XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 28, 2023

Groups like Microsoft are leveraging a collapsing military contact to keep its IVAS device lineup alive for further funding, and HTC VIVE took note to explain the importance of enterprise end-users in discussion with the World Economic Forum. The government-backed programme aims to seek out and incubate talent.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Even governments are turning to immersive platforms to showcase tourism, security, and travel opportunities. The Dublin-based IT consultancy has outlined a Metaverse Continuum Group to facilitate digital transformations for businesses. Many businesses are realising the value and potential of integrating virtual solutions.

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OCTOBER 17, 2016

HTC held joint developer forum at Alibaba’s Cloud computing conference this weekend in China and had a number of big things to say about what their plans are to help grow the VR ecosystem, including becoming a “publisher” for VR content to experience centers as well as launching a beta of their Viveport platform for mobile called, Viveport M.

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VRScout

JANUARY 9, 2020

. “…for government agencies and departments interested in investing in educational technology, and for developers who want to be involved in finding funding to research and create those tools.”. VirtualReality #AugmentedReality #technology [link] — VR/AR Association – Washington DC (@VRARA_DC) January 24, 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). For example, we invited senior executives from HUAWEI, JBD, HTC, Alibaba, iQIYI, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and so on. Why and how has it started?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 28, 2023

For instance, I’m very grateful that everyone on the team has been very tolerant these days when I had some small network glitches during the group calls Take with you everything that is needed for an international trip (e.g. People will understand. I still call them VPNs, where the acronym stands for Very Party Networks).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 28, 2022

Tencent will form the new XR division under its Interactive Entertainment business group and develop the company’s software and hardware solutions under the leadership of Li Shen, Chief Technology Officer of Tencent Games , the sources explained in the report.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 28, 2022

G-Cloud 13 2022-2023 provides companies working with British public institutions such as the UK government, education, healthcare, police and first responders to supply goods while following UK institutional guidelines. This comes after the release of the Meta Quest Pro, Pico 4, Pico Enterprise, Lenovo VRX, HTC Flow Business, and others .

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DECEMBER 8, 2016

The collective includes Google, HTC Vive, Acer Starbreeze, Oculus, Samsung, and Sony Interactive Entertainment. While seeking to educate consumers, governments, and industry about VR’s potential, the association wants to get ahead of challenges with developing and deploying the technology responsibly.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

There are so periods during the evolution of a tech with a certain group of leaders, who change over time. In the case of VR, we all remember the competition between HTC and Oculus in 2016, with HTC clearly winning the market until Oculus used Facebook’s money to slash the price of the Rift around 2017. AR glasses.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 11, 2024

HTC VIVE is currently providing their devices for North Dakota Classrooms, and Meta recently gave thousands of Quests to Kentucky Schools. Supporting that trend is a broad scope of heavyweight companies debuting XR devices this year, most notably the Apple Vision Pro, which is driving the productivity and workplace solutions market forward.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The WEF notes how mental health facilities and groups already leverage gaming platforms to improve patient outcomes via interactable and immersive experiences. The HTC VIVE representative also reinforced how immersive solutions could ease patients into stressful surgeries or operations.

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JUNE 30, 2017

Rikard Steiber, President of Viveport and SVP Virtual Reality at HTC, is constantly sharing his belief that VR “will change the world.” Another Canadian group driving the industry forward for VR innovators, with a significant amount of government backing, is the Screen Industries Research and Training Centre (SIRT.)

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

We recently completed beta with a closed group of customers and ISVs, and the feedback was overwhelmingly positive. HTC on the other hand—which has long touted its Vive Enterprise program alongside a turnkey VR arcade platform —offers enterprise features across its entire line of products, both PC and standalone.

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Voices of VR

JULY 13, 2023

Liz Hyman President and the CEO of the XR Association (XRA), which is a non-profit, industry trade association representing 47 XR companies including major players like Meta, Google, Microsoft, HTC, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Unity, and HTC. Section 508 would only apply to XR experiences produced by the federal government.

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JULY 31, 2017

At SIGGRAPH this week the Boston-based startup is showing its modified HTC Vive which include EEG ( Electroencephalography ) sensors along the interior of the headstrap. What followed was a brief training session where a group of objects floated in front of me — a train, ball and block among them.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Hence the vital need for organizations such as the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), a non government coalition dedicated to creating a worldwide ban on all atomic bombs and nuclear arms.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

Someone on Reddit has found a Facebook group dedicated to Facebook Horizon that features as header image what seems a screenshot from the application, a screenshot that we have never seen. My friends at 7Invensun and HTC have organized a contest to develop VR applications featuring eye tracking. HTC announces Vive Pro Secure.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

China is a very interesting market for VR, because the government is investing a lot in it. People like Eloi Gerard, Nikk Mitchell, Gianluigi Perrone, and many others that I know from the XR Story group on WeChat are all people worth meeting… and many of them were at this event. I was like the first one writing it).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

This would be pretty disruptive, because up to now every standalone headset has been a walled garden with its own store and hardware, with the only exception being HTC trying to distribute its Viveport store to some other Chinese devices. Basically, Google could try to be for standalone devices what Steam has been for the PC VR ones.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Meta’s Horizon Workrooms , NVIDIA’s Omniverse, ENGAGE XR, Autodesk, Arthur , Varjo’s Teleport , HTC VIVE’s VIVERSE, and many others aim to provide this to workers. Their Metaverse Continuum Group has outlined strategies for enterprises to adopt XR for training, upskilling, and engaging others.

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AllThingsVR

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Funding Roundup: Tactical Haptics Raises $2.2M, nDreams Raises $2.5M, Oculus Acquires Computer Vision company Zurich Eye & HTC Unveils a $1.5B 3) Oculus parent company Facebook acquired Zurich Eye , a Switzerland-based group formed of members of the University of Zurich and another university, EMT Zurich. roughly $1.5M

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 24, 2023

T he WEF notes how mental health groups leverage gaming platforms to improve patient outcomes via interactable and immersive experiences, with f irms like DeepWell, Ninja Theory, and TRIPP aiming to reduce mental health concerns like anxiety and depression with wellness-focused XR experiences.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 12, 2022

” Peck added that companies should have a 20 to 50-year outlook on their strategies that also include environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals. ” Concluding, she said it was important for groups to report on emerging technologies to help educate readers. Amy Peck, Founder and Chief Executive of EndeavorXR.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 31, 2021

For instance, talking about the effect of VR on the eyes, I remember HTC claiming a study about VR being less dangerous for the eyes of the children than tablets, but then another study that got some visibility some months ago found that in its small user group of adults (so even not kids!),

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Now, users who own an Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, or a Windows Mixed Reality headset can explore the platform in immersive virtual reality. I am thrilled to see Sinespace for VR released,” said Peter Norris, chairman of Virgin Group and a board director of Sinespace, in a statement. Sean O’Callaghan. There is no mobile support yet.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Some days ago, the Chinese government has released a document that states how China really wants to commit to VR , how wants the ecosystem to grow well and fast and how also wants to lead the world for what concerns virtual reality. Langzou VR in education, VR Waibao in collaboration tools) and other on hardware (e.g.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The local government is trying to push it to make it become a very big hub for the VR industry , and that’s why it is organizing such a big event. I have finally tried the Droolon F1 , the addon by 7Invensun that offers eye-tracking for all HTC devices (from original Vive to Cosmos, not to mention the standalone Vive Focus Plus).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 28, 2018

Me trying the XCOL application with an HTC Vive Pro, while Sam is using a tablet and another employee a smartphone. That’s why VR Waibao is trying to satisfy them all by adding some features requested by the first group of people and some others requested by the other ones. That’s why in the end you will lose.

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Peter Graham

JANUARY 28, 2020

But also revealing its partnering with MEL Science, provider of the ‘MEL Chemistry VR’ educational experiences; the group proudly promoting winning the prestigious BETT Award for 2020 – “innovator of the year”, for their work in this field. Image credit: KWP.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

As I said before, apart from other tech giants, no one is going to challenge Facebook on its own terrain : Pico, HTC, HP, Pareal, Skyworth, Shadow Creator… all these companies are going to try offering something different. Companies like Pico, HP, Valve, and HTC are already performing very well in this sector. Will they succeed?

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OCTOBER 10, 2016

With the release of the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and (s00n) the PlayStation VR, as well as enthusiastic press from both specialist and mainstream publications, VR is no longer on the verge of emerging. Now that VR is here, it will be at the mercy of forces far more powerful than this interconnected group of developers and enthusiasts.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

HTC Vive is supporting 6 experience showcased there, among which shines Inory , that accompanies the viewer on a spiritual journey. You have to create environments for this social world governed by blockchain, and you can win free land and mana to spend in Decentraland. Join this group of fantastic people by hitting the link below!

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

But then there’s the Virtual Reality, Toronto; VRTO: That one is a small but very powerful group. Where you’ve got this small, intimate group talking about the future of technology. And then another stage on Saturday that’s all about defense and government. So it takes us a while to get that program launched.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

But then there’s the Virtual Reality, Toronto; VRTO: That one is a small but very powerful group. Where you’ve got this small, intimate group talking about the future of technology. And then another stage on Saturday that’s all about defense and government. So it takes us a while to get that program launched.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

But then there’s the Virtual Reality, Toronto; VRTO: That one is a small but very powerful group. Where you’ve got this small, intimate group talking about the future of technology. And then another stage on Saturday that’s all about defense and government. So it takes us a while to get that program launched.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2020

Image by HTC Vive). HTC is now selling Vive Cosmos Elite headset-only. Finally, HTC is selling the Vive Cosmos Elite not only as a full bundle anymore but also as a headset-only option for $550. HTC launches Vive Sync. So let’s just remember this for future cues we may find in the next months. News worth a mention.

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