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NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Just under eight months after it first launched on the Oculus Rift, CCP Games’ EVE: Valkyrie [ Review: 9/10 ] is finally available on the HTC Vive from today, though it’s lacking some features we’d really hoped to see. Tagged with: combat , EVE Valkyrie , multiplayer , space flight.

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JANUARY 3, 2017

To do this, an infrared 3D capture camera hangs on the front of your headset (either the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, or other devices) and dangles in front of the lower half of your face, reading your expressions. Tagged with: binaryvr , Facial tracking , htc vive , oculus rift.

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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. This would be fantastic.

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JULY 3, 2017

Recently Oculus announced via their blog that they’ve added native MR support to their flagship PC VR headset, the Oculus Rift. If you are an HTC Vive user, you can read more about mixed reality setup in our previously published guide here. Tagged with: mixed reality Facebook Twitter Reddit More.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Back at CES we met a small creative studio with some big technical plans for the HTC Vive’s upcoming Tracker peripheral. The team’s name was Master of Shapes , and they were one of the groups that HTC had gathered to showcase some of the many applications for the new device.

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MAY 11, 2017

The game has been available for a while on the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, but will feature some new twists. The developer’s Adam Orth said in a PlayStation Blog post that the Aim controller achieves “a deeper sense of physicality than with standard motion controllers.”

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JUNE 12, 2017

on PSVR and HTC Vive, a far cry from the non-VR game’s original launch price of $59.99 While the non-VR Doom has since gone down in price (now $29.99), it comes to us from the same parent studio, Bethesda, that just priced the upcoming Fallout 4 VR at a full price tag of $59.99. just last year. You might be wondering why.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Using a collection of techniques, including a modified HTC Vive with SMI eye tracking , Google digitally recreates your face in place of the VR headset that is blocking it. ” Tagged with: Google Research.

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MARCH 8, 2021

Image by HTC). HTC is teasing the launch of a new hardware. With a tweet, HTC has just teased the upcoming launch of a new device. More info (HTC is going to launch a new hardware) More info (Second tweet from HTC) More info (Third tweet from HTC). Gorilla Tag is the last VR phenomenon. Funny link.

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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. Funny link.

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MARCH 8, 2017

The studio wanted the kind of control you can get with VR controllers like the HTC Vive’s six degree of freedom (6DOF) wands but for HoloLens. As AfterNow’s Jesse Vander Does notes in a blog post , the company asks that “interactions should be a comfortable 1.5 Tagged with: HoloLens , microsoft.

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JANUARY 25, 2017

The VR specialist posted a new blog in which it details ideal set ups for the Oculus sensors that track the headset and controllers. The HTC Vive can do it with only two lighthouse base stations. The blog post is also the first in a four-part series, so later entries will likely provide more tips.

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DECEMBER 5, 2016

It successfully communicates what someone is doing in VR, and has been adopted by the likes of HTC and Oculus, though it looks a little strange. Featured in these new clips are Space Pirate Trainer (above) and Fantastic Contraption (below), two games that fully utilize room scale VR on the HTC Vive and, from tomorrow, the Oculus Rift.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2016

In a blog post today, Ubisoft ( Assassins Creed , Watch Dogs ) announced that it will be bringing cross-platform multiplayer functionality to its growing list of virtual reality games. ” Tagged with: bridge crew , cross-play , Eagle Flight , multiplayer , online , star trek , ubisoft , werewolves within.

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MAY 25, 2020

OMG, it’s almost 3 years that I write these roundups… the first week peek was exclusive for my blog subscribers and it featured as best news the release of Google Blocks and in the other news something about Samsung Gear VR… how much time has passed since then! If he’s right, what surprises me the most is the $499 price tag.

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JANUARY 14, 2017

” Announced on their blog , Northway Games has put a major new feature into the hands of players: The level editor. Tagged with: fantastic contraption , htc vive , oculus rift , PS VR. In an email, developer Sarah Northway wrote “1.6.0 will be our last major update to the game. We’re finally done!”

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JANUARY 4, 2017

Ever since Tilt Brush from Google first released earlier this year on Steam with official support for the HTC Vive, thousands of people have created amazing works of art. According to an official Google blog post , these 60 creators have already begun collaboratively solving some of Tilt Brush’s problems together.

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DECEMBER 14, 2016

Google declined to comment on exactly which other headsets support this release though a blog mentions that support for Cardboard headsets and desktop platforms — which would use the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive — would be added soon. Tagged with: Daydream , google , webvr.

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DECEMBER 8, 2016

Company founder and CEO, David Braben, confirmed as much on the PlayStation Blog , along with revealing a new trailer that you can see below. Elite already supports the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive on PC, but today’s announcement makes no mention of integration with Sony’s headset. We reached out to Frontier to find out more.

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JANUARY 25, 2017

The platform will support the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and OSVR and is free-to-play. million late last year with help from the likes of HTC, certainly seems to be doing that. A scroll through the company’s Medium blog reveals yet more ambitions, like bringing sculptures from Oculus Medium into the experience.

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APRIL 4, 2024

In a recent blog post highlighting the firm’s ten-year immersive journey, the company teased that new smart glasses are incoming. During the blog post, Meta notes that a new AR device is coming that combines AR and AI in more sophisticated ways. Initially, Meta remained the key leading champion in the XR space.

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MARCH 1, 2017

Microsoft is rolling out development kits for the first VR headset made by Acer later this month, but in a blog post announcing that news, it dropped an even juicier detail. Microsoft’s headsets seem a likely option, but could it go beyond that to also support the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive? Today, we can confirm it will.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Star Wars Battlefront Rogue One: X-Wing VR Mission , as the piece is rather clumsily called, will be releasing on PlayStation VR on December 6th, according to a new blog from publisher EA. Tagged with: Dice , EA , rogue one , sci-fi , Star Wars , star wars battlefront: x-wing mission.

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DECEMBER 14, 2016

In response to The Information piece, Abovitz authored an official company blog post saying they’ve built prototypes “of our target form factor.” Tagged with: andy fouche , departure , Magic Leap , PR. Abovitz has helped secure roughly $1.4 billion in funding for his secretive startup over the last few years.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Ever since Fantastic Contraption [ Review: 8/10 ] released alongside the HTC Vive earlier this year, it’s been a staple of any Vive gamer’s library. ” For more details on what else this Kaiju update adds, you can read the blog post here. Tagged with: fantastic contraption , northway games , puzzle.

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MARCH 16, 2020

And if you need some pieces of advice regarding how to professionally survive this quarantine, I have written a blog post on the topic you can read. It seems that the company has chosen a price tag around $10B and has already proposed to some companies including Facebook and Johnson&Johnson.

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AUGUST 7, 2022

The HTC Vive, produced by HTC and developed together with video game industry giant Valve, was released on April 5th, 2016. While the price tag dropped during the Black Friday sales, it is still at 699€ in Europe (US $600) and requires at least some decent PC hardware to perform smoothly. HTC Vive Pro. Oculus Rift.

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OCTOBER 11, 2017

In a blog post, the company said the new price for its immersive headset will be available for a “limited time” as part of a summer sale. In January, Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey said that even at the initial $599 price tag, the Rift headset didn’t offer Oculus a profit. In July the price went down for 33% to $399.

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MARCH 8, 2024

In the same blog post, Meta noted its tapping into XR’s impact on learning outcomes today. By leveraging HTC VIVE-brand VR technology, the researchers were able to show how navigation abilities are linked to dementia risk based on genetic and environmental factors. The research included 100 asymptomatic adults aged 43 to 66.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2022

In a BMW Blog report , German automaker BMW has developed its own Metaverse platform – the M2 Mixed Reality – combining physical driving with immersive reality experiences. Test Driving the Future.

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DECEMBER 6, 2021

I know, I’m too honest… and this is not good for views on my blog. Image by HTC). Gorilla Tag reaches 1.5M Gorilla Tag is one of the craziest success stories in VR. Probably we’ll hear new big shots fired at CES in January 2022. So yes, this roundup won’t be amazing… interesting, but not exciting. News worth a mention.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The HTC Vive, produced by HTC and developed together with video game industry giant Valve, was released on April 5th, 2016. While the price tag dropped during the Black Friday sales, it is still at 699€ in Europe (US $600) and requires at least some decent PC hardware to perform smoothly. HTC Vive Pro. Oculus Rift.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The Menlo Park-based firm may be cautiously approaching the next few months as active competition from mixed reality (MR) headset vendors like Pico and HTC VIVE creeps up. In a blog post, Microsoft’s Vice President of MR, Scott Evans , noted that new headset iterations must come when the technology is ready.

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MARCH 27, 2023

Ok, of course, I’m kidding, but, you know, the possibility of saying the wrong name is so high that my proposal actually starts making sense… Top news of the week (Image by HTC Vive) HTC reveals inside-out-tracked Tracker With a totally unexpected move, HTC has revealed a new kind of Tracker.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

AWE EU promotes creator and developer best practices throughout sessions featuring leading XR firms like Google, HTC VIVE, and Meta speaking on emerging use cases covering business-to-consumer (B2C), business-to-business (B2B), and the European Union (EU). Attending In-Person and Virtually, Opportunities for All.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Making up its list of thought leaders includes individuals from key immersive front-runners, including but not limited to Adobe, Google, Lenovo, Unity, Accenture, T-Mobile, Magic Leap, Qualcomm, Sony, HTC VIVE, and Meta. Event hosts, The VRARA, also secured crucial XR sponsors for the event, such as Lenovo, PwC, and Qualcomm.

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MAY 30, 2022

Ericsson has shared a number of blogs and announcements about its focus on the immersive era of XR, and it’s likely the company will continue to partner with new innovators going forward, particularly as metaverse experiences grow more compelling.

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