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My Taiwanese XR Chronicles part 1: Cave, zSpace, Brogent hands-on

The Ghost Howls

Two weeks ago, I had a fantastic trip to Taiwan together with my Chinese assistant Miss S. Are you ready for immersing into Taiwan? We all participants of the VR Visionaries tour in Taiwan (Image by Digiblock). When I tell people that I have been in Taiwan, the first questions that I get are “How is Taiwan?”

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Vrgineers Secure $6M Alongside Headset Debut

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

This week, Vrgineers, a vehicle and flight MR simulation solutions provider for professional training procedures, acquired a grand total of roughly $6 million in a series A investment round to fuel company and product portfolio growth. More on Vrgineers The vehicle and flight simulation market is a big one for XR.

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Hands-on Vive Focus Plus Hand Tracking SDK

The Ghost Howls

While the spotlight is all on Oculus and its Quest, actually Pico and HTC are evolving their hardware and software offerings without almost no one talking about it. It gives you many buttons through which you can simulate the pose of the hands in your application (e.g. Vive Hand Tracking SDK video review.

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Google Buying HTC’s Pixel Team for $1.1 Billion

VRScout

Leading into today’s news, shares of HTC were halted on the Taiwan Stock Exchange pending this Wednesday night announcement. In May, Google acquired Owlchemy Labs for an undisclosed amount, the pioneering VR game studio that developed Job Simulator. Google has announced a $1.1 So what does this all mean for VR?

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Oculus For Business is now available for all companies

The Ghost Howls

The Quest software is tailored at consumers, and for instance, when you open it, the first things that you see is a list of games. Facebook has created the ISV (Independent Software Vendor) program , that helps companies developing solutions for enterprise in expanding their business. Yes, but only if you are relevant to Oculus.

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First look at HTC Vive Sync

Hypergrid Business

You turn it on and it just works, no complicated syncing or software required. Enterprises also use virtual reality for training simulations and medical simulations. (Image courtesy HTC Vive.). First, it’s all-in-one. So it doesn’t depend on a computer or smartphone to power it. Second, it’s wireless.

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Oculus Research Devises High-accuracy Low-cost Stylus for Writing & Drawing in VR

Road to VR

Lead by National Taiwan University PhD student Po-Chen Wu during his internship at Oculus Research, the work presents a low-cost tracking and input solution with many potential applications in virtual and augmented reality.