VRScout

JANUARY 7, 2019

Fresh hardware, a bold new social platform, and Vive Pro eye-tracking are on the way. The 2019 Consumer Electronic Expo is off to an exciting start as HTC Vive debuted not only a new VR headset capable of inside-out tracking, but a new social platform, new subscription service, and new updates to their existing Viveport platform.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 11, 2024

This week, reports revealed that Google is laying off a significant portion of its 1P AR hardware team, casting doubts upon its in-house XR product portfolio. In a statement, Google announced: A few hundred roles are being eliminated in DSPA, with the majority of impacts on the 1P AR Hardware team.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Today during the Vive Developers Conference in Beijing, HTC revealed the Vive Focus, a standalone VR headset with inside-out positional tracking. Update (11/14/17): HTC has confirmed to Road to VR that the company is cancelling plans to bring a Daydream-based version of the Vive Focus headset to Western markets, including the US and Europe.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

There are already some OEMs collaborating with Qualcomm on this chip, and we can expect to see the first hardware implementing it in the second half of 2023. Talking about hardware, a great partner of Qualcomm is Niantic , which make two great announcements at the Snapdragon Summit. HTC’s new headset gets leaked.

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Road to VR

JUNE 19, 2020

HTC has announced that it will offer its Vive WAVE mobile VR platform to all Snapdragon-based headsets. The move means that headset makers will be able to adopt HTC’s ready-made headset OS (instead of developing their own) and gain instant content compatibility with a pre-existing VR app ecosystem.

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Road to VR

MARCH 21, 2018

Qualcomm today announced their Snapdragon 845 Virtual Reality Development Kit (VRDK) reference headset will have support for Vive Wave, HTC’s open API which allows a large range of third-party headsets and peripherals access to a common platform.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

HTC Vive Cosmos (Image by HTC). The Vive Cosmos is the latest PC VR headset announced by HTC at CES 2019. HTC has been able to create some hype towards th is device, that has appeared intriguing since the beginning. Thanks to it, the Cosmos is nominally the headset with the best-in-class tracking hardware.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Citing people familiar with the situation, the report maintains that TikTok parent ByteDance is canceling Pico’s next VR headset, or what is being referred to as ‘Pico 5’ It’s said this was in direct response to middling sales of Pico 4, the standalone released in Asia and Europe to compete with Meta Quest 2.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

For a while now we’ve been waiting for the industry to coalesce around a standard VR hardware platform. Now Qualcomm , a leading semiconductor company which regularly releases smartphone ‘reference’ platforms from which companies build their products, aims to fill that gap in the mobile VR space.

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Road to VR

APRIL 6, 2017

The acclaimed VR action RPG is due to receive a large update that launches the original game out of Early Access, with brand new content and new hardware support also in the works. The post ‘Vanishing Realms’ Roadmap: New Content, Hardware Support, and 1.0 Launch on the Way appeared first on Road to VR.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 10, 2022

One day before Meta Connect HTC appears to be teasing a consumer Vive standalone headset. Last week HTC teased a new “small” headset on Twitter, sharing a dark image of the corner of what is presumably the visor. — HTC VIVE (@htcvive) October 10, 2022. — HTC VIVE (@htcvive) October 10, 2022.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 9, 2019

This week at CES 2019 Qualcomm is showing off a new VR reference headset sporting impressive new displays that may well define the next wave of VR headsets. In many cases though, the essential foundation of the reference design can be felt in the end product. Photo by Road to VR.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

And the price of the wireless add-on is even more suspicious: speaking with a hardware manufacturer, they told me that ONLY THE ANTENNAS of a Wi-Gig connection for VR streaming (like the one of the Vive Pro) costs around $100… so how can the whole wireless streaming device cost just $50?? Doug Lombardi, Valve. But I can speculate.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 17, 2017

.” This is the tagline accompanying the shadowy image of a brand new virtual reality headset that was unveiled today from the manufacturers of the popular Vive VR system: HTC. One of these partners is HTC. The new headset will be releasing from HTC “later this year.” HTC VIVE (@htcvive) May 17, 2017.

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VRScout

JANUARY 11, 2019

Qualcomm’s new VR headset shares many similarities with the HTC Vive Comsos. . Whatever it is, Qualcomm isn’t talking, referring to it as simply a ‘new reference headset.’ ’ The headset will also house what the company refers to as their “sharpest screen yet,” featuring “real RGB displays.”

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Like with smartphones, daily technology ubiquity starts at home, and the more decision-makers get casually familiar with the hardware, the easier it is for XR champions to promote the technology among their peers in the workplace. HTC VIVE Debuts Ultimate Trackers HTC VIVE unveiled its VIVE Ultimate Tracker.

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VRScout

JANUARY 2, 2022

Meta’s incredible standalone VR headset has set the bar high for competing hardware manufacturers, offering players access to a massive catalog of AAA games and apps from some of the industry’s most sought-after developers. The hardware itself is nothing short of amazing. Who saw this coming except everyone? Valve Index.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Today it’s a great day for virtual reality: at WCVRI conference, HTC has just announced a kit to provide 6 DOF controllers for Vive Focus and has showcased a hands-tracking technology for the Vive Pro ! The city is full of references to Virtual Reality, and so it is like a paradise for us VR enthusiasts. Really fantastic.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Another, rumored version of the headset referred to as the ‘Omnicept Edition’ is said to include eye, mouth, and face-tracking. The blog Aggiornamenti Lumia claims to have uncovered a photo of the headset , which it refers to as the “Reverb G2 Omnicept Edition.” Image courtesy Aggiornamenti Lumia.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Seemingly in an effort to keep the spotlight during an increasingly hot month of VR announcements, Facebook teased a look at two new XR headset prototypes just a day after an apparent leak of HTC’s upcoming Vive Flow headset. With all this new XR hardware in the works, it’s certainly turning out to be an exciting month.

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Road to VR

MARCH 21, 2022

.” Over the years Qualcomm has been increasingly involved in creating reference designs for emerging product categories, many of which in the past centered around VR headsets, which involved its purpose-built Snapdragon XR processors. Those have found their way into VR headsets such as Meta Quest 2, HTC Vive Focus 3, and Pico Neo 3.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Later this year the game will also come to PC VR , though it will only support hardware with full finger-tracking, which primarily means any headset using Index controllers (unfortunately Oculus hasn’t brought Quest’s hand-tracking to Rift S).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 8, 2017

Microsoft’s $300 partner headsets were on display (although no one was allowed to actually turn them on) and companies like Intel and Qualcomm were showing off impressive reference designs that could mean big things for the future. That company was HTC. HTC’s opposite number right now is Facebook.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 6, 2020

According to the test conducted by VDC Fellbach, HTC Vive Cosmos’ inside-out optical system consistently shakes out as the least accurate of the bunch. Note : This article refers to the stock HTC Vive Cosmos , and not Vive Cosmos Elite, which ships with a SteamVR tracking-compatible faceplate. How It Was Measured.

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Road to VR

MARCH 30, 2017

HTC Vive Senior Engineer James Xiong has provided a Vive IK Demo on GitHub , which includes a reference source code and Unity demo. Using the HTC Vive headset and controllers combined with three Vive Trackers, the program uses hardware tracking and inverse kinematics to pose a virtual model that closely matches the human player.

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VRScout

MARCH 27, 2021

By employing a unique combination of haptic technology and hardware-agnostic software, Fundamental Surgery is able to deliver a genuine sense of touch when performing key surgical actions, interacting with specific medical tools, and operating on different tissue variants.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2022

Since the hardware is almost ready, the company is now ramping up the development of the actual rOS (Reality OS) operating system, for the launch that may happen in 2023. Qualcomm’s new reference design is wireless. Qualcomm has released its latest reference design for AR glasses and it features an important new feature.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 17, 2016

HTC held joint developer forum at Alibaba’s Cloud computing conference this weekend in China and had a number of big things to say about what their plans are to help grow the VR ecosystem, including becoming a “publisher” for VR content to experience centers as well as launching a beta of their Viveport platform for mobile called, Viveport M.

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Road to VR

JULY 10, 2017

With content for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive maturing since their respective launches last year, there’s more reason than ever to finally jump into VR—especially now that the Rift + Touch is on sale for $400. This gives developers a baseline hardware target so that they can ensure the consistent 90 FPS requirement is met.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Notably, the headset doesn’t include the requiste SteamVR tracking base stations or SteamVR-compatible controllers like the Valve Index controller or HTC Vive wand—you’ll have to purchase those separately. Valve Index, HTC Vive). HTC Vive Tracker, Tundra Tracker). Base Stations. Not included. Not included.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 5, 2024

Alongside the announcement of the new Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 chip, Qualcomm also revealed its latest reference headset, a mixed reality device that’s likely the foundation of Samsung’s upcoming headset. But then there’s the parts that are usually heavily customized between the reference headset and the finished product.

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Road to VR

MAY 25, 2018

.” Standalone headsets have largely made use of SoCs originally designed for smartphones, including the Snapdragon 835 chipset, which services a number of the latest and penultimate-gen flagship smartphones including Samsung’s Galaxy S8, Google Pixel 2, and HTC U11.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Founded in 2001, Tobii has become well known in the industry for its eye-tracking hardware and software stacks.

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Road to VR

JULY 2, 2018

The monthly Steam hardware survey is out again, and while June hasn’t revealed any major upsets in the balances of usership between HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, the survey shows that Windows “Mixed Reality” VR headsets are making slow, but steady headway on the platform. Participation in the survey is optional.

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AllThingsVR

MARCH 31, 2017

HTC Releases Full Body Tracking Code for Use with Vive and Trackers HTC Vive Senior Engineer James Xiong has provided a Vive IK Demo on GitHub, which includes a reference source code and Unity demo.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 5, 2024

This week, VR and MR device vendor Goertek partnered with hand-tracking experts Ultraleap to announce a VR/MR headset reference design that follows from Qualcomm’s XR2+ Gen 2 chipset revealment yesterday – where Qualcomm also revealed the new reference design.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Another way to subdivide these figures is hardware versus software. The biggest factor driving that hardware base today is Facebook’s VR investments , most notably the Q4-launched Oculus Quest 2. Always see chart date for context, and refer to newer projections if applicable. Rising Tide. million last year to 14.3

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