VRScout

AUGUST 5, 2022

Schell Games’ I Expect You To Die 2: The Spy And The Liar ’, Armature Studio’s critically-acclaimed Resident Evil 4 VR , and Ramen VR’s Zenith: The Last City are just a few of the finalists looking to walk away with the top spot. Credit: HTC. VR Game of the Year. This year’s awards promise to be even bigger. Credit: AIXR.

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AUGUST 10, 2022

HTC is set to reveal its new VIVE Mars CamTrack solution at the SIGGRAPH 2022 in Vancouver, Canada, where it will showcase the immersive production tool with Departure Lounge and Arcturus, it was revealed on Tuesday. HTC VIVE (@htcvive) August 8, 2022. One-click origin reset and simple calibration tools for cameras.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

HTC retains brand but lets part of their smartphone business go. billion cooperation agreement under which certain HTC employees – many of whom are already working with Google to develop Pixel smartphones – will join Google. According to the announcement, HTC will receive $1.1 That comes out to roughly $500,000 per HTC staffer.

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VR Game Critic

MAY 26, 2016

HTC will show off Front Defense, its first internally developed VR game, at the upcoming Computex trade show in Taiwan next week. This new game will put players on a battlefield to fight off waves of enemies with a variety of weapons.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 20, 2016

HTC’s out of home VR initiative is taking shape as the company officially unveils plans for Viveport Arcade in China and Taiwan and a partnership with Leke VR’s “offline content distribution system” in a thousand locations before the close of 2016 and thousands more by 2017’s end. An ambitious plan indeed.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 9, 2020

HTC usually hosts its Vive Ecosystem Conference (HTC 2020 VEC) in Shenzhen, China but due to the current climate will entirely host the event in virtual reality (VR). HTC Vive will be conducting the conference using VR Education’s ENGAGE platform, the first industry event to ever switch to a fully VR format.

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Slashgear

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

HTC has launched a flagship arcade in Taiwan called Viveland, giving the public a destination to play high-end VR games at consumer-friendly rates. Viveland just recently opened in Taipei, where HTC’s Vive VR system is the center focus. Many have lamented the loss of arcades, but that may change in the future.

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Road to VR

JUNE 1, 2016

Computex 2016 is under way and HTC are out on the show floor in full force with a collection of titles showing off their Vive VR system. One of the titles developed by the company, playable for the first time, is a new title developed closely with HTC, a WWII gallery shooter called Front Defense. Here it is in action.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Appearing this week on the stage of Oculus competitor HTC at the Tokyo Game Show , Oculus founder emeritus Palmer Luckey affirmed that he’s continuing to work on projects within the VR industry. ” SEE ALSO Oculus Founder Backs 'Revive'—a Hack for Vive to Play Rift-exclusive Games—With $2K in Monthly Funding.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2019

Two weeks ago, I had a fantastic trip to Taiwan together with my Chinese assistant Miss S. I had the pleasure of participating to the “VR Visionaries” event in Kaohsiung and then I headed to Taipei to meet some XR companies (like HTC ) and people. Are you ready for immersing into Taiwan? I loved both Kaohsiung and Taipei.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 5, 2019

In this third and last article about my trip to Taiwan (here you are the links to my first and second one , if you missed them), I want to tell you about some other amazing XR stuff that I did there. iStaging is one of the companies that I loved the most in Taiwan. I have asked them how it is being a wo m an in XR in Taiwan.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Citing “industry sources,” DigiTimes reports that Taiwan’s ODMs Quanta Computer and Pegatron have been named as the assemblers behind Apple’s AR headset. Image courtesy HTC. It certainly won’t see any sales of AR games through Steam, at least not without a radical shift in how Apple works.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 30, 2020

(Image courtesy HTC Vive.). Yesterday afternoon, I got a preview of the new HCT Vive Sync virtual meeting platform from HTC Vive, and it’s the best one I’ve seen yet — and I have seen a lot of these platforms. — HTC VIVE (@htcvive) April 30, 2020. Image courtesy HTC Vive.). VIVE Focus Plus.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Viveport President, Rikard Steiber, recently announced at Virtual Reality Developer Convention (VRDC) in San Francisco that HTC will be unveiling the Viveport Arcade , a new content delivery platform for arcade operators. Viveport Arcade is launching first in China and Taiwan. Friends can rent out of a room and engage in VR together.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Last month, Oculus began rolling out the beta for Oculus Link , an exciting piece of software that allows Oculus Quest users to enjoy high-end PC VR games and experiences on their standalone headsets. Available now in the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and Taiwan for $79.99 Using a compatible USB 3.0 The fiber optic USB 3.2

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

The HTC Vive should not exist. For a troubled company that’s spent much of the past few years making losses instead of profits, the niche and expensive VR market is the last place HTC is going to make a quick buck. And yet here we are, with the smartphone maker and Valve seemingly in it for the long haul. Expected Expense.

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Upload VR

AUGUST 26, 2022

A booklet put together by Valve to mark Steam Deck’s availability in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong indicates VR headsets using Steam will “soon” have Steam Deck’s user interface. Valve is bringing the Steam Deck’s user interface to VR headsets.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

ON THE CUTTING EDGE: CINEMA, GAMING, THE PERFORMING ARTS & MORE. This year in particular we have included more game like, or game driven story worlds. Traditionally cinema has not been interested in learning about the game world, but in VR the two worlds are very close. said Reilhac.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

And both the journalists of Road To VR and Upload VR agree on the fact tha t it doesn’t represent an improvement for VR gaming yet. The PS5 is a big step forward for console gaming , and being paired with a next-gen controller like the DualSense, that provides realistic haptic sensations, it can give its players countless hours of fun.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

Virtual reality is still in need of great experiences to bring to the masses, and MSI wants to help make them with its latest game jam. It’s offering hopeful Oculus Rift and HTC Vive developers over $80,000 in prizes as it searches for great new PC-based VR experiences. Got an idea?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The news comes after Tencent, the largest global video game publisher, aimed to develop its own metaverse unit in June last year. It had hired 300 employees, but later shifted its company strategy back to the gaming industry. The company also aimed to acquire Black Shark, a Chinese gaming phone manufacturer.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2016

HTC valued the VR arcade market at $100 million, revealing more than 120 titles signed up at the start of this month and we reported on them opening Viveland in Taiwan only a day before that. The VR arcade scene in China is booming these days. We’ve even seen some of this scale popping up in the U.S.,

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

Virtual reality is still in need of great experiences to bring to the masses, and MSI wants to help make them with its latest game jam. It’s offering hopeful Oculus Rift and HTC Vive developers over $80,000 in prizes as it searches for great new PC-based VR experiences. Got an idea?

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Peter Graham

APRIL 15, 2020

The sale runs until this Sunday, 19th April, available in the following countries: US, Canada, France, UK, Japan, Taiwan, Australia, Germany, Spain, Russia, and South Korea. Monthly subscribers also get benefits like discount coupons, exclusive offers, and free games to keep in their library forever.

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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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JULY 13, 2017

Instead of building and investing in headsets like Facebook of the US, Sony of Japan and HTC of Taiwan, the Chinese trio are becoming middlemen: creating platforms and content for when a dominant headset emerges. IQiyi recently released an app suite that makes its movies and games compatible with head-mounted VR devices.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

A piece of unexpected news has shaken the XR communities this week: according to a report on Digitimes Taiwan, Apple has abandoned its AR/VR glasses project and all the members of the team have been re-allocated in other teams. Microsoft has released this week a new video showing how the game will work.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

Otherwise, now the situation is more or less like before, with the exception of some places where there are still some Oculus devices in stock (for instance in Japan and Taiwan). The VR route is instead being pursued by HTC (with its VEC event happening soon) and IEEE. This is so sad. Two creative XR things worth watching.

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VRWorld

JUNE 3, 2016

Back in October 2015, we had a conversation with an senior industry executive close to HTC. ” According to our source, HTC was used as a logistics and legal vehicle to jump-start the new company, which will go much further than a simple headset designer and manufacturer. HTC Vive – Virtual Reality Headset.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Old Enemies – HTC. While both Oculus’ Rift and HTC’s Vive hit the market right around the same time in 2016, the Vive was the first system with motion controllers and room-scale. A Tale of Two Headsets. With that, Vive also offered the most immersive VR experience. Playing Catchup.

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MAY 26, 2020

At a special event in Taipei, Taiwan, HTC cofounder and former CEO Peter Chou today revealed the first products from the new startup XRSPACE. The post Former HTC CEO Unveils 5G-enabled VR Headset & Social VR Platform appeared first on Road to VR. And XRSpace is planning to bring it to the mass market.

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VRWorld

MAY 31, 2016

At the Computex Taipei trade show in Taiwan, AMD officially introduced the first products based on Polaris GPU architecture. According to HTC and Oculus, relatively small number of installed user base is the reason why content producers are unsure of launching titles heavily optimized for VR.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 22, 2020

But in the enterprise space, it has always been behind the competition of companies like HTC or Pico. The Quest software is tailored at consumers, and for instance, when you open it, the first things that you see is a list of games. How does it compare with the services offered by Pico and HTC?

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 4, 2019

Part two of my resumée of my trip to Taiwan. Today, I want to continue with other amazing stuff: do you know that I tried the Japanese LBVR game HADO , for instance? Actually, I have been able to try two HADO games in Kaohsiung : Kart and Monster Battle. Hado Monster Battle is another game by HADO, this time an action one.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2019

For instance, there are lots of new headsets being released by hardware companies: just in the last year, there have been the Oculus Quest & Rift S , HTC Vive Focus Plus , HP Reverb , Valve Index , Acer OJO 500, and HoloLens 2 … just to mention the most popular ones. Is it necessary to own all of them? Prioritize your expenses.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 29, 2019

For the past five months, hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong demonstrators have taken to the streets in protest of the Fugitive Offenders amendment bill introduced by the Hong Kong government which would allow local law enforcement to extradite criminals wanted in territories outside Hong Kong, including mainland China as well as Taiwan.

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OCTOBER 31, 2016

Speaking to Polygon , Microsoft HoloLens chief Alex Kipman revealed that these headsets will be further detailed at two WinHEC events , one of which runs from December 8th – 9th in Shenzhen, China, the other held from December 14th – 15th in Taipei, Taiwan. We’ve reached out to Microsoft to confirm that this is the case.

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