VRScout

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

After a mixed year for VR hardware sales in 2016, two new separate reports are painting a more optimistic outlook for the VR market going forward. In a new consumer VR report just released by SuperData Research , the findings show that global VR hardware revenue is expected to hit $3.6 billion by 2021. million were sold.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

It’s because tomorrow the SXSW 2021 starts and together with VRrOOm we have created the virtual spaces for it on VRChat! Image by Road To VR, from HTC images). HTC launches Vive Tracker 3.0 HTC was not teasing a new standalone headset, but a new Vive Tracker. Top news of the week. and Facial Tracker. The Vive Tracker 3.0

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VRScout

APRIL 13, 2021

The Oculus Gaming Showcase will be followed shortly by Vivecon 2021 , HTC’s own recently-announced VR-focused showcase taking place this May. Whereas Oculus’s virtual event will focus primarily on gaming, images released by HTC could point towards the reveal of new VR hardware during the inaugural showcase.

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Road to VR

JULY 13, 2020

And unless the stars align (which we all know happens rarely in game development), it is unlikely that Firmament will be coming in 2021. The post ‘Myst’ Studio’s Upcoming VR Adventure ‘Firmament’ Delayed Beyond 2021 appeared first on Road to VR.

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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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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Preorders are open now with just a little deposit of $10, shipping in 2021. A new FCC listing appears for an HTC Vive headset. And in fact, a new request to FCC for a new device has arrived from HTC. Since HTC has always made announcements during the CES, I think it will be announced in January. But I can speculate.

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Upload VR

MARCH 20, 2023

HTC teased a self-tracking Vive Tracker that doesn’t need base stations. shipped in 2021. It will connect to a specific USB-C dongle, which HTC says will support up to 5 trackers at once. It will support the OpenXR standard, so won’t require a HTC headset. The current Vive Tracker 3.0

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2021

In terms of compatibility, the platform is cross-compatible with nearly every major VR & AR device, including the HTC Vive, Oculus Quest 2, Microsoft HoloLens 2, as well as AR-enabled iOS and Android devices; it’s never been easier to take your friends’ money!

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

HTC just released a software update for Vive XR Elite which includes a new beta direct touch mode. Vive XR Elite is HTC's latest standalone headset, and its first targeted to consumers instead of just businesses. Back in May we reported on HTC's first major software update for XR Elite. and now 6.5. and now 6.5.

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VR Fitness

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

With 2021 well underway HTC general manager Graham Wheeler has reflected back upon the state of VR in 2020 and predicts important VR trends for 2021. He covers a variety of topics, including consumer and business VR, as well as the growing importance of emerging technologies such as 5G. Continue reading on VR Fitness Insider.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Hard data on the VR market is often difficult to come by, while broad ‘industry reports’ are often so general that it’s difficult to see what things look like ‘on the ground’ To get a sense of VR’s outlook in 2021, we’ve collected 14 of the most recent and concrete indicators for your perusal.

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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 billion USD in 2021 to $84.09 Developers and hardware solution providers have been working together over the past few decades to build VR headsets capable of hosting immersive experiences. VR, Defined. The History of VR.

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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 2021. billion in 2016 to $18.6

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 9, 2016

A new report from market analysis group Juniper Research states that VR hardware will be worth $50 billion by 2021. By hardware, Juniper means VR headsets, peripherals, and 360 cameras. To give you an idea of how much growth that would be, Juniper projects VR hardware revenues to hit $5 billion this year.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Dolami, which partnered with Osaka University in 2021 to develop X Mask, says it will use the funds to strengthen the recruitment of core members and focus on product development. Hiroaki Watanabe. Image courtesy Dolami. It’s also said to be fairly light, weighing in at 4.5oz (128g).

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ARPost

JANUARY 21, 2022

We had a lot of news in the XR space in 2021, and a lot of trends could be distilled from that news. See Also: 21 Most-Read ARPost Articles of 2021. The company launched in 2020, partnered with Chinese company Shadow Creator that same year, held a product launch in June 2021 , and seems to have disappeared in the meantime.

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Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2021

Last week HTC announced a new accessory, the Vive Facial Tracker. HTC’s new Vive Facial Tracker accessory , set to launch later this month, promises to track “38 facial movements across the lips, jaw, teeth, tongue, chin, and cheeks.” — Mike – VRO (@vr_oasis) March 15, 2021. Shen Ye, the Sr.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

Image by HTC). HTC is teasing the launch of a new hardware. With a tweet, HTC has just teased the upcoming launch of a new device. More info (HTC is going to launch a new hardware) More info (Second tweet from HTC) More info (Third tweet from HTC). Pico Neo 3 is coming in Q2 2021.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2024

Vision Pro isn’t exactly revolutionizing XR hardware (though the external display is pretty cool), but its real advantage stands to be a mature software platform that’s easy to use and easy to develop for. That leaves HTC to fall back to the enterprise sector, the one place where it has long had a strong reputation.

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Road to VR

MARCH 18, 2021

At the all-digital version of SXSW 2021 today, Facebook’s Mark Rabkin, VP of Oculus, showed off an upcoming new version of its avatar system on Quest. In his chat with CNET’s Scott Stein, called The Quest Effect: Inside VR’s Next Chapter , Rabkin revealed the company’s next avatar system.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

For example, Project Cambria, the codename for Meta’s (previously Facebook) MR hardware, is continuously being classified as either AR, VR, or MR depending on the article or publication. See Also: “Facebook” Is now “Meta” and Other News From Connect 2021. Contact-Free Mixed Reality. Going Wireless.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2018

During my Chinese adventure, in the period that I was leaving Shanghai to go to Chengdu to watch pandas, I had the opportunity to interview via WeChat Qiyong Chen, one of the people leading the Virtual Reality R&D experiments at HTC. Who are you and what do you do in HTC? I’m Qiyong Chen, leader of HTC China Immersive Lab.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

The global pandemic has changed the rules for everything, and the situation is so confusing and so rapidly evolving that any prediction for 2021 is completely unreliable, too. 2021 won’t be the year of VR. Well, let’s be honest, this won’t happen in 2021, either. The Quest will still be the king.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 4, 2023

SenseGlove, an innovator in immersive haptic feedback hardware, opened pre-orders for its Nova 2 product, a glove which directs pressure-based feedback to the palm and hands of a headset operator. The Nova 2 provides some of its haptic feedback via an “ active strap ” that applies pressure to the palm of a user.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Furthermore, the hardware required to use immersive enterprise solutions is becoming cheaper and more accessible. Various headsets and smart glasses from firms such as Meta, HTC VIVE, and Nreal allow users of all kinds to access immersive applications to suit their needs. VR Hardware Growth. from 2022 to 2030.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

” It was first revealed that Sony would include eye-tracking in PSVR 2 back in May 2021, with the mention that it will provide foveated rendering for the next-gen VR headset. Founded in 2001, Tobii has become well known in the industry for its eye-tracking hardware and software stacks.

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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…). Pictures from FBEC 2021 (Image from VRTUOLUO) Who will be the most important speakers?

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Road to VR

JANUARY 4, 2022

Pancake optics are included here too—a design element which Huawei and Pico have used in their respective prototype headsets, and which HTC has used to slim down its Vive Flow standalone headset. Image courtesy Shiftall. Those included Kopin microOLEDs providing a 2,560 × 2,560 per-eye resolution too.

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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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VRScout

MAY 11, 2021

New hardware and business-focused software announced during the first-ever Vivecon 2021 event. During today’s inaugural Vivecon 2021 event, HTC announced not one, but two new VR headsets alongside a new suite of professional tools that promise to change the way we work, create, and play in VR. Image Credit: HTC.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 15, 2021

Each month Valve collects info from Steam users to determine some baseline statistics about what kind of hardware and software is used by the platform’s population, and to see how things are changing over time, including the use of VR headsets. million by the end of 2021. HTC’s headsets still hold onto 20.8%

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Another way to subdivide these figures is hardware versus software. The biggest factor driving that hardware base today is Facebook’s VR investments , most notably the Q4-launched Oculus Quest 2. Beyond Oculus, we don’t want to discount other hardware, as there are notable players in the market. Rising Tide. million in 2024.

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Upload VR

JUNE 6, 2022

Companies like Meta, Valve, & HTC don’t reveal hardware sales figures. The Steam Hardware Survey remains the most reliable indicator of PC VR’s adoption. Since the survey method was changed the previous all time high for VR users on Steam was 2.31% in March 2021. But why the sudden jump? What caused this?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2021

CES 2021 brought some interesting AR/VR news. HTC predicts the rise of all-in-two devices. That is, if HTC sees the rise of all-in-two devices in 2021, it probably means that it will launch an all-in-two device in 2021. So, what will be the HMD that HTC will launch this year? Top news of the week.

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VRScout

APRIL 5, 2021

JSRF #jetsetradio pic.twitter.com/To9LoLLbl2 — Lakuza (@LakuzaVR) April 3, 2021. Also me, an hour later into testing: pic.twitter.com/1HwneCfp7Q — Lakuza (@LakuzaVR) April 5, 2021. Many of you guessed it early, but this is the reason this project was revived! Currently in development by Lakuza, Waai!

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

We can expect this to happen in 2021. Hardware is very hard to make, and creating a production pipeline for a worldwide distribution is very hard : that’s why Valve partnered with HTC for the first Vive, because HTC had this kind of knowledge. Managing a hardware product is very complicated.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Two days ago, I’ve given you my predictions for virtual reality in 2021 (read it, in case you missed it). 2021 is going to be an interesting year for AR. In this sense, 2021 will be a very important year, because we’ll start seeing how the mainstream is interested in wearing electronic glasses on their face.

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