XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 5, 2024

This week, VR and MR device vendor Goertek partnered with hand-tracking experts Ultraleap to announce a VR/MR headset reference design that follows from Qualcomm’s XR2+ Gen 2 chipset revealment yesterday – where Qualcomm also revealed the new reference design. It’s an unbeatable combination.

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ARPost

AUGUST 8, 2022

Developed for Meta Quest, Chess Club supports both hand tracking and Touch controllers. The game is available on Meta Quest and Steam , and supports Touch controllers and hand tracking. Catan VR is available for Meta Quest, Rift, Go, Samsung Gear VR, Valve Index, HTC Vive, and Microsoft Mixed Reality.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Two years ago, on the eve of consumer VR, we put together a piece laying out options consumers had to get their hands into VR. The devices at the time included: HTC Vive wands that shipped with the Vive headset. Samsung Gear Controller. Oculus Touch hand controllers. HTC Vive wands. How far we’ve come.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

Anyway, with the end of the life of Quest 2, this cycle finished and a new one started with Quest 3, Apple Vision Pro, Google and Samsung announcing their own headset, and other companies chasing them (e.g. with Xiaomi, Oppo, Samsung, etc…) to convince hardware manufacturers to create headsets powered by Android XR.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MARCH 4, 2024

Major Firms Enter the XR Market During a launch event at MWC 2024, Samsung showcased a new XR headset developed in collaboration with Google and Qualcomm. At the event, Samsung also unveiled other innovative tech products, such as an immersive device, a smart ring, and an assistive mobility robotics device.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2024

Instead a ‘look-and-tap’ system relying on eye and hand-tracking is the core input method, and by all accounts ( including mine ) it works very well. That leaves HTC to fall back to the enterprise sector, the one place where it has long had a strong reputation.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 1, 2024

Here are some of the VR vendors making waves in the industry as of 2024: RealWear Meta Apple Goertek Pimax Pico HP HTC Vive Samsung Varjo Lenovo Valve Index Vrgineers RealWear Exploring various aspects of the immersive technology landscape, RealWear produces sensors, apps, and hardware for the XR space.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 27, 2023

HP also recently introduced its own XR device management platform to help companies keep track of their immersive devices. HTC VIVE With tools for augmented, extended, and virtual reality , HTC VIVE has a strong presence in the immersive technologies landscape.

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Road to VR

MAY 25, 2018

.” Standalone headsets have largely made use of SoCs originally designed for smartphones, including the Snapdragon 835 chipset, which services a number of the latest and penultimate-gen flagship smartphones including Samsung’s Galaxy S8, Google Pixel 2, and HTC U11. image courtesy Qualcomm.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 4, 2024

The chipset also helps boost consumer and enterprise-grade XR use cases on headsets and smartglasses by leveraging partnerships with Samsung, Google, Tobii, and Goertek to provide visual clarity for gaming and productivity applications. Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2: What’s New?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 6, 2023

Hands-tracking is also supported. From a first hands-on someone was able to have with the device, seems that the prototype is solid, but the battery life is a bit short (30 minutes). HTC has made its moves at MWC, too. The 1200 nits of the display also make sure the visuals are very bright.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

OMG, it’s almost 3 years that I write these roundups… the first week peek was exclusive for my blog subscribers and it featured as best news the release of Google Blocks and in the other news something about Samsung Gear VR… how much time has passed since then! Participate in a VR eye-tracking apps contest! It’s all very cool.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I’m sorry about that, but it’s still a miracle I’ve managed to write it… Top news of the week (Leaked image from Samsung video) Samsung is back to XR with Google and Qualcomm The big news of the week is that Samsung is back to XR. This is huge because we know that Samsung is able to always deliver good hardware.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Alvin Wang Graylin is the China President of Vive at HTC, and I had a chance to talk with him at CES this year about what’s happening in China. The post HTC’s Alvin Graylin on What’s Happening in China & VR appeared first on Road to VR. Support Voices of VR. Subscribe on iTunes. Music: Fatality & Summer Trip.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

This would also serve to fight Samsung, that is working on an AR/VR standalone headset ; Smartphone-connected AR/MR glasses : thanks to the new Qualcomm Snapdragon reference design, is quite easy to design light AR headsets that connect to your phone, like nReal. MR & hand tracking?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Meta’s MR product looks to compete with other MR products from firms such as Apple, Varjo, HTC Vive, Nreal, Samsung, and Google.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

However, there was one thing that was missing, hand tracking. In fact, Intel was already demoing hand tracking this year at CES with their Project Alloy prototype. The fact that the Snapdragon 835 VR platform will support both eye tracking and hand tracking is huge because both of those are natural interfaces.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

HTC Vive Wrist Tracker. HTC Vive Wrist Tracker (Image by HTC). HTC has made an announcement at this CES and it has been a pretty cool one. The company has just revealed the Vive Wrist Tracker, which is an external 6DOF tracking unit that can be put on the wrist of the user or also on external props.

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Road to VR

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. Mova is a standalone VR headset that does away with motion controllers, instead offering optical hand tracking which users will use to navigate UI and interact with others online.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

Mister President launching the Vive Focus (Image by HTC). Samsung has also teased to be interested in releasing a new AR/VR standalone device. That’s why the other companies, like HTC and Pico, have decided to aim at the enterprise market. The Odyssey has anyway the problem of the non-optimal tracking of controllers.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Meta’s MR product looks to compete with other MR products from firms such as Apple, Varjo, HTC Vive, Nreal, Samsung, and Google.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

During all these months, I had the occasion of reading on Linkedin about all his cool prototypes and enterprise solutions that he and his colleagues have developed inside the company, ranging from 360 videos to hand-tracked training solutions with the Quest, not to mention XR entertainment solutions for airplane passengers.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The price is $599, but to work the glasses should be tethered to a smartphone from Samsung or OnePlus, so the overall price of the whole system is well beyond $1000. Image by HTC). It’s good to see that also HTC’s latest standalone is constantly improving, even if not at the crazy rate of the Quest. News worth a mention.

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VRScout

JULY 19, 2016

HTC has sold an estimated 100k Vives. Samsung Gear VR expected 3.5 The Manus – Hand-tracking Glove. Gen Z is the the most passionate segment in VR. Average time spent in headset is 25 minutes. VR Consumption, 2016. Oculus has sold an estimated 250k Rifts. million units shipped this year. million units in 2016.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

The new HoloLens is expected to be lighter (my sources say that it is much smaller than the current one ), with a field of view that is the double of the current one , full hands tracking, eye tracking and integration with AI thanks to a dedicated chip (this could add object detection and other fancy features to the device).

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Dominic Brennan from Road to VR estimates that Santa Cruz is using the same 1,440 × 1,600 displays that are also found in the Samsung Odyssey and Vive Pro headsets. For those of you that will not be able to attend in San Jose, California you can watch the event live streamed in virtual reality on your Oculus Go or Samsung Gear VR!

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2018

From my tests, the image on the screen appears slightly distorted, so there will be something to fix on HTC’s side. Better integration with HTC phones. Yesterday HTC has also unveiled its new flagship phone, the HTC U12+. The Vive Focus and its friend the HTC U12+ phone (Image by HTC). Image by HTC).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2018

And so here we are again: Oculus vs HTC, America vs China, Hugo Barra vs Alvin Wang Graylin. HTC has also been smart because every time someone says “Focus” during some VR event, he’s doing some hidden advertisement for its product. According to some reviewers, the display may also be the same one made by Samsung.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2019

” review of standalone headsets (you can find in other posts the ones related to Oculus Go and HTC Vive Focus ). it is bigger than the Oculus Go but smaller than the massive HTC Vive Focus. On the front side of the headset, that is black, you can find the two cameras used for the inside-out 6 DOF tracking of the device.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 28, 2020

I was puzzled by this omission, as their previous collaboration with HTC saw the Vive released in 2016 with both narrow and wide facial gaskets to offer 2 fitting options out of the box. . This is not ideal in the long term as it may cause similar damage to that seen on the HTC Vive when used with PU cushions.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Samsung Odyssey+ is now at $230. Samsung has just discounted its best PC VR headset, the Odyssey+, at the incredibly low price of $230. Devs are doing very interesting things with hands tracking for Quest. Devs are doing very interesting things with hands tracking for Quest. Better Adoption = Better ROI.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Apple Vision Pro on the other hand has occlusion in two distinct forms. The main form is hand and arm occlusion. There’s clearly a 2D hand and arm segmentation model (separate to the 3D skeletal hand tracking) running for each eye’s camera. Unintentional inputs are also a very real problem with hand tracking.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 9, 2017

Valve’s SteamVR Tracking could have a huge impact on the mixed reality industry this year and next. 5 million Gear VRs sold is a major milestone for Facebook and Samsung, as is $3 million in sales for Job Simulator , a best-selling room-scale game. Attach it to a camera for six hours of mixed reality footage. The Missing Pieces.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

Last year we had nReal showing us that AR can be trendy, and HTC making us dream with the Vive Cosmos. Yes, the biggest companies were not there with a booth (Oculus will probably target the OC6, HTC the VEC, etc…), but it is the first time that I read the XR news from CES and I dont’ remain surprised. Samsung AR glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2024

The picture also shows the girl using the device making a micromovement of the hands on her lap, a clear hint to the fact that this device can perform accurate hand tracking like the Vision Pro. Qualcomm has officially said that this is the chipset that the upcoming Samsung headset is going to employ.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 27, 2019

This year we had the launch of two amazing 6 DOF all-in-one Virtual Reality headsets : the Oculus Quest and the HTC Vive Focus Plus. USB should have OTG enabled; Battery : 3 hours nominal duration; Vive Focus Plus and controllers (Image by HTC). The Quest has more tracking cameras and more audio jacks.

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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. Jeri, at Valve they did have that sort of choice point, and they chose to do Steam VR and get behind the HTC Vive. They’ll see a holographic version of my hand. Your project was spun out, basically.

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