The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

Just to make an example, I was there when there was the Netscape vs Internet Explorer war, but now the leading web browser is Google Chrome. In the case of VR, we all remember the competition between HTC and Oculus in 2016, with HTC clearly winning the market until Oculus used Facebook’s money to slash the price of the Rift around 2017.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 19, 2023

Conversely, artificial intelligence backs the creation of technological advancements that can analyse, respond, and create based on data sources. Blending VR and AI in the New World For example, the travel, tourism, and healthcare sectors have leveraged AI virtual assistants to guide people in virtual environments.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

See Also: Redefining the Future of Location-Based Entertainment With HTC VIVE Focus 3 and The Park Playground “Virtual reality is often perceived as being limited to the world of gaming. Although gaming is certainly a great use case and example of what immersive VR experiences can deliver, the possibilities are endless,” said Vindevogel.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 26, 2023

Companies and Metaverse experts frequently use Ready Player One and other mainstream media examples to help audiences digest what a Metavese could be. The enterprise space is still fresh, with examples of business Metaverse solution providers and SDKs creating secure and reliable virtual solutions for various end-users.

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

The Mixed Reality Toolkit (MRTK) by Microsoft is an open-source toolkit that has been around since the HoloLens was first released in 2016. Microsoft-driven MRTK-Unity is a suite of components and capabilities used to speed the creation of cross-platform MR applications in Unity. Ready-to-Use Mixed Reality Templates or MRTK “Examples”.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MARCH 4, 2024

AWS’s Bedrock service allows Proto Hologram to select a range of avatar models, personalize private data sets and integrate additional AWS services. However, HTC VIVE still believes that controllers hold value. HTC VIVE has announced new enterprise immersive services for its XR Elite Business Edition product.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Companies like Varjo, Magic Leap, Meta Platforms, Pico Interactive, Lenovo, and HTC VIVE have entered the industrial XR space to create solutions tailored to professionals with complex requirements. They can also provide smart glasses to interact with data, manuals, and other visuals in the field.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Edge computing is revolutionizing how tech companies handle, process, and transfer data worldwide. This has major implications for the metaverse , which involves high-volume data processing at low-latency speeds. It has major use cases in data-heavy applications such as the Internet of Things (IoT).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Do you have any statistical data to prove the effectivity of VR in your field? VR, for example, allowed some of our customers to focus on pilot training to start to train flying in formations which was not possible with previously used displaying hardware (i.e., What are some of the armies that you currently work with?

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Driving simulators are perhaps the best example of this. Tools like the Meta Quest 2 and Quest 3 are examples of fully immersive headsets. These technologies can create collaborative environments, like Microsoft Teams’ Immersive spaces, training simulations, and more. How Does Virtual Reality Work with Fully Immersive VR?

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 1, 2022

Over the last two years, metaverse technologies have matured due to investments from firms such as Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Epic Games, and many others. Blockchain technology is a breakthrough for resolving privacy and data security problems that might affect a centralized metaverse. The decentralization layer. Closing thoughts.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

One recent example is this article published on Frontiers in Psychology, which identifies significant differences in how people retain information in the short and long term depending on whether content is delivered in “active” or “passive” VR modes.

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VRScout

AUGUST 24, 2016

According to research from the International Data Corporation (IDC), worldwide revenues for the augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) market is forecast to grow from $5.2 HTC Vive most talked about headset on social media. According to the latest Adobe 2016 Gaming report , HTC Vive has been rising above the competition.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 16, 2022

For example, Taqtile completed its Hangar 51 accelerator programme to facilitate remote guidance tools for airports. Trainees could use Microsoft HoloLens 2 and Magic Leap headsets, as well as tablets and smartphones for the platform. With HTC VIVE Flow goggles, passengers can play VR games while travelling to their destinations.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Resolution and data bandwidth requirements represent one of key obstacles that break the illusion of immersion in VR content. Its founders claim to be a proven team of industry experts from their former senior roles at Apple, Adobe, Microsoft and Lucasfilm. On the level of awareness, what does it means to look real?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 8, 2023

HTC VIVE unveiled enterprise-grade hardware and platforms on Thursday via its XR Elite Business Edition and Business+ solutions. For example, Precedence Research figures found that the global XR market would top $345.9 Conversely, Apple has entered the XR scene with a potential enterprise-focused Vision Pro headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The damn coronavirus continues to impact all our lives: the fact that many countries are applying restrictions on flights to and from Italy is, for example, creating various nuisances to my job. The only company not much affected by it is HTC, that manufacturers its headsets in Taiwan and not in Mainland China.

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Digitalnauts

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Some examples include the Oculus Quest and Vive Focus platforms. Among such are HTC Vive and Oculus Rift headsets. . SOME EXAMPLES OF VR APPLICATIONS. So, for example, movement through the physical world translates into movement in the digital world. The most famous example being Microsoft Hololens. .

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

This would be pretty disruptive, because up to now every standalone headset has been a walled garden with its own store and hardware, with the only exception being HTC trying to distribute its Viveport store to some other Chinese devices. Basically, Google could try to be for standalone devices what Steam has been for the PC VR ones.

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Doc-Ok

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Now that Vrui is working on the HTC Vive (at least until the next SteamVR update breaks ABI again), I can finally go back and give Vrui-based applications some tender loving care. First up is 3D Visualizer , an application to visualize and, more importantly, visually analyze three-dimensional volumetric data sets (see Figure 1).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The firm’s first XR headset is due soon, and with it comes a spatial computing ambition that draws similarities and differences to Lenovo, Microsoft, Meta, HTC VIVE, and other XR headset vendors. Apple is gearing up for the Vision Pro debut. It felt like I was part of the app.”

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. Pokemon Go is the best example for an augmented reality game. Microsoft Hololens is a key player in the MR market. It uses GPS and compass sensor data to position the virtual object at a point of interest.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

This could actually be quite beneficial for Meta, Microsoft, and Magic Leap. For example, they are lowering the cameras and sensors so users’ hands aren’t getting tired. The technology can additionally offer real-time visualizations of equipment, displaying relevant maintenance data, service history, and diagnostic information.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

This special version of the headset features additional sensors that can get more data about the user: A heart rate sensor on the forehead; Two additional cameras that track the lower part of the face of the user, so that to read his facial expressions; Eye-tracking cameras , that can also detect the dimension of the pupil.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). For sure, Facebook will repeat a bazillion times that they care about privacy and I think that in the beginning, this will be mostly true: we have seen with Oculus how Facebook takes its time and boils its users slowly like the famous frog, adding over time features to get more data for targeted ads.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Thanks to the support of HTC, Rob is experimenting with Vive Trackers , and is very eager to tell you everything about his experiments with them, in a series of two very detailed posts. The post finishes also with the little surprise of an interview with HTC’s Shen Ye. HTC Vive Trackers (Image by Rob Cole). Introduction.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Eye Tracking Apart from sessions a few years ago using the HTC Vive Pro Eye and Microsoft Hololens, I didn’t have any experience with eye tracking. It is also very useful in commercial and enterprise work, where it provides biometric data allowing for actionable insights into user behavior.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

We started at engineering and figured out that the problems we have there, like big data, industrial consuming, and interaction with XR data in overall. The problems we solve there is high data consuming problem on small mobile AR devices at the end, if you break it down to something small. It started by developing ARES.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

We started at engineering and figured out that the problems we have there, like big data, industrial consuming, and interaction with XR data in overall. The problems we solve there is high data consuming problem on small mobile AR devices at the end, if you break it down to something small. Florian: Yeah. There is no difference.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

This week there’s been a new AMA from Andrew Bosworth (I guess AMA now stands for Andrew’s Massive Answers), this time together with her data majesty Mark Zuckerberg. A decent budget for Microsoft and Facebook… but something impossible for companies like HTC or Magic Leap (do you remember when we all thought that $2.5B

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

This is the first post in a series of technical posts in which we will be covering the bare bones of a Virtual Reality API (Application Programming Interface) and coding a few examples using it. As a developer, we haven’t control over the runtime in which our application will execute (i.e.: And the same happens with OpenVR!

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

As I’m thinking back to it now, this was actually on HTC VIVE — first gen, which was only maybe 3, 4 years ago now — and I was so impressed with the first generation of hardware that I was like, “well, this is ready for prime time.” A lot of companies focusing on it. A lot of companies picking up on it.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

As I’m thinking back to it now, this was actually on HTC VIVE — first gen, which was only maybe 3, 4 years ago now — and I was so impressed with the first generation of hardware that I was like, “well, this is ready for prime time.” A lot of companies focusing on it. A lot of companies picking up on it.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 24, 2023

Instead, he has concentrated his journalistic efforts on a stereotypical dystopia of avatars and social media white elephants from a caricatured Meta, Microsoft AltSpaceVR, and Decentraland. billion between the US Federal Trade Commission and European Union for data privacy violations. The Death of the Consumer Metaverse?

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 22, 2020

But in the enterprise space, it has always been behind the competition of companies like HTC or Pico. Do you want an example? Focused on VR training, simulations, data visualization, or remote collaboration. How does it compare with the services offered by Pico and HTC? Does this remind you of something else?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Firms such as Virbela, Meta Platforms, ENGAGEXR, Spatial, Arthur, NVIDIA Omniverse, Microsoft, Pico Interactive, Varjo, HTC VIVE, and UPWorlds are all working to build these platforms. For example, Meta Platforms has leveraged its Horizon Worlds suite of applications in recent months.

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