XR Today - Big XR News tag

AUGUST 18, 2023

While no significant announcements dropped, a handful of vendor updates paint a clear picture of the future of immersive hardware and its distribution. Therefore, MR headsets unify AR/VR/MR applications without forcing a user to own multiple pieces of hardware. Increasingly, it seems that MR devices may lead the way.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 5, 2019

Daniel O’Brien, General Manager for the Americas Region for HTC sat down with VRScout during their NYC Launch event at VR World and talked passionately about design saying, “We looked at it from three different levels, hardware and technology, software, and experience.”. Making the headset modular was the solution,” said O’Brien.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The North-America-only limitation is quite a bummer for us Europeans, but honestly, as a developer, I understand the will of making an incremental deployment to be sure that everything works before expanding the product to many countries. The new update also brings hand tracking support in the Oculus OpenXR plugin.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

You will be able to finally buy it in Europe and North America for $599, from the dedicated page on the HTC website. Each program offers purchase protection with tailored hardware warranties, limited down time, dedicated support and advanced device management utilities such as a Kiosk mode and a batch configuration feature.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2021

It also has a lens design that is unique in its field , and hands tracking as its primary interaction means. October, 12th won’t be remembered in history books only as the day America was discovered by Columbus (that was Italian, of course, :D), but also as the day that Lone Echo 2 launched. Don’t panic.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The shell includes necessary hardware for the tracking system which is based on ultrasonics. Ultrasonic tracking uses soundwaves at frequencies above the audible human range for triangulation, typically using a series of receivers to identify differences in timing between ultrasonic sounds emitted by the tracked object.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Vive Flow is a 6DOF headset that works with your Android phone as a 3DOF controller (hands tracking is coming in the future). Facebook keeps running fast towards its vision of the m verse, both from a hardware and software standpoint. VR training goes big with Accenture and Bank of America.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

While this decision was very smart on the business side because the major headset manufacturers were already building their hands tracking solutions (e.g. Sony has confirmed once more than PlayStation 5 will work with the same hardware of the PSVR. The price is $499 for the full edition, $399 for the digital edition.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Global here refers to Europe, Japan, South Korea, and China – Pico 4 isn’t sold in North America or Australia & New Zealand. Meta has been continuously improving Quest’s hand tracking with software updates though, so Pico has a tough act to follow here.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

In the interview with me, he talked about many topics, like the rumors he heard on Apple Glasses, on the Oculus Quest 2 , the America vs China war, XR entrepreneurship, Tesla, and more! They control all their ecosystem : software, hardware, chips. New amazing software and new hardware is coming. for a price around $600.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2019

Continuing speaking about HTC devices, the hardware manufacturer Finch has announced the FinchShift controllers: two 6 DOF controllers that can work with all the headsets that are compatible with HTC’s Vive Wave platform. And it is also interesting that a hardware company like TPCAST is investing in a software solution.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

This is also confirmed by the views on my blog, that from the vast majority come from America. The article details all the work done until now to create haptic gloves, an ongoing research that may need 10–15 years to produce something that could appeal to the mass market. Creating such a device requires a lot of work in.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

Meta is having funding issues because of the new trade wars between America and China. The device is still too expensive and too limited both in hardware and in available content for the general consumer. ODG is launching a patent sale now in January. Blippar has shut down because it wasn’t able to secure more funding.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2022

Main Markets Domestic Market , North America. However, their recent partnership with Amazon should remove any concerns related to performance, fitting, or quality with a free return policy allowing you to buy and try without the risk of getting stuck with hardware that doesn’t work for you. Trade & Market.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Yet no one was deploying at scale and I had this unique position at Vuzix — because there are so few hardware providers — that we were able to see thousands of pilots and POCs, in all different regions and different use cases. There’s fault in the hardware manufacturers. Here’s the hardware.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Yet no one was deploying at scale and I had this unique position at Vuzix — because there are so few hardware providers — that we were able to see thousands of pilots and POCs, in all different regions and different use cases. There’s fault in the hardware manufacturers. Here’s the hardware.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

It is the console business model: selling the hardware undercost so that subsidize it with exclusive software, and your data in this case. Thanks to all these hardware, Aria can see and hear the surroundings, but can also see and hear the user. You’re part of the product being sold. Accessories.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Yet no one was deploying at scale and I had this unique position at Vuzix -- because there are so few hardware providers -- that we were able to see thousands of pilots and POCs, in all different regions and different use cases. There's fault in the hardware manufacturers. Here's the hardware. That's why Lance-AR came about.

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