VRScout

AUGUST 22, 2017

Time to applaud for a sweet deal on the HTC Vive, Clash of Clans partners w/ Facebook to bring AR to fans, control VR with your mind, new predictions for spending & investment are out, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… 1. … well, sort of. You still have to set it up).

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Next year however, construction will begin on LA Stadium, a state-of-the-art venue located in Inglewood that will serve as the future home of the Rams in roughly a year-and-a-half. Fans get a closer look at the future home of the Los Angeles Rams.

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VRScout

JUNE 28, 2019

Shipping out to customers lucky enough to have secured a pre-order back in May, new Index users will be greeted to a generous selection of VR content optimized to make the most of the headsets impressive visual technology and the controllers nuanced interactive capabilities. Apex Construct. Space Pirate Trainer. PokerStars VR.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

According to Wilmot, virtual and augmented reality will replace current smart phone technology as the preferred form of communication and entertainment by the year 2038. The man even constructed a homemade waterproof protective cage for his shower. He’ll also be live tweeting his project to his DisruptTweet account.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). Since Meta made the acquisition and took over Oculus, VRTUOLUO began to write original and in-depth articles on the XR industry.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Geekbench has just published the scores for a new Vive Focus headset , indicating that a new standalone headset by HTC is coming. In the Geekbench comparison, it completely destroys the Oculus Quest : the multi-core score of the Quest is 774 while the one of the Focus XR2 is 3417, almost 5 times much. Other relevant news.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Here, we’re going to look at AR and VR accessories made by headset manufacturers, as well as how the demand for more personalized experiences may shape the future of these technologies. Oculus sells battery packs and prescription lenses for the Quest. See Also: AR Glasses: Technology With Potential for Consumers Too?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Image by HTC Vive). HTC is probably going to announce Vive Flow. With a surprise move, HTC Vive has started teasing the launch of a new product. The company has set up a virtual event on the platform ENGAGE (of which HTC is an investor) for October, 14th 2021 at 8 am PDT. Send me hugs while I’m still human!

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The technology provides architects and clients the ability to work as true collaborators in the design of a project, at a faster rate. Here are some of the most intriguing ways immersive technology is changing how architects work and function. See Also: How Augmented Reality Is Transforming the Construction Industry.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 9, 2022

In the construction industry, professionals can work together on digital twins of schematics, blueprints, and products in a shared VR world. Meta is also the company behind Oculus, one of the more accessible and affordable VR headsets on the market.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 9, 2021

This week, we look at the ongoing proliferation of the metaverse as a buzzword and construct for spatial computing’s future. Brain Technologies Announces $50 Million in Funding, Reimagines Computer Interfaces with “Natural” AI. W elcome back to Spatial Beats. People are not done talking about the future metaverse, or metaverses.

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VRScout

MAY 6, 2019

Since 2012, organizers of the festival have included VR and AR projects as part of their Virtual Arcade, a section of the festival where storytelling and VR/AR technology intersect. Mr. Buddha ( Project Creator : HTC Corporation, Lee Chung). Image Credit: Bobby Carlton. Accused No. Mercy ( Project Creator : Armando Kirwin).

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Road to VR

MAY 21, 2017

Anyone who has used the HTC Vive on a regular basis will be familiar with Steam VR’s base interface, the ‘construct’ from where you can browse, buy and launch games immersively. It’s the most comprehensive and wide reaching update that SteamVR’s UI has seen and it’s extremely promising.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

But that’s a non-starter for anyone outside of the few million people that own VR hardware (much less the compatible HTC and Oculus hardware). How Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality are Revolutionizing Healthcare Geospatially Sound 3D mapping’s evolutionary path was recently accelerated with a developer tool from Here Technologies.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

What is interesting the most are not the features, that more or less are the same as most other headsets: integrated headphones, halo+headband, IPD adjustment, etc… It seems a mix of a Samsung Odyssey and an Oculus Rift S. Oculus Go is not part of the Oculus For Business program anymore. But of course, I hope for a full reveal

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VRScout

JULY 28, 2017

You can strap on an Oculus Rift VR headsets and hurtle at 100mph down imaginary open-air tubes corkscrewing around the skyscraper. Or you can take a nerve wrecking step across a girder on top of London’s sky line using body motion tracking technology paired to a HTC Vive.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Military simulations are one of the fields where virtual reality has always been an important technology , even before that VR had its new renaissance in 2012. BISim’s technology portfolio encompasses desktop training, simulation host, image generation, terrain editing and management, AI, and software development tools.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 5, 2020

There’s an outdoor alleyway from City 17 giving a view of the under-construction Citadel. “The rendering technology available in SteamVR’s native environments is different than that in Half-Life: Alyx , and the interactivity is significantly lower than what the game itself provides.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 31, 2017

Developed by VR firm Happy Finish and using the Oculus Rift, visitors can experience a roller coaster-like corkscrew slide at 100 miles-per-hour that will take them around the tower and over London. The Shard also boasts a second VR experience, using the HTC Vive and 360° footage collected during its construction.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

HTC announced the first class of 33 companies to join its Vive X accelerator back in July, but has since remained tight-lipped about what those startups have been up to. Using proprietary AI technology, the company aims to let you bring these avatars into a variety of VR and AR experiences. The Pasadena-based group raised $7.7

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VRScout

JUNE 19, 2016

Aecom, the American multinational engineering firm, is implementing augmented reality into their business with a pilot project using the Hololens in engineering and construction projects in London, Hong Kong, and Denver. Vive vs. Rift now feels like an good, old-fashioned console war. 12.56M in Funding and a Shiny New Name.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

When I attended university, ray tracing was described to me as something that was impossible to obtain in real-time, so when NVIDIA finally enabled it in realtime on PC GPUs, it felt like an enormous step forward for technology. This is of course the base technology needed for foveated rendering. HTC releases its “metaverse phone”.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 29, 2018

Wireless solutions such as TPCast are already available for the Vive and Rift, and the announcement of an official Vive Wireless Adaptor from HTC at CES 2018 indicates further momentum in this area , but the backpack PC still has valid use cases. Image courtesy Schenker Technologies. HP Omen X Compact Desktop – $2,300.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 21, 2017

This technology is new enough that merely being able to experience it is still ground-breaking for many users. In fact, it already works on the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, so if you own either of those headsets, you can already check it out. You won’t be able to design any super detailed creations – yet. It Sounds Expensive.

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VRScout

MAY 23, 2019

A new era in VR technology arrives with the Oculus Quest standalone headset. The Oculus Quest shouldn’t exist—at least not at this price. Most importantly, the Oculus Quest ditches the past complexities and considerable expenses of modern VR, ushering in the dawn of true consumer-level virtual reality. No sensors.

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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 ). There is everything you need, but not the same wonder that you have when you open the box of a product made by Oculus. it is bigger than the Oculus Go but smaller than the massive HTC Vive Focus.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

I started because I actually tested, like everyone, the first generation of Oculus, and then the second, and so on… and I was expecting like better visual quality … [me too!] HTC, Oculus, Sony are not offering headsets with big FOV and resolution… while you, Varjo, Pimax, are. Why have you started this adventure? (

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2021

score on the Oculus App Lab now. In the meanwhile, if you can, go giving 5 stars to the cube on App Lab … who knows if Facebook may consider promoting it on the main Oculus Store…. In the meanwhile, if you can, go giving 5 stars to the cube on App Lab … who knows if Facebook may consider promoting it on the main Oculus Store….

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Digitalnauts

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

XR, or Extended Reality, is an umbrella term for a variety of immersive technologies including VR (Virtual Reality), MR (Mixed Reality) and AR (Augmented Reality). However, the potential of VR is fully fulfilled in training, in several industries such as healthcare, construction, engineering, the military and the marine industry. .

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

If you recall last month’s predictions of the next five years of VR by Oculus Chief Scientist Michael Abrash , you’ll note that his idea of the ideal VR workspace sounds quite similar. SEE ALSO Intel Makes Multimillion Dollar Investment in VR Enterprise Developer WorldViz.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

While there are plenty of examples of people using VR to construct creative and rather moving ways of proposing to their loved ones, Kotecki believes that this is the first time that a Social VR platform will host a full-blown wedding ceremony and reception like this.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2018

These guidelines are contained in a document entitled “Guiding Opinions of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on Accelerating the Development of Virtual Reality Industry” and has been released by the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 18, 2017

By revolutionizing the way we perceive reality-altering solutions, the technology that stands behind HoloLens is as fascinating as it is complex. This technology has been revealed to the world as “mixed reality.” Gestures are a progressively new approach to interacting with reality-altering technologies.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 16, 2017

It’s a more bleak and grotesque way of displaying VR than simply sliding a head-mounted display over your face like the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, but it’s funneling towards a similar idea of a digital landscape where anything is possible. It’s what results in one of the greatest lines in the history of the universe.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 11, 2017

It released with the launch of the HTC Vive in early 2016 and Facebook’s Oculus Touch controllers for Rift late in the year. I met with Moore and the Northways for a conversation recently in Colin Northway’s still-under-construction virtual art gallery. This summer, it launched on Sony’s PlayStation VR.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Going on the stage at an investor event, Qualcomm CEO and President Cristiano Amon has revealed that Oculus Quest 2 (now Meta Quest 2) has sold 10 million units worldwide. Mark Zuckerberg, but also Unity CEO John Riccitiello) that should mark the beginning of the serious adoption of new technology.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 21, 2018

I got the opportunity to catch up again with Ivon, this time over email, about his perspective on VR, his love of science fiction, and the future of the IP that he and his team are painstakingly constructing from scratch. Pimax, Vive, Oculus and StarVR are all pioneering new technologies and gearing up for their 2 nd generation hardware.

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