Road to VR

OCTOBER 23, 2018

in May 2017, 3DNesVR is finally heading to Steam, with support for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and Windows VR headsets. You can try it our for free now, as the demo on Steam supports a limited number of titles including: Super Mario Bros. Created by Geod Studios and first launched on itch.io Circus Charlie. Elevator Action. Donkey Kong.

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

A new FCC listing appears for an HTC Vive headset. And in fact, a new request to FCC for a new device has arrived from HTC. FCC certifications are requested before releasing an electronic device in the US (to certify that it is safe to be used), so this is a clear sign that HTC is going to release a new headset soon.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

So many green pigs, so little time… Rovio and Resolution Games’ fully immersive version of their popular Angry Birds franchise is now available on the HTC VIVE and Oculus Rift. The post Angry Birds VR Now Available On Oculus Rift & HTC Vive appeared first on VRScout.

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OCTOBER 20, 2018

HTC today announced a 6DOF controller tracking add-on for Vive Focus which brings 6DOF controller tracking to the device. Vive Focus, HTC’s standalone VR headset, had a full blown launch in China at the beginning of 2018, and was released as a development kit in the West in May. Image courtesy HTC.

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APRIL 19, 2021

HTC is going to launch its headset on May, 11th. HTC is keeping rising the hype for its new upcoming headset. Shariiing VR helps you in providing demos in VR. How many times have you offered a demo in VR to a customer or a friend, and you had difficulties in making him/her understand what he/she had to do?

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MAY 17, 2021

Image by HTC Vive). HTC launches Vive Focus 3 and Vive Pro 2. In the end, the rumors were correct and HTC launched two headsets at VIVECON: the Vive Pro 2 and the Vive Focus 3 Business Edition. But this device got also some criticism: first of all , HTC has not released new controllers and still sells it with the old Wands.

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JULY 14, 2020

You can also try out a free 10-minute demo by subscribing to the official newsletter. The post Asymmetrical Co-op Puzzle Platformer ‘VR Giants’ Heads To Kickstarter, Free Demo Available appeared first on VRScout. Image Credit: Wolfgang Tschauko.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 7, 2019

At a special CES event today, HTC unveiled their latest PC VR headset, Vive Cosmos. Vive Comos is said to launch sometime in 2019, although HTC isn’t talking about a more exact launch window just yet. Images provided by HTC show both the headphones attached and detached. Image courtesy HTC.

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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. This year’s Vive X Demo Days is said to take place in Beijing on May 8th, Tokyo on May 16th, London on May 23rd, and in San Francisco on June 4th.

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Road to VR

MARCH 24, 2023

With three versions of SteamVR trackers under its belt, HTC has been a leading enabler of full-body tracking in VR. HTC’s new standalone Vive tracker (still unnamed) has a straightforward goal: work like the company’s existing trackers, but easier and on more platforms.

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Road to VR

JULY 4, 2019

As one of the pioneering demos to heavily feature object interaction back at the birth of consumer VR, it always felt like the curiously magical prologue to something much larger. The post Pioneering VR Demo ‘Waltz of the Wizard’ to Live on in New ‘Extended Edition’ appeared first on Road to VR.

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JANUARY 4, 2022

Developed in collaboration with Panasonic (parent company of Shiftall), the MeganeX features an ultra-compact, lightweight design similar to that of the recently-announced HTC Vive Flow. The MeganeX resembles a pair of large bifocal glasses rather than a conventional VR headset like the Quest 2 or HTC Vive.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 4, 2021

We went hands-on with the Eye of the Temple’s demo back shortly after it was released on Steam in August, and we were really impressed with what we saw. The demo hosts a vast temple complex where you dodge and duck your way through perilous traps and genuinely head-scratching puzzles.

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JUNE 16, 2021

HitMotion is a game that all over the years has always been at the cutting edge of technology: in 2016 it was the tech demo of a full-body VR game using VR headsets and Kinects made for my startup Immotionar. It was born as a summer project made by Massimiliano Ariani and me, helped by the 3D artist Victor Pukhov.

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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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JUNE 26, 2020

Available for demo this September at the annual Sonic Amateur Games Expo , Virtua Sonic is a high-speed VR experience inspired by everyone’s favorite fast-footed hedgehog in which players zip across custom Zones as they gather coins and defeat enemies using a variety of special abilities.

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JUNE 12, 2024

HTC has teased that some users may not even need to wear their latest Vive Ultimate Trackers soon thanks to an upcoming AI-powered body tracking update. As shown in the GDC 2024 demo, it seems to be primarily targeting non-VR use cases, working essentially like a webcam attached to an AI pipeline. released in 2021.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Eye of the Temple impressed us with its unique room-scale gameplay and inventive locomotion style back in its free demo last year. Fans of the surprisingly full-featured demo on Steam will be happy to hear that Indiana Jones-style adventure Eye of the Temple will be releasing on SteamVR headsets on October 14th, 2021.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2021

One of my favorite demos at AWE has been with Ekto VR boots , which have probably been the craziest devices that I’ve tried during the expo… and I totally loved them for it! When I arrived at the Ekto VR private demo room at AWE, I did not know what to expect. All these trackers were fundamental for the VR demo that I had to try.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Using the HTC Vive Focus Plus’ passthrough capabilities, players engaged in a VR exercise are able to see their real-world surroundings while they workout. Currently, HitMotion: Reloaded is available as a free demo for the Vive Focus Plus , but the creators are planning on making the full game available very soon. .

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JULY 8, 2024

After receiving an invite by email, I made a booking for a demo session at the London leg of the Pimax Global Roadshow which was taking place on Wednesday 5 th June. Before my demo it was time for a quick look at the new headset, to see what had changed compared to the original Crystal. Library entrance (Image by R. Cole and S.

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JANUARY 27, 2021

Hands-on with UltraLeap demos. Unluckily, UltraLeap has not released any new demo to highlight the new possibilities enabled by this new runtime , especially the two hands interactions. Some little problems with interactions and tracking of the hands when moving my head in the Blocks demo.

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JANUARY 8, 2023

One of the most important XR news from CES has been the reveal by HTC of the Vive XR Elite. In case you missed it, I can summarize it by saying that HTC launched a new Quest Pro competitor priced at $1100. Big kudos to HTC for this. The HTC Vive XR Elite has some of the best passthrough I have seen yet. Parts Recycling.

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VRScout

JUNE 28, 2017

What we weren’t expecting to see was putt-putt golf in Google Earth VR or a few other inspiring demos that show us what’s possible with the immersive technology in the near term. The first VR demo Nat jumps into is a diving board experience that’s meant to demonstrate how you can “feel a sense of presence.”

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JULY 11, 2020

From there the company demoed their idea to Red Bull who imediately fell in love with the concept. Red Bull Flugtag VR debuted during last year’s event with thousands of people lining up to jump into an HTC Vive to create their own flying machine. Flap your wings as hard as you can using the HTC Vive controllers!

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Image by HTC Vive). HTC expands its Cosmos offering and teases the future with Proton. This has been a pretty interesting week for HTC Vive. And it is nice that HTC with this new Cosmos line is satisfying the needs of a broad share of VR people : from the casual gamer that wants something cheap to the professional.

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Road to VR

JULY 15, 2019

At San Diego Comic Con (SDCC) this year, Oculus and BBC Studios are giving US crowds their first chance to demo the upcoming VR game Doctor Who: The Edge of Time. The demo will be available at the BBC AMERICA Booth (#4129), which also includes a sneak peek of the show’s beloved space-time travel device, the TARDIS.

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OCTOBER 5, 2019

The Vive Cosmos signals a bright future for HTC, but at $699, will people buy it? HTC’s latest VR headset, the Cosmos is officially available for purchase and at $699 the headset doesn’t come cheap, but it does come with some much-needed improvements. Design was a priority for HTC when it came to the Cosmos. Calling it now.

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JUNE 5, 2020

The now-infamous psychological horror demo returns as a HL:A Workshop mod. After Silent Hills was officially cancelled in 2015, the demo was eventually removed from the PlayStation Store by Konami despite outspoken objections by the gaming community. —which is understandable considering P.T.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

HTC announced a new product out of left field here at Mobile World Congress (MWC) this week, the 5G Hub mobile hotspot that includes a media streaming device, a digital assistant, and Internet access point for up to 20 concurrent devices.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Seemingly in an effort to keep the spotlight during an increasingly hot month of VR announcements, Facebook teased a look at two new XR headset prototypes just a day after an apparent leak of HTC’s upcoming Vive Flow headset. This one is an early retina resolution prototype. The future is going to be awesome,” he wrote. .

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AUGUST 11, 2020

Available now on SteamVR via the games official Discord , the Eye of the Temple: First Steps demo opens up a generous portion of the games treacherous temple, allowing us the chance to navigate a variety of booby traps and moving platforms using our own bodies. It’s difficult to explain in words. Image Credit: Rune Skovbo Johansen.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2019

HTC 5G streaming. HTC was at MWC showcasing its new headset Vive Focus Plus together with a 5G network. There was a real 5G network created by HTC where on one side there were some special computers that mocked a rendering farm and on the other side there was a user wearing a Vive Focus Plus.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

“HitMotion: Reloaded”, the first mixed reality fitness game , whose demo has been one of the 20 launch titles for the Vive Focus Plus , has finally an estimated release date! Me speaking on the stage of Vive Ecosystem Conference (Photo by HTC). On the store there is currently the free DEMO of HitMotion: Reloaded.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 21, 2019

Created by indie studio Altfuture , Derail Valley is slated to release on HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Windows VR headsets on January 25th. A free demo is available on Steam, although Altfuture warns that it’s from mid-2017, so it’s “no longer representative of the full game.”

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

As a result, Bar shift Games is offering a free demo of their app for users to try before they buy. Those who enjoy the demo can pick up the full version for $4.99 $3.99 (currently 20% off) via Steam. Image Credit: Bar Shift Games.

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JUNE 30, 2021

HitMotion: Reloaded has been one of the 20 launch titles of the Vive Focus Plus , and we can never thank enough HTC for the support that has given us. Now the game is available on SideQuest as a free demo, and it is getting great feedback from all its users (download it now!). From HitMotion AR to HitMotion VR.

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