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AUGUST 2, 2019

The 2019 ChinaJoy Digital Entertainment Expo and Conference kicked-off with a bang this morning with HTC’s announcement of VIVEPORT Streaming, a new feature heading to the VR game platform that will allow Vive headsets users to wirelessly stream high-quality VR games directly from a VR-ready gaming PC over Wi-Fi.

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MAY 28, 2018

HTC has been making inroads into the education system in China with its startup VIVEDU , which centers around both University-level and K-12 education programs using HTC Vive and now HTC Vive Focus, the company’s 6DOF standalone VR headset. Image courtesy HTC. Image courtesy HTC.

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DECEMBER 3, 2019

Some months ago, HTC announced “Viveport Streaming” , a solution to wirelessly stream PC VR games to Vive Wave standalone headsets. Today, this solution gets finally launched, giving all Vive Focus Plus owners the possibility to play PC VR games via Wi-Fi. Header image by HTC Vive). Viveport Streaming.

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OCTOBER 28, 2019

Last week I have taken part in the WCVRI exhibition in Nanchang, China. We of New Technology Walkers have taken there our MR fitness game HitMotion: Reloaded , and made hundreds of people try it. As I always do, I would like to share these lessons with you , so that if you will ever have to go to exhibit in China, you will be prepared.

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OCTOBER 26, 2016

HTC opened their third officially branded ‘Vive VR Cafe’ last week, this time in Shenzhen, China, the country’s Silicon Valley of hardware. SEE ALSO HTC Partnership Aims to Bring Vive to "hundreds of millions" of Internet Café Users. ” (currently China-only). ” (currently China-only).

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

Image by MegaDodo Simulation Games). Some of its features are: 2,160 × 2,160 resolution per eye 90Hz framerate 4-cameras inside-out tracking (like the Quest) Touch-like controllers with Knuckles-like finger-sensing Face tracking Hips tracking (for better orientation in games) Integration with SteamVR games Wireless add-on.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Today at HTC’s Vive Developer Meeting in Beijing and its simultaneous Shanghai-based Vive Ecosystem Conference, Chinese eye-tracking startup 7invensun debuted a new eye-tracking module that’s not only affordable at $150 (¥1100 RMB), but is designed to support all of HTC’s VR headsets, past and present.

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MAY 10, 2021

In China, it will be sold as a consumer device for around $400 , with two SKUs, one with 128GB storage, and the other one with 256GB. The headset is marketed as a device for gaming and fitness , and it will feature very interesting games, already popular on Quest: Superhot VR, Red Matter , and Synth Riders are some notable examples.

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OCTOBER 24, 2016

Alvin Wang Graylin, HTC Vive’s Regional President in China, revealed on Twitter the first Vive VR Cafe opened in Shenzhen last Friday. Previously, we reported on HTC ‘s huge initiative that would have them powering potentially thousands of VR arcades. The [arcade] model is showing great promise in terms of penetration.”.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2019

It’s safe to say VR changed the way people think of video games. With the introduction of immersive entertainment, gaming is no longer a strictly sedentary experience. Instead, users are up on their feet, interacting with their digital environments in a much more physical manner than conventional console and PC gaming.

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JUNE 30, 2021

This game has had a very long and interesting story (maybe one day I’ll write a long post about it), and it has lived various transitions, with the last one being from a passthrough AR game to a standard VR game. It was an AR game that could be played on a VR headset , in 2019. The setting.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As we reported from Vive’s Beijing event late Monday, HTC unveiled a standalone VR headset that requires no PC or base stations. In May, we reported that Google had partnered with HTC to build a new standalone VR headset that we could all expect soon. Confirmed, no Daydream standalone from HTC, but we remain great partners.

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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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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Meta Platforms has entered talks with Tencent Holdings to potentially sell the former’s Meta Quest headsets and services across China. The news comes after Tencent, the largest global video game publisher, aimed to develop its own metaverse unit in June last year.

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OCTOBER 21, 2016

If there’s one place that’s leading the charge to make VR accessible to consumers — it’s China. VR in China is steadily going mainstream, thanks to hundreds of dedicated arcades and cafes popping up in major cities across the country. After proving out the VR cafe model in China, HTC will look to expand globally.

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DECEMBER 4, 2019

HTC today announced that it’s released support for 5Ghz WiFi streaming for Vive Focus Plus, as well as all 6DOF standalone headsets supporting the Vive Wave platform. The post HTC Launches Viveport PC Streaming for Vive Focus Plus appeared first on Road to VR. SEE ALSO Viveport Has Earned a Second Chance Thanks to Infinity.

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JULY 5, 2017

Goldman Sachs says that China accounted for a third of VR headset sales last year. By some measures, VR has been better received in China than it has even in the West. It could be reasonable to believe that China is poised to dominate the nascent VR industry. It hopes to bring “VR theme parks” to China. Pay-for-Play.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

HTC Vive Cosmos (Image by HTC). The Vive Cosmos is the latest PC VR headset announced by HTC at CES 2019. HTC has been able to create some hype towards th is device, that has appeared intriguing since the beginning. HTC has not revealed any additional details about the phone connectivity of the headset. USB-C port.

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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. China is committed to development & application of #VR in various fields.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Alvin Wang Graylin is the China President of Vive at HTC, and I had a chance to talk with him at CES this year about what’s happening in China. The VR market in China is growing, and there is a lot more optimism for technological adoption and enthusiasm for having VR arcade experiences.

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MAY 24, 2018

Today at the Vive Ecosystem Conference 2018 in China, HTC announced that the Vive Focus standalone headset will be able to wirelessly stream PC VR content from both Steam and Viveport over a 5GHz WiFi connection. We’ve reached out to HTC for clarification.

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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. LIV empowers VR content creators and game developers to grow, and monetize their audiences in real-time.

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MARCH 7, 2017

Last week at both the Mobile World Congress and Game Developers Conference we got hands-on with the HTC Vive’s Tracker peripheral once more, and one of the best uses for it we saw was to enable full-body tracking in VR. HTC says it will. This system could also be hugely important to games like shooters.

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AUGUST 1, 2016

China Joy kicked off Thursday at the Shanghai New International Expo Center with over 600 firms showing the latest in entertainment and technology. Let’s take a look at some of the common themes we came across at China Joy. Most of that hardware growth will be fueled by key products from Samsung, Sony, HTC, Oculus and Google.

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OCTOBER 17, 2016

Less than a month after launching the Viveport VR app store , HTC is introducing even more ways to discover and experience VR content. At the Alibaba Cloud developer forum conference Monday, HTC announced the release of a closed beta for Viveport M. Up until know, VR at HTC has been lacking any sort of mobile features.

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MARCH 17, 2017

HTC might not have a big western developers conference like Oculus does with Connect, but it’s planning a big show for China in just over a weeks’ time. The Vive Ecosystem Conference 2017 is set to take place from March 27th – 28th in Shenzhen, China. Tagged with: htc vive , Vive Ecosystem Conference.

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ARPost

JULY 23, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us how important immersive and interactive apps and games are in our everyday life. Immersive games and apps and 3D videos have opened a new world for emotionally exhausted people staying at home 24/7. Where: Chengdu Marriott Hotel Financial Centre, Sichuan, China. When: September 2 – September 3.

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AUGUST 21, 2017

Next to Oculus’ big $400 Summer of Rift sale, the $800 HTC Vive felt as if it was in another price bracket altogether. Now after a price drop to $600 , the Vive feels very much back in the game compared to the Rift’s post-sale MSRP of $500. Despite the close timing, HTC says the price cut wasn’t a reaction to Oculus.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

One week after opening their first Vive branded VR cafe in Shenzhen China, HTC has now unveiled a VR theme park in Taiwan, touting over 20 different VR experiences. Image Credit: HTC. The post HTC Opens VIVELAND VR Theme Park in Taiwan appeared first on VRScout.

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AUGUST 1, 2019

At ChinaJoy today, HTC has just announced a little but very important news: the Vive Focus Plus will be able to connect to Viveport on PC and play all its games via Wi-fi streaming. The concept of Wi-fi streaming to play PC VR games with a mobile headset is absolutely not new. All natively. Wi-fi streaming.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2017

According to HTC, applications crossed a wide spectrum of non-gaming applications of VR areas such as Education, Enterprise, Training, Health and Wellness and more. In fact, nearly 60% of applications were non-gaming or non-entertainment content. “Building an object that can be tracked alongside the Vive can be complex.”

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NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Yesterday we brought you news that HTC and Vive X company TPCAST were planning to release a wireless upgrade kit for the HTC Vive, with pre-orders going live today. Graylin, China Regional President of Vive at HTC, told UploadVR that the kit had completely sold out of its initial stock, set to ship in Q1 2017, in 18 minutes.

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OCTOBER 6, 2022

HTC teased a new “small” Vive headset on Twitter, sharing only this image: Go small or go home. — HTC VIVE (@htcvive) October 6, 2022. HTC confirmed the teaser was for a new headset in an email to UploadVR, and in multiple Twitter replies. Vive Focus is HTC’s standalone headset line, sold to businesses.

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APRIL 2, 2017

Virtuix has also announced that the company has become a “formal hardware partner of HTC.” ” Arizona Sunshine [ our review ] is one of SteamVR’s top rated games, and soon it’ll be compatible with the Virtuix Omni , a VR treadmill which got its start after a successful 2013 Kickstarter.

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DECEMBER 8, 2016

“We have entered a golden age of virtual reality content creation with incredibly powerful game engines, toolkits, and development kits at the fingertips of talented content creators worldwide.” – Joel Breton. HTC is getting into the VR content development game with the launch of Vive Studios.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2022

HTC released a video showing off its vision of the metaverse, a reflection of what the company thinks virtual spaces will look like in the near future. HTC’s most recent concept video isn’t at fault for shooting for the stars. To think, HTC and Oculus were once competitors back in the early days of consumer VR.

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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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