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How HTC VIVE Helped to Deploy XR Devices in North Dakota Classrooms

XR Today - Virtual Reality

In early February, following the successful launch of the Vision Pro rocket, CareerViewXR, an emerging immersive edtech startup, spearheaded a statewide initiative providing over 300 HTC VIVE VR headsets and accompanying immersive learning software to schools across North Dakota. ” He noted. We know that 99.9

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VR Film Festivals Look To Inspire Fresh New Talent For Hollywood

VRScout

Japan’s very first VR-focused international film festival, Beyond the Frame Festival , is currently underway thanks to a partnership with HTC Vive. Of course, you can also use your HTC Vive to jump into VIVEPORT and experience each film in VR. Of course, Beyond the Frame Festival and FIVARS aren’t the only festivals using VR.

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HTC Vive Flip-Up Visor Accessory Reaches Crowdfunding Goal

VRScout

The HTC Vive is about to get an upgrade in convenience and comfort. Of course there are multiple answers to this question depending on who you ask, but a majority of people will tell you the same thing: the hardware is less than convenient and most of the head mounted displays could be a little bit comfier.

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The Headset Manufacturers Making the Best AR and VR Accessories

ARPost

One of the reasons that HTC VIVE is an ARPost perennial favorite headset manufacturer is because the company doesn’t turn out a headset every day. Many industry analysts and experts agree that large-scale adoption will take place when Apple releases head-mounted displays. The Future Comes in Pieces.

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This Disney Jacket Brings Physical Feedback to VR

VRScout

Enter what Disney is calling the “Force Jacket,” an experimental research project that lets users feel touching, squeezing, punching, hugging and of course a snake across your body. There’s been a lot of work to close the gap between what is real and what isn’t during a VR experience.

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Oculus Founder Expects No Next-gen VR Headsets From Market Incumbents Before Mid-2018

Road to VR

Luckey was a long time tinkerer of head mounted displays prior to building the first Rift prototypes which lead to him founding Oculus and taking the Rift to Kickstarter in 2012 for what would become a wildly successful crowdfunding campaign. The hardware will not change.

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EON Reality and University of Bologna Announce New Masters Degree in Innovation and Immersive Technologies

EON Reality

These systems run the gamut from mobile devices and Head Mounted Displays (HMDs) such as Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and others, to research-specific spaces likes Cave Automatic Virtual Environments (CAVEs).