XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Developers and hardware solution providers have been working together over the past few decades to build VR headsets capable of hosting immersive experiences. Over the years, technology has become smaller, lighter, more comfortable, and with faster processing, breathing life into the virtual world. billion USD in 2021 to $84.09

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APRIL 11, 2023

Better AR Hardware Options Better AR hardware options, caused by innovations in mobile technology, such as LiDAR and ToF (depth sensing hardware). Hands-On Review Unlike AR, VR is entirely simulated and disconnected from the physical world. For example, it’s popular among furniture stores like EQ3.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 12, 2021

What people required the most in a new VR headset, according to a survey proposed by HTC Vive. In the first one, you can read what are the features that people that HTC interviewed were asking for a VR headset : HTC has used these data to design its new headset and accompanying software ecosystem so that to fulfill these requests.

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MARCH 13, 2017

Valve dropped some interesting VR user data onto its community pages during GDC, providing an easily missed but important update about how people are using the Steam platform for virtual reality in the wake of Oculus Touch. percent of VR headsets connected to Steam at the time of the hardware survey last month were still the DK2. .

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Embark on an epic pint-sized quest September 23rd on On Oculus, SteamVR, and Viveport. After five grueling years of development, critically-acclaimed filmmaker Jon Favreau ( Iron Man, The Mandalorian ) is finally set to launch his long-awaited dream-like VR adventure Gnomes & Goblins later this month on Oculus, SteamVR, and Viveport.

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DECEMBER 5, 2016

It feels like we’ve been talking about Oculus Touch for awhile — and that’s probably because we have. We first got our hands on the Rift Touch hand-controllers during Oculus’ developer conference (OC2) in September 2015. The day is finally upon us — the Oculus Touch launches tomorrow. It turns out it never really went away.

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MARCH 19, 2020

If you want to play Valve’s upcoming videogame epic Half-Life: Alyx then you’re going to need more than just a PC because this new instalment is only for virtual reality (VR) headsets. Half-Life: Alyx will be Valve’s flagship VR experience but there’s more than one way to dive into this virtual world on 23rd March.

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VRScout

APRIL 17, 2018

How close are we to walking around a Ready Player One world? In Ready Player One’ s opening act, Steven Spielberg sets the stage for the capabilities of 2045’s VR hardware. The omnidirectional treadmill is one of a handful of locomotion methods shown in Ready Player One’s future world, but are any of these actually possible?

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Road to VR

APRIL 4, 2018

HTC impressed us with its debut headset, the Vive, back in 2016. Offering a room-scale experience with motion controllers out of the box, its $800 all-in price was plenty premium even at the time, though through competition with Oculus and others, you can now pick up a brand new Vive system for a quite reasonable $500.

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Ryan Schultz

JULY 18, 2022

You’re invited to be a part of this cross-worlds discussion group, with 685 people participating from every social VR platform and virtual world! This corporate decision was the last straw for me, and I publicly declared a personal boycott, from that point on, of Meta hardware and software. You’re welcome to come join us!

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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. VR Hardware of the Year.

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MARCH 20, 2017

The competition between HTC’s Vive and Facebook’s Rift is a closely watched battle, with the two leading PC-powered headsets racing to expand upon the groundwork laid by the SteamVR and Oculus platforms in 2016. ” For $70, the game comes with a guitar to which an Oculus Touch controller attaches. .”

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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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AUGUST 31, 2020

In contrast to 2019, 2020 will continue to be a little quiet in terms of hardware, with major brands like Facebook and Lenovo having launched new headsets just last year. It’s important to note, however, that Facebook finally released the Oculus for Business program on its Oculus Quest headset. Release date: 2020.

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Road to VR

MAY 14, 2018

It’s hard to believe it’s already been five years since the first Oculus Rift dev kits shipped to Kickstarter backers, many of them developers looking to create for the future of VR consumer hardware. It also includes audio commentary by the developer, and works with Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and flatscreen monitors.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The award went to Geometry Ogilvy Japan for the Shibuya Virtual Halloween experience, which was also a nominee in the Social Impact category. VR display technology, as well as rendering software and connectivity hardware, have all advanced by leaps and bounds – even in the last year. VR Hardware of the Year.

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DECEMBER 8, 2016

SteamVR, Valve’s foundation for VR experiences running on its digital store, has supported Oculus’ Touch controllers since June. That means when you’re using the controllers and you’re meant to see them in VR, you’ll see what you’re actually holding, and not the HTC equivalent. VR #Gamedev.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2016

You can now register to attend Oculus’ 3rd ‘Connect’ conference, an event dedicated to all things Oculus from Rift to Touch and is focused primarily on developers and VR development. Photo courtesy Oculus VR, LLC. Oculus Connect 3 Registration. There’s also a student/academic pass available at $99.

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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2017

At Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference today, the company made a major shift in their embrace of virtual reality with several new VR announcements during the event’s opening keynote. Today marks a major shift in Apple’s public support for virtual reality. .” ” SteamVR and HTC Vive on Mac OS.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

But before talking about it, let me invite you once more to visit the Venice VR Expanded virtual worlds that we did in VRChat for the Venice Film Festival. Rumors hint to Oculus discontinuing the current Quest and selling the new one at $299 and $399. Walmart seems to have leaked the price of the upcoming Oculus Quest S.

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MARCH 9, 2017

I often walk down the street looking at things you could virtualize by clamping HTC’s new peripheral to them. Okay, that doesn’t really happen, but the Vive Tracker does open up a new world of possibilities for SteamVR. Oculus Rifts. But we’ve had a few ideas of our own. Instruments. Phones And Tablets.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

We can say the new cycle started with the announcement of the Apple Vision Pro , because that has been a disruptive moment for our market: Road To VR’s Ben Lang says that it has been the most important moment for virtual reality after Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus , and I agree. And they are entering it to dominate it.

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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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VRScout

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The Ambiotherm brings a whole new level of immersion to virtual reality with realistic weather simulations. Dubbed The Ambiotherm, the unique device sits comfortably on top of preexisting VR headsets and uses a custom mobile application to generate artificial temperature and weather.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

The Vive is the ‘room-scale’ VR system created by HTC and Valve. With high performance VR motion controllers right in the box, the system offers a highly immersive experience that lets you physically walk around a room-sized space while immersed in virtual reality. Find an HTC Vive Demo Location.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

HULU WITH YOUR FRIENDS IN VIRTUAL REALITY. Oculus recently integrated your Facebook profile with your Oculus profile so that you can meet up with your real world friends and hang out in Oculus Rooms, which look like beautiful floating islands in the virtual sky. INVESTMENT & FUNDING WRAPUP.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2022

The reason why I think that this news is super-important is two-sided: On one side, it means that a platform with 50M of daily users is coming into virtual reality. Some months ago, the company behind it teased it was going to launch a virtual world, dubbed Oasis, that should have become “The Linkedin of the M-word”.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 2, 2022

After having teased it, Meta has finally unveiled that it is opening its physical stores where it will sell its hardware : Portal, Ray-Ban Stories, and especially the Quest 2. Goodbye Oculus brand. More info (Meta stores) More info (Oculus website disappearing). Image by HTC Vive). Meta opens its physical stores.

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DECEMBER 4, 2016

In 2016, hardware makers dominate the VR market. Sony is followed by Facebook (the Oculus platform) and Google (Day Dream, Card Board, Tilt Brush, etc.); And HTC is close behind with its high-end headset, Vive, thanks to its partnership with Valve and the very popular Steam platform. Here are some of our findings: 1.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2017

You would enjoy catching ghosts with three other players moving freely around the virtual world alongside you. What makes the experience so immersive is that it is a completely untethered multiplayer walk-around experience complemented by real-world effects, like heat or wind. We’re hoping to install 20 stages this year.”.

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JANUARY 17, 2017

He also teased that “some may be suited to new hardware coming out.” Coatsink has previously worked under the Oculus Studios banner with its two Esper games, which released first on Gear VR before coming over to the Oculus Rift. The new hardware hint is also enticing.

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JULY 24, 2017

The first version of Valve’s SteamVR platform provided us with superior 360 degree room-scale tracking and position-tracked hand input at the hefty price of $799 via HTC’s Vive. Will HTC cut Vive’s price? But regardless of context, these moves put a heck of a lot of pressure on HTC’s Vive.

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ARVR

JANUARY 11, 2021

This is achieved using a headset that completely fills the users field of view in combination with body tracking to map the players body into the virtual world. Some popular examples include the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and the Vavle Index. This problem is likely to get worse as the technology improves.

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JUNE 4, 2020

It’s an important part of how modern VR hardware immerses you in experiences by allowing you to “feel” the virtual world around you.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

And that’s ok, it is still a new technology and it has already made big steps forward (I remember all the computer crashes I had at the Oculus DK 2 times!), Recently I had a big issue with my VR controllers in SteamVR (both with Oculus and Vive) and so I’m writing this post to try to help you in solving it.

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JANUARY 5, 2017

Project Alloy from Intel is a prototype VR headset with important new features from one of the world’s most influential tech companies, and we’ve just tried the first hands-on demo of the hardware at CES. Unlike the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, no outside hardware, sensors, or cameras are needed.

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JUNE 21, 2017

You’ll be able to sit in a real-world go-kart rig and race around in the virtual world. Intel had a bright presence at E3, showing off their wireless solution for the HTC Vive for the first time in public as well as announcing a virtual reality eSports league.

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