The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2018

Two days ago, I’ve been at HTC Vive Chinese headquarters in Beijing. It has been a really amazing day, where I have been able to try some amazing HTC tech demos (more on this later on! I’ve been able to speak with three companies incubated in the Vive-X Beijing and also to know various HTC Vive employees.

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VRScout

APRIL 7, 2019

Anyone familiar with video games probably has a story or two about a particularly infuriating NPC (non-playable character) that severely dampened their gaming experience. The sketch does an excellent job of highlighting the at-times ridiculous behavior of video game AI.

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ARPost

MARCH 24, 2021

Options like the Oculus Quest 2 make it easy for anyone to jump right into virtual reality and VR gaming, and it’s nice to know you’re not alone. In traditional video games, adult women actually represent a greater portion of the population (33%) than boys under the age of 18 (17%). Who Is Playing Games?

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ARPost

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Virtual reality is becoming increasingly popular among consumers and businesses. VR creates immersive, simulated experiences for users by placing them in a digital environment. It can power various genres of video games, and people use headsets for fun, fitness , and social interaction. As it evolves, more use cases will emerge.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 30, 2020

(Image courtesy HTC Vive.). Yesterday afternoon, I got a preview of the new HCT Vive Sync virtual meeting platform from HTC Vive, and it’s the best one I’ve seen yet — and I have seen a lot of these platforms. — HTC VIVE (@htcvive) April 30, 2020. Image courtesy HTC Vive.). VIVE Focus Plus.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Having that type of control in a virtual environment opened up so many possibilities for Vermeulen. ZedMini camera mounted to HTC Vive / Image Credit: Lee Vermeulen. When watching Vermeulen’s videos, you can see that in some of his experiments he is using VR controllers in an AR environment.

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XROM

OCTOBER 17, 2021

HTC VIVE announced VIVE Flow, a compact, lightweight immersive glasses device that transports its wearers wherever they want or need to be – anytime, anywhere. With VIVE Flow, HTC is taking technology in a new direction, focusing not on what we do, but on how we feel. Portability meets power. resolution and a smooth 75 Hz refresh rate.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Virtual reality is an underestimated field that could bring changes to medical therapy, professional training, and life experiences for both consumers and business beyond videos and games. Speaking of virtual reality, the first thing people think of might be watching 360 videos. VR Noir Gear VR .

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VRScout

AUGUST 16, 2017

According to Neurable, their upgraded headband for the HTC Vive combined with their advanced machine learning platform now means that players need only think to interact with their virtual environment. This is shown several times throughout the video provided above. You can see the satisfaction that it really works.”.

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VRScout

APRIL 17, 2018

It wasn’t long ago that the best method of moving around games and virtual worlds were two joysticks or a set of keyboard keys and a mouse. With the advent of consumer VR that allows for room scale mobility within virtual environments — the game has changed completely. Say you’re in VR and want to look to your left?

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VRScout

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Thankfully the talented folks over at Vive Studios and developer Heavy Iron Studios are offering users the chance to explore all the most interesting aspects of this remote environment, minus the eight-hour flight and insanity-inducing mosquitos. And what an enticing game it is.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

One of them was the Immersive Visualisation Room, which had a 5 x 5-metre space where users display 360 videos, Insta360 live streams, Unity-based architectural models, Matterport-based photogrammetry models, and immersive presentations built on Slides. In 2023, Igloo Vision showcased its various immersive spaces.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 16, 2016

We also have a top list of the absolute best HTC Vive games — which is updated every few months with the latest and greatest options. This popular mobile game brings some food service action to the HTC Vive. Billiard: VR is simple a game where you play the classic sport in a virtual environment. Billiard: VR, from USIMG.

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VRScout

JUNE 29, 2016

We have experienced creation tools like Google’s Tilt Brush on the HTC Vive, which lets you paint in a 3D space, letting you wave your hand controllers in the air to lay to down strokes of paint. They took more risks knowing the virtual environment was designed for play.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 10, 2019

In an official press release, Aaron Stanton, Director of the VR Health Institute said, “For 20 years, healthcare professionals have been telling the fitness community that video games are the enemy of being physically healthy,” adding, “That is no longer true. This is especially true with Audio Trip.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 28, 2017

But with Dance Tonite , you just click a link,” says Jeff Nusz at the Google Data Arts Team, summarizing the beauty of WebVR in a nutshell, in the ‘Making Of’ video for the project. “Normally, if you want to experience something in VR you download a giant app.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Labster enables a safe environment for learning STEM subjects, offering more than 100 types of virtual labs. With students free to work on their experiments safely from a virtual environment, educators can instead focus their attention on presenting the material the best they can. Credit: Headcase VR. Campus Visits.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 11, 2017

Plus, the apps are a lot cheaper than those for higher-end platforms like the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and the PlayStation VR, and the quality of the experience, though not as good as, say, the HTC Vive, is totally fine for casual games and 360-degree videos. The version for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive retails for $19.99.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 26, 2023

The enterprise-optimised platform performs seamlessly on many AR/VR/MR devices from headset vendors such as HTC VIVE, Meta, and Microsoft, allowing firms to leverage XR for a range of use cases, including remote guidance, training, and repair solutions. This can help new employees feel more connected to the company and its mission.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

When it’s finally your turn, an escort ushers you into a room with more staff, having you don a HTC Vive and asking if you prefer a female or male host for your trip — they are insistent you make a choice. A virtual host explains there are “no rules” in Westworld and proceeds to hand you a gun.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The two solutions included in the ViewScreen Studio are: ViewScreen Studio : Provides filmmakers with assets, characters, and virtual environments to view anywhere production crews need to view them. These immense tools have empowered film crews with the equipment needed to launch their own immersive video experiences.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Leveraging its Igloo Core Engine (ICE), the company has curated a host of content in its viewing spaces, including building information modelling (BIM), metaverse worlds, 360-degree video, game engine demos, and many others. People can also view YouTube 360 videos, Google Street View, as well as the enterprise’s bespoke 360 web browser.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Roughly 60 judges nominated ARuVR out of 450 global applications for two additional categories – ‘Most Innovative New Learning Technologies Product’ and ‘Best Use of Simulations or Virtual Environments for Learning.’ . The immersive demonstration provides live 360-degree immersive interactive videos for students.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Running on the HTC Vive Focus, a standalone VR headset with inside-out positional tracking, the game has players returning to the pillaged town of their youth, searching for clues as to what happened. “When you take off the headset, you almost feel that the virtual environment is still there, albeit invisible.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 5, 2016

That process involves filming a player in real life and overlaying their image into the virtual environment they’re playing with. It successfully communicates what someone is doing in VR, and has been adopted by the likes of HTC and Oculus, though it looks a little strange. They also require a lot of equipment and setup.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Jaymis Loveday’s most recent mixed reality video project was filmed with a helpful robot camera assistant. Loveday seems to be something of a mad scientist working in Australia, creating the first music video built in Tilt Brush. In the video below, you can see him place a reference image in the scene as he begins.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Virtual Reality is considered by many to be the ‘final compute platform’, and a key promise of our VR-enriched future is communication. Currently on show at Autodesk University event this week, it is pitched as the VR equivalent of GoToMeeting, the popular video conferencing and desktop-sharing solution used by businesses across the world.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 17, 2019

Thanks to the popular VR magazine Upload VR, that has organized the E3 VR Showcase, Virtual Reality has had its glorious moment at E3 2019. It has not been something that has happened on the E3 stage, but virtually with a one-hour video stream, but it has been great the same. Image by HTC). More info (Ascend).

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VRScout

MARCH 30, 2017

The German auto manufacturer evaluates design features in virtual reality before building prototypes in actual reality, using the famous high-quality physics-based rendering power of Unreal for the game engine and using the HTC Vive for the VR hardware. UK MOBILE NETWORK O2 TELEFONICA LAUNCHES MUSIC & RUGBY VR VIDEOS.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Inside AltspaceVR, you assume the form of one of several basic avatars and move around many virtual environments while interacting with other digital avatars to play games, watch videos or just shoot the electronic breeze. Watts is becoming something of an unofficial spokesmen for the app and for virtual reality in general.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Let’s talk about how you guys are using VR and 360 video to make better training. Lorne: Yeah, that’s that’s one of our bigger use cases with Toyota, where we’re training about 10,000 employees currently using 360 video, in immersive training scenarios in VR. So let’s dive in there.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Let’s talk about how you guys are using VR and 360 video to make better training. Lorne: Yeah, that’s that’s one of our bigger use cases with Toyota, where we’re training about 10,000 employees currently using 360 video, in immersive training scenarios in VR. So let’s dive in there.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

It took 10 minutes on my watch, but consider that this time was longer than the actual necessary because I have spent part of it asking questions to the Ekto VR team and shooting photos and videos. Brad made me wear an HTC Vive Pro headset and put me in a demo where I had to walk around an oil installation in the desert to close some valves.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Bigscreen is a social VR app which lets users connect with friends in a virtual environment where everyone can use and share what’s on their own computer screen. One popular activity is to share videos and movies. Players can join friends to watch together.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 25, 2017

The platform will support the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and OSVR and is free-to-play. million late last year with help from the likes of HTC, certainly seems to be doing that. At this point, if you want to stand out in the social VR space, you have to offer a bit more than the basics. The VRChat team, which raised $1.2

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

South-Africa startup Eden Labs has created an interesting design for VR headsets needed in public installations to show 360 videos. Google has just invented a new system to shoot volumetric videos of avatars. Rikard Steiber departs HTC. Some satyre on HTC. Google announces The Relightables. I’m amazed. Funny link.

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VeeR VR

AUGUST 24, 2018

Virtual reality is an underestimated field that could bring changes to medical therapy, professional training, and life experiences for both consumers and business beyond videos and games. Speaking of virtual reality, the first thing people think of might be watching 360 videos. VR Noir Gear VR .

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