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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

The report, titled “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: 2016 Mobile and VR Games Year in Review,” is a compilation of information Super Data and Unity Technologies, though we clarified with Unity that they did not contribute to the estimates for VR headset data in the report. The report estimates 4.5

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ARPost

JULY 29, 2022

However, technology stepped in to allow people to stay in touch with each other. You can create your own world using the Unity SDK. It is available for HTC Vive, Oculus, Windows Mixed Reality, and PCs (both Windows and Macs). VRChat is the right platform for those who wish to socialize in creative and surprising environments.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). For example, we invited senior executives from HUAWEI, JBD, HTC, Alibaba, iQIYI, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and so on.

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VRScout

APRIL 13, 2018

VR and AR professionals who purchase the 2-day industry-focused Pro Pass will gain access to Friday’s keynote in the Dell Theater as well, featuring a performance by Digital Deception, aka Doug McKenzie and Ryan Oakes – an illusionary duo that combines interactive magic with technology for an unforgettable live spectacle.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

MAY 16, 2022

The Croatian firm offers customers a rich XR asset library worth thousands to improve audience engagement and currently works with global XR-backed firms and brands such as Disney, Microsoft, Samsung, T-Mobile and many more. Delta Reality listed its Museum of Digital Life (MoDaL) as a piece of NFT real estate worth roughly 8.88

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VRScout

AUGUST 13, 2017

VR was a big part of last year with new experiences, hardware and companies pushing the technology to the forefront of our everyday lives. VR was a big part of last year with new experiences, hardware and companies pushing the technology to the forefront of our everyday lives. HTC – Vive. Samsung – Gear VR.

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2018

Los Angeles, CA (April 12, 2018) – Experience next generation immersive technologies and explore “A New Reality” at VRLA, the leading virtual and augmented reality expo, May 4-5 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Rikard Steiber, President Viveport and SVP of Virtual Reality, HTC Vive. Support Voices of VR. Subscribe on iTunes.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

This means that someone made some predictions that were totally wrong and this made lots of companies bet on a technology that was not ready enough, creating huge losses and so the general consensus that VR is not taking foot and so it is a dead technology. Mister President launching the Vive Focus (Image by HTC).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

We all love to make speculations on the technology and I am no exception. Not because I am a genius, but because the technology is still evolving very slowly and so it is very predictable. Feature comparison between ARCore, ARKit and the Unity Handheld AR SDK (Image by Unity). is at the forefront of this technology.

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Road to VR

JULY 28, 2016

The newly revealed design differs from the most recent prototype by doing away with the rigid plastic wrap-around piece (as on the right), and opting for a head strap and cable-management system that appears to be similar to the HTC Vive’s. The technology is generally considered a necessary ‘next step’ for VR headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 14, 2018

HTC has understood that too, and that’s why its latest flagship phone can be a controller for the Vive Focus. Supported phones: Samsung: S8, S8 plus, Note 8, S9, S9 plus, Huawei: Mate 10, Mate 10 Pro, P20, P20 pro. HTC: 10, U11. Unity-based SDK supporting Windows and Android. on the screen). Android: 1 x USB Type-C.

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VRScout

AUGUST 1, 2016

Adding to the Book of Face’s massive plans for mixed reality technology, they have made good on their promise to make a 360 camera open source and available to anyone. Already supporting the Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, HTC Vive, and PSVR – Unity will now support Google Daydream.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

It’s a while that I virtually know Chris Koomen , a talented professional that works with immersive technologies at KLM. 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. There started to grow the use of interactions in 360 videos.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2019

” review of standalone headsets (you can find in other posts the ones related to Oculus Go and HTC Vive Focus ). it is bigger than the Oculus Go but smaller than the massive HTC Vive Focus. I already dedicated an article about how the tracking technology of Google is awesome. Then, keep reading. I was amazed. WTF, really.

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Peter Graham

JANUARY 28, 2020

Out-of-Home entertainment, and Immersive Technology industry specialist Kevin Williams reports in his latest Virtual Arena column on the further growth in recognition that virtual reality VR is receiving from the Enterprise sector. Image credit: KWP.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

Comparison of the speakers solutions in the Oculus Quest (left) and HTC Vive Focus Plus (right). The same Unity plugin is able to serve all Oculus devices and this helps a lot in developing cross-platform titles. Strangely, it is even more expensive than HTC’s standalone. It also features an embedded microphone.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Here below I’m posting for you the best offers I’ve found: for instance, HTC is discounting basically every piece of hardware (including Vive Trackers that can be useful for all the VRChat fans out there), while Pico is offering one of the best deals with €100-worth-of-content given for free with every purchased Pico 4.

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The firm’s first XR headset is due soon, and with it comes a spatial computing ambition that draws similarities and differences to Lenovo, Microsoft, Meta, HTC VIVE, and other XR headset vendors. Just like with WebRTC, we see the potential of this technology, and we are proud to be the first to have created it.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

I also doubt that a startup can carry many innovations, given the high costs of R&D in immersive technologies, but I would be happy to be surprised! Unity now supports Vulkan for Oculus Quest. Unity has finally implemented Vulkan support for the Oculus Quest, in Unity 2019.3. Samsung Odyssey+ is now at $230.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

I envision this year in VR to be like last CES in VR : a time where we will see the growth of the technology , but no real disruption. We’ll see some experimentation with 5G , but again, this technology won’t be widespread enough yet to make it truly usable. Me wearing the Oculus Quest.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Samsung starts off the month debuting its VR Internet browser for Gear VR, becoming the first to offer a VR browser. Oculus and HTC had been holding details surrounding Rift and Vive launch windows close to the chest, probably because they had delays to announce and need to nail down new plans. December 2015. January 2016.

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Road to VR

MARCH 8, 2017

In a reverse engineering exercise, two students at Utah State University have hacked positional tracking onto a Gear VR headset using SteamVR Tracking technology. Mobile VR solutions like Samsung’s Gear VR currently employ rotational tracking only. A detailed breakdown of the project and its inner workings is available here.

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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. I tried it in Beijing at HTC offices and I was amazed by this possibility. The Valve Index is the first PC VR headset completely produced by Valve, from the design to the manufacturing stage.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Now it’s time to make some forecasts about its companion technology, that is augmented reality! This won’t be the year of AR : exactly as I said for virtual reality, let’s not hype the technology and think that this is the year when mainstream adoption of wearable AR glasses is going to happen. Sounded good.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2018

And so here we are again: Oculus vs HTC, America vs China, Hugo Barra vs Alvin Wang Graylin. HTC has also been smart because every time someone says “Focus” during some VR event, he’s doing some hidden advertisement for its product. According to some reviewers, the display may also be the same one made by Samsung.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

Last week there has been the CES, maybe the biggest technology show of the year. As it is a tradition of this blog , I have read everything I could about the AR and VR technologies showcased there, and I’ve condensed all the news in a single article , that you can skim fast until you find a topic you are interested in.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Rikard Steiber (HTC), Joel Breton (HTC). As President of Viveport and Head of Vive Studios respectively, Rikard Steiber and Joel Breton are two of the most senior figures working on the HTC Vive today. Alon Or-bach (Samsung Electronics), Kaye Mason (Google). Liz Mercuri (Unity). Room 2011, West Hall.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Road to VR spoke with Nokia’s Head of VR Technologies, Tarif Sayed to learn more about the offering. The cross-platform nature of the OZO Player SDK will be especially useful for those who want to widely distribute VR apps with VR video across multiple platforms, says Nokia’s Head of VR Technologies, Sarif Sayed.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

If these Facebook features proved to be popular, more developers would use them, and finally, Facebook could have more power on the VR development tools , after the failed acquisition of Unity. But it also shows that VR is not exploding next year and that the consumer use of the technology will only represent 37% of the whole market.

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VRScout

MARCH 6, 2017

In the fall of 2016, Microsoft announced a partnership with a handful of hardware manufacturers to make developer headsets implementing the inside-out tracking technology seen on the HoloLens. LOTS OF BIG UNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS AT GDC. THE UPCOMING SAMSUNG GEAR VR CONTROLLER IS COOL. VALVE’S R&D IN EYE-TRACKING TO INCREASE.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

Today’s guest is Michael Ludden, global head of developer advocacy and principal augmented reality advocate at Bose Technologies. What an amazing piece of technology. You’ve done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. Alan: Welcome to the XR for Business Podcast with your host, Alan Smithson.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

Today’s guest is Michael Ludden, global head of developer advocacy and principal augmented reality advocate at Bose Technologies. What an amazing piece of technology. You’ve done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. Alan: Welcome to the XR for Business Podcast with your host, Alan Smithson.

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VRWorld

MAY 27, 2016

Just in time for E3 2016, WorldViz will bring support for Unreal Engine 4 and Unity 5 on most popular devices such as Google Daydream VR, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, and Sony PlayStation VR. PPT technology enables sub-millimeter tracking of up to 10 people on large-scale locations. meters i.e. 26,910 sq.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

Today's guest is Michael Ludden, global head of developer advocacy and principal augmented reality advocate at Bose Technologies. What an amazing piece of technology. You've done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. How did you end up in technology, and why did you get so fascinated on futurism?

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Unity renderer implementation of foveated rendering, on the other hand is much rougher, and in multiple Unity apps I saw very obvious and harsh artifacts, particularly on text. Given this only happens in Unity Full Space apps, I suspect this can be solved in future software. This is a watershed moment for VR-style headsets.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Samsung, Nokia entered with their OZO, Jaunt — which recently just got sold to Verizon — they had their Jaunt One camera. Michael: It’s incredible how quickly the technology has evolved, and I just have to shout out to the Insta360 engineers, they work tirelessly day and night to constantly improve the app and the algorithm.

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