VRScout

MAY 3, 2017

PlayStation looks to an arcade rollout, Shazam goes augmented, AMD wants to go wireless, HTC Viveport’s new subscription service, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… You can enjoy the full audio recording below: IT’S NOW WAY EASIER TO COMBINE 360 VIDEO AND ANIMATION. THE INVESTMENT & FUNDING WRAPUP.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2017

You’ll use your remote to pan around the 360 video on your flatscreen (which is, admittedly, nowhere near to the experience in a headset), but this will also support live 360 video– which will probably be pretty cool to watch content like live concerts or sporting events.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

But this opens another debate: if it uses 4 cameras, does it mean that it won’t be based on WMR reference design anymore ? Or that Microsoft is working on a new reference design that fixes the issues of the first one? And again… is it possible that this headset can accommodate both forms of tracking ?

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

This release (available 9/8 for HTC Vive) is really just a taste of the larger project to come: Favreau’s ultimate goal is a sprawling open world that you explore and build relationships with the gnome and goblin inhabitants… we can only hope that funny elves will somehow be involved.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Here it is not clear to me what he means with “content” I guess that he refers to the fact that the available content for Gear VR is not that compelling to attract people to use VR. Too many 360 videos, too many minigames. This was due to a lens problem, and we couldn’t overcome those limitations.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

I say that because in my opinion, the Santa Cruz will be based on Snapdragon 835 VR reference design , unless Oculus has been able to switch to 845 VR thanks to the one year delay of the release after the Focus: in that case, it could reserve some surprises in terms of performances. The Facebook Surround 360 Open edition (Image by Facebook).

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

For reference the consumer editions of the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift are closer to 100 degrees. Starbreeze claim the custom optics allow a “great image quality across the eye’s natural vision” All of this allows the StarVR to deliver an impressive 210 degree horizontal field of view.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2022

It was a video player for virtual reality headsets, able to play both 2D videos, 360 videos, and 360 VR videos which was quite popular back in the Gear VR days. A few months back, a friend referred me to the Moon VR team, and I found what they do pretty interesting stuff.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2019

” review of standalone headsets (you can find in other posts the ones related to Oculus Go and HTC Vive Focus ). it is bigger than the Oculus Go but smaller than the massive HTC Vive Focus. The Lenovo Mirage Solo is based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 reference design. Then, keep reading. Horsepower.

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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. HTC ecosystem conference brings news in eye-tracking and positional tracking solutions. But this is just a speculation at this time.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

Using the Qualcomm XR2 reference design, it is quite easy for a manufacturer to create a clone of the Quest 2, maybe also a slightly better one. The Qualcomm XR2 reference design has been a great innovation for XR in general (Image by Qualcomm). Companies like Pico, HP, Valve, and HTC are already performing very well in this sector.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

What you just experienced is a 360 video produced by Jaunt and FX featuring the cast of the highly-successful comedy show: It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Here’s one of the show’s references to the Project Badass concept previously: This 360 installment of Project Badass puts you in a starring role.

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VirtualiTeach

JANUARY 5, 2020

To say it was amazing would be an understatement – in fact as soon as I turned things over to the audience for Q+A, someone refers to the event as life-changing! Though my own content is now back to being video clips to embed on posts here on the site, one project I coordinated proved incredibly popular.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

And the interesting thing is that many Korean customers are more satisfied with videos, rather than games. 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. And even HTC is teasing it, these lightweight pair of glasses.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

And the interesting thing is that many Korean customers are more satisfied with videos, rather than games. 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. And even HTC is teasing it, these lightweight pair of glasses.

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Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2017

Facebook today announced two new additions to the Surround360 hardware initiative that are poised to make 360 video more immersive. Unveiled at the company’s yearly developer conference, F8, the so-called x24 and x6 cameras are said to capture 360 video with depth information, giving captured video six degrees of freedom (6DoF).

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

And the interesting thing is that many Korean customers are more satisfied with videos, rather than games. 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. And even HTC is teasing it, these lightweight pair of glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 28, 2022

Can I launch some Linux VR games or 360 videos or something like that? Valve Index or HTC Vive controllers). When we started designing the Simula One, we created a head model to serve as a reference for fit testing but ran out of filament right before the print finished. Is it possible to do something more?

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 31, 2016

. “When it comes to VR video playback, there’s at least 20 different SDKs [you could find when you search], there’s no universal option. We introduced [the OZO Player SDK] available for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Gear VR, Google Daydream, and Cardboard (iOS and Android),” Sayed told Road to VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2020

Discover with me everything about it and especially how does it compare with the Oculus Quest and the HTC Vive Focus Plus. Pico Neo 2 Eye Video Review. If you are a tl;dr guy (or girl), probably you would rather watch a video of me speaking about the Pico Neo 2 Eye instead of reading thousands of words. is more or less ok).

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

I was working a school group here known as GESS -- which is the acronym for Jumeirah English Speaking School -- also broadly referred to as GESS Dubai now. You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. And for those 11 years, I've always worked at the same school. And you know what?

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

I was working a school group here known as GESS -- which is the acronym for Jumeirah English Speaking School -- also broadly referred to as GESS Dubai now. You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. And for those 11 years, I've always worked at the same school. And you know what?

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

I was working a school group here known as GESS -- which is the acronym for Jumeirah English Speaking School -- also broadly referred to as GESS Dubai now. You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. And for those 11 years, I've always worked at the same school. And you know what?

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Here we selected 37 film festivals dedicated to virtual reality or with VR programs for your reference. Projects must be viewable via Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Samsung Gear VR, or Google Cardboard. The last date to submit your 360 video films is September 27, 2016. Check them out and visit some in 2018!

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2018

This is something that I predicted and it is also in line with the vision of the competitor HTC that says that standalones are products for consumers while PC VR is something for gamers and prosumers. Do you remember the Surround360 camera reference designs that Facebook created to let people record 6DOF videos?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

Correction: The $2 billion a year refers to global VR investment numbers, while the $50 billion U.S. Above: VR Funhouse is a series of mini games for the HTC Vive virtual reality headset. Now he’s doing VR and he’s come up with a couple of funny VR shorts, interactive 360 videos. If we’re talking about a $2 billion to 2.5

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2019

HTC Vive Cosmos and its controllers, just announced at CES (Image by HTC). HTC has been the VR star of this CES 2019. The biggest announcement has been the HTC Vive Cosmos , a headset that has generated a lot of hype also because HTC has not revealed all its features, but it has only teased them. FinchShift.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 21, 2018

So, I guess that HTC has understood that it has a problem and is working hard to close this gap. It has a rich app ecosystem and is perfect for casual use of VR… if you need to enjoy some 360 videos or VR games once in a while, the Go is a great device. Vive Focus, from inside.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 8, 2018

After the calibration, there is a common reference system and you can use the controller. The device is based on Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 VR reference design , and this means that surely it is not the most powerful device on the market. Sometimes it is also necessary to re-calibrate the controller because its tracking has drifted.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

And, they’re maybe not focused around the headsets and stuff, but you guys even dabbled in the headsets and built a reference design. Alan: One of the examples that HTC VIVE was promoting when we had Alvin Wang Greylin on the show was talking about how a Bell helicopters designed a brand-new helicopter in six months.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

And, they’re maybe not focused around the headsets and stuff, but you guys even dabbled in the headsets and built a reference design. Alan: One of the examples that HTC VIVE was promoting when we had Alvin Wang Greylin on the show was talking about how a Bell helicopters designed a brand-new helicopter in six months.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

And, they're maybe not focused around the headsets and stuff, but you guys even dabbled in the headsets and built a reference design. In the case of the previous product -- Alloy -- that we did as a reference design, that was one of the few times we'd actually created a fully-hatched device to be used as a reference design in the VR space.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

HTC has actually released that for the Vive Focus Plus … Well, according to the god John Carmack , it is something about which the company has discussed a lot and has also experimented a lot. As far as I have understood, it will let you so watch all kind of media: photos, standard videos, 180 VR videos and 360 video s.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Today HTC has unveiled its latest product, Vive Flow, a lightweight headset aimed at consumers. Trailer video of the device. HTC is coming back to consumers after having already released this year two headsets devoted to prosumers and professionals: HTC Vive Pro 2 and Vive Focus 3. HTC claims anyway a good FOV of 100°.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

If you have watched Rick&Morty, you get the reference (Image from Reddit). This kind of seamless interface is great and it is exactly the same one that HTC already offers with the Vive Focus Plus and Viveport Streaming and that I’ve tried and appreciated. Rift line gets discontinued. Privacy in AR.

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VeeR VR

JANUARY 6, 2018

These videos are commonly referred as "VR soft porn," which doesn't contain sex scenes but focus on providing companionship through VR. Many studios use VeeR to promote their 360°/VR content, because: All of VeeR products and services are free. Verest is another studio that produces similar content.

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