Road to VR

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

HTC today announced its third batch of AR/VR startups backed by the company’s Vive X accelerator program. ” Started last year, Vive X is a $100 million fund for AR/VR companies that, according to HTC, provides “unparalleled access to expertise, resources, planning and an extensive network throughout the AR/VR industry.”

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 29, 2023

Immersive Healthcare as an Emerging Technology VR solutions allow healthcare professionals to engage patients with bespoke, simulated environments to provide medical education. Her company has deployed Meta Quest 2, Pico, and HTC VIVE headsets to treat patients. Also, these aim to tackle the biggest challenges in healthcare to date.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

It is a software solution that instantly converts BIM models for use in design reviews, building requirement approval and construction coordination, as well as automated document generation. The post HTC Vive X Accelerator Invests in 26 More AR/VR Startups appeared first on VRScout.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 30, 2020

(Image courtesy HTC Vive.). Yesterday afternoon, I got a preview of the new HCT Vive Sync virtual meeting platform from HTC Vive, and it’s the best one I’ve seen yet — and I have seen a lot of these platforms. — HTC VIVE (@htcvive) April 30, 2020. Image courtesy HTC Vive.). VIVE Focus Plus.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 23, 2023

The criminals stole Meta Quest, Pico, and HTC VIVE headsets, tablets, smartphones, controllers, and other devices. VR simulations allow patients with limited mobility to enter virtual worlds to fly, swim with dolphins, and space travel, among others. Police have arrested a suspect aged 41 and will deliver sentencing in February.

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Road to VR

JUNE 16, 2020

The update also includes improvements to the Workshop tools, including more example content for animation, audio, and shaders, along with new documentation. SEE ALSO 'Half-Life: Alyx' Update Adds Impressive Liquid Simulation, Foundation for Mod Scripting. Replacing Sounds. Custom Pistols. Hotspot Texturing.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 5, 2016

After spending over a week putting the Oculus Rift with Touch through its paces, and re-testing many aspects of the HTC Vive itself, I’ve come away a more conditioned, sore, and seasoned gamer than I was previously. For reference, here is our original Oculus Rift review , HTC Vive review , and Oculus Touch controllers review.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

HTC recently released a document ( PDF ) detailing how its upcoming Tracker is supposed to function. The Tracker holds enormous promise for extending 1:1 physical simulation to a wide range of activities. The Tracker holds enormous promise for extending 1:1 physical simulation to a wide range of activities.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Here below I’m posting for you the best offers I’ve found: for instance, HTC is discounting basically every piece of hardware (including Vive Trackers that can be useful for all the VRChat fans out there), while Pico is offering one of the best deals with €100-worth-of-content given for free with every purchased Pico 4.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Geekbench has just published the scores for a new Vive Focus headset , indicating that a new standalone headset by HTC is coming. But for sure HTC wants Oculus to feel the competition, if this “leak” on the new Focus has “casually” happened some days before the launch of the new Quest…. (Image by Qualcomm).

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 1, 2020

Acadicus is a tool for medical simulations and for training, and works both with or without a virtual reality headset. It also allows the import of PDF documents and PowerPoint presentations. Users are able to share content such as documents or 3D objects in a variety of formats. Oxford Medical Simulation.

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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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Road to VR

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Cas and Chary VR is a YouTube channel hosted by Netherland-based duo Casandra Vuong and Chary Keijzer who have been documenting their VR journeys since 2016. The heavy use of physics simulation in the game is something you don’t see often in VR games because it’s very challenging to do right. Cas & Chary Present.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The official Oculus Developers Twitter account announced the release with an illustration from the documentation showing a user’s full body pose being tracked. Body Tracking API was released on Thursday as part of Movement SDK, which also includes Eye Tracking API and Face Tracking API for Quest Pro.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

The MRTK is a set of components with plugins, samples, and documentation designed to help the development of MR applications using gaming engines from either Unreal Engine or Unity, providing two versions of the solution – MRTK-Unity and MRTK for Unreal. OpenVR – Windows Mixed Reality headsets, HTC Vive , and Oculus Rift.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 7, 2020

There is an online documentation with the quick start guide and a full reference of the APIs, and then there is also a GitHub repo with many samples you can learn from. Simulation view of the VR application inside Unity. For instance, the documentation is very good at giving you a quick start guide.

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 19, 2019

HTC Vive Retires. The HTC Vive was phased out in October, replaced by the Vive Cosmos , which was priced at $699. One of the incubator’s projects “ Death is Only the Beginning ” even went as far as simulating a near-death experience, and was subsequently adapted for use with palliative care patients. Immersive Masterpiece.

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Road to VR

JUNE 3, 2017

While practically all driving simulators can be played with a gamepad, the experience is transformed by using dedicated input devices. SEE ALSO Top 5 VR Racing Sims for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. The two leading virtual reality headsets for PC—the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift —both have fairly wide-ranging support for VR racing sims.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Otherwise, contact HTC support to have your Vive fixed (good luck with that). The system will guide you in updating the firmware if any new firmware is available; How to update the firmware on your HTC Vive devices. Header image by HTC). This way you can exclude some hardware failure. With no luck.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Considering that Quest supports multitasking for 2D apps, this is great to use the Quest as a tool to work: you could have Slack in one Window, and Google Doc in another, and work on a document together with your team. Hair simulation and clothing simulation were nice to see, though. John Carmack.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 30, 2023

Varjo, Lenovo, HTC VIVE Additional hardware offerings, including the Magic Leap 2, Lenovo’s ThinkReality VRX, HTC VIVE’s Flow and Focus 3, and Varjo’s Aero and XR-3 offer a trove of specifications. Smart glass wearers can receive instruction with videos, images, documents, and real-time 3D (RT3D) assets.

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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. Megadodo simulation has announced a hard pivot for its Decagear headset. Top news of the week. Decagear headset is going to pivot.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2019

I had the pleasure of participating to the “VR Visionaries” event in Kaohsiung and then I headed to Taipei to meet some XR companies (like HTC ) and people. While for the Mainland, I always need to fill a lot of documents. Two weeks ago, I had a fantastic trip to Taiwan together with my Chinese assistant Miss S. It felt like magic.

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Road to VR

MAY 16, 2017

We’ve had a couple different NASA contractors come through who were working on training simulations and setups for astronauts. SEE ALSO A Look at NASA's Hybrid Reality Astronaut Training System, Powered by HTC Vive. Road to VR: What’s the best guess for when the first product will come out from one of these course graduates?

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

Morton Helig’s 1962 patent describes a system that delivers a realistic simulation for potential work and military training purposes: There are increasing demands today for ways and means to teach and train individuals without actually subjecting the individuals to possible hazards of particular situations.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 30, 2023

Varjo, Lenovo, HTC VIVE Additional hardware offerings, including the Magic Leap 2, Lenovo’s ThinkReality VRX, HTC VIVE’s Flow and Focus 3, and Varjo’s Aero and XR-3 offer a trove of specifications. Smart glass wearers can receive instruction with videos, images, documents, and real-time 3D (RT3D) assets.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Some days ago, the Chinese government has released a document that states how China really wants to commit to VR , how wants the ecosystem to grow well and fast and how also wants to lead the world for what concerns virtual reality. The document talks about the standardization of VR hardware, software, and testing. – VR+ health.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Considering MMOs require a healthy player base to function, MetaWorld is hoping to invigorate its procedurally generated 10,000 square mile digital wilderness with a wide swath of the VR headset-owning market, including cross-play support for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, PSVR, and Gear VR. image courtesy MetaWorld.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Becoming a licensee gave me access to the SteamVR Tracking HDK and Steam SDK, which also contained the original 2016 SteamVR training course documentation which was run for a couple of years in conjunction with Valve partner Synapse in Seattle. It had no sensors, just a simulated sensor bar in front of the handgrip. Image by Rob Cole).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

Furthermore, the documentation talked about “Early access to dev” for Del Mar, and this means that the project is still at the alpha stage. So it may be that Oculus contributed to the success of HTC Vive’s room-scale technology. It seems that Luckey’s team was working on 6DOF input (i.e. Learn more.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 23, 2016

They’re the company behind Dexmo, a robotic exoskeleton glove that provides force feedback to simulate the act of touching objects in virtual reality. Gu: Dexmo is very developer friendly and well documented. With our SDK, libDexmo, any developer should be able to pick up Dexmo in a few hours after reading the documents.

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VRWorld

JULY 19, 2017

This document suggests that extended use of high-end VR headsets might improve or benefit the vision in preteen population, as explored by six researchers and contributors; Bao Yihua, Advanced Innovation Center for Future Visual Entertainment in Beijing.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

I’ve accidentally skipped to a different part of a movie while opening a can to drink, or selected random text in a document while my hands were just resting on the keyboard. You don’t actually own these games, you’re just renting them, though Job Simulator and Vacation Simulator are set to buck this trend.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

By using AR-enabled smart glasses or mobile devices, technicians can share their live view, receive guidance, and access documentation hands-free. They can practice complex procedures, simulate real-world scenarios, and access contextual information, leading to faster skill acquisition and reduced training costs.

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VeeR VR

OCTOBER 15, 2018

A few games had come out that were barely functional, along with the occasional flight simulator. What makes VR marketing so compelling - is that you can now offer people an experience that is fully contained within the simulation and can expand the user’s line of empathy unlike anything before. Stay tuned on veer.tv

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 23, 2019

And what’s happened is connectivity, digital entertainment and interactivity have become understandable, controllable and repeatable to the point — courtesy of the consumer game, mobile phones, courtesy of digital entertainment and simulation and training — and all of this technology has now switched together., Kevin: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 23, 2019

And what’s happened is connectivity, digital entertainment and interactivity have become understandable, controllable and repeatable to the point — courtesy of the consumer game, mobile phones, courtesy of digital entertainment and simulation and training — and all of this technology has now switched together., Kevin: Yeah.

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