The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Thanks to the support of HTC, Rob is experimenting with Vive Trackers , and is very eager to tell you everything about his experiments with them, in a series of two very detailed posts. The post finishes also with the little surprise of an interview with HTC’s Shen Ye. HTC Vive Trackers (Image by Rob Cole). Introduction.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In a future update, Meta will use the tracking cameras to track the full body of the user and provide a decent estimation of the pose of the torso, the elbows, and the arms, and a simulated pose for the legs. The news is that the device may be called Vive Ultimate Tracker and retail at $200 per unit.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

It has made significant contributions in various verticals such as entertainment, education, retail etc. Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. Microsoft Hololens is a key player in the MR market.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

As I’m thinking back to it now, this was actually on HTC VIVE — first gen, which was only maybe 3, 4 years ago now — and I was so impressed with the first generation of hardware that I was like, “well, this is ready for prime time.” Bob: It was kind of a model simulator. A lot of companies focusing on it.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

As I’m thinking back to it now, this was actually on HTC VIVE — first gen, which was only maybe 3, 4 years ago now — and I was so impressed with the first generation of hardware that I was like, “well, this is ready for prime time.” Bob: It was kind of a model simulator. A lot of companies focusing on it.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

As I'm thinking back to it now, this was actually on HTC VIVE -- first gen, which was only maybe 3, 4 years ago now -- and I was so impressed with the first generation of hardware that I was like, "well, this is ready for prime time." One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

Johnson has worked at Microsoft and Qualcomm before, and she is a very respected executive. Yes, it will be hard against Microsoft, which is well poised in the field, but the market is so new and growing that there is the place for more than one single company. Image by HTC Vive). News worth a mention. I’m here waiting for them.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

This could actually be quite beneficial for Meta, Microsoft, and Magic Leap. Additionally, sports, retail, logistics, healthcare and, more recently, financial services will lead the way. This will lead to more money invested in research and development (R&D) to make a lighter-weight glass for the AR experience.

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VR Playhouse

JUNE 15, 2017

Because of their input, a single DVD was capable of holding 95 minutes of footage (encompassing the runtime of 90% of films) all for a retail price under $20. While Sony competed in the home console space with several other companies, such as Sega and later Nintendo and Microsoft, what made the PS2 stand out was its built in DVD player.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

A lot of what I do is try to take new and emerging technology -- obviously right now, VR/AR/XR; all that falls into it -- and using that to enhance messaging and storytelling, training, simulation, all of that type of stuff. Alan: I think the zSpace thing could be used for retail on location. I mean, I was making notes, here.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

A lot of what I do is try to take new and emerging technology -- obviously right now, VR/AR/XR; all that falls into it -- and using that to enhance messaging and storytelling, training, simulation, all of that type of stuff. Alan: I think the zSpace thing could be used for retail on location. I mean, I was making notes, here.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

A lot of what I do is try to take new and emerging technology -- obviously right now, VR/AR/XR; all that falls into it -- and using that to enhance messaging and storytelling, training, simulation, all of that type of stuff. Alan: I think the zSpace thing could be used for retail on location. I mean, I was making notes, here.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

A lot of what I do is try to take new and emerging technology -- obviously right now, VR/AR/XR; all that falls into it -- and using that to enhance messaging and storytelling, training, simulation, all of that type of stuff. Alan: I think the zSpace thing could be used for retail on location. I mean, I was making notes, here.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

Today we're speaking with Martin Enthed, digital manager at IKEA Communications, who's also part of the IKEA Digital Lab, looking five to seven years out into the future of how we bring retail to the masses. We are looking at simulation of sound, and how sound changes when things are added or taken away, and all those things.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

Today we're speaking with Martin Enthed, digital manager at IKEA Communications, who's also part of the IKEA Digital Lab, looking five to seven years out into the future of how we bring retail to the masses. We are looking at simulation of sound, and how sound changes when things are added or taken away, and all those things.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

Alan: You’ve got kind of a divide; entertainment and gaming on one side, and then you’ve got enterprise applications across medical, healthcare, real estate, retail — across the whole enterprise. They’re much more distributable than the standard Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, which has to be hooked up to a PC.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

Alan: You’ve got kind of a divide; entertainment and gaming on one side, and then you’ve got enterprise applications across medical, healthcare, real estate, retail — across the whole enterprise. They’re much more distributable than the standard Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, which has to be hooked up to a PC.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

Alan: You've got kind of a divide; entertainment and gaming on one side, and then you've got enterprise applications across medical, healthcare, real estate, retail -- across the whole enterprise. They're much more distributable than the standard Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, which has to be hooked up to a PC. He was able to drive it.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

Today we're speaking with Martin Enthed, digital manager at IKEA Communications, who's also part of the IKEA Digital Lab, looking five to seven years out into the future of how we bring retail to the masses. We are looking at simulation of sound, and how sound changes when things are added or taken away, and all those things.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 14, 2019

My interview earlier today was with the president of HTC VIVE, Alvin Wang Graylin, and one of the things that they announced last week at the VIVE conference is that they’re now doing eye tracking, and hand tracking, and lip tracking, and I think these are new — fairly new — technologies. Alan: It’s pretty incredible.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 14, 2019

My interview earlier today was with the president of HTC VIVE, Alvin Wang Graylin, and one of the things that they announced last week at the VIVE conference is that they’re now doing eye tracking, and hand tracking, and lip tracking, and I think these are new — fairly new — technologies. Alan: It’s pretty incredible.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 13, 2016

When the first consumer version of the Oculus Rift was launched in the spring, it was disappointingly bundled with a Microsoft Xbox controller – and we’ve eagerly been awaiting the native Touch Controllers. HTC VIVE LAUNCHES VIVE STUDIOS. HTC Vive is helping the big issue of the state of virtual reality today: lack of content.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

One example is retail employees. We were talking about haptics, and how haptic vests and gloves can be used across enterprise for simulation of training, but also scent machines, and different spatial audio and things. We’re not tied to Microsoft. HTC VIVE sold a couple million. There’s so many. million sold.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

One example is retail employees. We were talking about haptics, and how haptic vests and gloves can be used across enterprise for simulation of training, but also scent machines, and different spatial audio and things. We’re not tied to Microsoft. HTC VIVE sold a couple million. There’s so many. million sold.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

One example is retail employees. just in this very short, six-minute conversation that we've been in here, you've talked about VR being used for design, and for previsualization, and for training in retail. We're not tied to Microsoft. HTC VIVE sold a couple million. Michael: Yeah, exactly. And one of the. million sold.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

So I feel like there’s so much of a mirroring of what’s happening in these virtual worlds that the training applications are just incredible, in terms of whether it’s a surgical simulation or Walmart’s using it to train for different employees. You can use the device that’s in everybody’s hands.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

I know there’s a group right now trying to standardize 3D objects for e-commerce and retail because right now it’s a dog’s breakfast. And so we have something meaningful come from HTC Vive with the Focus, or Focus Plus. Facebook accepts glTFs, Hololens is FBX models, VR is usually OBJs. You have Apple, with ARKit.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

I know there’s a group right now trying to standardize 3D objects for e-commerce and retail because right now it’s a dog’s breakfast. And so we have something meaningful come from HTC Vive with the Focus, or Focus Plus. Facebook accepts glTFs, Hololens is FBX models, VR is usually OBJs. You have Apple, with ARKit.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

I know there's a group right now trying to standardize 3D objects for e-commerce and retail because right now it's a dog's breakfast. And so we have something meaningful come from HTC Vive with the Focus, or Focus Plus. As I go to these different developer conferences, I go to Facebook F8, or Microsoft Build, or Google IO.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

So I feel like there's so much of a mirroring of what's happening in these virtual worlds that the training applications are just incredible, in terms of whether it's a surgical simulation or Walmart's using it to train for different employees. I've had the opportunity of playing with the Tobii tracking system with HTC Vive.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

So I feel like there’s so much of a mirroring of what’s happening in these virtual worlds that the training applications are just incredible, in terms of whether it’s a surgical simulation or Walmart’s using it to train for different employees. You can use the device that’s in everybody’s hands.

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 19, 2019

In fact, the device sold out at retailers such as Amazon, Walmart and Newegg. HTC Vive Retires. The HTC Vive was phased out in October, replaced by the Vive Cosmos , which was priced at $699. 2019 said good-bye to the headset which was largely responsible for enthusing people about the possibilities of VR in recent years.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Lowe’s, retail. Wayfair, retail again. It helps that a lot of the big companies, HTC, Oculus, Lenovo, they’re pivoting to enterprise. One of them that I was reading was “ Home on the VRange: Immersive Technology in Residential Retail. You got Pfizer. You’ve got AGCO, agricultural. Dow, chemical.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Lowe’s, retail. Wayfair, retail again. It helps that a lot of the big companies, HTC, Oculus, Lenovo, they’re pivoting to enterprise. One of them that I was reading was “ Home on the VRange: Immersive Technology in Residential Retail. You got Pfizer. You’ve got AGCO, agricultural. Dow, chemical.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Lowe's, retail. Wayfair, retail again. It helps that a lot of the big companies, HTC, Oculus, Lenovo, they're pivoting to enterprise. One of them that I was reading was " Home on the VRange: Immersive Technology in Residential Retail. " Alan: Absolutely. You got Pfizer. You've got AGCO, agricultural. Dow, chemical.

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