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JANUARY 4, 2017

Vive (HTC). What We Know: Today at 1pm HTC will be hosting a press conference to discuss its HTC Vive virtual reality headset. The Vive released earlier this year and HTC has been fiercely committed to the product’s success ever since. What To Expect : HTC has made its tracking system open-sourced for public use.

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MAY 13, 2024

Chinese manufacturers BOE and SeeYA may provide cheaper displays in higher quantities than Sony is doing now, while Samsung may be supplying the DRAM components. He also said that other OEMs are going to launch headsets with AVP-matching hardware for $1500 this year. Matt Miesnieks said that the rumor aligns with some things he heard.

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OCTOBER 13, 2016

Sony is about to bring the third weapon to the high-end VR fight, and it could have a major impact on the market. The combination of content, pricing, and simplicity may mean that Sony could take a dominant position in the market over competition like HTC and Oculus. VR for Everyone.

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DECEMBER 3, 2016

That’s why retailers have demo stations set up for HTC Vive and PlayStation VR headsets throughout the United States. Sony Interactive Entertainment has released the impressive-but-flawed VR add-on system for its PlayStation 4 console in its home country, but the publisher is not pushing hard with in-person demonstrations.

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Road to VR

MARCH 18, 2018

When it comes to HTC, most everyone’s mind is on the Vive Pro. With GDC being the last major event in Q1, hosted just a week before the end of the quarter, and given the presence of HTC at GDC in years past, it certainly seems like the appropriate place and time to reveal the price and release date of the Vive Pro, if not a delay.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Firewall Zero Hour (2018) , the tactical team shooter from ROM: Extraction (2016) developers First Contact Entertainment , has apparently celebrated some serious notoriety since it launched late last month on PlayStation VR; Sony has ranked it the top most downloaded PSVR game of August. Here’s the full list below: Image courtesy Sony.

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DECEMBER 11, 2016

It’s been about nine months since the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive officially launched the age of consumer-ready virtual reality and there’s no denying we’ve had some great times immersed in our personal holodecks. How do you grow the install base without those big games that are required to sell the hardware? You see the problem, right?

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The Oculus Rift and Touch, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR (PSVR), Google Daydream, Samsung Gear VR, and so many other headsets are all available for purchase. On Sunday 2/26, members of the press (UploadVR included) will attend a full-day long set of demos of all the latest upcoming games, but we can’t talk about them until Tuesday 2/28.

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JUNE 12, 2016

E3 2016 kicks off this week; it’s the first E3 since the launch of the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, and the last before the launch of Sony’s PlayStation VR headset. With the launch of the Rift only a few months under their belt, don’t expect anything new in the hardware department from Oculus. Sony PlayStation.

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DECEMBER 19, 2022

In December 2012 I published my first in-depth article after a demo with a hand-built Oculus VR prototype. ” Given the weight of these comments I thought it interesting to revisit what Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe said during my first demo 10 years ago. “So they refresh 60 times a second. .”

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As free promotion for hardware startups go, one would be hard pressed to point to something better than a $175 million Spielberg film. “It Early versions of the Austin, Texas hardware startup’s product were on writer Ernest Cline’s radar well before the film’s pre-production began. It was actually Warner Bros.

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JUNE 9, 2017

Also noteworthy: Final Cut Pro X will be able to support 360 video editing, Unity and Unreal now have VR support for Macs, and SteamVR is coming to Mac… and although there was a sweet on-stage mixed reality demo using Star Wars assets and an HTC Vive, there was no mention of support for Oculus.

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MAY 25, 2020

The first apps supporting it will be Elixir (a tech demo also showcased at OC6), Waltz of the Wizards, and the Curious Tale Of Stolen Pet. The company has also showcased a tech demo to make us enthusiasts get hyped for the future of Facebook’s standalone devices. The winners get free hardware and also cash prizes.

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DECEMBER 10, 2016

You have to hand it to HTC, they got their PR spot on this week. It can sometimes feel like there’s no software plan in place for Vive, and that HTC is simply hoping developers will decide to get on board with the headset. But HTC hasn’t done a great job making that work visible.

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MAY 13, 2022

Japan Display Inc (JDI) is one of the world’s largest display providers, formed 10 years ago as a merger of the LCD manufacturing divisions of Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi. At Display Week I tried Innolux’s panel paired with pancake lenses that appear to be identical to HTC’s Vive Flow. Both new displays are roughly 2.27

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DECEMBER 11, 2016

Speaking today at the VRX conference in San Francisco, SuperData analyst Stephanie Llamas said that the company scaled back its forecast for PSVR because of scarcity of supply at the initial launch and the lack of marketing Sony put into the headset’s October debut. With hardware revenue added, the forecast hits about $28 billion by 2020.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2017

According to our reporter at the event, most of these pods were fitted with an HTC Vive VR headset, but others had the more experimental Star VR headset from Starbreeze. According to IMAX, the content includes “experiences from leading content developers such as ILMxLABs, Sony, Lionsgate, Starbreeze, Survios, and Ubisoft.

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MARCH 6, 2023

HTC has made its moves at MWC, too. HTC is one of the best companies when it comes to XR for enterprise and it’s good that it is expanding its offering in the field. But on the other side, while the Xbox is considered mainstream hardware, the Quest is not, yet.

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MARCH 1, 2024

Both Apple and Google already have very popular stores , they have full suits of tools (think about the Google Docs suite) and entertainment channels (think about Apple TV), and they have enormous expertise in building hardware and operating systems. On Quest, there are some nice demos and games with MR features, but nothing more.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Tech Crunch got a hands-on with an early demo of Varjoi’s tech back in June, which packed a pair of high-resolution Sony MicroOLED displays measuring 0.7 Varjo’s prototype hiding inside of an Oculus Rift, image courtesy Ubergizmo. inches diagonally, boasting 3,000 pixels per inch (PPI).

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JANUARY 2, 2018

Without any major VR hardware releases on the radar for this year, 2018 is shaping up to be a time for content to shine. We’ve rounded up a list of 20-something VR games launching in 2018 that we’re excited about, covering all three major VR systems: PSVR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Ace Combat 7. Platform : PSVR (2018).

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JULY 24, 2017

The first version of Valve’s SteamVR platform provided us with superior 360 degree room-scale tracking and position-tracked hand input at the hefty price of $799 via HTC’s Vive. Will HTC cut Vive’s price? But regardless of context, these moves put a heck of a lot of pressure on HTC’s Vive.

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JANUARY 23, 2018

Heavily demoing prototypes at places including CES roused the attention of VR enthusiasts globally — and resulted in the Pimax becoming the highest-funded VR project in Kickstarter’s history. 8 – Sony dominates VR gaming. An inevitable consequence of most any computer hardware is a desire to make it wireless.

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JANUARY 27, 2020

This week, a rumor spread among XR communities: next-gen PSVR will be announced at a press conference to be held by Sony on February, 5th. The reason is that Sony has already announced that it will launch PSVR 2 only after the PS5 , to not confuse its buyers by selling too many things together. PSVR 2 could be revealed next month.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The report surveyed respondents from September last year to June to discuss findings across some of the world’s top firms, including Unity Technologies, HTC, manufacturers such as Jaguar Land Rover, and media firm Yahoo, among many others. What’s the Deal on Data?

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MAY 17, 2021

Image by HTC Vive). HTC launches Vive Focus 3 and Vive Pro 2. In the end, the rumors were correct and HTC launched two headsets at VIVECON: the Vive Pro 2 and the Vive Focus 3 Business Edition. But this device got also some criticism: first of all , HTC has not released new controllers and still sells it with the old Wands.

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OCTOBER 25, 2017

While Sony’s PSVR headset for their PS4 console has helped lower the pricing barrier of entry to the world of VR gaming, the fact remains that many people still have yet to experience VR. Sony UK has started a tour around the UK to enable people to try out their flagship PSVR games. Also relevant are the locations of the city.

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AUGUST 7, 2022

With the technology advancing every year, the hardware is getting cheaper and the software base is growing steadily. In other words, virtual reality becomes affordable and thanks to massive price drops and discounts on hardware and software bundles, now is the perfect time to get your own VR headset and discover what all the hype is about.

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JANUARY 18, 2023

HTC Vive XR Elite HTC Vive XR Elite (Image by HTC Vive) The star of the event has for sure been the Vive XR Elite, HTC’s latest flagship headset. Vive XR Elite is a headset that is very lightweight, and many people that tried it at CES reported that it felt very comfortable for the time of the demo.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2020

New Steam hardware survey highlights that the number of VR headsets has grown again, and now according to Road To VR there are 1.6M I’m of course referring to the Dead and Buried demo showcased at OC5. Sony closes its game studio in Manchester. The good news for Valve don’t end here. monthly connected VR headsets on Steam.

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AUGUST 18, 2023

This is why I'm hopeful that Apple's soft approach of going for simple use cases first (and having the physical retail presence to allow for in-person controlled demos) might help to invite in a much broader audience. I wouldn't be surprised if two years from now we’ll have gone from having two to three viable hardware providers to dozens.

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JANUARY 20, 2021

So we would require many public demos about it… but well, there is a pandemic and so people can go out less, and even if they go out, it’s not safe wearing the headset that others have worn in a demo booth. Because the problem, in my opinion, is not the hardware but the software. The Quest will still be the king.

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OCTOBER 27, 2016

And that’s exactly what Carnival Games VR on PlayStation VR and HTC Vive is designed to do. When I demoed the game on Oculus Rift with Touch at PAX, the accuracy was satisfactory. But on Sony’s device, I consistently ran into issues. It fulfills a very singular purpose and that’s it. Curious about this score?

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NOVEMBER 7, 2018

With the technology advancing every year, the hardware is getting cheaper and the software base is growing steadily. In other words, virtual reality becomes affordable and thanks to massive price drops and discounts on hardware and software bundles, now is the perfect time to get your own VR headset and discover what all the hype is about.

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JANUARY 11, 2022

PlayStation VR 2 Logo (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). HTC Vive Wrist Tracker. 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. Click to read the thread on Twitter… it is worth it. Further references.

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OCTOBER 14, 2016

If you’re a regular reader here at UploadVR you’ll know that every Friday we give you a quick update on all the games that have launched for the Oculus Rift, Gear VR, and HTC Vive over the past seven days. Now that Sony’s headset is out, we’re going to be doing a list for that too. Our thoughts. Price: $19.99.

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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. Samsung was demoing 3 models. . – What is super important is what Leacttia said, interoperability. You didn’t have to sign anything.So

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