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The XR Week Peek (2020.02.24): HTC shows Cosmos and Proton, devs make cool hands interactions, Sansar on sale and more!

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Image by HTC Vive). HTC expands its Cosmos offering and teases the future with Proton. This has been a pretty interesting week for HTC Vive. And it is nice that HTC with this new Cosmos line is satisfying the needs of a broad share of VR people : from the casual gamer that wants something cheap to the professional.

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Now 150 People Strong, Varjo Talks Future Focus, More Affordable Headsets

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Finland-based startup Varjo , maker of high-end enterprise VR headsets, has built an impressive product and charted a rapid growth, seemingly similar to the early years of Oculus. Eiden confirmed the company now has some 150 employees, about half of which he said are focused on hardware, with the other half on software.

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XR Device Maturity to Trigger ‘Big Shifts’ for Metaverse, Agora Says

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The news comes after the company participated in an event in Helsinki, Finland in late September. Held at Finland’s largest cultural centre, the Cable Factory, Agora exhibited its RTE audiovisual solutions at the Pocket Gammer Connects event. pic.twitter.com/YY4Qo7jzsG. Agora (@AgoraIO) October 10, 2022.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.12.04): Varjo announces XR-4 headset, Quest 2 sells much more than Quest 3, and more!

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More info (Quest 3 going ok in Steam Hardware Survey) More info (Quest 2 selling much better than Quest 3 on Amazon) HTC announced the Vive Ultimate Tracker Finally, HTC has officially announced the Vive Ultimate Tracker, its standalone inside-out tracker unit.

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Pre-orders for TPCast Wireless VR Add-on Now Available in Europe

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TPCast, the wireless streaming device that lets HTC Vive owners play VR games cable-free, is now available for pre-order in most of continental Europe starting at €349 (or the regional equivalent). ” TPCAST has already been available for pre-order via HTC’s Chinese Vive online store since November last year.

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Futuremark’s ‘VRMark’ Lets You Check If Your PC Is VR Ready

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Both the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive have a clear set of recommended specs. The Finland-based studio today launched VRMark on Steam and its own website. How the software develops are more complex and varied VR hardware arrives on the market will be interesting to see. However, any avid PC gamer knows it doesn’t stop there.

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Major Report Calls for Standards on XR Metrics

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The report surveyed respondents from September last year to June to discuss findings across some of the world’s top firms, including Unity Technologies, HTC, manufacturers such as Jaguar Land Rover, and media firm Yahoo, among many others. What’s the Deal on Data?