Road to VR

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Little more than a day later, a hack surfaced that adds compatibility for the Rift, Touch, and even Razer Hydra to Google Earth VR. While SteamVR is primarily the home of the HTC Vive, it also supports the Oculus Rift and Touch controllers, making it easy to developers to release games that work with both headsets.

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Road to VR

MAY 15, 2017

Half-Life 2: VR , a revamped version of an older mod which will adapt the beloved Half-Life 2 for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, has been green-lit, signifying Valve’s official acceptance of the mod for distribution on Steam. Here’s some gameplay from the original mod played on the Rift DK1. Sadly, it wouldn’t last.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 16, 2018

In what might be the longest Kickstarter campaign conclusion to date, more than four years following estimated deliveries of the STEM VR controller, Sixense says they will fully refund all backers and pre-orders. Sixense was once a name central to the early VR community.

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Road to VR

JUNE 12, 2016

E3 2016 kicks off this week; it’s the first E3 since the launch of the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, and the last before the launch of Sony’s PlayStation VR headset. Also hot off the release of their first consumer-headset, the HTC Vive , HTC and Valve aren’t likely to be sharing anything new on the hardware end at E3.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 28, 2019

Cloudhead Games CEO Denny Unger recently tweeted what appears to be an unreleased VR headset and motion controllers using SteamVR 2.0 Many key parts of the image have been blurred out, including most of the headset and all of the motion controllers. ” SEE ALSO HTC Confirms Vive Cosmos Will Support OpenVR/SteamVR.

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Road to VR

JUNE 6, 2016

at GDC in March, Epic Senior Designer Nick Donaldson schooled us on some of the intricacies of Unreal’s new VR Editor, modifying a pre-built demo scene using the Oculus Rift and Touch controller in the Epic booth at GDC. The HTC Vive of course, ships with motion controllers and is available to buy now (give or take a week or two).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Image by HTC). This week there have been some interesting announcements of products: Razer and Qualcomm have announced Razer Snapdragon G3x, the devkit of a handheld console designed to run both Android apps and stream games from consoles and PC. News worth a mention. Oculus Quest and Vive Focus 3 get interesting updates.

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Road to VR

JUNE 25, 2016

One of the best we’ve seen, this video, demonstrating a dangerous workplace simulation for train operators, shows how virtual reality and motion controllers might revolutionise training in the work place.

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Road to VR

JULY 28, 2016

See Also : Limited Edition DOTA 2 Championship HTC Vive Now Available. While the Oculus Rift and OSVR HDK headsets are both supported by SteamVR, only headsets with motion controllers are supported at this time, making it a defacto HTC Vive experience. A SteamVR capable headset with tracked controllers.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 6, 2023

Many of the world’s midrange enterprise headsets like the Meta Quest Pro, HTC VIVE Elite XR, and Pico 4 Enterprise are priced well below $1,500. Meta even lowered the Quest Pro’s price to $1,099 after receiving backlash on its cost, with HTC VIVE pricing the Elite XR similarly.

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VRWorld

AUGUST 17, 2016

About a year and a half ago, Intel invested in Razer bringing the valuation of the said company to north of $1 billion. Today, Razer is bringing Hacker Development Kit 2.0 Intel claims to bring room scale VR and “global VR” without the need for external sensors such as HTC’s Lighthouse or Oculus Constellation.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 20, 2016

SEE ALSO HTC Announces Vive 'Business Edition' for $1200. Sensics, who is a co-founder of Razer’s OSVR initiative, has naturally used the foundation of the OSVR HDK2 headset in creating the Goggles for Public VR. Pre-production models of the Sensics Goggles for Public VR use the familiar OSVR headstrap.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2023

HTC Vive XR Elite HTC Vive XR Elite (Image by HTC Vive) The star of the event has for sure been the Vive XR Elite, HTC’s latest flagship headset. One is the high cost: HTC markets it as a consumer device, but at that price, not many consumers are going to buy it, so it will be a prosumer one.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2021

Image by HTC Vive). HTC is teasing a new headset. HTC is teasing a new piece of hardware again, and this time most probably it will be a VR headset. HTC loves playing with the words, so “get down to business” can be a reference to the fact that it is a “business headset”. Top news of the week. Not much, honestly.

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Delight XR

MAY 14, 2019

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Delight XR

MAY 14, 2019

Motion Controller. Motion Controller. Motion Controller. Motion Controller. Motion Controller. Motion Controller. Motion Controller. Motion Controller. Motion Controller. Motion Controller. Motion Controller. Motion Controller. Max Resolution (combined).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Now that the Touch controllers have officially released into the world, we decided to tackle the topic in a bit more detail. How well do the Oculus Touch controllers work with SteamVR apps that are only designed with Vive in mind? Of those 800, all of them support the HTC Vive officially, whereas only 180 support the Oculus Rift.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Originally released in 2013 on the original Oculus Rift DK1, the HL2VR mod allowed early adopters to play through the entirety of Half-Life 2’s single-player campaign in VR with support for the Razer Hydra motion controllers.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Oculus Rift DK1 with Razer Hydra motion controllers | photo by Road to VR. After the project went dormant for years as the developer focused on Ocean Rift (2016) , today we learn that Crashland is about to blast onto Quest after being revived and revamped.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 26, 2017

It takes about 8 minutes for the Game Master to walk you through the vest and backpack (which houses an Alienware PC gaming laptop), OSVR HDK2 headset and Razer headphone/microphone before running through the two-handed assault rifle (another 7 minutes). The Game Master turns on the game, which allows you to see and then pick up your rifle.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 7, 2015

Some recent rumors imply that they’ve added support for the 6DOF controllers included with the HTC Vive headset. MakeVR by Sixense uses STEM controllers to enable a range of mesh manipulation. MakeVR by Sixense uses STEM controllers to enable a range of mesh manipulation.

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VRWorld

AUGUST 22, 2017

The technology determines which connected devices are using Killer Networking hardware found in gaming and performance PCs and motherboards from companies like Dell Technologies (both Alienware and XPS models), Gigabyte, MSI, or Razer, as well as Acer, Lenovo, and more. Network priorities are fully customizable.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The new controller, the Touch Plus, seems also to track very well, and has the interesting feature that they have better tracking performances than Quest 2 ones around the torso of the player. I would have loved this to come as a standard option for the device. And as you can imagine, the leaks come from him, always him: Brad Lynch.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

At this point, there is another question that every one of us is making: is this a controlled leak by Valve itself? I’m not saying that it is absolutely a controlled leak… I just want to say that personally, I believe that it is. It may just be someone from Valve that is inside the /r/Vive community.

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Slashgear

JUNE 13, 2016

There aren't any controllers in the box, and you'll have to … Continue reading. That's not just a developer device, but a full- blown consumer-ready virtual reality headset that's ALSO made for developers (and hackers), that'll cost users $399 right out the box.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The Razer-fronted Open Source Virtual Reality (OSVR) platform was announced along with its very first flagship hardware, the Hacker Developer Kit (HDK for short). At MWC in Barcelona in March that year, HTC unveiled the Valve/SteamVR driven Vive headset and arguably went on to dominate the Game Developer Conference (GDC) show which followed.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

With this approach, I was able to preview my scene in VR while still maintaining control over my variables in Unity. I also had to work while on other business trips, and so I did most of the final processing on my Razer laptop. I just had to press play, and the scene would appear around me and my virtual monitor.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

I’m sure that after April, 20th, the Meta Quest ecosystem will appear even richer than it is now , creating a wider gap with other companies that may think about competing with the Quest, that is Pico, HTC, and even Apple. Not a meme, but this VR controller that can also hold a drink is a very bizarre invention. Other relevant news.

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VRGuy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Created by Sensics and Razer, OSVR includes two independent components: 1) the OSVR software platform and 2) the open-source Hacker Development Kit VR headset. Specifically, I am aware of plans and work in progress to support Intel Realsense, Tobii eye trackers, NOD devices, Leap Motion camera, HTC Vive and others.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

So HTC has given us some Vive Focus and we love them, because being untethered is a huge important part of having audience come in and not feeling like it’s a hassle, but really having this like ritualistic atmospheric experience without breaking that sense of immersion. It was a MIDI controller. But a lot of it is independent.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

So HTC has given us some Vive Focus and we love them, because being untethered is a huge important part of having audience come in and not feeling like it’s a hassle, but really having this like ritualistic atmospheric experience without breaking that sense of immersion. It was a MIDI controller. But a lot of it is independent.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

So HTC has given us some Vive Focus and we love them, because being untethered is a huge important part of having audience come in and not feeling like it's a hassle, but really having this like ritualistic atmospheric experience without breaking that sense of immersion. So we've done the gaze control work when looking in the scene.

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