XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 16, 2024

Moreover, with the recent Quest 3 from Meta and XR Elite from HTC VIVE, the marketplace is adopting MR solutions within industry-wide product portfolios. However, the industry should not forget the importance of VR solutions and hardware. VR headsets are at the heart of XR and spatial computing.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

UltraLeap Tobii Manus Spectre XR Rokid Contact CI Emerge HTC VIVE OpenBCI UltraLeap Dedicated to transforming the way users share valuable data with XR solutions and applications, UltraLeap has produced a host of powerful technologies for the hand and eye tracking sector. Here are just some of the vendors worth watching.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Extended reality, in the form of AR, VR, and MR, has shown significant potential for this landscape. We’ve already begun to see galleries and museums creating their own augmented reality and virtual reality experiences, designed to educate and enlighten people anywhere.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 4, 2023

More on SenseGlove SenseGlove debuted the initial model of its Nova device at CES 2021, compatible with HTC VIVE, Meta Quest, and Pico Neo headsets. Following a successful showcase, SenseGlove opened global shipments of the Nova product in May 2022.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

ConquestVR (virtual reality) is an immersive audio hardware manufacturer that sells accessories for VR headsets, including Meta Quest, Rift-S, Pico Neo 2, Neo 3, HTC Vive Focus 3 and Varjo Aero. One of those components is specialization, which simulates a sound’s direction and distance.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 12, 2022

This was something the MLB (Major League Baseball) community discovered for themselves, with the help of HTC VIVE. Embracing the thrilling power of virtual reality, the MLB group decided to launch a new competitive experience for fans within a VR simulation. Creating Meaningful Moments for Fans.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Disclaimer: HTC provided three of their Vive Tracker 3.0 What is an HTC Vive Tracker? Whilst the first part of this article looked at the history of the HTC Vive Tracker and its three different versions, the second part will focus on some practical experiments with the latest HTC Vive Tracker 3.0. HTC Vive Tracker 3.0

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 23, 2024

The technology elevates the overall user experience and adds value via realistic simulated feelings of pressure, weight, texture, and heat. However, the technology’s ability to simulate sophisticated real-life interactions presents a strong value proposition for suitable use cases.

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VRWorld

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

What was once called “most boring”, “the worst” but also “cult” and “legendary” bus simulator Desert Bus, now got its VR version. The game is also playable outside of VR, so if you don’t own an Oculus Rift or a HTC Vive you can still play. Anyone after an authentic experience about driving a bus in a desert, consider yourself lucky.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 29, 2023

The company’s training and simulation projects leverage digital twins and virtual representations of people and objects to imbue learners with technical and soft skills. is a virtual reality training platform provider. offers opportunities for simulation, procedural, and soft skill training.

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Digitalnauts

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

XR, or Extended Reality, is an umbrella term for a variety of immersive technologies including VR (Virtual Reality), MR (Mixed Reality) and AR (Augmented Reality). VR (VIRTUAL REALITY). Among such are HTC Vive and Oculus Rift headsets. . Source: Microsoft “What is Mixed Reality” [link].

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

According to Aptiv, even people who had never touched a virtual reality headset before were still able to take part in the training. HTC Vive and Penn State. Through virtual reality, students can also learn more about how water flows through soil, affecting plants, air and humans in a multitude of ways.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

All Viveport users (not only the Infinity ones) can get free passes for two upcoming big music events on Sansar (Tobacco Dock Virtual and Lost Horizons) on a dedicated website. I mean… HTC controls five other social VR experiences in its XR Suite, it is weird that now it is partnering with a competitor company. Learn more.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

By the time Howard Rheingold’s “Virtual Reality” was published in 1991, the Sensorama was already a “slowly deteriorating” relic stashed away in a cabana next the pool at its inventor’s West Los Angeles home. NASA promotion shot of VIEW (Virtual Interactive Environment Workstation). Helig died in 1997 at age 70.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Image credits SCAND Blog Virtual Reality (VR)  — It teleports the user into a completely immersive world that replaces the physical world. Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. It has applications in training and educational use cases.

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VRWorld

JULY 19, 2017

Beijing-based research organization recently released a study named “Experiment Report on the Impact of Long-Term Use of Virtual Reality (VR) Head-Mounted Displays on the Vision of Pre-teen Users” (PDF download).

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: In this week’s VRScout Report, we discuss Oculus Story Studio’s Henry Emmy win, NASA training astronauts with virtual reality gloves, Snapchat flirting with augmented reality, HTC Vive trying to go wireless, and iPhone laying potential plans for VR/AR.

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Robert Scoble

JUNE 1, 2019

Soon we won’t be able to imagine living life without devices that not just correct our vision but add new virtual and augmented reality capabilities to them. Will be useful in turning the sky dark, for instance, or replacing objects or people in front of you with virtual replacements and avatars.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

These technologies — in particular virtual reality, I would say — this is an immersive technology. And of course, you can do this over and over and over again in virtual reality, because I can be plopped into any environment, into any person’s body that we like. That is really just so critical.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

These technologies — in particular virtual reality, I would say — this is an immersive technology. And of course, you can do this over and over and over again in virtual reality, because I can be plopped into any environment, into any person’s body that we like. That is really just so critical.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

These technologies -- in particular virtual reality, I would say -- this is an immersive technology. And of course, you can do this over and over and over again in virtual reality, because I can be plopped into any environment, into any person's body that we like. I want to use virtual reality for training.”

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 17, 2017

An assistant professor of social work at Columbia University, Cogburn and her team have been creating a project named 1000 Cut Journey in collaboration with Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, which is led by Jeremy Bailenson. According to Endgadget, this is the first time showcasing at the Brown Institute for Media Innovation.

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 5, 2018

In the three to four years since the release of Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, the number of VR headsets available on the market has grown. Of course, such wearability issues with XR devices are not universal for women but it is a common pain point impacting women’s use of the technology.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2020

bHaptics is a Korean company producing haptic systems for virtual reality. The full suite consists of a suit for the torso, plus wearable elements for: arms, hands, feet, and even the face. My HTC Vive with installed in the TACTAL facemask. What is bHaptics? being touched vs receiving a punch). Test on applications.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Emily Friedman is a New York based enterprise immersive, wearable and emerging technology advocate, journalist and facilitator. — on the enterprise wearables world. There’s a couple of companies making some really interesting headway in virtual reality training, and I’ve tried a few of them.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Emily Friedman is a New York based enterprise immersive, wearable and emerging technology advocate, journalist and facilitator. — on the enterprise wearables world. There’s a couple of companies making some really interesting headway in virtual reality training, and I’ve tried a few of them.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Emily Friedman is a New York based enterprise immersive, wearable and emerging technology advocate, journalist and facilitator. I've been really looking forward to this conversation, because you are writing everyday – or, not everyday, but what, a couple times a week? -- on the enterprise wearables world. Let's start with that.

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