XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Some of the leading companies like Meta Platforms, Pico Interactive, HTC VIVE, Lenovo, and Varjo Technologies, among others, have been leading global markets with their devices. Meta, Pico, HTC VIVE, and Varjo headsets all incorporate this new technology.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

This is because the sales have not been enormous, and the content for it is not exploiting completely its new features (there are some cool uses of eye tracking, but that’s it). The Quest Pro already introduced mixed reality and eye tracking: I’ve seen a few interesting experiments with it, but the device was a total flop.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2020

Developers have not had great examples yet of how to make visually polished, reliable applications. Privacy is a big concern for XR devices, especially now that eye tracking is coming. And how can we preserve privacy in XR? Firefox Reality has become the official browser for HTC Devices.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2019

But this time, Valve has made it without the collaboration of HTC. Maybe with eye tracking and some more screen resolution, it may have been. The specs list is very similar to the one of the HTC Vive Pro. The Index tracks all your fingers! I tried it in Beijing at HTC offices and I was amazed by this possibility.

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VRScout

JULY 1, 2016

When speaking of modern headsets, we can talk about improvements in the characteristics of the screen and the optics, better tracking sensors, as well as an overall increase in the productivity of computers. Lighthouse room tracking for HTC Vive is such a solution and is available on the market today.

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ARPost

JANUARY 15, 2020

The big difference between the Quest and the Go is that the Quest can handle the advanced tracking that allows more immersive VR applications. As we’ll see in the next section, HTC’s VIVE line focuses on models that require a computer. HTC’s VIVE is lining itself up as the Cadillac of VR headsets. HTC Vive PRO.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 12, 2022

This was something the MLB (Major League Baseball) community discovered for themselves, with the help of HTC VIVE. Here’s what happened when MLB invested in virtual reality with HTC VIVE. The integrated eye-tracking capabilities means users can navigate the full VR experience for Home Run Derby using their gaze.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 12, 2024

How to Choose a Cheap Virtual Reality Headset Demand for VR headsets has skyrocketed among consumers and businesses alike in recent years. Customization (Accessories and Controllers) Finally, it’s worth looking at how to customize your cheap virtual reality headset with extra accessories and components.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Get in on the ground floor with this talk from Martz, who will tell you how to get to grips with the new platform including working with Google VR SDKs for Android, Unity, and Unreal. Applications of Eye Tracking in Virtual Reality. Hand Tracked Controls: Design and Implementation for Serious VR. November 3rd, 10:15am.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

Through an interesting narrative, it teaches women how to perform self defense, but without being an explicit self-defense training experience. It is now compatible with: Almost every codec UHD, 8k, and 12k playback All projection types i.e. fisheye, cube map, equirectangular, and cinema All stereo modes i.e

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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. The eye-tracking system is provided by Tobii, who is the market leader in eye-tracking technology.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

Mozilla has also released Firefox Reality for HoloLens , and it features hands tracking in WebXR experiences. I honestly don’t even know how to report this piece of news: Magic Leap has raised other money, to be exact $350M, and it seems that a healthcare company is involved. Participate in a VR eye-tracking apps contest!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 5, 2020

But as far as I know, nothing disruptive for the industry : Oculus has already shots all its bullets, and HTC for the first time isn’t announcing anything. The eye-tracked model costs only $900. HTC is celebrating the new year with a $100 discount on the Vive Cosmos running from 1th to 10th of January. Let’s see.

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Cats and VR

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

According to a recent post from the Google VR blog Daydream Labs and Google Research teamed up to start exploring how to solve for the problem of seeing facial expressions when watching a person use VR without an avatar representation. Google has made some neat technology that makes VR headsets "transparent" for Mixed Reality use.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2019

It’s a while that I don’t write something about entrepreneurship, so I thought it could be a good idea to give you some pieces of advice on how to be a good VR startupper. When I needed a Vive OG last year to play around with eye tracking , I bought a used one. Focus on how to make money.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The devices that will be based on this reference design will have amazing specifications like: 2K x 2K display resolution per each eye ; Have up to 7 cameras used simultaneously, including the ones for tracking, mixed reality and eye-tracking; High-quality passthrough augmented reality with high resolution and framerate.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 27, 2020

It is clear that it is not a Quest 2, since it doesn’t feature mind-blowing features like big FOV or eye-tracking or full-fingers controllers, so it is something like a Quest S. Think about it for one moment: someone has made a Beat Saber clone in one day, without knowing how to code. It is quite clunky and slow, but it works.

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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…. Relativty is a cheap opensource headset.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

A new job listing points out to the fact that Oculus is planning to integrate eye tracking in its next devices. More info (Jon Lax’s quote) More info (Osborne Effect) More info ( Eye tracking job listing) More info (Oculus mixing real and virtual) More info (Assassin’s Creed and Splinter Cell). Very interesting.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2022

It has become one of the headset manufacturers with the biggest worldwide market, and the market leader (together with HTC) in the B2B virtual reality sector. After the beta program ends, Pico will decide how to go on. On May, 24th, the preorder period will end, and the device will start to be in stock.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

OpenVR – Windows Mixed Reality headsets, HTC Vive , and Oculus Rift. Ultraleap Hand Tracking – Ultraleap Leap Motion controller. Additionally, there are controls for eye tracking: target selection, navigation, and heat maps. Oculus (Unity 2019.3 or newer) – Oculus (now Meta) Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The headset has a very nice design and features these specifications: Standalone 6DOF headset 1600×1600 resolution per eye 90Hz refresh rate 90° FOV RGB AR passthrough Innovative lenses that make the headset more compact Integrated audio Controller-free hand-tracking Eye-tracking 6GB of RAM 128GB of storage WiFi 6 (802.11ax), Bluetooth 5.0,

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Currently, it works only for static environments, but the researchers are studying how to make these scenes interactive, for instance for photorealistic VR games. You can imagine that after it has been released through two official blog posts, an enormous backlash from the community started to happen. The same on Twitter. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

HP and Microsoft have a long track in offering enterprise hardware, so this headset may battle HTC on his own land (B2B). The Neo 2 may not be sexy as the Quest, but it is more powerful (thanks to the Snapdragon 845), has a crisper resolution , and in the “Eye” version, it also features embedded eye tracking.

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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. As headsets become more sophisticated, the devices record increasing user data, from hand tracking, eye tracking, environment scanning and more.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Well, with this new chip, headsets will: Have a resolution of 3K per eye ; Have up to 7 cameras used simultaneously (12 in total for the device). It for sure knows how to take Medium to the next level. HTC won’t announce anything big at CES. For the first time after 3 years, HTC won’t host a press conference at CES 2020.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

HTC Vive Wrist Tracker. HTC Vive Wrist Tracker (Image by HTC). HTC has made an announcement at this CES and it has been a pretty cool one. The company has just revealed the Vive Wrist Tracker, which is an external 6DOF tracking unit that can be put on the wrist of the user or also on external props.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Built atop an open source set of APIs, the platform was a refreshing take on how to deliver immersive technology. At MWC in Barcelona in March that year, HTC unveiled the Valve/SteamVR driven Vive headset and arguably went on to dominate the Game Developer Conference (GDC) show which followed. The OSVR HDK Headset.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

Last year we had nReal showing us that AR can be trendy, and HTC making us dream with the Vive Cosmos. Yes, the biggest companies were not there with a booth (Oculus will probably target the OC6, HTC the VEC, etc…), but it is the first time that I read the XR news from CES and I dont’ remain surprised.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This is the same confusion that created issues for HTC in the past with the Vive Pro, for instance. The eye and face tracking can also work via Quest Link (but maybe only for developers). There are new complaints about Meta’s privacy policy on eye tracking , as my friend Avi Bar-Zeev points out. Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2018

And so here we are again: Oculus vs HTC, America vs China, Hugo Barra vs Alvin Wang Graylin. HTC has also been smart because every time someone says “Focus” during some VR event, he’s doing some hidden advertisement for its product. The never-ending story. The shape is not original and recalls the one of the Rift.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 30, 2023

On the UX side, other interesting things are being rumored: the headset would ship with no controller, and rely only on eye tracking and hands tracking for interactions. But I think it’s not a good move for Meta, for the following reasons: It shows that it is “afraid” of HTC. This doesn’t sound to me very “Apple”.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 30, 2020

The same day of the launch of Half-Life: Alyx, Hewlett-Packard has announced its new virtual reality headset, the Reverb G2 , made in collaboration with Microsoft and Valve. If Microsoft will improve the WMR ecosystem with at least 4 tracking cameras, this can be an headset to look at with much attention. Other relevant news. Image by HP).

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 6, 2020

How does this coexist with other forms of computing, whether that's traditional computing or virtual reality? And previously having been at HTC Vive -- and before that actually HP -- I have an interesting perspective on kind of all three of those. And here's all the step by step instructions of how to do the actual procedure.".

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

If you still don’t have Update v28, you can check out this guide on how to update your Quest headset : the update needs some days to arrive at all users of the world. Image by HTC Vive). HTC Vive Air is a design concept for a fitness-focused VR headset. News worth a mention. Preorders of the DecaMove are now open.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2023

Image by HTC Vive). HTC’s new headset may be called Vive XR Elite. Thanks to the support of the community member Inscothen, I have discovered that the Korean website of HTC may have leaked the info about the upcoming headset that the company should unveil at this CES. Top news of the week. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

This special version of the headset features additional sensors that can get more data about the user: A heart rate sensor on the forehead; Two additional cameras that track the lower part of the face of the user, so that to read his facial expressions; Eye-tracking cameras , that can also detect the dimension of the pupil.

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