XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 6, 2022

At the Augmented World Expo (AWE 2022) last week, extended reality (XR) human-machine interface (HCI) technology developers TG0 showcased its button-free virtual reality (VR) controllers designed for immersive gaming and Metaverse experiences. Other firms such as HaptX create gloves to recreate user movements in immersive environments.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Have you ever wondered, “How does virtual reality work?” How can the right combination of hardware and software instantly transport us into a new world? What components does a “virtual reality” experience need to be truly immersive? In recent years, the “virtual reality” world has evolved drastically.

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VRScout

JANUARY 24, 2022

The wearer is allowed to take several steps forward before the boots are activated so they can better acclimate to their virtual environment. “As Then there are games that do away with hardware altogether.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 29, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR) are set to increase in popularity despite ongoing turbulent times for the Metaverse. Virtual reality combines hardware and software to immerse users in digital environments for numerous use cases, including learning, entertainment, therapy, and others.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Investors include HTC, Rothenberg Ventures, GREE VR Capital, and Brightstone Venture Capital. Supporting Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, VRChat currently offers over 200 user-created worlds, everything from simple environments to some of the most complex creations currently in social VR. million seed investment round.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 3, 2023

The product combines hand tracking with haptic feedback to give the user a more hands-on approach to interacting with the virtual environment around them. Of course, when dealing with VR hardware, “cheaper” is certainly relative. It’s compatible with HTC Vive headsets, as well as Steam VR hardware.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 19, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR) are set to increase in popularity despite ongoing turbulent times for the Metaverse. Virtual reality combines hardware and software to immerse users in digital environments for numerous use cases, including learning, entertainment, therapy, and others.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

teleportation, smooth locomotion), there are a bunch of companies that are trying to solve the problem in the physical world, using some hardware to give the user the possibility of walking naturally in the real world to walk in VR. Apart from the software solutions (e.g. If you are a VR investor, keep an eye on it. Hands-on Ekto VR shoes.

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VRScout

APRIL 17, 2018

In Ready Player One’ s opening act, Steven Spielberg sets the stage for the capabilities of 2045’s VR hardware. It wasn’t long ago that the best method of moving around games and virtual worlds were two joysticks or a set of keyboard keys and a mouse. How close are we to walking around a Ready Player One world?

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Magic Leap has quickly emerged as one of the major market leaders in the Augmented Reality hardware environment. A leader in all things virtual reality, HTC Vive has established itself as perhaps the go-to choice for VR among business users. Magic Leap.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The immersive training industry faces a double-edged sword of a rapid uptake adoption and conversely, limitations from current hardware and software solutions. . Despite this, firms are working to deliver innovative platforms capable of delivering hardware-agnostic, bespoke content delivery systems designed to scale for the enterprise. .

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VRScout

JULY 1, 2016

One of the biggest problems that all virtual reality (VR) developers currently face is movement within virtual reality and the potential of motion sickness. Generally speaking, this problem can be broken down into three components: hardware, software, and each individual’s own perception.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 21, 2023

For example, enterprise and commercial products from Pico, Lenovo, and HTC are debuting left, right, and centre to drive competition in the XR wearables space. However, while Meta designed the Quest with significant hardware improvements, Meta did not upgrade the device’s lens, which remains unchanged from the original model.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 7, 2022

One of the major market leaders in the XR accessories environment, Rebuff Reality focuses on developing enhanced solutions for existing VR hardware and tools. Among the most famous XR innovators on the market today, HTC VIVE offers a range of solutions for those interested in the benefits of spatial audio. Rebuff Reality.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

We talked with The Park Playground CEO Peter Vindevogel, who shared his thoughts on these myths and misconceptions, shedding light on virtual reality technology. AR Apps to Increasingly Leverage AI Tech To create more immersive virtual environments, AR applications must be able to collect a wealth of information about the user’s surroundings.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Running on the HTC Vive Focus, a standalone VR headset with inside-out positional tracking, the game has players returning to the pillaged town of their youth, searching for clues as to what happened. “When you take off the headset, you almost feel that the virtual environment is still there, albeit invisible.

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VRWorld

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

While the second generation handsets from HTC and Oculus are getting shape hidden from the public eye, there are significant changes being announced or previewed for the upcoming Holiday season. Using HTC Vive immerses you in a virtual environment, but you can still feel the wire, ravel and worse. Great… or weird?

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 26, 2023

The enterprise-optimised platform performs seamlessly on many AR/VR/MR devices from headset vendors such as HTC VIVE, Meta, and Microsoft, allowing firms to leverage XR for a range of use cases, including remote guidance, training, and repair solutions. This can help new employees feel more connected to the company and its mission.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Virtual Reality is considered by many to be the ‘final compute platform’, and a key promise of our VR-enriched future is communication. Such a platform could be revolutionary for complex industries such as aerospace and construction, particularly if hazardous environments are involved.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2018

So he proposed to HTC to live 30 days in VR in a way that in these 30 days he could develop very cool things like AI bots and VR locomotion systems while being inside virtual reality with other people helping him remotely… and then share everything developed there to the community as open source software. Isn’t it cool?

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Road to VR

JANUARY 13, 2021

The studio was among a handful of developers which received access to early to HTC Vive development hardware, allowing the game to launch side-by-side with the headset. The 2016 launch of Cloudhead’s first game, The Gallery – Episode 1: Call of the Starseed couldn’t have been under more ideal conditions.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Peck later segued to updates with her company, EndeavorXR, explaining it had always worked with larger original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) such as HTC, Magic Leap, Meta Platforms, and others. She added that many companies in the tech industry had just begun to ‘scratch the surface’ of collaborating in virtual environments.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Recently he got access to a third HTC Vive controller, allowing him to start experimenting with mixed reality video capture. ” The experiments were captured without a green screen, an addition which could make it easier to add the virtual environment to the scene. ”

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Upload VR

JANUARY 19, 2023

The unmistakable bumps of the road and lurches of acceleration seemed believably matched to my movements through each virtual environment. The pack is priced $800 including an HTC Vive Flow headset, an 8BitDo controller, and a one-year subscription to Holoride’s platform.

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Tech Trends VR

AUGUST 20, 2018

AltspaceVR brings out new tools to make it easy for anybody to make and share their own personalized virtual environments. Recently unveiled updates to Microsoft’s social VR platform will allow anyone to build customizable VR spaces. My favorite picture from the @AltspaceVR after party today… what do you think?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Extended reality and Metaverse firms lack standardised metrics for measuring human behaviour in virtual environments based on current legacy data analytics, a new report on Monday has found. What’s the Deal on Data?

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Peter Graham

JULY 31, 2019

This can come in several forms from 360-degree video to interactive virtual environments such as those being developed by RedPill VR at its Social Virtual Reality (SVR) platform or TheWaveVR. If VRJam hits the funding goal the money will be used towards building interactive virtual environments for artists and fans.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 16, 2016

It would be nearly a full year before HTC would revolutionize VR control with its Vive wands, and over a year until Oculus would reveal Touch. The question is, what’s in the works for VR hardware right now that today’s developers should be working on for tomorrow?

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VRScout

APRIL 26, 2021

We chatted with some of the cast and crew from Finding Pandora X to learn more about what it’s like to perform in a virtual environment. But what does it take to bring a project as ambitious as this to life? As a performer, what—in your opinion—is the biggest difference between performing in VR and the real world?

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VRWorld

AUGUST 17, 2016

Project Alloy is best described as a VR Headset in the class of HTC Vive or Oculus Rift, but with the ability to “cut the VR cord”, since it features mobile processing similar to the one used on Microsoft’s HoloLens. Just like HoloLens, Project Alloy lets you use your own fingers and hands to control the virtual environment.

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Doc-Ok

DECEMBER 19, 2018

It’s been more than two years since the last time I posted set-up instructions for Vrui and HTC Vive , and a lot has changed in the meantime. While Vrui is not itself based on SteamVR, it uses SteamVR’s low-level hardware drivers to talk to the Vive headset and receive 6-DOF tracking and event data from it and its controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

It has been made together with the development of the VR hardware, it can’t translate to mouse and keyboard. That is, the avatar recorded this way can be put in virtual environments and it will reflect the light in the correct way, for a much improved realism. Rikard Steiber departs HTC. Some satyre on HTC.

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EON Reality

AUGUST 29, 2019

This internship will provide students with application ideation, incubation, and development across a plethora of hardware systems. These systems run the gamut from mobile devices and Head Mounted Displays (HMDs) such as Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and others, to research-specific spaces likes Cave Automatic Virtual Environments (CAVEs).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2019

I had the pleasure of participating to the “VR Visionaries” event in Kaohsiung and then I headed to Taipei to meet some XR companies (like HTC ) and people. This was the best feature for me: it was really like all of us were in this virtual environment, all together. Are you ready for immersing into Taiwan?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

It’s multimodality so that you do not need to throw away your devices, you can work continue working with them even if you buy several other devices from HTC, from whomever else. It allows users to walk around in a shared virtual environment without requiring a controller.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Virtual reality is a hot topic in the field of science and technology. It is assumed that the cost of hardware and the complexity of production are the obstructions for the massive adoption of virtual reality. What is the next tipping point for virtual reality?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 27, 2020

What is a bit disappointing is the price, $1500, that anyway is inline with other enterprise hardware, the quite strange design and the fact that it doesn’t support controllers, but only hands tracking. I appreciate that Lynx is trying to propose something different, and I can’t wait to test it to see how good it is!

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