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HTC Announces Vive Flow, a Compact VR Headset Focused on Casual Entertainment & Wellbeing

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While the company just recently released the enterprise-focused Vive Focus 3, the Vive Flow aims for the consumer market with a compact size and feature-set that HTC has designed around casual entertainment and wellbeing apps. Tracking & Input. Vive Flow Specs, Price, and Features. Image courtesy HTC.

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Jaunt Launches Custom App on PSVR

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Users with high-bandwidth Internet will be able to take part in Jaunt’s travel, sports, music, film, and horror experiences in the same hi-res, low-latency head-tracking mode as Oculus Rift and HTC Vive—the highest existing quality for engagement—making an excellent introduction for new and established users alike.

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‘Hallelujah’ Experience Bridges Gap Between 360 Video And VR

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As entertaining as they can be however, most examples of the still-budding medium lack many of the features that add the extra level of immersion shown by more advanced VR experiences. They’re simple to access, easy to watch and plentiful.

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VR Takes Center Stage at Dubai’s DEAL 2023 Expo: Highlights and Takeaways

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Aiming was done with head-tracking and it was a fun interactive element that I enjoyed, even if the shooting was only done for theatrical purposes — we were all running separate instances of the roller-coaster animation and there was no way to stop the simulator from progressing further. I have strong VR legs, but still felt queasy.

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Lenovo Mirage Solo Review: Positional Tracking Comes to Mobile VR (sort of)

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The idea is that this will reduce the friction of getting into VR by having one device that’s ready to go as soon as you can throw it on your head. And, unlike the Go, the Mirage Solo includes a pair of cameras on the front of the headset which enable positional (6DOF) head tracking, allowing users to do more than just rotate in place.

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‘Space Stalker’ Review – Another Gear VR Space Shooter

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Head tracking is absolutely the preferred way to play the on-rails segments of the levels, where our stalwart space character slides over the gunner chair of her ship and has a variety of guns and rockets at her disposal. Swiping up reloads, swiping right switches weapons. Final Score: 6/10 – Decent.

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The Oculus Rift Can Now Run VR On Lower-End PC’s

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Like any new technology hitting the consumer market for the first time, virtual reality is currently a pretty expensive form of entertainment. That kind of frame rate, head tracking, processing power, requires a powerful system to run everything simultaneously.

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