Road to VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

What you see (embedded above) is the company’s brief but intriguing video, built for posting to the HTC Vive subreddit /r/vive , to tease a new demo the company seem to be planning to show at next weeks Game Developer Conference in San Francisco.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 29, 2018

This week at XRDC in San Francisco, the company spoke more about the dev kit and noted that between the Vive Focus and other Vive Wave powered headsets, consumers are likely to see a number of different 6DOF controller tracking technologies accompanying different headsets. New details have emerged about the device this week.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

We got our first chance to try out the system today at an HTC press event in San Francisco. The shell includes necessary hardware for the tracking system which is based on ultrasonics. Today at a press event in San Francisco we got our first chance to try out the 6DOF controller dev kit. Photo by Road to VR.

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Road to VR

MAY 19, 2016

Although we’re still worried about the lack of positional head tracking solutions and that affect on comfort in more active mobile VR experiences. .” The video also quite rightly highlights that the reason mobile VR is so promising is that truly untethered VR experiences can be enjoyed.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 4, 2016

In his portion of today’s keynote address in San Francisco, Google’s VP of VR, Clay Bavor stated that when he and his team were conceiving View’s design they “wanted to think about what you actually wear…your clothes” and the soft cloth of the device backs up that sentiment perfectly.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

In a meeting at HTC’s Vive office in San Francisco this week, I got to go hands-on with the Vive Cosmos headset. That said, my hands-on was with the headset and its default inside-out tracking system. HTC’s latest VR headset, Vive Cosmos, is just around the corner. Photo by Road to VR.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Does Not Exist drops you into the center of Reeps One’s first virtual reality Beatbox performance – exploring the latest technology for VR and head-tracked 3D spatial audio. SAN FRANCISCO – September 30th, 2016. DOES NOT EXIST, by JOHN HENDICOTT & GAWAIN LIDDIARD. BERLIN – September 16th, 2016.

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