Cats and VR

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

HTC held its VIVE™ Developer Conference 2017 (VDC2017), where it announced VIVE WAVE™ ( www.vive.com/cn/vive-wave-en ), a VR open platform and toolset that will open up the path to easy mobile VR content development and high-performance device optimization for third-party partners. Via HTC Press Release [link].

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Some of the most common myths and misconceptions surrounding VR include the following: it always causes motion sickness and virtual reality is solely applicable to games. Although gaming is certainly a great use case and example of what immersive VR experiences can deliver, the possibilities are endless,” said Vindevogel.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Immersive technologies have demanded some of the world’s best firms to develop cloud computing, body tracking, artificial intelligence (AI), audiovisual, and gaming engine technologies capable of realising the full potential of the future communications platform. That is the reason why we are [developing for VR].

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 2, 2017

For a product that makes your VR experience untethered, TPCAST certainly adds a lot of wires and additional hardware to your HTC Vive setup. We’ve tried a number of wireless VR dev kits now and these products often seem to compromise between latency and visual/color fidelity. Standing up, we didn’t have much of an issue.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2021

VR fitness game HitMotion: Reloaded has just added support for LIV and bHaptics suit , and it is a total blast with haptic feedback! The game was announced in 2018, and then it became a mystery bigger than Half-Life 3. HTC is probably going to announce a new standalone headset this week.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Connect, Oculus’s annual developer conference, is already in full swing, but if you didn’t manage to book the flight and hotel to San Jose, CA, you can still pop your head in to see what this year’s hubbub is about. Below the steaming schedule are a few ways you can go about it: Opening Keynote. So there you have it.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2020

The dream of moving games, video, training and social experiences from flat screens to the 3D world around us is finally becoming possible on a wide scale. And we’ve focused our early adoption in scenarios that are not just passive consumption of content coming from a big stage: more on conferences, workshops, discord community events, etc.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

The Facebook Connect is close and we all expect that during that conference Oculus is finally going to announce the new Oculus Quest. HTC CEO Yves Maitre resigns. HTC, you did it again. TPCast has released in China TPCast Air for the Oculus Quest, allowing you to play your SteamVR games wirelessly on your Quest.

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Peter Graham

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

In this second part of this three-part report, we look at the emergence of new VR arcades in the capital, as well as the popularity of Arena-Scale gaming within many of these new offerings. The site comprising 14 of these unique cylindrical VR pods – all powered by HTC Vive Pro headsets. .

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

When accuracy and latency isn’t low enough, the augmented objects swing around with your head and your brain doesn’t consider them part of the world. Inside-out tracking has remained for years an elusive key to the success of AR, but it seems like Microsoft has made a game-changing stride with HoloLens.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The $100 consumer Gear VR also debuts during this same period, arriving alongside a virtual arcade from Oculus to let people play some classic games. CCP Games, the maker of EVE: Valkyrie , Gunjack and other upcoming VR games, raises $30 million while NextVR gets $30.5 In December, these plans become known. January 2016.

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VRGuy

MARCH 19, 2016

At GDC - the Game Developers Conference - I saw quite a lot of HTC Vive demos. Low-latency wireless video links have been on the market for years. Compare these two images: See any similarities? Just like the bridesmaid carries the bride's train, the "VR bridesmaid" carries the wire for the VR user.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 6, 2023

Following the release of the Meta Quest Pro, HTC VIVE XR Elite, and Pico 4 Enterprise, the firm’s massive windfall in hardware options has empowered its clients with expansive support. Enter the Apple Vision Pro: The Game-Changing Headset? Expanding into this is Apple’s head-mounted display (HMD), the Apple Vision Pro.

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Peter Graham

AUGUST 8, 2019

There are several companies tackling this issue from several directions, Zero Latency , for example, provides large warehouse-scale spaces to run around in, while Virtuix compacts the experience via its omnidirectional treadmills and VR Arena. Called Mission Modules, 6 are designed to work in one area.

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Road to VR

JUNE 9, 2017

Though you might think that porting SteamVR and OpenVR to MacOS would be relatively straightforward—given that Steam for regular desktop gaming has been on the OS since 2010. During a session at WWDC , Apple and Valve confirmed they’ve been working together for nearly a year to bring SteamVR and OpenVR to MacOS.

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VRScout

JULY 19, 2016

Games currently make up 76% of all virtual reality content. 50% of millennials expressed desire for VR headsets that hook up to a gaming console as opposed to a PC. HTC has sold an estimated 100k Vives. Stationary and interactive puzzle games. According to SuperData, gamers account for 78% of VR headset purchases.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

So, basically, you connect with a USB cable your Quest to your PC, and you can play PC VR games, on the Oculus Store, Steam or Viveport. According to Ars Technica , the frames don’t get sent as a whole, but in little horizonal slices there are continuously streamed, so that to reduce a lot the perceived latency.

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VRWorld

APRIL 20, 2017

The game streaming site already offers a $5 subscription that lets people support streamers while gaining some benefits. The CPU bogs down under load, resulting in frequent latency spikes up to 250ms (that’s like going around the globe twice, for reference). ” Twitch on the way to become “new Steam” [link].

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. But now expanding that, that whole gaming idea and bringing it into retail. And they launched this year, I believe, Harry Potter, which is a cool game. We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. But now expanding that, that whole gaming idea and bringing it into retail. And they launched this year, I believe, Harry Potter, which is a cool game. We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Revealed at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), the Apple Vision Pro has sparked both praise and criticism from the global XR community. The reveal that Apple will be using Unity to bring 3D applications and games to Vision Pro was exciting. I also commended the focus on gaming and entertainment for the device.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Rec Room’s got a great charades game and a really fun frisbee-golf game and my hunch is they have a broader platform play behind that, but they are using those applications to show what’s possible in terms of highly distributed shared presence. You have to be able to show the actual application space.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. But now expanding that, that whole gaming idea and bringing it into retail. And they launched this year, I believe, Harry Potter, which is a cool game. We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Many products showcased at the conference included flagship releases of VR headsets and solutions such as the Meta Quest Pro, Magic Leap 2, Lenovo ThinkReality A3, and AT&T’s Volumetric Video Photo Booth, among many others. .” ” Verónica Orvalho, Founder and CEO, Didimo.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

You’ve done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. Alan: There’s a conference in Toronto called Flash in the Can; FITC. and one of my friends who I just made by being nerdy, worked for a company called HTC. And then they started sending me to conferences. What an amazing piece of technology.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

You’ve done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. Alan: There’s a conference in Toronto called Flash in the Can; FITC. and one of my friends who I just made by being nerdy, worked for a company called HTC. And then they started sending me to conferences. What an amazing piece of technology.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

You've done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. Alan: There's a conference in Toronto called Flash in the Can; FITC. and one of my friends who I just made by being nerdy, worked for a company called HTC. And then they started sending me to conferences. What an amazing piece of technology.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Founder of the DNA conference and publisher of the ever-mindblowing Stinger Report and my guest today, Kevin Williams. And then when I had to start earning a living, I built upon… I had been a reviewer in my spare time, of the early microcomputer video games. I’ve been also writing some consumer games mags.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Founder of the DNA conference and publisher of the ever-mindblowing Stinger Report and my guest today, Kevin Williams. And then when I had to start earning a living, I built upon… I had been a reviewer in my spare time, of the early microcomputer video games. I’ve been also writing some consumer games mags.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Founder of the DNA conference and publisher of the ever-mindblowing Stinger Report and my guest today, Kevin Williams. I had been a reviewer in my spare time, of the early microcomputer video games. I've been also writing some consumer games mags. All that and much more coming up on the XR for Business Podcast. Kevin: Yeah.

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