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HTC’s Old CEO Looks To Develop ‘Social Reality’ Platform, Announces World’s First 5G Headset

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XRSpace’s Peter Chou believes 5G will usher in “the social reality of the future” Peter Chou, ex-CEO and co-founder of Taiwanese consumer electronics company HTC, has some bold opinions regarding the future of VR technology. “There is a chance that 5G will make the experience of VR much more relevant to consumers. .”

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Doghead Simulations CEO Turns VR Social Platform Into His Own Personal Gym

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VR is not only a visual experience, but very much a physical one where your movements in the real world are matched in the virtual world. Depending on the workout, Chacon would use either an Oculus Go, Oculus Quest, or an HTC Vive to pump up his cardio. “I got fat,” said Chacon during an interview with VRScout.

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Stereolabs Wants to Bring Positional Tracking to Gear VR

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When it comes to mobile VR, like the Gear VR headset, you can enter an immersive 360° world, but you will be limited to just looking around from a fixed position. Now one San Francisco-based 3D imaging startup, Sterolabs, is aiming to bring some of the same capabilities of full positional tracking to the Gear VR.

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CHORUS Proves that the Future of VR is Shared Experiences

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A HTC Vive headset immersed us the virtual world and a Subpac backpack let us feel the music in our body through haptic feedback. That’s when we entered the world of “Chorus.”. We got a chance to try the experience with friends at Sundance Film Festival.

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Greenlight’s VRS 2017 Conference Reflects VR’s Rapid Changes & Growing Impact

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The conference takes place in the heart of San Francisco at the Hilton Financial District Hotel. The event is being co-produced by Virtual World Arcade, organizers of the annual VR Arcade Conference. The event will take place on October 26th and run alongside VRS 2017. VR Arcade Summit 2017.

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Intel Reveals Project Alloy, an All-in-one VR Headset With Mobile Positional Tracking

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Today at the Intel Developer Forum event in San Francisco, Intel revealed Project Alloy, an all-in-one mobile virtual reality headset which the company says will launch in 2017 as an “open platform.” ” On stage at IDF 2016, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich unveiled the new headset during the opening keynote.

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Morph 3D Launches Customizable 3D-animated Avatars for VR

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One problem with virtual reality is that you can’t craft your own characters, or avatars, the way you want them to look in the virtual world. Morph 3D wants to change that, and it is unveiling its 3D-animated avatars for VR today at the VRDC event in San Francisco. We don’t see one Metaverse or one virtual world.