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The XR Week Peek (2020.10.26): DecaGear is an intriguing VR headset, HTC is working on a new device, and more!

The Ghost Howls

So at least the collaboration with Valve is true, but notice that it has not been on the headset, so they got no reference design from Valve, it has just been on the software integration. And in fact, a new request to FCC for a new device has arrived from HTC. HTC launches Vive XR Suite. Doug Lombardi, Valve.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.06.23): HTC teases the Vive Cosmos, Oculus announces AR at OC6 and much more!

The Ghost Howls

HTC has revealed the design of the Vive Cosmos. HTC has finally unveiled some information on the Vive Cosmos. HTC has told in the past that this is a headset more consumer-oriented , but Sebastian Ang of Mixed Reality TV has reported that, according to a reliable source, the price will be 899. Top news of the week.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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Currently available for free on the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift (sorry, mobile VR users), Blocks is a new app from Google that lets anyone create 3D objects without training. Referring to themselves as the “AngelList for the VR entertainment industry,” the company hopes that this proves starter fuel for eventual crowdsourcing of VR art.

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What Does the XR Industry Think about Apple’s Vision Pro?

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Apple’s Vision Pro triggered new discourse on the future of virutal, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR). Revealed at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), the Apple Vision Pro has sparked both praise and criticism from the global XR community. Apple is adept at proposing something you didn’t think you needed.

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All the most important AR and VR news from the GDC 2018

The Ghost Howls

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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The XR Week Peek (2020.02.10): Lynx launches MR standalone headset, Facebook acquires Scape and much more!

The Ghost Howls

It is able to offer this thanks to the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 chipset (and its related reference design), that has been conceived with these features in mind. I’m of course referring to the Dead and Buried demo showcased at OC5. Let’s see how Apple and Google will answer. In both cases, Oculus has basically given no answer.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.03): OpenXR is taking foot, new cool features found inside Oculus runtime, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. If you want to watch it, it’s a very interesting 2-hour-long video and you can find it here [link] together with a summary of the key points he said.

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