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Valve Auctions HQ Tour & VR Demo for Elemental Music Charity

Peter Graham

So naturally, Valve doesn’t just let anybody wander in and around its headquarters in Seattle, Washington to see what’s going on. Yang is a user experience designer who: “has worked on virtual reality software and hardware, features for Steam, and game teams. Best of luck to those who do participate.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.05.17): HTC announces Vive Pro 2 and Vive Focus 3, PSVR 2 to feature eye tracking, and more!

The Ghost Howls

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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“But I don’t want to wear glasses”

Robert Scoble

Well, some do, but most of us use Spotify, Apple Music, or Youtube, to listen to music now. Some people denigrated early efforts, like the VR headsets that HTC and Oculus produced, as a fad, comparing it to the Segway or earlier 3DTV attempts. The vinyl is more enjoyable. You can hear more detail in the highs.

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How Hollywood Has Predicted VR in Movies

VRScout

From zero gravity chambers to organic gaming consoles, Hollywood has been dreaming up some of the biggest and best ways to implement virtual reality for decades. To qualify the list, these movies had to be using technology with the goal of inducing presence, whether that be in a game world, dreamscape, or recording of reality.

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Small Mistakes Led to a $500 Million Verdict Against Oculus

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

In the meantime, it seems quite tragic that Carmack, the winner of the lifetime achievement award from the peer-based Game Developers Choice Awards in 2010, was caught up in such a legal nightmare. ZeniMax called Carmack’s use of Rage source code — a game that he helped create — a “theft.” An appeal is expected in this cautionary tale.

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XR Technologies in Service of the Human Experience, with Voices of VR Podcast’s Kent Bye – Part 2

XR for Business Podcast

And then of course, Apple came along and created USDZ. And so we have something meaningful come from HTC Vive with the Focus, or Focus Plus. And then he went to go start the HITLab in Washington. You have Apple, with ARKit. So you have all these different 3D file formats. Or in Canada, USDZed.

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XR Technologies in Service of the Human Experience, with Voices of VR Podcast’s Kent Bye – Part 2

XR for Business Podcast

And then of course, Apple came along and created USDZ. And so we have something meaningful come from HTC Vive with the Focus, or Focus Plus. And then he went to go start the HITLab in Washington. You have Apple, with ARKit. So you have all these different 3D file formats. Or in Canada, USDZed.