Road to VR

MARCH 25, 2020

HTC is doing just that throughout the next few months in a live webinar happening every Tuesday, from now until mid-May. Starting on March 31st and going to May 12th, HTC is streaming live developer talks that it would have otherwise given during GDC 2020. Curious about how to stand out on a VR app store? Why live talks?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 6, 2017

In just 3 short days from June 16 – June 18 you’ll learn how to build a VR experience from scratch using the Unity game engine. HTC Vives & Oculus Rifts for Project Testing. 7:30pm: Intro to the VR Industry: history, design contraints, how VR works. Start your journey as a VR creator! WHAT’S INCLUDED.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Otherwise, contact HTC support to have your Vive fixed (good luck with that). In my case, the controllers weren’t detected in any app, not even in Unity when developing for VR. The system will guide you in updating the firmware if any new firmware is available; How to update the firmware on your HTC Vive devices.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 6, 2017

In just 3 short days you’ll learn how to build a VR experience from scratch using the Unity game engine. HTC Vives for Project Testing. 7:30pm: Intro to the VR Industry: history, design contraints, how VR works. • 8:00pm: Intro to Unity | Building your first VR Experience & Selecting your project. •

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

More info (Quest 3 going ok in Steam Hardware Survey) More info (Quest 2 selling much better than Quest 3 on Amazon) HTC announced the Vive Ultimate Tracker Finally, HTC has officially announced the Vive Ultimate Tracker, its standalone inside-out tracker unit. But for now, we are not sure at all this is going to happen.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Even in the enterprise landscape, companies can give professionals step-by-step instructions on how to use critical tools, by overlaying information on top of real-world technology. Already, various leading companies have begun implementing HTC VIVE technology into their educational environments. That’s where Unity comes in.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The past week has been a pretty interesting one for the tech world: between Microsoft Ignite, Unity Unite, and the OpenAI drama, there has been a lot to follow. Unity 6 takes back the original way of specifying engine versions and abandons the confusing one that bound a new Unity version to the year it was released.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Unity Game Engine ?? Unreal Engine eXtended Reality (XR) Technology Platforms | Source: [link] How to Select Extended Reality (XR) Toolkit? ? It provides a framework that makes 3D and UI interactions available from Unity input events. Three main eXtended Reality (XR) interaction toolkits/platforms are: ?? Maturity of Toolkit ?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

In 2015 my girlfriend came with a Cardboard and with no experience with Unity I created my first 360 photo which I’ve shown to my manger. The post KLM’s Chris Koomen teaches us how to use AR/VR in the civil aviation sector appeared first on The Ghost Howls. There started to grow the use of interactions in 360 videos.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Image by HTC Vive). HTC expands its Cosmos offering and teases the future with Proton. This has been a pretty interesting week for HTC Vive. And it is nice that HTC with this new Cosmos line is satisfying the needs of a broad share of VR people : from the casual gamer that wants something cheap to the professional.

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Road to VR

MARCH 30, 2017

HTC Vive Senior Engineer James Xiong has provided a Vive IK Demo on GitHub , which includes a reference source code and Unity demo. Using the HTC Vive headset and controllers combined with three Vive Trackers, the program uses hardware tracking and inverse kinematics to pose a virtual model that closely matches the human player.

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VRScout

JULY 8, 2021

These virtual offerings are split into three categories: the VeeR VR Cinema, the Unity for Garden Showcase, and the Cannes XR Developer Showcase. But how to access these wonderful creations, you may be asking. This includes SteamVR headsets such as the HTC Vive and Valve Index as well as the Oculus Rift. Image Credit: VRScout.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

With much surprise for us all, HTC has just announced the Vive Focus Plus , its first full 6 DOF standalone headset! The Vive Focus Plus, in all its majesty (Image by HTC). Internal view of the Vive Focus Plus (Image by HTC). Do you want to know more? Well, you are in the right place. The Vive Focus Plus.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 30, 2021

HitMotion: Reloaded has been one of the 20 launch titles of the Vive Focus Plus , and we can never thank enough HTC for the support that has given us. Passthrough AR was made through a plugin that we invented, and it was not officially supported by HTC. Tutorial on how to easily make a cross-platform application in Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 30, 2019

Some weeks ago, I have published my post where I detailed how to install the 6 DOF Controllers devkit for the Vive Focus. Look at this one below, for instance, where I show a colorized version of the Vive Focus passthrough performed in Unity by me: Do you see how it is much worse than the first one?

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ARPost

MARCH 26, 2020

Now it looks like HTC and VIVE are doing something similar. Here we’ll explain how it works, when it runs, and what we’re most looking forward to. If you followed Facebook’s GDS, whether with Facebook, with us, or with someone else, you may be wondering why HTC has elected to live stream content.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Although Unity 3D is undoubtedly the most common and trained standards for developing and deploying augmented and virtual reality application for both beginner or expert developer, it is cannot be employed for developing content for some headsets. This brings the point home about the need to learn how to develop content on other platforms.

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Road to VR

JULY 4, 2017

Oculus has recently published a guide to teach developers how to capture mixed reality with two important tools (besides a VR headset): a green screen and an external camera. Valve later incorporated the same green screen setup in their official announcement of the HTC Vive.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2019

I made a nice video where I present to you: How to activate Viveport Streaming; Me playing SuperHot and Beat Saber with it; A video on controllers tracking; My opinion about it. I guess that HTC has given priority to stability over visual quality because the frames appeared compressed. I guess you will like it!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Being them very kind, they gave me as a gift an aGlass DK II eye tracking add on for HTC Vive and I used it to experiment with eye tracking interfaces. aGlass DK II box on top of HTC Vive one. FOV: >110° (adapted to HTC Vive). My HTC Vive is now able to track my eyes! FPS: 100Hz/120Hz. Delay: < 5ms.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Multinational XR firms like Lenovo, ByteDance’s Pico Interactive, HTC VIVE, Varjo, and Microsoft are leading the charge for immersive transformations. Additional businesses like Epic Games, Unity, Autodesk, Adobe, NVIDIA, and many others have pivoted to the Metaverse to reach these goals. How To Prepare for Enterprise VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

While in all past years the answer had always been “HTC Vive”, now the king is Oculus, with both the Rift S and the Oculus Quest getting the majority of answers (especially the Quest). Unity changes how it handles XR Plugins. So sad for me, considering the 5 years I’ve spent using Vuforia in Unity… so many memories….

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

More info (How to reserve your demo at an Apple Store) More info (What happens during a demo at an Apple Store) We also keep learning new things about the headset. Meta never had a true competitor after the HTC Vive, so it will be interesting to see how the company will react to this situation.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2019

But this time, Valve has made it without the collaboration of HTC. The specs list is very similar to the one of the HTC Vive Pro. Plus, the controllers continuously auto-recalibrate to take in count the actual hand size of the user when reading the input of the sensors; How to wear the Valve Knuckles (Image from Valve).

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 2, 2016

With the Leap Motion Unity Core Assets and Modules , you can start building right away with features like custom-designed hands, user interfaces, and event triggers. The Leap Motion Unity assets provide an easy way to bring hands into a Unity game. Since they’re built on the native VR integration included in Unity 5.4,

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

This would be pretty disruptive, because up to now every standalone headset has been a walled garden with its own store and hardware, with the only exception being HTC trying to distribute its Viveport store to some other Chinese devices. Basically, Google could try to be for standalone devices what Steam has been for the PC VR ones.

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OCTOBER 4, 2016

There’s no assigned speaker yet, but this session will detail how to integrate devices with the SteamVR tracking systems that we’ve come to know and love through the HTC Vive. Unity Development for VR, with Corey Johnson from Unity. Some of the headsets of tomorrow will be born from this tech.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

CrossVR’s Revive , the software that allows HTC Vive users to play games from the Oculus platform, today announced it’s joining one of the leading initiatives in creating an open standard for VR and AR apps and devices, otherwise known as OpenXR. Learn more about Revive (and how to install it) on CrossVR’s GitHub.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2024

It was pretty cool using it inside a discotheque The tools we had were very limited: the Vive Focus had just a Snapdragon 835 processor, the image was black and white and low-resolution, we had to do everything at the Unity software level, and we had no environment understanding. How to preserve privacy then?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

Inside the box you find: 1x SenseGlove right 1x SenseGlove left 1x SenseGlove linkbox 1x power cable 1x USB connector cable short (2m/ 6.5ft) 2x USB connector cable long (3m/ 10ft) 2x HTC tracker mounts including screws 1x manual. This way your gloves are powered and can communicate with your PC; Setup of the HTC Vive system.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 25, 2018

The Focus features two frontal cameras that are used for the inside-out tracking and through scripting, in Unity, it is possible to access their stream. The cybernaut Enea Le Fons: he always pushes for a completely open and free XR ecosystem (Image by HTC). Or you can just give a try to the APK to see how AR is on the Focus.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 2, 2021

After I have written my super in-depth review on the Vive Focus 3 , HTC has finally enabled hands tracking on its device , so I decided to talk about it to you. Hands tracking was already enabled on the Vive Focus Plus , but some days ago, HTC has released the first package to use it also on the Focus 3. How to install Wave XR Plugin.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The team of curators consists of top-level decision-makers from Vulcan Productions, Kaleidoscope, and Unity. How to Attend the XR Event? See Also: Sportswear Brand evo Partners with Pixvana to Create XR Training Program for Seasonal Staff. They will select four projects which will receive funding amounting to US$50,000 in total.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

Through an interesting narrative, it teaches women how to perform self defense, but without being an explicit self-defense training experience. It is now compatible with: Almost every codec UHD, 8k, and 12k playback All projection types i.e. fisheye, cube map, equirectangular, and cinema All stereo modes i.e

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 7, 2020

The bad thing is actually how to find this comfort. It is easily accessible in the Unity SDK as a standard WebcamTexture, so if you like hacking things, I guess you can have a lot of fun developing things for it! Simulation view of the VR application inside Unity. User Interface.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

Image by HTC). HTC is teasing the launch of a new hardware. With a tweet, HTC has just teased the upcoming launch of a new device. More info (HTC is going to launch a new hardware) More info (Second tweet from HTC) More info (Third tweet from HTC). All of this running thanks to the power of the Azure cloud.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 18, 2017

Development: Unity , Vuforia , Microsoft Visual Studio , Windows 10 SDK , HoloLens Emulator (if you do not have a device). When using Unity, it is extremely important to set the near clipping plane to no less than 0.85m. Unity helps developers to manipulate this HoloLens feature in many ways. Animation: Biped for 3ds Max.

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