Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

Image courtesy HTC. HTC have finally revealed the price and release date of the anticipated Vive Pro , opening preorders globally at Vive.com and other retailers. Magic Leap has launched the SDK for the device’s Lumin OS , with support for Unity and Unreal engines.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 3, 2023

The product combines hand tracking with haptic feedback to give the user a more hands-on approach to interacting with the virtual environment around them. It’s compatible with HTC Vive headsets, as well as Steam VR hardware. Of course, when dealing with VR hardware, “cheaper” is certainly relative.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The Brighton, UK-based firm will also allow immersive content creators to analyse their projects across gaming engines, devices, and content, the company explained, adding its Unity-based plugin had launched with further support for Unreal Engine and 8th Wall over the next few months.

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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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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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Peter Graham

MARCH 24, 2020

That’s lead to motion controllers, eye tracking and hand tracking but full-body tracking has stopped and started due to the complexities of this process. Compatible with HTC Vive and other SteamVR headsets, Manus Polygon will be compatible with Unity when it officially launches in June 2020.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 24, 2022

This was widely shared – leading to many believing Quest just got body tracking support – but both the name of the API and the illustration are misleading. Meta’s Hand Tracking API provides the actual position of your hands & fingers, tracked by the outwards-facing cameras.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Get in on the ground floor with this talk from Martz, who will tell you how to get to grips with the new platform including working with Google VR SDKs for Android, Unity, and Unreal. Applications of Eye Tracking in Virtual Reality. Hand Tracked Controls: Design and Implementation for Serious VR.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

The VR route is instead being pursued by HTC (with its VEC event happening soon) and IEEE. Google MediaPipe can now track 3D objects. The system can detect and track specific objects like chairs and feet all just using your phone camera. Unity’s HDRP is now VR-compatible. Very good news for all us Unity VR developers.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

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. We’re now bringing that directly to developers, who can download the software development kit (SDK) for Unity or Unreal Engine.

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Peter Graham

JULY 15, 2019

The most popular tend to be videogame engines such as Unity and Unreal Engine which have been fine-tuned over many years.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

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. If you want to watch it, it’s a very interesting 2-hour-long video and you can find it here [link] together with a summary of the key points he said.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

Ok, of course, I’m kidding, but, you know, the possibility of saying the wrong name is so high that my proposal actually starts making sense… Top news of the week (Image by HTC Vive) HTC reveals inside-out-tracked Tracker With a totally unexpected move, HTC has revealed a new kind of Tracker.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Stand-alone mode with 6DoF SLAM tracking where everything is self-contained on the headset, running Android-based VR applications. The XR2 processor is already used in other products like Meta Quest 2 and HTC Vive XR Elite, making porting of games much simpler.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

We already saw this problem happening when HTC departed from the Steam platform to build its Viveport store because hardware sales were not enough to have an ambitious business. Muse looks a lot like ChatGPT integrated inside Unity. Let’s see: Google is still working with Qualcomm and Samsung on a mixed-reality headset.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

And as any year, Oculus has really amazed us: for sure you have already read my short recap published after the first keynote of OC6 where I told you about amazing stuff like Oculus Link, Facebook Horizon and Hands Tracking. Hand tracking on Quest. Hands tracking will guarantee 25 tracked points for each hand.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In a side event happening after AWE, HTC has announced a bunch of updates of Vive Focus 3 that have the potential of revolutionizing the Location Based Entertainment in VR (LBEVR o LBVR) sector. With the upcoming update of the runtime, Vive Focus 3 will be able to track its position in a space up to 33m x 33m, that is 1000 square meters.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Top news of the week. Have I already told you that I love this game?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

It’s– I think another thing that will make a big difference and it doesn’t seem like a big thing, but eye tracking. I’ve had the opportunity of playing with the Tobii tracking system with HTC Vive. Being able to actually look somebody in the eyes in VR. It really– it feels right.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

It's-- I think another thing that will make a big difference and it doesn't seem like a big thing, but eye tracking. I've had the opportunity of playing with the Tobii tracking system with HTC Vive. But I think we can stay on the cartoonish side of things as long as we hope things like eye tracking and hand tracking.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

It’s– I think another thing that will make a big difference and it doesn’t seem like a big thing, but eye tracking. I’ve had the opportunity of playing with the Tobii tracking system with HTC Vive. Being able to actually look somebody in the eyes in VR. It really– it feels right.

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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. Cloud Backup.

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