VRScout

AUGUST 1, 2016

Recapping the top stories covered on the VRScout Report , a weekly live video show and podcast discussing the best in VR, hosted by Malia Probst. Facebook has been going hard on the 360-degree photos and videos – you’ve most likely noticed an influx of spherical content in your newsfeed, and that’s no accident.

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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 ). If you want to watch an unboxing video in which I have a terrible hairstyle and a WIDMOvr T-shirt that makes you feel in summer again, here you are: The headset. Then, keep reading. Image from Know Your Meme).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

Mister President launching the Vive Focus (Image by HTC). Samsung has also teased to be interested in releasing a new AR/VR standalone device. That’s why the other companies, like HTC and Pico, have decided to aim at the enterprise market. It also features a very nice anti-SDE display that everyone loves. Mobile 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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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

You can watch me unboxing it in this Youtube video. There are various videos and tutorials out there showing you how to exactly wear the Quest, because it is not easy to find the right way to wear it so that you feel perfectly ok with it. Comparison of the speakers solutions in the Oculus Quest (left) and HTC Vive Focus Plus (right).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

Some examples of this category of glasses: Intel Vaunt (project abandoned); North Focals; Vuzix Blade; Snap Spectacles v2 (they are just cameras to share videos); Bose AR glasses (these are not for visual, but for audio augmented reality). The video regarding the UX attached to the hands has become viral pretty fast. Leap Motion.

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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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Road to VR

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Nokia has launched the OZO Player SDK , a cross-platform foundation for creating applications with high fidelity VR video playback. For instance, Felix & Paul’s Nomads is a single app which lets viewers watch a 3-part VR video series, and also provides a proprietary interface and supporting non-video content.

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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. In terms of XR, Apple is introducing spatial video recording for the latest iPhone model. Apple is gearing up for the Vision Pro debut.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2019

But this time, Valve has made it without the collaboration of HTC. Graphics Card : NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD Radeon RX 480 or greater CPU : Dual-core with hyperthreading or greater Memory : 8GB+ RAM Video Output : DisplayPort 1.2 or greater CPU : Quad-core with hyperthreading or greater Memory : 8GB+ RAM Video Output : DisplayPort 1.2

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Unity now supports Vulkan for Oculus Quest. Unity has finally implemented Vulkan support for the Oculus Quest, in Unity 2019.3. Long story short, this means that using Vulkan instead of OpenGL, you may even have a +20% performances boost on your Unity apps for Quest. Samsung Odyssey+ is now at $230.

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VRWorld

JUNE 8, 2016

Thus, AR manufacturers sell their development products by passing the cost onto the end user, while VR development is subsidized by all – Oculus shipped ‘devkits’ for $349.99, HTC Vive PRE program shipped over 10,000 units for free, OSVR is very cheap, and makers like Deepoon go for as low as $249.99.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The New York Times distributes more than 1 million Google Cardboard phone VR viewers to subscribers with the launch of The Displaced , a 360-degree video project focusing on children driven from their homes by war. Samsung starts off the month debuting its VR Internet browser for Gear VR, becoming the first to offer a VR browser.

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Road to VR

MARCH 8, 2017

Mobile VR solutions like Samsung’s Gear VR currently employ rotational tracking only. Three infrared sensors, detecting the flashes from an HTC base station (Lighthouse technology), are attached to the front of the Gear VR headset and connected to a microcontroller, which collects the timing data.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

In the end, I still believe in the old predictions of Unity CEO John Riccitiello: Look at this graph shown by Mr. Riccitiello in 2017: the purple line is the one of the analysts, while the white one is the one forecasted by him. HTC will focus more on the enterprise market.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

This doesn't much matter for watching traditional video content, as most of it is in widescreen aspect ratio anyways. That’s reason #1 that Vision Pro can't be practically used outdoors, and why the videos you see of people doing this are influencers chasing clout, not honestly depicting a practical use case.

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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. Yes, the biggest companies were not there with a booth (Oculus will probably target the OC6, HTC the VEC, etc…), but it is the first time that I read the XR news from CES and I dont’ remain surprised. Samsung AR glasses.

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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. I don’t know if it is the plan, but for sure it is a possibility. If you were always unsure if buying a headset or not, the time is now!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

If we talk about compatible devices, we all have a smartphone that can do AR, we all have watched on some social media short video selfies with some AR effects on. This commercial video about Google Glasses led me to immersive realities. There are vaiours solutions to also export Unity XR projects to the web (Image by Mozilla).

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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. I can take a video, it stitches on my phone. Beyond that, I mean, you’re able to create completely new 2D videos from the 360 perspective. I’ve spent a week just exporting this video.

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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. I can take a video, it stitches on my phone. Beyond that, I mean, you’re able to create completely new 2D videos from the 360 perspective. I’ve spent a week just exporting this video.

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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. I can take a video, it stitches on my phone. Beyond that, I mean, you're able to create completely new 2D videos from the 360 perspective. I've spent a week just exporting this video. Michael: Yeah.

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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. The way that you can do it with Bose AR, if you’re a developer, is within Unity, you can actually do that same thing. We worked with video, audio.

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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. The way that you can do it with Bose AR, if you’re a developer, is within Unity, you can actually do that same thing. We worked with video, audio.

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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. The way that you can do it with Bose AR, if you're a developer, is within Unity, you can actually do that same thing. We worked with video, audio. Michael: Woah!

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

Image by Samsung). Anyway, officially, both Samsung and Oculus have continued at least to support it. 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. And Samsung is not abandoning XR for sure.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 8, 2018

I’m very interested in this device, that’s why I dedicated various articles to it, like the tutorial on how to get started with Go on Unity , how to stream the headset content to an external screen and my comparison with the Vive Focus. The headset. So, even the graphical quality of the running app can’t be too high.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

HTC has actually released that for the Vive Focus Plus … Well, according to the god John Carmack , it is something about which the company has discussed a lot and has also experimented a lot. A full mesh of virtual hands superimposed to the video stream of the hands of the user from inside the Quest. Why not wireless?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

So HTC has given us some Vive Focus and we love them, because being untethered is a huge important part of having audience come in and not feeling like it’s a hassle, but really having this like ritualistic atmospheric experience without breaking that sense of immersion. But otherwise we’re using the Samsung Gear VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

So HTC has given us some Vive Focus and we love them, because being untethered is a huge important part of having audience come in and not feeling like it’s a hassle, but really having this like ritualistic atmospheric experience without breaking that sense of immersion. But otherwise we’re using the Samsung Gear VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

So HTC has given us some Vive Focus and we love them, because being untethered is a huge important part of having audience come in and not feeling like it's a hassle, but really having this like ritualistic atmospheric experience without breaking that sense of immersion. But otherwise we're using the Samsung Gear VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 20, 2021

I’m not putting ads on my Youtube channel at the moment to not annoy my viewers, but recently Google has written me that it may decide to put banners on my videos and earn money from them without even asking. Do you remember the leaked letter written by Zuckerberg when he wanted to acquire Unity? This is very unfair.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

Apple has years of experience in offering tools for productivity that are used by all people working with videos, 2D, 3D art, and written articles, and I don’t think Meta is ready to compete with this. Another brand I’m very curious about is Samsung : sooner or later, it should announce something, either in VR or in AR.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Nreal is one of the most popular companies in the field, having won over several well-known investors like Qualcomm, short video app Kuaishou, video streaming app iQiyi, and GP Capital. Designer, Director and Researcher, #Keiichi is best known for his dystopian video “ Hyper-reality.” 7- Alvin Graylin. 16- Vinay Narayan.

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