VRScout

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

While companies like Walmart are preparing for the busiest shopping day of the year with Black Friday VR training simulators , i’m sure all you really care about is how to save some major dough this holiday weekend. HTC Vive Fallout 4 Bundle. Samsung HMD Odyssey Windows Mixed Reality Headset – $500 $449. Shop on Amazon.

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Just three months ago, the company revealed it’s putting 17,000 Oculus Go headsets in Walmart stores for employee training. The pilot, which used an iPad and HTC Vive powered by Marxent’s 3D Cloud Service, showed that VR increases average order value by 60%.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Called Sumerian, the tool is capable of publishing 3D content to any browser that supports WebGL or WebVR graphics rendering, including Daydream, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and iOS mobile devices. WebVR is integrated into major browsers including Chrome for Android, Oculus Carmel, Samsung Internet, Opera developer version and Firefox Nightly.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

Anyway, with the end of the life of Quest 2, this cycle finished and a new one started with Quest 3, Apple Vision Pro, Google and Samsung announcing their own headset, and other companies chasing them (e.g. with Xiaomi, Oppo, Samsung, etc…) to convince hardware manufacturers to create headsets powered by Android XR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

It’s multimodality so that you do not need to throw away your devices, you can work continue working with them even if you buy several other devices from HTC, from whomever else. You get different use cases from the Ready Player 1 gamer to training the US military, and they’re using HoloLens already, right?

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VRScout

JULY 18, 2017

Of course, as with all first experiments, there were technical difficulties. Serving as a bridge between the Samsung Gear VR (that requires a phone) and the Oculus Rift (which requires a PC), it reportedly will be a step up in quality from mobile-powered headsets but not as robust as PC-powered headsets. …and just a few more….

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

Mister President launching the Vive Focus (Image by HTC). Samsung has also teased to be interested in releasing a new AR/VR standalone device. That’s why the other companies, like HTC and Pico, have decided to aim at the enterprise market. And then, of course, there is Beat Saber. Mobile headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

HTC Vive Wrist Tracker. HTC Vive Wrist Tracker (Image by HTC). HTC has made an announcement at this CES and it has been a pretty cool one. To showcase its functionality, HTC showed some videos of the tracker in use to improve the performances of hands tracking and also with the tracker installed on external props.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 7, 2018

He’s ready to answer with his HTC super powers. And I still remember that you have done boxing, so I agree with you in any case… HTC Vive Pro first impressions. HTC Vive 1.0 vs HTC Vive Pro. The moment when I tried the Vive Pro has not been one of this wow moments. The wonderful Vive Pro.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

We often talk about how XR technologies are great tools for education and training on this podcast. His passion is to apply his 25 years of psychological and neuroscientific expertise gained by managing a large human learning, memory, and performance laboratory to help build better education and training solutions. But why is that?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

We often talk about how XR technologies are great tools for education and training on this podcast. His passion is to apply his 25 years of psychological and neuroscientific expertise gained by managing a large human learning, memory, and performance laboratory to help build better education and training solutions. But why is that?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

We often talk about how XR technologies are great tools for education and training on this podcast. His passion is to apply his 25 years of psychological and neuroscientific expertise gained by managing a large human learning, memory, and performance laboratory to help build better education and training solutions. Of course it isn't.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

Comparison of the speakers solutions in the Oculus Quest (left) and HTC Vive Focus Plus (right). For instance, talking about me, I found a lot of support by HTC when developing for the Vive Focus+ (where streaming from Steam is more than welcome). Strangely, it is even more expensive than HTC’s standalone.

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VeeR VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Of course, it would be almost 600 years before the birth of modern VR technology and VR headsets). From the 1970s to the 1990s, the VR industry mainly provided devices for medical, flight simulation, automobile industry design, and military training purposes. In 2016, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Playstation VR were all released.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2018

From my tests, the image on the screen appears slightly distorted, so there will be something to fix on HTC’s side. Better integration with HTC phones. Yesterday HTC has also unveiled its new flagship phone, the HTC U12+. The Vive Focus and its friend the HTC U12+ phone (Image by HTC). Image by HTC).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

Mostly they are about entertainment, marketing or training experiences. I forecast a big growth in the enterprise usage of VR headsets, both 3DOF (mostly for marketing and education) and 6DOF ones (for prototyping, training, etc…). HTC will focus more on the enterprise market.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2018

And so here we are again: Oculus vs HTC, America vs China, Hugo Barra vs Alvin Wang Graylin. HTC has also been smart because every time someone says “Focus” during some VR event, he’s doing some hidden advertisement for its product. I prefer the blue one, of course. The never-ending story.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 27, 2019

— it was the Samsung GearyVR at the time. And there is a space station and asteroids and of course, like this gigantic, almost life-size space shuttle that came out of the middle of the tent, it would just fly back and forth throughout it. And they took regular HTC Vive Games, which only need a 10×10 space.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 27, 2019

— it was the Samsung GearyVR at the time. And there is a space station and asteroids and of course, like this gigantic, almost life-size space shuttle that came out of the middle of the tent, it would just fly back and forth throughout it. And they took regular HTC Vive Games, which only need a 10×10 space.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 12, 2019

And I think you can’t ignore the fact that VR can train people faster than anything we’ve ever created. So along with my research, there was– healthcare was a massive growth area, design of visualization was a massive growth area, training was a massive one. Kathryn: Yeah. Retail and consumer was a big one as well.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 27, 2019

I remember in, oh man, it must be 2015/16, Coachella livestreamed 360 content to VR headsets and I believe it was pushing to the -- it was! -- it was the Samsung GearyVR at the time. And they took regular HTC Vive Games, which only need a 10x10 space. You could provide training to 100, 200 people with one headset.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The same holds for a VR training happening in a dangerous scenario, where the sensors can be used to see how the user is able to stay calm and solve the situation using his cold mind. Eye-tracking is very important for marketing scenarios, to evaluate what you are looking at when you’re watching a commercial of a product, for example.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Additionally, founding the Upload Academy, a VR/AR developer training program, which graduated its first class in August with a number of success stories including Found – a gorgeous Miyazaki-esque narrative experience created by four of our students which was recently recognized on stage during the Oculus Connect Keynote. January 2016.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

This acquisition signs a new course for Facebook strategy in XR: after having just partnered with external studios for the development of its top-notch exclusive titles (e.g. This means that in 2020, AR and VR will still be used mostly in the enterprise sector, and mostly for training and maintenance. Red 6 brings AR to the USAF.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 12, 2019

And I think you can’t ignore the fact that VR can train people faster than anything we’ve ever created. So along with my research, there was– healthcare was a massive growth area, design of visualization was a massive growth area, training was a massive one. Kathryn: Yeah. Retail and consumer was a big one as well.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Firefighters need to train like any other professional, and their training usually involves setting a mock set ablaze – which, as you might imagine, would be costly to reset. Today we have Alex Harvey, CEO and creative director at RiVR, a virtual reality training and visualization company based in the UK. Thanks, GoPro!

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Firefighters need to train like any other professional, and their training usually involves setting a mock set ablaze – which, as you might imagine, would be costly to reset. Today we have Alex Harvey, CEO and creative director at RiVR, a virtual reality training and visualization company based in the UK. Thanks, GoPro!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

Last year we had nReal showing us that AR can be trendy, and HTC making us dream with the Vive Cosmos. Yes, the biggest companies were not there with a booth (Oculus will probably target the OC6, HTC the VEC, etc…), but it is the first time that I read the XR news from CES and I dont’ remain surprised. Samsung AR glasses.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Firefighters need to train like any other professional, and their training usually involves setting a mock set ablaze - which, as you might imagine, would be costly to reset. Today we have Alex Harvey, CEO and creative director at RiVR, a virtual reality training and visualization company based in the UK. Alan: [Laughs]Yes!

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

But we since branched out to cover other areas, like eSports, game streaming, and of course, augmented/virtual/mixed reality. I think the three-degrees-of-freedom [3Dof] sets — like the Go and the Samsung Gear VR before it — are very well-suited for video viewing, that sort of thing. Which still has its uses!

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

But we since branched out to cover other areas, like eSports, game streaming, and of course, augmented/virtual/mixed reality. I think the three-degrees-of-freedom [3Dof] sets — like the Go and the Samsung Gear VR before it — are very well-suited for video viewing, that sort of thing. Which still has its uses!

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

But we since branched out to cover other areas, like eSports, game streaming, and of course, augmented/virtual/mixed reality. I think the three-degrees-of-freedom [3Dof] sets -- like the Go and the Samsung Gear VR before it -- are very well-suited for video viewing, that sort of thing. Which still has its uses!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

This trend will continue in 2021 : the new LiDAR sensor, which is rumored to be installed in all future iPhones, will for sure be copied also by Android phones (Samsung?) And the most requested systems will be about maintenance, remote assistance, training, and prototyping. Do you know what else people find boring in the AR ecosystem?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

I ended up at Valve Software running their hardware department, putting the team together that created the HTC Vive. Ellsworth: I’m another huge Star Trek nerd, and Star Wars of course. Jeri, at Valve they did have that sort of choice point, and they chose to do Steam VR and get behind the HTC Vive. Ellsworth: VR is amazing.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

You’ve done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. and one of my friends who I just made by being nerdy, worked for a company called HTC. For all three platforms, we have native gestures, support for of course, head nod. You’ve done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

You’ve done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. and one of my friends who I just made by being nerdy, worked for a company called HTC. For all three platforms, we have native gestures, support for of course, head nod. You’ve done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Samsung, Nokia entered with their OZO, Jaunt — which recently just got sold to Verizon — they had their Jaunt One camera. You don’t need to be a super well-trained videographer or you don’t need a buy or rent tons of stabilization gear to stabilize your camera. Literally, it could not be any simpler.

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