Road to VR

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Just a few weeks ago, major forces collaborating on the WebVR Spec gathered in San Jose, CA for the W3C Workshop on Web & Virtual Reality , a two-day conference where the likes of Mozilla, Google, Samsung, Microsoft, Oculus, The Khronos Group, and many more hashed out the latest developments and directions for the WebVR ecosystem.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The only company not much affected by it is HTC, that manufacturers its headsets in Taiwan and not in Mainland China. HTC Vive releases Cosmos Elite, two models of Vive Pro Eye and creates some confusion. Is this really what Apple wants? (Thanks Robert Scoble for this news!). base stations and a 20m fiber cable.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 4, 2024

This could enable Meta to generate a valuable income source and services for its XR hardware ecosystem, competing with Apple’s Vision Pro offerings. At the same time, XR’s enthusiasts were well aware of other players in the headset space, like Microsoft, Varjo, HTC VIVE, and others.

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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. New rumors on Apple and Meta devices. Microsoft Maquette gets discontinued. Other relevant news.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Both are free to download and try. Examples are HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Cardboard and other that are now very popular VR platforms for building experiences. WebVR is also becoming a formidable force for those who love HTC Vive, Oculus Rift or Google Cardboard, in a web browser. The code files are also free to download.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

I wonder if Facebook has already taken the decision of leaving the enterprise market to HTC and Pico , while focusing on the much bigger piece of cake of the consumer market. Let’s see how Apple and Google will answer. More info (Mesh download) More info (DisplayLand Studio editor). I think we’ll discover it “soon”. Great post.

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VRWorld

APRIL 14, 2017

According to the publicly available whitepaper (PDF Download), ShenWei CPU architecture is inspired by a long-time killed Alpha architecture, and the sheer performance is astounding. The same one which is being used for Microsoft Xbox “Project Scorpio” APU from AMD. Add in Apple’s domestic CPUs and GPUs.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

HP and Microsoft have a long track in offering enterprise hardware, so this headset may battle HTC on his own land (B2B). First of all, Peter Chou, ex founder of HTC , has launched his startup XrSpace, with his first VR headset Mova (that you can see in the header image of this post), together with its social XR platform Manova.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

HTC has finally revealed the price of the Vive Pro : it will cost $799 just to have the headset (no controller and no base stations, so you must already have a Vive 1 kit) and will be available for pre-orders since April, 5th. But, as Road To VR has stated, maybe HTC should have clarified that in all its marketing material.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I mean, it sort of makes more sense to me that, as long as the prices for the headsets are lingering up pretty high — like the Cosmos from HTC, the brand new one, it’ll be an $800 purchase. Dean: And I think more critical are these more foundational companies, like Facebook and Valve and HTC. Dean: Yeah, I think.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I mean, it sort of makes more sense to me that, as long as the prices for the headsets are lingering up pretty high — like the Cosmos from HTC, the brand new one, it’ll be an $800 purchase. Dean: And I think more critical are these more foundational companies, like Facebook and Valve and HTC. Dean: Yeah, I think.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 30, 2020

It is one of the games with the highest review scores on Steam and Metacritic; Valve has already released two patches to fix some common complaints on the game; The game has had an impressive number of downloads (the estimated number is around 200–500,000), concurrent users (more than 40,000), and viewers on Twitch (300,000+). Apple ARKit 3.5

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I mean, it sort of makes more sense to me that, as long as the prices for the headsets are lingering up pretty high -- like the Cosmos from HTC, the brand new one, it'll be an $800 purchase. Dean: And I think more critical are these more foundational companies, like Facebook and Valve and HTC. Alan: HTC's got their enterprise division.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I mean, it sort of makes more sense to me that, as long as the prices for the headsets are lingering up pretty high — like the Cosmos from HTC, the brand new one, it’ll be an $800 purchase. Dean: And I think more critical are these more foundational companies, like Facebook and Valve and HTC. Dean: Yeah, I think.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Eye Tracking Apart from sessions a few years ago using the HTC Vive Pro Eye and Microsoft Hololens, I didn’t have any experience with eye tracking. Though I’m primarily a PCVR user, I’ve used enough headsets like Quest, HTC Vive Focus, and Lenovo Mirage Solo to be familiar with the benefits of going standalone.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Is Apple partnering with Valve on AR? A report by DigiTimes claims that Apple is partnering with Valve for the production of its AR glasses. The news would be incredible: Apple is a company that knows how to create something usable and cool to see, while Valve has a long expertise in experimenting with AR and VR.

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VRWorld

APRIL 30, 2017

link] (PDF Download). “ HTC Vive ecosystem expands with eye tracking. . “ HTC Vive ecosystem expands with eye tracking. The module is called the aGlass and it will be available for “limited pre-order sales” next month, according to HTC. ” Did something new come out recently? link] a-hire/.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And so Apple bought them shortly thereafter. So SPACES was acquired quietly by Apple this year. And Apple also earlier this year acquired NextVR, which-- that company has all the licensing rights to real-time capture in 360 of NASCAR, and NBA, and all of the other sports. Golf, I think. everything. Just all the things.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And so Apple bought them shortly thereafter. So SPACES was acquired quietly by Apple this year. And Apple also earlier this year acquired NextVR, which-- that company has all the licensing rights to real-time capture in 360 of NASCAR, and NBA, and all of the other sports. Golf, I think. everything. Just all the things.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The XR2 processor is already used in other products like Meta Quest 2 and HTC Vive XR Elite, making porting of games much simpler. You can take very long flights in Microsoft Flight Simulator or some very long driving sessions when racing “24 Heures du Mans”. Once installed, the headset is connected, or so I assumed.

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VRWorld

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

First off, the packaging – the retail package is smaller than one might expect – significantly smaller than HTC Vive, and about a quarter smaller than Oculus Rift. HTC Vive and Oculus Rift both feature 2.5 By comparison, Oculus Rift weights in 470 grams, and HTC Vive 555 grams. Microsoft Windows 7 or higher.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And so Apple bought them shortly thereafter. So SPACES was acquired quietly by Apple this year. And Apple also earlier this year acquired NextVR, which-- that company has all the licensing rights to real-time capture in 360 of NASCAR, and NBA, and all of the other sports. Golf, I think. everything. Just all the things.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

If you look at someone like Apple, they aren’t about to put their logo on something like the current developer-focused headsets out there. They’re much more distributable than the standard Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, which has to be hooked up to a PC. We have a number of reports available. Alan: Got it.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

If you look at someone like Apple, they aren’t about to put their logo on something like the current developer-focused headsets out there. They’re much more distributable than the standard Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, which has to be hooked up to a PC. We have a number of reports available. Alan: Got it.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

If you look at someone like Apple, they aren't about to put their logo on something like the current developer-focused headsets out there. They're much more distributable than the standard Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, which has to be hooked up to a PC. Outside of that, we've worked with companies like PayPal, Microsoft, Accenture.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2023

Image by HTC Vive). but for now, let me just list the most important announcements: HTC announced the Vive XR Elite, a headset that mixes the comfort of the Vive Flow with the usability of the Vive Focus 3. A new rumor on Apple headset talks about a very high-end device. Top news of the week. XR had its good moment at CES.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Apple AR glasses may come in early 2020. It can’t pass a week without us having a new rumor about the upcoming Apple AR glasses. Mr.Kuo is so confident in its prediction that he can even claim who is the producer of the chassis of the glass, that is not Apple itself, but Chinese company Changying Precision. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Even the big players like Sony, Apple, and Microsoft have substantially reduced their production estimates for 2022, whilst processor manufacturers talk of delays into 2024. These optical windows were a proud design feature on the HTC Vive headsets, but are much more subtle on the Index equipment making them harder to identify.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Billion & mind you i haven't added the overall population of #asia.Ignore us at your own risk #facebook #microsoft & the curators of those lists. Alvin is the China President at #HTC leading all aspects of HTC’s business in the region (Vive/VR, phone, Viveport content platform, partnerships and investments).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The device also mounts a Wi-fi 6 modem (Qualcomm FastConnect 6800), meaning that your headset can download games faster and that local streaming of your games from PC to the Quest via Virtual Desktop / Riftcat can become much better (provided you have a compatible modem). It is not a very safe mechanism, IMHO. RAM is improved to 6GB.

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 19, 2019

HTC Vive Retires. The HTC Vive was phased out in October, replaced by the Vive Cosmos , which was priced at $699. There were also some significant acquisitions in the space, such as Jaunt XR being bought by Verizon , and Apple acquiring UK start-up Ikinema. million downloads. VR Therapy. HoloLens Army.

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