Road to VR

JULY 29, 2019

The standard has been in development since April 2017 and is presently supported by virtually every major hardware, platform, and engine company in the VR industry, including key AR players like Magic Leap. Oculus has committed to bringing OpenXR runtime support to both Rift and Quest later this year. The post OpenXR 1.0

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Making up its list of thought leaders includes individuals from key immersive front-runners, including but not limited to Adobe, Google, Lenovo, Unity, Accenture, T-Mobile, Magic Leap, Qualcomm, Sony, HTC VIVE, and Meta.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

HP and Microsoft have a long track in offering enterprise hardware, so this headset may battle HTC on his own land (B2B). More info (Roadmap presented by Qualcomm) More info (Qualcomm and Ericsson working on 5G) More info (Qualcomm’s Wi-fi 6 chips?—?Road Rony Abovitz steps down from Magic Leap CEO. Upload VR).

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

See Also: Redefining the Future of Location-Based Entertainment With HTC VIVE Focus 3 and The Park Playground “Virtual reality is often perceived as being limited to the world of gaming. Although gaming is certainly a great use case and example of what immersive VR experiences can deliver, the possibilities are endless,” said Vindevogel.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

HTC has finally revealed the price of the Vive Pro : it will cost $799 just to have the headset (no controller and no base stations, so you must already have a Vive 1 kit) and will be available for pre-orders since April, 5th. But, as Road To VR has stated, maybe HTC should have clarified that in all its marketing material.

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ARVR

JULY 15, 2020

Apple seems to be cornering the popular entertainment industry, with the acquisition of NextVR, as industry rivals such as Magic Leap focus on enterprise solutions. You probably have heard of well-known models such as the Oculus Go, Oculus Rift, Playstation VR, and HTC VIVE?—?these with sounds and mannerisms of a real audience.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Go on reading, I bet you will enjoy this journey into the present and the future of location-based augmented reality entertainment. Software-wise, we use Unity, Vuforia, and OpenCV. The Vive Pro Eye just launched by HTC at CES (Image by HTC). As platforms for LBAR is conceptually better Hololens or Magic Leap?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

This could actually be quite beneficial for Meta, Microsoft, and Magic Leap. XR Today: How was Apple’s presentation of the device? Aneesh Kulkarni : It was an impressive presentation, and they checked a lot of boxes. Juan Martinez : I thought the presentation was good and wanted to highlight some things.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

According to an evidence presented by Epic Games, Apple has not only removed Fortnite from the Apple Store, but it has also revoked the status of developer to Epic Games. You can imagine that after it has been released through two official blog posts, an enormous backlash from the community started to happen. The same on Twitter.

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ARPost

JUNE 6, 2023

Best Art or Film Developer, entrepreneur, and consultant Antony Vitillo, perhaps better known as “ Skarred Ghost ”, presented the first Auggie Award of the night for Best Art or Film. “I Unfortunately, no one from Delta Reality was present to accept the award. She also presented the winner with a 15.6in Sony Spatial Reality Display.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2018

Some cool guys from the Netherlands noticed that in the virtual reality market there are premium headsets (Oculus Rift, HTC Vive , etc…) for VR enthusiasts and then there is the Cardboard that lets people dip a toe into VR waters for little money; in the augmented reality market, instead, there are premium headsets (e.g.

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Road to VR

APRIL 17, 2018

Developer Lee Vermeulen didn’t wait for VR headsets like the Vive Pro to get an AR function , but rather strapped a stereoscopic Zed Mini to his original HTC Vive in effort to push Modbox forward into augmented reality.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Alan: I did a presentation last week and there one of the slides I put up shows the growth of the whole XR industry, and consumer was leading the way. Dean: And I think more critical are these more foundational companies, like Facebook and Valve and HTC. It makes the Pro Eye more expensive than the other HTC offerings for sure.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Alan: I did a presentation last week and there one of the slides I put up shows the growth of the whole XR industry, and consumer was leading the way. Dean: And I think more critical are these more foundational companies, like Facebook and Valve and HTC. It makes the Pro Eye more expensive than the other HTC offerings for sure.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

Zuck has presented four different prototypes, each one focused on a single one of these aspects. The Metaverse Standards Forum has already gathered many important players of the XR sector like Unity, Unreal Engine, Meta, Microsoft, Lamina 1, NVIDIA, and even other relevant companies like IKEA and Adobe. Image by HTC Vive).

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Alan: I did a presentation last week and there one of the slides I put up shows the growth of the whole XR industry, and consumer was leading the way. I mean, it sort of makes more sense to me that, as long as the prices for the headsets are lingering up pretty high -- like the Cosmos from HTC, the brand new one, it'll be an $800 purchase.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Alan: I did a presentation last week and there one of the slides I put up shows the growth of the whole XR industry, and consumer was leading the way. Dean: And I think more critical are these more foundational companies, like Facebook and Valve and HTC. It makes the Pro Eye more expensive than the other HTC offerings for sure.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

You’ve done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. and one of my friends who I just made by being nerdy, worked for a company called HTC. Alan: I don’t know if you’ve tried to Magic Leap. What an amazing piece of technology. Michael: Glad you liked it. I was a starving actor in L.A.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

You’ve done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. and one of my friends who I just made by being nerdy, worked for a company called HTC. Alan: I don’t know if you’ve tried to Magic Leap. What an amazing piece of technology. Michael: Glad you liked it. I was a starving actor in L.A.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

You've done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. and one of my friends who I just made by being nerdy, worked for a company called HTC. Alan: I don't know if you've tried to Magic Leap. The advantage that something like a Magic Leap or even an Oculus Quest has is that it's tracking you with cameras.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

Last year we had nReal showing us that AR can be trendy, and HTC making us dream with the Vive Cosmos. This year on the show floor have been presented mostly linear evolutions of existing devices, clones of other headsets or prototypical solutions. And in fact, Neon reminds me a bit too much Magic Leap’s Mica project.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Available on the Vive Focus — HTC’s China-only replacement for its discontinued Daydream headset — Beat Reality generates a colorful filter that allows you to experience any locale with literal rose-tinted glasses. With the Vive Focus, I already made a Unity Plugin to preview live in the headset what you are doing inside Unity.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The event also kicked off a series of stellar keynote speeches, workshops, product demos, and other feature presentations for the global tech industry. Currently, face tracking for platforms like MediaPipe did not function interoperably, presenting new challenges for developers. Face tracking and camera resolutions need to improve.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Mann proposes a new way to classify realities that goes on two axis : on one axis (the X-axis) you have the Reality-Virtuality continuum , that indicates how much of real and virtual elements there are in your experience and on another axis (the Y-axis), you define how you are modifying the reality that you are presenting.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

But at the presentation of the latest Samsung Note 10, for the first time after the Note 4, Samsung has dropped support for Gear VR in its latest flagship device. Unreal Engine is adding Vulkan support for Oculus Quest and Unity fill follow later on this year. In the end, XRDC has made a very interesting survey among XR devs.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

The technology is amazing, but there’s a certain amount of cultural shift that you have to have in order to really commit to being immersed and present within a virtual experience. I’ve had the opportunity of playing with the Tobii tracking system with HTC Vive. Being able to actually look somebody in the eyes in VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

The technology is amazing, but there's a certain amount of cultural shift that you have to have in order to really commit to being immersed and present within a virtual experience. I've had the opportunity of playing with the Tobii tracking system with HTC Vive. Both the Hololens 2 and the Magic Leap are shipping with eye tracking.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

The technology is amazing, but there’s a certain amount of cultural shift that you have to have in order to really commit to being immersed and present within a virtual experience. I’ve had the opportunity of playing with the Tobii tracking system with HTC Vive. Being able to actually look somebody in the eyes in VR.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Most people know Xu due to his dispute with American virtual reality company Magic Leap. In June 2019, Magic Leap accused Xu of stealing AR glasses technology when he was an engineer working at the firm. However, in June 2020, a U.S. federal court threw out the case as #MagicLeap failed to make any viable claim.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

This kind of seamless interface is great and it is exactly the same one that HTC already offers with the Vive Focus Plus and Viveport Streaming and that I’ve tried and appreciated. I guess Oculus will aim at something similar, because it is very handy (Image by HTC Vive). Rift line gets discontinued. Privacy in AR.

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