Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

So naturally, Valve doesn’t just let anybody wander in and around its headquarters in Seattle, Washington to see what’s going on. Yang is a user experience designer who: “has worked on virtual reality software and hardware, features for Steam, and game teams. Best of luck to those who do participate.

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Road to VR

MAY 16, 2017

At that time, Valve partnered with Synapse , a Seattle-area product development firm, to provide a mandatory training program for all SteamVR licensees. SEE ALSO A Look at NASA's Hybrid Reality Astronaut Training System, Powered by HTC Vive. Road to VR: Getting to Seattle is a difficulty for some VR startups.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

At a press briefing in Seattle this week, as reported by Gamasutra , company founder Gabe Newell teased what it was working on in VR right now, and shared thoughts about where he thought the tech would go in the near future. Tagged with: Gabe Newell , htc vive , valve. But the company’s plans for the future go well beyond that.

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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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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

The initiative was revealed by Valve’s Joe Ludwig during a talk at this year’s developer-focused Steam Dev Days event in Seattle last month. Ludwig goes on to say that “we’re actively working on support for both OSX and Linux and we hope to get support for both of them into a beta in the next few months.”

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HaptX

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

A couple months ago on a murky Seattle day, my colleague Andrew and I were at the HaptX office discussing the upcoming release of Ready Player One. With Oculus Go arriving in early 2018 and HTC Vive an official partner of RPO, headset-makers see a huge upside, regardless of whether the movie is commercially successful.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

There was just one catch though: people hoping to use SteamVR Tracking in their devices would need to attend a $3,000 introductory course in Seattle. The SteamVR Tracking base stations that ship with the HTC Vive. Currently the standalone base stations sold by HTC cost $130.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Business leaders gathered at this year’s Seattle based IMMERSE Summit ( previously Sea VR ) to explore how VR/ AR and Mixed Reality is transforming manufacturing, design, education, health and medicine and much more. SEE ALSO Madrona Venture Group on Why Seattle is a Hotbed for VR and AR.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2020

And now also companies are affected directly : after a worker has been found positive to the virus in the Seattle venue, now a group of Facebook employees has been left working from home. HTC has answered to Road To VR about the critics regarding the too many headsets of its on the market. Header image by HTC Vive).

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Peter Graham

JUNE 28, 2019

Right from the off when Valve introduced the headset for the first time at a special press event in Seattle the company made it quite clear its intentions for Valve Index. Discounting things like the buttons and triggers, controllers such as the Oculus Touch or the ones for HTC Vive only have a single wrist strap to deal with.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 16, 2019

She’s the former head of content acquisition and partnerships for VIVE Port at HTC VIVE, and she used to be the V.P. When I was at HTC, yes, my job was a quote/unquote, “sit behind a desk” kind of thing. All of these organizations are– Alan: I think that was probably back when you were at HTC. Jenna: Yep.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 16, 2019

She’s the former head of content acquisition and partnerships for VIVE Port at HTC VIVE, and she used to be the V.P. When I was at HTC, yes, my job was a quote/unquote, “sit behind a desk” kind of thing. All of these organizations are– Alan: I think that was probably back when you were at HTC. Jenna: Yep.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 16, 2019

She's the former head of content acquisition and partnerships for VIVE Port at HTC VIVE, and she used to be the V.P. When I was at HTC, yes, my job was a quote/unquote, "sit behind a desk" kind of thing. Alan: I think that was probably back when you were at HTC. He's a wonderful voice for all the things that HTC is doing.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Recently, Valve announced delays to their new Steam Deck handheld, whilst Megadodo Games announced a delayed, limited production run of their DecaGear before leaving the hardware market completely. I considered the Valve Index controllers a very reasonable price at £129.50

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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. Although the PSVR has proven to be the most commercially successful VR hardware to date – selling over 4.2 Sony’s Next Move. As of the end of November, the game had reportedly surpassed 2.5 million downloads.

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