XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 5, 2022

With virtual reality, companies can build models of projects in a digital landscape, and make it easier to interact with specialists from all over the world. HTC Vive stands out as one of the market leaders among companies creating XR solutions specifically for the enterprise and business landscape.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Documentation What is WebXR? ? WebXR is a JavaScript application programming interface (API) that enables applications to interact with augmented reality and virtual reality devices, such as the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Google Cardboard or Open Source Virtual Reality (OSVR), in a web browser.?—?Wikipedia

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Road to VR

APRIL 12, 2017

Rick and Morty are finally making their way to VR in Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality. Coming to HTC Vive and Oculus Rift headsets on Steam and Oculus Home, you can take part in the dimension-hopping adventure starting Thursday, April 20th for for $29.99. — Justin Roiland (@JustinRoiland) August 30, 2015.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 23, 2023

A major charity offering virtual reality (VR) therapies to vulnerable people was “heartbroken” after a massive burglary took place on Christmas Day. The criminals stole Meta Quest, Pico, and HTC VIVE headsets, tablets, smartphones, controllers, and other devices.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2018

We all know that China is a country that is betting big on Virtual Reality. 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.

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Upload VR

JUNE 22, 2023

Apple uses the term "fully immersive experiences" for VR apps on visionOS - that is, apps which show entirely virtual content instead of any of the real world. The documentation does actually list "a virtual reality (VR) game" as an example use case of fully immersive experiences.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The extensive documentation and guidance on the Unity platform is excellent for beginners too. A leader in all things virtual reality, HTC Vive has established itself as perhaps the go-to choice for VR among business users.

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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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ARVR

MAY 13, 2021

For instance, at the most fundamental level, businesses can automate how they receive and sort documents through document management, to automating entire workflows including delivery pipelines and testing updates in a controlled cloud environment. Leftronic reports that the number of augmented reality users will reach 3.5

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 12, 2017

2016 was the true birth of the virtual reality industry , so outlook was all over the place depending on who you spoke with and it makes sense that the perspective of GDC attendees would be valued. Tagged with: Daydream , GDC , google cardboard , htc vive , industry , oculus rift , Outlook , PS VR , samsung gear , VR.

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Road to VR

MAY 14, 2018

According to recent testing by the Virtual Reality Institute of Health and Exercise , Beat Saber (2018) may be more than just a fun way to spend an evening in. Images courtesy Virtual Reality Institute of Health and Exercise. kcals to 9.86

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 18, 2021

While the spotlight is all on Oculus and its Quest, actually Pico and HTC are evolving their hardware and software offerings without almost no one talking about it. HTC is working on its own hand tracking solution since a while. The number of joints tracked by the Vive Hand Tracking SDK on the various platforms (Image by HTC Vive).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 3, 2017

When trying to sell someone on the wonder that is virtual reality, it’s better to show than to tell. Explaining the incredible immersion that a solid virtual reality experience provides is difficult to put into words, but showing someone playing or allowing a person to play themselves is the quickest path to amazement.

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VRScout

MARCH 13, 2017

Pollutants become monsters in this HTC Vive clean water educational game. A powerful, three-minute short (below) was created documenting the process to raise awareness and funds for the project. It seems like there’s been a surge in environmental awareness VR Content recently, but it’s never been done quite like this.

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Upload VR

AUGUST 26, 2022

The document released by Valve also serves as an outline of Valve’s technologies and history. Valve’s work on virtual reality also helped launch VR’s modern consumer resurgence, teaming with HTC for the original Vive in 2016 which brought room-scale hand-controlled VR to buyers before Facebook’s Oculus Rift.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 4, 2021

This proves how the attention towards virtual events is rising , and this kind of entertainment medium is becoming always more popular. Real concerts and public events are not possible anymore, so most of the singers are finding a new way to express themselves and are so experimenting with digital and virtual reality events.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 7, 2018

The authenticity of the audio and the nobility of the characters involved, combined with virtual reality means audiences can now relive with past with an intensity not previously possible,” says Peter Rippon, BBC Archive Editor. The experience is available now on the Oculus and Steam stores for Oculus Rift, and HTC Vive headsets.

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Tech Trends VR

OCTOBER 18, 2018

A new BBC Virtual Reality experience takes you back to Berlin in 1943, at the height of the WW2 blitz. The authenticity of the audio and the nobility of the characters involved, combined with virtual reality means audiences can now relive with past with an intensity not previously possible,” says Peter Rippon, BBC Archive Editor.

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ARVR

MARCH 9, 2022

Virtual Reality and The Future of Remote Assistance for Businesses Unless you live under a rock, you’ve probably been a part of at least one conversation regarding augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) in recent years. Firstly, What Exactly is Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality?

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VRWorld

APRIL 2, 2018

Big names like HTC and Intel made headlines this week, and even a Kickstarter project called CLOVR got a day in the limelight as well. HTC CEO believes that 5G can turn any compatible smartphone into a VR powerhouse. The post Stories You Might’ve Missed: HTC 5G VR, CLOVR and more appeared first on VR World.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Global tech giants such as NVIDIA, Lenovo, Unity, Epic Games, HTC VIVE, and others have already entered the metaverse space race. This will also lead to companies using fewer resources for travel, documentation, repairing, and event planning. The Industrial Metaverse.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

October was such an important month for the virtual reality and augmented reality industry. HTC Vive at GameStop. almost heard a choir of angels) and I even documented in on Facebook. She was a woman probably in her 50s and I assumed she had never heard the term virtual reality. So what’s next?

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Ryan Schultz

JULY 18, 2022

I do plan to replace it with an HTC Vive Pro 2 kit sometime later this year, the same model I specified in my proposal for a virtual reality lab for the Libraries , a task which took up a significant chunk of my spring.

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Ryan Schultz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Over two days this week, I set up two new pieces of hardware in my office at the University of Manitoba Libraries: a brand new desktop personal computer with a high-end graphics card, and a new virtual reality headset tethered to it.*. An HTC Vive Pro 2 headset, bought last month to replace my work Oculus Rift.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 22, 2017

Court documents obtained by Ars Technica also reveal that the company requested damages paid to it were doubled, totalling $1 billion. In its own filing, it noted that “ZeniMax does not offer any products that compete with Oculus’s virtual-reality platforms and headsets.”

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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 small puck-sized unit is meant to be attached to a range of objects and accessories, bringing physical guns, baseball bats, phones, cameras and much more into virtual reality with you.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 5, 2020

This is the first roundup of news of this new year, and to signal a change with the past, I’ve changed the name from “VR Week Peek” to “XR Week Peek”, because, hey, I like talking about all immersive technologies and not only Virtual Reality. If you’re looking for using a similar solution, you can start documenting yourself from here.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Virtual reality can be a gateway to spaces and interactions that would otherwise be out of reach in normal circumstances, and two science teachers at Alta Vista School in San Francisco, Elizabeth Kramar and Toni Setteducato, took advantage of the technology for their classrooms and shared their findings.

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ARPost

APRIL 30, 2020

Simplified Documentation and More SDKs. However, a lot of the talk involved making their available SDKs and documentation easier to find and approach. “ However, a lot of the talk involved making their available SDKs and documentation easier to find and approach. “ We are always listening to our developers,” said Walia.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2020

We’ll continue to provide examples, documentation, and tutorials that will help developers to deliver native-quality applications in WebXR. Firefox Reality has become the official browser for HTC Devices. Firefox Reality is probably the best WebXR browser at the moment (Image by Mozilla).

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Road to VR

MAY 20, 2016

This week Google announced Daydream, the company’s initiative for high-end mobile virtual reality. See Also: Samsung, HTC, LG, and More Bringing ‘Daydream Ready’ VR Phones to Android. To start developing for Daydream today, devs need three things: Nexus 6P smartphone. Google Cardboard. Spare Android phone.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The companies investing in spatial audio today are using the technology to enhance the quality of their virtual reality landscapes, and develop new experiences in the metaverse. Rebuff Reality. Spatial audio can enhance collaboration, improve training opportunities, and pave the way for new brand/consumer interactions.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2024

What if you want to experiment with AI and MR and you don’t want to wait for Meta/Pico/HTC to provide access to the camera feed? Well, there are some (not ideal) ways that let you at least do some experiments: Use a headset that provides the access you want : some enterprise headsets give you access to the images the user sees.

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VRScout

AUGUST 26, 2016

This allowed you to gesture at your screen to scroll through webpages, pinch zoom, draw, play games and even sign digital documents. But now the Leap Motion controller has found new life as a virtual reality hand tracker. There was one thing — the device never really caught on.

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VRScout

AUGUST 19, 2016

A big highlight of VRLA was Visionary’s unveiling of Mindshow , proof that virtual reality will bring our imaginations to life like nothing ever has. We’ve been working closely with the teams at HTC Vive and Google to get Tilt Brush into the hands of LA artists this year, starting with the VRScout Art Show at VICE back in March.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2018

HTC Vive Focus is one of the most famous standalone VR headsets. I have always been intrigued by this device, since the first time I’ve read about its reveal at an HTC event : I don’t know why, maybe because of the azure color that is my favorite, maybe because it looks so informal. It was funny. Upper view of the device.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 4, 2017

Jon Schnitzer has been waiting 16 years for virtual reality technology to evolve to this point. I thought it’d be amazing to document this, but if you film this you’d just watch someone else’s experience,” Schnitzer said. “I The five-minute experience will make its debut at ScareLA on Aug.

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