XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 9, 2022

With investment in everything from the hardware side of the XR collaboration story, to the software side, with apps like VR Workplace, Meta is paving the way to host of opportunities for all companies to get involved in the next generation of work.

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AUGUST 20, 2021

OpenXR is a royalty-free standard that aims to standardize the development of VR and AR applications, making hardware and software more interoperable. The standard has been in development since April 2017 and is backed by virtually every major hardware, platform, and engine company in the VR industry, including key AR players.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 7, 2022

One of the major market leaders in the XR accessories environment, Rebuff Reality focuses on developing enhanced solutions for existing VR hardware and tools. Among the most famous XR innovators on the market today, HTC VIVE offers a range of solutions for those interested in the benefits of spatial audio. Rebuff Reality. Magic Leap.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

Image by HTC Vive). HTC launches Vive Focus 3 and Vive Pro 2. In the end, the rumors were correct and HTC launched two headsets at VIVECON: the Vive Pro 2 and the Vive Focus 3 Business Edition. But this device got also some criticism: first of all , HTC has not released new controllers and still sells it with the old Wands.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

Before leaving you to the best news of the week, I would like to highlight two notable things about my work: My crazy trolling game “The Unity Cube” has been featured in a video by Upload VR! Magic Leap 2 is coming in Q1 2022. It will be released to selected partners in Q4 2021 and to the general public in Q1 2022.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Nathan Pettyjohn, Founder and CEO of the Immerse Growth Network and Founder and President of the VR/AR Association (VRARA) , discussed with XR Today the Immerse Global Summit 2022 Europe , an industry-leading event set to take place in Madeira Island, Portugal, which will allow tech firms to showcase their efforts to reach such a milestone.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 31, 2022

Here are some of the XR vendors taking privacy and security seriously in 2022. A powerful name in the VR and XR landscapes, HTC VIVE has made its mark on the extended reality world by creating business-focused tools for new realities. Unity is probably the most popular development environment for creators in the XR space today.

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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. Moreover, RT3D development services like Autodesk VRED, Blender, Godot, NVIDIA’s Omniverse, StereoKit, Unreal Engine, and Unity support OpenXR integration.

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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…). We are organizing the Future Business EcoLink Conference 2022 and the 7th Golden Gyro Award.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

This reminds me of a similar error HTC made in the past of mixing signals of a pro device and consumer content It has RGB passthrough cameras with three times the resolution of Quest 2 cameras. Even worse, Unity has lost -30% of its stock value. Zuck still thinks that it is a device that can start substituting the laptop.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

See Also: Redefining the Future of Location-Based Entertainment With HTC VIVE Focus 3 and The Park Playground “Virtual reality is often perceived as being limited to the world of gaming. Although gaming is certainly a great use case and example of what immersive VR experiences can deliver, the possibilities are endless,” said Vindevogel.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The Immerse Global Summit (IGS) 2022 took place in Miami 5 to 7 December, and concluded its final days in the sunny backdrop of Miami Beach’s historic Fontainebleu Hotel. Artists previously used very expensive hardware and software to create digital assets, namely with delayed throughput.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2021

If you order it now, you can expect to have it by April 2022, but we all know that Kickstarter campaigns have often delays, so I would bet on something around June-July next year. HTC is probably going to announce a new standalone headset this week. According to the rumors, it will be called Vive Flow and it is a hardware product.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

2020 has been a good year for the sales of VR devices : Half-Life Alyx and the launch of the Quest 2 have created a big spike in the sales of VR hardware and software. I expect all these trends to continue in 2021, for a year that will see the growth of the technology on all its sides (software and hardware). The rise of enterprise.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Although VR hardware is growing at such a scale, immersive firms are doubling down on scaling extended reality (XR) developer talent pools to match the demand for VR software. Major immersive firms like Meta and HTC provide unique funding opportunities for various use cases. Moreover, methods of funding exist for humanitarian projects.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

You may think that so they want to launch the PSVR 2 before the PS5, and it may be, but actually, if this device truly wants to be next-gen, it can’t be compatible with the rather old hardware of PS4. Unity changes how it handles XR Plugins. So sad for me, considering the 5 years I’ve spent using Vuforia in Unity… so many memories….

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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. Let me quote the article: “We were giving away the hardware but making money on the data,” he said. But there is more!

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Digitalnauts

MARCH 23, 2022

SXSW 2022 CHAT WITH CHARLES SEGUIN: THE XR INDUSTRY, FIRST IMPRESSIONS AND EMERGING TECH. Charles Seguin, Co-Founder and CEO at Digitalnauts, answers a few questions on the representation of the XR industry at SXSW 2022 and gives us his top tips. The Sick Rose” a 360 stop motion movie from HTC (best 360 video experience).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 10, 2024

A few years ago I was interviewing Alvin Wang Graylin , the HTC Executive (or “Mister President” as I like to call him), and we were talking about the book Our Next Reality he’s written together with Louis Rosenberg. In the book they talk about XR and AI , and how they could impact our future, for the good and the bad.

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XROM

MAY 15, 2023

Asia is a core part of XR hardware supply chains, but Asia is also a growing hub for financing XR projects, an engine for consumer demand, and a home to creative enterprise applications of XR," said Gavin Newton-Tanzer, President of AWE Asia. AWE Asia 2023 will offer 56 sessions, 30% more than in 2022.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 12, 2022

XR Today spoke to Amy Peck, Founder and Chief Executive of EndeavorXR about the top tech trends in 2023 on the sidelines of her keynote speech at the Immerse Global Summit (IGS) 2022 in Miami. Digital twin technologies were rising as emerging trends, namely from major tech firms such as NVIDIA, Unity Technologies , and others.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

I’m sure that after April, 20th, the Meta Quest ecosystem will appear even richer than it is now , creating a wider gap with other companies that may think about competing with the Quest, that is Pico, HTC, and even Apple. Unity talked about PlayStation VR 2 at GDC. Unity had a talk about developing for PlayStation VR 2 at GDC 2022.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The event has not featured any important hardware announcement, because it was all focused on declaring the new shift of focus of Facebook. He stressed many times how he wants to empower creators, and how he wants to provide free tools for content creators and cheap hardware for the users. Are you ready? Oculus Quest 2 Active Pack.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The Immerse Global Summit (IGS) 2022 Miami continues to showcase enterprises across the virtual, augmented, mixed, and extended reality (VR/AR/MR/XR) space. I hope that the prices of hardware come down and become more available, because that’s where we really need to start. IGS and the Future of XR Training.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Developers don’t need to implement (or even understand) the mathematics behind IK, as game engines like Unity & Unreal have IK built-in, and packages like the popular Final IK offer fully fleshed-out implementations for less than $100.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 8, 2023

Along with NVIDIA, Unity and Epic Games, the world’s largest gaming engines, have also joined efforts to build the industrial metaverse. HTC VIVE unveiled enterprise-grade hardware and platforms on Thursday via its XR Elite Business Edition and Business+ solutions. percent from 2022 to 2030, it added.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Mark Zuckerberg, but also Unity CEO John Riccitiello) that should mark the beginning of the serious adoption of new technology. Now the design has been used also by other companies, like HTC that has just launched its Vive Flow headset. Plus Huawei headset is compatible only with Huawei phones, while HTC is more open.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

SpectreXR is a startup that develops OctoXR, a sensor and tracking technology, which also operates as a Unity game engine plugin for creating realistic, physics-based hand interactions for immersive applications. How has eye and hand-tracking tracking technology advanced in 2022 and 2023?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

HTC discounts its headsets. HTC has started a good discount on its headsets that will last until the end of the month. Among the many features of this piece of hardware, there is the one that it is able to perform ray tracing. Details are very tight, but we’ll discover more in Summer 2022… Learn more. Some XR fun.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2022

It has become one of the headset manufacturers with the biggest worldwide market, and the market leader (together with HTC) in the B2B virtual reality sector. Its latest headset, the Pico Neo 3 , was a very good Oculus Quest 2 clone , that also brought some innovations, like the DP Cable to connect it to the PC for a true PCVR experience.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

SpectreXR is a startup that develops OctoXR, a sensor and tracking technology, which also operates as a Unity game engine plugin for creating realistic, physics-based hand interactions for immersive applications. Enterprise clients can also use Tobii products to improve focus and productivity.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2022

I’m not saying this could happen in 2022, but it is not anymore in my list of impossible things… (Image by Armature). I work with VRrOOm on VR events, and this let me even be featured on the Unity blog , but how these events will evolve in the long run when the pandemic will (hopefully) end is a mystery.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

I see 2020 as a good year of consolidation, where VR will grow linearly before the expected explosion around 2022. In the end, I still believe in the old predictions of Unity CEO John Riccitiello: Look at this graph shown by Mr. Riccitiello in 2017: the purple line is the one of the analysts, while the white one is the one forecasted by him.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Top news of the week. Some news on content. It is very cool.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Recently, Valve announced delays to their new Steam Deck handheld, whilst Megadodo Games announced a delayed, limited production run of their DecaGear before leaving the hardware market completely. It wasn’t even possible to buy another Tundra HDK, and months later they are still showing out of stock. Image provided by Rob Cole).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

If this happens , Facebook is going to disrupt completely the market, because it would be a headset offering so much for so little price, destroying the competition with Pico and HTC. But the company is sharpening its knives for 2022, the year where Nreal glasses should land in the US and China.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The Gartner Hype Cycle for 2022, which now includes the Metaverse (Image by Gartner). And not the fake experience of people that from one day to another have become “Metaverse Experts” on Linkedin, but real experience on the field, real connections with the community, and real knowledge of the hardware.

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