VRScout

JANUARY 1, 2017

It may look like China’s VR industry is imploding, but that’s not actually the case. In 2015, China saw 200-300 firms jump to produce their own VR HMDs. And even the ones still in the game—including AlfaReal, Miido, and Storm Magic Mirror—have begun downsizing and delaying salary payments to employees.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

The Quest 2 is a great gaming machine offered at a ridiculous price, and it has totally crushed the competition. In the case of VR, we all remember the competition between HTC and Oculus in 2016, with HTC clearly winning the market until Oculus used Facebook’s money to slash the price of the Rift around 2017.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 6, 2023

It should launch with 41 new titles specifically made for it, so we can assume that finally, we will see some big new games from the studios that Meta acquired. This doesn’t surprise me because in China many people told me that they were waiting for Oppo to make a move with a VR headset. HTC has made its moves at MWC, too.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2021

Anyway, he confirmed that the first smart glasses that will be released this year won’t have true AR and said that now Oculus wants to expand beyond the gaming ecosystem. FRL has realized that games are cool, but can’t make XR mainstream alone, so now there is a bigger focus on other experiences, and the “Infinite Office” fits in this vision.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

If the Paradise was in China, its name would be Qingdao. HTC has revealed the design of the Vive Cosmos. HTC has finally unveiled some information on the Vive Cosmos. HTC has immediately answered that 899$ is a too high estimate of the price. Stay tuned on my blog for updates about this new adventure of mine.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 4, 2024

The chipset also helps boost consumer and enterprise-grade XR use cases on headsets and smartglasses by leveraging partnerships with Samsung, Google, Tobii, and Goertek to provide visual clarity for gaming and productivity applications. Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2: What’s New? in the third quarter of the year.

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VRScout

AUGUST 15, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: Mindshow, updated Samsung Gear VR, Samsung 360 camera release date, GoPro, HTC, mobile tracking innovation from Chinese developer Deepoon, Microsoft Hololens, investment wrapup, and more! THE SAMSUNG GEAR VR GETS A FACELIFT AND GOPRO DOUBLES DOWN ON 360. on August 19th.

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VRScout

AUGUST 29, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: In this week’s VRScout Report, we discuss VR used as legal evidence; President Obama stars in 360 video at Yosemite; Sliver TV brings 360 immersive views from traditional 2D games w/ $6.2M NEW GEAR VR + SAMSUNG PATENT: BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION. Sliver TV has raised $6.2M

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Old Enemies – HTC. While both Oculus’ Rift and HTC’s Vive hit the market right around the same time in 2016, the Vive was the first system with motion controllers and room-scale. Former Friends – Samsung. Samsung was perhaps Oculus’ first major ally. A Tale of Two Headsets. Playing Catchup.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

The expectations had been over-inflated by analysts over the year and this has created a lot of problems: when CCP games has abandoned VR, a spokesperson said that they expected the market to be 2 or 3 times bigger than what it actually turned out to be. Mister President launching the Vive Focus (Image by HTC). Standalone headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Today is my last day in China. I’m sorry about that, but it’s still a miracle I’ve managed to write it… Top news of the week (Leaked image from Samsung video) Samsung is back to XR with Google and Qualcomm The big news of the week is that Samsung is back to XR. RIP, you will be missed.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

The devices at the time included: HTC Vive wands that shipped with the Vive headset. Today, as more companies enter the VR headset game and input devices continue to see rapid technological advancement, there are now more ways than ever to get your hands into VR. Samsung Gear Controller. HTC Vive wands.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 30, 2021

Also with Bytedance’s huge cash reserves, Pico will be able to grow faster and increase its efforts in the consumer VR market in China (kickstarting the consumer VR market there), and maybe later on also try to compete with Oculus in the West. Snapchat is so planning to compete with similar products like Google Lens or Samsung Bixby.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Game makers] won’t make a profit for now,” Llamas said. “To Oculus will hit 355,000; HTC Vive will be 420,000, and the Samsung Gear VR on mobile will be 2.3 Of the VR software sales in 2016, Llamas said about 72 percent of the $407 million would be from games. SuperData scaled back its forecast from 2.6

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The Upload VR Showcase has been full of announcements about VR games. Upload did it again: on December, 2nd, the big XR magazine has streamed a big showcase of many news about VR games. This one has been richer than the previous one, and we had both news on existing games and announcements of new upcoming titles. Image by HTC).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

In some demanding games, this degradation is highly visible if you look with your eyes in a region that is close to the edge of the lenses. But : Sometimes, in very fast paced games, the tracking gets lost for some instants ; There are some dead zones : if you put your hands very close to the headset, the tracking gets lost.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 7, 2022

Image by Samsung). Samsung is close to launching an XR device, or maybe two. Last month, we got to know that (according to a rumor) Samsung is working together with Microsoft on new AR glasses, most probably powered by a Qualcomm chipset. Samsung has apparently completed a prototype, and “is deciding the release date”.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

HTC has finally revealed the price of the Vive Pro : it will cost $799 just to have the headset (no controller and no base stations, so you must already have a Vive 1 kit) and will be available for pre-orders since April, 5th. But, as Road To VR has stated, maybe HTC should have clarified that in all its marketing material.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2019

” review of standalone headsets (you can find in other posts the ones related to Oculus Go and HTC Vive Focus ). it is bigger than the Oculus Go but smaller than the massive HTC Vive Focus. You attach them to your device and then it becomes as it has always had integrated audio (Image by Bionik Gaming). Then, keep reading.

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RealVision VR

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Barco even chose to introduce the concept via a VR headset – the Samsung GearVR, to drive the point home about the future of immersive movie viewing. The cheap Google Cardboard can be called upon in a crunch, but even Samsung’s GearVR is only a $99 investment and is being given free with the Note7 phones.

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Road to VR

JULY 12, 2016

Matthew Magee ponders virtual reality’s potential impact on game development culture and how immersive technology may encourage a renaissance in independent, disruptive bedroom coders a.k.a In 2012, while still in China, he backed the Rift Kickstarter. make a game for a home computer with relative ease. the Pyjama People.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2018

And so here we are again: Oculus vs HTC, America vs China, Hugo Barra vs Alvin Wang Graylin. Be careful that I haven’t tried the Quest myself and in any case, the Quest has still not released and the Focus has only been released in China, so both devices could see future impredictable updates. The never-ending story.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

The most popular frameworks, ARKit and ARCore, have improved and now they can offer some amazing features : ARKit, for instance, can now track a 3D object (a friend of mine tried it and said it works pretty well), while ARCore can give you Cloud Anchors, so that you can share your AR gaming session with your friends in local multiplayer.

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

A step up from an Oculus Go for those that want more power, much better tracking for immersive games and experiences. Dominic Brennan from Road to VR estimates that Santa Cruz is using the same 1,440 × 1,600 displays that are also found in the Samsung Odyssey and Vive Pro headsets. Samsung Gear VR ($129.99).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 20, 2021

Italy, Canada, and China together to create an amazing video about these VR glasses! The devkit is already available to selected developers in China , and there are already some companies that are creating content for it. The glasses can be connected to a PC , where you can use them to play SteamVR games.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

In my opinion, these are the trends to keep an eye on: The continuous growth of the market Establishment of VR in enterprise settings Incremental technical evolution of devices Blurring of the line between AR and VR High-quality content (especially gaming) 5G over-hype Standardization given by OpenXR Others (LBVR, WebVR, SocialXR).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2018

From my tests, the image on the screen appears slightly distorted, so there will be something to fix on HTC’s side. Better integration with HTC phones. Yesterday HTC has also unveiled its new flagship phone, the HTC U12+. The Vive Focus and its friend the HTC U12+ phone (Image by HTC). Image by HTC).

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VeeR VR

MARCH 16, 2018

According to John Carmack , Oculus CTO noted that the Oculus Go will perform "significantly better" than the Samsung Gear. Oculus has also partnered with Xioami to create an Oculus Go version for China coined the “Mi VR Standalone” that looks almost identical to the Go.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

Joonmo: Actually we partnered with a company called Pico in China and we use Pico's G2 device. And we provide more than 10,000 immersive videos and features, over more than 500 4K high resolution videos, and more than 30 games in various genres, such as sports, and shooting, horror, and rhythm action. Alan: That's pretty awesome.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

Joonmo: Actually we partnered with a company called Pico in China and we use Pico's G2 device. And we provide more than 10,000 immersive videos and features, over more than 500 4K high resolution videos, and more than 30 games in various genres, such as sports, and shooting, horror, and rhythm action. Alan: That's pretty awesome.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

Joonmo: Actually we partnered with a company called Pico in China and we use Pico's G2 device. And we provide more than 10,000 immersive videos and features, over more than 500 4K high resolution videos, and more than 30 games in various genres, such as sports, and shooting, horror, and rhythm action. Alan: That's pretty awesome.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

Chromium to navigate the web), launch some games, launch Viveport or change the settings. Luckily there was Viveport, that gave me access to all 3DOF content collected by HTC Vive. Being Skyworth a Chinese manufacturer, you don’t have problems buying it and using it in China , even without a VPN. Special considerations.

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Road to VR

APRIL 30, 2018

In this article we compare three standalone VR devices which will be available worldwide this year: the Oculus Go, Lenovo Mirage Solo, and HTC Vive Focus. For owners of a compatible Samsung smartphone, the Gear VR shell remains the best value proposition, but for everyone else, the Go will be the cheapest way to access Gear VR content.

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Steki Amusement

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Since 2015, China’s greatest contribution to the global virtual reality (VR) industry has been the discovery of offline VR experience stores. This video game hall-like form exploded with unexpectedly strong vitality and quickly became an important part of the VR industry. About VR Theme Park. Places, traditional shops.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 27, 2019

This year we had the launch of two amazing 6 DOF all-in-one Virtual Reality headsets : the Oculus Quest and the HTC Vive Focus Plus. USB should have OTG enabled; Battery : 3 hours nominal duration; Vive Focus Plus and controllers (Image by HTC). According to some reviewers, the display may also be the same one made by Samsung.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

This trend will continue in 2021 : the new LiDAR sensor, which is rumored to be installed in all future iPhones, will for sure be copied also by Android phones (Samsung?) The only big name surviving in this field is Pokemon Go, but just because it has changed how the game works and it has already a very large and passionate userbase.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2019

Image by HTC). After some weeks of silence, HTC has started again to rise the hype for its upcoming flagship PC VR headset, the Vive Cosmos. HTC has not confirmed nor denied the price, but 90% of cases when this happens, the rumored price is true. Other relevant news. Vive Cosmos release is close and it may cost £700.

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