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Virti, HTC, and Taipei Medical University (TMU) are set to revolutionize Taiwan’s food safety training by developing immersive training content that leverages VR technology. Late last year, TMU, with the help of the HTC VIVE Medical VR division, established the Instructional VR Resource Center for Food Safety. Meet Virti.
Today during the Vive Developers Conference in Beijing, HTC revealed the Vive Focus, a standalone VR headset with inside-out positional tracking. Update (11/14/17): HTC has confirmed to Road to VR that the company is cancelling plans to bring a Daydream-based version of the Vive Focus headset to Western markets, including the US and Europe.
In a significant breakthrough for room-scale VR, HTC has introduced a tether-less VR upgrade kit for the Vive system at Alibaba’s “11/11” global shopping festival. The HTC Vive is a PC-powered system, which means there is a long cord running from the headset to your PC system. Initial delivery is expected to begin Q1 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.
HTC could be showing off its standalone VR headset at the company’s November 14th Vive Developer Conference (VDC) in Beijing. To wit, HTC says it will have ‘some important announcements’ to make. To wit, HTC says it will have ‘some important announcements’ to make. image courtesy HTC.
The game will be released for PlayStation VR and the HTC Vive. On stage during Bethesda’s E3 2017 press conference the company revealed a more developed version of their in-development VR version of Doom. The game is now confirmed as launching on both PSVR and HTC Vive.
At the start of the New Year Valve has released a look back at 2017’s best selling VR titles on Steam. Just in time for the end of the Steam Winter Sale (concluding January 4th @ 10AM PT), Valve has published a series of ‘ The Best of 2017 ‘ charts, showing which titles on Steam have fared the best across several metrics.
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.
At Computex 2017, Intel’s Gregory Bryant demonstrated the company’s wireless VR solution on stage. He claimed this was the first public showing of the HTC Vive using Intel’s WiGig technology, and further confirms that HTC is bringing the product to market in “early 2018.”
The CES is going to start tomorrow, but today HTC has already made its great announcements, showing to the world the upcoming new hardware Vive Pro Eye, Vive Cosmos and software solutions Viveport Infinity and Vive Reality system. The Vive Pro Eye, in all its splendor (Image by HTC). Vive Pro Eye. Vive Cosmos.
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.
Despite its primary competitor, Oculus, making a major price cut to the Rift & Touch earlier this year, HTC’s Vive headset still sits at a hearty $800. The company’s GM of VR, Daniel O’Brien, tells us why HTC hasn’t cut the cost of their headset in response. Price Point. Price Leader.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Häagen-Dazs ice cream and HTC Vive are giving you a chance to fly like a bee in VR. The VR experience was later released in July 2017 and received the Social Good Award for Best in Animal & Wildlife. Zada, HTC Vive and the Häagen-Dazs team worked well together, according to the director. It consists of 6.5
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.
At SIGGRAPH this week the Boston-based startup is showing its modified HTC Vive which include EEG ( Electroencephalography ) sensors along the interior of the headstrap. Here’s how Neurable describes it : Neurable is debuting Awakening , a VR game preview made in partnership with eStudiofuture , at SIGGRAPH 2017 in Los Angeles.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Unfortunately, advancements in VR technology would eventually render the mod useless on modern headsets such as the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, much to the dismay of the early VR community.
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.
Ramping up for CES 2017 in Las Vegas, Lenovo has revealed their newest entry into the world of VR, a yet unnamed headset sporting an impressive dual 1440 × 1440 OLED displays, a PlayStation VR-style halo strap system, and dual cameras that allow for room-scale positional tracking.
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.
Some days ago, while browsing the Facebook group VIRTUAL REALITY, I found a post comparing the Gartner Hype Cycle 2017 and 2018. I started this post talking about the two Gartner graphs for 2017 and 2018. Well, here you are: Gartner Hype Cycle for 2017 (Image by Gartner). Header image by HTC). It will just take time.
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
With content for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive maturing since their respective launches last year, there’s more reason than ever to finally jump into VR—especially now that the Rift + Touch is on sale for $400. SEE ALSO The Top 5 Games for Oculus Rift. CPU: Intel i5-4590 equivalent or greater. Memory: 8GB+ RAM. video output.
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.
Tom’s Guide got an exclusive sneak peek at a prototype iteration of the technology recently and according to them, when coupled with an HTC Vive, which sports dual 1080×1200 resolution OLED panels running at 90Hz, the new system delivers “razor-sharp”, low latency wireless image quality. ” Sounds impressive.
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?
This year’s lineup was stacked yet again with some of the biggest names in the industry, from content creators like Cas and Chary VR to hardware companies such as HTC Vive.
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.
HTC today announced that the Vive Pro headset only (without controllers or base stations) will cost $800 and launch on April 5th; the headset is now available for pre-order. After announcing the Vive Pro headset back in January, HTC left the VR sector in suspense as to what the price would be and precisely when it would launch.
Initially revealed back in January during the 2017 Consumer Electronics Showcase, aka CES, Intel’s new wireless solution for the HTC Vive has finally emerged from the shadows and was being shown at the 2017 Electronic Entertainment Expo, currently taking place at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
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