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An apparently never-before-seen HTC headset won an IF Design Award today, which arrived with multiple photos of what was listed as a consumer headset targeting release in 2021. The fitness-focused headset is just a concept, the company says, but we’re probably going to see many of its design elements in an upcoming HTC headset.
HTC is serial-teasing its next VR headset again, this time hyping the reveal of Vive Flow, which is reportedly a slim and light 6DOF standalone focused on media consumption, casual gaming, and VR experiences. HTC also released and new hype video on its Instagram , showing a quick flash of Flow’s hardware. Image courtesy HTC.
This means you can watch on Google Daydream View and Cardboard, and with a little extra creativity, on Oculus Rift and HTC Vive with Opera’s new experimental browser and Gear VR through Samsung Internet. Discovery TRVLR comes exclusively to YouTube and DiscoveryVR.com, and on the Discovery VR app.
Today we hear from Alvin Wang Graylin, HTC’s China President of Vive. Graylin is the China President of Vive at HTC leading all aspects of the Vive/VR business in the region. It will likely happen first in Asia where governments and parents prioritize their children’s education over all else. Alvin Wang Graylin.
Image by HTC Vive). HTC is probably going to announce Vive Flow. With a surprise move, HTC Vive has started teasing the launch of a new product. The company has set up a virtual event on the platform ENGAGE (of which HTC is an investor) for October, 14th 2021 at 8 am PDT. Send me hugs while I’m still human!
The HTC Vive should not exist. For a troubled company that’s spent much of the past few years making losses instead of profits, the niche and expensive VR market is the last place HTC is going to make a quick buck. Oculus had already set everyone’s expectations. Pre-Release and Pre Release. Expected Expense.
This was the inspiration behind Kusunda , a voice-driven VR film centered around the indigenous community of Kusunda located in the landlocked country of Nepal in South Asia. As a result, this historic language finds itself on the edge of extinction.
Bizarre Barber , an Oculus Launchpad title, is a curious and playful haircutting adventure for all ages. Bizarre Barber is also the reflection of its creators, two immigrants from post-Soviet Central Asia in American culture. Bizarre Barber is available now on Steam , Viveport , and Oculus ! Image Credit: Synesthetic Echo.
Supported Headsets: Oculus Rift, PlayStation VR, HTC Vive. Supported Headsets: HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, PlayStation VR. Metro developer 4A Games makes its VR debut with this Oculus Studios shooter that doesn’t look a whole lot different from its last post-apocalyptic shooter. Supported Headsets: Oculus Rift.
Mister President launching the Vive Focus (Image by HTC). This year we saw the launch of: Oculus Go ; Lenovo Mirage Solo ; Vive Focus ; Pico Neo / G2 ; S hadow VR; and the announcement of the Oculus Quest. Oculus has been the king of standalones , because it is selling devices at very low prices that offer great content.
Haggai Goldfarb Consulting for “ Project Origami: The Magic of Flight ,” a panoramic video experience coming to the Oculus browser. Techno Brave Asia Ltd. eyeora VR , a virtual events company working with mobile devices as well as Oculus and Pico headsets. Facebook for the Oculus Quest 2. HTC for the VIVE Focus 3.
Since then, the force has been strong with these young Padawans (and the community) and Beat Saber has climbed the games charts to an overwhelming Steam victory, plus hefty success on the Oculus Store. The arcade machines are currently only being rolled out across Asia, but we don’t anticipate this being the case for very long.
HTC’s China Regional President of Vive, Alvin Wang Graylin, took to the stage at the Unity Vision Summit in Asia this week and made a series of bold predictions for where we’ll see VR in the next two years. SEE ALSO Oculus Chief Scientist Predicts the Next 5 Years of VR Technology. Roadblocks.
HTC’s Vive X accelerator program is welcoming more than 30 new VR and AR startups to the fold with investments in North America and Asia. ” HTC Vive’s investment group also said it planned to open an accelerator in Israel, joining locations in San Francisco, Beijing, Shenzhen and Taipei.
As for the agency, we did some cool stuff for Lenovo Chile earlier this year: worked on a very intense motoGP simulator for Oculus and also did this awesome screen pillar with Kinect. I mean, besides the Oculus Quest 2, there’s hardly anything to get locally. It’s a royal pain to get hardware in Chile.
A detachable lens and head strap would provide VR arcades, amusement parks, and various other high foot traffic locations with a more efficient alternative to the HTC Vive or Oculus Rift; headsets that, while powerful, are often a pain to clean. It’s fairly obvious Acer is targeting the business sector with the OJO 500.
The US, Western Europe, and Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) are projected to account for three-quarters of revenue for VR and AR. HTC Vive most talked about headset on social media. According to the latest Adobe 2016 Gaming report , HTC Vive has been rising above the competition. Most revenue through 2020 will come from the US.
The consumer market without a Quest moment The biggest difference between the Chinese VR ecosystem and the Western one is the lack of the Oculus/Facebook/Meta/Horizon/whatever Quest. You know that in Asia (Japan, China, etc…) the gaming arcade rooms are still pretty popular, while in the West they have mostly died.
Beat Games, the Czech Republic-based indie developers behind smash hit rhythm game Beat Saber , are aiming to make a big splash in Asia with a newly revealed dedicated arcade machine. The cabinet was created in partnership with SKonec Entertainment , a Seoul-based company that recently opened a VR multiplex called VR SQUARE.
The VR experience will debut at 50 locations across the United States and UK, with plans to expand to South America, Asia and Australia in advance of the Jumanji motion picture release. Jumanji: The VR Adventure will be available at VR locations worldwide as well as in-home on PlayStation VR, Steam VR, Viveport and the Oculus Store.
This was following another on-stage demonstration of the kit, which lets you develop games from inside the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift headsets, at the 2016 Vision Summit Asia in Beijing, China. And to add to that…EVR’s first experimental build will be released ➡️DECEMBER 15!⬅️. timoni west (@timoni) December 14, 2016.
At least in terms of on-paper display specs, the new display puts the HDK 2 on par with both the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. ” Razer says that initial sales of the headset will only be available in the US & EU, but should see wider availability in the Asia-Pacific region in the next few weeks. Pre-order OSVR HDK 2.
For instance, in Europe, its product is sold mostly to photographers , that shoot the photos and then propose the virtual tour service to real estate companies, while in Asia, the real estate agencies want to own the platform and manage everything themselves. We were able to tour a house to another employee, Stella, that was in another room.
It is normal to buy or lease a car for a few hundred dollars a month, to own a thousand dollar phone with a monthly pay-off plan, but such clever price-reducing strategies were not the part of HTC or Oculus strategies and we all know what happened afterwards. Alcatraz: VR Escape Room.
At least in terms of on-paper display specs, the new display puts the HDK 2 on par with both the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. ” Razer says that initial sales of the headset will only be available in the US & EU, but should see wider availability in the Asia-Pacific region in the next few weeks. Pre-order OSVR HDK 2.
Lightform is funded by Lux , Seven Seas , the National Science Foundation , and Steven LaValle (a former principal scientist at Oculus). HTC’s Vive X accelerator program is welcoming more than 30 new VR and AR startups to the fold with investments in North America and Asia.
Eye tracking is, in my opinion, a technology that will disrupt completely the VR ecosystem , exactly as room-scale did with the first HTC Vive. FOV: >110° (adapted to HTC Vive). Now, we have a good reputation in Asia , and since we provice a cutting-edge technology, we also collaborate with several famous western labs.
Razer’s Tan seems confident that these new devices will give them the initiative in the territory saying “China and Asia will be huge growth drivers for us.” ” OSVR’s current flagship HDK, now on version 1.4 , sells for $299.99 and offers an OLED display and positional tracking.
Developer Slightly Mad Studios has sparred no detail in bringing a realistic driving experience to the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, and that includes an exhaustive list of drivable cars, revealed today. Formula Rookie. Kart 100cc (Kart01). GT-86 (Euro). GT-86 Rocket Bunny GT. GT-86 Rocket Bunny Street. TS040 Hybrid.
The annual Tokyo Game Show (TGS) will return next week with Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan Asia (SIEJA) having a big presence at the event for both PlayStation 4 and PlayStation VR. That launch won’t purely be for PlayStation VR, with a version also coming to Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Windows Mixed Reality headsets.
VeeR was featured by iOS App Store, HTC Vive, Google Daydream, Samsung Gear VR, Oculus, Huawei VR, Xiaomi VR. Upon receiving this award, VeeR VR’s CEO Ayden Ye commented: “It is a great honor for the team to be featured by Forbes 30 under 30 Asia. Forbes 30 under 30 Asia 2018: [link]. VeeR VR official website: veer.tv.
To me, numbers about Asia seem a bit bigger than the other ones… just a little… (Image by SuperData Research). If I remember well, some company in China was already experimenting on cloud rendering for the HTC Vive, so users could spare buying a VR-ready PC. SUPERDATA research for what concerns the mobile gaming market.
Thirdverse is currently preparing to release other virtual reality games, including “Frostpoint VR: Proving Grounds,” a multi-player shooter game that will be available later this year for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive VR and Valve Index headsets. ” Are virtual concerts here to stay?
Maze Theory, in conjunction with BBC Studios and publisher PlayStack, has partnered with several content distribution platforms; Synthesis VR , SpringboardVR , Ctrl V and Vive Arcade to make Doctor Who: Edge of Time available in more than 100 arcades worldwide, located across the UK, Europe, Asia and North America.
I’ve used it with the HTC Vive, and you can literally stand in the middle of your creation, and hold the virtual paintbrush in your hand to paint in the air around you. There are also app stores for the Oculus Rift , the Gear VR , the HTC Vive , and on Steam for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.
This addresses common issues like occlusion and space requirements of systems such as HTC Vive,” Chng told TechCrunch. AXIS can also work with popular VR headsets like the Oculus Quest 2, Chng said. “AXIS will be fully untethered and wireless, requiring no external base stations or setups.
So, for me, there’s a set of technological things that feel further off in terms of what you might call “high-end AR” compared to what we are seeing in a “high-end VR” experience like an HTC Vive. But, I think when you look at Asia, you see some amazing innovation from companies. This is not just a copycat sort of phenomenon.
When travelling – pre pandemic, one of the more relaxing experiences was sitting back, watching Netflix premieres on my own portable Imax – The Oculus Quest. With newer Immersive eye-wear such as the HTC Vive Flow due out this month, OTT platforms are missing out. Enter… YouTube Immersive.
When it comes to VR SIE isn’t following its rivals like Oculus and HTC with lots of new and improved headsets – or standalone ones – but it has previously hinted at what could feature in a new model, like better resolution and wireless connectivity. It’s not just Shawn Layden leaving Sony.
And then you’ve also got Oculus with their own MDM solution as well. And I don’t want to talk too much about brands and stuff like that, but you chose not to work with the Oculus Go headset. So in the end, it came up to, for us, the Oculus Go versus the Pico G2 Pro. And then have you deployed it now in Asia?
And then you’ve also got Oculus with their own MDM solution as well. And I don’t want to talk too much about brands and stuff like that, but you chose not to work with the Oculus Go headset. So in the end, it came up to, for us, the Oculus Go versus the Pico G2 Pro. And then have you deployed it now in Asia?
Above: The Oculus Touch controls let you navigate independently with each hand in VR. Image Credit: Oculus. But recently both Google and Oculus have gotten behind it, and as a result we’re seeing accelerated adoption of web VR. Above: VR Funhouse is a series of mini games for the HTC Vive virtual reality headset.
We have about 40 million under management and we invest in primarily in North America, but also in Asia and Europe, too. Teppei: Yeah, there is a $10-million series C lead by HTC, and also another fund called The Makers. And they’ve been doing great, especially the turning point for the company was the Oculus Go and Oculus Quest.
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