The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

HTC today announced it’s releasing both facial and eye-tracking units for its Vive Focus 3 standalone VR headset. Image courtesy HTC. Developers will be also able to implement both facial and eye-tracking in Vive’s Wave SDK and soon via OpenXR, with integration available in Unity, Unreal Engine, and Native.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 31, 2022

Last month, in a VIVE TALK session, HTC VIVE introduced a virtual reality (VR) behavioural training solution that helps individuals with public speaking by placing users in a virtual environment – like a stage – with digital humans. Immersive training solutions provide many avenues for enterprise-grade use cases.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 18, 2025

Then the management of the camera will happen through the functionalities exposed by Camera2 in Android and WebCamTexture in Unity, which are the ones developers have always used with smartphones. This is something absolutely impossible to have with Unity or Unreal. This will let Google enrich its content library pretty fast.

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VRScout

MAY 7, 2020

According to the team, AgileVR will be compatible with the following PC VR headsets at launch provided the company reaches its funding goals: Oculus Rift/Rift S, Quest with Oculus Link, HTC Vive, HTC Vive Pro, Valve Index, and Pimax. Stretch goals would introduce native Oculus Quest and PlayStation VR support.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

RGB Haptics is a new Unity-based tool that aims to make it easier for developers to create and implement haptic effects in VR games. Custom waveform editor window, allowing you to design waveforms without ever leaving Unity. Anything supported by the Unity XR platform should be supported by this.

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Road to VR

APRIL 16, 2018

HTC has announced a new set of tools allowing developers to build applications which take advantage of the Vive Pro’s stereo front-facing cameras, effectively turning the device into an AR headset dev kit. The new tools allow the cameras to capture depth, spatial mapping data, hand input, and seamlessly shift between VR and AR worlds.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

With much surprise for us all, HTC has just announced the Vive Focus Plus , its first full 6 DOF standalone headset! The Vive Focus Plus, in all its majesty (Image by HTC). Internal view of the Vive Focus Plus (Image by HTC). Do you want to know more? Well, you are in the right place. The Vive Focus Plus.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Meta recently announced the arrival of a popular architectural tool “ Unity Reflect ” in the Meta Quest environment for 2022. HTC Vive stands out as one of the market leaders among companies creating XR solutions specifically for the enterprise and business landscape. There are even tools available with built-in hand and eye tracking.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

That’s the consensus that seems to emerge from “Top 2020 Trends: Enterprise AR & VR” a report published today by Unity Technologies, where 15 industry experts (yours truly among them) outlined how Mixed Reality (or XR depending on what flavor acronym you favor) will supercharge and transform the world of work. Look no further!

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VRScout

DECEMBER 3, 2017

A toned-down version of the more intricate ZED long-range depth camera, the Mini attaches securely to the front of an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive headset and captures the real world in stereoscopic video via the camera’s two “eyes.” The device then maps the captured data in real-time in order to track its position within the 3D space.

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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

MAY 16, 2022

This reminds me of a similar error HTC made in the past of mixing signals of a pro device and consumer content It has RGB passthrough cameras with three times the resolution of Quest 2 cameras. The 3D models have not been created by hand, but by an AI mixing satellite data with Street View pictures. Lenovo to launch a new MR headset.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The game will be released in Early Access and only with official support for the HTC Vive, though the developer says that support for the Rift is expected “really soon.” ” Image courtesy Construct Studio. Construct Studio also developed The Price of Freedom VR (2016).

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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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

One of the most popular companies in the virtual reality space today, HTC VIVE specialises in delivering high-quality immersive experiences to enterprises and everyday users alike. Already, various leading companies have begun implementing HTC VIVE technology into their educational environments. That’s where Unity comes in.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

But things on the consumers’ side may not be going as well: according to some data scrapped from Amazon, the Quest 2 outsold the Quest 3 by a factor of 3:1 in the last 30 days. HTC is working on compatibility with other headsets, but nothing has been announced yet. THREE TO ONE.

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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. Unity and Android Permissions. What does this mean if you want to request some permissions inside Unity?

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 2, 2022

According to IDC data, VR headset shipments are expected to increase 42.88 Multinational XR firms like Lenovo, ByteDance’s Pico Interactive, HTC VIVE, Varjo, and Microsoft are leading the charge for immersive transformations. percent year-on-year, with augmented reality (AR) peaking 94.1 percent YoY for 2023.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 3, 2017

To do this, an infrared 3D capture camera hangs on the front of your headset (either the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, or other devices) and dangles in front of the lower half of your face, reading your expressions. Developer kits cost $349 and also come with a Unity plugin SDK.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Anyway, many people have called b t on this data, and among these people, there is sir Palmer Luckey. The fact that the Rift S has sold less than the Index seems absurd, since it costs less, it has grown more than Index on the Steam data, and it has never gone out of stock. So, take SuperData’s data with a grain of salt.

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Road to VR

MARCH 8, 2017

Three infrared sensors, detecting the flashes from an HTC base station (Lighthouse technology), are attached to the front of the Gear VR headset and connected to a microcontroller, which collects the timing data.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

While in all past years the answer had always been “HTC Vive”, now the king is Oculus, with both the Rift S and the Oculus Quest getting the majority of answers (especially the Quest). But analyzing the data better, we can spot that people are just requesting incremental updates and not disruptive ones.

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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. Besides, at that time, AI was already there, but not growing as fast as today.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Dave Rhodes, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Digital Twins for Unity , delivered a keynote speech at the massive immersive tech event on Monday morning. These entities leveraged real-time 3D (RT3D) content, with Unity leading the industry as a RT3D content creation platform. PHOTO: XR Today.

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

A new report from Super Data offers new estimates for the market size of virtual reality in 2016, suggesting 6.3 This leaves Oculus, Google and HTC to split about a million units. According to this report, HTC’s Vive edged out Facebook’s Rift selling “more than 400K at its $800 price point.”

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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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ARPost

MARCH 26, 2020

Now it looks like HTC and VIVE are doing something similar. If you followed Facebook’s GDS, whether with Facebook, with us, or with someone else, you may be wondering why HTC has elected to live stream content. HTC and VIVE elected to have their content live-streamed so that they can field live questions from their digital audience.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

From time to time, I like to look at the adoption graph of XR shown by John Riccitiello (the CEO of Unity) in 2017 , where you can see that the real acceleration of immersive technologies should start around 2022-2023. Companies like Pico, HP, Valve, and HTC are already performing very well in this sector. The rise of enterprise.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

Ok, of course, I’m kidding, but, you know, the possibility of saying the wrong name is so high that my proposal actually starts making sense… Top news of the week (Image by HTC Vive) HTC reveals inside-out-tracked Tracker With a totally unexpected move, HTC has revealed a new kind of Tracker.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

But a new data mining revealed that new strings mentioning Iris have appeared in Android. Senior Unity Developer Join our Unity team and be at the forefront of innovation in the global VR video streaming ecosystem. SteamVR 2.0 is now live for everyone.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Furthermore, HTC already has a setup that works without SteamVR stations , and it is more expensive than this one, but HTC has more experience with trackers. This could be huge. But we need more hands-on impressions on them to see how much this could become feasible. Expect it to be pricey, though.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

USB port has been recessed, making it easier to connect the charge / data cable. The basis for Knuckles integration is the new SteamVR Interaction System; Valve has updated the Unity plugin to support Knuckles, the SteamVR Input System, and SteamVR Skeletal Input. Improved fit and finish. Improved reliability.

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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. Understanding the MRTK-Unity Toolkit for MR Developers.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

We’ve seen Unity’s impressive in-VR authoring tool a few times throughout 2016, with no real clue of when it’s coming. Unity (@unity3d) November 1, 2016. This time, West used the HTC Vive, having used the Oculus Rift with Touch controllers in previous demos. That changed today.

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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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