The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2018

We all know that China is a country that is betting big on Virtual Reality. Langzou VR in education, VR Waibao in collaboration tools) and other on hardware (e.g. It can also be an opportunity to get to know what each country should try obtaining in the next years for what concerns virtual reality. Introduction.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 15, 2017

LA Noire is a unique game to say the least—designed as a sort of action-detective game, the title employed some of the top facial motion capture of its time to present believable characters for players to interrogate as they investigate crimes on the streets of 1940’s LA. Image courtesy Rockstar Games.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Virginia Commonwealth University , or VCU for short, is the latest educational facility to install a Virtual Reality lab on their premises. There were many demonstrations on display in the VR lab, including advanced motion capture devices and a game of catch with a robot. Comment below and let us know!

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Road to VR

AUGUST 30, 2017

Sensic, a long-time player in virtual reality and co-founder of OSVR , finally released their VR headset destined to make its way to public venues such as theme parks and arcades. IR motion capture for VR, image courtesy OptiTrack. pre-production model, image courtesy Sensics. image courtesy Sensics.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 9, 2017

Once prepared, controlling the movement is where VR is at its most intuitive, as the motion-tracked hardware means that a simple form of motion capture is readily available, although it’s not always appropriate, depending upon what’s being animated.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 24, 2020

Ever since virtual reality (VR) remerged as a viable consumer product the quest has been to make the technology as immersive and interactive as possible. 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.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Now, he turns his eye towards virtual reality with Gnomes & Goblins , an original production from Wevr in partnership with Reality One. To announce this European premiere, Björk held a press conference and beamed herself in (from Iceland) via a psychedelic motion-captured avatar churning with colors (because why not?).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Image by HTC). The interesting thing is that HTC has claimed that duration, but then some people of HTC said that is not true, and also some reviewers called this a fake news. I hope that HTC releases a public statement about these two points, to clarify the situation to its customers. Good luck to him and to HTC!

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 7, 2022

Today with great pleasure I introduce you to WalkOVR , an interesting tracking solution for Virtual Reality. WalkOVR is a company specifically focused on user movements in Virtual Reality through its proprietary wearable solutions. And all of this for a very small price. I have interviewed Tu?ra

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

HTC has finally revealed the price of the Vive Pro : it will cost $799 just to have the headset (no controller and no base stations, so you must already have a Vive 1 kit) and will be available for pre-orders since April, 5th. But, as Road To VR has stated, maybe HTC should have clarified that in all its marketing material.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Thanks to the support of HTC, Rob is experimenting with Vive Trackers , and is very eager to tell you everything about his experiments with them, in a series of two very detailed posts. The post finishes also with the little surprise of an interview with HTC’s Shen Ye. HTC Vive Trackers (Image by Rob Cole). Introduction.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Leap Motion released a second sensor some years later, but as Alex Colgan revealed me , it was not intended for sale , but only for integration in other headsets. Oculus and HTC), there were some cases when this sensor could actually prove to be very useful for some experiments. And the fact that it was not on sale was frustrating.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

They may be AR glasses or smartglasses, but what is sure is that Niantic is working to support AR hardware within its platform. And I’m not only talking about the hardware, but also the software. I mean… HTC controls five other social VR experiences in its XR Suite, it is weird that now it is partnering with a competitor company.

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Steki Amusement

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Since 2015, China’s greatest contribution to the global virtual reality (VR) industry has been the discovery of offline VR experience stores. Some foreign companies have successively announced VR theme park projects with the intention of applying VR (virtual reality) & AR (augmented reality) technologies to theme parks.

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VRScout

AUGUST 30, 2017

Will these couples find true love in virtual reality? The format has progressed from game show contestant matchmaking to modern day reality-style shows where the cast competes to hookup. Each person is 3D scanned to create their virtual avatar and strapped into a HTC Vive with sensors to track body movements.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

We have a lot to go through; we’re going to go through all of the different hardware aspects involved in Virtual/Mixed/Augmented Reality — XR — and it’s not just the headsets or headphones. Antony: Yeah, of course, I was there; I listened to all the presentations by HTC. I love that.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

We have a lot to go through; we're going to go through all of the different hardware aspects involved in Virtual/Mixed/Augmented Reality -- XR -- and it's not just the headsets or headphones. Antony: Yeah, of course, I was there; I listened to all the presentations by HTC. You've got touch-sensitive stimulators.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

We have a lot to go through; we’re going to go through all of the different hardware aspects involved in Virtual/Mixed/Augmented Reality — XR — and it’s not just the headsets or headphones. Antony: Yeah, of course, I was there; I listened to all the presentations by HTC. I love that.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

China-India & the other Asian Nations have some really interesting #augmentedreality #virtualreality #mixedreality #startups Innovating across Hardware, Software & Content. Most people know Xu due to his dispute with American virtual reality company Magic Leap. However, in June 2020, a U.S. 14- Kai Liang.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

In an interview with a Chinese magazine, HTC China (Mister) President Alvin Graylin has stated that in his opinion, Facebook may lose at least $100-$200 for each sold Oculus Quest 2 device. HTC had $210 million as the total revenue for 2020. Research is being done to evaluate the use of virtual reality also to treat chronic pain.

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 19, 2019

HTC Vive Retires. The HTC Vive was phased out in October, replaced by the Vive Cosmos , which was priced at $699. Dairy farmers in Russia started testing Virtual Reality on their dairy cows. Although the PSVR has proven to be the most commercially successful VR hardware to date – selling over 4.2

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