The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Image by HTC Vive). HTC is probably going to announce Vive Flow. With a surprise move, HTC Vive has started teasing the launch of a new product. The company has set up a virtual event on the platform ENGAGE (of which HTC is an investor) for October, 14th 2021 at 8 am PDT. Send me hugs while I’m still human!

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2024

Beat Saber and Gorilla Tag) came from small and unknown indie studios , you realize how important it is to let everyone in the community experiment with new paradigms. How to preserve privacy then? What if you want to experiment with AI and MR and you don’t want to wait for Meta/Pico/HTC to provide access to the camera feed?

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VRScout

JUNE 23, 2016

We immediately saw how entertainment centers like The VOID can not only provide more access to the often cost-prohibitive immersive technology, but also help create an entirely new industry of real-life VR arcades that consumers will seek out to experience with groups of friends on a Friday night.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Geekbench has just published the scores for a new Vive Focus headset , indicating that a new standalone headset by HTC is coming. But for sure HTC wants Oculus to feel the competition, if this “leak” on the new Focus has “casually” happened some days before the launch of the new Quest…. (Image by Qualcomm).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 18, 2017

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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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 28, 2023

Refer to your Chinese contacts to understand how to connect to the internet in the proper way and set everything up BEFORE starting your trip. She went on doing some sort of Airbnb via a website I don’t even know how to pronounce. Otherwise, you are left to hacks on how to solve things. Absolutely not.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2020

Developers have not had great examples yet of how to make visually polished, reliable applications. This should not only enable us to get rid of annoying ads, but also the kind of “clickbait content” that is just trying to drive as much traffic as possible, no matter how small the engagement is, in order to maximize the ad revenue.

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Road to VR

JULY 7, 2016

The suite of HTC Vive-compatible mini-games primarily acts as a showcase for the company’s GPU-based physics systems, wrapping in a number of visual effects available through the GamesWorks SDK. VR SLI — The more, the merrier. The post NVIDIA ‘VR Funhouse’ Coming to Steam for Free This Month appeared first on Road to VR.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 6, 2017

VR input gloves are getting a big boost thanks to HTC’s newly revealed Vive Tracker. SEE ALSO Hands-on: HTC's New Vive Tracker Makes VR More Immersive With Specialized Accessories. The Vive Tracker, it seems, is about to change all of that.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 9, 2021

Facebook and HTC offer two standalone headsets ( Oculus Quest 2 and Vive Focus 3 ) that have the possibility of working as PCVR devices when connected with a PC via a USB-A to USB-C cable. Watching or reading, the eternal dilemma. DisplayPort connection.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2022

It has become one of the headset manufacturers with the biggest worldwide market, and the market leader (together with HTC) in the B2B virtual reality sector. When I reviewed it , I highlighted how this is so much cooler than USB streaming: you have no latency and no visual compression, it’s fantastic.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 16, 2019

I got a chance to try out the software at CES 2019, getting a full demo of the VR side of Mobile Connect using a HTC Vive Pro and a pair of Android smartphones—one for my far-flung contact, and the other for me, which normally sits tight in my pocket so I can keep my notification anxiety in check. Image courtesy Dell.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 30, 2017

We know that now with the Oculus Touch and the HTC Vive, but even when VR was simply a screen strapped to your head many felt that hands were the future. Back in 2014, we didn’t realize exactly how accurate SteamVR tracking was—the whole notion of roomscale VR was almost incomprehensible.

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Road to VR

MARCH 29, 2017

For developers, hackers, researchers, and more who might have use for an inexpensive high accuracy, low latency, 6 DOF positional tracking system, it’s possible to use the new Vive Trackers or controllers (even with a single base station) without needing to shell out for the full $800 Vive system. x86-based PC.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Today I host a new post by my friend and VR professional Rob Cole , who has already published many interesting posts on my blog, including a review of Pimax Sword controllers , a series of hack on how to modify the Valve Index , and his experiements in creating new innovative controllers for SteamVR. HTC Vive Trackers (Image by Rob Cole).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Disclaimer: HTC provided three of their Vive Tracker 3.0 What is an HTC Vive Tracker? Whilst the first part of this article looked at the history of the HTC Vive Tracker and its three different versions, the second part will focus on some practical experiments with the latest HTC Vive Tracker 3.0. HTC Vive Tracker 3.0

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Doc-Ok

OCTOBER 15, 2016

The main issue was that I had been chasing evolving hardware, from the Oculus Rift DK1 to the Oculus Rift DK2, and now to HTC’s Vive. I have been working on full native support for HTC’s Vive head-mounted display over the last few months (with the first major break-through in May), and I think it’s working really well.

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Price ranges from $60 to $100, which is rather affordable, compared with Oculus Rift or HTC Vive. Adults may want to help children to set up because it requires heavy lifting on how to pair everything together. . HTC Vive ($499). The Gear VR headset has 101 degrees of FOV and weighs 345 g. iDudu VR ($54.86).

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Road to VR

JANUARY 2, 2017

One of the more intriguing is Nolo, an add-on which promises to add both positional ‘room scale’ head and motion controllers to your Android powered virtual reality headset with latency quoted at less than 20ms. Left to Right] Headset ‘marker’, Base station and motion controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Amazon promises “single-digit latency” XR streaming. Amazon has announced some weeks ago “Wavelength”, a new offering of its AWS services, that should provide “single-digit latency” over 5G networks. The company highlights how this can be very useful for XR streaming, game streaming, IoT and more. Better Adoption = Better ROI.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The metaverse workplace may seem like a distant possibility, but innovators have been planning how to make it a reality over the last few years. Meaning ‘beyond’ and ‘a single, unified entity’, the Metaverse will reshape how people explore ideas, socialise, and work with a new spatial communications environment.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2023

After some puzzling about how to solve this, I used a spare Valve Index headset rear foam spacer (made for small heads) and cut off the portion that plugs into the Index harness, before sticking strips of industrial-grade Velcro onto the rear. As the image above shows, once installed, there are additional settings in the headset menu.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 24, 2021

Thanks to HTC that has kindly provided me a loaner device, I have been able to test in the last days the Vive Focus 3 Business Edition. The latest standalone headset from HTC was announced a month ago, and it generated a lot of buzz in the community for its premium features associated with a high price. Are you ready? (PS

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 3, 2021

Image by HTC Vive). HTC rises the hype for the launch of its new headset. For once, HTC seems to have organized the pre-launch of its new upcoming headset fairly well. HTC has said this headset will be amazing , so everyone is hoping for this to be true, even if we all know that the price will be high.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

I ended up at Valve Software running their hardware department, putting the team together that created the HTC Vive. We were tasked with exploring how to bring new gamers into the Steam platform. Jeri, at Valve they did have that sort of choice point, and they chose to do Steam VR and get behind the HTC Vive.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 15, 2018

I’ve also seen an HTC Vive sold off-the-shelf in a tech shop). How innovative. The Potato 9000 headset immediately shown its most important features: – Cheap LCD display; – Motion to photon latency that was super-high; – No integrated audio. All big malls have at least a VR station, that’s true.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

Maybe they can figure out how to put a headset on their face. And so I think you’re gonna continue to see that, until we figure out how to really tell stories and drive other types of emotion in VR. Like one of the things I did some work with zero latency and they did some work with the Australian Army in building simulations.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

Maybe they can figure out how to put a headset on their face. And so I think you’re gonna continue to see that, until we figure out how to really tell stories and drive other types of emotion in VR. Like one of the things I did some work with zero latency and they did some work with the Australian Army in building simulations.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 7, 2022

Very high bandwidth and single or low double-digit millisecond latency is the goal. A study conducted by HTC Vive together with a Chinese university shows that Virtual Reality has much more addictive potential (+44%) than traditional flat gaming. Meta has also partnered with the Spanish telco Telefónica. Learn more.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Back six months ago when we started to create this project of providing everybody with a resource of how to collaborate online using XR technologies. We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond. You have HTC in China dominating the Chinese market with their headsets. Alex: Near zero latency.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Back six months ago when we started to create this project of providing everybody with a resource of how to collaborate online using XR technologies. We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond. You have HTC in China dominating the Chinese market with their headsets. Alex: Near zero latency.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Instagram has a very popular creation tool called SparkAR , which can be easily used by all creators without knowing how to code, and has seen a spike in usage in 2020. million AR effects on Facebook and Instagram. I think that in 2021, we’ll see always more examples of this technology. And that’s it!

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Back six months ago when we started to create this project of providing everybody with a resource of how to collaborate online using XR technologies. We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond. You have HTC in China dominating the Chinese market with their headsets. Alex: Near zero latency.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

And that means that every time you go to use Vision Pro you have to consciously think about how to best position this 353 gram anchor, around double the weight of a typical smartphone, and how to keep the cable out of the way of your left arm. At a comfortable viewing size, the legibility feels somewhere between a 1440p and 4K monitor.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Explaining further, he said, “We’ve done a lot of interesting demos with clients to learn how to make the more fluid, nut just for internal and business matter, but also for consumers. The new comprehensive system hosts full-scale events, virtual CX stores, product views, and other functions.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2024

But I still hope for Santa Claus to come and make me a delayed gift In the links here below I’m also adding some extra content about the Vision Pro: a link with a leaked video of how Safari works on the device , and a weird patent with some strange ideas of how to use its external display. The PCVR space is literally on fire.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

That sounds so simple, but we are 40x resolution of the best competitor headset, HTC Vive Pro. Say, you are trying to learn how to start a plane. It’s insane amout of data processing, and our latency is ridiculously low. Explain to the few people that still don’t know Varjo, what is your company and what it does.

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