Road to VR

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

One effective way to achieve this is with mixed reality, a combination of capture techniques that merge footage of the real world with the virtual world. Valve’s introduction video to SteamVR at the launch of the HTC Vive last year remains a superb illustration of the impact of presenting VR in this way.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Over the years, technology has become smaller, lighter, more comfortable, and with faster processing, breathing life into the virtual world. Also, unlike augmented reality (AR), which people can access via smartphones and smart glasses, VR relies on larger headsets and controllers to interact with fully-immersive virtual worlds.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Combining spatial computing with the Internet, the Metaverse seeks to seamlessly connect the digital and physical worlds and transform online interactions. Evan Gappelberg, Chief Executive and Founder of Nextech AR , said in an interview with XR Today that metaverse solutions would “bridge virtual, hybrid, and in-person experiences.”

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 6, 2017

Dinosaur kicking for $300 is certainly funny, but it’s also a great example of a broad effort by developers and hardware manufacturers to make virtual worlds more responsive to human behavior. This is what it took for me to realize just how empowering eye tracking will be for VR software designers.

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VRScout

JUNE 28, 2017

The new video also teases “puppet skinning” for Tilt Brush. The first of a two-part series with host Nat, her video journey starts at Daydream Labs, a rapid prototyping effort within Google VR. We’ve actually done more than a hundred prototypes,” comments Google software engineer Rob Jagnow in the video.

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ARPost

APRIL 11, 2023

VR-Enabled Online Shopping Experiences VR creates an immersive visual environment, including 360-degree videos, photos, product demos, and complex experiences using devices such as the HTC Vive or Oculus Quest. Hands-On Review Unlike AR, VR is entirely simulated and disconnected from the physical world.

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VRScout

APRIL 17, 2018

The omnidirectional treadmill is one of a handful of locomotion methods shown in Ready Player One’s future world, but are any of these actually possible? How is modern technology setting us up to move around the virtual worlds of the future? Driving and Flight Simulators. With the SteamVR 2.0

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Flagship products such as the Meta Quest Pro, Pico 4 and Pico 4 Enterprise, and HTC VIVE Focus 3 and Flow devices have recently hit shelves, sparking interest in the emerging technology. These experiences connect people to simulated virtual worlds, visualised data, and collaborative platforms to connect with others.

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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2017

” SteamVR and HTC Vive on Mac OS. While Steam has been Mac compatible for some time now, Apple announced that Valve will be bringing SteamVR to Mac too, allowing the HTC Vive to run VR games on Mac systems. VR Video Editing in Final Cut Pro X.

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ARPost

MARCH 2, 2021

There are several reasons for the spread of virtual reality technology in education: Reduced price of technical equipment. The rapid growth of software for virtual reality. Giants such as Oculus, HTC, Sony, Microsoft, Samsung, Walmart, and many others have been implementing their technologies in this field for a long time.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

If you watch the video , you can see me say stupid things about XR… well, more or less as I do every day in my life… Have fun! In a video published on Facebook, he showed himself wearing the headset and let us also see what he was seeing inside , with some footage directly from his point of view. Top news of the week.

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Supporting PC headsets like Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Windows Mixed Reality, Valve Index, Oculus Go and Samsung Gear VR with cross-platform integration, Galaxity is one of these open worlds all about community and social interaction, completely free to download and start exploring.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

More info (Quest 3 going ok in Steam Hardware Survey) More info (Quest 2 selling much better than Quest 3 on Amazon) HTC announced the Vive Ultimate Tracker Finally, HTC has officially announced the Vive Ultimate Tracker, its standalone inside-out tracker unit. Lone Echo).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2022

On Reddit, I have also been able to watch the video of an indie developer showcasing its game Cradle Of Sins made with UE5, and another developer publishing a tutorial on how to get started with UE5 for PCVR. It is working on some form of virtual currency, that has been internally named “Zuck Buck” (I love this name, actually).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 2, 2024

However, despite Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that filled some people with interest in an Android-esc XR OS, ex-Meta CTO and famed video game innovator John Carmack expressed concern over Meta’s recent move. Carmack stated: VR is held back more by software than hardware. Unquestionably.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

You largely have to imagine the expressions of people as they interact with a virtual world. Using a collection of techniques, including a modified HTC Vive with SMI eye tracking , Google digitally recreates your face in place of the VR headset that is blocking it. This gaze database (i.e.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

I joined BISim in 2009 after seven years of working in engineering positions in video games companies. Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim) is a global software company at the forefront of simulation training solutions for defense and civilian organizations. Can you be so kind as to also introduce Bohemia Interactive Simulations?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 23, 2017

One of the most promising early applications for the HTC Vive Tracker we’ve seen is full-body tracking. Using two Vive controllers, the headset, and three Trackers attached to feet and torsos, you can get a pretty accurate representation of where your real body is in the virtual world.

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VRScout

JUNE 21, 2016

In comparison, higher end VR systems like the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift have external sensors, enabling positional tracking and giving you more range of movement to physically move around in a virtual world. In the video, the company shows the camera velcroed and fixed on top of a Gear VR.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Meta’s Oculus team have already partnered with leading companies like Sony Music to give fans an immersive way to explore music videos and unique content. Meta’s new digital landscape is sure to pave the way for endless new virtual concerts and online experiences in the years to come.

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Cats and VR

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

According to Avneesh Sud- SOFTWARE ENGINEER at GOOGLE RESEARCH "The first step to removing the VR headset is to construct a dynamic 3D model of the person’s face, capturing facial variations as they blink or look in different directions. This model allows us to mimic where the person is looking, even though it's hidden under the headset.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Based on our recent talk with VP of content, Joel Breton, HTC has plenty of experiences in the works for its Vive VR headset across a wide range of categories. Though you probably wouldn’t have guessed it, one of those categories is virtual reading. Tapping specific panels will bring up videos too.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Apart from the software solutions (e.g. teleportation, smooth locomotion), there are a bunch of companies that are trying to solve the problem in the physical world, using some hardware to give the user the possibility of walking naturally in the real world to walk in VR. Apart from the software solutions (e.g.

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VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2016

Yesterday Intel announced its entry into the virtual reality space with the Project Alloy all-in-one head mounted display. Later a prerecorded video showed a woman in a small virtual world complete with a pet dog. All the computing power, cameras and sensors used by Project Alloy are completely self-contained.

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VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2016

Yesterday Intel announced its entry into the virtual reality space with the Project Alloy all-in-one head mounted display. Later a prerecorded video showed a woman in a small virtual world complete with a pet dog. All the computing power, cameras and sensors used by Project Alloy are completely self-contained.

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ARPost

MARCH 2, 2021

There are several reasons for the spread of virtual reality technology in education: Reduced price of technical equipment. The rapid growth of software for virtual reality. Giants such as Oculus, HTC, Sony, Microsoft, Samsung, Walmart, and many others have been implementing their technologies in this field for a long time.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The award went to Geometry Ogilvy Japan for the Shibuya Virtual Halloween experience, which was also a nominee in the Social Impact category. VR display technology, as well as rendering software and connectivity hardware, have all advanced by leaps and bounds – even in the last year. VR Film of the Year. VR Hardware of the Year.

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VRScout

JULY 24, 2018

Dubbed the “Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Live” experience, the one-of-a-kind opportunity let you chat with your favorite turtle heroes in real-time and take home a mixed reality video of yourself composited into the interview with a CG Nickelodeon avatar as your head.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 30, 2017

To do that, you want professional software. Currently the Oculus Rift is the only headset to support the former, while the HTC Vive and OSVR both support DX11. Companion software, dubbed VRTrek Library, scans both left and right eyes at the same time to produce granular data on an app and headset’s performance.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

The prize for developers creating virtual worlds and implementing full body tracking is a more immersive experience overall. You’d have an experience in which your shadow on the ground, reflection in the mirror and arms and legs when you look down all accurately represent the movements of their real-world counterparts.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2018

And he loves VR, he loves experimenting and he also loves opensource and free software. He has this idea of making the world better, of letting people live freely and exchanging their expertise. That’s why HTC couldn’t do anything but accepting his proposal. And then, of course, there is HTC that is supporting them.

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VRWorld

APRIL 11, 2017

CyberLink is one of first software companies coming out of Taiwan that succeeded in becoming a major international player. From the dawn of multi-media and first DVD-ROM drives, PowerDVD software was there to play the content (and yes, we’ll never forget the ability to change the regional lock through software).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

HP and Microsoft have a long track in offering enterprise hardware, so this headset may battle HTC on his own land (B2B). in software, serving 55mm–71mm IPD Refresh Rate ?—?75Hz To not talk about the Manova social world, whose teaser video is mostly fluff and which goes to compete in a very crowded space with many other competitors.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Next week, on 25th and 26th, Oculus will hold its main yearly event , and as always, it will talk about the milestones reached by the company and then it will show future hardware and software. They can have notifications from the phone, possibility of shooting photos and record videos and maybe simple spatial AR functionalities.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

We talked with The Park Playground CEO Peter Vindevogel, who shared his thoughts on these myths and misconceptions, shedding light on virtual reality technology. This is followed by 36% who shared that they’re planning to use the metaverse for interactions with colleagues, as well as for creating virtual content for their audience.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2017

With over 1B of hours of video content watched per day, YouTube certainly has the content as well as community– and the next update to Google’s Daydream platform will make a solid social one-two punch of the two. NO MORE FALLING OVER CORDS WITH UPCOMING WIRELESS HEADSETS. NO MORE FALLING OVER CORDS WITH UPCOMING WIRELESS HEADSETS.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 19, 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. You can enjoy the full audio recording below: WILL JIMMY FALLON’S NEW VIRTUAL REALITY SEGMENT HELP RAISE AWARENESS OF VR? FACEBOOK LAUNCHES LIVE 360 VIDEOS WITH NAT GEO.

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