The Ghost Howls

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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The Ghost Howls

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. UltraLeap Unity SDK.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

Curiously enough, he let us also the journalist Janko Roettgers try Cambria for a very short demo. Weirdly enough, most of the demos he showed were games. Weirdly enough, most of the demos he showed were games. Even worse, Unity has lost -30% of its stock value.

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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

JUNE 5, 2017

” SteamVR and HTC Vive on Mac OS. While Steam has been Mac compatible for some time now, Apple announced that Valve will be bringing SteamVR to Mac too, allowing the HTC Vive to run VR games on Mac systems. Vive Demo on Stage. Unity and Unreal VR SDK Support. Metal for VR. Photo courtesy TIME.

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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. “The Look no further!

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 22, 2024

More info The Vive Focus Vision has been released HTC has decided to release the Vive Focus Vision the same week as the Quest 3S. It seems that HTC has invested a lot in providing a standalone headset that is great for PCVR and so it features a lossless wired Displayport connection, very high display resolution, and integrated eye tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

Inside the box you find: 1x SenseGlove right 1x SenseGlove left 1x SenseGlove linkbox 1x power cable 1x USB connector cable short (2m/ 6.5ft) 2x USB connector cable long (3m/ 10ft) 2x HTC tracker mounts including screws 1x manual. This way your gloves are powered and can communicate with your PC; Setup of the HTC Vive system.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

This trend follows a similar approach that Valve and HTC took with the debut of the Vive where Valve sent out rough prototypes to a handful of developers and then expanded that pool with the HTC ‘Vive Pre’ which was a nearly complete version of the final Vive consumer headset which shipped a few months later.

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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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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

During the demo, Apple’s employees will give you an Apple device that fits your head, and let you try the most important features of the headset. More info (How to reserve your demo at an Apple Store) More info (What happens during a demo at an Apple Store) We also keep learning new things about the headset.

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VRScout

JUNE 5, 2017

A second demo from Wingnut AR showed how ARKit could place an entire imaginary world on top of a real-world platform on the stage. The more sophisticated demo, made in Unreal Engine, shows a complex world war taking place with spaceships and explosions. The demo is expected to be released as a game “later this year.”.

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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). Unity changes how it handles XR Plugins. There will be an XR plugins manager, and some of them will be managed by Unity together with its partners (e.g.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

So we would require many public demos about it… but well, there is a pandemic and so people can go out less, and even if they go out, it’s not safe wearing the headset that others have worn in a demo booth. Companies like Pico, HP, Valve, and HTC are already performing very well in this sector.

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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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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

AUGUST 7, 2020

These come very handy when you have to make demos and don’t want to give the controller to every user that must handle the device. It is easily accessible in the Unity SDK as a standard WebcamTexture, so if you like hacking things, I guess you can have a lot of fun developing things for it! User Interface.

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Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2017

Facebook’s VR headset subsidiary Oculus is finally integrating a native tool that will let you capture and share your Rift experiences through 360 photos and videos—one that developers can integrate into Unity and Unreal Engines, and across NVIDIA and AMD GPUs— and it’s available today on GitHub.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

Image courtesy HTC. HTC have finally revealed the price and release date of the anticipated Vive Pro , opening preorders globally at Vive.com and other retailers. Magic Leap has launched the SDK for the device’s Lumin OS , with support for Unity and Unreal engines. Magic Leap announcements. image courtesy Magic Leap.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In these two weeks, we got to discover that Apple is planning to organize demo sessions of Vision Pro inside the Apple Store venues and that in the beginning, the only way to buy a Vision Pro will be going to an Apple Store. Nimo 1 is now available to preorder for $1299. SteamVR 2.0 is now live for everyone.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Some 110 VR games for PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive got all the attention with new demos and mixed reality performances. HTC Vive had a huge presence as well, taking the form of mixed reality demo booths that had attendees all snapping photos and video. See our video below.

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Road to VR

MARCH 30, 2017

HTC Vive Senior Engineer James Xiong has provided a Vive IK Demo on GitHub , which includes a reference source code and Unity demo. SEE ALSO Watch: IKinema's HTC Vive Powered Full Body Motion Capture System is Impressive. The Vive IK Demo requires strapping a Tracker to each foot and one on the waist.

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The HTC Vive should not exist. For a troubled company that’s spent much of the past few years making losses instead of profits, the niche and expensive VR market is the last place HTC is going to make a quick buck. And yet here we are, with the smartphone maker and Valve seemingly in it for the long haul. Expected Expense.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 31, 2017

At SIGGRAPH this week the Boston-based startup is showing its modified HTC Vive which include EEG ( Electroencephalography ) sensors along the interior of the headstrap. It became active during the next portion of the demo meant to show the potential of the system in a game environment.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

I’m sure that after April, 20th, the Meta Quest ecosystem will appear even richer than it is now , creating a wider gap with other companies that may think about competing with the Quest, that is Pico, HTC, and even Apple. I have seen the demo via a Zoom call and CNET’s Scott Stein saw it live and we came out both impressed by it.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Epic Games is heavily invested in VR thanks to deep integration with its Unreal Engine 4 and its own tech demos like Bullet Train. There’s no assigned speaker yet, but this session will detail how to integrate devices with the SteamVR tracking systems that we’ve come to know and love through the HTC Vive.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

Ctrl+Labs already demoed it years ago: check out the link to the Dino Game that I added below this paragraph. More info (FRL Official blog post) More info (Road To VR reporting and commenting the news) More info (Ctrl+Labs’s Dino Game Early Demo) More info (ETH’s experimental wristband). As long as it works…. Some XR fun.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Since having a 3DOF controller with a 6DOF headset is weird (HTC and Lenovo know this well), RealMax has decided to add also support for Leap Motion. When I got it, it just had a rough launcher to execute some demo programs. Realmax has an SDK that is compatible with Unity 2017 and Unity 2019.

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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.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

High-precision 6DOF tracking, eye tracking, gesture inputs, with dedicated input controllers The SDK will support Unity , with Unreal coming Soon. We have early internal units and demos at different iterations. It is very positive… usually, after our demos, people want to buy the devices! All APIs have a plain C version.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2022

It has become one of the headset manufacturers with the biggest worldwide market, and the market leader (together with HTC) in the B2B virtual reality sector. And I was even able to make a demo standalone version of VRrOOm’s musical experience Oxymore from VRChat to Pico Neo 3 Link in around two days. (And

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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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ARPost

JUNE 3, 2022

Demos on the AWE floor included more intimate recordings and video calls with loved ones, as well as a game built for 2D but ported in through a Unity SDK. The big news that we have here at AWE is that the Snapdragon developer program has opened,” Lenovo AR/VR lead Nathan Pettyjohn told ARPost at the company’s demo booth.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2022

The PlayStation 5 demo for Matrix Resurrections was able to showcase that very well, and the great news is that the city of that demo will be released for free as a sample of the engine. As a Unity developer, I am a bit envious of all of this. It’s interesting that HTC is keeping the name Vive both for VR and Web3 solutions.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

This would be pretty disruptive, because up to now every standalone headset has been a walled garden with its own store and hardware, with the only exception being HTC trying to distribute its Viveport store to some other Chinese devices. On Quest, there are some nice demos and games with MR features, but nothing more.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Being them very kind, they gave me as a gift an aGlass DK II eye tracking add on for HTC Vive and I used it to experiment with eye tracking interfaces. aGlass DK II box on top of HTC Vive one. FOV: >110° (adapted to HTC Vive). My HTC Vive is now able to track my eyes! FPS: 100Hz/120Hz. Delay: < 5ms.

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