The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

A new FCC listing appears for an HTC Vive headset. And in fact, a new request to FCC for a new device has arrived from HTC. FCC certifications are requested before releasing an electronic device in the US (to certify that it is safe to be used), so this is a clear sign that HTC is going to release a new headset soon.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

That’s the consensus that seems to emerge from “Top 2020 Trends: Enterprise AR & VR” , a report published today by Unity Technologies where 15 industry experts (yours truly among them) outline how mixed reality (or XR depending on what flavor acronym you favor) will supercharge and transform the world of work. . “The

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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. Shoutout to @ArcturusXR and @dlxrofficial for helping to make this demo happen. Low-latency performance.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

During the demo, Apple’s employees will give you an Apple device that fits your head, and let you try the most important features of the headset. More info (How to reserve your demo at an Apple Store) More info (What happens during a demo at an Apple Store) We also keep learning new things about the headset.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 30, 2021

HitMotion: Reloaded has been one of the 20 launch titles of the Vive Focus Plus , and we can never thank enough HTC for the support that has given us. Now the game is available on SideQuest as a free demo, and it is getting great feedback from all its users (download it now!). From HitMotion AR to HitMotion VR.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

Curiously enough, he let us also the journalist Janko Roettgers try Cambria for a very short demo. Weirdly enough, most of the demos he showed were games. Weirdly enough, most of the demos he showed were games. Even worse, Unity has lost -30% of its stock value.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2021

Hands-on with UltraLeap demos. Unluckily, UltraLeap has not released any new demo to highlight the new possibilities enabled by this new runtime , especially the two hands interactions. Some little problems with interactions and tracking of the hands when moving my head in the Blocks demo. UltraLeap Unity SDK.

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VRScout

JUNE 5, 2017

Announced during WWDC, ARKit brings AR development tools to iOS, allowing your phone’s sensors to detect things like depth, ambient light, and motion. Apple also showed off what the new development tool would look like with the popular AR game Pokemon Go. The demo is expected to be released as a game “later this year.”.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Image by HTC Vive). HTC expands its Cosmos offering and teases the future with Proton. This has been a pretty interesting week for HTC Vive. And it is nice that HTC with this new Cosmos line is satisfying the needs of a broad share of VR people : from the casual gamer that wants something cheap to the professional.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

That’s the consensus that seems to emerge from “Top 2020 Trends: Enterprise AR & VR” a report published today by Unity Technologies, where 15 industry experts (yours truly among them) outlined how Mixed Reality (or XR depending on what flavor acronym you favor) will supercharge and transform the world of work. “The Look no further!

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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2017

” SteamVR and HTC Vive on Mac OS. While Steam has been Mac compatible for some time now, Apple announced that Valve will be bringing SteamVR to Mac too, allowing the HTC Vive to run VR games on Mac systems. Vive Demo on Stage. Unity and Unreal VR SDK Support. Metal for VR. Photo courtesy TIME.

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The Ghost Howls

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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 25, 2024

One leading XR streaming solution provider is Innoactive, which leverages RT3D engines from Unreal, Unity, and NVIDIA to promote the adoption of workplace XR services – allowing clients to distribute XR applications directly to a range of end-devices with the compute processing happening remotely on the cloud.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

We already saw this problem happening when HTC departed from the Steam platform to build its Viveport store because hardware sales were not enough to have an ambitious business. Muse looks a lot like ChatGPT integrated inside Unity. Let’s see: Google is still working with Qualcomm and Samsung on a mixed-reality headset.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

Ok, of course, I’m kidding, but, you know, the possibility of saying the wrong name is so high that my proposal actually starts making sense… Top news of the week (Image by HTC Vive) HTC reveals inside-out-tracked Tracker With a totally unexpected move, HTC has revealed a new kind of Tracker.

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ARPost

JUNE 6, 2023

Zappar was also up for Auggie Awards in the categories of Best Creator & Authoring Tool, Best Developer Tool, Best Headworn Device, Best in Location-Based Entertainment, and Best Societal Impact. This is something we’ve been working on for a long time,” HTC China President Alvin Graylin said in accepting the award.

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Cats and VR

JANUARY 21, 2017

One can say Google’s Tilt Brush is still virtual reality’s closest thing to a killer app and one of the first demos anyone using a HTC Vive will ever try. Google has recently announced the release of the open source Tilt Brush Toolkit, a tool that allows Tilt Brush creators to export their creations into Unity, and animate them.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

OpenBCI has been making open-source tools for neuroscience and biosensing since 2014. On the software side, we’ll be enabling users to bring tightly time-locked data into development engines like Unity and by building on open-source protocols like BrainFlow , the raw data will be available in most common programming languages as well.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In a side event happening after AWE, HTC has announced a bunch of updates of Vive Focus 3 that have the potential of revolutionizing the Location Based Entertainment in VR (LBEVR o LBVR) sector. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has demoed the technology by showing a mini version of him that could answer the questions of the journalists.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 28, 2018

After my interviews with the VR educational companies Langzou and Judao , I’ve visited in Shanghai VR Waibao , that is working on a multipresence VR collaboration tool. Me trying the XCOL application with an HTC Vive Pro, while Sam is using a tablet and another employee a smartphone.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Igloo Vision was among a number of leading emerging technology companies showing face at the event to highlight the future of workplace technology -with the firm successfully showcasing how immersive spaces are a valuable enterprise tool via its Igloo Core Engine solution. In 2023, Igloo Vision showcased its various immersive spaces.

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ARPost

JUNE 3, 2022

Demos on the AWE floor included more intimate recordings and video calls with loved ones, as well as a game built for 2D but ported in through a Unity SDK. The big news that we have here at AWE is that the Snapdragon developer program has opened,” Lenovo AR/VR lead Nathan Pettyjohn told ARPost at the company’s demo booth.

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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

JULY 16, 2020

Inside the box you find: 1x SenseGlove right 1x SenseGlove left 1x SenseGlove linkbox 1x power cable 1x USB connector cable short (2m/ 6.5ft) 2x USB connector cable long (3m/ 10ft) 2x HTC tracker mounts including screws 1x manual. This way your gloves are powered and can communicate with your PC; Setup of the HTC Vive system.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Every show is shot using a green screen and an HTC Vive in the Mixed Reality mode to give you the best angles to watch. Using the.obj import/export tools, he created his own library of assets to speed up his painting process! Pre-requirements: HTC Vive / Unity. Pre-requirements: HTC Vive / Unity. You Decide!

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Blueprint Reality is launching a tool dubbed MixCast VR that lets both game developers and consumers create their own mixed reality videos from within VR. The Vancouver, Canada-based company recently released its first title, the Awaken VR puzzle game , on the HTC Vive VR headset. MixCast VR is the first in a suite of tools.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

He stressed many times how he wants to empower creators, and how he wants to provide free tools for content creators and cheap hardware for the users. Meta is launching its own apps on the Store (Facebook and Instagram), and soon also other productivity tools like Slack, Dropbox, Monday.com, and also PlutoTV are coming.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

I’m sure that after April, 20th, the Meta Quest ecosystem will appear even richer than it is now , creating a wider gap with other companies that may think about competing with the Quest, that is Pico, HTC, and even Apple. I have seen the demo via a Zoom call and CNET’s Scott Stein saw it live and we came out both impressed by it.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The company demoed its immersive training platform for the healthcare and medical industries. Continuous uptakes of immersive learning tools to rapidly upskill workforces and tackle the ongoing labour crisis . This comes after the release of the Meta Quest Pro, Pico 4, Pico Enterprise, Lenovo VRX, HTC Flow Business, and others .

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

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. XR Firms Secure Next-Gen Tracking Tools. What’s the Deal on Data?

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Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2017

Facebook’s VR headset subsidiary Oculus is finally integrating a native tool that will let you capture and share your Rift experiences through 360 photos and videos—one that developers can integrate into Unity and Unreal Engines, and across NVIDIA and AMD GPUs— and it’s available today on GitHub.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

High-precision 6DOF tracking, eye tracking, gesture inputs, with dedicated input controllers The SDK will support Unity , with Unreal coming Soon. We have early internal units and demos at different iterations. It is very positive… usually, after our demos, people want to buy the devices! All APIs have a plain C version.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2022

The PlayStation 5 demo for Matrix Resurrections was able to showcase that very well, and the great news is that the city of that demo will be released for free as a sample of the engine. As a Unity developer, I am a bit envious of all of this. It’s interesting that HTC is keeping the name Vive both for VR and Web3 solutions.

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The Ghost Howls

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. Companies like Pico, HP, Valve, and HTC are already performing very well in this sector.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2020

The facial interface TACTAL made my HTC Vive more heavy on the front , and being quite thick and rigid, also made the headset slightly more uncomfortable and reduced my field of view. My HTC Vive with installed in the TACTAL facemask. Pray for my life… PC (HTC Vive). TACTOSY bracelet installed on my arm. Oh, they shot me!

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 11, 2017

It released with the launch of the HTC Vive in early 2016 and Facebook’s Oculus Touch controllers for Rift late in the year. They recall demos of Owlchemy’s Job Simulator, Google’s Tilt Brush and Valve’s early robot demo, each of which made excellent use of those hand controls. Embracing New Tools.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2023

RunUSD , a cloud-based API tool for converting OpenUSD files to “fully path-traced rendered images.” DeepSearch , the LLM tool for semantic searches across untagged asset databases. CloudXR Client Extensions will also offer a key plugin for Unity Editor, providing developers with bespoke CloudXR applications.

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