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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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

JUNE 6, 2017

Lauren Ridge, programmer at Epic Games, was backstage to operate the demo (which you can watch in the video heading this article). SEE ALSO Watch Epic Games' Nick Donaldson Build a Scene in Unreal's VR Editor.

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Road to VR

JULY 4, 2017

By matching up live video and a digital environment with the help of a green screen setup though, you can essentially create a video that places you straight in the action—one that better communicates the immersion of a VR game than a simple first-person screen capture. image courtesy Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

HTC has revealed the design of the Vive Cosmos. HTC has finally unveiled some information on the Vive Cosmos. The most important info shared Friday is a (weird) video with the external new design of the device. HTC has immediately answered that 899$ is a too high estimate of the price. Top news of the week.

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Road to VR

JULY 3, 2018

Battles are admittedly much better suited for HTC Vive players, as Oculus Rift players will need a full 360 setup because the lack of directional controls such as snap-turn, or directional teleport. Image captured by Road to VR.

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Road to VR

APRIL 4, 2017

Now, developer Rocksteady has announced that it will soon launch the game on the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. Built on Unreal Engine 4 and well optimized for PSVR, it’s also one of the system’s best looking games. SEE ALSO First Look: 'Batman' Gear VR Experience Featuring OTOY's Incredible 18k Cubemap Video Tech.

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JUNE 23, 2017

Welcome to another week chronicling the latest releases for HTC Vive. We also have a top list of the absolute best HTC Vive games — which is updated every few months with the latest and greatest options. New HTC Vive Releases on Steam. In RoboTraps , a corporation wants you to remote control their collection of lethal products.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

If you watch the video , you can see me say stupid things about XR… well, more or less as I do every day in my life… Have fun! In a video published on Facebook, he showed himself wearing the headset and let us also see what he was seeing inside , with some footage directly from his point of view. Top news of the week.

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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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JULY 19, 2017

The HTC Vive and Oculus Rift have good content and roomscale capabilities, but they’re tethered and the resolution isn’t great. PSVR is affordable given its relative quality but it still has bad screen door and lackluster motion controllers. The first demo I tried was a basic game-like demo powered by Unreal.

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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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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

Especially the first feature made most people go in awe : volumetric videos are very expensive, so they’re typically not used during XR events. Recorded or not, the result was so cool that videos of Ignite conference became viral in all the XR community. Image by HTC). HTC is teasing the launch of a new hardware.

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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

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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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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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. Explore the endless possibilities for VR across 360 video, film, art, and education.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

For sure you all know HADO: even if you don’t remember the name, you have for sure seen one of those viral video where people with an AR headset on the head throw fireballs each other. The Vive Pro Eye just launched by HTC at CES (Image by HTC). This is the video I’m talking about.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 14, 2017

View your 360° video projects in realtime on a HTC Vive. In a trio of announcements, Apple revealed that Valve would be bringing SteamVR and HTC Vive to the new iMac, Unity and Unreal Engine were coming to Mac, and Final Cut Pro X would finally support VR video editing. It was a strong nod to VR creators.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2018

Eye tracking is, in my opinion, a technology that will disrupt completely the VR ecosystem , exactly as room-scale did with the first HTC Vive. Have a look at this video that showcases all its functionalities: If you instead don’t want to see a cool video but want to read some specifications… here you are: Accuracy: < 0.5°.

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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. Hopefully some tutorial videos on advanced building. You won’t get that in real life!

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NOVEMBER 30, 2016

In addition to the free Trials on Tatooine virtual reality experience for HTC Vive, the studio released a 360-degree video that serves as a prequel to the upcoming Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Disney’s ILMxLab has been busy of late.

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JUNE 22, 2016

As an industry, we need immersive experiences that will show what VR brings to the table and so far, there are two experiences one should go through: WeVR’s “theBlu” for HTC Vive and Crytek’s “The Climb” for Oculus Rift. VR should be considered as ‘liquid dreaming’, a dream you can control.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

After a quick tutorial on how teleportation and avatar controls worked, we moved our characters over to a small floating island depicting a scene from Cloudlands VR Minigolf and teleported in to launch the game. Todd Hooper: We have an SDK for Unity and Unreal 4. Road to VR: How does a developer make a game work with VREAL?

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Road to VR

JUNE 29, 2018

Unreal Tournament (1999) was one of the staple arena shooters of my youth. Here’s the counterpoint that balances this out somewhat: it’s masterfully done, and includes enough VR-native controls and clever design tropes to make it a breeze to pick up and play for almost anyone.

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VR Bites

OCTOBER 10, 2016

If you have an Vive, you can use the Vive Controllers with the HDK headset. There are also scripts available for the PlayStation Move controllers and It will only be a matter of time until the VR Oculus Touch controller can be added to this list. Een video die is geplaatst door Robbert Brus (@vrbites) op 27 Sep 2016 om 5:25 PDT.

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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?) This would be my second test of hardware from Pimax, following last year’s Sword controllers. The XR2 processor is already used in other products like Meta Quest 2 and HTC Vive XR Elite, making porting of games much simpler.

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APRIL 26, 2017

It offers a top-down video of the player and shows where the other players are, so it’s easy to move away from them and not bump into anyone in the heat of battle. After playing a lot of Oculus Touch and HTC Vive games, it is a bit jarring to not see your hands inside of VR.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2021

That would make me a little happier and would let you watch my videos where I speak with my sexy Italian accent! Unreal Engine 5 gets released in Early Access. After a lot of teasing of its upcoming fantastic features, Unreal Engine 5 is finally available for download. Discover the story behind the PlayStation Aim Controller.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2022

I still remember when Amaze was a distribution platform for 360 videos … I loved the high quality of its videos and I also loved the team working there. Then the startup pivoted to VR concerts when it understood that the market for 360 videos wasn’t going to explode. I was impressed by this. The booth for Beatday.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

For every one of the four main themes, a headset solving it has been shown in the video. This has been also confirmed by TESTED, which has been able to go hands-on with the headset and offer a very meaningful video about them (which I advise you all to watch). Image by HTC Vive). HTC launches Vive Flow Business Edition.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

And I think talking with her was worth the wait: as you can hear in the video embedded here below, she’s incredibly smart, passionate, and has amazing technical knowledge. Video interview With Kura’s Kelly Peng. I’ve set the time marks in the video so that you can select exactly the questions that you would like to listen to.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

We will be using this simple application as a foundation for the following posts in which we will start adding more interesting stuff like rendering motion controllers, rendering simple objects into a stereoscopic view so they can be seen properly in VR, and adding some simple interactions. So, let’s start! Motivation.

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JANUARY 6, 2020

It was developed on the Unreal 4 engine and built by our studios team. And previously having been at HTC Vive -- and before that actually HP -- I have an interesting perspective on kind of all three of those. And what some companies have done is actually flooded a real home and then created 360 video of that home. It was crazy.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Recapping the top stories covered on the VRScout Report , a weekly live video show and podcast discussing the best in VR, hosted by Malia Probst. Manus VR is a company developing virtual reality gloves – so instead of using controllers as data input, we use what comes naturally: our hands. CUTTING THE CORD RAISES QUESTIONS.

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VRScout

MARCH 3, 2017

The Moving Images immersive art fair has officially shut its doors to the public, but not before blowing the collective minds of hundreds of New Yorkers with an impressive gallery of single-channel videos, single-channel projections, video sculptures, immersive media, and other larger video installations.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2019

video) More info (Unreal Engine with Octane Renderer) More info (Wi-fi is not enough for VR streaming). Image by HTC). After some weeks of silence, HTC has started again to rise the hype for its upcoming flagship PC VR headset, the Vive Cosmos. Oculus wants to make people control AR headsets just using the brain.

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