The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2019

At ChinaJoy today, HTC has just announced a little but very important news: the Vive Focus Plus will be able to connect to Viveport on PC and play all its games via Wi-fi streaming. The concept of Wi-fi streaming to play PC VR games with a mobile headset is absolutely not new. All natively. Wi-fi streaming.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

HTC announced a new product out of left field here at Mobile World Congress (MWC) this week, the 5G Hub mobile hotspot that includes a media streaming device, a digital assistant, and Internet access point for up to 20 concurrent devices.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 10, 2022

HTC is set to reveal its new VIVE Mars CamTrack solution at the SIGGRAPH 2022 in Vancouver, Canada, where it will showcase the immersive production tool with Departure Lounge and Arcturus, it was revealed on Tuesday. HTC VIVE (@htcvive) August 8, 2022. Low-latency performance.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

With much surprise for us all, HTC has just announced the Vive Focus Plus , its first full 6 DOF standalone headset! The Vive Focus Plus, in all its majesty (Image by HTC). It will be released in 25 worldwide markets, so it won’t be a China-only headset. Internal view of the Vive Focus Plus (Image by HTC).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

I’m trying to do my best… I hope you’ll appreciate that Before leaving you to the news… I’m hosting a giveaway of Gang V keys… it is a cool VR battle royal game with strong GTA V vibes that has just been released in Early Access on Steam ! This game will attract many fans of the saga to the Quest, increasing its sales even more.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2022

It has become one of the headset manufacturers with the biggest worldwide market, and the market leader (together with HTC) in the B2B virtual reality sector. As for the content, the company aims at having more than 200 games on its native Pico Store. It wants to offer a headset that is affordable but offers features up to a standard.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

TPCast, the wireless streaming device that lets HTC Vive owners play VR games cable-free, is now available for pre-order in most of continental Europe starting at €349 (or the regional equivalent). ” TPCAST has already been available for pre-order via HTC’s Chinese Vive online store since November last year.

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Cats and VR

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

HTC held its VIVE™ Developer Conference 2017 (VDC2017), where it announced VIVE WAVE™ ( www.vive.com/cn/vive-wave-en ), a VR open platform and toolset that will open up the path to easy mobile VR content development and high-performance device optimization for third-party partners.

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The Ghost Howls

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! Image by IGN).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2022

According to the company, the added latency for wireless communication is just 3ms. Chinese giant Baidu (The Google of China) has announced its XiRang platform aimed at building the metaverse. 3D puzzle game Shores of Loci is set for an Early Access release on Quest 2 via App Lab and SteamVR on May 24th. Some news on content.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2023

Because what matters is not the present, but the future: Apple’s commitment to XR is a long-term game, and while this headset will never become mainstream, probably the Apple Vision 3 (or 4) will. But unluckily, we haven’t got many details about the game. This doesn’t pose very well for the interest that Ubisoft has in this game.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2018

We all know that China is a country that is betting big on Virtual Reality. The Chinese VR ecosystem is very active and it is evolving pretty fast: this summer I have been in China and I met some cool startups that are working on software (e.g. Me and Dabo of Langzou VR, discussing about his company and the educational system in China.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Global tech giants such as NVIDIA, Lenovo, Unity, Epic Games, HTC VIVE, and others have already entered the metaverse space race. Telecoms such as AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, China Mobile, and many others are working to expand such infrastructure. With the increase of data traffic, data security will also take precedence.

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VRWorld

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

While the second generation handsets from HTC and Oculus are getting shape hidden from the public eye, there are significant changes being announced or previewed for the upcoming Holiday season. Using HTC Vive immerses you in a virtual environment, but you can still feel the wire, ravel and worse.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

There’s an antitrust rule in Germany that prohibits Product A to force you to use Product B , and this basically means that you can’t be forced to use the social media Facebook to use the gaming device Oculus. HTC CEO Yves Maitre resigns. HTC, you did it again. Germany, please save us . TPCast releases TPCast Air for Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 15, 2018

Hello everyone from Qingdao, China! This is my first article written from China and I have to say that I’m very very excited. I have to say that China is a lot different from what I had imagined and I guess that the only way to really understand it is coming here. I love being here. So, is it true? And how is it?

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Road to VR

JULY 14, 2016

Developed by Nvidia’s Lightspeed Studios and built for the HTC Vive, the aim of VR Funhouse is to demonstrate the potential power of virtual reality and motion controls when the experience is driven by their new lines of Pascal GPUs – the GTX 1060, 1070 and 1080. These are my thoughts on each of the individual experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 20, 2021

Italy, Canada, and China together to create an amazing video about these VR glasses! The devkit is already available to selected developers in China , and there are already some companies that are creating content for it. The glasses can be connected to a PC , where you can use them to play SteamVR games.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 10, 2018

When the China-based headset manufacturer Pico Interactive announced they were bringing their six degrees of freedom (6DoF) Pico Neo VR headset and 6DoF controllers to the West , it wasn’t clear what content store they’d be drawing from when they released the headset out of China.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

In my opinion, these are the trends to keep an eye on: The continuous growth of the market Establishment of VR in enterprise settings Incremental technical evolution of devices Blurring of the line between AR and VR High-quality content (especially gaming) 5G over-hype Standardization given by OpenXR Others (LBVR, WebVR, SocialXR).

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VeeR VR

MARCH 16, 2018

Oculus has also partnered with Xioami to create an Oculus Go version for China coined the “Mi VR Standalone” that looks almost identical to the Go. The pinnacle of standalone performance is HTC Vive’s Focus headset that that uses "world-scale" and is similar to the HTC vive, a powerful headset tethered to a PC.

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

A step up from an Oculus Go for those that want more power, much better tracking for immersive games and experiences. In addition, Google has launched a number of VR games on the Google Play store, such as the Titans of Space and Deep Space Battle. It is not just a headset, but a content portal, with stories, games and experiences.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 27, 2017

The TPCast wireless solution for the HTC Vive virtual reality headset is expanding its slate of products to include a multi-user device. All of this two-way communication has to happen many times each second in order to prevent any lost frames or image latency — each of which are catastrophic for VR experiences.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Pimax, the China-based VR headset manufacturer, just released a preview of their Kickstarter page for its new 8K and 5K VR headsets. We had a chance to play with a prototype of Pimax 8K at this year’s CES before the company integrated Valve’s Lighthouse tracking solution—one of the first to do so outside of HTC.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Today Tilt Five is launching its Kickstarter campaign for its innovative augmented reality glasses for tabletop gaming. Some of my toy projects… I did a ton of these toys joysticks that you plug into a television and have a bunch of video games built in. Part of all of this is merit of Jeri (Image by HTC). The Vive Wands.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Vive Wave is HTC’s open platform that offers interoperability between several classes of mobile VR headsets and accessories, something the company hopes will help unite a fragmented market. Although with greater choice in VR accessories comes the task of understanding the key differences between them. Image captured by Road to VR.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 7, 2022

The South China Morning Post reports that Bytedance is growing the number of Pico employees and it is also moving some senior managers from Bytedance to Pico. For sure, these movements by Bytedance make me think that it wants to establish itself as the leader in China and also go competing with Meta, sooner or later.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Pimax, the China-based VR headset manufacturer known for their 4K headset , have recently hit Kickstarter with their newest devices, the Pimax 8K and 5K VR headsets. These display resolutions are however higher than your standard Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, which is where some of the fanfare is coming from. image courtesy Pimax.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2020

Discover with me everything about it and especially how does it compare with the Oculus Quest and the HTC Vive Focus Plus. The Pico Neo also offers the Pico Store to download new experiences, but they are quite a few : there are only 3 pages about games. The Vive Focus Plus (Image by HTC). Pico Neo 2 Eye Video Review.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 24, 2021

Thanks to HTC that has kindly provided me a loaner device, I have been able to test in the last days the Vive Focus 3 Business Edition. The latest standalone headset from HTC was announced a month ago, and it generated a lot of buzz in the community for its premium features associated with a high price. Are you ready? (PS

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Tech companies across the industry have widely adopted the XR2 for their immersive devices, including market leaders such as Lenovo’s ThinkReality VRX and A3 devices, Meta’s Quest series, as well as HTC VIVE and Pico Interactive product lineups. Gbps of peak speed.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. But now expanding that, that whole gaming idea and bringing it into retail. And they launched this year, I believe, Harry Potter, which is a cool game. Right now, China is kind of leading the way. Alan: 6D.ai I got to play it.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. But now expanding that, that whole gaming idea and bringing it into retail. And they launched this year, I believe, Harry Potter, which is a cool game. Right now, China is kind of leading the way. Alan: 6D.ai I got to play it.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Rec Room’s got a great charades game and a really fun frisbee-golf game and my hunch is they have a broader platform play behind that, but they are using those applications to show what’s possible in terms of highly distributed shared presence. I would say China is a hyper-competitive market. Valuations are not cheap.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2023

This conveniently allows access to applications with low-latency, industry-grade GPU acceleration and streaming capabilities for multimodal use. This connected the world’s largest “design, computer-aided design (CAD), and simulation tool ecosystems such as Autodesk, Siemens, Adobe, PTC, and Epic Games.”

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

There was a company called LAI Games, which has been around for decades. They build arcade games. And now this year there was another company called VRsenal, that had an arcade game cabinet with– that was a VR based that was unattended, and it was running Beat Saber, which is obviously one of the most popular games out there.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Minecraft Earth was a game that had the potential of competing with Pokemon Go, but its shutdown has been announced some weeks ago because the lockdown has hurt its launch and adoption. NuEyes and Shadow Creator+Photon Lens should do something similar, while I guess that Rokid will focus more on China and Jio Glasses on India.

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