Road to VR

JANUARY 5, 2022

HTC unveiled a new VR tracker device at CES 2022 today, this time targeting its $1,300 enterprise-focused standalone headset, Vive Focus 3. HTC says it includes a simple one-button pairing feature for wireless connection, and also features a removable strap for easy cleaning. Image courtesy HTC.

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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. Software Ecosystem Which applications and tools do you need to use your VR headset with? So, how do you pick the right solution for your needs?

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Continuing the large wave of announcements and highlights from the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2024 conference in Barcelona, Spain, HTC VIVE also introduced new enterprise immersive services for its XR Elite Bussiness Edition product. In 2023 we helped older people to have new experiences while also optimising medical diagnostic tools.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The SynergyXR platform aims to consolidate digital 3D learning data and opportunities that companies can roll out at scale and repeatably without limitations related to traditional mentoring. is an interoperable solution ready for a range of headsets, such as Apple Vision Pro, Meta, HTC, and Pico.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Waltz of the Wizard has grown leaps and bounds since it was first released as a free demo for HTC Vive in 2016, where it first let players muck around in a tower-top alchemy lab. Now, beloved wizardry game Waltz of the Wizard (2019) is the first to implement hand-tracking on PSVR 2.

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Road to VR

MAY 26, 2020

At a special event in Taipei, Taiwan, HTC cofounder and former CEO Peter Chou today revealed the first products from the new startup XRSPACE. ” Its optical sensors are also capable of room scanning, the company says, making a photorealistic version of your play space by uploading textures and depth data to the cloud for processing.

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VRScout

JANUARY 11, 2022

HTC is bringing physical therapy, occupational therapy, and pain management treatments to the metaverse. HTC VIVE is partnering with XRHealth to bring healthcare into the metaverse in the form of virtual medical rooms where patients can receive physical therapy, occupational therapy, and pain management treatments. Image Credit: HTC.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Using an HTC Vive or a Valve Index , players immerse themselves into a virtual practice field where they are put through a series of intense professional level training drills that you’d expect to see on any soccer field. This supercharged soccer training tool is now available free on SteamVR headsets! Now the really exciting part!

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Road to VR

JULY 5, 2017

One early stab at that is Noda , a mind mapping tool for the Vive and Rift. Though there’s only a small number of reviews on Steam so far, all are positive, with one reviewer saying they used the tool to map out ideas for a Dungeons and Dragons campaign.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 16, 2017

Electronauts is a music creation tool built within an “interactive sonic environment” where users can make, remix, and perform music, regardless of skill level. This is the third VR project from California-based developer Survios, creators of VR action games Raw Data (2017) and the upcoming Sprint Vector. Image courtesy Survios.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

HTC is going to launch its headset on May, 11th. HTC is keeping rising the hype for its new upcoming headset. From the above data and the pictures, it is clear it is a headset very similar to the Oculus Quest 2. For instance, you can show arrows to make the person see where he/she has to go. Two cool news from Oculus App Lab.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2022

That’s why when I saw a tweet from “Mister President” Alvin Wang Graylin about a study that HTC conducted about XR addiction together with a Chinese University, I was intrigued by the results. Chen, together with the graphs from HTC and the Communication University of China that show their findings.

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Road to VR

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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 29, 2024

Now, significant vendors deploy emerging hardware; on the flip side, software providers must follow suit and leverage the tools provided to create device-shifting applications. Based on LSEG data, this stake could be valued at $4.73 HTC posted a video titled ‘HTC VIVE: A Vision for You’ on its company YouTube channel.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2021

Well, if I have to express an opinion, that is in common with other members of the VR communities, it is not that I don’t trust that Facebook won’t protect my data against hackers, it is that I’m sure that Facebook itself will collect a lot of personal data about me so that it can offer targeted advertisement. It will do this because….

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

OpenBCI has been making open-source tools for neuroscience and biosensing since 2014. The Galea hardware is designed to be integrated into existing HMDs and is the first device that simultaneously collects data from the wearer’s brain, eyes, heart, skin, and muscles. What data will be able to gather Galea? Neurable, NextMind)?

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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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VRScout

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

With its effectiveness well established, the time has come for XR to move beyond “fancy demos, proof-of-concepts and pilots” to become “an indispensable digital productivity tool” used across the entire product lifecycle, from R&D to marketing to maintenance the report reads.

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Road to VR

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. Furthermore it provides predictive big data analytics to the entire manufacturing process and enables smarter, faster and more effective decisions.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 31, 2025

HTC XR solutions have been revolutionizing the extended reality landscape for some time now. Ever since the original launch of the first HTC VIVE headset in 2016, HTC has constantly strengthened its position in the enterprise market, proving that XR solutions can be intuitive, cost-effective, and versatile for a range of business use cases.

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Road to VR

MARCH 25, 2020

HTC is doing just that throughout the next few months in a live webinar happening every Tuesday, from now until mid-May. Starting on March 31st and going to May 12th, HTC is streaming live developer talks that it would have otherwise given during GDC 2020. Why live talks? SEE ALSO Watch All of Facebook's GDC 2020 Developer Talks Here.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Disclaimer: HTC provided three of their Vive Tracker 3.0 What is an HTC Vive Tracker? Whilst the first part of this article looked at the history of the HTC Vive Tracker and its three different versions, the second part will focus on some practical experiments with the latest HTC Vive Tracker 3.0. HTC Vive Tracker 3.0

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Thanks to the support of HTC, Rob is experimenting with Vive Trackers , and is very eager to tell you everything about his experiments with them, in a series of two very detailed posts. The post finishes also with the little surprise of an interview with HTC’s Shen Ye. HTC Vive Trackers (Image by Rob Cole). Introduction.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 28, 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. ” That includes a vast image database for object recognition ( Google Lens ) and geo-specific place data from Street View, among other sources.

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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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Road to VR

JULY 19, 2018

Mercedes: Lair Escape was created by VR Playhouse, Double A Labs, and AT&T AUDIENCE Network, and was developed with Unreal Engine and Nurulize Atom View , a tool for volumetric data processing, color management, and delivery. The title is headed to Viveport, HTC’s digital storefront for HTC Vive games, on July 22nd.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 18, 2021

While the spotlight is all on Oculus and its Quest, actually Pico and HTC are evolving their hardware and software offerings without almost no one talking about it. HTC is working on its own hand tracking solution since a while. The number of joints tracked by the Vive Hand Tracking SDK on the various platforms (Image by HTC Vive).

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VRScout

JANUARY 3, 2017

Using the HTC Vive and its accurate controllers, users can grab, move, rotate and even scale each and every anatomical structure—resulting in a level of detail and observation previously unimaginable in modern technology. What makes this program so incredible, though, isn’t how you view the 3D models, but how you interact with them.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 19, 2023

A recent HTC VIVE study has found that extended reality (XR) technologies have become an “invaluable” tool for training healthcare staff in key skills and capabilities. With immersive tools, medical teams can train staff in competencies like conducting procedures and communicating more effectively with patients.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

And now you can enjoy all that stressful debating in VR thanks to a custom Rec Room environment built using the apps extensive room-creation tools. Sometimes this means frantically smacking a keyboard in order to transfer important data; other times it means activating a scanner to record your biometric data.

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VRScout

MARCH 27, 2021

By employing a unique combination of haptic technology and hardware-agnostic software, Fundamental Surgery is able to deliver a genuine sense of touch when performing key surgical actions, interacting with specific medical tools, and operating on different tissue variants. Anyway, things were going great.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The right tools not only improve collaboration between team members, but also pave the way for more innovative development and design processes. Meta recently announced the arrival of a popular architectural tool “ Unity Reflect ” in the Meta Quest environment for 2022. Magic Leap.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 27, 2021

But that’s a non-starter for anyone outside of the few million people that own VR hardware (much less the compatible HTC and Oculus hardware). This is more about machine-readable data for AR cloud systems to understand surroundings and overlay content accordingly. Google’s ‘Internet-of-Places’ Inches Forward.

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Road to VR

MARCH 9, 2017

Aldin Dynamics has released a detailed breakdown of user data gathered during over 300,000 sessions of Waltz of the Wizard gameplay. Launched in May 2016, the motion-controlled VR game was developed with the insights gained from using Aldin’s own data visualisation tool Ghostline.

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VRScout

JUNE 6, 2019

HTC announced today their Vive Pro Eye VR headset is now available for purchase in North America through Vive.com and select retailers. This same technique could also be employed by clients looking to track user attention rates, utilizing heat mapping and gaze tracking to provide detailed data analysis’ in real-time.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

XR data analytics firm CORTEXR has launched its platform on Tuesday to standardise virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) technologies as well as the Metaverse. XR Study on Key Analytics.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2018

During my Chinese adventure, in the period that I was leaving Shanghai to go to Chengdu to watch pandas, I had the opportunity to interview via WeChat Qiyong Chen, one of the people leading the Virtual Reality R&D experiments at HTC. Who are you and what do you do in HTC? I’m Qiyong Chen, leader of HTC China Immersive Lab.

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