XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MARCH 4, 2024

According to reports, the upcoming Samsung XR headset will feature a microOLED display, eight tracking cameras, a Time of Flight (ToF) sensor, voice commands, eye tracking, and hand tracking. However, HTC VIVE still believes that controllers hold value.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

But the greatest feature is that finally Oculus is accepting hands-tracked applications in the Oculus Store from the 28th of this month! 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.

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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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 1, 2024

Renowned for its ingenuity, Apple has continuously pushed the boundaries of what is possible with its rich tech ecosystem, namely amid increasing competition with Microsoft. On the other hand, the VIVE Pro Series includes a collection of high-performance PC VR solutions with high visual fidelity and stereoscopic audio.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 26, 2018

While hardware advancements such as the HTC Vive Pro and Oculus Rift have solidified at-home VR as a viable option, those looking for next-level immersion will still find the most success with location-based VR installations. Of course we can’t talk about standalone VR without bringing up the HTC Vive Focus. LOCATION-BASED VR.

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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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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Yesterday at Mobile World Congress, Microsoft unveiled HoloLens 2, the company’s next iteration of its enterprise-focused standalone AR headset. Hand-tracking & Interactions. Microsoft’s Julia Schwarz demoing on-stage, Image courtesy Microsoft. The short answer: yes.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 27, 2023

Developed in collaboration with other leading XR companies like Microsoft, the HP headset is compatible with a range of platforms. On the other hand, the VIVE Pro Series includes a collection of high-performance PC VR solutions with high visual fidelity and stereoscopic audio.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Image by Khronos Group). Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. These may be upcoming features or possible features Oculus is experimenting with a selected group of beta testers.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2020

And now also companies are affected directly : after a worker has been found positive to the virus in the Seattle venue, now a group of Facebook employees has been left working from home. First of all, I shouldn’t be forced to join a group to see my game published. That’s a disaster. and fostering the creation of Virtual ones.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

(Image by Microsoft). According to Reuters, Microsoft’s executive vice president Harry Shum took the stage at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai and said that the HoloLens 2 will be released sometime in September of this year. HoloLens 2 could be put on sale on September. In any case, we will see.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

On the contrary, Microsoft has worked a lot on the platform, to make it more appealing to enterprise customers. It has released experiences like Microsoft Remote Assist, that let different teams in a company work together to solve maintenance problems. Of course, it will exploit the already awesome Microsoft platform.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The tech industry responded by rallying as a community and a group. This began with devices from Lenovo, HTC VIVE, Pico Interactive, and Meta Platforms, so the growth we’ve seen for consumer use cases has been very strong since then. Brian Vogelsang : My biggest takeaway has been the excitement across the industry.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2020

While the company had originally collaborated with HTC to create the Vive, this time around Valve opted to handle everything on their own. But it’s also made for an awkward relationship between Valve and HTC who are now positioned more as competitors than partners. Image courtesy HTC. Image courtesy Valve. Vive Cosmos.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

While this decision was very smart on the business side because the major headset manufacturers were already building their hands tracking solutions (e.g. Oculus and HTC), there were some cases when this sensor could actually prove to be very useful for some experiments. Microsoft finally enables Research Mode on HoloLens 2.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

I’m sure that after April, 20th, the Meta Quest ecosystem will appear even richer than it is now , creating a wider gap with other companies that may think about competing with the Quest, that is Pico, HTC, and even Apple. Vive Focus 3 now supports Hands Tracking even in PCVR mode (Thanks Paolo Leoncini for the tip). Other news.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

And for price parity, companies were usually working with Pico and HTC that have always had a better approach in the B2B sector. Pico and HTC still offer better services, and better guarantees on data management than a consumer device, so it has to be seen what companies will value the most. Presence Platform. Spark AR updates.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2023

link] Pimax Play updates Over the course of several months, my Crystal received a number of software updates, after undergoing testing by the Pimax Crystal Beta testers (a group of early adopters). It felt very cool to be detached from the tether. As the old saying goes, “Content is king!”

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Part of all of this is merit of Jeri (Image by HTC). Valve software is a very funny place because they don’t have a formal management , so it’s kind of all self-organizing… and if they don’t feel like as a group doing half-life 3, or half-life VR, it just won’t happen. The Vive Wands. Let’s do it”.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

This kind of seamless interface is great and it is exactly the same one that HTC already offers with the Vive Focus Plus and Viveport Streaming and that I’ve tried and appreciated. I guess Oculus will aim at something similar, because it is very handy (Image by HTC Vive). Rift line gets discontinued.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 14, 2019

My interview earlier today was with the president of HTC VIVE, Alvin Wang Graylin, and one of the things that they announced last week at the VIVE conference is that they’re now doing eye tracking, and hand tracking, and lip tracking, and I think these are new — fairly new — technologies.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Alan: We’ve got to call out Microsoft on making videos that people will go, “We want that!” ” Lance: It was Microsoft, SAP did one in 2014. Is it the training group? Is it the operations group? Alan: The Quest hand tracking is coming in January and the Hololens 2.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Alan: We’ve got to call out Microsoft on making videos that people will go, “We want that!” ” Lance: It was Microsoft, SAP did one in 2014. Is it the training group? Is it the operations group? Alan: The Quest hand tracking is coming in January and the Hololens 2.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

One of the Facebook groups yesterday, somebody posted how their son was in the hospital with a chipped tooth and a broken ankle from playing VR and falling. Alan: Well, speaking of cell phone guys, you’ve got HTC as a major player. Out-of-home entertainment locations, I would say HTC is probably the leader.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Alan: We've got to call out Microsoft on making videos that people will go, "We want that!". Lance: It was Microsoft, SAP did one in 2014. Is it the training group? Is it the operations group? Alan: The Quest hand tracking is coming in January and the Hololens 2. Lance: It was Microsoft, SAP did one in 2014.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 14, 2019

My interview earlier today was with the president of HTC VIVE, Alvin Wang Graylin, and one of the things that they announced last week at the VIVE conference is that they’re now doing eye tracking, and hand tracking, and lip tracking, and I think these are new — fairly new — technologies.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

But if you’re trying to look and have a group conversation with five different people about a 3D object, maybe you want to have that in AR — especially if you’re co-located with each other in the same room — so you can have all the affordances of body language and communication that we all have.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

One of the Facebook groups yesterday, somebody posted how their son was in the hospital with a chipped tooth and a broken ankle from playing VR and falling. Alan: Well, speaking of cell phone guys, you’ve got HTC as a major player. Out-of-home entertainment locations, I would say HTC is probably the leader.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

But if you're trying to look and have a group conversation with five different people about a 3D object, maybe you want to have that in AR -- especially if you're co-located with each other in the same room -- so you can have all the affordances of body language and communication that we all have. Alan: Yeah, it falls apart.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

But if you’re trying to look and have a group conversation with five different people about a 3D object, maybe you want to have that in AR — especially if you’re co-located with each other in the same room — so you can have all the affordances of body language and communication that we all have.

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