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 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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Road to VR

JULY 27, 2017

The education-focused Mars 2030 launches today on SteamVR for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, soon to come to PSVR. The Mawrth Vallis region has been reproduced using satellite data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE, with topographical data accurate to within 30cm of the actual elevation.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

More info Meta may be less inclined to do data mining for VR ads than we thought On X, a user said that Meta sells its headsets at a loss “to data mine the ecosystem for ad revenue profit”, which honestly speaking is something many of us think, given the current business model of social media.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The TouchDIVER Pro is also a multi-module product that works across PCVR and stand-alone headsets, with support for Meta Quest, Pico, HTC, and Windows Mixed Reality-ready for a range of end-user situations. The SDK includes an accompanying textures library to help teams get started with 22 ready-to-go textures.

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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

MARCH 18, 2025

It seems anyway that Valve is taking a very open approach for what concerns PCVR: its Steam Link software is allegedly coming also to Pico and HTC headsets, giving more people the ability to play Steam VR games on their standalone devices. This is something absolutely impossible to have with Unity or Unreal.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

See Also: Redefining the Future of Location-Based Entertainment With HTC VIVE Focus 3 and The Park Playground “Virtual reality is often perceived as being limited to the world of gaming. An iteration of Unreal Engine (Unreal Engine 5) is already being used to develop applications for a range of VR devices.

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MARCH 9, 2017

In the video below, Tech Artist Zak Parrish walks you through how to create your own mods for the frantic new first-person shooter using Unreal Engine’s Blueprint. Earlier this week we also reported on a mod that allows you to play the game with the HTC Vive. Tagged with: Epic Games , oculus rift , robo recall.

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VRScout

JUNE 9, 2017

Also noteworthy: Final Cut Pro X will be able to support 360 video editing, Unity and Unreal now have VR support for Macs, and SteamVR is coming to Mac… and although there was a sweet on-stage mixed reality demo using Star Wars assets and an HTC Vive, there was no mention of support for Oculus. LET’S SPECULATE ON Q1 HEADSET SALES.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 20, 2023

Although Meta is pushing multiplayer-ready immersive worlds for gaming and the future of work, firms like Pico, Decentraland, Engage, and HTC VIVE are all debuting Metaverse services to provide different use cases. Mover, popular VR gaming solutions from HTC VIVE and Valve attracted more consumers to the emerging space.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Immersive solutions manufacturer HTC VIVE teased its audiences on Wednesday with a photo of an upcoming headset on Twitter. HTC VIVE (@htcvive) October 6, 2022. HTC VIVE Metaverse Solutions, Ambitions. HTC VIVE Expands XR Interoperability, Use Cases. Go small or go home. pic.twitter.com/PUqqKn4V5E. — ”

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 28, 2025

Beyond that, Metas headsets support: Wireless, standalone capabilities Unlike other companies such as Varjo and HTC VIVE, which primarily offer tethered devices, Meta focuses on convenient, standalone functionality. Meta makes it easy to create VR experiences with existing platforms like Unity and Unreal.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2018

So he proposed to HTC to live 30 days in VR in a way that in these 30 days he could develop very cool things like AI bots and VR locomotion systems while being inside virtual reality with other people helping him remotely… and then share everything developed there to the community as open source software. Isn’t it cool?

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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.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2021

Unreal Engine 5 gets released in Early Access. After a lot of teasing of its upcoming fantastic features, Unreal Engine 5 is finally available for download. And it feels weird that HTC hasn’t fixed such a cheap little component that was already faulty on the original Vive. Here you can find the link: [link] Thanks a lot []-).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

I wonder if Facebook has already taken the decision of leaving the enterprise market to HTC and Pico , while focusing on the much bigger piece of cake of the consumer market. A lot of data that will be very useful to Facebook to create its Live Maps functionality. I think we’ll discover it “soon”.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Rubin walked me through the demo experience, built using an SDK of HaptX’s design, which he says is largely created by leveraging Unreal Engine’s physics system to tell the glove when and where to apply haptic effects and when and how to engage the force feedback.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 25, 2024

Notably, via its XR segment, the firm highlighted how spatial data cloud streaming will allow various industrial sectors, such as automated warehouse management, to grow and optimize operations thanks to emerging workplace technology. Seidl added: We have supported Unity and Unreal for a while.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

RPG Maker also tops the list of simpler game creation tools, as well as Twine for interactive fiction, All of these programs are viewed as a more approachable way of getting into game development as opposed to the more complex programming required for engines such as Unity and Unreal.

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JUNE 9, 2017

Developer Fusion Media Group this week announced that Mars 2030 will be landing on the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and PlayStation VR (PSVR) in July, with non-VR versions also available on both PC and PS4 too.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 4, 2024

If you're not familiar with it, Godot is a free and open-source alternative to Unity and Unreal. Godot now correctly informs OpenXR when it starts processing a new frame and obtains pose data for tracked entities with predicted positioning for the current frame. As part of the Godot 4.3 We’re looking into supporting this in a future 4.3

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

This year’s 70+ person judging panel included academic professors and researchers as well as representatives from Google, HTC, HP, Deloitte, NVIDIA, Apache, and others. Created by Fable and Oculus and powered by Unreal Engine, the film has been to Tribeca, the Chicago Film Festival and the Emmys. VR Lifetime Achievement.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 30, 2024

Meta Quest’s New Application Quest v68 introduces a new utility application called Layout, which allows users to analyse the fine details of real-world objects or spaces as MR data points. Meta designed the layout application, following similar immersive customer experience innovations from groups like Ikea.

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ARPost

APRIL 8, 2020

For example, most HTC VR technology supports 3D hand tracking. Laverde also pointed out that while VIVE’s hand tracking SDK works with a number of common platforms including Unity and Unreal, there can be complications for different hardware. See Also: MR Company Nreal Talks Hand Tracking and New Partnerships.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2018

Eye tracking is, in my opinion, a technology that will disrupt completely the VR ecosystem , exactly as room-scale did with the first HTC Vive. FOV: >110° (adapted to HTC Vive). 7Invensun logo (Image by 7Invensun). And if you have an NVIDIA graphics card, it can already offer foveated rendering out of the box! Yes, it is!

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APRIL 21, 2017

It is our live-action world recorded as data and then all that data processed into a volume. These are realistic places you can explore in your Oculus Rift or HTC Vive. You can either get immersive stuff by building on top of Unity or Unreal, but you’re stuck in a videogame world.

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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). You may be saying “Come on!

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: In this week’s VRScout Report, we discuss Oculus Story Studio’s Henry Emmy win, NASA training astronauts with virtual reality gloves, Snapchat flirting with augmented reality, HTC Vive trying to go wireless, and iPhone laying potential plans for VR/AR. HOLLYWOOD LOVES HENRY.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

This release (available 9/8 for HTC Vive) is really just a taste of the larger project to come: Favreau’s ultimate goal is a sprawling open world that you explore and build relationships with the gnome and goblin inhabitants… we can only hope that funny elves will somehow be involved.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2017

At the 2017 Game Developers Conference this week the company will showcase interactive streaming of a game inside the HTC Vive. Genvid’s technology is already available in Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4, but a plug-in for Unity is also being released.

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VRScout

MARCH 3, 2017

Using the HTC Vive and a wall of silver rectangles, this installation was all about playing with points of reference and altering how your brain processes its surroundings. Using the built-in camera on the HTC Vive headset I was able to view myself back in reality, standing inside the Waterfront Tunnel space.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

UltraLeap Tobii Manus Spectre XR Rokid Contact CI Emerge HTC VIVE OpenBCI UltraLeap Dedicated to transforming the way users share valuable data with XR solutions and applications, UltraLeap has produced a host of powerful technologies for the hand and eye tracking sector. Here are just some of the vendors worth watching.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 24, 2020

Manus VR , the company which makes enterprise-grade data gloves, is almost ready to release its solution to this challenge, Manus Polygon. Compatible with HTC Vive and other SteamVR headsets, Manus Polygon will be compatible with Unity when it officially launches in June 2020.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2016

The group has spent the better part of a decade collecting and cataloging an obscene amount of visual data from all over the planet. There are around 175 cities with full, 3D data, and over 600 ‘urban cores’ as well.” The app is available now for free on the HTC Vive.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Over the last couple years, we have gained a lot of experience with them and their Unreal Engine. Varjo’s MR solution combines real movement data from the M2 vehicle along and offers passthrough functions for the driver’s field of view (FoV), allowing the driver constant views of their hands.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Learnings Of Early Access From ‘Raw Data’ When?: Survios came out swinging with the pre-release version of Raw Data and ended up with big success , so they’re definitely a team you should listen to if you’re considering this route for your VR game. Rikard Steiber (HTC), Joel Breton (HTC).

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