VRScout

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Computers, voice assistants, smart TVs; all tools utilized on a day-to-day basis by major corporations such as Amazon, Google, and Facebook in order to mine private user data and manipulate consumer behavior. As ridiculous as this may sound, however, there is a bit of truth behind this bold accusation. Image Credit: The Othrs.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Bigscreen supports Oculus Quest, Oculus Go, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Valve Index, and all Windows VR headsets. The company is also putting special emphasis on its weekly 3D films, as streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon’s Prime Video typically only serve up 2D versions. Find out how to download it for free here.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

HTC announced today that its new Vive Cosmos headset will be priced at $700 with a release date of October 3rd. HTC is finally spilling the beans on Cosmos. Image courtesy HTC. The company calls this the Vive Cosmos External Tracking Mod, and says it will be priced under $200, though it won’t be available until Q1 2020.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Amazon promises “single-digit latency” XR streaming. Amazon has announced some weeks ago “Wavelength”, a new offering of its AWS services, that should provide “single-digit latency” over 5G networks. Hear how KLM Royal Dutch Airlines , Thomson Reuters , Novartis and HTC Vive are making progress in this area.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 19, 2019

While 10-feet may sound like a generous amount of length, most tethered VR headsets tend to offer at least 16-feet, including the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift S, and Valve Index. cables available through Amazon at the moment, including the TetherPro USB 3.0 There are several Link-compatible 15-foot USB 3.0 Feature Image Credit: Oculus.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2024

HTC Launches Vive XR Elite Image courtesy HTC The News HTC launched its first real competitor to Meta’s Quest line earlier this year with a renewed effort toward getting top games onto its platform (a challenge the company long struggled with while trying to gain a foothold with its Viveport platform for PC VR).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

We had all the indications that this Q4 would have been good again, like the fact that the Meta Quest companion phone app was the first on the iOS store, that 1 Million people had played Batman Arkham Shadow, or that the Quest was the most sold console of 2024 on Amazon. The fact is: we didnt consider Ray-Ban Meta into the equation.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The only company not much affected by it is HTC, that manufacturers its headsets in Taiwan and not in Mainland China. HTC Vive releases Cosmos Elite, two models of Vive Pro Eye and creates some confusion. For sure you remember the recent launch of a full line of Vive Cosmos headsets , all with customized faceplates.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

IDC publishes new forecasts for 2020. A new forecast by IDC shows how 2020 will still be a transition year for AR and VR. The report shows good news, like the fact that the growth rate of VR in 2020 will be 77% more than 2019 , and that the growth should continue in the next 4 years. affiliate link) More info (Quest on Amazon?—?affiliate

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

At the beginning of 2020, the American company will finalize its reference design based on this chipset, and in the second half of the year we will see the first headsets implementing this technology. He has tweeted “I’m very excited about our upcoming announcements next week, and all that we have planned for 2020–2024”. More info.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Instagram has a very popular creation tool called SparkAR , which can be easily used by all creators without knowing how to code, and has seen a spike in usage in 2020. Besides them, there are also other frameworks that can help WebXR developers: some WebXR exporters for Unity projects and also Amazon Sumerian. What about Magic Leap ?

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Peter Graham

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Deal ends 31st January 2020. Oculus Rift S – £349 GBP/$349 USD – Saving £50/$50 – Oculus Store , Amazon , Walmart. Oculus Go – 32GB £149 / 64GB £199 – Saving £50 – Oculus Store , Amazon , Walmart. Save £100 on HTC Vive Cosmos. Was £699, Now £599 – Vive.com, Amazon.

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Peter Graham

JANUARY 20, 2020

During CES 2020 bHaptics announced it was even easier to delve into this new world, as its haptic vest became available on Amazon. . There’s the Tactal , a haptic face cushion which supports a range of headsets including Oculus Quest, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Pimax for $149.00. sound channel.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

You have to buy base stations and controllers separately from HTC or Valve. Huawei is advertising these glasses as competitors of Oculus Quest and HTC Vive Pro, but don’t get mislead by this. Amazon announces Echo Frames smartglasses. Both of them offer ruggedization options for enterprise customers.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2018

HTC has maybe been the virtual reality company that has shown the most interesting things at this MWC. From the talk, it is clear that HTC is betting a lot on these new technologies and envisions a future where all of us will wear these devices every day. The Vive Focus is waiting for 5G networks… (Image by HTC Vive).

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VRScout

OCTOBER 21, 2018

Right now, fans are waiting intently for the release of Scraper: First Strike, the first in a line of episodes that will culminate in the complete release of the first title in 2020. I don’t think there are any Humech robots in that story like the Scraper: The Rise of Cifer novel, which is available on Amazon.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Vive Focus 3 has an expensive cooling system that can keep the Snapdragon XR2 cold enough to perform its operations at the best temperatures (Image by HTC Vive). I have also tried Firefox Reality (there is a build from December 2020), and I have verified that the headset is WebXR compatible. Production quality. Price and availability.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2020

After one month from its official announcement, Facebook has released the Oculus Quest 2, that from the 13th of this month can be purchased online on the Oculus Store or on official resellers (like Amazon) or offline on partner stores (like Best Buy). Companies like HTC and Facebook have TOS that allows for the gathering of anonymized data.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

I joined as a retail investor, obviously in the alternative coins and the general, Bitcoin and Etherium space, which then matured me into early 2020 digging into this immersive world, this world of ownership, this world of decentralization. The book can be bought on Amazon , by the way. Tommaso on Stage as a keynote speaker.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

According to the same report, the glasses should be released around Q2 2020 , and Taiwan’s ODMs Quanta Computer and Pegatron should handle the assembly job. Shipping to consumers is expected for 2020. (BTW, If you’re a company and want to implement AR for marketing or productivity, feel free to contact me and I will help you for sure!).

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VirtualiTeach

JANUARY 5, 2020

I hope that 2020 proves to be a hugely positive and successful year for you all – especially when it comes to AR and VR in classrooms! I am delighted to confirm that not only am I coordinating the stage again form the 2020 event but it has expanded to include even more speakers, covering botb AR and VR in education. Find out more here.

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 4, 2018

This year was going to be the year of augmented reality, but by the end of 2018 market analysts were pointing to 2020 or 2021 as the “golden year” of AR. The pilot, which used an iPad and HTC Vive powered by Marxent’s 3D Cloud Service, showed that VR increases average order value by 60%. The company’s direction is unclear.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 15, 2019

We plan to go online with it on Amazon or Netflix and present it like that, and then have it be an additional thing that maybe Netflix or Amazon has on their platform in the Oculus or HTC. In our age of Amazon, that's certainly helpful. I also want to plug, I will be teaching at SFAI in 2020, San Francisco Art Institute.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

To legally download movies on Quest you have to sideload the Android phone APKs of Netflix or Amazon Prime Video from your computer. For example, I was able to download Slack and Trello for work, Amazon Prime Video for watching movies I already own or have access to, and Steam Link to play my PC games on an enormous virtual screen.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

It will be available on all major headsets through Steam on March 2020, with preorders already open now. Oculus will release its official cable next month in limited quantities , but for now, it has released the specifications required for Link so that you can find alternate cables on Amazon. Rikard Steiber departs HTC.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

HTC has actually released that for the Vive Focus Plus … Well, according to the god John Carmack , it is something about which the company has discussed a lot and has also experimented a lot. Starting from early next year (2020), in beta for consumers and developers, it will be possible to use your bare hands within the Oculus Quest.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

They’re much more distributable than the standard Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, which has to be hooked up to a PC. We’ve got furniture stores or any sort of eCommerce shop — Amazon, Wayfair — offering the ability to view items, to see how they’ll look in your home.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

They’re much more distributable than the standard Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, which has to be hooked up to a PC. We’ve got furniture stores or any sort of eCommerce shop — Amazon, Wayfair — offering the ability to view items, to see how they’ll look in your home.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

They're much more distributable than the standard Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, which has to be hooked up to a PC. We've got furniture stores or any sort of eCommerce shop -- Amazon, Wayfair -- offering the ability to view items, to see how they'll look in your home. We'll see if any true competitor stacking emerge, maybe in 2020.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Amazon sold me a moulded nylon grip for an AR-15 airsoft rifle… it was time to start work building my first development “Mule”. These optical windows were a proud design feature on the HTC Vive headsets, but are much more subtle on the Index equipment making them harder to identify. Why had they settled on this shape?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2020

I have dedicated a complete article to the Oculus For Business program, but if you want a TL;DR I can tell you that while the device is better than all the other devices out there in the market, I would prefer a headset from Pico or HTC for B2B. pic.twitter.com/hM9mnfNPJx — Daniel Beauchamp (@pushmatrix) March 10, 2020.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 27, 2020

And so we’re now getting to the place, where we’re going to have really– by 2020, we will have really meaningful measurement across these big deployments. Obviously HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, but are you seeing more deployment now or more excitement around the standalone units? Amazon did $750-million.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 27, 2020

And so we’re now getting to the place, where we’re going to have really– by 2020, we will have really meaningful measurement across these big deployments. Obviously HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, but are you seeing more deployment now or more excitement around the standalone units? Amazon did $750-million.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 27, 2020

And so we're now getting to the place, where we're going to have really-- by 2020, we will have really meaningful measurement across these big deployments. Obviously HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, but are you seeing more deployment now or more excitement around the standalone units? And what else have you got coming up in 2020?

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 28, 2019

And 2020 is gonna be amazing. And it’s because of companies like Amazon that are out there, and everybody’s buying online and using FedEx as the logistics partner. See, these companies aren’t all rolling over to Amazon, frankly. But there’s a lot of brick and mortars, if you think about it.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 28, 2019

And 2020 is gonna be amazing. And it’s because of companies like Amazon that are out there, and everybody’s buying online and using FedEx as the logistics partner. See, these companies aren’t all rolling over to Amazon, frankly. But there’s a lot of brick and mortars, if you think about it.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 28, 2019

And 2020 is gonna be amazing. And it's because of companies like Amazon that are out there, and everybody's buying online and using FedEx as the logistics partner. See, these companies aren't all rolling over to Amazon, frankly. In 2014, I tried VR for the first time, and I ended up with an HTC-- the Pre, the first one.

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