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JUNE 18, 2021

2021 is no exception, with tech giants announcing and giving hints of the next big news for Virtual Reality (VR) headsets. The big question is, whether we should be expecting any major announcements in 2021? To answer that, we will be looking into the five VR devices that are making headlines in 2021 in one or the other way.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 1, 2024

Firms such as AWS, Samsung, and HTC VIVE took to the event to showcase the future of work and paradigm-shifting immersive technology. Now, it appears that a wider breadth of vendors and service providers will populate the XR marketplace, building a future shy from Meta’s 2021/22 hold on the market.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 1, 2021

We can bet whatever the company has in store, it will be leaning into BCI in the same way it did when it partnered with HTC to build the first HTC Vive in 2015, the first consumer VR headset to ship with motion controllers.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 31, 2022

percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) between 2021 and 2026. billion USD in 2021 to $84.09 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. Currently, the VR market is expected to grow from $6.3

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

The Quest 2 is quite powerful and so Facebook has confirmed tha t in 2021 there won’t be the need for a Quest 2 Pro as some people were supposing. NVIDIA doubles down on Cloud Rendering and Omniverse at GTC 2021. HTC is going to launch its headset on May, 11th. HTC is keeping rising the hype for its new upcoming headset.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 7, 2021

First HTC teased an upcoming product to be revealed next week , and now high-end headset marker Varjo says it plans to unveil its “most highly anticipated product release yet” on October 21st, just days before Facebook Connect on the 26th. — Varjo (@varjodotcom) October 6, 2021.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Flagship products such as the Meta Quest Pro, Pico 4 and Pico 4 Enterprise, and HTC VIVE Focus 3 and Flow devices have recently hit shelves, sparking interest in the emerging technology. The number of global VR startups increased by over 14 from 2020 and 2021. VR Trends for 2022. Enhanced Headsets.

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JANUARY 6, 2023

HTC’s Quest Pro competitor is Vive XR Elite, shipping in February for $1100. Vive XR Elite has a compact design achieved via the use of pancake lenses, which look to be the same as Vive Flow’s from late 2021. HTC pitches Vive XR Elite’s passthrough as noticeably superior, with higher resolution and dynamic range.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Regarding technologies, the Metaverse will incorporate artificial intelligence (AI), virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR), the internet of things (IoT), and hand and eye tracking tools. Theme and amusement parks have begun incorporating VR technologies from HTC VIVE for novel attractions. VR Theme Parks.

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ARPost

MARCH 17, 2021

We know that Rift, and even Quest 2, are capable of limited pass-through, despite not yet having features like the advanced eye-tracking that Varjo brings to the table. HTC VIVE Cosmos Playing the Long Game. HTC’s VIVE is another major Varjo competitor at this level of play. Pico Has a 2021 Third Gen VR Headset Too.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Enterprise-grade XR collaboration and guidance applications enable a workforce to engage with one another at an increased level, using integrated technology like avatars, gesture-tracking, eye-tracking, and spatial audio. VR’s CAGR comes following the market’s 2021 valuation of $21.83 from 2022 to 2030.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2024

The headset has some wholly unique capabilities not seen on other consumer VR headsets, like eye-tracking, head-haptics, and adaptive triggers. However, Vive XR Elite’s $1,100 price-point put it more in line with Meta’s Quest Pro which was initially priced at $1,500 before Meta undercut HTC by dropping it to $1,000.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Cardenas claimed the boxes were left in a hotel – and that if the owner doesn’t claim them in a week “they’re mine” Meta still refers to Quest Pro as Project Cambria – the codename given when it was announced at Connect 2021.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

Here’s an on-paper comparison between it, HTC’s Vive Focus 3, and Meta’s Quest Pro : Pico 4 Enterprise. HTC Vive Focus 3. Pixels Per Eye. Eye Tracking. ?. Upper Face Tracking. ??. ??. ?. Lower Face Tracking. Controller Tracking. Self Tracking. Face & Eye Tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2023

Image by HTC Vive). HTC’s new headset may be called Vive XR Elite. Thanks to the support of the community member Inscothen, I have discovered that the Korean website of HTC may have leaked the info about the upcoming headset that the company should unveil at this CES. Top news of the week. The Oculus Quest had a good Christmas.

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ARPost

MARCH 17, 2021

We know that Rift, and even Quest 2, are capable of limited pass-through, despite not yet having features like the advanced eye-tracking that Varjo brings to the table. HTC VIVE Cosmos Playing the Long Game. HTC’s VIVE is another major Varjo competitor at this level of play. Pico Has a 2021 Third Gen VR Headset Too.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

This is not a tweet, it is a #metaverse message… #VirtualReality #VR #AR pic.twitter.com/f9aDJ2mbc3 — TonyVT SkarredGhost (@SkarredGhost) July 25, 2021. If it manages to enter the European market, it means that Meta can sell many millions of headsets more than in 2021. Eye tracking. HoloLens has been warned.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

Although, an emerging presence in the development space is hand and eye tracking. AR/VR/MR headsets are increasingly equipped with hand and eye tracking technology. Previously, commercial XR devices like the Meta Quest had experimented with hand-tracking features which improved as the device matured.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

Although, an emerging presence in the development space is hand and eye tracking. AR/VR/MR headsets are increasingly equipped with hand and eye tracking technology. Previously, commercial XR devices like the Meta Quest had experimented with hand-tracking features which improved as the device matured.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

HTC Vive Wrist Tracker. HTC Vive Wrist Tracker (Image by HTC). HTC has made an announcement at this CES and it has been a pretty cool one. The company has just revealed the Vive Wrist Tracker, which is an external 6DOF tracking unit that can be put on the wrist of the user or also on external props.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

PSVR 2 will have eye-tracking from Tobii and maybe a detachable cable. First of all, its eye-tracking technology will be provided by Tobii , one of the market leaders in the field. More info (Tobii will provide eye tracking to PSVR 2) More info (PSVR 2 cable is detachable) More info (First PSVR 2 picture in the wild?—?Road

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

This is the first newsletter of Autumn 2021: I think I’ll miss the sun but for sure not the mosquitos. But maybe the system performs sensor fusion between all the three cameras to create a colored stereo passthrough Two 480p 120FPS eye-tracking cameras Two 400p 120FPS face-tracking cameras.

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OCTOBER 1, 2022

Quest Pro is slated to launch this month, inaugurating Meta’s “prosumer / industrial-grade mixed reality product line” Meta still refers to Quest Pro as Project Cambria – the codename given when it was announced at Connect 2021. Eye Tracking & Face Tracking. Target Audience.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

HTC is looking to differentiate itself in consumer VR with Vive XR Elite. Starting at $1100, the Vive XR Elite marks HTC’s initial effort to reclaim some of the consumer standalone VR market after retreating to focus on enterprises. Vive XR Elite: HTC’s Mixed Reality Takes Shape.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

It will be released to selected partners in Q4 2021 and to the general public in Q1 2022. More info (Full conversation between the two) More info (No Quest Pro in 2021) More info (Quest 2 competing with Chromebooks) More info (Quest 2 controllers-free SKU) More info (Anti-sickness systems). Image by HTC Vive).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

Apple Glasses may release in 2021 for $499. In a Youtube video, he revealed some juicy details, like: The cost of the glasses is $499 + prescription lenses; They are connected to the iPhone, that does all the heavy lifting; They were planned for a “one more thing” announcement for Q4 2020- Q1 2021 , and for release one year later.

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OCTOBER 18, 2016

Abrash’s 2021 predictions for VR, presented at Oculus Connect 3 in 2016. In the months following the release of both the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive both Nvidia and AMD have upped their game with more powerful GPUs, like the GeForce 1080 and more affordable offerings like the Radeon RX 480. ” What he means: Foveated rendering.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

Last year we had nReal showing us that AR can be trendy, and HTC making us dream with the Vive Cosmos. Yes, the biggest companies were not there with a booth (Oculus will probably target the OC6, HTC the VEC, etc…), but it is the first time that I read the XR news from CES and I dont’ remain surprised. We’ll wait.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. An eye-tracking accessory built for Vive should work with Rift as well, and so on. Top news of the week. Image by Khronos Group).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 27, 2020

It is clear that it is not a Quest 2, since it doesn’t feature mind-blowing features like big FOV or eye-tracking or full-fingers controllers, so it is something like a Quest S. Its 1,600 × 1,600 LCD display per-eye, together with eye tracking and 5G make me dream of great experimentations, especially in the enterprise sector.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

Truly next-gen VR (featuring a fantastic display and very wide FOV, varifocal resolution, eye tracking, haptics controllers, etc…) will take many years to realize. If you think about it, in the last period, the great years that we remember for headsets are 2016 (Rift CV1, HTC Vive) and 2019 (Oculus Quest, Valve Index).

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 3, 2023

Head pose and eye-tracking. In 2021, company founder Rony Abovitz left the firm leaving Peggy Johnson to pick up the pieces and rebuild the firm’s image of its product portfolio. On the other hand, Meta is facing increasing competition from XR companies like HTC, Pico, and NReal. 120 Hz refresh rate. Spatial audio.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

It will be the first consumer headset with eye-tracking and foveated rendering, and also the first one to feature haptics directly on the headset. Cooking Simulator VR is the best VR game of 2021 on SteamVR. But it’s not the best PCVR game of 2021). It seems like a great tethered headset for the PS5.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Nreal Light is shipping in Europe and US in 2021. Chinese company Nreal has confirmed to me that its very interesting AR headset Nreal Light is shipping to the West in 2021 because now the company is focusing on the Asian market thanks to a partnership with LG. HTC Vive celebrates the holidays giving 100% rev share to developers.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Facebook’s profit-deferring strategy had pushed would-be competitors like Lenovo and HTC to focus on enterprise markets where buyers are less sensitive to price than the value of not using anything connected to Facebook. That appears to be exactly what’s happened. What Quest Pro doesn’t compete with, however, is Pico 4.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

Probably not this year, but next one or in 2021… but it will happen. A new job listing points out to the fact that Oculus is planning to integrate eye tracking in its next devices. HTC has released some interesting statistics on the VR market. By 2021, 120 cities (22% of population) will be covered by 5G.

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JUNE 15, 2023

Other than for niche applications requiring face or eye tracking, Quest Pro will be essentially obsolete. Quest Pro, codenamed SeaCliff, carries specifications that would've made more sense to ship in late 2021 when Quest 3 and Apple's headset were still years away. How can this be possible?

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