Road to VR

MAY 31, 2018

Oculus previously announced earlier this year that Oculus Go , the company’s 3DOF standalone headset, would officially launch in 23 consumer markets, although China would be receiving its own version with Xiaomi branding. Now, at a conference in Shenzhen the Chinese tech giant announced that Mi VR has officially launched in China.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Today during the Vive Developers Conference in Beijing, HTC revealed the Vive Focus, a standalone VR headset with inside-out positional tracking. Update (11/14/17): HTC has confirmed to Road to VR that the company is cancelling plans to bring a Daydream-based version of the Vive Focus headset to Western markets, including the US and Europe.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Today it’s a great day for virtual reality: at WCVRI conference, HTC has just announced a kit to provide 6 DOF controllers for Vive Focus and has showcased a hands-tracking technology for the Vive Pro ! The Venture Reality Fund and of course HTC. China is committed to development & application of #VR in various fields.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

According to the Taiwan Stock Exchange, HTC will halt trading of its stock as of September 21st, pending an unknown announcement from the company, reports Bloomberg. Following several years of financial difficulty, the future of HTC seems less clear than it’s ever been. SEE ALSO HTC Vive Gets Major Price Cut, Now $600.

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MARCH 13, 2017

But it seems most of the industry is in agreement that the Killer App—a single, platform-defining piece of software that compels buyers—has not yet arrived. Today we hear from Alvin Wang Graylin, HTC’s China President of Vive. Vive’s Alvin Wang Graylin weighs in on how we might come to find it. Alvin Wang Graylin.

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MAY 12, 2021

What people required the most in a new VR headset, according to a survey proposed by HTC Vive. In the first one, you can read what are the features that people that HTC interviewed were asking for a VR headset : HTC has used these data to design its new headset and accompanying software ecosystem so that to fulfill these requests.

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MAY 9, 2019

HTC is now on its fourth batch in its $100 million accelerator program, which offers education, investment and mentorship to startups doing unique and and interesting things around VR and AR. Primitive is providing businesses with VR collaboration for distributed software teams. ifGames is one of the first VR game studios in China.

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JANUARY 15, 2025

Play For Dream MR, the high-end standalone headset from China, was the big surprise of CES 2025. Play For Dream MR's hardware and software design is definitely heavily inspired by Apple Vision Pro, and a representative admitted as much to me.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2017

HTC today announced its third batch of AR/VR startups backed by the company’s Vive X accelerator program. ” Started last year, Vive X is a $100 million fund for AR/VR companies that, according to HTC, provides “unparalleled access to expertise, resources, planning and an extensive network throughout the AR/VR industry.”

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JUNE 3, 2022

However, Meskill also had a lot to say about the software, including one potentially unforeseen change. The other kind of theme for us is that we’re really exploring our [independent software vendor] program in collaboration with Qualcomm.”. Graylin said that an interoperable metaverse will likely be created first in China.

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OCTOBER 10, 2022

Among other things, I have written a fantastic post about the VR concerts worth millions of dollars that Pico is doing in China ; I have been interviewed in a podcast by Moonbase ; and this Saturday I will be close to Turin (Italy) speaking at a science and technology festival about my work in immersive concerts. Image by HTC Vive).

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APRIL 27, 2017

The HTC Vive should become the first mainstream headset to put that theory to the test. The module is called the aGlass and it will be available for “limited pre-order sales” next month, according to HTC. – Update: after publishing, HTC confirmed the price and release schedule for the aGlass.

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MARCH 19, 2020

Yesterday, I attended the Vive Ecosystem Conference, the annual event by HTC, that his year was held completely inside ENGAGE. The first major company to have the courage to take its whole event fully in Virtual Reality has been HTC, that has held yesterday its annual VEC event completely inside the ENGAGE platform.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 4, 2019

HTC today announced that it’s released support for 5Ghz WiFi streaming for Vive Focus Plus, as well as all 6DOF standalone headsets supporting the Vive Wave platform. The post HTC Launches Viveport PC Streaming for Vive Focus Plus appeared first on Road to VR. SEE ALSO Viveport Has Earned a Second Chance Thanks to Infinity.

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MAY 24, 2018

Today at the Vive Ecosystem Conference 2018 in China, HTC announced that the Vive Focus standalone headset will be able to wirelessly stream PC VR content from both Steam and Viveport over a 5GHz WiFi connection. We’ve reached out to HTC for clarification.

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APRIL 19, 2021

HTC is going to launch its headset on May, 11th. HTC is keeping rising the hype for its new upcoming headset. I also expect it to be consumer-oriented in China. The post The XR Week Peek (2021.04.19): Quest 2 adds Air Link and Resident Evil 4, Pico and HTC are ready to launch, and more! I think it is pretty explicit.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Here you are the integral interview that I had with Kelly Peng, asking her everything from Kura to the differences between the US and China (Kelly comes from Xi’an), not to mention her life as a startupper. I’m an electrical/optical/software engineer. Video interview With Kura’s Kelly Peng. Hello Kelly!

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JULY 26, 2018

During my trip to China, I’m visiting various VR startups in Shanghai and Beijing. In China seems that this is not mandatory: being the internal market so big, a company like Judao can be successful even by using the English language very few times. This was quite revolutionary to me, another thing that I learned about China.

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JANUARY 29, 2018

Back at CES, Oculus announced that Chinese electronics giant Xiaomi would exclusively bring its own branded version of the standalone Oculus Go headset to China. Xiaomi will exclusively sell and control the headset in China while the Oculus Go will be sold in other regions.

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JULY 5, 2017

Goldman Sachs says that China accounted for a third of VR headset sales last year. By some measures, VR has been better received in China than it has even in the West. It could be reasonable to believe that China is poised to dominate the nascent VR industry. It hopes to bring “VR theme parks” to China. Pay-for-Play.

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MARCH 26, 2019

In February, HTC unveiled its full 6DOF version of the company’s standalone VR headset targeted at enterprise users, Vive Focus Plus. Vive Focus Plus is slated to launch worldwide on April 15th on HTC’s Vive website for $800, which will be available in 25 markets with 19 supported languages.

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JANUARY 18, 2021

Regarding these new Quest features, John Carmack has said that n ow FRL’s goal is to release a new software update for Quest every month , and has invited Quest users to express their feedback on the Oculus User Voice portal so that Facebook knows how to improve the software. HTC predicts the rise of all-in-two devices.

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JULY 30, 2021

VR Education, the virtual reality software firm behind ENGAGE , has reported a significant uptick in revenue generated by the social VR platform so far this year, with revenue from Engage in 2021 nearly doubling over the same period last year.

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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. There has been much rework on the software and on the operational sides , instead: Pico was a headset for companies, with an enterprise store. Bytedance and China.

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OCTOBER 26, 2016

HTC opened their third officially branded ‘Vive VR Cafe’ last week, this time in Shenzhen, China, the country’s Silicon Valley of hardware. SEE ALSO HTC Partnership Aims to Bring Vive to "hundreds of millions" of Internet Café Users. ” (currently China-only). ” (currently China-only).

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APRIL 20, 2018

After launching the Vive Focus standalone headset in China in late January, the company announced in March that the headset would be launching in the US, EU, and other Western markets later this year, beginning with the launch of a dev kit. The Vive Focus is HTC’s first standalone VR headset. Photo by Road to VR.

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JANUARY 9, 2018

Intel’s tiny VR-capable PC, Tactical Haptics’ reconfigurable controller, NextVR updates, TPCast Plus, HTC Vive Pro, and Xiaomi’s re-branded Oculus Go. The new system aims to address the shortcomings of the original TPCast line, with various hardware and software improvements. HTC Reveals Vive Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

In the case of VR, we all remember the competition between HTC and Oculus in 2016, with HTC clearly winning the market until Oculus used Facebook’s money to slash the price of the Rift around 2017. This led to a growing importance of Oculus, until with the Quest it started dominating the market in a way no one was able to face.

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AUGUST 3, 2021

Each month Valve collects info from Steam users to determine some baseline statistics about what kind of hardware and software is used by the platform’s population, and to see how things are changing over time, including the use of VR headsets. Monthly-Connected VR Headsets on Steam. Monthly-connected Headsets" Explained.

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MARCH 9, 2017

Dedicated to VR software development since early 2013, Aldin Dynamics is one of the most experienced studios in the world, launching software on Oculus developer kits and Gear VR. The game acts as a test bed for Aldin’s real flagship software, Ghostline. It is currently the highest-rated VR app on Steam.

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APRIL 4, 2019

One week ago, I have attended the Vive Ecosystem Conference in Shenzhen, China. It is a very important event for VR, but since it is in China, many famous Western VR journalists are not going there because of the big distance and so there is a little mystery about how this event actually is. Lip Tracking module for the HTC Vive Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Some weeks ago I interviewed Mr. Chen of Vive Immersive Labs regarding the interesting research that HTC is conducting regarding the applications of virtual reality. The experimental subjects were randomly divided into two groups , one using the VR version and one using the PC version of the learning software for learning.

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JULY 27, 2018

Digital Trends recently published a report entitled ‘VR is in a tailspin, and the sales numbers prove it’ It seems HTC has taken umbrage with the article’s thesis in its newest blog post however, which pushes back against some of the article’s claims, saying it’s “not the whole story.”

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NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Its software toolkit Spatial Stories allows developers, designers or anyone without coding knowledge to build fully interactive XR content quickly and efficiently within an immersive environment, then export it to various platforms. Apelab seeks to democratize content creation for VR/AR. Yue Cheng Tech aims to become the Netflix in VR.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2017

In short, I saw a series of well-designed spaces equipped with some of the best virtual reality hardware and software available. HTC is betting big on VR arcades in China. I think,” said HTC’s Viveport President, Rikard Steiber. Photo provided by IMAX. “This will be a breakthrough for the U.S.

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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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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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