Road to VR

MAY 17, 2017

Google today announced that standalone VR headsets are coming to Daydream , the first of which will be made by HTC and Lenovo. Data from other sensors like accelerometers and gyroscopes are also fused into the equation to make tracking more precise.

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Road to VR

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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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2023

I’ve been tipped about the fact that the Korean store of HTC may have accidentally leaked the name of the new Vive headset that will be revealed at CES… and maybe also its price. These are the features officially revealed by HTC: The device may be interesting also for consumers. Let’s start this 2023 with a leak!

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Road to VR

MARCH 12, 2018

Google announced at last year’s Society for Information Display (SID) Display Week that the company was actively working on a VR-optimized OLED panel capable of packing in pixels at a density heretofore never seen outside of microdisplays – all at a supposedly ‘wide’ field of view (FOV). inch AMOLEDs at 90Hz.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 14, 2025

Pico, Varjo, HTC VIVE, and even Meta are all experimenting with premium and affordable VR headsets for business use, as well as intuitive device management software. Others prioritize flexibility for instance Google recently announced the creation of its Android XR system, which supports open standards.

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Road to VR

APRIL 30, 2018

Go Guess (2018) is a new interactive VR quiz game from developers Oblix that tosses you into Google 360 captures and makes you to guess where you are. Google opened up its treasure trove of 360 Street View captures to developers late last year, although there was a proviso for developing apps and games with the data: it had to be free.

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Road to VR

APRIL 28, 2018

But we could see that change in the near future, thanks to research from Google which details a system for low-cost, mobile inside out VR controller tracking. Google’s approach effectively aims to infer the position of the controller by looking at the users arms and hands, instead of glowing markers. Image courtesy Google.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 7, 2019

Vive Cosmos is HTC’s newly unveiled PC VR headset that’s slated to release sometime this year. While it’s a tethered device meant to support PCs at launch, HTC teased that it could also be driven by a smartphone. HTC’s U12+ is a Snapdragon 845 device that supports DisplayPort over its USB-C.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 29, 2024

Based on LSEG data, this stake could be valued at $4.73 ” ‘Game-Changing’ HTC Vive Headset Coming Soon HTC has released a YouTube video about the impending release of a ‘game-changing’ Vive headset. HTC posted a video titled ‘HTC VIVE: A Vision for You’ on its company YouTube channel.

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Road to VR

MARCH 13, 2017

With history and data points, one can extend trend lines to gain a sense for where something is headed,” said Clifton Dawson, CEO of Greenlight Insights. “We This year’s report will feature historical data on headset shipments and global forecasts through 2026. 2017 will be another foundational year for the entire VR industry. “The

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2025

This time its been the turn of data miner Gabe Follower, who in the past has already provided reliable leaks, and that has claimed that Valve Deckard should be released in 2025 for an amount of around $1200. The fact that revenues are not mentioned in the post makes me think that the data was not good enough to be published.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Also known as mirroworld , magicverse and other monikers , it’s all about data that’s anchored to places and things, which AR devices can ingest and process into meaningful content. In that way, Google is well-positioned because the spatial web will need to be parsed and indexed, similar to what Google has done for 20 years on the 2D web.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Google today released the Tilt Brush Toolkit , a set of scripts that people can download for free on GitHub that allow developers and creators to interpret.tilt files in different ways. You’ll find useful files like sample codes and software to manipulate Tilt Brush data in the toolkit.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

We’ve seen various flavors over the years such as Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D , and of course Google Earth and Street View. Speaking of Google Earth, its VR edition is an immersive dive into 3D cities around the world. Meanwhile, Realworld gets its underlying geospatial data from Bing Maps.

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VRScout

MAY 19, 2017

With Google I/O coming to a close, the three day developer conference saw its fair share of annoucements around VR and AR. One row included four HTC Vive setups with partygoers flailing their arms and dancing in VR. Google announced on Thursday that a version of Chrome will be coming to Daydream.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

The white light of the real world was visible out the bottom of Daydream View both for myself and a couple family members who tried the new $80 mobile VR headset from Google. Google says the fit was designed to “work for a majority of faces.” Google Photos VR. Google Photos got big wows from my family in VR.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

What if I told you that smart devices such as your iPhone and Google Assistant aren’t just listening to you, but persuading and manipulating your actions as well? Upon approach, each object displayed a digital readout providing further explanation into how they were actively collecting user data. Image Credit: The Othrs.

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Road to VR

JULY 7, 2016

When it comes to Google searches, “HTC Vive” has recently matched “Oculus Rift” and may be continuing to rise. “HTC Vive” didn’t exist as a search term until the headset’s relatively recent reveal back in early 2015.

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VRScout

MAY 7, 2020

The setup sounds fairly painless: users pair their AgileVR devices to the AgileVR Manager Software via Bluetooth and calibrate their system, after which they are then free to explore a variety of compatible titles including Minecraft VR, Fallout 4 VR, Skyrim VR, Asgard’s Wrath, DoomVFR, GORN, and Google Earth VR just to name a few.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 6, 2019

When it comes to the most-searched-for headsets, there’s been three clear leaders during the 2016, ’17, and ’18 holiday shopping seasons: PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift, and HTC Vive. US search volume, Black Friday weekend 2019 | Data courtesy Google. Data courtesy Sony, chart by Road to VR.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 27, 2021

It let you essentially fly around a city, sort of like Google Earth but in three dimensions. In fairness, Google Earth offers 3D features. In fairness, Google Earth offers 3D features. And Google Earth VR , lets users fly around cities in strikingly immersive ways. Geospatially Sound.

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Road to VR

MAY 17, 2017

In addition, he announced an AR mode for an upcoming educational tool called Google Expeditions. Google Tango is a smartphone-based AR platform that has the ability to map the world around you in real-time using a number of on-board sensors and the phone’s camera. image courtesy Google. image courtesy Google.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

But for now, I’ll just tell you what have been in my opinion the most interesting pieces of XR news of the week… Top news of the week (Image by KnightMD) Valve Deckard’s “Roy” controllers allegedly leaked The usual Brad Lynch with his team of data miners has found evidence of a controller codenamed Roy in the code of SteamVR.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 17, 2017

Clay Bavor, VP of VR for Google, took the stage to share intriguing new information for immersive technology. He made a blockbuster announcement for the new standalone VR headset Google is working on with HTC and also shared that the S8 will finally be getting Daydream support. “The more precisely, the better.”

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

Just to make an example, I was there when there was the Netscape vs Internet Explorer war, but now the leading web browser is Google Chrome. Google Chrome, for instance, has been helped a lot by the fact that it is the pre-installed browser on all Android phones. No one can compete now. Let me show you what are some of them.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Having initially announced that their Vive Focus standalone VR headset would operate as part of Google’s Daydream VR platform in 2017, HTC later scrapped those plans ahead of the headset’s recent launch in China under HTC’s own ‘Wave Vive’ platform.

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ARPost

APRIL 22, 2022

The XRA is an industry organization founded by Google , HTC VIVE , Microsoft , Oculus , and Sony Interactive Entertainment. See Also: XRSI Releases Report on the Dangers of XR Data Collection. The report did mention that the kind of data collected might be more sensitive, such as the interior layout of a user’s home.

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VRScout

AUGUST 21, 2019

When visitors enter the sterile white environment, they are immediately greeted to two identical rows of cylindrical pods, each of which housing an HTC Vive Pro set-up as well as extra-sensory and haptic feedback technology that can simulate heat, wind, various scents, even physical rumbling. Image Credit: Mariell Lind Hansen.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 24, 2017

Google first started its venture into virtual reality with Google Cardboard back in 2014. A look at the company’s job listings so far this year reveals Google’s expanding commitment and investment in VR and AR. Google is continuing to grow its AR and VR teams and shows no signs of stopping any time soon.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Oculus isn’t providing specific statistics to help us analyse and verify this data, but it would be fascinating to work out the divides in headset usage. The result? A VR industry that’s growing. This was far from all the Facebook CEO had to talk about at Oculus Connect 3.

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Road to VR

MAY 31, 2017

HTC’s new mobile VR headset dubbed ‘Link’—which curiously does not fall under the company’s Vive brand —is also not making use of the same tracking systems employed by the Vive headsets. HTC Link headset with controllers and sensor | Photo courtesy HTC. Brief Prototype Hands-on.

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2017

Over the last 12 months or so we’ve been keeping an eye on Google’s aggressive hiring for its AR/VR team which, among other things, suggested that the company was working on new “mass production” hardware that would go beyond the simple smartphone snap-in Daydream headsets.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Efforts to construct and expand the Metaverse were sparked by Meta Platform’s major pivot in October, which saw Microsoft, NVIDIA, HTC VIVE, Qualcomm, Google, Varjo, and dozens of other tech giants enter the race for prime positioning to build the virtual and connected world. Non Fungible Token (NFTs). The Nakaverse.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

As a long-time AR enthusiast, and one of the first to have tried Google Glass in Italy, I have to admit that I will consider AR mainstream only when it will be on glasses that we will wear all day , when we’ll live in a completely shared mixed reality world (the AR Cloud). Or is it just a talk about glasses?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

And I’m also worried about using a Facebook account for everything XR related, because Facebook has a long history of obscure practices with the data of its users , apart from the standard “personalized ads” business. Facebook already had full control of my Oculus and Facebook accounts, so it had already my XR data.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 1, 2017

The HTC Vive maintains the majority with 50.2% Steam is the de facto content platform for the HTC Vive though it technically supports the Rift too ; plenty of Rifters use both the official Oculus Home platform and Steam to play content which may not be available on the opposing platform. SEE ALSO Google Buys HTC Talent & IP for $1.1

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AR Insider

AUGUST 12, 2019

Data Point of the Week is AR Insider’s dive into the latest spatial computing figures. It includes data points, along with narrative insights and takeaways. For an indexed collection of data and reports, subscribe to ARtillery Pro. That includes Google (11 percent) Samsung (5 percent) and others (6 percent).

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