Road to VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

HTC released a video showing off its vision of the metaverse, a reflection of what the company thinks virtual spaces will look like in the near future. HTC’s most recent concept video isn’t at fault for shooting for the stars. And… it’s not a great look. Some ideas are inevitable. Meta: A Polarizing Trendsetter.

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TechCrunch VR

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Today, HTC has revealed their latest consumer-focused headset, the $499 Vive Flow. HTC is embracing several hardware features designed around miniaturization that we haven’t seen in other headsets. The headset overall hosts a lightweight design more akin to the Magic Leap One than existing standalone headsets.

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Magic Leap finally dropped to mixed reviews and BrainXchange published its Definitive Guide to Adopting Wearables, AR and VR in Enterprise. Going into 2019, the industry eagerly awaits HoloLens 2 and Glass Enterprise Edition 2, as rumors swirl around the possibility of AR glasses from Apple and/or Facebook in the near future.

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Tech Trends VR

MARCH 11, 2019

So many green pigs that must be got, yet so little time… Rovio and Resolution Games have brought out a fully immersive version of their popular Angry Birds franchise for the HTC VIVE and Oculus Rift. Angry Birds VR Now Available On Oculus Rift & HTC Vive via @alicebonasio [link] pic.twitter.com/AB2V4Bldbj.

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Tech Trends VR

AUGUST 30, 2019

L’Oréal, Ford, HTC Vive, Nestlé and more discuss the future of immersive technologies across different industry verticals in the massively popular VRX webinar series. The 2019 VRX Webinar Series includes: State of the XR Market – What are the Latest Tech Innovations and Where’s the Growth? Get access to the webinar recordings here.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Dubbed Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs (2019) , the bird-shooting puzzle game is now available on Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Resolution Games is both developer and publisher of Angry Birds VR, having developed Angry Birds FPS: First Person Slingshot for Magic Leap One, and also VR titles Bait!,

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2022

It was more of a conceptual showcase at the time, the report maintains, as some prototypes ran on Windows while others were based on the original HTC Vive. Ive has since departed the company in 2019 to pursue his own design company, LoveFrom. Rockwell, Meier and Rothkopf soon encountered pushback from Ive’s team.

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VRScout

JANUARY 9, 2020

[link] @EdWeekEdTech @EdMarketBrief @educationweek #edtech #VR #AR #videogame #videogames @playtablecraft @schellgames @NWEA — Michelle Goldchain (@goldchainam) January 23, 2019. Thank you @usedgov for hosting us at the 2019 Ed Games Expo. Looking forward to witnessing the evolution of learning!

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 9, 2019

There’s just over a week to go until the European leg of the Augmented World Expo (AWE) 2019, offering a chance for virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) professionals from around the world to get together, share ideas, and test the latest immersive technologies. Image credit: AWE USA 2019. Image credit: AWE USA 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap pivots to enterprise, lays off 1,000 employes. With a long post on Magic Leap’s blog, in the end Rony Abovitz has admitted that the company is not going that well, and has announced a new course, that should eventually lead to Magic Leap 2. Top news of the week.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 15, 2024

The OpenXR API is a core piece behind many XR headsets from vendors such as Acer, ByteDance, Canon, HTC, Magic Leap, Meta, Microsoft, Sony, XREAL, Qualcomm, Valve, and Varjo. ” Wu also noted that HTC VIVE supports OpenXR 1.1 on PC and AIO.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Before 2019, headsets were largely tethered to PCs, and Qualcomm helped to ‘cut the cord’ and enable the next evolution of standalone devices. This began with devices from Lenovo, HTC VIVE, Pico Interactive, and Meta Platforms, so the growth we’ve seen for consumer use cases has been very strong since then.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 26, 2019

Ang is promising to showcase a number of VR headsets in his library, including Oculus Quest, Oculus Rift S, Samsung Odyssey Plus, Vive Pro, HP Reverb, Valve Index, Pimax 5K Plus, Pimax 5K XR, HTC Vive Cosmos, and StarVR One, a headset intended for the enterprise sector.

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Upload VR

MAY 20, 2022

The product was apparently originally supposed to launch in 2019 but this has slipped several times. Early prototypes in 2016 used jury-rigged HTC Vives and software running on Microsoft Windows, with one being so heavy it had to be suspended by a small crane.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 30, 2019

Image by HTC). HTC has revealed new info on the Cosmos. Every week, HTC is revealing new info on the upcoming Vive Cosmos. These are interesting specs, that make the Cosmos the best headset that HTC has ever released. At MWC Shanghai, HTC has made various announcements for what concerns virtual reality.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 5, 2020

But as far as I know, nothing disruptive for the industry : Oculus has already shots all its bullets, and HTC for the first time isn’t announcing anything. in 2019 thanks to new headsets like the Oculus Quest. HTC is celebrating the new year with a $100 discount on the Vive Cosmos running from 1th to 10th of January. Let’s see.

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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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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

In 2019, the company started a new initiative to bring “Lean Six Sigma” processes to the entire Aptiv supply chain. HTC Vive and Penn State. With the help of the HTC Vive environment, Penn State has been able to create a comprehensive environment for training and educational immersion. Meta Oculus and Aptiv.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

million USD in funding during 2019 followed by the launch of its mobile beta app at the end of last year, Uhive has big aspirations to create a community that feels more connected to its experience thanks to cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. Having raised $2.3 As Uhive expands its efforts to include VR, VRFocus will let you know.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Meleap (pronounced “may-leap”) is a combination of the words “Merry” and “Leap”. As of 2019, we are an expanding private company with about 40 people based in Japan and funded by Japanese venture capitalists. The Vive Pro Eye just launched by HTC at CES (Image by HTC). What is Meleap?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Trainees could use Microsoft HoloLens 2 and Magic Leap headsets, as well as tablets and smartphones for the platform. The former Hangar 51 alumnus demoed the immersive entertainment system in 2019 to host films, documentaries, and travel programmes. The 10-week course instructed aviation staff on using its Manifest platform.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Don’t misunderstand me: I’m a huge fan of passthrough mixed reality , and I’ve always bragged about being among the first group of people who experimented with it on the first generation of standalone headsets (to be exact, on the Vive Focus Plus, in 2019). None of them made XR to skyrocket.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2019

This signs seems to say: 2019 World Conference on NO VR INDUSTRY. One of the AR devices that I wanted to try out since the moment I talked about it on my post about CES 2019 is RealMax. Me with a Droolon F1 inside an HTC Vive Cosmos! So, if you need help, they will do the best to support you. So…ehm…is VR a fad?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

This is a simpler mechanism than the waveguides employed by Microsoft HoloLens 2 or by Magic Leap, and while it may provide a bit less immersive holograms, it is the only way to provide affordable wide-FOV glasses at the moment. Realmax has an SDK that is compatible with Unity 2017 and Unity 2019.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 26, 2018

This year was awesome for VR gaming, but 2019 is looking even brighter with a slew of highly polished titles coming to PSVR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Here we take a look at 15 tantalizing VR titles confirmed for release in 2019. Release date : Early 2019. Release date : 2019. Release date : 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 7, 2019

HTC Vive Cosmos will work with Vive Wireless Adapter. This week, HTC has not made another big reveal about the Vive Cosmos, so we’ll still have to wait to discover more about its price and its features. It’s more a logistic thing internal to HTC, so I think most of us can not care about this :D. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

confirmed with the company that it may not be a Niantic-branded pair of glasses, but a reference design that Niantic is building with Qualcomm since 2019. I mean… HTC controls five other social VR experiences in its XR Suite, it is weird that now it is partnering with a competitor company. What puzzles me is why this partnership.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Google can count on the acquisition of North, the experience he has matured by producing Google Glass and investing in Magic Leap, and the fact that it owns the most-used mobile operating system. Magic Leap will meet its fate. Duck Face, Magic Leap One, and me. What about Magic Leap ?

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

And they rolled out their 5G network in the nation in April 2019, and together are drawing more than three million subscribers in the first seven months of the launch. And I think it's a really interesting point, because many VR users tend to buy VR to play games, including Steam or Oculus or HTC Vive. Joonmo: Yes, right.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

And they rolled out their 5G network in the nation in April 2019, and together are drawing more than three million subscribers in the first seven months of the launch. And I think it's a really interesting point, because many VR users tend to buy VR to play games, including Steam or Oculus or HTC Vive. Joonmo: Yes, right.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

As I’m thinking back to it now, this was actually on HTC VIVE — first gen, which was only maybe 3, 4 years ago now — and I was so impressed with the first generation of hardware that I was like, “well, this is ready for prime time.” Alan: Absolutely. It’s an interesting first gen product. Alan: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

As I’m thinking back to it now, this was actually on HTC VIVE — first gen, which was only maybe 3, 4 years ago now — and I was so impressed with the first generation of hardware that I was like, “well, this is ready for prime time.” Alan: Absolutely. It’s an interesting first gen product. Alan: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

And they rolled out their 5G network in the nation in April 2019, and together are drawing more than three million subscribers in the first seven months of the launch. And I think it's a really interesting point, because many VR users tend to buy VR to play games, including Steam or Oculus or HTC Vive. Joonmo: Yes, right.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

As I'm thinking back to it now, this was actually on HTC VIVE -- first gen, which was only maybe 3, 4 years ago now -- and I was so impressed with the first generation of hardware that I was like, "well, this is ready for prime time." Bob: I got to tell you, 2019 is turning out to be an extremely exciting year, from a hardware perspective.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And then, as of 2019 — by the end of this year — they’ll kind of cross. I mean, it sort of makes more sense to me that, as long as the prices for the headsets are lingering up pretty high — like the Cosmos from HTC, the brand new one, it’ll be an $800 purchase. Dean: Yeah, I think. Alan: It seems like it.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And then, as of 2019 — by the end of this year — they’ll kind of cross. I mean, it sort of makes more sense to me that, as long as the prices for the headsets are lingering up pretty high — like the Cosmos from HTC, the brand new one, it’ll be an $800 purchase. Dean: Yeah, I think. Alan: It seems like it.

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