VRScout

APRIL 1, 2020

Technology can augment the world around us, it can enhance the human experience, our capabilities, and also extend our reality to digital and virtual worlds. But just how far are we from becoming one with the metaverse and what can we learn about ourselves through sensory technologies? Just how far away is full-dive VR?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

Image by Road To VR, from HTC images). HTC launches Vive Tracker 3.0 HTC was not teasing a new standalone headset, but a new Vive Tracker. I know that many of you won’t be excited by this news, but remember the Vive Tracker is one of the most successful accessories ever created by HTC. Come and visit it!

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VRScout

MARCH 13, 2022

Backseat VR technology will arrive on select Audi sedans and SUVs as soon as this Summer. Last month HTC Vive announced that it was partnering with in-car VR entertainment company Holoride to bring its new HTC Vive Flow to backseats everywhere. This means no two in-car VR experiences will ever be exactly the same.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 7, 2019

The CES is going to start tomorrow, but today HTC has already made its great announcements, showing to the world the upcoming new hardware Vive Pro Eye, Vive Cosmos and software solutions Viveport Infinity and Vive Reality system. The Vive Pro Eye, in all its splendor (Image by HTC).

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ARVR

MAY 13, 2021

Cloud computing is the foundation beneath some of the fastest growing industries in the world, So it’s not difficult to get lost in all the buzzwords that are thrown around cloud computing and digress from actual technological advances and benefits that are achievable with smart and efficient use of the cloud. So what’s behind the hype?

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The country appears to be going all-in on immersive technology. The ambitious action plan was published by five Chinese government ministries led by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and includes augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality technologies. Feature Image Credit: HTC Vive, Alvin Wang.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 22, 2024

At GTC, NVIDIA wowed the world with robotics, digital twins, automatic vehicles, AI processors, and countless more innovations, and behind many, many, many of these innovations, spatial data. With the rise of emerging technology solutions, spatial and XR data is seemingly the lynchpin holding a segment of the future of work together.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 19, 2023

A recent HTC VIVE study has found that extended reality (XR) technologies have become an “invaluable” tool for training healthcare staff in key skills and capabilities. 84 percent of respondents added that they liked or loved training with XR technologies. billion by 2028.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

XR headset manufacturer HTC VIVE has debuted its VIVE Ultimate Tracker, which will offer users multiple vantage points for body tracking, Shen Ye, Global Head of Product, HTC VIVE announced in a blog post on Wednesday. Building on the successes of the HTC VIVE Tracker 3.0, the unit will have a price tag of $199 USD per unit.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 19, 2024

According to NASA’s provided pictures, its team will use an HTC VIVE branded headset to explore the space station – Gateway – enabling astronauts to explore insights into its design and functionality.

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ARVR

JULY 16, 2021

HTC VIVE?—?the HTC has been amongst the tech companies making headlines in the past few months. This had to do primarily with the teasers and assumptions revolving around the new HTC VR headsets, anticipated to be officially announced during the VIVECON 2021 on May 11th and 12th. the VIVE Focus 3 and VIVE Pro 2. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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ARPost

APRIL 22, 2022

The XRA is an industry organization founded by Google , HTC VIVE , Microsoft , Oculus , and Sony Interactive Entertainment. To be clear, their emphasis is on politics and society – not XR, or even technology in general, which is where the XRA comes in. See Also: XRSI Releases Report on the Dangers of XR Data Collection.

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ARPost

APRIL 8, 2020

Hand Tracking in VR Technology – It’s Come a Long Way. While doing demos, people new to VR technology would repeatedly put both controllers into one hand to reach out and try to touch digital artefacts. The VR technology behind these SDKs allows eye and lip tracking, pass through cameras, and hand tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 10, 2021

Image by HTC Vive). HTC new products may be the Vive Pro 2 and the Vive Focus 3. According to a leak discovered by Protocol, HTC may launch two headsets tomorrow at Vivecon: The Vive Pro 2, a premium PC VR headset, priced at €842 ($1,012) The Vive Focus 3 Business Edition, a business-oriented standalone, for €1,474 ($1,771).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

All these data together make me a bit skeptical about the capabilities of this company: developing such kind of a high-quality headset requires a lot of expertise, while the company is very small and features no known expert in the field. A new FCC listing appears for an HTC Vive headset. But I can speculate.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

HTC plans to offer a wireless upgrade accessory for the Vive created by TPCAST. Launching in early 2017 with pre-orders starting Friday, HTC claims the device will eliminate the direct connection to the PC without any noticeable difference in latency or gameplay.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 16, 2024

The head-mounted display/headset marketplace may be approaching a broad shift as Apple unveils its Vision Pro headset next month, with the device promising to advance screen-based productivity into a third dimension, leveraging traditional MR technologies to achieve a spatial computing future. You can start small and scale up.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

HTC today introduced its ‘5G Hub’ product, a 5G mobile hotspot mashed up with a media streaming device and a digital assistant. Image courtesy HTC. HTC hopes that its 5G Hub , which is due out later this year in the US on the Sprint network, will be the center of your connected life. Image courtesy HTC.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

XR data analytics firm CORTEXR has launched its platform on Tuesday to standardise virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) technologies as well as the Metaverse. XR Study on Key Analytics. Eye, gaze, and hand-tracking were also key to learning user behaviours and interactions with immersive content, the survey continued.

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ARPost

MAY 2, 2023

An Exciting Combo of VR Experience and Esports For NanoClash Focus The Park Playground partnered with HTC and Triangle Factory. This led to the development of NanoClash Focu s, which used elements from esports in its design and artificial intelligence technology to ensure an enhanced user experience.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 7, 2017

HTC today announced more specifics around Vive Focus, the company’s standalone mobile VR headset for China-based customers. As reported by YiVian , HTC is putting out two versions: Electric Blue for ¥4,299 (~$650) and Almond White for ¥3,999 ($600). For data and device charging : USB Type-C. VIVE Focus Headset Specs.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 18, 2019

With HTC recently launching Vive Cosmos, which relies on always-on cameras during use, we reached out to the company to learn more about what data is captured by the cameras and how it’s used. How is the data from the cameras used specifically (ie: where and how is it processed?). Is data from the cameras stored? (if

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Road to VR

JUNE 12, 2017

Survios’ stunning VR action game Raw Data , currently in Early Access for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, will launch in September on PlayStation VR. Announced at E3 2017, Raw Data will launch out of Early Access simultaneously on Vive, Rift and PSVR in September, bringing a wealth of improvements to its already polished Early Access state.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Peraso Technologies, a fabless semiconductor company creating mmWave technology and Wireless Gigabit (WiGig) chipsets, announced that it has raised an additional $42 million in its Series D financing round. Image courtesy Peraso Technologies.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 5, 2022

HTC wants to make it easier for Vive virtual reality headsets to track the movement of a user’s hands and the tools they might be holding. The company’s solution, a blobby bracelet called the Vive Wrist Tracker, promises accurate data from the fingertips to the elbow, even when the headset can’t see the tracker or… Read more.

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Road to VR

MAY 9, 2019

HTC is now on its fourth batch in its $100 million accelerator program, which offers education, investment and mentorship to startups doing unique and and interesting things around VR and AR. ybVR ’s multi-viewpoint optimized streaming technology powers immersive live broadcasting and on-demand video content in 8K resolution.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 12, 2021

What people required the most in a new VR headset, according to a survey proposed by HTC Vive. In the first one, you can read what are the features that people that HTC interviewed were asking for a VR headset : HTC has used these data to design its new headset and accompanying software ecosystem so that to fulfill these requests.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Immersive solutions manufacturer HTC VIVE teased its audiences on Wednesday with a photo of an upcoming headset on Twitter. HTC VIVE (@htcvive) October 6, 2022. HTC VIVE Metaverse Solutions, Ambitions. HTC VIVE Expands XR Interoperability, Use Cases. Go small or go home. pic.twitter.com/PUqqKn4V5E. — ”

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Road to VR

JULY 21, 2017

A survey sponsored by HTC America is currently open on SurveyGizmo , with the option to enter a prize draw, which includes three Vive systems and seven gift cards worth $100 – $150. The 10-15 minute ‘experiences with VR’ survey is for HTC’s ‘research purposes only’, aiming to gather some general VR usage data and purchasing habits.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 10, 2022

HTC is set to reveal its new VIVE Mars CamTrack solution at the SIGGRAPH 2022 in Vancouver, Canada, where it will showcase the immersive production tool with Departure Lounge and Arcturus, it was revealed on Tuesday. HTC VIVE (@htcvive) August 8, 2022. Shoutout to @ArcturusXR and @dlxrofficial for helping to make this demo happen.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

On the technological side, it seems all is set to start using cloud rendering, but the big problem of the latency from the nearest server remains; VRSS (Variable Rate SuperSampling) v2 has been announced. VRSS is the technology that makes the graphics card draw in higher resolution the region of the image you are looking at.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2018

During my Chinese adventure, in the period that I was leaving Shanghai to go to Chengdu to watch pandas, I had the opportunity to interview via WeChat Qiyong Chen, one of the people leading the Virtual Reality R&D experiments at HTC. Who are you and what do you do in HTC? I’m Qiyong Chen, leader of HTC China Immersive Lab.

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Road to VR

MARCH 13, 2017

This report is the fifth edition of Greenlight Insights’ annual report providing a comprehensive perspective on the virtual reality industry, including hardware unit forecasts, market revenue forecasts, industry and technology analysis, and other special topics for industry executives.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2018

Two days ago, I’ve been at HTC Vive Chinese headquarters in Beijing. It has been a really amazing day, where I have been able to try some amazing HTC tech demos (more on this later on! I’ve been able to speak with three companies incubated in the Vive-X Beijing and also to know various HTC Vive employees.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Using an HTC Vive or a Valve Index , players immerse themselves into a virtual practice field where they are put through a series of intense professional level training drills that you’d expect to see on any soccer field. All you need is a SteamVR compatible headset and HTC’s Vive trackers with straps. Image Credit: Rezzil.

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ARPost

APRIL 11, 2023

AR and VR are two of the most promising technologies of the modern era. However, these technologies have taken a long time to reach their full potential. Virtual Try-On Technology Virtual try-on technology to see how products look on shoppers like on the Sephora Snapchat page. A case in point is Gucci.

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VRScout

JUNE 6, 2019

HTC announced today their Vive Pro Eye VR headset is now available for purchase in North America through Vive.com and select retailers. In terms of potential use-case scenarios, the sky’s the limit when it comes to eye-tracking technology. Of course, the potential of such a technology extends much further than just enterprise-use.

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