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What’s The Deal With The HTC Vive Air?

VRScout

Newly leaked images tease a fitness-focused VR headset from HTC, but is this sneaker-like hardware even real? It was discovered earlier today that HTC has won an award IF Design Award for a never-before-seen VR headset, the HTC Vive Air. The breathable and quick-drying fabrics improve ventilation in the heated exercise.

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Update: Fitness-focused ‘HTC Vive Air’ Is Just a Concept

Road to VR

An apparently never-before-seen HTC headset won an IF Design Award today, which arrived with multiple photos of what was listed as a consumer headset targeting release in 2021. The fitness-focused headset is just a concept, the company says, but we’re probably going to see many of its design elements in an upcoming HTC headset.

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Apple Revives AR Smart Glasses Push with New Patent

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According to filings with the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPO) last week, the Cupertino-based firm has outlined plans for a head-mounted display (HMD). With it, the company could use its digital crown feature to display notifications and images, listen to music, and others.

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The High-end VR Room of the Future Looks Like This

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The HTC Vive is arguably the best out there, but having to buy a souped-up laptop just to run it, paying full price for brief games that feel more like demos, and trailing a huge cable off your head and fumbling to mount trackers on your ceiling…it’s not ideal. The visual input is the most important piece of the VR setup.

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Exploring the Vast Worlds of Immersive Entertainment, with The Stinger Report’s Kevin Williams

XR for Business Podcast

Without boring your listeners to death, the fundamental Stinger Report is, I have always been writing in the trade magazines — I’m an appalling writer — but my English teacher taught me the only way that I can improve my English is by constantly exercising the muscle. No need for a head-mounted display.

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Exploring the Vast Worlds of Immersive Entertainment, with The Stinger Report’s Kevin Williams

XR for Business Podcast

Without boring your listeners to death, the fundamental Stinger Report is, I have always been writing in the trade magazines — I’m an appalling writer — but my English teacher taught me the only way that I can improve my English is by constantly exercising the muscle. No need for a head-mounted display.

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Why we should care about ergonomics in virtual reality

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Examples of head measurements (Image by Rob Cole). Other examples are scuba diving masks or full-face motorcycle helmets, although neither of these have the added complication of housing a head-mounted display that relies on a good fit for the correct optical presentation of the display to the eyes.