Robert Scoble

MAY 20, 2019

I dragged my camera down to meet her and her team in their offices in Marina Del Rey, near Los Angeles, to get a look at the business visualizations they are building for use in both Spatial Computing headsets, like Magic Leap, and VR, for HTC Vive, Oculus Quest or Rift, or others. Think about dwell times in retail stores.

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ARPost

APRIL 11, 2023

VR-Enabled Online Shopping Experiences VR creates an immersive visual environment, including 360-degree videos, photos, product demos, and complex experiences using devices such as the HTC Vive or Oculus Quest. Usage Analytics AI can also help analyze usage data and client feedback. See Also: Should You Buy a Quest 2?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 2, 2017

We don’t have a clear idea on precisely how many units have been sold for the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR, Daydream View, or any other major headset on the market. It is however still available from some third party retailers. Tagged with: data , figures , homido , prediction , research , sales.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 6, 2020

It includes some of its data and takeaways. This was the case in “normal” times and has accelerated during the COVID era, when retail lockdowns compel AR’s ability to visualize products remotely. Always see chart date for context, and refer to newer data if applicable. A R continues to evolve and take shape as an industry.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

As for the agency, we did some cool stuff for Lenovo Chile earlier this year: worked on a very intense motoGP simulator for Oculus and also did this awesome screen pillar with Kinect. I mean, besides the Oculus Quest 2, there’s hardly anything to get locally. It’s a royal pain to get hardware in Chile.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 2, 2017

That’s to be expected, of course, given that most Steam games require just a gaming PC and not an expensive headset on top to be played, but Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and OSVR-supported games do make a small appearance in the recently-published list of 100 games that grossed the most revenue over those 366 days.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

What is interesting the most are not the features, that more or less are the same as most other headsets: integrated headphones, halo+headband, IPD adjustment, etc… It seems a mix of a Samsung Odyssey and an Oculus Rift S. Oculus Go is not part of the Oculus For Business program anymore. But of course, I hope for a full reveal

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

This year’s 70+ person judging panel included academic professors and researchers as well as representatives from Google, HTC, HP, Deloitte, NVIDIA, Apache, and others. This Year’s VR Hardware of the Year Award went to the Oculus Quest. The Oculus Rift S was also nominated for the award. VR Lifetime Achievement.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As the only VR compatible version in the franchise, over on Capcom’s official Resident Evil 7 biohazard website currently available stats put the players who have enabled the in-game data transmission option at just over 4.9 Of this 833,632 have used PlayStation VR at some point, helping up the scare factor of this survival horror.

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AllThingsVR

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

The organization found that, by the end of 2016, the Oculus Rift is projected to sell 355,088 units; the HTC Vive will sell 420,108 units; Google Daydream will sell 450,083 units; and the PS VR will sell 2,602,307 units.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Realistically though, online retailers are currently selling the cards at a heavy markup, coming in at $650-$700. According to Futuremark, The Orange Room benchmark certifies whether your system can meet the strenuous requirements for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. Memory Data Rate: 1.9 Interface: PCI Express 3.0.

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Peter Graham

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

You’ll be able to experience the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope from the cockpit of the Discovery space shuttle using original NASA cockpit audio and mission data. Shuttle Commander: Hubble Space Telescope Missions will be available for PlayStation VR on 3rd December, retailing for £21.99 GBP/$24.99 USD/€24.99

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 15, 2016

“We know from the data we have from pre-orders that the interest we have is significant,” Ryan said during a TV interview, further saying that PlayStation VR sales will be in the “many hundreds of thousands” as the headset rolls out. SEE ALSO PlayStation VR Accessories Hit Major Online Retailers.

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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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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 5, 2020

But as far as I know, nothing disruptive for the industry : Oculus has already shots all its bullets, and HTC for the first time isn’t announcing anything. Image by Oculus). In a recent interview with the Information, Oculus R&D Chief Scientist Michael Abrash cast some interesting predictions. Other relevant news.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

We combine both proprietary and public data sources to arrive at an objective reading of the market, including financial information obtained through our client network. The sales predictions previously reported for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive remained the same in the new report.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Late last week we reported on data from Capcom that revealed at least 62,000 people had been playing Resident Evil 7 [ Review: 9/10 ] with the game’s optional PlayStation VR support on PlayStation 4. One week on and that number has crossed a significant milestone. We’ll continue to keep track of it over the coming months.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

Speaking with the New York Times recently , Andrew House, President of Sony Computer Entertainment, confirmed the PSVR sales data. As the first company to offer such information, it means that Sony is not only happy with the figure, but likely confident that they’re well ahead of the competing Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.

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ARVR

MARCH 9, 2022

In layman’s terms, augmented reality refers to rendering digital data and images onto the real world using technology’s digital sensory stimuli. As for Virtual Reality (VR), it’s a complete immersion into a virtual world, shutting off the physical world entirely through special VR devices like HTC Vive, Google Cardboard, and Oculus Rift.

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 19, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating the use of virtual reality and augmented reality, experts say, especially in retail, education and health. Retail shopping and advertising. Virtual Reality health simulation with Arch Virtual. Image courtesy Arch Virtual. ). Taylor Freeman. Jon Cheney.

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VRWorld

JANUARY 24, 2017

While the push for VR started in retail model, we’re now seeing that business-to-consumer model is the path forward. With HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and PlayStation VR being the big three headsets in competition, there are also numerous other companies that are making the move into the virtual world – especially coming out of China.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 29, 2018

However, following the release of consumer equipment like the HTC Vive , Oculus Rift , Sony PSVR and the various mobile VR headsets , we now have a different situation with a much larger group of people (the general population) using virtual reality on a regular basis, for longer periods of time.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

I started because I actually tested, like everyone, the first generation of Oculus, and then the second, and so on… and I was expecting like better visual quality … [me too!] HTC, Oculus, Sony are not offering headsets with big FOV and resolution… while you, Varjo, Pimax, are. Why have you started this adventure? (

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 31, 2018

Then she opened an Excel file and I could clearly see there all the data regarding my eyes movements while looking at the various photos. These analytics data can have two important applications: See what kind of products people are mostly interested in; See where people mainly look for products, so that to adjust the supermarket structure.

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VR Bites

JANUARY 23, 2017

Play Oculus Rift and HTC Vive games with your smartphone. Not only does it do a quicker job, this way you can pplay SteamVR- and Oculus Rift games on your smartphone! No I didn’t take out my Oculus Rift DK2 screen, this is Lucky’s Tale playing on my Android phone! It’s emulating the Rift!

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

It has made significant contributions in various verticals such as entertainment, education, retail etc. Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. It uses GPS and compass sensor data to position the virtual object at a point of interest.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Disclaimer: HTC provided three of their Vive Tracker 3.0 What is an HTC Vive Tracker? Whilst the first part of this article looked at the history of the HTC Vive Tracker and its three different versions, the second part will focus on some practical experiments with the latest HTC Vive Tracker 3.0. HTC Vive Tracker 3.0

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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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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Read on for a recap of the major developments that took place in 2018: Enterprises that made the news for using wearables: In 2018, major retailers got more serious about XR in hopes of competing with Amazon and improving the shopping experience. Walmart was very active, beginning with its acquisition of VR startup Spatialand in February.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Retail and consumer was a big one as well. So we’ve got an update from HTC and Oculus on what’s the state of the hardware. She’s one of those people that is really happy to– a lot of companies have this thing, where they’re scared to show their figures, and scared to show the data around.

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Road to VR

MARCH 27, 2017

HTC’s Vive X accelerator is a $100 million fund for AR/VR companies that the company announced last year. Today HTC is revealing the second batch of companies that will receive investments and mentorship from the program. Each accepted company gets an undisclosed investment and hands-on mentorship from HTC. Appnori Inc.

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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.” And I see that right now, Oculus is filling that void. Alan: Absolutely.

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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.” And I see that right now, Oculus is filling that void. Alan: Absolutely.

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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." It's trying to figure out how to expedite those clinical trials, and bring the data to the forefront faster.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Retail and consumer was a big one as well. So we’ve got an update from HTC and Oculus on what’s the state of the hardware. She’s one of those people that is really happy to– a lot of companies have this thing, where they’re scared to show their figures, and scared to show the data around.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

Alan: So how is 5G -- or just the ability to have this kind of massive data pipe -- affecting your ability to do virtual reality, or augmented reality, or mixed reality? And I think it's a really interesting point, because many VR users tend to buy VR to play games, including Steam or Oculus or HTC Vive.

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