The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Image by Google). Google completely opensources Cardboard. With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard. Google affirms that Cardboard has been a huge success to introduce people into VR, and more than 15 million headsets have been distributed.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

It’s hard to find an XR organization that Peck isn’t or hasn’t been involved with, and Bar-Zeev co-created Google Earth and HoloLens. a panel discussion with leading XR ethicist Kent Bye, HTC VIVE China President Alvin Graylin, WXR Fund Managing Partner Amy LaMeyer, and Creative Artist Agency ’s Chief Metaverse Officer Joanna Popper.

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ARPost

MARCH 2, 2021

Giants such as Oculus, HTC, Sony, Microsoft, Samsung, Walmart, and many others have been implementing their technologies in this field for a long time. The introduction of virtual reality technology in many areas: oil and gas industry, engineering, energy, metallurgy, telecommunications, advertising, and many others. Google Earth VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

A Horizon game is coming for this new headset, and some rumors talk also about Half-Life: Alyx potentially be available in the future; HTC has announced the Vive Wrist Tracker, a 6 DOF tracker for the Vive Focus 3. from PC) to join its virtual worlds , too, so that to increment the user base.

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Road to VR

JULY 17, 2017

You don’t know how to dance. I don’t know how to dance. Nexus Interactive Arts, an immersive media division of VFX production studio Nexus Studios , have used Apple’s ARKit working on an iPhone 7 in an experiment that creates basic inside-out positional tracking and pass-through AR for a Google Cardboard headset.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

And if you need some pieces of advice regarding how to professionally survive this quarantine, I have written a blog post on the topic you can read. The VR route is instead being pursued by HTC (with its VEC event happening soon) and IEEE. More info (Camera Path and Google Drive backup) More info (Sketchfab exporting).

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ARPost

JULY 16, 2020

Here, we’ll look at what the event will look like, how to register, and – of course – who the nominees for the VR Awards are. Winners from the past three events include Oculus Rift and Quest, Google Tilt Brush, HTC VIVE Pro, and the Vader Immortal series. About the VR Awards. This Year’s Categories.

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

It’s important to remember that every VR device fits one of three categories: mobile (meaning it uses the user’s smartphone to produce its virtual world), tethered (meaning the device must be hooked up to a PC or console) or more recently, “all-in-one” (meaning the computing hardware is built into the headset itself). Google Cardboard.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The only company not much affected by it is HTC, that manufacturers its headsets in Taiwan and not in Mainland China. HTC Vive releases Cosmos Elite, two models of Vive Pro Eye and creates some confusion. For sure you remember the recent launch of a full line of Vive Cosmos headsets , all with customized faceplates.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2022

For the past two years, it featured a virtual world made in VRChat by us of VRrOOm, and this year, the virtual world was still there in parallel with the physical one. I’ve personally met and had a chat with people from Unity and Epic Games, Roblox, The Sandbox, HTC Vive, Microsoft, Rec Room.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

More info (How to pre-load Half-Life: Alyx) More info (Leaked review of Half-Life: Alyx) More info (Suggestions on how to stream the game) More info (Valve Index on top of Steam charts) More info (Oculus Rift S soldout) More info (Vive Cosmos Elite gives Alyx for free) More info (Vive Cosmos Elite review) More info (Gabe Newell talks BCI).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Lessons Learned From A Thousand Virtual Worlds. Rikard Steiber (HTC), Joel Breton (HTC). As President of Viveport and Head of Vive Studios respectively, Rikard Steiber and Joel Breton are two of the most senior figures working on the HTC Vive today. Alon Or-bach (Samsung Electronics), Kaye Mason (Google).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2018

HTC Vive Focus is one of the most famous standalone VR headsets. I have always been intrigued by this device, since the first time I’ve read about its reveal at an HTC event : I don’t know why, maybe because of the azure color that is my favorite, maybe because it looks so informal. It was funny. Upper view of the device.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 8, 2017

Montreal-based Minority Media, which also created the groundbreaking PSN title Papo Y Yo in 2012, created the dinosaur undersea adventure game that launched on the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive VR headsets in May 2017. But in the meantime, he has advice about how to survive the lack of sales and funding. How do companies survive?

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Hypergrid Business

JULY 11, 2017

The quality is better than in the mobile sets but, in my opinion, not as good at the HTC Vive. And speaking of the HTC Vive, it’s also on sale today, for $700 , or $100 off its regular price of $800. In my opinion, the HTC Vive is hands-down the best virtual reality headset on the market today.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

HTC Vive is at the second place; Oculus Quest, even if it is so new, has already gathered a lot of interest from developers; Gaming is still the most popular content developed in XR, but now there is also interest in other kinds of applications , like entertainment (e.g. Google launches AR Live View for Maps. The time has come.

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Google Cardboard ($15) . Just like its official slogan claimed, “Experience virtual reality in a simple, fun, and affordable way.” Google Cardboard, developed by Google for the promotion of the VR concept, is indeed made up of cardboard, and in different sizes for compatibility with different smartphones.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 23, 2018

This has been possible thanks to the kind support of Mister President and the whole HTC, that introduced me to these companies and let me visit them to discover a lot of things about the Chinese VR ecosystem. And in this Langzou is being helped a lot by HTC Vive-X. I really wish to thank them for this opportunity they gave me.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

I truly hope this can be useful for all of you in the XR community… How to read this post. Do you remember when everyone was mocking HTC for its super-high prices and people were praising Meta for its cheap costs? How are the turntables… now the Focus 3 is cheaper than the Quest Pro !

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Alvin is the China President at #HTC leading all aspects of HTC’s business in the region (Vive/VR, phone, Viveport content platform, partnerships and investments). The company was later acquired by Google in 2010. He's always looking at how to scale teams to build the products to solve tomorrow's problems. 17- Helen Situ.

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Doc-Ok

JULY 27, 2019

ModLab is part of an entirely different unit — UC Davis’s Digital Humanities initiative — but we are working closely with them on VR development , they have a nice VR environment consisting of two HTC Vive headsets and a large 4.2m More on that later. Satellite Data.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Explaining further, he said, “We’ve done a lot of interesting demos with clients to learn how to make the more fluid, nut just for internal and business matter, but also for consumers. Such platforms provided live data for face tracking, including facial expressions, eye movement, and other features.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

I ended up at Valve Software running their hardware department, putting the team together that created the HTC Vive. We were tasked with exploring how to bring new gamers into the Steam platform. Jeri, at Valve they did have that sort of choice point, and they chose to do Steam VR and get behind the HTC Vive.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

What would some of the practical use cases of this… I can see one in military training, where you’re in a virtual world, you’re in a hostile environment, and maybe something explodes behind you — a piece of shrapnel hits you — and maybe it vibrates. Alan: So, let’s unpack this for a second, Tony.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

Maybe they can figure out how to put a headset on their face. And it’s this kind of a-ha moment, where they go from the real world of crappy pass-through camera to the completely virtual world. And so they’re all trying to figure out how to go smaller and smaller and smaller. Bob: Man, that was crazy.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

I can see one in military training, where you're in a virtual world, you're in a hostile environment, and maybe something explodes behind you -- a piece of shrapnel hits you -- and maybe it vibrates. Antony: Yeah, of course, I was there; I listened to all the presentations by HTC. Alan: So, let's unpack this for a second, Tony.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

What would some of the practical use cases of this… I can see one in military training, where you’re in a virtual world, you’re in a hostile environment, and maybe something explodes behind you — a piece of shrapnel hits you — and maybe it vibrates. Alan: So, let’s unpack this for a second, Tony.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We saw a world go into lockdown. And we're not going back to the old world, the way it was. So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond. We saw teachers try to teach online. 30 percent."

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We saw a world go into lockdown. And we're not going back to the old world, the way it was. So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond. We saw teachers try to teach online. 30 percent.".

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

Maybe they can figure out how to put a headset on their face. And it’s this kind of a-ha moment, where they go from the real world of crappy pass-through camera to the completely virtual world. And so they’re all trying to figure out how to go smaller and smaller and smaller. Bob: Man, that was crazy.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We saw a world go into lockdown. And we're not going back to the old world, the way it was. So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond. We saw teachers try to teach online. 30 percent.".

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

So that way, I guess I met some of the teams that I work with now and we’re looking at how to solve all these problems and to bring it to audiences around the world. Anne: This is a great question for artists, because I think a lot of the struggle is how do you find the right hardware and how do you talk with the right teams?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

So that way, I guess I met some of the teams that I work with now and we’re looking at how to solve all these problems and to bring it to audiences around the world. Anne: This is a great question for artists, because I think a lot of the struggle is how do you find the right hardware and how do you talk with the right teams?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

So that way, I guess I met some of the teams that I work with now and we're looking at how to solve all these problems and to bring it to audiences around the world. Anne: This is a great question for artists, because I think a lot of the struggle is how do you find the right hardware and how do you talk with the right teams?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The interaction pattern, by the way — the air tap thing — how many times if you give a demo, and like you’re just trying to teach someone how to tap these holograms? And you’re going to look at the HTC Vive, because I have one of the Vive Pres, like the very first one. They poke at it, they reach for it.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The interaction pattern, by the way — the air tap thing — how many times if you give a demo, and like you’re just trying to teach someone how to tap these holograms? And you’re going to look at the HTC Vive, because I have one of the Vive Pres, like the very first one. They poke at it, they reach for it.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The interaction pattern, by the way -- the air tap thing -- how many times if you give a demo, and like you're just trying to teach someone how to tap these holograms? And you're going to look at the HTC Vive, because I have one of the Vive Pres, like the very first one. They poke at it, they reach for it. Greg: Yeah.

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