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JUNE 19, 2017

HTC announced today it is expanding the online presence of the HTC Vive to Best Buy’s website, Walmart.com, and other online retailers. Paired with recent news with Apple, Google and Intel, we’re seeing major retailers and direct-to-consumer companies endorse Vive as the premier VR experience.”.

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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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APRIL 22, 2024

Zuck’s genius move before Google I/O I was kinda shocked reading this piece of news, but I was also quite happy because I’m all in for open platforms, and seeing finally Meta breaking the walls of its walled garden is for me a good thing. And with the operating system comes also Meta’s store.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Back at CES we met a small creative studio with some big technical plans for the HTC Vive’s upcoming Tracker peripheral. The team’s name was Master of Shapes , and they were one of the groups that HTC had gathered to showcase some of the many applications for the new device. It’s been done.

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DECEMBER 19, 2017

Oculus parent company Facebook today announced it’s bringing Spaces , the company’s own social VR app, to HTC Vive. Like YouTube, which Google recently brought to the Vive , Facebook works only when it’s available to as many people as possible. And the same makes sense for Facebook Spaces. Arctic Open.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Google, however, showed off some impressive research that takes the technology to the next level. Using a collection of techniques, including a modified HTC Vive with SMI eye tracking , Google digitally recreates your face in place of the VR headset that is blocking it. ” Tagged with: Google Research.

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MAY 10, 2017

Today Google announced via their blog that they’ve acquired Owlchemy Labs, the creators of Job Simulator and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality. The partnership will be similar to Google’s role with Tilt Brush studio, Skillman & Hackett. Our plan to build awesome things will continue forward stronger than ever.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

More info (HTC Face Tracking add-on — Road To VR) More info (HTC Face Tracking add-on — Upload VR) Google lays off people in the AR Hardware division Like many tech companies lately, Google is performing a round of layoffs in its hardware teams. This does not mean that Google is not still committed to AR, though.

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JANUARY 30, 2018

Google Blocks, the 3D object creation tool for VR/AR app developers, just got a big update that includes new environments, improved object snapping, and a number of experimental features that the company says makes Blocks “more powerful and even easier to use.” New Features.

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JANUARY 4, 2017

Ever since Tilt Brush from Google first released earlier this year on Steam with official support for the HTC Vive, thousands of people have created amazing works of art. Today, Google is taking the TiltBrush art scene a step further by announcing the Tilt Brush Artist in Residence Program.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

My trip is going well and this week I will start writing on my blog about my XR experiences here in the Red Country, while on my X/Twitter channel, you will be able to see some landscape and food pictures! I’m writing this newsletter across Hangzhou and Qingdao, which are two cities I personally love here in China! This could be huge.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

Google’s team at Daydream Labs have been prototyping ways of animating objects and characters in Blocks , the company’s recently released VR modelling tool. The post Google is Exploring Ways to Let You Animate Your ‘Blocks’ Creations appeared first on Road to VR.

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MARCH 1, 2024

Anyway, with the end of the life of Quest 2, this cycle finished and a new one started with Quest 3, Apple Vision Pro, Google and Samsung announcing their own headset, and other companies chasing them (e.g. Especially Apple and Google, which are the dominant players in the smartphone industry, are both launching headsets this year.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2017

pic.twitter.com/L4tln5SM8I — Google VR (@googlevr) February 22, 2017. Google has made some neat technology that makes VR headsets "transparent" for Mixed Reality use. Next, we use an HTC Vive, modified by SMI to include eye-tracking, to capture the person’s eye-gaze from inside the headset.

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MAY 15, 2017

The game is out now on Google Daydream , Gear VR , Oculus Rift , HTC Vive and soon on PSVR. catsandvr.com/blog/. There is also an arcade mode, where you will be trained before going back with the coach and try to beat his levels. Check out this pretty ridiculous commercial below for this ridiculous but pretty fun game.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2023

More info Google may still be working at Project Iris Some months ago a rumor claimed that Google had stopped working on Project Iris, its project devoted to the creation of augmented reality glasses. More info Rayban Meta review I’ve found on The Verge a very long and detailed hands-on review of the Rayban Meta smartglasses.

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OCTOBER 26, 2017

update, now including official support for Apple’s ARKit and Google’s ARCore software dev kits, and support for SteamVR on Mac. Apple featured a demo running on the HTC Vive that was created by Industrial Light and Magic. Epic Game’s Unreal Engine is making it easier to create for augmented reality in the newest 4.18

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JANUARY 19, 2018

The program, which was introduced in a brief post on the Oculus developer blog , has begun to accept applications via this form. without limitation, Oculus, Google, Microsoft, Valve, Steam, HTC)”, venture capital, or crowdsourcing. Oculus is aiming to reduce the barriers to entry into VR development for small teams. “If

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FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Designer and Creative technologist Dong Yoon Park has painstakingly recreated a Star Wars battle scene inside VR with Google’s Tilt Brush. Virtual reality artistry really has exploded since the HTC Vive gave the world room scale VR and tracked motion controllers, making the VR art application Tilt Brush possible.

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MARCH 21, 2021

More info (FRL Official blog post) More info (Road To VR reporting and commenting the news) More info (Ctrl+Labs’s Dino Game Early Demo) More info (ETH’s experimental wristband). As it had promised on my blog last year , its cool Nreal Light AR glasses have finally arrived in Europe. Google halves its revenues on the Play Store.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I’m sorry about that, but it’s still a miracle I’ve managed to write it… Top news of the week (Leaked image from Samsung video) Samsung is back to XR with Google and Qualcomm The big news of the week is that Samsung is back to XR. What is even more interesting is that this device will be built in partnership with Google and Qualcomm.

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JANUARY 1, 2019

Various months ago, I got from Lenovo a Mirage Solo headset for a limited period of time to review it on my blog. ” review of standalone headsets (you can find in other posts the ones related to Oculus Go and HTC Vive Focus ). it is bigger than the Oculus Go but smaller than the massive HTC Vive Focus. Then, keep reading.

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JANUARY 12, 2018

HTC Creative Labs’s free native VR video player has received an upgrade with a new browser interface. Explained in a post on the official Vive blog , which also covers the major CES announcements of the Vive Pro and Wireless Adaptor, Vive Video ’s 2.0 Vive Video launched a year ago with support for 2D, 3D, 180?

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APRIL 11, 2019

A Chair in a Room first came to Google Cardboard and Oculus Rift DK1 as a free demo back in 2014. Later arriving on Steam as a full game for HTC Vive and then Oculus Rift, we always wondered when the highly rated horror mystery game would make it over to PSVR.

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MAY 13, 2024

This is a period with many tech announcements: we had Meta telling about its Horizon OS, yesterday OpenAI unveiled the new GPT-4o, and today Google will hopefully unveil its Android XR operating system. What a time to be alive! I believe there will be many use cases for this. I wonder if VR remains one of its most important use cases.

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JULY 30, 2018

Already a dominant application on the HTC Vive, PlayStation VR and Google Daydream platforms, Google’s immensely popular YouTube VR experience is now available on the Samsung Gear VR. The biggest video-sharing platform in the world arrives on the Gear VR with all new features and content.

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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. Funny link.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

ZedMini camera mounted to HTC Vive / Image Credit: Lee Vermeulen. In a blog post entitled Prototyping future AR in VR , Vermeulen breaks down the VR headset he uses to create his unique AR experiences. The primary component is a ZedMini camera hooked up to an HTC Vive headset, that allows for AR pass-through while he is in VR.

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OCTOBER 4, 2021

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! More info.

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

Its userbase is superior to known PCVR headsets like the HTC Vive Pro and Pro 2 and most probably in the next weeks, it will also surpass the Pico 4. Funny link Donate for good Like last week, also this week in this final paragraph I won’t ask you to donate to my blog, but to the poor people who are facing the consequences of the war.

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MARCH 20, 2018

Image courtesy HTC. HTC have finally revealed the price and release date of the anticipated Vive Pro , opening preorders globally at Vive.com and other retailers. The company is still heavily involved with VR development however, and are expected to present some new technology with Google at Display Week 2018 in May.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

In a Friday announcement, Google showcased their latest plans to introduce multiplayer functionality into the popular app, along with a slew of other features that the Tilt Brush team is hoping to roll out soon. Portal brush will use the HTC Vive’s front-facing camera to give you a magic window when you need it. Custom avatars.

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JANUARY 11, 2022

As it is a tradition of this blog , I’ve prepared a big roundup of the best news in XR from this year’s CES! HTC Vive Wrist Tracker. HTC Vive Wrist Tracker (Image by HTC). HTC has made an announcement at this CES and it has been a pretty cool one. Further references. Shiftall MeganeX.

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MAY 23, 2022

Google launches “Immersive Stream for AR”. Google has launched a new cloud service based on Stadia technology: dubbed “Immersive Stream for AR”, it lets you perform cloud rendering for augmented reality applications for mobile phones. This is a great deal, that lowers even more the barrier of cost to enter virtual reality.

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DECEMBER 14, 2016

First, Oculus launched a developer preview of its own VR web browser, Carmel, and now Google is finally bringing beta integration to Chrome on Android. This includes Google’s own offering, Daydream View. Last month, we reported that Google would bring stable WebVR 1.1 Tagged with: Daydream , google , webvr.

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AUGUST 19, 2024

The VR modelling tool Google Blocks is now available as an open-source version under the name of Open Blocks. Google AR Glasses: Is This the Return of Google Glass? Open Blocks In an Open Blocks Docs blog post, it reveals that Open Blocks will soon be available on Steam, as the original version is too.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

One-year price performance for MSFT, AAPL, GOOGL, SNE, and NVDA According to the latest report from Statista , the global augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) markets are rapidly growing and are forecast to reach a total of $72.8 Last year, Google also acquired North, an AR smart glass manufactures.

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