TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 25, 2022

After poring over documents and articles of cutting-edge technological innovations in gaming and applications in other industries, the three co-founders identified a gap in the market and set up Refract. Unlike full-body motion tracking systems like Perception Neuron, Rokoko and Xsens, AXIS is for real-time gaming and entertainment use.

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VRScout

MAY 7, 2018

Despite only having existed three short years, VRLA has already managed to cement itself as the one of, if not the most impactful annual immersive entertainment events in the United States. Upon first entering the exhibit i was instructed to lay on a specially-designed massage table fitted with an HTC Vive headset at the face rest.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Based on our recent talk with VP of content, Joel Breton, HTC has plenty of experiences in the works for its Vive VR headset across a wide range of categories. As you read travel articles, you’ll be surrounded in 360 degree images and videos of the destination in question.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 14, 2018

In this article I want to show you what it is, its characteristics and also a brief interview with DreamGlass CEO, so that you can decide if it is something that suits your needs. HTC has understood that too, and that’s why its latest flagship phone can be a controller for the Vive Focus. HTC: 10, U11. on the screen).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

But before leaving you to the best pieces of AR/VR news of the week, let me tease you that in the upcoming days I will publish an article I’m sure you will all love… it’s a hands-on preview on… you’ll discover it! Image by HTC Vive). HTC launches Vive Focus 3 and Vive Pro 2. Then, the price is a bit high , and this is very HTC.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Among this free content, the real interesting stuff is $500 in free Azure credits , while the other things are highly questionable (like 3 months of Unity Pro license… it is more a free trial than a real added value!!). HTC Vive celebrates the holidays giving 100% rev share to developers. More info (Unboxing video on Upload VR).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Since having a 3DOF controller with a 6DOF headset is weird (HTC and Lenovo know this well), RealMax has decided to add also support for Leap Motion. Realmax has an SDK that is compatible with Unity 2017 and Unity 2019. The central button acts as a back button, while the inner one turns on/off or pauses the device.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

January saw HTC Vive hold its first developer jam in five years, created in collaboration with Admix, Corsair and VRFocus. Each team had two HTC Vive Pro Eye’s to play with – the company’s latest enterprise-focused headset – meaning eye-tracking needed to feature in some way.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

All in all, I found the article a nice read, but I don’t like that it looks very corporate and bleached out. Good news for the LBEVR (Location-Based Entertainment in VR) sector. I mean… HTC controls five other social VR experiences in its XR Suite, it is weird that now it is partnering with a competitor company.

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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. In the same article, it is also reported the news that Snap has acquired part of the assets and hired some of the people from Daqri.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Well, after that article, I discovered that the CTO of MeLeap , the company behind HADO, is one of my readers! :O Go on reading, I bet you will enjoy this journey into the present and the future of location-based augmented reality entertainment. Software-wise, we use Unity, Vuforia, and OpenCV.

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Peter Graham

JANUARY 28, 2020

Out-of-Home entertainment, and Immersive Technology industry specialist Kevin Williams reports in his latest Virtual Arena column on the further growth in recognition that virtual reality VR is receiving from the Enterprise sector.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

Before leaving you to the best news of the week, I would like to highlight two notable things about my work: My crazy trolling game “The Unity Cube” has been featured in a video by Upload VR! Image by HTC Vive). HTC Vive Air is a design concept for a fitness-focused VR headset. You don’t even know how this made me happy!

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 28, 2018

Me trying the XCOL application with an HTC Vive Pro, while Sam is using a tablet and another employee a smartphone. XCOL is so currently a framework, through which every Unity developer can create a custom solution for enterprise virtual collaboration. This ensures an optimal environment for the requirements of the customer.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2021

HTC is probably going to announce a new standalone headset this week. We all know that HTC is hosting an event inside the social VR platform ENGAGE and that it is going to announce a new product. To discover it, I guess you have to wait until the 14th when there will be HTC’s event…. News worth a mention. Image by Varjo).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

From time to time, I like to look at the adoption graph of XR shown by John Riccitiello (the CEO of Unity) in 2017 , where you can see that the real acceleration of immersive technologies should start around 2022-2023. Companies like Pico, HP, Valve, and HTC are already performing very well in this sector. The rise of enterprise.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

So for today’s article, let me focus mainly on the non-CES-related news about AR and VR. My favorite ones have been: Sony Interactive Entertainment has revealed that the next PSVR headset will be called PSVR 2 and will feature 2K x 2K per eye, up to 120 Hz framerate, and 110° FOV. When will the “Metaverse is dead” articles come out?

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 28, 2021

HTC is shipping the Vive Focus 3. HTC has started shipping the Vive Focus 3, so we have started reading the first reviews about it. Unity CEO predicts in 2030 XR headsets will be as popular as gaming consoles. More info (Article on John Riccitiello’s words / 1) More info (Article on John Riccitiello’s words / 2).

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

It has made significant contributions in various verticals such as entertainment, education, retail etc. In this article, we will discuss on augmented reality. Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. Thanks for reading this article.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 24, 2023

Many of the articles emerging from this are purporting the death of the Metaverse. One of the most salient articles catching the attention of the XR community is the pedantic Business Insider article , “RIP Metaverse, We Hardly Knew Ye.” This has triggered immense demand among telecoms.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The HTC Vive Cosmos may release soon for €799. We all know that the Vive Cosmos should release very soon since HTC revealed me that the release date would have been in Q3 2019 and Q3 ends at the end of the month. More info (MacRumors original article) More info (Upload VR explanation). Top news of the week. Who knows.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

In the end, I still believe in the old predictions of Unity CEO John Riccitiello: Look at this graph shown by Mr. Riccitiello in 2017: the purple line is the one of the analysts, while the white one is the one forecasted by him. Mostly they are about entertainment, marketing or training experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2022

I’ve personally met and had a chat with people from Unity and Epic Games, Roblox, The Sandbox, HTC Vive, Microsoft, Rec Room. I saw that there were people from Sony Interactive Entertainment. During the event, I was able to see (in streaming) Mark Zuckerberg live for the first time. There was a keynote by Neal Stephenson.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 24, 2021

Thanks to HTC that has kindly provided me a loaner device, I have been able to test in the last days the Vive Focus 3 Business Edition. The latest standalone headset from HTC was announced a month ago, and it generated a lot of buzz in the community for its premium features associated with a high price.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Part of all of this is merit of Jeri (Image by HTC). Compare that to the HTC Vive that has like 40 giant infrared lights that strobe constantly to synchronize everything and spinning lasers with infrared light… and then the Kinect that has this huge laser illumination system, so those systems work totally different than ours.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

High-precision 6DOF tracking, eye tracking, gesture inputs, with dedicated input controllers The SDK will support Unity , with Unreal coming Soon. Also, people in entertainment, medical, automotive, military training, and other enterprise sectors are interested in our glasses. The official computational unit runs Android.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 31, 2017

Available On: SteamVR (HTC Vive). Reviewed on: HTC Vive. Racket: Nx is available via Steam for the HTC Vive initially, though the developer has confirmed to Road to VR that they plan to add Rift and Touch support later this year. In Racket: Nx the HTC Vive can claim another worthy roomscale experience.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But with that, we also saw the pandemic itself wipe out an entire category of this entire industry, so location based entertainment just disappeared. So you avoid the original location based entertainment. If you were location based entertainment, not so much. Alex: RIP, LBE. chuckles] Alan: [laughs] Exactly! Alex: Mm-hm.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But with that, we also saw the pandemic itself wipe out an entire category of this entire industry, so location based entertainment just disappeared. So you avoid the original location based entertainment. If you were location based entertainment, not so much. Alex: RIP, LBE. Alan: [laughs] Exactly! Sounds like a rap song.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

I’m sure that after April, 20th, the Meta Quest ecosystem will appear even richer than it is now , creating a wider gap with other companies that may think about competing with the Quest, that is Pico, HTC, and even Apple. Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Unity talked about PlayStation VR 2 at GDC. News worth a mention.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But with that, we also saw the pandemic itself wipe out an entire category of this entire industry, so location based entertainment just disappeared. So you avoid the original location based entertainment. If you were location based entertainment, not so much. Alex: RIP, LBE. Alan: [laughs] Exactly! Sounds like a rap song.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

Gaming is the most dynamic and exciting category in entertainment across all platforms today and will play a key role in the development of metaverse platforms,” he said in the press release. HTC discounts its headsets. HTC has started a good discount on its headsets that will last until the end of the month.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

But now, in this article, it is time to go deeper. HTC has actually released that for the Vive Focus Plus … Well, according to the god John Carmack , it is something about which the company has discussed a lot and has also experimented a lot. Unity GPU We recently enabled Unity’s GPU Profiler on Quest and Go.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

Anyway, I will keep you posted about that in a dedicated article! HTC Vive is at the second place; Oculus Quest, even if it is so new, has already gathered a lot of interest from developers; Gaming is still the most popular content developed in XR, but now there is also interest in other kinds of applications , like entertainment (e.g.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2020

Worldwide cases of COVID-19, at the time I’m writing this article. But enough is enough: here all the shows now talk about coronavirus, and they have suppressed some of the entertainment programs to add other shows about coronavirus. It is annoying as hell, ruins the mood and looks terribly dystopian.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

You know that I have a big passion for Brain-Computer Interfaces, a passion that has grown even more when I understood they are a perfect match with AR and VR (I have even dedicated a long article in the past about this). There are obvious applications in the world of entertainment. What are its possible applications?

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

You can read some of my hands-on articles on my blog (e.g. In a side event happening after AWE, HTC has announced a bunch of updates of Vive Focus 3 that have the potential of revolutionizing the Location Based Entertainment in VR (LBEVR o LBVR) sector. Unity has bought Weta Digital for 1.6B. Top news of the week.

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