Road to VR

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

I actually got the chance to run through two HoloLens demos back-to-back; one in the home office, and another in a much brighter space with more direct lighting dedicated to showcasing a patently enterprise-focused demo built by Bentley , a company that deals in construction and infrastructure solutions. Hand-tracking & Interactions.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The Rift’s biggest competitor, the HTC Vive, was able to enjoy the better part of a year as the only PC-powered VR system to boast hand-tracked controllers. Touch can simply do everything that an HTC Vive or PlayStation Move controller can do with even more thrown in on top. Functionality.

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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. On the front side of the headset, that is black, you can find the two cameras used for the inside-out 6 DOF tracking of the device.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Now the design has been used also by other companies, like HTC that has just launched its Vive Flow headset. On the other side, it seems that HTC at the moment is offering more content, with 100+ compatible titles with the Flow. Plus Huawei headset is compatible only with Huawei phones, while HTC is more open.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

I ended up at Valve Software running their hardware department, putting the team together that created the HTC Vive. Jeri, at Valve they did have that sort of choice point, and they chose to do Steam VR and get behind the HTC Vive. You don’t look like you’re putting on a construct. Your project was spun out, basically.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Oculus has been criticized for launching Rift with a packed in Xbox One controller back in March, while competitor HTC Vive launched just a few days after with a pair of motion tracked controllers in every box. While the Rift case was crazy-nice, you’ll find the well constructed cardboard Touch box to be more standard fare.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2024

The picture also shows the girl using the device making a micromovement of the hands on her lap, a clear hint to the fact that this device can perform accurate hand tracking like the Vision Pro. I so asked an opinion to the community, and this sparked a huge constructive debate about the topic which is worth reading.

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AR Insider

JUNE 5, 2020

Though keyboards and mice are “ abstraction layers ” compared to things like intuitive VR hand tracking, the former is advantaged by its familiarity. And that’s important in the same “baby step” construct Emrich espouses above. Old habits die hard. Baby Steps. ” Spatial Natives.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

We are all talking about the m**averse, and for sure the ability to build entire alive cities that can be visited in multiplayer will be an important brick in the whole m**averse construction. The new update also brings hand tracking support in the Oculus OpenXR plugin. All of this impressed me, but there are two problems.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

So you see a lot of it in architecture, engineering, construction. So people who are in factory floors, or people who are meeting assistance for remote collaboration, or the people who are on the grounds physically doing these different actions, whether it’s on a construction site or a factory floor.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

So you see a lot of it in architecture, engineering, construction. So people who are in factory floors, or people who are meeting assistance for remote collaboration, or the people who are on the grounds physically doing these different actions, whether it's on a construction site or a factory floor. It really-- it feels right.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

So you see a lot of it in architecture, engineering, construction. So people who are in factory floors, or people who are meeting assistance for remote collaboration, or the people who are on the grounds physically doing these different actions, whether it’s on a construction site or a factory floor.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

This kind of seamless interface is great and it is exactly the same one that HTC already offers with the Vive Focus Plus and Viveport Streaming and that I’ve tried and appreciated. I guess Oculus will aim at something similar, because it is very handy (Image by HTC Vive). Rift line gets discontinued.

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