Upload VR

JANUARY 4, 2024

Qualcomm indicated that XR2+ Gen 2 will power Immersed's Visor , Samsung's upcoming Google-powered headset , a yet-to-be-announced new HTC Vive headset, a YVR headset in China, and a fifth headset from a currently undisclosed company. Details here: UploadVR David Heaney

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

A new FCC listing appears for an HTC Vive headset. And in fact, a new request to FCC for a new device has arrived from HTC. FCC certifications are requested before releasing an electronic device in the US (to certify that it is safe to be used), so this is a clear sign that HTC is going to release a new headset soon.

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VRScout

AUGUST 24, 2016

billion in 2016 to more than $162 billion in 2020. As VR hardware continues to compress in price and powerful smartphone based systems like Samsung’s Gear VR and Google’s mobile VR Daydream platform gain steam, it’s expected that 50% of worldwide revenues will be generated by VR/AR hardware sales according to the report.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 11, 2016

But it still believes that consumer VR software could grow from $407 million in revenue in 2016 to $14 billion by 2020. Oculus will hit 355,000; HTC Vive will be 420,000, and the Samsung Gear VR on mobile will be 2.3 By 2020, that percentage will fall to about 41 percent as enterprise, media, and other categories rise.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 6, 2019

When it comes to the most-searched-for headsets, there’s been three clear leaders during the 2016, ’17, and ’18 holiday shopping seasons: PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift, and HTC Vive. US search volume, Black Friday weekend 2019 | Data courtesy Google. Peak search volume for Quest in the US was 1.6

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Road to VR

AUGUST 6, 2020

According to the test conducted by VDC Fellbach, HTC Vive Cosmos’ inside-out optical system consistently shakes out as the least accurate of the bunch. Note : This article refers to the stock HTC Vive Cosmos , and not Vive Cosmos Elite, which ships with a SteamVR tracking-compatible faceplate. How It Was Measured.

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ARPost

JANUARY 21, 2022

We’re talking, of course, about Google Glass. Google Glasses were the first arguably-AR glasses on the consumer market, coming out in 2013. After all, it was a Google product and a lot of people expected the world. Google Glass retired to the enterprise sector and much of the public gave up on AR glasses.

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Upload VR

MAY 28, 2024

Owlchemy was acquired by Google in 2017 with Job Simulator and Vacation Simulator on Steam, Quest and PlayStation VR headsets serving as some of the best introductions to the medium ever made. Vacation Simulator launched in 2019 and, over a year later in 2020, got controller-free hand tracking support on Quest.

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Upload VR

JULY 6, 2023

In February Samsung officially announced it was working on an XR headset, with Google handling the system software via a new variant of Android. Google is handling the software for Samsung's hardware. Both used the same OLED displays as the original Oculus Quest and HTC Vive Pro.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Estimates based on this data suggest between 500,000 and 1,000,000 Quest 2 units sold in Q4 2020 alone. Million New VR Users in 2020, 71% Increase in VR Game Revenue. million new VR users on Steam in 2020. 104 million VR sessions on Steam in 2020. More than 60 Oculus developers have reached $1M+ revenue.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Examples are HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Cardboard and other that are now very popular VR platforms for building experiences. Google VR SDK is popular for building virtual reality applications for Android and iOS. WebVR is also becoming a formidable force for those who love HTC Vive, Oculus Rift or Google Cardboard, in a web browser.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2024

If you recall, Zuckerberg specifically got Meta into XR because he wanted to free his company from the grip of Apple and Google (the prevailing gatekeepers of the smartphone era). That leaves HTC to fall back to the enterprise sector, the one place where it has long had a strong reputation. Then in 2023 it the price returned to $300.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

With the twelfth season of Doctor Who scheduled to arrive in 2020, fans of the long-running BBC series have at the very least a 10-month void to fill before they’re blessed with more time-skipping adventures from the thirteenth Doctor and her Companions. The Doctor returns to virtual reality with an original interactive short film.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 1, 2016

52 Million VR Headsets by 2020? Analysts are saying there could be as many as 52 million headsets sold by 2020, made up mostly of the recently released HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift. Curiously, it leaves out Google Cardboard because it is a throwaway product.) Are you ready? Get ready to take some Tylenol VR , folks.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 30, 2020

(Image courtesy HTC Vive.). Yesterday afternoon, I got a preview of the new HCT Vive Sync virtual meeting platform from HTC Vive, and it’s the best one I’ve seen yet — and I have seen a lot of these platforms. — HTC VIVE (@htcvive) April 30, 2020. Image courtesy HTC Vive.). VIVE Focus Plus.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 4, 2021

One of the smartest ideas ever had by HTC has been the invention of the Vive Tracker: a little puck that you can attach to an object so that to track it inside virtual reality. The Tracker is good, but since HTC has never had competition in the field, i t has always been the same since the launch year. A reality check on AR in 2020.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

What if I told you that smart devices such as your iPhone and Google Assistant aren’t just listening to you, but persuading and manipulating your actions as well? We had a chance to check out this immersive experience while at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, and sufficeth to say it left us genuinely unsettled. Image Credit: The Othrs.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The report examines the market size and revenue of consumer VR hardware and software from 2016 and forecasts growth through to 2020. The report suggests that premium headset shipments like Google Daydream will see more growth over light mobile headsets. Google Daydream will sell the most premium headsets in 2017, getting 6.8M

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Road to VR

JANUARY 9, 2020

Owlchemy Labs has something to celebrate, as the Google-owned VR studio announced that its tongue-in-cheek parody simulator game Job Simulator (2016) has officially broken the one million unit sales mark. The post ‘Job Simulator’ Goes Platinum, Selling Over 1 Million Copies to Date appeared first on Road to VR.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 7, 2019

It will be available on Steam for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Valve Index, and Windows MR owners. The title is also promised to become available on Oculus, Viveport, Itch.io, and Google Play, though there are no estimated release dates for those versions at this time. Screensavers VR is slated to arrive on October 16th, priced at $5.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

Let’s be honest: no one made correct predictions for 2020. But hey, let me play this game anyway, so here you are my predictions for virtual reality in 2021 based on the trends and the anticipations that we had at the end of 2020! 2021 won’t be the year of VR. I know, we all feel like this.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 7, 2020

Along with Firefox Reality comes Mozilla Hubs , the web-based social VR platform, both of which are said to arrive on all Pico headsets sometime in Q1 2020. At the time of this writing Firefox Reality has yet to launch on Steam for PC VR headsets as it was previously announced in April 2019.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

billion and in 2020 it has been predicted to achieve $22.9 As virtual reality technology gained prominence, the use of VR devices like the Samsung Gear VR, Oculus VR, and HTC Vive, have also become popular. The leading producers of VR headsets like Sony, Oculus, Google, HTC, and Samsung, mainly focus on creating cost-effective devices.

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2020

While other headset makers and platforms like HTC, Windows VR, and Pimax all build and maintain their own software integrations to make their headsets work with SteamVR, it’s Valve, not Oculus, which develops and maintains the integration which allows the Rift and Quest to work on the platform.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2020

18, 2020, and will ship starting in late January. For instance, Beck is an athlete that prepared for years for the Tokyo Olympics 2020 that have then been postponed to 2021 with much of her frustration. HTC is going to deprecate Vive Pro and Vive Pro Eye. HTC is so guaranteeing continuity while deprecating the headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

The good news of the week is that I’ve been selected as one of the speakers at AWE USA 2020 ! The VR route is instead being pursued by HTC (with its VEC event happening soon) and IEEE. More info (Camera Path and Google Drive backup) More info (Sketchfab exporting). I hope to see your there, physically or virtually .

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VRScout

JANUARY 23, 2021

billion by end of 2020. . Image Credit: HTC Vive. Don’t simply rely on text editors such as Microsoft Office or Google Docs to do the job – make your CV as readable as possible. According to Tech Jury , the global AR and VR markets are expected to grow to $209.2 billion by 2022, with more than 171M users worldwide.

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ARVR

MAY 13, 2021

the top 4 practical examples of technologies achievable through the cloud in 2020. BigQuery from Google Cloud has many powerful features that allow users to view their data in real-time, providing continual up-to-date information to help guide business decisions. The device uses Google’s Cloud Healthcare API.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). For example, we invited senior executives from HUAWEI, JBD, HTC, Alibaba, iQIYI, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and so on.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 4, 2017

billion last year to more than $162 billion in 2020. over the 2015–2020 forecast period in any sector other than digital reality. Also, established by HTC earlier this year, the Virtual Reality Venture Capital Alliance, or VRVCA, is an organisation comprising of VR-invested firms and companies who believe VR is the next big medium.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The NextVR app is free and available on Gear VR, Google Daydream, Microsoft VR headsets, PSVR, Oculus Go, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Oculus Quest. NBA League Pass games will also be able to watch all standard 2D streaming content with NextVR’s Screening Room, a VR theater room in the NextVR app. NextVR + NBA 2019-20 Schedule.

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JANUARY 12, 2024

Not so long ago, if you wanted a cheap VR headset, you’d be limited to phone-based devices like Google Cardboard. HTC VIVE Pro Price: $499 HTC VIVE offers a vast selection of high-quality headsets designed for business users. This headset isn’t quite as cutting-edge as it was first introduced in 2020.

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ARPost

MARCH 24, 2021

Gamers 18 or older represent nearly 80% of the video-gaming population, based on a 2020 study , and lest you think most of those are new to adulthood, the average gamer is actually 34 years old and nearly a quarter (23%) of all gamers in the United States are over the age of 50. Google Earth VR. Who Is Playing Games? Everest VR.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

A patent filed by Valve in 2020 and granted some days ago shows the work that Valve is doing towards wireless/standalone headsets. Vive Facial Tracker works also with non-HTC headsets. Last week, HTC Vive has announced the Vive Facial Tracker, a sensor to track your facial expressions while you are in VR. As long as it works….

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

In a post summarizing the results obtained in 2019 and talking about the future projections for 2020, Valve has teased interesting news for next year, saying that SteamVR 2.0 I had forecasted it in my predictions for augmented reality in 2020 : AR Cloud wars are starting. Let’s see how Apple and Google will answer.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The first was Eclipse: Edge of Light for Google Daydream which the studio recently brought to PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Covert is now scheduled to launch for Oculus Rift and PlayStation VR on 10th March 2020. No date has been set for that update to arrive at the moment.

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ARVR

JULY 15, 2020

With the Starboard UI and Apple Glasses release anticipated for Q4 2020/Q1 2021, the world is eagerly awaiting the next generation of extended reality (XR) standards. You probably have heard of well-known models such as the Oculus Go, Oculus Rift, Playstation VR, and HTC VIVE?—?these By the way, all these softwares are free of charge!

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