Road to VR

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

That’s where South Africa-based EDEN Labs wants to change things up with its enterprise-focused VR headset platform, the Eden Snacker. And let’s face it, most everyone on the planet is a VR newcomer at this point, meaning you’ll need an attendant to handhold users the entire way through.

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EON Reality

DECEMBER 18, 2018

In an effort to help combat the ever-evolving AIDS epidemic plaguing South Africa, EON Reality Tshwane’s VR Innovation Academy students were tasked by the City of Tshwane Health Department to create an HIV/AIDS awareness VR application. To learn more about EON Reality’s location in South Africa, visit the EON Reality Tshwane page.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Guests come face to face with African Elephants, Dugongs, and other endangered species in ways that would simply be impossible in the wild via HTC Vive headsets. The VRZOO collaboration with Wevr is their latest effort to combine innovative technology with conservation education in a fun, spectacular way.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 5, 2023

The Middle East North Africa (MENA) region has also become a rising star in the global tech market. XR Today: How do the technological solutions from your XR partners (HTC VIVE, etc) enable your own solutions? For firms requiring rapid, on-the-fly content production, no-code platforms are an essential tool.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Curiscope, the makers of the mixed reality Virtuali-tee educational app, just launched Operation Apex (2017), an underwater exploration and adventure game developed in partnership with HTC Vive Studios. Curiscope created Operation Apex under the guidance of South Africa-based research and conservation organization Oceans Research.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The Dubai Aquarium & Underwater Zoo now lets visitors go beyond the glass and having an astonishingly intimate encounter with sea life thanks to the HTC Vive. Wevr’s theBlu, one of the first experiences to feature on the SteamVR headset, is one of a handful of VR apps on offer at the site’s new VRZOO.

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Ryan Schultz

MARCH 7, 2024

The session “VR for Social Change” will showcase the Africa VR Campus and Center to demonstrate how immersive technologies can promote social empowerment. IMMERSIVE X and Innovation Bridge Europe have teamed up to present some of the most cutting-edge projects at this year’s tech festival in Austin.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

More info (Snap announces new Spectacles glasses — Road To VR) More info (Snap announces new Spectacles glasses — Upload VR) More info (Ian Hamilton reviewing the device) More info (A comment on the launch video of the device) HTC announces Vive Focus Vision HTC has announced its latest standalone headset: the Vive Focus Vision.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

And an interesting article pointed me to the fact that now also the game development ecosystem in Africa is growing and getting some serious investments. I guess this will lead to more development of XR, too. More info Meta changes Quest 2 bundle When you got a Quest 2, Beat Saber and Resident Evil 4 were given to you for free.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Unluckily my referral gives you a chance of winning only if you are in the EMEA area (Europe, Middle-East, Africa). HTC released a trailer about his vision for the metaverse. HTC has released a trailer video with his vision of the metaverse. This is important to take part in the raffle: just registering isn’t enough.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

I mean… HTC controls five other social VR experiences in its XR Suite, it is weird that now it is partnering with a competitor company. Some friends of mine are contributing to the Africa XR Report, a report of the status of immersive technologies in the African continent. Learn more (Africa XR Report) Learn more (Form to contribute).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 30, 2022

The largest telecoms provider in Africa, the MTN Group , recently announced it had purchased 11 plots of digital real estate within he Ubuntuland Metaverse platform in 2022. Qualcomm even recently began to discuss the arrival of its own metaverse fund. This represents the first time an African firm has invested in digital real estate.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

.” Google Earth turns all of this data into completely explorable, scalable 3D immersive worlds for the HTC Vive VR headset. I choose Africa and within minutes I am hovering a few hundred feet off the ground of a barren desert. The app is available now for free on the HTC Vive.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 7, 2022

A study conducted by HTC Vive together with a Chinese university shows that Virtual Reality has much more addictive potential (+44%) than traditional flat gaming. This offering holds only for EMEA users (Europe, Middle-East, Africa). Virtual Reality is 44% more addictive than traditional gaming. Register now. Some XR fun.

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VRWorld

JUNE 8, 2016

Devices based on OSVR should come to market during 2016 and there might be a bloodbath when it comes to incumbent HTC and Oculus. Razer plans to become a ‘de facto standard’ for VR in China, and the amount of OSVR Hacker Kit 1.4 shipped to mainland China is quite impressive.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 16, 2019

She’s the former head of content acquisition and partnerships for VIVE Port at HTC VIVE, and she used to be the V.P. When I was at HTC, yes, my job was a quote/unquote, “sit behind a desk” kind of thing. All of these organizations are– Alan: I think that was probably back when you were at HTC. Jenna: Yep.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 16, 2019

She’s the former head of content acquisition and partnerships for VIVE Port at HTC VIVE, and she used to be the V.P. When I was at HTC, yes, my job was a quote/unquote, “sit behind a desk” kind of thing. All of these organizations are– Alan: I think that was probably back when you were at HTC. Jenna: Yep.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 16, 2019

She's the former head of content acquisition and partnerships for VIVE Port at HTC VIVE, and she used to be the V.P. When I was at HTC, yes, my job was a quote/unquote, "sit behind a desk" kind of thing. Alan: I think that was probably back when you were at HTC. He's a wonderful voice for all the things that HTC is doing.

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VRScout

APRIL 21, 2021

“The VR works selected this year are multidisciplinary, they draw as much from cinema as from video games or live shows, with films from Africa in particular,” said Swierczynski. The MOR is also an innovative digital art gallery that provides access not only to the works but also to their distribution without borders,” added Swierczynski.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

HTC releases eye and face tracking for Vive Focus 3. HTC doesn’t want to lose the VR train, so it has just found a creative way of competing with Meta Quest Pro. The eye tracker, instead, can be attached as a magnetic insert in the internal part of the device, and HTC claims it’s accurate to within 0.5°~1.1°

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

South-Africa startup Eden Labs has created an interesting design for VR headsets needed in public installations to show 360 videos. Rikard Steiber departs HTC. Rikard Steiber, a very well known personality in HTC, is stepping down from his role of Viveport President. Some satyre on HTC. I really can’t wait…. I’m amazed.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Projects must be viewable via Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Samsung Gear VR, or Google Cardboard. exhibiting a number of new-but-unknown feature films, documentaries, animations, and shorts that have gone on to significant box-office success and multiple Oscar nominations.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

HTC with Vinay [Narayan], who’s always wonderful. And what’s great to do, with it being the global summit, is we’ve got speakers this year that are coming from Africa, and India, and Asia, and Germany and– you know, we’re doing a European summit next year. And then we’ve got workshops too.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

HTC with Vinay [Narayan], who’s always wonderful. And what’s great to do, with it being the global summit, is we’ve got speakers this year that are coming from Africa, and India, and Asia, and Germany and– you know, we’re doing a European summit next year. And then we’ve got workshops too.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

HTC with Vinay [Narayan], who’s always wonderful. And what’s great to do, with it being the global summit, is we’ve got speakers this year that are coming from Africa, and India, and Asia, and Germany and– you know, we’re doing a European summit next year. And then we’ve got workshops too.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2020

Doing business in Italy is very hard now, but there are countries, for instance in Africa, that have not been much affected by the outbreak yet. Also now there will be interesting events in VR, like HTC’s VEC that will happen inside ENGAGE. We’re doing that as well; Work for countries still not in lockdown.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

UploadVR: What impact do you feel the continued release of new headsets from PlayStation VR to Google Daydream to the recent Samsung Gear VR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive will have on enticing more people to create in 360-degrees? Kathryn Bigelow: I am sure the market will rise to the demand.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

I’ve had the opportunity of playing with the Tobii tracking system with HTC Vive. It’s– I think another thing that will make a big difference and it doesn’t seem like a big thing, but eye tracking. Being able to actually look somebody in the eyes in VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

I've had the opportunity of playing with the Tobii tracking system with HTC Vive. It's-- I think another thing that will make a big difference and it doesn't seem like a big thing, but eye tracking. Being able to actually look somebody in the eyes in VR. They're not an avatar that's kind of a disembodied, cartoonish version of themselves.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

I’ve had the opportunity of playing with the Tobii tracking system with HTC Vive. It’s– I think another thing that will make a big difference and it doesn’t seem like a big thing, but eye tracking. Being able to actually look somebody in the eyes in VR.

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Tech Trends VR

OCTOBER 30, 2018

My Africa allows you to become an elephant keeper and care for Dudu, an orphaned baby elephant, nursing her back to health. “Audience members intuitively held hands during the entire experience, and freely walked around the space.”. Click To Tweet.

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Steki Amusement

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Multiplayer Interactive Immersive Shooting Arena Multiplayer VR Shooting Arena for HTC VIVE, Virtual Reality Matrix Space, Implement 4VS4 battle mode, The world’s leading multiplayer online solution that can be commercialized and implemented! Doomsday/Eve theme, makes you feel like you are at the end of the world.

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Steki Amusement

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

HTC VIVE Commercial Solution). Owatch VR UFO Cinema 10 Seats Simulator. Canton Tower XR Rides Cinema/VR Center. Other popular virtual reality game machines include: VR Magic Box (Intelligent self-service standing platform?HTC VR Racing Simulator (Enjoy freely driving with real road vision). cover all types of games).

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