Road to VR

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Oculus parent company Facebook today announced it’s bringing Spaces , the company’s own social VR app, to HTC Vive. Facebook’s extension of Spaces to HTC Vive somewhat clashes Oculus’ with historical practice of creating exclusive content to drive headset sales. And the same makes sense for Facebook Spaces.

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MARCH 26, 2020

The three-day event featured videos and special blog posts. Now it looks like HTC and VIVE are doing something similar. On Tuesday, a post went live on the VIVE blog detailing what their digital GDC alternative offerings will look like. To not bother, catch the videos on VIVE’s YouTube later on.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Valve’s introduction video to SteamVR at the launch of the HTC Vive last year remains a superb illustration of the impact of presenting VR in this way. The video is seen heading this article. The post YouTube Spaces Studio Explores the Basics of Mixed Reality Video Capture appeared first on Road to VR.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2018

During my Chinese adventure, in the period that I was leaving Shanghai to go to Chengdu to watch pandas, I had the opportunity to interview via WeChat Qiyong Chen, one of the people leading the Virtual Reality R&D experiments at HTC. Who are you and what do you do in HTC? I’m Qiyong Chen, leader of HTC China Immersive Lab.

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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. And it is nice that HTC with this new Cosmos line is satisfying the needs of a broad share of VR people : from the casual gamer that wants something cheap to the professional.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 7, 2020

Firefox Reality , Mozilla’s made-for-VR web browser, has been available on standalone devices for some time now, featuring support for Oculus Quest, Oculus Go, HTC Vive Focus, and Pico standalones. Like with its standalone headset variant, Firefox Reality PC Preview supports standard 2D web browsing, 360 video, and immersive content.

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Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2017

Facebook’s VR headset subsidiary Oculus is finally integrating a native tool that will let you capture and share your Rift experiences through 360 photos and videos—one that developers can integrate into Unity and Unreal Engines, and across NVIDIA and AMD GPUs— and it’s available today on GitHub.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The headset is said to come with a detachable x86 compute pack which will arrive with the company’s SimulaOS open-source VR window manager installed by default, the very same which can be installed and run on SteamVR headsets such as Valve Index and HTC Vive Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2024

This could be interesting when paired with XR glasses Apple has removed the functionality of “removing your room ceiling” from Vision Pro There is a video showing hand-tracking performances on Vision Pro: tracking is good, and occlusion is good, but the lag is incredibly high. The device costs $200 and it is available starting today.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 15, 2021

But 5 years ago, at Ferragosto, I had another plan: I wanted to start a blog of mine. Following the piece of advice of marketing expert Tommaso di Bartolo, and encouraged by my friends and colleagues Gianni Rosa Gallina and Massimiliano Ariani , I started this blog to talk about the work I was doing at my startup Immotionar.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

Stay tuned on my blog for updates about this new adventure of mine. HTC has revealed the design of the Vive Cosmos. HTC has finally unveiled some information on the Vive Cosmos. The most important info shared Friday is a (weird) video with the external new design of the device. Top news of the week. Image by Upload VR).

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Microsoft has announced plans to acquire American video game holding company ZeniMax Media, owner of numerous high-profile game publishers, for a reported $7.5 Image Credit: HTC Vive. Microsoft’s acquisition will cost a reported $7.5

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2022

I have written a little blog post about my participation there. On Reddit, I have also been able to watch the video of an indie developer showcasing its game Cradle Of Sins made with UE5, and another developer publishing a tutorial on how to get started with UE5 for PCVR. I can’t tell you the last one because it will be a surprise!

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 12, 2016

One interesting development is that they’re reportedly investing in 60Ghz wireless video streaming specialists Nitero, with a view to bringing wireless VR to their virtual reality offerings. Nitero demonstrated a VR-centric version of their wireless video solution at this year’s CES to UploadVR and had since gone awfully quiet.

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Cats and VR

JANUARY 8, 2018

Heading into CES2018 HTC VIVE announced the introduction of Vive Pro and Vive Wireless Adaptor. In addition, the company debuted new improvements to Viveport VR and Vive Video. Via Vive Blog.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

White Lotus Interactive have announced that their VR-enabled adventure title XING: The Land beyond is now coming to the HTC Vive with full motion control support. ” As ever, to deal with the introduction of HTC Vive’s room-scale brings with it locomotion challenges, so the team have integrated two methods from which to choose.

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Road to VR

JUNE 17, 2017

Cloudhead Games have confirmed the second episode of their fantasy game The Gallery will launch on HTC Vive and Oculus Touch in September. Heart of the Emberstone promises to be considerably larger than the first entry, Call of the Starseed. Image courtesy Cloudhead Games.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

This is how Mister President has wished a happy new year to everyone (Image by HTC Vive). Regarding my Chinese new year, I have decided to start with a little restyling of my blog (have you noticed the new annoying popups and sharing buttons?).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Image by HTC). HTC launches Vive Flow headset for relaxation, priced at $499. After endless teasings and leaks, in the end, HTC has finally unveiled its headset: called Vive Flow, it is a lightweight device for media consumption. I send you good vibes so things go well for you too! Top news of the week. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Image by HTC Vive). HTC is probably going to announce Vive Flow. With a surprise move, HTC Vive has started teasing the launch of a new product. The company has set up a virtual event on the platform ENGAGE (of which HTC is an investor) for October, 14th 2021 at 8 am PDT. Send me hugs while I’m still human!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 4, 2021

More info (NYE parties in VRChat) More info (Video streaming of Jean-Michel Jarre’s concert) More info (Animations around the space needle) More info (Editorial on virtual events becoming always more popular). 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.

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Road to VR

MARCH 25, 2019

acclaimed survival horror video game. It’s not exclusive though, as the VR adaptation is officially coming to PSVR, Oculus and HTC Vive in April 2019. In an avalanche of PSVR news today, Sony announced that Five Nights at Freddy’s is coming to PSVR. We assume other VR platforms will also focus on motion controller support.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 22, 2024

And it didn’t end very well: the first headset was made by HTC and Valve, and as soon as HTC realized that much of the VR money was on software, it launched its own store: Viveport. The only other example we had in XR of a software platform working on all headsets has been SteamVR.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

If you prefer videos, WSJ’s Johanna Stern made a good one that is short, while if you want something more in-depth you should go for Marques Brownlee’s one. A special mention is deserved by Juno, which seems like a great app for watching YouTube videos. Adobe is also launching Lightroom and Fireflies AI to the Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

More info (FRL Official blog post) More info (Road To VR reporting and commenting the news) More info (Ctrl+Labs’s Dino Game Early Demo) More info (ETH’s experimental wristband). As it had promised on my blog last year , its cool Nreal Light AR glasses have finally arrived in Europe. Nreal Light is on sale in Germany.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

Meta adds video recording settings on Quest, at least for developers. One of the most requested features by Quest content creators was the ability to modify the video recording settings when recording gameplay videos on the device. HTC releases its “metaverse phone”. NVIDIA blog on the Industrial Metaverse More info?—?Video

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VRScout

JULY 30, 2018

The biggest video-sharing platform in the world arrives on the Gear VR with all new features and content. Already a dominant application on the HTC Vive, PlayStation VR and Google Daydream platforms, Google’s immensely popular YouTube VR experience is now available on the Samsung Gear VR.

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Road to VR

JULY 12, 2019

The update comes to all supported platforms, including HTC Vive, Valve Index, Windows VR, Oculus Rift, Oculus Go, Oculus Quest, and Samsung Gear VR. Public Bigscreen TV rooms support up to eight users, although a channel can technically support “thousands of people,” Bigscreen CEO and founder Darshan Shankar writes in a blog post.

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Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2019

Beat Games CEO Jaroslav Beck announced the news in a video blog , saying he optimistically expected the game to reach 150,000 copies before its release, a number three times larger than the team’s pre-launch estimation. Beat Saber is available on Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Windows VR headsets (early access), and on PSVR.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

More info (Quest 3 going ok in Steam Hardware Survey) More info (Quest 2 selling much better than Quest 3 on Amazon) HTC announced the Vive Ultimate Tracker Finally, HTC has officially announced the Vive Ultimate Tracker, its standalone inside-out tracker unit. I will leave you the link to do that below.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

Me speaking on the stage of Vive Ecosystem Conference (Photo by HTC). The best trainer in the world (watch the video, if you haven’t seen the movie). Short gameplay video from the demo of HitMotion: Reloaded. We will share there new info and some gameplay videos in the upcoming days. What are its peculiarities?

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Road to VR

JULY 4, 2017

By matching up live video and a digital environment with the help of a green screen setup though, you can essentially create a video that places you straight in the action—one that better communicates the immersion of a VR game than a simple first-person screen capture. image courtesy Oculus.

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Road to VR

APRIL 3, 2018

Facebook Spaces , the company’s social VR application which launched in beta one year ago , is getting an entirely new avatar system and customization tool, something Facebook says in a recent blog post was designed to make avatars “more expressive and customizable than ever.”

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Road to VR

APRIL 5, 2017

APEX is the latest real-time VR music video experience directed by Arjan van Meerten, the creator of the acclaimed Surge (2015). Until we have a chance to see APEX at Tribeca, we have Meerteen’s words, as shared on the Wevr blog , to image the experience by: Photo courtesy Wevr.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Flagship products such as the Meta Quest Pro, Pico 4 and Pico 4 Enterprise, and HTC VIVE Focus 3 and Flow devices have recently hit shelves, sparking interest in the emerging technology. VR is now rapidly emerging as an excellent alternative to video conferencing and calls. VR Trends for 2022. Customer Service. Enhanced Headsets.

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VRScout

JANUARY 15, 2020

The partnership between the two companies puts Firefox Reality on every Neo 2 device giving you the ability to instantly send a video, a document, or a webpage directly from your computer to your VR headset through a “Send Tab” option that’s built into the dropdown menu located in Firefox’s URL. . Image Credit: Pico Interactive.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Virtual reality artistry really has exploded since the HTC Vive gave the world room scale VR and tracked motion controllers, making the VR art application Tilt Brush possible. Take a look at the video below, where Park first walks you through the battlefield, then shows you how he created it all. Return of the Jedi (1983).

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