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NOVEMBER 13, 2017

HTC revealed their new standalone Vive Focus headset today , poised to launch into the Asian market. Earlier this year the device was teased to be heading to Western markets as part of Google’s Daydream platform in 2017, but now HTC confirms they’ve canceled those plans. Clay Bavor (@claybavor) November 14, 2017.

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JUNE 19, 2020

HTC has announced that it will offer its Vive WAVE mobile VR platform to all Snapdragon-based headsets. The move means that headset makers will be able to adopt HTC’s ready-made headset OS (instead of developing their own) and gain instant content compatibility with a pre-existing VR app ecosystem.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2017

VR Winners at the 2017 Lumiere Awards. HTC Vive CEO, Cher Wang, earned this award for her team’s exceptional forward progress at the intersection of art and science in VR. HTC Vive CEO, Cher Wang, on a red carpet full of 360 cameras. Harold Lloyd Award: Jon Favreau. Sir Charles Wheatstone Award: Cher Wang.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2018

Ostensibly the first batch of Vive Pro, HTC’s upcoming prosumer VR headset, is now landing on the doorsteps of developers. The post Developers Are Now Receiving HTC Vive Pro appeared first on Road to VR. ” We've been eagerly awaiting this moment to share with you all.

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JANUARY 22, 2025

Google is acquiring "some of" HTC Vive's engineering team to "accelerate the development of the Android XR platform". As an interesting parallel: in late 2017 Google acquired some of HTC's mobile devices engineering team, and leveraged these engineers to vastly improve the hardware of its Pixel phones.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2017

Finally, an HTC Vive headset allows users to view the perspective of the machine as well as control its head movements. The T-HR3 will be up and running at the 2017 International Robot Exhibition at Tokyo Big Sight November 29th – December 2nd.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

HTC has submitted a new trademark application in both Europe and the US, specifically requesting the use of a new name: Vive Focus. First revealed at Google I/O 2017 developer conference, both HTC and Lenovo announced they were building standalone VR headsets for the Daydream platform. image courtesy LetsGoDigital.

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AUGUST 20, 2017

Hot on the heels of the $400 Summer Rift sale , HTC is doing some of its own price slashing, bringing the complete Vive system down by $200 to a new permanently lowered price of $600. VR’s momentum continues as the two leading PC-based headsets have now dropped significantly in price since the beginning of 2017. In the Box.

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DECEMBER 10, 2021

HTC is opening a non-fungible token (NFT) store soon that its says will host all forms of digital art, including AR, VR, and XR pieces. HTC says a new NFT series will come to the store each month until April 2022, which will conclude with what it describes as “a special auction.” s Newseum, and St.

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OCTOBER 18, 2017

TPCAST , the company known for creating a wireless adapter for HTC Vive, announced that they’ll be delivering a device that supports the Oculus Rift by the end of the year. TPCast maintains their “Wireless Adapter for Oculus Rift” is slated to arrive “by the end of Q4 2017.”

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Today at HTC’s Vive Developer Meeting in Beijing and its simultaneous Shanghai-based Vive Ecosystem Conference, Chinese eye-tracking startup 7invensun debuted a new eye-tracking module that’s not only affordable at $150 (¥1100 RMB), but is designed to support all of HTC’s VR headsets, past and present.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2017

Expected to be rolled out in phases prior to the theatrical opening on November 17, 2017, the Justice League VR experience will have a four-stage unveiling that culminates with a full blown room-scale experience for HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, Google DayDream and Sony PSVR. Select your Justice League character.

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JANUARY 11, 2018

HTC says that the new Vive Pro controllers, due out later this year, will be an updated version of the current Vive wands, rather than Valve’s anticipated ‘Knuckles’ controllers. Valve has been iterating on the Knuckles design, and shipped dev kits to developers back in June, 2017. Image courtesy Cloudhead Games.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2017

If you want to see T-HR3 in action, it will be featured at the upcoming International Robot Exhibition 2017 from November 29th through December 2nd at Tokyo Big Sight. The post Toyota’s New Experimental Humanoid Robot Uses HTC Vive for Remote Operation appeared first on Road to VR.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Starting today, new Viveport Subscription members can count on a free copy of Fallout 4 VR (2017) when you sign up for a three, six, or twelve month prepaid subscription. Regularly priced at $60, HTC is throwing new Viveport Subscription signups a free Fallout 4 VR Steam code when you get any prepaid plan.

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DECEMBER 19, 2017

Oculus parent company Facebook today announced it’s bringing Spaces , the company’s own social VR app, to HTC Vive. Spaces launched in April 2017 with a number of basic features, most of which Rubin Franklin lists above. And the same makes sense for Facebook Spaces. Arctic Open.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Rockstar maintains its new VR game is “rebuilt specifically for a virtual reality experience on the HTC VIVE™ system.” Noire which are scheduled to release on November 14, 2017 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. The VR game comes alongside new versions of L.A. image courtesy Rockstar Games. .”

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JANUARY 31, 2018

VR/AR expert Antony Vitillo (aka ‘ Skarred Ghost ‘) got an opportunity to speak with HTC Vive China President Alvin Wang Graylin recently, and while Graylin predictably couldn’t answer the question on everyone’s mind—”how much is Vive Pro going to cost?”—we Base Stations.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Oculus and HTC have already reduced the prices of their respective headsets, with the Oculus Rift now selling for $500 and HTC Vive for $600. According to a report by Engadget , HTC will be trialing the new project in Dalian, China where it will offer access to games hosted on a digital marketplace separate from Viveport.

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JULY 9, 2019

In late 2017, CCP Games shuttered their VR-producing studios , shifting their focus to PC and mobile games after selling off the Newcastle branch behind EVE: Valkryie (2016) and closing down the Atlanta-based branch behind SPARC (2017). We’ve asked CCP for comment and will update when/if we hear back.

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JUNE 23, 2020

The software has been available in beta version since 2017, but it will officially be available for download on the Steam store beginning June 29th. In a 2017 interview with VRFocus, Bendarski said “WalkinVR aims at giving users with physical disabilities the freedom of unlimited movement in virtual reality.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2019

With much surprise for us all, HTC has just announced the Vive Focus Plus , its first full 6 DOF standalone headset! The Vive Focus Plus, in all its majesty (Image by HTC). Internal view of the Vive Focus Plus (Image by HTC). Do you want to know more? Well, you are in the right place. The Vive Focus Plus.

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MARCH 28, 2019

HTC brings flat 360-degree video to life with 6DOF functionality. During this years HTC Vive Ecosystem Conference, HTC unveiled a new service that injects 6DOF functionality into a conventional monoscopic 360-degree video, allowing users to move their heads in any direction up to one meter. Image Credit: Skarredghost.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Thanks to the support of HTC, Rob is experimenting with Vive Trackers , and is very eager to tell you everything about his experiments with them, in a series of two very detailed posts. The post finishes also with the little surprise of an interview with HTC’s Shen Ye. HTC Vive Trackers (Image by Rob Cole). Introduction.

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JUNE 9, 2020

The VR Awards has been recognizing and celebrating outstanding achievements in the VR industry since 2017. Companies such as Fable , HTC, and Oculus have each walked away as winners for their groundbreaking hardware, alongside genre-defying titles such as War Remains , Tilt Brush and ImmersiCare. Think of it as cosplay in VR.

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JANUARY 4, 2017

It was only a year ago that HTC revealed their Vive Pre headset to attendees at CES. And if 2016 was the year VR had its coming out party, 2017 is looking to be the year we see VR content ecosystem really grow and hardware accessories take shape. TPCast will be shipping in the second quarter of 2017 and will retail for $249 USD.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Japan’s very first VR-focused international film festival, Beyond the Frame Festival , is currently underway thanks to a partnership with HTC Vive. Of course, you can also use your HTC Vive to jump into VIVEPORT and experience each film in VR. Beyond the Frame Festival and FIVARS tease the next generation of media artists.

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JULY 19, 2021

Owlchemy Labs has been around since the early days of the modern VR era, with the studio’s first major title, Job Simulator , bundled as a launch title for the HTC Vive in 2016.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The Academy of International Extended Reality (AIXR) has been celebrating momentous accomplishments in VR since 2017 with their annual VR Awards. The Accenture VR Lifetime Achievement Award – Cher Wang, CEO and Chairwoman HTC. Wang’s original commitment to HTC is the backbone of the Vive’s success.

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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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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

HTC recently announced they’ll be sweetening the pot this Black Friday for potential Vive-owners located in North America by throwing a free Deluxe Audio Strap your way when you purchase an HTC Vive. photo courtesy HTC. Check out our review here. You can see where Vive is sold near you here.

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JANUARY 5, 2018

HTC made a not so subtle tease today that a new version of the HTC Vive is on the way with improved resolution. Samsung released their own PC VR headset, the Odyssey, at the end of 2017, which uses 1,440 × 1,600 displays; it’s feasible that HTC will use those same displays in a Vive 1.5. Which New Display?

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

TPCast, the wireless streaming device that lets HTC Vive owners play VR games cable-free, is now available for pre-order in most of continental Europe starting at €349 (or the regional equivalent). 30th, 2017.” ” TPCAST has already been available for pre-order via HTC’s Chinese Vive online store since November last year.

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JUNE 11, 2020

From live VR concerts in Wave coming from some of the biggest names in music, to HTC’s annual developer conference taking place in Engage , social VR is picking up the slack where video chatting platforms simply don’t cut it.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

When I bought my HTC Vive in 2017, I already had a list of games and experiences I wanted to try first. AltspaceVR, acquired by Microsoft in October 2017, has a been a beloved mainstay of the social VR space since its launch in 2015. Microsoft’s flagship social VR platform brings its unique brand of events to the Quest.

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DECEMBER 7, 2017

Owlchemy Labs, creators of Job Simulator (2016) and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality (2017) tonight announced their latest VR title, Vacation Simulator. The post ‘Vacation Simulator’ is Owlchemy Labs’ New VR Game Slated for 2018 appeared first on Road to VR.

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APRIL 30, 2020

Vertigo Games has now released its final paid DLC for its co-op zombie shooter Arizona Sunshine (2017) on Oculus Quest. Priced at $40, Arizona Sunshine supports all major VR headsets, including PSVR, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Windows VR headsets, and Oculus Quest.

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