ARPost

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

If you think about AR and VR accessories, you might think about dedicated accessories manufacturers like bHaptics. Here, we’re going to look at AR and VR accessories made by headset manufacturers, as well as how the demand for more personalized experiences may shape the future of these technologies. Modular” AR Glasses.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

HTC has now opened applications to its latest Vive X accelerator, the company’s $100 million program which aims to help grow the global AR/VR ecosystem by providing both software and hardware developers the right tools, expertise, and investment. HTC says there will be more locations yet to come.

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Road to VR

MAY 9, 2019

HTC is now on its fourth batch in its $100 million accelerator program, which offers education, investment and mentorship to startups doing unique and and interesting things around VR and AR. Primitive is providing businesses with VR collaboration for distributed software teams.

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VRScout

JANUARY 7, 2019

The 2019 Consumer Electronic Expo is off to an exciting start as HTC Vive debuted not only a new VR headset capable of inside-out tracking, but a new social platform, new subscription service, and new updates to their existing Viveport platform. You are transported to other worlds through what we call your ‘Lens’,” adds Bamford.

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Road to VR

MARCH 11, 2019

Mindesk , a startup developing a platform for real-time CAD collaboration in AR/VR, today announced a $900,000 seed round from HTC Vive, Barcamper Ventures, A11 Venture and Invitalia Ventures. Mindesk has created a plug-in for CAD software such as McNeel Rhinoceros and Grasshopper. Mindesk was founded in Bari, Italy.

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Road to VR

JUNE 19, 2020

HTC has announced that it will offer its Vive WAVE mobile VR platform to all Snapdragon-based headsets. The move means that headset makers will be able to adopt HTC’s ready-made headset OS (instead of developing their own) and gain instant content compatibility with a pre-existing VR app ecosystem.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 6, 2023

In an alternate version, Meta will offer a smartwatch with the neural detection incorporated, so if the user is used to having a smartwatch, doesn’t have to sacrifice it to wear the neural wristband Real AR glasses , with 3D objects in the scene, virtual avatars, and such, are now slated for 2027 I want to just say two things about this roadmap.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

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. While Oculus is getting all the glory for the Quest, its competitors are not sleeping. Doug Lombardi, Valve. But I can speculate.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 7, 2019

The CES is going to start tomorrow, but today HTC has already made its great announcements, showing to the world the upcoming new hardware Vive Pro Eye, Vive Cosmos and software solutions Viveport Infinity and Vive Reality system. The Vive Pro Eye, in all its splendor (Image by HTC). Do you want to know what I am talking about?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 31, 2023

Last Thursday, leading hand-tracking firm SpectreXR announced a strategic collaboration with XR headset vendor HTC VIVE via its Linkedin account to drive innovation, immersion, and realistic interaction on the latter’s product portfolio. HTC VIVE also offers a rich resource hub for XR adoption and understanding.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 26, 2018

If 2016 was the birth of modern VR/AR technology, than 2018 was its elementary school graduation. Major hardware releases, vast improvements to software, and various other integral advancements have quietly solidified VR & AR as viable, long-term technological platforms for years to come. LOCATION-BASED VR.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Last month, the developer of The Wild finally opened the gates to its cloud platform for collaborative 3D design across VR and AR. On the opposite side of the room, Mischa, The Wild’s product manager, stood wearing an HTC Vive headset and a pair of Wand controllers. The Wild even comes with support for PBR textures.

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VRScout

AUGUST 22, 2017

Time to applaud for a sweet deal on the HTC Vive, Clash of Clans partners w/ Facebook to bring AR to fans, control VR with your mind, new predictions for spending & investment are out, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… 1. CLASH OF CLANS PARTNERS WITH FACEBOOK TO BRINGS AR TO FANS.

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Road to VR

MARCH 1, 2022

HP appears to be strengthening its position as a provider of XR software for enterprise companies. Called HP ExtendXR, the software as a service (SaaS) was built in collaboration with ArborXR , an AR/VR device management company that came out of the VR arcade space in 2016.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

According to the Taiwan Stock Exchange, HTC will halt trading of its stock as of September 21st, pending an unknown announcement from the company, reports Bloomberg. Following several years of financial difficulty, the future of HTC seems less clear than it’s ever been. SEE ALSO HTC Vive Gets Major Price Cut, Now $600.

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VRScout

JULY 18, 2021

This means that instead of manually downloading the software like you would a standard game or app, Brushwork VR can be experienced directly from a WebXR-compatible browser, such as the Oculus Browser on Oculus Quest as well as the browsers featured on PC VR headsets like the HTC Vive and HP Reverb G2.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The ambitious action plan was published by five Chinese government ministries led by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and includes augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality technologies. That number includes both hardware and software sales. Feature Image Credit: HTC Vive, Alvin Wang. Credit: Bloomberg.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

But for now, let me do a recap of the best news of the past week in AR and VR! HTC has revealed the design of the Vive Cosmos. HTC has finally unveiled some information on the Vive Cosmos. HTC has immediately answered that 899$ is a too high estimate of the price. Top news of the week. Image by Upload VR).

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 6, 2020

This post is adapted from ARtillery Intelligence’s report, AR Advertising Deep Dive, Part I: The Landscape. Prominent sectors include industrial AR , social , gaming , and shopping. But existing alongside all of them is AR advertising. But existing alongside all of them is AR advertising. billion by 2024.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 31, 2023

During the conference, various market-leading innovators, as well as a few new companies, announced their new headsets and technology, focused on the VR, AR, and MR space. HTC VIVE, one of the best-known headset manufacturers for the XR space, promised the arrival of an exciting new innovation in the form of the VIVE XR Elite.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Boston, February 1, 2020 — A greater awareness and acceptance of the value of VR and AR/MR solutions across enterprise verticals are motivating companies to invest across multiple business areas. Director Enterprise Content at HTC Vive. Press release.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

This reminds me of a similar error HTC made in the past of mixing signals of a pro device and consumer content It has RGB passthrough cameras with three times the resolution of Quest 2 cameras. Some people even found the demo pretty underwhelming, but actually, I know that the strength of Meta all these years has been the software updates.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 11, 2024

This week, reports revealed that Google is laying off a significant portion of its 1P AR hardware team, casting doubts upon its in-house XR product portfolio. In a statement, Google announced: A few hundred roles are being eliminated in DSPA, with the majority of impacts on the 1P AR Hardware team.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Today it’s a great day for virtual reality: at WCVRI conference, HTC has just announced a kit to provide 6 DOF controllers for Vive Focus and has showcased a hands-tracking technology for the Vive Pro ! The Venture Reality Fund and of course HTC. — Alvin Wang Graylin (@AGraylin) October 18, 2018. Really fantastic.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

HTC is going to launch its headset on May, 11th. HTC is keeping rising the hype for its new upcoming headset. Epic is in a great position to build the software part of the metaverse since it controls one of the most used game engines (so it has the tools), and one of the most used games of the world (so it has the users).

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Speaking on the Unity integrations, Ivan Rajkovic, CEO of SpectreXR, noted: We’re excited to expand hand-tracking support for OctoXR and enable even more Unity developers to create immersive and engaging interactive VR/AR experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2024

It became pretty viral the news that Apple does not want developers to define their apps as AR, VR, or MR, but just as “spatial” when writing the store definitions. The most affected by this “restructuring operation” is the “1P AR Hardware” team, the one working on augmented reality devices.

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VRScout

JULY 10, 2017

Apple’s ARKit combined HTC Vive shows us the future of mixed reality. We recently covered some of the cooler creations made using the intuitive software in a previous post. We recently covered some of the cooler creations made using the intuitive software in a previous post. — Normal (@normalvr) July 10, 2017.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Image by HTC Vive). HTC expands its Cosmos offering and teases the future with Proton. This has been a pretty interesting week for HTC Vive. The cool stuff of all of this is that all these Cosmos have the same base unit and just ship with a different faceplate on , and these faceplates are also on sale for $200.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

While capable of providing some pretty useful and interesting apps, the next logical step for this early development of an AR app ecosystem invariably points to the future ahead: an Apple AR headset. The post Report: Apple Could Release an AR Headset as Early as 2020 appeared first on Road to VR.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 5, 2022

The US Department of Defense (US DoD) launched its Pilot Program to Accelerate the Procurement and Fielding of Innovative Technologies (APFIT) to provide the AR kit to military staff, allowing soldiers to cut the risk of injury or attack while on missions, the report read. EolianVR (@EolianVR) July 20, 2022. . ” Eolian ARTAK System.

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Road to VR

MARCH 21, 2022

At GDC 2022 today, Qualcomm launched its Snapdragon Metaverse Fund for companies building “unique, immersive XR experiences, as well as associated core augmented reality (AR)and related artificial intelligence (AI)technologies,” the company says.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Apple is developing an AR headset; so much is clear from its many AR-specific job listings and even its latest version of iOS, which includes a stereoscopic renderer. The questions of what, how, and when are all patently up in the air though, making any shred of evidence—or in this case, rumor—something to highlight.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 6, 2023

Luis Bravo Martins, CMO, KIT-AR. Jason Southern, EMEA Head of Enterprise Software and Visualization, NVIDIA. Shen Ye, Global Head of Product, HTC VIVE. Jordan Rose, Founder, Rose Law Group. Kirk Mckinzie, President, Mckinzie Smart Techologies. Jason Mcguigan, Head of Commercial Virtual Reality, Lenovo.

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Road to VR

MAY 29, 2018

When it comes to mobile VR and AR headsets, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips are dominating the space, with every major mobile headset launched so far this year built on the company’s Snapdragon 821 or 835 chips. On that front, the company says that HTC, Vuzix, and Pico are already developing products based on XR1.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 5, 2022

In the AEC environment, XR solutions are quickly becoming a critical part of the modern workflow. AR and MR solutions can make it easier to show projects to clients, giving them an insight into what a finished result might look like. There are even tools available with built-in hand and eye tracking. Magic Leap.

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Road to VR

MAY 7, 2018

The shift, the company says, better addresses the increasingly important role of research and development in AR/VR while emphasizing collaboration with Facebook’s other skunkworks, something Oculus Chief Scientist Michael Abrash says is allowing for “further and faster” development of leading-edge AR/VR tech.

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