Upload VR

MARCH 14, 2024

Further, using traditional Vive Trackers with headsets that don't use SteamVR Tracking requires a manual calibration process, as does using Vive Ultimate Trackers with headsets other than HTC Vive standalone headsets. And emulated Vive Trackers isn't the only new feature in this Virtual Desktop update.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 3, 2017

A toned-down version of the more intricate ZED long-range depth camera, the Mini attaches securely to the front of an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive headset and captures the real world in stereoscopic video via the camera’s two “eyes.” One of the more exciting of options is Stereolabs’ ZED Mini depth camera.

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2021

Major VR stakeholders—including Oculus, Valve, HTC, Microsoft, Unity, and Unreal Engine—now offer full or partial support for the standard. Sony’s next-gen VR controllers | Image courtesy Sony. After years of development, the OpenXR 1.0 specification has taken major strides toward real industry adoption.

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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 24, 2020

Image by HTC Vive). HTC expands its Cosmos offering and teases the future with Proton. This has been a pretty interesting week for HTC Vive. And it is nice that HTC with this new Cosmos line is satisfying the needs of a broad share of VR people : from the casual gamer that wants something cheap to the professional.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Facebook already had full control of my Oculus and Facebook accounts, so it had already my XR data. That’s why Avi Bar-Zeev in a tweet on this topic talked about “the illusion of control” of our data : actually, Facebook already had it all. Zuckerberg wrote in a letter some years ago that he wants full control of the XR platform.

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Road to VR

JULY 4, 2017

To help create a fixed or mobile camera that lets you capture you while in the physical world, Oculus has also provided a 3D-printable CAD model so webcams and small DSLRs can be attached to an extra Oculus Touch controller and either mounted on a tripod or supported by hand. image courtesy Oculus.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 12, 2024

This allows them to recognize specific patterns of movement and hand gestures, making it easier to control virtual interfaces. These gloves are also compatible with HTC VIVE, Meta Quest, and Pico Neo headsets, offering excellent versatility. Plus, they work alongside Meta Quest controllers and HTC VIVE trackers.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

This reminds me of a similar error HTC made in the past of mixing signals of a pro device and consumer content It has RGB passthrough cameras with three times the resolution of Quest 2 cameras. Even worse, Unity has lost -30% of its stock value. The Unity Asset Store works pretty well, so I see the value in this kind of initiative.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 3, 2017

There are a couple things the Oculus team recommends you keep in mind if you want to take advantage: You’ll need a way to mount the Touch controller for dynamic camera tracking. There are also additional guides for those wanting to integrate mixed reality support into Unity , Unreal , and native.

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ARPost

APRIL 8, 2020

While doing demos, people new to VR technology would repeatedly put both controllers into one hand to reach out and try to touch digital artefacts. For example, most HTC VR technology supports 3D hand tracking. Hand tracking is not really meant to necessarily replace controllers,” said Laverde. VIVE’s Hand Tracking Roadmap.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 5, 2016

Along with last week’s Unreal 4.11 Here’s a quick guide to everything from Lighthouse tracking to Unreal development. Does it work with the Vive Controllers? How can I build with Unreal Engine? On the Oculus Rift, the distance between the controller and your eyes is about 8 cm. Do the Unity assets support Vive?

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VRScout

JUNE 9, 2017

Also noteworthy: Final Cut Pro X will be able to support 360 video editing, Unity and Unreal now have VR support for Macs, and SteamVR is coming to Mac… and although there was a sweet on-stage mixed reality demo using Star Wars assets and an HTC Vive, there was no mention of support for Oculus.

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Road to VR

JULY 29, 2019

Each company, even if a supporter of OpenXR, still has control over where their content is made available and which platforms support which headsets. support in Unreal Engine and plans to update the engine for the 1.0 Epic says that it has previously implemented OpenXR 0.9

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 22, 2024

With eye-tracking solutions, software can be designed to effectively render the content users are viewing according to their specific needs, reducing bandwidth use and improving clarity. With hand-tracking capabilities, innovators can remove the need for teams to utilize external controllers and devices when interacting with digital content.

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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. The most recent addition to the Pro Collection is the HTC VIVE Pro 2, which includes precision room-scale tracking, 5K visual fidelity, and a 120-degree field of view.

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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. It’s compatible with HTC Vive headsets, as well as Steam VR hardware. Of course, when dealing with VR hardware, “cheaper” is certainly relative.

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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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Road to VR

JANUARY 29, 2018

Xiaomi will exclusively sell and control the headset in China while the Oculus Go will be sold in other regions. In order to support those other headsets, developers will need to build using the Mi VR SDK (which supports Unity and Unreal). Image courtesy Xiaomi, Oculus.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

With hand-tracking capabilities, innovators can remove the need for teams to utilize external controllers and devices when interacting with digital content. The company’s sensor and tracking technology comes in the form of the “OctoXR” Unity game engine. Both of these innovations allow for a more immersive and realistic XR experience.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 30, 2016

RPG Maker also tops the list of simpler game creation tools, as well as Twine for interactive fiction, All of these programs are viewed as a more approachable way of getting into game development as opposed to the more complex programming required for engines such as Unity and Unreal.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Google said that it has partnered with Unity and Epic Games, creators of two of the most popular third-party gaming engines, so developers can use the game-building tools they already know well. “Unity’s native support for Daydream aims to solve the hard problems for you. .”

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 6, 2017

This memorable struggle I experienced was made possible by an HTC Vive, a couple of smartphones, and a lot of plastic. One player is experiencing the everyday Vive shooter; enemies swarming in from all sides, using your two controllers to blast away at them. A few weeks later and here we are with a working prototype.

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Road to VR

MAY 23, 2016

Manus VR is one such company who’ve moved from crude looking , Gear VR based early designs through to slick looking functional iterations, as shows at March’s GDC running on desktop PC hardware alongside the HTC Vive. Early Manus Glove Prototypes. Manus VR brought along their latest gloves to the show along with an early.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 30, 2017

As for resolution, the company maintains the screen door effect (SDE) is diminished with the headset’s dual 1440×1600@90 Hz LCD displays, a 70 percent increase in pixels over consumer devices like Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Front IR window for optional embedded Leap Motion controller. image courtesy Sensics.

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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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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Google also offers ARCore , a developer tool for Android, iOS, Unreal, and Unity which help integrate AR elements into the real environment. The headset was sold separately in the past but today it is bundled with two PlayStation Move motion controllers, the PlayStation Camera and two games.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 31, 2017

There’s no getting around that fact that the $799 price tag on the HTC Vive and cost of a high-end computer makes it difficult for many people to get into high-end VR. NOLO consists of two position tracked remote-like controllers, a singular base station, and a headset marker placed on top of any smartphone-holding VR device.

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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

MARCH 8, 2021

Image by HTC). HTC is teasing the launch of a new hardware. With a tweet, HTC has just teased the upcoming launch of a new device. More info (HTC is going to launch a new hardware) More info (Second tweet from HTC) More info (Third tweet from HTC). All of this running thanks to the power of the Azure cloud.

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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. Hand Tracked Controls: Design and Implementation for Serious VR. Applications of Eye Tracking in Virtual Reality. November 3rd, 10:15am.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 25, 2022

CEO of Refract Chng told TechCrunch that the solution they found out was to allow players to use their bodies as game controllers. This addresses common issues like occlusion and space requirements of systems such as HTC Vive,” Chng told TechCrunch. Everything is on the body, with proprietary inside-out tracking capability.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2016

Development — Get hands-on training for how to build the world’s best VR applications, from tutorials covering the latest Oculus Mobile and PC SDKs, to workshops on top game engines including Unity and Unreal. Might we finally learn the precise launch date and price of Oculus’ Touch motion controllers?

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ARVR

JANUARY 4, 2021

Concepts like loops, control-logic, OOP principles like inheritance, abstraction, encapsulation, etc should be at your fingertips before moving forward. The HTC Vive headsets have its own SDK. Programming Basic programming experience in languages like Java, C#, Swift, Javascript etc is essential for developing any piece of software.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

HTC has finally revealed the price of the Vive Pro : it will cost $799 just to have the headset (no controller and no base stations, so you must already have a Vive 1 kit) and will be available for pre-orders since April, 5th. But, as Road To VR has stated, maybe HTC should have clarified that in all its marketing material.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 30, 2016

How can I build in Unity with the 1.3 With just one simple Unity patch, you’ll be ready to tackle the brave new world of consumer VR. Using our latest Unity Core Assets , just download Unity 5.3.4p1 and install the OVRPlugin for Unity 1.3.0. How about Unreal Engine? What can the mounted controller track?

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Road to VR

MAY 25, 2016

We really liked the look of Modbox when we first covered the SteamVR / HTC Vive physics sandbox title last year. See Also: Hands On: Modbox on HTC Vive Indulges Your Creative & Destructive Urges. Now I just need multi-player so I can swing a wrecking ball at my friend’s house. You won’t get that in real life!

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