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JANUARY 10, 2018

The official HTC Vive Twitter account has posted a reminder of their public invitation to anyone looking for a Vive Pro demo , with a “daily open house” from 4–6pm through Thursday at the Wynn’s Alsace Ballroom. — HTC VIVE (@htcvive) January 9, 2018. The post In Vegas? Come on by! pic.twitter.com/DTbhf35bU2.

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JANUARY 2, 2023

Trademark filings suggest HTC’s new headset is the Vive XR Elite. HTC has been drip feeding teases for its next device for months with the biggest drop of details given to The Verge last month indicating the new headset is lining up as a direct competitor to the Quest Pro.

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Road to VR

MARCH 21, 2018

HTC is expanding its out-of-home VR entertainment reach with a new deal with gaming giant IGT that will see its Vive hardware and software power a new competitive VR initiative where players compete for real money stakes. The post HTC and Gaming Giant IGT Partner on VR Tournament Platform for Casinos appeared first on Road to VR.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2017

Ramping up for CES 2017 in Las Vegas, Lenovo has revealed their newest entry into the world of VR, a yet unnamed headset sporting an impressive dual 1440 × 1440 OLED displays, a PlayStation VR-style halo strap system, and dual cameras that allow for room-scale positional tracking.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Cloud compute specialists Scalable Graphics are to debut a new 1 pound wireless PC VR solution compatible with both Oculus Rift and HTC Vive VR headsets at next weeks CES convention in Las Vegas. As we stated in our recent CES VR retrospective , wireless VR looks set to be a big focus for next weeks show in Las Vegas.

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JANUARY 5, 2017

As someone that has a PS VR, Gear VR, HTC Vive, and Oculus Rift all in the same apartment, cables, controllers, and headsets are often scattered everywhere. At CES 2017 this week in Las Vegas, NV, the tech company is debuting a variety of accessories for both the PS VR and HTC Vive. First up is the Charge Block for PS VR.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 6, 2019

The two largest PC VR headset manufacturers, Oculus and HTC, have been cagey on providing sales numbers, although GPU manufacturer Nvidia might have a pretty good line on how many headsets have been sold since consumer PC VR came to market in early 2016. We have feet on the ground at CES 2019 in Las Vegas.

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JANUARY 3, 2019

Mobile VR motion controller manufacturer Finch Technologies today announced it’s working with Qualcomm and HTC to deliver its six degrees of freedom (6DOF) FinchShift controllers to a multitude of devices supporting Vive Wave. The entire kit and SDK costs $250, although the company is providing discounts on bulk purchases.

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JANUARY 19, 2023

At CES 2023 in Las Vegas we tried out Holoride, a startup working to add “thrill to every ride” with a VR platform made for use while riding in fast-moving vehicles. The pack is priced $800 including an HTC Vive Flow headset, an 8BitDo controller, and a one-year subscription to Holoride’s platform.

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JANUARY 9, 2017

However, HTC — the creators of the Vive high-end, PC powered VR headset — were on hand for a press conference that teased and revealed an intriguing road map of new hardware strategies for 2017. O’Brien’s announcement from the HTC press conference, however, may point to something larger than a simple accessory.

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MARCH 13, 2017

.” Project Alloy is the name for an Intel-created reference design that outside hardware manufacturers will be able to use to create standalone VR headsets. Alloy, however, is a wireless VR solution that puts the rendering, tracking and display hardware all into the actual headset itself. Tagged with: Intel , project alloy.

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JANUARY 5, 2017

The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, NV is traditionally one of the largest tech events of the entire year and CES 2017 is no different. Dell Unveils Inspiron 15 Gaming Notebook And Premium Alienware Hardware For VR [ Link ]. We Visited The First Oculus-Powered Bar In Las Vegas [ Link ].

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Cats and VR

JANUARY 8, 2018

The Black Box VR studio has developed the world’s first fully automated cable resistance machine that integrates virtual reality hardware and original virtual eSport software powered by HTC Vive. We couldn’t be more excited to unveil our product in Las Vegas, and proud to have been honored with a CES Innovation Award.”

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JANUARY 4, 2017

CES 2017 is officially “begins” tomorrow but the behemoth conference is already revving up in Las Vegas. Vive (HTC). What We Know: Today at 1pm HTC will be hosting a press conference to discuss its HTC Vive virtual reality headset. What We Know: Microsoft is at the show in a multitude of capacities.

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JANUARY 7, 2017

Owlii is an emerging startup that debuted its technology this week on the show floor at CES 2017 in Las Vegas. The first was running on an HTC Vive and the second on Microsoft’s HoloLens. What if you never had to miss a first step, first word or little league game ever again? What if you had Owlii.

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JANUARY 9, 2023

CES 2023 occurred between January 5 – 8 in Las Vegas, Nevada. CES 2023: Fresh AR/VR Hardware. Amongst the many hardware announcements, Metaverse platform provider Somnium Space introduced a tailor-made MR headset. CES 2023: Lightweight Hardware for a New Immersive Generation.

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Peter Graham

JANUARY 6, 2020

During Sony’s press conference at CES 2020 in Las Vegas today it was revealed that 5 million PlayStation VR’s have now been sold. It’s difficult to compare to rivals like Oculus Rift, Oculus Quest or HTC Vive for example because neither of those companies ever reveal hardware sales figures.

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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. T his standard, dubbed OpenXR, was about the interoperability of different VR hardware and software together. OpenXR is now ready for prime time.

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JULY 14, 2016

With the introduction of Google Cardboard and the Daydream VR platform, Oculus and HTC discrete VR headsets and GearVR headsets for even smartphones like the Samsung’s Galaxy S7, the first tentative steps towards virtual reality gaming are being taken. Virtual Reality Gaming isn’t coming, it’s already here.

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DECEMBER 9, 2019

It is intriguing that many companies are already experimenting with this new chipset, and one of these partners is Niantic, that is thinking about going the AR hardware route after all its hard work on gelocalized AR games like Pokemon Go. HTC won’t announce anything big at CES. I really can’t wait. Varjo launches its XR-1 headset.

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JANUARY 11, 2022

This hilarious tweet thread by Nima Zeighami shows you all the worst uses that have been of the M-word on the Las Vegas showroom. 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. Unlink VR hardware (Image by Unlink VR).

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OCTOBER 2, 2023

The headset didn’t come with many surprises and these have been the specifications : Resolution (per-eye) : 2064 x 2208 Display Type : LCD Refresh Rate: 120Hz Lens type: Pancake Processor : Snapdragon XR2 Gen2 RAM : 8GB Battery Life : 2–3 hours Field of View : 110° horizontal, 96° vertical IPD Adjust : hardware-based.

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JANUARY 23, 2019

This trend is in large part spurred by hardware manufacturers, who recognize that without “sticky” content that keeps punters coming back for increasingly longer sessions, they are unlikely to reach consumer adoption critical mass anytime in the near future. .” Image Credit: Virtuix. Image Credit: Virtuix.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

This trend is in large part spurred by hardware manufacturers, who recognize that without “sticky” content that keeps punters coming back and hooks them for longer, they are unlikely to reach consumer adoption critical mass anytime soon. During 2018 there were over 2.6

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

And subscribe to my newsletter to not miss my upcoming CES roundup, which will contain all the news I’ve read about XR from Las Vegas! Let me quote the article: “We were giving away the hardware but making money on the data,” he said. For every dollar of hardware, we were making three dollars on software and data sales.”

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Wedged somewhat inconsiderately at the very start of every year (it’s OK CES organisers, no one in the tech industry have families they want to spend time with), the annual Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas is still the biggest event for hardware in the world. The final Oculus Rift consumer edition.

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JANUARY 2, 2017

You can sense CES is just around the corner as new VR-focused hardware is emerging in the run up to the event. Road to VR will be at CES 2017 for the duration of the show to bring you the latest VR events from Las Vegas as they happen. Why would the company aim for that style of controller emulation?

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JANUARY 14, 2017

CES 2017, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas last week, was loaded with augmented reality smartglasses, which layer digital animations and information on top of the real world. I ended up at Valve Software running their hardware department, putting the team together that created the HTC Vive. Ellsworth: VR is amazing.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Oculus and HTC had been holding details surrounding Rift and Vive launch windows close to the chest, probably because they had delays to announce and need to nail down new plans. First, HTC delays the Vive until April 2016, with plans to show an updated developer kit at CES in January. In December, these plans become known. April 2016.

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MAY 3, 2021

Image by HTC Vive). HTC rises the hype for the launch of its new headset. For once, HTC seems to have organized the pre-launch of its new upcoming headset fairly well. HTC has said this headset will be amazing , so everyone is hoping for this to be true, even if we all know that the price will be high.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

Industrial Training International is readying their VR Mobile Crane Simulator for the March ConExpo Event in Las Vegas. The development models are seen in ITI’s ‘First Look’ video (above) – the Xbox One controller shown was a temporary option while the desktop hardware was being fabricated.

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JANUARY 11, 2018

Lenovo used this week’s CES in Las Vegas to highlight several aspects of their 2018 product and service lineup in the augmented reality and virtual reality spaces. Like the cancelled HTC Vive Focus, Lenovo’s Mirage Solo is based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835 VR platform. Lenovo Mirage Solo and Mirage Camera with Daydream.

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DECEMBER 31, 2016

Roughly 177,000 people are expected to converge on Las Vegas next week for the Consumer Electronics Show. Valve and HTC have the Vive. We’ve seen many of the hardware companies extend their reach into services. The new services require new hardware. John Curran. That’s the next step for expanding the VR market.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And so he created the hardware and wrote the software to make 360 truly a consumer product. They’ve created amazing hardware, but they failed on the delivery of the actual experience, from the hardware to the software, out to how people actually want to use it. Well, yeah, we hardware’s useless with software.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And so he created the hardware and wrote the software to make 360 truly a consumer product. They’ve created amazing hardware, but they failed on the delivery of the actual experience, from the hardware to the software, out to how people actually want to use it. Well, yeah, we hardware’s useless with software.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And so he created the hardware and wrote the software to make 360 truly a consumer product. They've created amazing hardware, but they failed on the delivery of the actual experience, from the hardware to the software, out to how people actually want to use it. Well, yeah, we hardware's useless with software.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

Cameron: I've noticed that -- and this is a bit of a sideways way to look at it -- I've noticed that, with companies that come in and they're looking to dip their toe into virtual reality or augmented reality, that sometimes they fall into the trap of investing so much into the hardware. I mean, I was making notes, here. Cameron: Absolutely.

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