Voices of VR

OCTOBER 10, 2022

It is the closest that I've fest to replication a one-on-one, immersive theatre encounter in 360 video. So it makes sense that director Craig Quintero is synthesizing over a decade's worth of insights from experimental theatre in Taiwan into this piece.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 23, 2020

There are puzzle-solving experiences, zombie horror games, PvP shooters, more zombie games, interactive music videos, even more zombie games; the list goes on. VAR LIVE’s widespread dominance can be attributed not only to its somatosensory system, but its scalability.

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GizModo VR

MAY 14, 2021

Visiting a beloved pet on a video call just isn’t the same, so researchers at National Taiwan University developed a VR controller that allows the user to feel simulated fur while petting a virtual animal. For some pet owners, being away from their furry companions for an extended period can be heartbreaking. Read more.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2019

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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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 5, 2019

In this third and last article about my trip to Taiwan (here you are the links to my first and second one , if you missed them), I want to tell you about some other amazing XR stuff that I did there. iStaging is one of the companies that I loved the most in Taiwan. I have asked them how it is being a wo m an in XR in Taiwan.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Apple is putting more attention to its lab in Taiwan (TSMC is in Taiwan), where it is conducting more R&D activities, including the work on a parallel technology, that is micro-LED displays. We don’t know many details about it, but from the teaser video, it is possible to see that it is a configurator of semi-realistic humans.

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Voices of VR

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Red Tail is an animation piece that uses photogrammetry on built figures, and The Man Who Couldn’t Leave and All That Remains are both a stereoscopic 360 video that require an incredible amount of VFX stitching post-production work for each scene.

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Voices of VR

DECEMBER 29, 2023

In the Mist was a 360 video, Gazing, in the Mist was a mixed reality installation, and Traversing the Mist is an interactive, multiplayer 6-DoF VR installation. In the Mist was a 360 video, Gazing, in the Mist was a mixed reality installation, and Traversing the Mist is an interactive, multiplayer 6-DoF VR installation.

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Road to VR

MARCH 15, 2022

Hitting the F5 button resulted in multiple minute-long waits to refresh your feed, something which ultimately was designed to stymy the user’s ability to view and share video and images. The year-long slowdown is over though. Twitter is also now blocked.

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Voices of VR

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Tung-Yen CHOU’s In the Mist is a 360 video that premiered at Venice during the pandemic in 2021. You seem to have entered a forbidden zone and fallen into […] Tung-Yen CHOU’s In the Mist is a 360 video that premiered at Venice during the pandemic in 2021. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon.

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Road to VR

MARCH 11, 2019

In addition to an on-board battery and requisite depth sensing cameras and AR optics, if the company goes the wireless route the headset would require a way of receiving and decompressing video data rendered on the smartphone and streamed to the AR headset. SEE ALSO Hands-on: HoloLens 2 is a More Than Just a Larger Field of View.

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CraneMorley

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

If you have ever sat through a boring Zoom video remote class, you will appreciate the capability to ‘take the class out into the field’ for hands on learning from the safety of their homes. Take a look for yourself,” invited Troy Segale, director of instructional design at training partner CraneMorley, Inc.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

Otherwise, now the situation is more or less like before, with the exception of some places where there are still some Oculus devices in stock (for instance in Japan and Taiwan). Facebook has for instance taken the first route, and t his week it will make all the announcements that it would have made at GDC via videos and posts.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 13, 2017

Instead of building and investing in headsets like Facebook of the US, Sony of Japan and HTC of Taiwan, the Chinese trio are becoming middlemen: creating platforms and content for when a dominant headset emerges. China seems to be a promising market for VR video content. Chinese consumers will buy 40 percent of the 6.3

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Upload VR

JUNE 6, 2022

Addressing a shipping date for the device in a recent Q&A video , creator Stan Larroque said that the kit would launch “sometime during the summer”, citing issues with securing components for the kit. Important clarification about our last update video. It raised nearly $800,000 on Kickstarter in 2021.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 20, 2016

HTC’s out of home VR initiative is taking shape as the company officially unveils plans for Viveport Arcade in China and Taiwan and a partnership with Leke VR’s “offline content distribution system” in a thousand locations before the close of 2016 and thousands more by 2017’s end. An ambitious plan indeed.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 3, 2023

Additionally, Apple is working with 11 Twainese firms to help deploy the Vision Pro, including Largan Precision Co, Genius Electronic Optical Co, GIS-KY, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Moreover, Apple is working with other major industry suppliers such as Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, and Sony for the Vision Pro debut.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 18, 2021

Vive Hand Tracking SDK video review. I’ve made a nice Youtube video with me saying random stuff and exploring the Vive Hand Tracking SDK at first in Unity and then in action using my hands in VR. I think it could be great if the community could be informed more about all the devices that are out there.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Portugal, Poland, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. HP has already started shipping the review units for its Reverb G2 and some content creators like Upload VR and Sebastian AnG2 have already published their unboxing videos.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

I have to admit that at least Zuck tried to do this in the best way possible : he has taken full responsibility for the problems in a video call where he announced the layoffs and has offered a good severance package for people going away. This video about a “virtual reality viewer” from 1830 has been one of the viral content of the week.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2020

To demonstrate that the Etee controllers are up to the task, the company has published two videos showing Half-Life: Alyx played with the controllers (note: that the company is using Vive Trackers for now but the final controller will include a bespoke SteamVR Tracking module built into the controller). Image courtesy TG0.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Mechanical Souls / France, Taiwan (Lead Artists: Gaëlle Mourre, L.P. Users can be captured in dimensionalized video, placed into one of several “walk around” environments and automatically create a volumetric VR experience that can be viewed on any device and shared online. Cast: Aiden Torres, Jovanna Vidal, Phoebe VanDusen.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 24, 2016

Whether its a whacky melee fighting game, traveling to whiskey distilleries, visiting cityscapes of Taiwan, or sitting back to enjoy spectating some eSports action — there’s something for everyone. Watch eSports in fully immersive VR video. Take in this incredible location with the full 360 video experience.

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VRScout

APRIL 5, 2020

Linus is on a journey to find painless ways to die inside a video game simulation that emulates sensory experiences. Home (International Premiere)—Taiwan ROC: Project Creator: HSU Chih-Yen. A Safe Guide to Dying (World Premiere)—USA: Project Creator: Dimitris Tsilifonis. Key Collaborator: Froso Tsipopoulou.

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Peter Graham

APRIL 15, 2020

The sale runs until this Sunday, 19th April, available in the following countries: US, Canada, France, UK, Japan, Taiwan, Australia, Germany, Spain, Russia, and South Korea. Instead of £8.99 GBP ($8.99 USD) per month – working out to £107.88 a year – the sale drops that down to £2.25

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The news comes after Tencent, the largest global video game publisher, aimed to develop its own metaverse unit in June last year. Currently, the Chinese have Lenovo, ByteDance, Plimax, DPVR, HTC VIVE via Taiwan, and a few other tech firms providing headsets.

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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. With PowerDVD 17, their flagship movie and media player is bringing native support for 360 and 3D-360 video for VR headsets, Ultra HD Blu-ray video, as well as HDR10 format support.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

A piece of unexpected news has shaken the XR communities this week: according to a report on Digitimes Taiwan, Apple has abandoned its AR/VR glasses project and all the members of the team have been re-allocated in other teams. And after having seen the new video announcing the beta, I am even more convinced of it.

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Road to VR

JUNE 1, 2016

One of the biggest dates in the consumer electronics and computing calendar, Computex is under way in Taipei, Taiwan this week and we’re already seeing some interesting news filter from the show. Here it is in action.

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Peter Graham

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The 23-year-old confession by Wong Hoi Ian / Taiwan. ORgeL by Mask du Video / Japan. Piece of String by Wyatt Roy / US. VR Manga World for STYLY by Aki Oe / Japan. The Pit by Dave Maggio / US / Japan. ne.mui by Natuki Ono / Japan. MODAL by Ryo Takekawa / Japan. The Tower of Babel by 525600min / Japan. TSUKUMO by Keisuke Ito / Japan.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

This means having AR and VR on the same device ; A 5G modem ; 8K videos playback at 60fps; Accelerated AI so that to be able to perform objects recognition and other cool stuff on the camera feed. The only company not much affected by it is HTC, that manufacturers its headsets in Taiwan and not in Mainland China.

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Mashable VR

MAY 31, 2022

Alan Yang’s feature film directorial debut tells the heartwarming story of Pin-Jui (Tzi Ma) and Yuan (Joan Chen), who met in Taiwan as children and young adults but eventually lose touch. Oh Joon-woo (Yoo Ah-in) is a video game streamer and one of the last humans in his city not currently trying to eat brains.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 30, 2020

On the downside, except for situations where people need to interact spacially with one another or with 3D models, the marginal improvements over video calls aren’t worth the inconvenience and expense of wearing a headset. I can do all that in a real-world meeting where I have my laptop in front of me, or in a video conference.

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Road to VR

MAY 26, 2020

At a special event in Taipei, Taiwan, HTC cofounder and former CEO Peter Chou today revealed the first products from the new startup XRSPACE. It will also offer premium 2D and 360 video content from its operators and partners. SEE ALSO Two Tools to Make Your Own Avatar for Social VR Apps like 'VRChat' & 'Mozilla Hubs'.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 7, 2021

While the rumblings over Apple’s planned venture into augmented reality, virtual reality and mixed reality have been getting louder recently , we now have a series of dates for these devices by prognosticator Ming Chi-Kuo, a good source with a reliable track record on all things Apple. Read more.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 13, 2022

The last big hurdle to making virtual worlds (nope, not going to call it the other thing ) a truly realistic experience is providing tangible feedback to other senses too, like touch. There’s been considerable research into creating VR controllers that let users touch and feel virtual objects as if they were real, but… Read more.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 29, 2019

For the past five months, hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong demonstrators have taken to the streets in protest of the Fugitive Offenders amendment bill introduced by the Hong Kong government which would allow local law enforcement to extradite criminals wanted in territories outside Hong Kong, including mainland China as well as Taiwan.

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