020 the event cemented this movement, with a vast array of new developments and applications for this technology, and growth of previous early adopters. Image credit: KWP. Image credit: KWP.

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Project Caliper: the journey of prototyping optimal controllers for VR

The Ghost Howls

A big tranche of patents was released earlier this year following the termination of a lawsuit against an optics supplier they’d made a $9 million investment into back in 2018. These optical windows were a proud design feature on the HTC Vive headsets, but are much more subtle on the Index equipment making them harder to identify.