Road to VR

JUNE 27, 2017

The company has demonstrated its eye-tracking solution in the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Gear VR, and other head-mounted displays. SMI’s eye-tracking tech built into a Rift DK2 | Photo by Road to VR. MacRumors reports that the company was quietly acquired by Apple sometime between May 2nd and July 26th, 2017.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 8, 2023

The global industrial extended reality (XR) market is expected to reach $60 billion by 2030, findings from ABI Research revealed this week. ABI’s Enterprise and Industrial XR Training report found that enterprises have been increasingly tapping virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) devices over the last five years.

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VRScout

JANUARY 1, 2021

Employees can collaborate with one another in a 3D space using realistic custom avatars, take notes with their motion controllers, even import their own documents and 3D images. Spatial is available free on the Oculus Quest/Quest 2. FACEBOOK’S QUILL.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 4, 2021

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. More info.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Global tech giants such as NVIDIA, Lenovo, Unity, Epic Games, HTC VIVE, and others have already entered the metaverse space race. This will also lead to companies using fewer resources for travel, documentation, repairing, and event planning. The Industrial Metaverse.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

October was such an important month for the virtual reality and augmented reality industry. HTC Vive at GameStop. almost heard a choir of angels) and I even documented in on Facebook. While the experience pales to that of an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, it still will expose more consumers to the possibilities.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2024

What if you want to experiment with AI and MR and you don’t want to wait for Meta/Pico/HTC to provide access to the camera feed? Well, there are some (not ideal) ways that let you at least do some experiments: Use a headset that provides the access you want : some enterprise headsets give you access to the images the user sees.

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VRWorld

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Sumerian, software tools debuted by the retail giant, is an extension to the Amazon Web Services platform, and it focuses on the creation of virtual reality, augmented reality and 3-D applications.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 30, 2021

FCC documents disclose some details of Project Aria. This is all we can extrapolate from the document: it is not much, but is already interesting. There are no disruptive new functionalities, but many welcome improvements. The update pace of the Quest keeps being impressive. News worth a mention. Image by Snap).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Geekbench has just published the scores for a new Vive Focus headset , indicating that a new standalone headset by HTC is coming. But for sure HTC wants Oculus to feel the competition, if this “leak” on the new Focus has “casually” happened some days before the launch of the new Quest…. (Image by Qualcomm).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2020

We’ll continue to provide examples, documentation, and tutorials that will help developers to deliver native-quality applications in WebXR. Firefox Reality has become the official browser for HTC Devices. Firefox Reality is probably the best WebXR browser at the moment (Image by Mozilla).

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Road to VR

MAY 16, 2017

SEE ALSO A Look at NASA's Hybrid Reality Astronaut Training System, Powered by HTC Vive. In March, Valve announced that the course is no longer required for licensees because the documentation has been dialed in well enough and the tools have been refined enough that people can pick it up and get the work started up on their own.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 4, 2024

At the same time, XR’s enthusiasts were well aware of other players in the headset space, like Microsoft, Varjo, HTC VIVE, and others. While the Reality Labs division did lose $4.65 Initially, Meta remained the key leading champion in the XR space. However, Meta stole headlines with increasingly accessible and affordable devices.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2018

HTC Vive Focus is one of the most famous standalone VR headsets. I have always been intrigued by this device, since the first time I’ve read about its reveal at an HTC event : I don’t know why, maybe because of the azure color that is my favorite, maybe because it looks so informal. It was funny. Upper view of the device.

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Tech Trends VR

OCTOBER 18, 2018

The airplane featured in the experience– one of the iconic Lancaster Bombers – was called F for Freddie, and the original report documents its mission as it weaved through searchlights and bullets, crossing over mainland Europe until completing the mission and landing back safely on British soil at RAF Langar, in Nottinghamshire.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

Well, on another website, I’ve been able to find someone that reading some Apple’s documents has found pictures of strange colored circular tags that may act as QR Codes for Apple devices. My friends at 7Invensun and HTC have organized a contest to develop VR applications featuring eye tracking. HTC announces Vive Pro Secure.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 5, 2020

But as far as I know, nothing disruptive for the industry : Oculus has already shots all its bullets, and HTC for the first time isn’t announcing anything. HTC is celebrating the new year with a $100 discount on the Vive Cosmos running from 1th to 10th of January. This is something worth discovering. Let’s see.

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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. This addresses common issues like occlusion and space requirements of systems such as HTC Vive,” Chng told TechCrunch.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 7, 2019

HTC Vive Cosmos will work with Vive Wireless Adapter. This week, HTC has not made another big reveal about the Vive Cosmos, so we’ll still have to wait to discover more about its price and its features. It’s more a logistic thing internal to HTC, so I think most of us can not care about this :D. Other relevant news.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

They will need to witness and experience augmented reality, extensively and firsthand, in order to build apps and content for it. Kevin Miller : I can simply speak about the broader implications and use cases for augmented reality technologies in the field. Those are the two main things that I noticed.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Image by HTC Vive). HTC teases a new headset. HTC has started the usual marketing operation it does for the launch of every new device. We don’t have further details about it, and if you try to enhance the above image, you just get a “Nice try” trolling label coming to view (gg HTC for that). Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

Yesterday, I have dressed as a fortune teller and I have given you my predictions for augmented reality in 2019. Now, it is the turn of virtual reality. Let me do some speculations… Virtual Reality in 2018. Mister President launching the Vive Focus (Image by HTC). How has VR performed in 2018?

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 4, 2018

This year was going to be the year of augmented reality, but by the end of 2018 market analysts were pointing to 2020 or 2021 as the “golden year” of AR. The pilot, which used an iPad and HTC Vive powered by Marxent’s 3D Cloud Service, showed that VR increases average order value by 60%.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Here below I’m posting for you the best offers I’ve found: for instance, HTC is discounting basically every piece of hardware (including Vive Trackers that can be useful for all the VRChat fans out there), while Pico is offering one of the best deals with €100-worth-of-content given for free with every purchased Pico 4.

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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….

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

The company has updated its VR development site as well, where developers can read all the documentation for the new VR platform, and see sample applications and tutorials. “Unity’s native support for Daydream aims to solve the hard problems for you.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

Furthermore, the documentation talked about “Early access to dev” for Del Mar, and this means that the project is still at the alpha stage. So it may be that Oculus contributed to the success of HTC Vive’s room-scale technology. It seems that Luckey’s team was working on 6DOF input (i.e.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Some days ago, the Chinese government has released a document that states how China really wants to commit to VR , how wants the ecosystem to grow well and fast and how also wants to lead the world for what concerns virtual reality. The document talks about the standardization of VR hardware, software, and testing.

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 1, 2020

It also allows the import of PDF documents and PowerPoint presentations. Users are able to share content such as documents or 3D objects in a variety of formats. The tool works with virtual reality and augmented reality glasses as well as on smartphones and tablets. The Prospect v2.10 Image courtesy IrisVR.).

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

Alan: So how is 5G -- or just the ability to have this kind of massive data pipe -- affecting your ability to do virtual reality, or augmented reality, or mixed reality? And I think it's a really interesting point, because many VR users tend to buy VR to play games, including Steam or Oculus or HTC Vive.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

Alan: So how is 5G -- or just the ability to have this kind of massive data pipe -- affecting your ability to do virtual reality, or augmented reality, or mixed reality? And I think it's a really interesting point, because many VR users tend to buy VR to play games, including Steam or Oculus or HTC Vive.

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VRScout

JANUARY 23, 2021

Image Credit: HTC Vive. You can make the employer’s reading experience of your CV easier by carefully formatting the document for easier scanning and skimming. As such, now is the time to consider optimizing your CV for a career in VR or AR in order to land employment. VR & AR career paths to consider.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

Alan: So how is 5G -- or just the ability to have this kind of massive data pipe -- affecting your ability to do virtual reality, or augmented reality, or mixed reality? And I think it's a really interesting point, because many VR users tend to buy VR to play games, including Steam or Oculus or HTC Vive.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

The term “augmented reality” wasn’t officially coined until 1990, but the 80s also saw important breakthroughs in the space. The first metaverse that gains real traction is likely to be the last,” Oculus exec Jason Rubin wrote in a 50-page internal document laying out the strategy. “We

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

But then there’s the Virtual Reality, Toronto; VRTO: That one is a small but very powerful group. And Jimmy Vainstein, who’s speaking from World Bank and how they’re helping to change the world, and document what they’re working on with World Bank through VR and AR and storytelling through that.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

But then there’s the Virtual Reality, Toronto; VRTO: That one is a small but very powerful group. And Jimmy Vainstein, who’s speaking from World Bank and how they’re helping to change the world, and document what they’re working on with World Bank through VR and AR and storytelling through that.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 23, 2019

We’re going to talk about Disney vision, the 90s, immersive entertainment, dream craft, driving go-karts in augmented reality, Great Wolf Lodge and magical wands. Kevin: Well, that’s part of the reason why I’m so passionate about augmented reality and virtual reality being used in out-of-home entertainment.

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