Road to VR

DECEMBER 28, 2022

There’s still a lot to learn about X Mask, however the unique face-tracking mask is said to bring “over 95% accuracy” in replicating facial movements, with face-tracking latency speeds reaching 200 milliseconds. It’s also said to be fairly light, weighing in at 4.5oz (128g).

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Road to VR

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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 9, 2017

However, HTC — the creators of the Vive high-end, PC powered VR headset — were on hand for a press conference that teased and revealed an intriguing road map of new hardware strategies for 2017. O’Brien’s announcement from the HTC press conference, however, may point to something larger than a simple accessory.

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VRScout

JANUARY 4, 2017

It was only a year ago that HTC revealed their Vive Pre headset to attendees at CES. During a press conference at CES on Wednesday, HTC debuted two premium accessories that will be available later this year — the Vive Tracker and Vive Deluxe Audio Strap. It includes a one and a half hour battery, and latency as low as 2ms.

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Continuing, the exec said, “We have multiple customers in this space and we are inside all those VR devices because, when you talk with people on the other side of the world, it is not able to synchronise the media with low latency, which is equally important. That is the reason why we are [developing for VR].

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Road to VR

MAY 17, 2017

Google I/O has begun, the company’s annual developer conference, and amidst expectations of a new all-in-one VR headset , the company announced that Samsung’s Galaxy S8/S8 plus and LG’s next flagship phone will be officially receiving Google Daydream support.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

See Also: Redefining the Future of Location-Based Entertainment With HTC VIVE Focus 3 and The Park Playground “Virtual reality is often perceived as being limited to the world of gaming. He adds that one of the main causes of motion sickness in VR experiences is poor latency.

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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. So there you have it.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2020

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. Firefox Reality has become the official browser for HTC Devices. What’s your vision of the Wave platform?

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2017

This week we learned that there was indeed something to all that hiring, as Google has announced new ‘standalone’ headsets coming to the Daydream platform , fully self-contained VR devices, the first of which will come from HTC and Lenovo. In the same conference room were two large circular carpets, maybe 10 feet in diameter.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2021

HTC is probably going to announce a new standalone headset this week. We all know that HTC is hosting an event inside the social VR platform ENGAGE and that it is going to announce a new product. To discover it, I guess you have to wait until the 14th when there will be HTC’s event…. News from partners (and friends).

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Road to VR

APRIL 10, 2018

I’ve had a chance to try out the Infinadeck at several key milestones during its development, as far back as 2014 when the device made its debut at the very first SVVR Conference & Expo. Photo by Road to VR. But as with the rest of it, after a few minutes of walking around I began to feel quite comfortable walking in any direction.

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Peter Graham

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The site comprising 14 of these unique cylindrical VR pods – all powered by HTC Vive Pro headsets. . More conventional Free Roam VR entertainment has been created by UK operator MeetspaceVR in cooperation with Australia’s Zero Latency , who have opened recently at the Box Park location at Wembley Park, London.

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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. Unveiled at the Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) on Monday, 5 June, the upcoming headset is widely hailed as a pivotal device for the XR industry.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Oculus and HTC had been holding details surrounding Rift and Vive launch windows close to the chest, probably because they had delays to announce and need to nail down new plans. First, HTC delays the Vive until April 2016, with plans to show an updated developer kit at CES in January. In December, these plans become known.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 5, 2023

Following Apple’s official announcement at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), Alteon and its creative content users will ramp up support for the cloud-based XR infrastructure. Alteon’s cloud-rendered approach is set to leverage Apple’s iOS ecosystem for low-latency, streamlined creative workflows.

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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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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. (Image by Walking Cat). Rumors hint to Oculus discontinuing the current Quest and selling the new one at $299 and $399. More info.

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Road to VR

JUNE 9, 2017

To that end, the companies have been working together on the project for nearly a year, said Rav Dhiraj, a member of the GPU Software Team at Apple, who detailed Metal 2’s new VR rendering features in a session at the WWDC conference this week.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 14, 2016

At the company’s ‘Connect’ developer conference it was finally revealed that Oculus now plans to support four Rift and Touch camera configurations: One camera in front: seated/standing gamepad experiences. Two cameras in front: standing front-facing Touch experiences.

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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. See Also: Former Oculus VP of Engineering Demonstrates Long Range VR Tracking System. See Also: Oculus CTO Affirms Positional Tracking Priority for Gear VR.

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VRScout

JULY 19, 2016

HTC has sold an estimated 100k Vives. At the Oculus Connect 2 conference , it was heavily emphasized this is an exciting time to be in VR because the solutions are having to be created as we go. Small studios and children’s entertainment see the most value in virtual reality. Gen Z is the the most passionate segment in VR.

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VRWorld

APRIL 20, 2017

The CPU bogs down under load, resulting in frequent latency spikes up to 250ms (that’s like going around the globe twice, for reference). Facebook’s annual conference F8 brought the vision of new Facebook, powered by Augmented Reality technology. TCP/UDP is still a mess, and guess what? That’s what everyone uses.”

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 31, 2016

With HoloLens and Magic Leap we’ve seen a broadening of the conference to include augmented reality as well. So, for me, there’s a set of technological things that feel further off in terms of what you might call “high-end AR” compared to what we are seeing in a “high-end VR” experience like an HTC Vive.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond. You have HTC in China dominating the Chinese market with their headsets. I got to go to their conference when we had-- [chuckle] pre-COVID, when we had real conferences. Alex: Real conferences! Alex: Near zero latency. Alan: Oh man.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond. You have HTC in China dominating the Chinese market with their headsets. I got to go to their conference when we had-- [chuckle] pre-COVID, when we had real conferences. Alex: Real conferences! Alex: Near zero latency. Alan: Oh man.

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Doc-Ok

DECEMBER 12, 2018

year old laptop, the HP Spectre x360 I had scored as swag at the 2015 Microsoft Build conference, suddenly died a few months ago. Computer reviews aren’t my thing, but for this one I had to make an exception. I haven’t been able to look into this in detail yet, as it’s not really an intended use case.

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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 29, 2020

We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond. You have HTC in China dominating the Chinese market with their headsets. I got to go to their conference when we had-- [chuckle] pre-COVID, when we had real conferences. Alex: Real conferences! Alex: Near zero latency. Alan: Oh man.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

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. There is a bit of latency (80ms) and it can be perceived. A frame of the presentation where Oculus explained the compression method of the Oculus Link.

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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 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. Face tracking and camera resolutions need to improve.

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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. I believe there will be more excitement around 3D apps and content development, which will raise the tide around content development for all platforms and headsets like Meta, Pico, and HTC VIVE.

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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. The Void is different compared to companies like Zero Latency, who just have the backpack, and multiple players involved in game narrative. There’s a conference coming up in Orlando called ITSEC.

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