The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

Microsoft announces Mesh, an XR collaboration platform. Alex Kipman promised us a Microsoft Ignite conference with an amazing level of immersion , and he kept his word. But since Microsoft owns one of those studios (and using it costs around $100K/day if I remember well!), You are all fantastic! Here you are my flower for you!

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Cats and VR

JULY 10, 2018

ARVORE, the immersive storytelling VR/AR company today announced the final launch date and 20% pre-order discount for the long-awaited virtual reality game Pixel Ripped 1989. The game, which will be available on PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, will arrive for download on July 31st, 2018. USD off the $24.99

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AllThingsVR

JULY 22, 2016

HTC Vive Finds New VP of Marketing in Former Xbox, Amazon Executive The HTC Vive has been on sale for a few months now, and the team behind the kit is growing. Joining that team this month is a former executive from both Microsoft and Amazon.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 4, 2017

Listen or download below to be fully briefed on all of this year’s major expectations/predictions while you drive home from work or enjoy your lunch. Vive (HTC). What We Know: Today at 1pm HTC will be hosting a press conference to discuss its HTC Vive virtual reality headset. Oculus (Facebook).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

HTC has revealed the design of the Vive Cosmos. HTC has finally unveiled some information on the Vive Cosmos. HTC has told in the past that this is a headset more consumer-oriented , but Sebastian Ang of Mixed Reality TV has reported that, according to a reliable source, the price will be 899. Top news of the week.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

HTC recently announced they’ll be sweetening the pot this Black Friday for potential Vive-owners located in North America by throwing a free Deluxe Audio Strap your way when you purchase an HTC Vive. photo courtesy HTC. Check out our review here. You can see where Vive is sold near you here.

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Road to VR

JULY 15, 2017

At the start of 2017, the Oculus Rift + Touch controllers cost the same as the HTC Vive —$800. To attract more potential interest, Oculus then dropped the bundle to $600, while HTC concurrently offered an interest-free finance plan for its still $800 room-scale VR system. image courtesy Oculus. image courtesy Oculus. Toybox (2017).

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Last winter Microsoft announced that the company started working together with its PC hardware partners to develop headsets that support a mixed mode, between virtual and augmented reality. The post Microsoft Prepares VR Partnerships for Windows 10 Holographic Edition appeared first on VR World. billion (S$15.5

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

With great pleasure, I announce to you that we have updated our game HitMotion: Reloaded (the first mixed reality fitness game ) on Viveport, and now we have far better bonuses management, apart from having fixed lots of bugs. If you have a Vive Focus Plus, go out on Viveport M and download it!

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The Game Developers Conference , a big event where there have been in the past many announcements about VR, has been canceled after all the major brands withdrew from it , leaving the organizers with no choice. The only company not much affected by it is HTC, that manufacturers its headsets in Taiwan and not in Mainland China.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

For OpenVR-compatible headsets like Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, watching streaming 360 video from from your browser is now as simple as clicking a button and putting on your headset. The company also says they’re planning to integrate full WebVR support in the future. .”

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The social VR app is best known for having been purchased by Microsoft in 2017 after nearly shutting down , but low-key visual design and wide accessibility have cemented AltspaceVR as a staple social tool among loyal supporters and industry professionals alike.

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VeeR VR

OCTOBER 11, 2018

It is the world’s first all-in-one gaming system built for virtual reality, which distinguishes itself from other standalone. While Oculus Go is roughly “80 percent media and 20 percent gaming,” said Oculus chief technology officer John Carmack, the Oculus Quest is emphatically gaming-focused. Adventure Game.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

People are engaged in the device and this means that they buy games, making the Oculus Store a profitable platform for developers. SuperHot has now more than 2M downloads on all platforms, and this is thanks to the Quest. There’s a speech at AWE held by Microsoft and HP on 28th , so this may be a good moment for the launch.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 28, 2019

We of New Technology Walkers have taken there our MR fitness game HitMotion: Reloaded , and made hundreds of people try it. Most of these lessons can be adapted to many countries you can travel to showcase your game to, so I think that if you are a VR indie game developer, you may find this article interesting in any case!

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MAY 18, 2022

Microsoft is gaining ground as one of the leaders in the Mixed Reality landscape for a reason. Microsoft has already helped countless retail brands to unlock their true potential with their technology. Microsoft has already helped countless retail brands to unlock their true potential with their technology.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

The Mixed Reality Toolkit (MRTK) by Microsoft is an open-source toolkit that has been around since the HoloLens was first released in 2016. Microsoft-driven MRTK-Unity is a suite of components and capabilities used to speed the creation of cross-platform MR applications in Unity. Understanding the MRTK-Unity Toolkit for MR Developers.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

I have had terribly busy days with the launch of our game HitMotion: Reloaded that will happen tomorrow on Viveport M. Alyx is a Half-Life game set between Half-Life 1 and 2 , in which you embody Alyx Vance. The price is 50€ but there will be a 10% discount for who preorders the game. I love him.

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VRScout

MARCH 14, 2018

Sinespace was built using the Unity game engine allowing for an easily customizable as well as upgradable experience. Sinespace is compatible with a majority of 3D models and game design tools. However, this vetting system doesn’t mean you’ll be restricted in your customization by any means.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 17, 2020

The platform also features unique game mechanics that allow you to view shows in different ways and advanced social interactions that allow you to engage with other users more effectively. It’s this unique futurist look and approach that has attracted millions of users, investors, and collaborative partners, including Cox and Guetta.

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AIXR

APRIL 1, 2022

Guiding you through the world’s biggest projects, latest releases, and premiere launches within XR, hosts Daniel Colaianni and Nicola Rosa share their wealth of knowledge alongside special guests from around the world, including pioneers from ILMxLAB, NASA, Google and Microsoft. VR Download. Between Realities. This Week In XR Podcast.

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AllThingsVR

MARCH 1, 2017

MWC & GDC Headset Updates: Google has shipped 10M Cardboard, Hands-on With LG’s SteamVR Headset & With Microsoft’s First Windows Holographic VR Headset 1) Amit Singh, the VP of VR at Google, announced Google has shipped over 10M Cardboard viewers and seen 160M Cardboard app downloads. Read more on TechCrunch. flipped-up.

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VRScout

MAY 7, 2018

Brought to us by immersive and interactive design studio Cutmod, VR Massage is a trip, out-of-body experience which involves a VR headset, a Microsoft Kinect camera and a real-life massage therapist. Upon first entering the exhibit i was instructed to lay on a specially-designed massage table fitted with an HTC Vive headset at the face rest.

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

While the ability of VR to provide valuable, realistic experiences without introducing real-world risks has found many fans across various industries (from healthcare to real estate), the most popular types of virtual reality content remain video games, movies and television. Google Daydream View. from Google.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

In the meantime, Valve has given a complete overhaul to the UI of SteamVR , changing the interface both of the desktop menus and the VR menu, that is now curved and more suitable to select games in an easier way with VR controllers. More info (Mesh download) More info (DisplayLand Studio editor). The good news for Valve don’t end here.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Both are free to download and try. Examples are HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Cardboard and other that are now very popular VR platforms for building experiences. WebVR is also becoming a formidable force for those who love HTC Vive, Oculus Rift or Google Cardboard, in a web browser. The code files are also free to download.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

They promise us wonderful connections between the digital and physical worlds, and games where we can chase cartoon characters through our own furniture. I ended up at Valve Software running their hardware department, putting the team together that created the HTC Vive. Above: CastAR wants you to play tabletop games in mixed reality.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

The studio says that over 100,000 users visited Rec Room in the second half of 2016, having played over 1 million games, exchanging over 1 million high fives, and firing nearly a billion paintballs at each other—just one of their many games including dodgeball, 3D charades, disc golf, and zero-G paddle ball.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

It’s a new month, we’ve reached level 6 of this Jumanji game that is 2020. HP and Microsoft have a long track in offering enterprise hardware, so this headset may battle HTC on his own land (B2B). It seems a clone of the Vive Focus Plus, and this is because actually it is based on a reference design provided by HTC.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 18, 2016

That will not only help advertisers reach a new audience, but will also increase revenues for game developers and other content providers. The Khronos Group is an open consortium of hardware and software companies, including Epic Games, Google, Immersive Technology Alliance , Oculus, Intel, NVIDIA, Open Gaming Alliance , and Valve.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

VR has gone through a rapid transition from a primarily consumer-focused, tethered device for gaming and entertainment, to standalone headsets in similar verticals. This began with devices from Lenovo, HTC VIVE, Pico Interactive, and Meta Platforms, so the growth we’ve seen for consumer use cases has been very strong since then.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

HTC has finally revealed the price of the Vive Pro : it will cost $799 just to have the headset (no controller and no base stations, so you must already have a Vive 1 kit) and will be available for pre-orders since April, 5th. But, as Road To VR has stated, maybe HTC should have clarified that in all its marketing material.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 4, 2024

At the same time, XR’s enthusiasts were well aware of other players in the headset space, like Microsoft, Varjo, HTC VIVE, and others. In the past, the firm caught fire for in-game immersive adverts; hopefully, its highly detailed user information will not be exploited. How will Meta use this data?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

the GPU power of the previous model , and the comparison of the various games in their before vs. after versions is impressive. Finally with this chipset, games don’t appear just as flat colors anymore, but some real-time lighting becomes possible. Meta has also revealed that Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is coming to Quest in December.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 3, 2016

The legendary video game studio had recently lost its most famous IP, the Halo series, due to a round of corporate maneuvering with Microsoft. However, rumor had it that the ambitious group was working on something even more impressive — something the gaming world had never seen before.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The integrated Tobii eye-tracking operating at 120hz made a noticeable difference to headset setup and optical comfort, as well as lowering the rendering workload in games compatible with dynamic foveated rendering. Pimax Crystal, as a high-end gaming VR headset, is currently not compatible with Tobii Ocumen.”

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

He’s been a tech journalist for more than 28 years, and he’s covered games for a twenty one of those years. To learn more, you can visit games beat dot com or venture beat dot com. Alan: How did you start… first of all, I guess you’ve been in the games world for a long time. So, thank you very much.

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