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JANUARY 3, 2024

HTC Launches Vive XR Elite Image courtesy HTC The News HTC launched its first real competitor to Meta’s Quest line earlier this year with a renewed effort toward getting top games onto its platform (a challenge the company long struggled with while trying to gain a foothold with its Viveport platform for PC VR).

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JANUARY 31, 2023

Here’s a chart of PSVR unit sales spanning launch up to 2020, showing an early bump to one million sales, and a slower protracted growth period to five million units over the course of three years.

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AUGUST 8, 2022

No one ever gets tired of board games, especially those that involve a strategy and collaboration between teams to win. Your opponents can thwart your stone, putting it on the wrong course or even sending it out of the table. Plus, they bridge generations, allowing grandparents, parents, and children to enjoy themselves together.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

The second annual Virtual Reality Strategy Conference hosted by Greenlight Insights takes place October 24th through the 26th with new focus-areas reflecting the VR and AR industry’s lightning fast changes and growing worldwide impact across industries. VR Strategy Conference 2017. Road to VR is a proud media sponsor of VRS 2017.

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JULY 27, 2023

Attendees can look forward to hearing from over 60 speakers in over 60 sessions including keynotes, talks, and panels over the course of the two-day conference. See Also: Niantic and 8th Wall Explore New Monetization Strategies Another tough decision follows. Let’s take a look at some of the most exciting sessions.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The HTC Vive is arguably the most popular high-end VR headset on the planet. This strategy may be more effective than the company has previously let on. ” Every HTC Vive comes with a free trial to the Viveport service. – Viveport is Vive’s online game and experience store.

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OCTOBER 21, 2016

Things get serious in this week’s roundup for HTC Vive, featuring Serious Sam VR , the virtual release of The Golf Club with over 130,000 courses, and much more. 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. Fine China, from Fine China Games.

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VRScout

MAY 6, 2021

Demeo requires a heavy amount of strategy in order to succeed, which means learning the pros and cons of each character and using their respective abilities correctly when in battle. This is just one of literally hundreds of strategies you can employ in Demeo. Demeo is a great example of tabletop strategy gaming done right in VR.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 22, 2023

I’m personally a bit confused by Bytedance’s strategy. This is all very cool and useful, but it also poses some privacy concerns, of course, and that’s why for now it is being rolled out only in the US. May it be something that HTC is going to announce at CES?

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JANUARY 20, 2017

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. RunVR is described as the ultimate locomotion tech demo that gets users, running, jumping, and climbing around an obstacle course in VR. Price: $15.99 (Currently Discounted). This is a tech demo.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2024

Of course, since I’m not a security expert, I do have not a definitive answer for you. It would be ideal to copy the strategies that Android already employs on the phones , where a popup asks you if you want to give some permissions to the app that you have just opened. So, how we empower the developers without hurting the user?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

But the rumors in the past weeks highlighted that the situation of this device is very confusing: Google doesn’t have a clear XR strategy and this confusion also led some key engineers to leave the company. I hope to be wrong, of course and see Quest 3 selling 50 million units, but I highly doubt it. At least in the first year.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Their strategy since well before the consumer Rift launch has been to actively stimulate and support developers keen to help build VR content in a small, risky marketplace – helping them mitigate that risk. The approach isn’t unique to Oculus of course.

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VRScout

JANUARY 24, 2019

Indeed, this follows Sansar’s ongoing strategy to monetize the platform by attracting premium content; and offering top performers a way to reach and connect with broader, new audiences (and consequently new revenue streams) seems like a smart way to go about it. ” Image Credit: Sansar.

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MAY 16, 2017

Cosmic Trip originally released in Early Access just under a year ago on the HTC Vive and came to the Oculus Rift in time for Touch launch last December. Well, for starters, the game will feature a complete strategy mode. Over the course the development Funktronic has been adding new environments, enemies, weapons and more.

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MARCH 3, 2017

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. Of course, though, beware the shark. Tethered is a robust strategy game where you instruct your “peeps” to build and fight to save your brethren. Lines, from Mixed Reality.

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DECEMBER 9, 2016

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. With a full set of clubs, take on a 18 hole virtual course in World of Golf. The Table At War VR brings tabletop strategy to life in a big way. Offroad Paradise: Trial 4×4.

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

The HTC Vive should not exist. For a troubled company that’s spent much of the past few years making losses instead of profits, the niche and expensive VR market is the last place HTC is going to make a quick buck. And yet here we are, with the smartphone maker and Valve seemingly in it for the long haul. Expected Expense.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

PC headsets using SteamVR tracking support worn extra trackers such as HTC’s Vive Tracker , but the three needed for body tracking cost north of $350 and thus this isn’t supported in most games. But of course we can put legs on other people, that you can see, and it doesn’t bother you at all. That’s our current strategy.”.

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JULY 1, 2019

Consumer virtual reality (VR) may have restarted the industry as a whole but solutions for business have become a key part of many immersive companies strategy. Today, HTC Vive has announced a new business unit which aims to help in that endeavour, Vive Enterprise Solutions.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

I think this new pricing strategy is very important: $299 has historically been considered as the golden price to start getting mainstream adoption , and Facebook proposing this in the months that lead to the Christmas Holidays may cause a big spike in sales of virtual reality headsets. HTC CEO Yves Maitre resigns. I’ll miss ya, boi.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

Of course for some ad-based tech companies, the current economic situation is not the only problem, but there is another big one which is Apple and its new privacy features embedded into iOS. I suggest everyone consider the possibility of harder times coming when defining the strategy of his own company. Learn more. Learn more.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Of course, that’s only a sliver of the total exhibitors. a panel discussion with leading XR ethicist Kent Bye, HTC VIVE China President Alvin Graylin, WXR Fund Managing Partner Amy LaMeyer, and Creative Artist Agency ’s Chief Metaverse Officer Joanna Popper. Mytaverse , OVR Technology , VRdirect , and Zappar.

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Road to VR

JUNE 20, 2016

Survios, the developers behind the multiplayer action game Raw Data , have released a of new gameplay from their upcoming HTC Vive powered hack and slacking, dual-wielding, slow-mo VR bullet-fest – here is in all its glory. Here’s a breakdown of features coming to the title’s Early Access debut via Steam on July 14th.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2023

I see the value for cross-platform apps to have also a version for the Vision Pro , which helps with brand value, too, but I don’t see how a Vision Pro exclusive content can survive, unless it is funded by Apple, of course. without sharing enough applications using them), so no one understood the value of those features.

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OCTOBER 1, 2022

Watts was joined by Pearly Chen, Vice-President of HTC VIVE , Brian Vogelsang, Senior Director of Product Management for Qualcomm Technologies , and Maria Pace, Head of XR Hardware, Global Partnerships and Strategies for Google. Pearly Chen, Vice-President of HTC VIVE. Smaller, Lighter, Comfortable, Compelling.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). For example, we invited senior executives from HUAWEI, JBD, HTC, Alibaba, iQIYI, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and so on.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

I don’t know how many of them will prove to be true, but for sure they all can be something that can inspire you to define your XR strategy for this year. In this blog, I told you about the Finnish Metaverse Strategy , but I’ve heard that also The Netherlands and Korea are bullish on this new technology. Of course not.

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Road to VR

MAY 3, 2017

IMR’s strategy is largely the latter, except instead of using an existing compression codec, they have developed a proprietary compression algorithm which they say is optimized for VR, whereas off-the-shelf codecs were designed for the compression of traditional digital video. Photo by Road to VR.

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JANUARY 30, 2017

Making a compelling strategy game experience is a difficult balance. opponents, actual human opponents online, and the delicate nature of balancing different factions across their various roles and abilities, and it’s easy to tell why a good strategy game is very difficult to come by. with official HTC Vive support.

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Road to VR

JULY 27, 2017

Among what’s now a fairly vibrant range of social VR platforms, AltspaceVR had an early mover advantage, opening it’s doors long before the launch of the consumer versions of the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. The app would eventually be supported by those VR headsets and more, including a monitor-mode for those without a headset.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Meta’s latest headset is competing with major contenders such as the Pico 4 and Pico 4 Enterprise, as well as HTC VIVE’s Focus 3 and Flow Enterprise headsets. The key to successful XR strategies is considering where employees may face the biggest hurdles. XR on the Rise.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The only company not much affected by it is HTC, that manufacturers its headsets in Taiwan and not in Mainland China. HTC Vive releases Cosmos Elite, two models of Vive Pro Eye and creates some confusion. For sure you remember the recent launch of a full line of Vive Cosmos headsets , all with customized faceplates.

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

Unless you’re using body tracking hardware such as HTC’s Vive Trackers, IK for VR tends to be inaccurate though – there are just many potential solutions for each given set of head and hand positions. But of course we can put legs on other people, that you can see, and it doesn’t bother you at all.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Facebook’s profit-deferring strategy had pushed would-be competitors like Lenovo and HTC to focus on enterprise markets where buyers are less sensitive to price than the value of not using anything connected to Facebook. That appears to be exactly what’s happened.

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Road to VR

JUNE 21, 2021

– – — – – Many games today use monetization strategies other than a single, up-front charge. HTC revealed a similar in-game advertising system for VR content on Viveport back in 2017 , though the program never caught on. Facebook, however, is far from the first company to play with VR ads.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

In our early access review we gave the game high praise for its deep combat which weaves sword fighting fitness and strategy in a uniquely compelling way. ” The update will of course be free, and hit all platforms on November 14th. Until You Fall launched in early access at the end of August.

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