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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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

Apart from being more accurate, Hyperion features some important new features, that the company describes as follows: Microgesture interactions: Hyperion can track small finger movements down to the millimeter, enabling subtle gestures that require minimal effort. I wonder if VR remains one of its most important use cases.

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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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Upload VR

OCTOBER 4, 2024

If you're not familiar with it, Godot is a free and open-source alternative to Unity and Unreal. Standardization of Hand, Face & Body Tracking "Hand tracking has been supported in Godot for a long while now, however improvements have been made to ensure better cross platform support, including standardisation between OpenXR and WebXR.

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MARCH 14, 2024

Further, using traditional Vive Trackers with headsets that don't use SteamVR Tracking requires a manual calibration process, as does using Vive Ultimate Trackers with headsets other than HTC Vive standalone headsets. And emulated Vive Trackers isn't the only new feature in this Virtual Desktop update.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2022

Its first VR concert tour springs from years of R&D that resulted in proprietary 9K cameras and software that can automate complex unreal engine-based VR concert visual effects (VFX) modules and run more than 100 headsets at a time. So gaze-to-aim and hand-to-shoot. The booth for Beatday.

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JUNE 26, 2024

It was used to create many of the trailers for the original HTC Vive launch titles, for example. That funding also brings support for Quest's hand tracking, scene understanding, spatial anchors, and dynamic occlusion to the app so apps using these features can capture high quality PC-side footage too.

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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. There are also many other canceled VR events working on this side , but I can’t spoil much.

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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. November 3rd, 10:15am.

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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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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

The MRTK is a set of components with plugins, samples, and documentation designed to help the development of MR applications using gaming engines from either Unreal Engine or Unity, providing two versions of the solution – MRTK-Unity and MRTK for Unreal. OpenVR – Windows Mixed Reality headsets, HTC Vive , and Oculus Rift.

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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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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 - 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. There are a number of ways to create your own virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) app/videogame.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

A new FCC listing appears for an HTC Vive headset. And in fact, a new request to FCC for a new device has arrived from HTC. FCC certifications are requested before releasing an electronic device in the US (to certify that it is safe to be used), so this is a clear sign that HTC is going to release a new headset soon.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Image by HTC Vive). HTC expands its Cosmos offering and teases the future with Proton. This has been a pretty interesting week for HTC Vive. The Taiwanese company has in fact finally unveiled the full line of Vive Cosmos , that now becomes made of four headsets: Standard Cosmos ($699) : features 6 inside-out tracking cameras.

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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

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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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. Let’s see: Google is still working with Qualcomm and Samsung on a mixed-reality headset. VRTO , one of the leading virtual reality events, is back.

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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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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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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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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

DECEMBER 13, 2021

It is a big showcase demo for its Unreal Engine 5, and I have to say it is pretty impressive. The new update also brings hand tracking support in the Oculus OpenXR plugin. Epic Games releases Matrix Resurrections tie-in experience. Epic Games has released a tie-in experience for the upcoming Matrix Resurrections.

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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. Spark AR updates.

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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

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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