Upload VR

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Meta Funding Godot Veterans To Improve Its Quest Support Meta is funding a group of Godot veterans to improve the engine’s OpenXR and Quest SDKs support and build high-quality samples and documentation. Face tracking support has been added with face tracking data being sourced from several devices. As part of the Godot 4.3

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 29, 2023

Conversely, artificial intelligence backs the creation of technological advancements that can analyse, respond, and create based on data sources. Visitors to the immersive space can receive medical attention, advice, and documentation in real-time with the help of real staff and virtual, AI-powered chatbots.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 19, 2023

Conversely, artificial intelligence backs the creation of technological advancements that can analyse, respond, and create based on data sources. Visitors to the immersive space can receive medical attention, advice, and documentation in real-time with the help of real staff and virtual, AI-powered chatbots.

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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. Conversely, enterprise solutions are designed at scale to accommodate an immense number of use cases and bespoke data sets. With the increase of data traffic, data security will also take precedence.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2024

I had some wonderful ideas of Mixed Reality applications I would like to prototype, but most of them are impossible to do in this moment because of a decision that almost all VR/MR headset manufacturers have taken: preventing developers from accessing camera data. So, how we empower the developers without hurting the user?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 12, 2017

Each year, attendees take part in a lengthy survey that serves as the foundation for the conference’s State of the Industry document — this year’s results proved very interesting. Tagged with: Daydream , GDC , google cardboard , htc vive , industry , oculus rift , Outlook , PS VR , samsung gear , VR.

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Road to VR

JUNE 27, 2017

The company has in recent years turned its expertise toward AR and VR, where eye-tracking data can be used for a wide range of useful things from foveated rendering to avatar eye-mapping. The company has demonstrated its eye-tracking solution in the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Gear VR, and other head-mounted displays.

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ARVR

MAY 13, 2021

Big Data Analytics and Data Science Contrary to popular belief, information alone won’t give companies a competitive advantage?—?executives executives also need to be able to base their decisions on data before the opportunities pass. Big data analytics is a solution to this problem.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 5, 2022

HTC Vive stands out as one of the market leaders among companies creating XR solutions specifically for the enterprise and business landscape. VIVE’s ever-evolving range of VR products, including the new HTC Vive Flow glasses, for mobile VR immersion, will unlock a new range of opportunities for designers and creators in the AEC space.

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VRScout

MARCH 27, 2021

This past April the company introduced @HomeVR, an education modality designed for standalone headsets such as the Oculus Quest and HTC Vive Focus Plus. In terms of VR-based medical education, few companies are pushing the envelope quite like FundamentalVR. Those without VR hardware can also participate via a computer or smart device.

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Road to VR

JUNE 16, 2020

The update also includes improvements to the Workshop tools, including more example content for animation, audio, and shaders, along with new documentation. Valve has added a new object blueprint to the game, technically known as hl_vr_weapon_generic_pistol , which is a “data-driven weapon entity for workshop customization.”

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Road to VR

MARCH 14, 2017

This data can be used to help designers and manufacturers create new accessories that integrate with the Touch hardware. In addition, it includes data for the Rock Band VR connector, an adapter included with every Oculus Touch package, enabling the design of devices which could use the adapter to attach a Touch controller.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 30, 2021

But this could also have the same unpleasant consequences that happened to Oculus: Bytedance is another company known to harvest as much data as possible from its apps , and for sure will want to continue this trend in XR too. Recently it has even changed its privacy policy to report that it can collect biometric data from its users.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 31, 2021

Triad was an instrumental partner in bringing Valve’s tracking technology to production , with the photodiodes used in SteamVR headsets, tracking pucks, and motion controllers produced by Triad’s factory and shipped to off-shore manufacturing partners building XR equipment for brands like HTC, Pimax, Varjo , StarVR, and Valve.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2020

We’ll continue to provide examples, documentation, and tutorials that will help developers to deliver native-quality applications in WebXR. And within those, people will want to do many of the same things they do on the web, but in 3D: view images, read text, look at visualizations of data, and listen to audio.

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ARPost

APRIL 30, 2020

Simplified Documentation and More SDKs. However, a lot of the talk involved making their available SDKs and documentation easier to find and approach. “ However, a lot of the talk involved making their available SDKs and documentation easier to find and approach. “ We are always listening to our developers,” said Walia.

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XROM

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

He discussed the development of an open-source protocol/framework that would allow XR applications to work cross-platform, from #Pico to #Quest to #HTC and beyond. As media partners for the second consecutive year, #XROM was honored to witness and document this pivotal moment in XR history.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 8, 2023

XR Today documents the rapid adoption of use cases and solutions from companies such as Lenovo, Moth+Flame, ENGAGE XR, Altoura, GigXR, and CGS. HTC VIVE unveiled enterprise-grade hardware and platforms on Thursday via its XR Elite Business Edition and Business+ solutions. billion USD by 2030.

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The Ghost Howls

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. More info.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Data about a new Vive Focus device appear on GeekBench. Geekbench has just published the scores for a new Vive Focus headset , indicating that a new standalone headset by HTC is coming. The impression that it gives is that Facebook wants to get more data about you even if you don’t adhere to the Facebook login policy….

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Road to VR

MAY 14, 2018

The Virtual Reality Institute of Health and Exercise, which collaborates with professionals in the field of Kinesiology, bases their data on a game’s observed metabolic equivalent (MET) score, a standard way of defining the energy cost of physical activities. Images courtesy Virtual Reality Institute of Health and Exercise. kcals to 9.86

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Ahead of the launch of Oculus Touch, the company has finally detailed its ‘experimental’ camera arrangements for 360 degree and ‘roomscale’ tracking, allowing us to take a look at how those tracking volumes compare with the HTC Vive. All of the data here comes from official documentation.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Some days ago, the Chinese government has released a document that states how China really wants to commit to VR , how wants the ecosystem to grow well and fast and how also wants to lead the world for what concerns virtual reality. Me and Dabo of Langzou VR, discussing about his company and the educational system in China.

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Road to VR

MAY 6, 2020

The studio previously explained its ‘Ghostline’ analytics system which it uses to understand player behavior in depth; the studio says that the data shows that Telepath is comfortable and causes players to be more physically interactive with the VR world compared to thumbstick movement.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

HTC Vive at GameStop. “In the future, we can see the usefulness of VR as a way to create better targeted marketing through data gathering.”. almost heard a choir of angels) and I even documented in on Facebook. and many places worldwide. So what does this have to do with VR? Well, everything. It was a marvelous site!

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

In this first post we will be describing what OpenVR is, what it may be useful for and finally, we will go through a little OpenVR application to demo some of the core functionality of the API in what respects to interacting with a VR system (get connected devices, get tracking data, etc). And the same happens with OpenVR!

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

The MRTK is a set of components with plugins, samples, and documentation designed to help the development of MR applications using gaming engines from either Unreal Engine or Unity, providing two versions of the solution – MRTK-Unity and MRTK for Unreal. OpenVR – Windows Mixed Reality headsets, HTC Vive , and Oculus Rift.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 6, 2023

Many of the world’s midrange enterprise headsets like the Meta Quest Pro, HTC VIVE Elite XR, and Pico 4 Enterprise are priced well below $1,500. Meta even lowered the Quest Pro’s price to $1,099 after receiving backlash on its cost, with HTC VIVE pricing the Elite XR similarly. According to the Dow Jones data, Apple lost 0.3

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Ryan Schultz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

An HTC Vive Pro 2 headset, bought last month to replace my work Oculus Rift. Of these, only the Quest was a wireless VR headset; the Oculus Rift, Valve Index, and HTC Vive Pro 2 are all what are collectively termed PCVR, that is, virtual reality headsets that require a cable to a high-end gaming computer in order to work.

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ARVR

MARCH 9, 2022

In layman’s terms, augmented reality refers to rendering digital data and images onto the real world using technology’s digital sensory stimuli. As for Virtual Reality (VR), it’s a complete immersion into a virtual world, shutting off the physical world entirely through special VR devices like HTC Vive, Google Cardboard, and Oculus Rift.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2018

HTC Vive Focus is one of the most famous standalone VR headsets. I have always been intrigued by this device, since the first time I’ve read about its reveal at an HTC event : I don’t know why, maybe because of the azure color that is my favorite, maybe because it looks so informal. It was funny. Upper view of the device.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 4, 2024

At the same time, XR’s enthusiasts were well aware of other players in the headset space, like Microsoft, Varjo, HTC VIVE, and others. At its core, Meta is a data company; data revenues drive its social media platforms, and the wealth of data provided by headsets is increasing – therefore, in value for a firm like Meta.

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Road to VR

MAY 16, 2017

SEE ALSO A Look at NASA's Hybrid Reality Astronaut Training System, Powered by HTC Vive. In March, Valve announced that the course is no longer required for licensees because the documentation has been dialed in well enough and the tools have been refined enough that people can pick it up and get the work started up on their own.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 30, 2023

Varjo, Lenovo, HTC VIVE Additional hardware offerings, including the Magic Leap 2, Lenovo’s ThinkReality VRX, HTC VIVE’s Flow and Focus 3, and Varjo’s Aero and XR-3 offer a trove of specifications. Smart glass wearers can receive instruction with videos, images, documents, and real-time 3D (RT3D) assets.

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Doc-Ok

DECEMBER 19, 2018

It’s been more than two years since the last time I posted set-up instructions for Vrui and HTC Vive , and a lot has changed in the meantime. The Vrui VR development toolkit is distributed as tarballs ( gzip -compressed tar archives) containing source code, documentation, other resources, and build scripts. While Vrui-5.0

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 23, 2018

For instance, I contributed to the little musical experience that Enea Le Fons has taken to a disco club during his 30 Days in VR experiment and I made the porting of the ImmotionRoom full-body VR system to the new HTC device. If you’re interested in all this permission stuff, you can read directly the related Android documentation.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Vive Focus 3 has an expensive cooling system that can keep the Snapdragon XR2 cold enough to perform its operations at the best temperatures (Image by HTC Vive). The documentation of the SDK needs some polish, though. I have found no way to use hand tracking or passthrough AR in the SDK documentation. Production quality.

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