Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

Image courtesy HTC. HTC have finally revealed the price and release date of the anticipated Vive Pro , opening preorders globally at Vive.com and other retailers. The improved headset is pitched as an upgrade for current Vive owners, as it works with the original controllers and base stations. No presence from LG at GDC.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The headset has a very nice design and features these specifications: Standalone 6DOF headset 1600×1600 resolution per eye 90Hz refresh rate 90° FOV RGB AR passthrough Innovative lenses that make the headset more compact Integrated audio Controller-free hand-tracking Eye-tracking 6GB of RAM 128GB of storage WiFi 6 (802.11ax), Bluetooth 5.0,

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 27, 2023

Users benefit from a streamlined and lightweight form factor, crisp visuals, and self-tracking controllers with access to haptic feedback capabilities. On the other hand, the VIVE Pro Series includes a collection of high-performance PC VR solutions with high visual fidelity and stereoscopic audio.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

The MRTK is a set of components with plugins, samples, and documentation designed to help the development of MR applications using gaming engines from either Unreal Engine or Unity, providing two versions of the solution – MRTK-Unity and MRTK for Unreal. OpenVR – Windows Mixed Reality headsets, HTC Vive , and Oculus Rift.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 3, 2023

Nintendo ultimately sold 1 million of the things, but the technology just wasn’t there, and the dream controlling gameplay with a robo-glove appeared to have died along with it. The product combines hand tracking with haptic feedback to give the user a more hands-on approach to interacting with the virtual environment around them.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 1, 2024

Here are some of the VR vendors making waves in the industry as of 2024: RealWear Meta Apple Goertek Pimax Pico HP HTC Vive Samsung Varjo Lenovo Valve Index Vrgineers RealWear Exploring various aspects of the immersive technology landscape, RealWear produces sensors, apps, and hardware for the XR space.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 24, 2020

That’s lead to motion controllers, eye tracking and hand tracking but full-body tracking has stopped and started due to the complexities of this process. Compatible with HTC Vive and other SteamVR headsets, Manus Polygon will be compatible with Unity when it officially launches in June 2020.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Get in on the ground floor with this talk from Martz, who will tell you how to get to grips with the new platform including working with Google VR SDKs for Android, Unity, and Unreal. Applications of Eye Tracking in Virtual Reality. Hand Tracked Controls: Design and Implementation for Serious VR.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

And while this is anyway a good result for a startup (developing an AR headsets means spending billions in R&D), targeting the consumer market has been a suicide move , that let Microsoft get full control of the profitable enterprise market. The VR route is instead being pursued by HTC (with its VEC event happening soon) and IEEE.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Rob is a big fan of PCVR (he even tried to design a new SteamVR controller , do you remember?) and recently he had the opportunity to go hands-on with the high-resolution Pimax Crystal headset. This would be my second test of hardware from Pimax, following last year’s Sword controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2022

Its first VR concert tour springs from years of R&D that resulted in proprietary 9K cameras and software that can automate complex unreal engine-based VR concert visual effects (VFX) modules and run more than 100 headsets at a time. So gaze-to-aim and hand-to-shoot. The booth for Beatday.

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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. Oculus Quest and controllers (Image by Oculus). USB should have OTG enabled; Battery : 3 hours nominal duration; Vive Focus Plus and controllers (Image by HTC). Technical specifications.

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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. Qualcomm has officially said that this is the chipset that the upcoming Samsung headset is going to employ.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

We already saw this problem happening when HTC departed from the Steam platform to build its Viveport store because hardware sales were not enough to have an ambitious business. Let’s see: Google is still working with Qualcomm and Samsung on a mixed-reality headset. VRTO , one of the leading virtual reality events, is back.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

And as any year, Oculus has really amazed us: for sure you have already read my short recap published after the first keynote of OC6 where I told you about amazing stuff like Oculus Link, Facebook Horizon and Hands Tracking. Hand tracking on Quest. But now, in this article, it is time to go deeper. Why not wireless?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Epic Games releases Matrix Resurrections tie-in experience.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In a side event happening after AWE, HTC has announced a bunch of updates of Vive Focus 3 that have the potential of revolutionizing the Location Based Entertainment in VR (LBEVR o LBVR) sector. With the upcoming update of the runtime, Vive Focus 3 will be able to track its position in a space up to 33m x 33m, that is 1000 square meters.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

And you’ve got these 6DOF controllers. It’s– I think another thing that will make a big difference and it doesn’t seem like a big thing, but eye tracking. I’ve had the opportunity of playing with the Tobii tracking system with HTC Vive. That’s the headset that has no tether, no wires.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

And you've got these 6DOF controllers. It's-- I think another thing that will make a big difference and it doesn't seem like a big thing, but eye tracking. I've had the opportunity of playing with the Tobii tracking system with HTC Vive. But I do expect to see that the Quest is going to have a lot of applications.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

And you’ve got these 6DOF controllers. It’s– I think another thing that will make a big difference and it doesn’t seem like a big thing, but eye tracking. I’ve had the opportunity of playing with the Tobii tracking system with HTC Vive. That’s the headset that has no tether, no wires.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Since Facebook doesn’t control Oculus anymore, because everything is becoming Meta, the Facebook login won’t be mandatory for “Oculus” devices anymore. It is comprised of grip handles for the controllers and a special facemask that makes it easier to clean the headset after you have sweat inside it.

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