The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

More info (Quest 3 going ok in Steam Hardware Survey) More info (Quest 2 selling much better than Quest 3 on Amazon) HTC announced the Vive Ultimate Tracker Finally, HTC has officially announced the Vive Ultimate Tracker, its standalone inside-out tracker unit.

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ARPost

APRIL 11, 2023

VR-Enabled Online Shopping Experiences VR creates an immersive visual environment, including 360-degree videos, photos, product demos, and complex experiences using devices such as the HTC Vive or Oculus Quest. Hands-On Review Unlike AR, VR is entirely simulated and disconnected from the physical world.

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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. Virtual worlds like Fortnite, Roblox, or also RecRoom, and VRChat are becoming every day more successful.

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VRScout

APRIL 1, 2020

Technology can augment the world around us, it can enhance the human experience, our capabilities, and also extend our reality to digital and virtual worlds. Brain-computer interface systems like Neurable’s VR game Awakening uses an electrode-laden headband, connected to an HTC Vive HMD, to track brain activity.

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ARPost

JUNE 5, 2023

By the time we have the Apple headset and the new Quest 3, everybody is going to be freaking out about how great hand tracking is and moving into this new world of possibilities,” said Moulder. No Longer the Apex” On the morning of Day Two, the Virtual World Society and the VR/AR Association hosted a very special breakfast.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The only company not much affected by it is HTC, that manufacturers its headsets in Taiwan and not in Mainland China. HTC Vive releases Cosmos Elite, two models of Vive Pro Eye and creates some confusion. Developers continue to have fun with Oculus Quest hands tracking! base stations and a 20m fiber cable.

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VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2016

Project Alloy stands alone among the current lineup of technologies available because it isn’t tethered to a desktop computer like HTC Vive or Oculus Rift, nor does it use a smartphone like Google Cardboard, Gear VR or Google Daydream. The headset has an inside out tracking system enabled by Intel’s amazing RealSense technology.

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VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2016

Project Alloy stands alone among the current lineup of technologies available because it isn’t tethered to a desktop computer like HTC Vive or Oculus Rift, nor does it use a smartphone like Google Cardboard, Gear VR or Google Daydream. The headset has an inside out tracking system enabled by Intel’s amazing RealSense technology.

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ARPost

JUNE 3, 2022

If you’re not amazed because many XR applications have built-in hand tracking, remember that your hands need to be in view of the headset’s cameras for hand tracking to work. You can do it with your hands behind your back. Not so with StretchSense. StretchSense. You can do this in a pocket.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 6, 2017

VR input gloves are getting a big boost thanks to HTC’s newly revealed Vive Tracker. We’ve seen plenty of VR gloves and other finger-tracking input methods over the years, and while a few of them proved quite functional, most had one flaw standing in the way of adoption. Hands and Fingers Together.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2022

The company is not trying to build a virtual world, though, but a full cloud platform that can be used by other companies to build social VR experiences. Thanks to the leak reported by around ten insiders, the online magazine has been able to cast a light on some unknown details about the headset.

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ARPost

JULY 16, 2020

Winners from the past three events include Oculus Rift and Quest, Google Tilt Brush, HTC VIVE Pro, and the Vader Immortal series. VRChat , the group bringing the VR Awards online, is a free-to-play virtual world currently in early access on Steam , Oculus , and VIVEPORT. About the VR Awards. This Year’s Categories.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2019

HTC 5G streaming. HTC was at MWC showcasing its new headset Vive Focus Plus together with a 5G network. There was a real 5G network created by HTC where on one side there were some special computers that mocked a rendering farm and on the other side there was a user wearing a Vive Focus Plus. Read the review here.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

I think the time has come… it is not possible that HTC is the only company offering something like that, and that is really loved by its custome r s. MR & hand tracking? I see Oculus showcasing native hand tracking on PC, but still not releasing it. Testing the Vive Pro with the Vive Wireless Adapter.

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VRScout

JANUARY 5, 2021

Instead of relying on artificial locomotion, this Indiana Jones-style puzzler has you navigating the virtual world by moving throughout your real-world environment. Room-scale VR adventure Eye of the Temple absolutely blew us away last year, offering one of the most unique free-roam VR experiences in recent memory.

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ARPost

JUNE 8, 2022

We are a very small team and the community and industry support for what we have built means the world (or the virtual world!)” . Alvin Graylin, HTC China President, presented the Auggie for Best Head-Worn Device. Best Consumer App. Is there anything more vulnerable than designing for everyone?” Best Developer Tool.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

HP and Microsoft have a long track in offering enterprise hardware, so this headset may battle HTC on his own land (B2B). First of all, Peter Chou, ex founder of HTC , has launched his startup XrSpace, with his first VR headset Mova (that you can see in the header image of this post), together with its social XR platform Manova.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2021

One of the first accessories for AR/VR I had the opportunity to work on is the Leap Motion hands tracking controller : I made some cool experiments and prototypes with it and the Oculus Rift DK2. I’ve made my usual video review of the new UltraLeap Gemini runtime , with some cool in-action shots of me using hands-tracking.

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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. is a company that aims at using the data from the cameras of all the phones running AR applications, send them to a server, and merge them all together to create a full mesh representing the whole world.

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ARPost

MARCH 31, 2023

The hardware consisted of blue HTC Vive Pros connected to the gaming PCs above. The HTC Vive Pros were tethered, so there was no latency but the game did have a peculiar dense, dreamlike aspect to it, which often stems from lower refresh rates. Have fun and keep on rocking in the virtual world!

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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. This week they have added two new amazing features to their XR-1 mixed-reality headset: chroma-keying and marker tracking. Google MediaPipe can now track 3D objects.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 30, 2023

On the UX side, other interesting things are being rumored: the headset would ship with no controller, and rely only on eye tracking and hands tracking for interactions. And to select objects, you have just to look at them and then pinch with your hand. This doesn’t sound to me very “Apple”.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

Mister President launching the Vive Focus (Image by HTC). That’s why the other companies, like HTC and Pico, have decided to aim at the enterprise market. In my opinion (but this is pure speculation), HTC will tease a new Vive Focus this year , so that to answer to the Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

A lot of startups have started working on the so-called “ARCloud”, that is a persistent and shared virtual world that is coherent with the real one. This means that it is possible to create AR experiences that are persistent in whatever place of the world and that are shared among all people of the world.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2023

HTC Vive XR Elite HTC Vive XR Elite (Image by HTC Vive) The star of the event has for sure been the Vive XR Elite, HTC’s latest flagship headset. One is the high cost: HTC markets it as a consumer device, but at that price, not many consumers are going to buy it, so it will be a prosumer one.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2020

…and fostering the creation of Virtual ones. Many companies that have seen their events canceled because of the virus are now thinking about doing virtual ones. HTC has answered to Road To VR about the critics regarding the too many headsets of its on the market. nReal adds hands tracking to its AR glasses.

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ARPost

JANUARY 3, 2022

Now that new technologies push the barriers of cyberspaces, it is possible to become immersed in a virtual world where you can create 3D art. Each user can have their own private world where they can relax by creating shapes and colors. This VR art creation tool is available for free for Oculus Rift , HTC Vive, and Valve Index.

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Price ranges from $60 to $100, which is rather affordable, compared with Oculus Rift or HTC Vive. Its companion app features a huge VR library but is unable to track movements in a room. HTC Vive ($499). Released in April 2016, HTC Vive is one of the most premium VR headsets on the market with a relatively high price if $799.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 19, 2020

Yesterday, I attended the Vive Ecosystem Conference, the annual event by HTC, that his year was held completely inside ENGAGE. Due to Coronavirus concerns, most companies are canceling their events, while others are deciding to transform them into virtual versions. Last year, I was there physically in Shenzhen for the same event.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

A Horizon game is coming for this new headset, and some rumors talk also about Half-Life: Alyx potentially be available in the future; HTC has announced the Vive Wrist Tracker, a 6 DOF tracker for the Vive Focus 3. This tracker can be worn on the wrist, for a more accurate hand-tracking experience, or be installed on external props (e.g.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2016

Head mounted display: With expansion to at home devices came the transition away from an arcade cabinet to setups a little closer to what you’ll see coming from the Big Three (Oculus, HTC, and Sony). Haptic gloves: Similar to the gloves attached to the cabinet, the at home version exoskeleton design brings hand tracking and touch to VR.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 9, 2017

Even the Oculus Rift’s largest “ experimental ” room-scale setup is smaller than what’s possible with the HTC Vive, which uses Valve’s tracking system. Demos shown by HTC at CES include tracking a wrist and glove combo for hand tracking, as well as a fire hose and gun.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2024

You put them on over your shoes, you put on a VR headset, and you walk, and you feel like you are actually going where you’re trying to go in the virtual world and experiencing it from a natural intuitive perspective. You showed us that the tracker is different because HTC Vive has also released this update. Brad: Yes.

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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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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

HoloLens 2 is an amazing device, with a decent FOV, eye tracking, and hands tracking, that for sure will make many companies happy. HTC is now selling certified refurbished Vive HMDs for $400. HTC has started selling again the OG Vive headset, but this time selling second-hand devices. The hype is rising….

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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. Just recently, in the last few years, I founded a company called CastAR, where we’re making AR glasses that allow you to blend virtual graphics with real-world objects on your table. Ellsworth: VR is amazing.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 14, 2019

So, putting some of the physical world together with a lot of the virtual world is a really wise idea. So, I think the most meaningful experience I had was around putting together the physical world and the virtual world about the time when I would say, I had my new eyes, and I could see in stereo.

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