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For OpenVR-compatible headsets like Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, watching streaming 360video from from your browser is now as simple as clicking a button and putting on your headset. From a user’s perspective, all you have to do then is navigate to a 360video and press the ‘VR mode’ button.
Virtual reality is already being used on the ground to help prepare astronauts for the rigors of space, although now HTC says it’s sending its standalone VR headset Vive Focus 3 to the International Space Station (ISS) to help support the mental health of astronauts during their mission.
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The popular open source media player that practically plays any video format on any platform has now added support for 360° videos. The latest support comes to its desktop versions with a plan to rollout 360° support to its mobile apps in the near future as well. VR headset support coming in 2017. PHOTO mode.
HTC VIVE announced on Tuesday it will expand the availability of its VIVE Flow compact VR goggles with a novel Business Edition version. The devices are set to train, work, collaborate remotely, and enhance classroom interactions for its users across sectors, including education, healthcare, and many others, HTC VIVE explained.
After having detailed his vision for a better future where we all will wear an XR headset, Alvin has started introducing HTC’s vision for the Vive Focus Plus. As you can see from the price, it has been positioned in the West as an enterprise headset as all the devices by HTC. This is how to set it up.
This was the content of the box: Headset Controller + batteries USB cable Charger Lens wipe Instructions pamphlet (all in Chinese). Skyworth v901 VR headset and controller. On the right, you can see 3 buttons that let you interact with the VR applications in case you don’t have the controller. Controller.
It was a video player for virtual reality headsets, able to play both 2D videos, 360videos, and 360 VR videos which was quite popular back in the Gear VR days. There is always a big debate about 360videos being VR or not. This includes but is not limited to HTC, Oppo, Xiaomi, and Huawei.
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I can make an analogy to what happened in 2003, when most people believed that Windows and Palm were destined to control the mobile market, but instead, an obscure Linux-based OS named Android (running on a small number of ultra-premium phones, like the T-Mobile Sidekick) actually beat them to it! 100% keyboard controllable.
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The update will also come with new controls to adjust the size, position and angle of your avatar’s features, as well as an overhaul to the automatic avatar creator which runs your photos through a machine learning algorithm to extrapolate an avatar. an evolution of ‘Spaces’ avatars, image courtesy Facebook.
During all these months, I had the occasion of reading on Linkedin about all his cool prototypes and enterprise solutions that he and his colleagues have developed inside the company, ranging from 360videos to hand-tracked training solutions with the Quest, not to mention XR entertainment solutions for airplane passengers.
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What began as a somewhat clunky chunk of luminescent white plastic has transformed into a sleek, dark headset packed with a surprising amount of features including touch panels, ergonomic head straps and an honest-to-goodness motion controller. Skybox is an in-VR 360video player that actually seems to care about the little things.
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” review of standalone headsets (you can find in other posts the ones related to Oculus Go and HTC Vive Focus ). If you want to watch an unboxing video in which I have a terrible hairstyle and a WIDMOvr T-shirt that makes you feel in summer again, here you are: The headset. The controller. Then, keep reading.
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Cher Wang – HTC Vive. AIS-VR Society President Jim Chabin and actress Maria Bello honored the CEO of HTC with the Sir Charles Wheatstone Award for exemplifying exceptional forward movement in the VR Sciences. HTC is the maker of the Vive VR headset , a monumental achievement in optics, controls and 3D positional tracking for VR.
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The content will also be available in stereo 3D through the Littlstar app on Sony’s Playstation VR, Google Daydream, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Samsung Gear VR and more. The story stars John Cusack, Christina Ricci and Brendan Fletcher in their virtual reality debuts. He owned this new format and really took charge.
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Actually, there is no much more to say apart from what we already knew about the Index : the visuals are astonishing, especially because of the 120 Hz refresh rate; the audio is a next-gen one; the controllers allow for a new kind of interactions; the headset is very comfortable; there is a very handful guide on how to setup it on Steam website.
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As I said before, apart from other tech giants, no one is going to challenge Facebook on its own terrain : Pico, HTC, HP, Pareal, Skyworth, Shadow Creator… all these companies are going to try offering something different. Companies like Pico, HP, Valve, and HTC are already performing very well in this sector. Will they succeed?
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Earlier this week, Variety reported that Adobe’s head of Research Gavin Miller is claiming a new process for 360video post-processing. Adobe’s system can apparently convert standard monoscopic 360video into a much more compelling format that includes three-dimensional visuals.
The HTC Vive and Oculus Rift have good content and roomscale capabilities, but they’re tethered and the resolution isn’t great. PSVR is affordable given its relative quality but it still has bad screen door and lackluster motion controllers. The more impressive demos were the 360-videos and other 360 scenes.
Earlier this week YouTube finally released their official VR app for the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Windows VR platforms via SteamVR in one of the most low profile launches of 2017. As is being forced to keep your controller vertical in order to render it transparent while watching content.
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We don’t know too much about it, apart from the fact that: It is a high-end mobile headset; It is a 6 DOF headset; It features two ergonomic 6 DOF controllers, very similar to Oculus Touch; There are four cameras at the corners of the front plate that are used to track the controllers; It has a design very similar to the Oculus Rift.
While in all past years the answer had always been “HTC Vive”, now the king is Oculus, with both the Rift S and the Oculus Quest getting the majority of answers (especially the Quest). This week I have read the results of two very interesting surveys: GDC, as every year, has asked VR developers what platform they’re currently interested in.
Superhot VR is an action/puzzle hybrid with a unique time control mechanic. Since releasing, Superhot has been given a juicy content update that makes a great game even better and has begun to tease support for other VR headsets like the HTC Vive. This includes your enemies and the bullets they may or may not be firing at you.
That’s why VR Vision Inc helps companies produce XR training modules, so trainees can make mistakes in a safe, controlled environment. Let’s talk about how you guys are using VR and 360video to make better training. For example, STRIVR is doing 360video with Wal-Mart and their key performance indicators.
That’s why VR Vision Inc helps companies produce XR training modules, so trainees can make mistakes in a safe, controlled environment. Let’s talk about how you guys are using VR and 360video to make better training. For example, STRIVR is doing 360video with Wal-Mart and their key performance indicators.
PlayStation looks to an arcade rollout, Shazam goes augmented, AMD wants to go wireless, HTC Viveport’s new subscription service, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… You can enjoy the full audio recording below: IT’S NOW WAY EASIER TO COMBINE 360VIDEO AND ANIMATION. THE INVESTMENT & FUNDING WRAPUP.
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Would we finally get a full game announcement that lets us use the motion controllers as lightsabers? Rogue One: Recon – A Star Wars 360 Experience. The new hotness is releasing a 360video to coincide with the release of your new movie and the folks behind Star Wars are no different. Lightblade VR. But come on.
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We can speculate that this will be an enterprise headset costing at least $600, evolving the Reverb fixing the problem with controllers and improving the audio. Valve could provide some audio-visual improvements, while Microsoft its WMR platform, with inside-out tracking of controllers. News worth a mention. Very handy.
Also noteworthy: Final Cut Pro X will be able to support 360video editing, Unity and Unreal now have VR support for Macs, and SteamVR is coming to Mac… and although there was a sweet on-stage mixed reality demo using Star Wars assets and an HTC Vive, there was no mention of support for Oculus.
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