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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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Developer Makes VR Accessible to Physically Disabled with Custom Locomotion Driver

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In the video above, VR games Holopoint and Job Simulator are played from a wheelchair position. Job Simulator is less action-orientated, but you are expected to be able to reach well below and above a normal seated position to pick up objects. Bednarski demonstrates both dodging and turning using motion controller inputs.

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‘rFactor 2’ Beta Adds Vive & Rift Support, and it Looks Intense

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It’s been a long time coming for a racing simulator originally released in 2013, but rFactor 2 has just taken an exciting new step for VR fans as the game’s latest beta not only adds DX11 support for enhanced visuals, but OpenVR support, enabling the game to be played on the Rift, Vive, and other headsets supporting OpenVR.

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HelloVR bringing MetaWorld social VR experience to Vive, Oculus, & PlayStationVR

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Creating a social VR experience poses new challenges like head tracking on a massive scale, and networked physics so people can realistically interact in a persistent shared space. The scale of the simulated world, and its networked physics, is enabled by SpatialOS.

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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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Early ‘Fallout 4 VR’ Build Shown at E3 2016 Leaves Mixed Impressions

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Bethesda surprised everyone at this year’s pre-E3 press conference when they announced to the crowd that VR demos of Fallout 4 (coming to HTC Vive in 2017), and what’s shaping up to be a VR tech demo of Doom, would be available afterwards for press to try out. We tend to agree.

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Playing ‘Deus Ex’ With Lenovo’s ‘VR Upscaling’ Was Far From Enjoyable

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This strange little feature, included as part of the company’s upcoming Entertainment Hub storefront, takes AAA games and ‘upscales’ them to run inside the HTC Vive. Despite being on Vive with two base stations facing me, positional tracking was completely disabled in this mode.