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HTC reveals native hand/finger tracking for Vive Pro alongside 6DoF functionality for Vive Focus. It looks as though the front-facing cameras on your Vive Pro will finally begin seeing some use as HTC reveals plans to launch native support for hand and finger tracking on their high-end PC VR headset. Image Credit: HTC / GIPHY.
Yesterday for the first time I have attended the Vive Ecosystem Conference in Shenzhen, China! The conference has begun with the classical inspiring keynote held by Mister President Alvin Wang Graylin. As you can see from the price, it has been positioned in the West as an enterprise headset as all the devices by HTC.
Today at the the World Conference on VR Industry in China, HTC announced plans to bring hand & finger tracking to Vive Pro via the headset’s front-facing cameras. Back in April HTC launched new tools to help developers take advantage of the Vive Pro’s largely unused front-facing cameras. Image courtesy HTC.
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 ! Nanchang City is showing a very warm welcome for the 4000+ delegates of the “World Conference of the VR Industry”. #VR
On stage at Vive Developer Conference in Beijing, HTC today unveiled their upcoming standalone VR headset, Vive Focus. Image courtesy HTC. HTC says the Vive Wave VR SDK offers an open interface enabling interoperability between numerous mobile VR headsets and accessories.
Today at its Vive Ecosystem Conference 2018 in China, HTC said that the 3DOF Vive Focus controller will see a 6DOF mode, and further said that the headset will soon include controller-less hand-tracking for gesture input. SEE ALSO After Management Shuffle, HTC Says VR/AR More Important Than Ever to Its Future.
“Hold my beer”: this is what the Vive Focus has told to all other standalone headsets yesterday at the Vive Ecosystem Conference in Shenzhen. From my tests, the image on the screen appears slightly distorted, so there will be something to fix on HTC’s side. Better integration with HTC phones. Image by HTC).
Intel Teases Depth-Sensing HTC Vive For Developer Conference An Intel engineer tweeted a tease suggesting VR is going to be a major theme at the company’s developer conference in a couple weeks. LeapMotion already offers a mount for its outward-facing hand tracking sensor that hooks up to the headset over USB.
This signs seems to say: 2019 World Conference on NO VR INDUSTRY. But I think that the WCVRI needs to make various steps forward if it wants to propose itself as being one of the most important worldwide conferences on VR. LeapMotion) on the same headset. Me with a Droolon F1 inside an HTC Vive Cosmos!
It will start on May, 31st and end on June, 2nd 2018 and will feature conferences and workshops. I launched then a Master Course at the University (Digital Architecture Madi Iuav) that mixed 3d, prototyping, robots, and electronics and finally started the adventure of the Immersive Architecture Conference.
A Rift from Facebook-owned Oculus or a Vive from HTC can track your head throughout a room, but these “outside-in” systems require careful placement, or mounting, of sensors around the perimeter of the room for a full experience. An example of the Windows Holographic user interface. Microsoft, however, may be one step ahead.
HTC won’t announce anything big at CES. For the first time after 3 years, HTC won’t host a press conference at CES 2020. He made various experiments and hacked a Vive Pro with LeapMotion to make interactions more realistic. More info (New delays of Pimax) More info (Some irony from the web).
Now in its 3rd year, the annual Proto Awards have shadowed Oculus’ developer conference Connect since the first event, with an aim to celebrate the best that this new immersive industry has to offer. Blocks – LeapMotion. SEE ALSO 'Grav|Lab' Lets you Build Incredible Machines with Oculus Touch and HTC Vive.
On May 1st-2nd, Facebook has had its annual F8 conference. ” Actually, Go immediately became available during the conference. This is something that I predicted and it is also in line with the vision of the competitor HTC that says that standalones are products for consumers while PC VR is something for gamers and prosumers.
Taking to TransWorld’s Room Escape Show & Conference in San Antonio, Texas this week, Entermission aims to provide an engaging VR escape room experience without operators needing lots of expensive floor space. Called Mission Modules, 6 are designed to work in one area.
HTC’s Alvin Wang Graylin discusses what this means for everything from automotive design to helping children learn about the universe. As the China President at HTC, he leads all aspects of the company’s VR and smartphone business in the region. Alvin: Yeah, I’m happy to jump right in.
HTC’s Alvin Wang Graylin discusses what this means for everything from automotive design to helping children learn about the universe. As the China President at HTC, he leads all aspects of the company’s VR and smartphone business in the region. Alvin: Yeah, I’m happy to jump right in.
LeapMotion. You may ask why I’m adding LeapMotion here. Well, during 2018, LeapMotion has announced the North Star reference design : a cheap augmented reality connected to PC, that is able to detect your hands very well thanks to LeapMotion’s sensor.
He organizes the annual GamesBeat and GamesBeat Summit conferences. I mean, it sort of makes more sense to me that, as long as the prices for the headsets are lingering up pretty high — like the Cosmos from HTC, the brand new one, it’ll be an $800 purchase. Alan: HTC’s got their enterprise division. Dean: Yeah.
He organizes the annual GamesBeat and GamesBeat Summit conferences. I mean, it sort of makes more sense to me that, as long as the prices for the headsets are lingering up pretty high — like the Cosmos from HTC, the brand new one, it’ll be an $800 purchase. Alan: HTC’s got their enterprise division. Dean: Yeah.
He organizes the annual GamesBeat and GamesBeat Summit conferences. I mean, it sort of makes more sense to me that, as long as the prices for the headsets are lingering up pretty high -- like the Cosmos from HTC, the brand new one, it'll be an $800 purchase. you know, they did an eye-tracking version of the HTC Vive here.
He organizes the annual GamesBeat and GamesBeat Summit conferences. I mean, it sort of makes more sense to me that, as long as the prices for the headsets are lingering up pretty high — like the Cosmos from HTC, the brand new one, it’ll be an $800 purchase. Alan: HTC’s got their enterprise division. Dean: Yeah.
HTC has actually released that for the Vive Focus Plus … Well, according to the god John Carmack , it is something about which the company has discussed a lot and has also experimented a lot. . "Lil' Why not wireless? Why hasn’t Oculus gone for the jackpot releasing a fully wireless streaming solution?
Alvin is the China President at #HTC leading all aspects of HTC’s business in the region (Vive/VR, phone, Viveport content platform, partnerships and investments). Has been at the forefront when it comes to XR, earlier he was VP, Platform Strategy & Dev Community at #HTC and is currently working at Facebook Reality labs.
At the end of its latest conference, the company behind Snapchat has announced its fourth generation of Spectacles glasses, the first one featuring real-time AR. HTC had $210 million as the total revenue for 2020. Snap announces its 4th generation Spectacles. More info (Use Google Translate).
In the meantime, even HTC that was safe until now is having troubles in manufacturing the external tracking faceplate , whose release date will be delayed. Another great UX post by LeapMotion. Google will delay the release of Chrome 81 , the one that should have included WebAR. New iPad Pro will feature a LIDAR sensor.
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