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Microsoft May Leapfrog Facebook and Google in VR With HoloLens Tracking

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Microsoft’s play for command of next generation personal computing can be seen today with the announcement of a series of Windows-powered VR headsets starting at $300. The headsets planned from HP, Dell, Lenovo, Asus, and Acer will use what’s known as “inside-out” position tracking.

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First look at HTC Vive Sync

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(Image courtesy HTC Vive.). Yesterday afternoon, I got a preview of the new HCT Vive Sync virtual meeting platform from HTC Vive, and it’s the best one I’ve seen yet — and I have seen a lot of these platforms. — HTC VIVE (@htcvive) April 30, 2020. Image courtesy HTC Vive.). VIVE Focus Plus.

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Top 10 VR headsets to spice up your Thanksgiving

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HTC Vive Pro 2. Controllers: HTC Vive and Vive Pro wireless controller. Price : $1, 400 for full kit on Amazon or $900 directly from HTC. HTC Vive Cosmos Elite. or directly from HTC , including controllers and two base stations. Price: $3,500 from Microsoft. Image courtesy Microsoft.). Playstation VR.

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Hands-On With Google’s Inside-Out WorldSense Tracking

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First, he said, I was going to use a generation older hardware from internal prototypes that likely would be improved upon in practically every way before its release as a reference design to developers and eventually to consumers (Google hopes at least HTC can achieve consumer release in 2017 with its first standalone headset).

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‘Minecraft’ Finally Gets Touch Support, But It Doesn’t Change Much

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Instead of it working like this… It really has to work like this… Essentially, you’re just decoupling the aiming from the head-tracked controls, which is how you play Minecraft in VR with an Xbox controller. We’ve reached out to Microsoft about the direction taken with Touch support.

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HoloLens Inside-out Tracking Is Game Changing for AR & VR, and No One Is Talking about It

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But immersive head-mounted AR for consumers has had one major hurdle that Microsoft may have just solved. For a long time it didn’t seem like real progress was being made on inside-out tracking even while it was being made in other important areas of AR like display technology.

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VR Takes Center Stage at Dubai’s DEAL 2023 Expo: Highlights and Takeaways

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So, in the past few weeks we have seen big tech, including Meta and Microsoft, announce massive layoffs , mostly to their XR division and at the same time, pivoting towards artificial intelligence and generative content. The hardware consisted of blue HTC Vive Pros connected to the gaming PCs above.