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Mirrorscape’s ARcana Gaming Platform to Tap Snapdragon Spaces

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The Los Angeles-based firm boasts a team of veteran technologists from SONY, Apple, Disney, Marvel Studios, and others. Companies such as HTC VIVE, Lenovo, Meta Platforms, Pico, and others have tapped Qualcomm’s solutions. The new gaming platform allows users to join tabletop roleplaying games (RPGs) with friends.

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SIGGRAPH 2017: Neurable Lets You Control A Virtual World With Your Mind

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At SIGGRAPH this week the Boston-based startup is showing its modified HTC Vive which include EEG ( Electroencephalography ) sensors along the interior of the headstrap. This is combined with eye-tracking technology from German firm SMI, which may have just been acquired by Apple.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.01.04): New Year’s Eve parties go virtual, Tundra to offer a Vive Tracker competitor, and more!

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One of the smartest ideas ever had by HTC has been the invention of the Vive Tracker: a little puck that you can attach to an object so that to track it inside virtual reality. The Tracker is good, but since HTC has never had competition in the field, i t has always been the same since the launch year. News worth a mention.

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There Will Be No Proto Awards In 2017, Return Planned In 2018

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The event is organized by The Virtual Reality Foundation, which is composed of many of the same people behind the Virtual Reality Los Angeles conference and startup Mindshow. Apple’s eye-catching ARKit is on the verge of release alongside a series of Microsoft-backed VR headsets.

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A brief history of VR and AR

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By the time Howard Rheingold’s “Virtual Reality” was published in 1991, the Sensorama was already a “slowly deteriorating” relic stashed away in a cabana next the pool at its inventor’s West Los Angeles home. Image Credits: TechCrunch When HTC began imagining life after the smartphone, it looked a lot like VR.

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NVIDIA Announces CloudXR Updates at SIGGRAPH 2023

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At the event in Los Angeles, Jensen Huang, Chief Executive, NVIDIA , gave a keynote address to unveil the news. NVIDIA Alliance for OpenUSD, Additional Tools Additionally, NVIDIA launched its Alliance for OpenUSD with major industry players such as Pixar, Apple, Adobe, and Autodesk.

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On the XR Beat, with VentureBeat’s Dean Takahashi

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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.