VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

This release (available 9/8 for HTC Vive) is really just a taste of the larger project to come: Favreau’s ultimate goal is a sprawling open world that you explore and build relationships with the gnome and goblin inhabitants… we can only hope that funny elves will somehow be involved.

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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

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

It is able to offer this thanks to the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 chipset (and its related reference design), that has been conceived with these features in mind. New Steam hardware survey highlights that the number of VR headsets has grown again, and now according to Road To VR there are 1.6M The good news for Valve don’t end here.

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Road to VR

MAY 24, 2016

Revive is an application that allows select VR games exclusive to the Oculus Home platform to be played on a rival SteamVR-powered HTC Vive headset. For Valve and HTC’s Vive headset it’s Steam, for Oculus and the Rift it’s Oculus Home. What does Revive actually do under the hood? Who’s behind it?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Apple’s take on immersive technologies will also test the future of XR hardware solutions and their roles in the broader XR community through rigorous use cases. Platforms already exist that provide the immersion Apple offers but without the need to have a bulky — and very expensive — piece of hardware strapped to your face.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

It’s refreshing to see Pimax continuing to develop high-end virtual reality hardware, whilst other players have scaled back their plans, canceled projects, or just offered… radio silence. This would be my second test of hardware from Pimax, following last year’s Sword controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

We can deploy to a vast of platforms using game engines like Unity, Unreal Engine, the more recent Godot engine or any of the other engines out there, which have all started to add VR features”. Where OpenVR stands between our application and the hardware (Image by Valve). You may be saying “Come on!

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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. On a purely technical standpoint, the two headsets are very similar , since they are both based on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 reference design. Oculus Quest and controllers (Image by Oculus).

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the two different components about that, one being the resource guide, just starting to learn about how to meet as an avatar, which hardware to use, the accessibility challenges that are out there and really writing. They're creating kind of reference designs for the world to build on. But then you look at Unreal.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the two different components about that, one being the resource guide, just starting to learn about how to meet as an avatar, which hardware to use, the accessibility challenges that are out there and really writing. They're creating kind of reference designs for the world to build on. But then you look at Unreal.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the two different components about that, one being the resource guide, just starting to learn about how to meet as an avatar, which hardware to use, the accessibility challenges that are out there and really writing. They're creating kind of reference designs for the world to build on. But then you look at Unreal.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2024

Together with the new chipset, Qualcomm prepared also a reference design (as usual), which gives us a glimpse of how future headsets employing this chip may look like. UEVR is a universal VR mod, and it lets everyone easily convert every Unreal Engine-based PC game (including the AAA ones) into a VR experience.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 3, 2017

There are plenty of brand new hardware innovations that we could be getting peeks at during the show too. Vive (HTC). The HTC subsidiary is still finalizing its show plan and has told us it will update us with final details soon. What we think: Valve is nothing if not careful and patient with its messaging.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

It makes sense for Samsung, which is great in manufacturing hardware, to partner with Microsoft , that is doing a good job in creating a platform for XR, to compete with the other companies. It is a big showcase demo for its Unreal Engine 5, and I have to say it is pretty impressive.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

Digilens shows a reference design for AR glasses. DigiLens, one of the most important Waveguide optics manufacturers, has just announced the “Design v1”, a reference design for modular AR glasses. HTC had $210 million as the total revenue for 2020. Facebook may be losing at least $100 for every sold Quest 2.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This week has been the week of the Oculus Connect 6 , the biggest yearly event by Oculus where the VR company announces all its most important news, both on hardware and software sides. It is much better than ALVR and other similar solutions (of course, because Oculus can operate at a deeper level on its hardware and runtime).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The event has not featured any important hardware announcement, because it was all focused on declaring the new shift of focus of Facebook. He stressed many times how he wants to empower creators, and how he wants to provide free tools for content creators and cheap hardware for the users. Are you ready?

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