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APRIL 19, 2017

Since HTC Vive began shipping the Vive Tracker to developers earlier this year, we’ve seen everything from ceiling fans , fire hoses , and even cats tracked in VR. One of those developers is Master of Shapes , who unveiled their first Tracker demo at CES with HTC Vive.

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

The experience was built in 1:1 scale within Unreal Engine. Its launch is the first time it has been made available to the public, and it is the first experience the BBC has released for the HTC Vive. The experience is now available for both HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.

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JUNE 14, 2017

Skybound Entertainment in partnership with Skydance Interactive have confirmed that multiple interactive VR games based on the hugely popular The Walking Dead franchise are in the works. Here’s an unexpected treat for VR enthusiasts among the hordes of fans of The Walking Dead out there.

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OCTOBER 24, 2017

The game is due to launch for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift in early 2018. Archiact has been crafting immersive VR entertainment since 2013,” said Kurt Busch, Studio Head at Archiact. The game’s ‘Swarm A.I’ With Evasion , the team is using everything we’ve learned and weaving our experience into a truly genre-defining AAA title.

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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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OCTOBER 30, 2016

Three veterans of first-person shooter games have formed Drifter Entertainment , a Seattle-based virtual reality game studio. Davis recently served as general manager for the Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4. Above: Drifter Entertainment’s founders (left to right): Ray Davis, Kenneth Scott, and Brian Murphy.

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AUGUST 10, 2022

HTC is set to reveal its new VIVE Mars CamTrack solution at the SIGGRAPH 2022 in Vancouver, Canada, where it will showcase the immersive production tool with Departure Lounge and Arcturus, it was revealed on Tuesday. HTC VIVE (@htcvive) August 8, 2022. One-click origin reset and simple calibration tools for cameras.

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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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DECEMBER 29, 2016

The demonstration included the now familar Unreal Engine 3 powered citadel area, one which would become the setting for one of the most famous early VR applications of all time, Rift Coaster. The HTC Vive (DK1), SteamVR Controllers and Laser Basestations.

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JUNE 23, 2017

Welcome to another week chronicling the latest releases for HTC Vive. We also have a top list of the absolute best HTC Vive games — which is updated every few months with the latest and greatest options. New HTC Vive Releases on Steam. Unearthing Mars VR, from Winking Entertainment. New HTC Vive Releases on Viveport.

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MAY 13, 2024

More info News worth a mention (Image by Holoride) Holoride files for insolvency Holoride , the company offering innovative VR entertainment for the automotive sector, has filed for insolvency after the lead investor of its upcoming round changed his mind at the last minute. I wonder if VR remains one of its most important use cases.

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JULY 24, 2018

A combination of software was used to execute the endeavor, including Adobe Character Animator, Unreal Engine, and NewTeK NDI. Built entirely in-house at Nickelodeon’s Entertainment Lab, using a game engine allowed the ability to create real-time interactions and conversations. The creation of this experience took six months.

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OCTOBER 14, 2016

This week’s weekly roundup of HTC Vive titles contains a handful of virtual ‘escape the room’ experiences, some wacky mini-games, and even an education lab with a growing list of attractions. We also have a top list of the absolute best HTC Vive games — which is updated every few months with the latest and greatest options.

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MARCH 26, 2022

Its first VR concert tour springs from years of R&D that resulted in proprietary 9K cameras and software that can automate complex unreal engine-based VR concert visual effects (VFX) modules and run more than 100 headsets at a time. Beatday is another virtual concert I was able to try at the HTC Vive booth. The booth for Beatday.

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JANUARY 12, 2024

They’re not just ideal for intelligent gaming and entertainment. These gloves are also compatible with HTC VIVE, Meta Quest, and Pico Neo headsets, offering excellent versatility. Plus, the gloves are compatible with various software platforms, such as Unity and Unreal Engine. There’s even zero-loss on-body recording at 120 FPS.

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AUGUST 6, 2024

VR has many use cases beyond entertainment and with HTC, RiVR's fire safety program aims to minimize training risks. I firmly believe XR devices must go beyond entertainment to ever truly become mainstream, so I was curious when HTC invited me to a VR fire safety training demonstration last month. Here's what we thought.

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JULY 11, 2017

Currently available for free on the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift (sorry, mobile VR users), Blocks is a new app from Google that lets anyone create 3D objects without training. Referring to themselves as the “AngelList for the VR entertainment industry,” the company hopes that this proves starter fuel for eventual crowdsourcing of VR art.

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AUGUST 4, 2017

Working with 3D Live Entertainment and Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4 technology, Schnitzer is now able to give people an accurate recreation of one woman’s near-death experience through the power of virtual reality. The five-minute experience will make its debut at ScareLA on Aug.

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OCTOBER 21, 2018

He’s someone who has worked on games early in his career at Lucas Arts and has always been tied to the entertainment industry. He has been working with Unreal for 20 years and was part of the Paragon and Fortnite development teams. He was part of the design process for several of Unreal’s core features.

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MARCH 30, 2017

The German auto manufacturer evaluates design features in virtual reality before building prototypes in actual reality, using the famous high-quality physics-based rendering power of Unreal for the game engine and using the HTC Vive for the VR hardware. A new, strategic partnership between Warner Bros.

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MARCH 26, 2019

Ubisoft’s latest VR game is however closer linked to an earlier breed of shooter and much less so than its contemporary brethren of today—ostensibly an homage to the founders of the genre like Unreal Tournament (1999) and Quake (1996). Again, it’s just too early to tell where it will land.

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JULY 23, 2017

Before his entrepreneurial work, Mahajan was an engineer at Epic Games on the Unreal Engine and Gears of War. Above: Phil Chen was a co-creator of the HTC Vive and is a partner at a Presence Capital. Chen was previously on the founding team that created the HTC Vive, the VR headset based on Valve’s SteamVR technology.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

An environmental artist with a passion for Star Wars has realised the iconic location of Star Wars’ Mos Eisley space port in jaw-dropping detail via Unreal Engine 4. John Lewis is an Environmental Artist for Obsidian Entertainment , developers behind games such as Neverwinter Nights 2 and Fallout: New Vegas.

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APRIL 21, 2017

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. But the tracking volume is still limited compared to other VR experiences made using graphic engines like Unity or Unreal.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2021

High-precision 6DOF tracking, eye tracking, gesture inputs, with dedicated input controllers The SDK will support Unity , with Unreal coming Soon. Also, people in entertainment, medical, automotive, military training, and other enterprise sectors are interested in our glasses. The official computational unit runs Android.

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DECEMBER 15, 2016

This is a new cinematic VR series built in Unreal Engine 4 from phoenixmirror. Designed for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, it’s being worked on part time by co-creators, writers and directors, Barret Phillips and William Gerardi, writer Robbie Barnett, and producer and designer Stewart Garner.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

When it’s finally your turn, an escort ushers you into a room with more staff, having you don a HTC Vive and asking if you prefer a female or male host for your trip — they are insistent you make a choice. It leverages Epic’s Unreal Engine 4 and is built to run natively on HTC’s Vive headset system.

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DECEMBER 15, 2022

Major immersive firms like Meta and HTC provide unique funding opportunities for various use cases. The internationally available programmes help scale XR solutions for arts & entertainment, industry, tourism, retail, and more. Major immersive firms support areas like Metaverse , training, and education content creation.

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MAY 19, 2016

Portal Stories: VR is a free Portal 2 (2011) “mini story” recently released for the HTC Vive. See Also: Valve’s ‘The Lab’ is a Wondrous Playground Full of VR Toys on HTC Vive. The developers did a wonderful job of staying true to the look and feel of Portal using Unreal Engine, but the experience falls short.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Go on reading, I bet you will enjoy this journey into the present and the future of location-based augmented reality entertainment. The Vive Pro Eye just launched by HTC at CES (Image by HTC). Hello Eido, introduce yourself to my readers! My name is “Eido Inoue” (in Japanese: ?????),

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Leveraging Gamification for Increasing Patient Outcome s Emerging Metaverse services and integrated, immersive technologies grew alongside RT3D engines such as Unreal and Unity, two SDKs that developers commonly leverage for creating gaming content. “This really makes the patient experience not so scary anymore,” Chen remarked.

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APRIL 26, 2017

“The Rift had just come out and there was also this craze with IRLShooter’s Patient Zero, which combined laser tag with real actors and a zombie storyline, and the idea was to put these two things together and create a new form of entertainment from scratch,” Ruse explained. Hands-on With Zero Latency.

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MAY 24, 2016

Revive is an application that allows select VR games exclusive to the Oculus Home platform to be played on a rival SteamVR-powered HTC Vive headset. For Valve and HTC’s Vive headset it’s Steam, for Oculus and the Rift it’s Oculus Home. What does Revive actually do under the hood? Who’s behind it?

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MAY 2, 2024

Carmack also explained that allowing development partners to access the full Horizon OS for standard Quest hardware “could be done very cheaply and would open up a lot of speciality applications and location-based entertainment systems, but that would be a much lower key announcement.”

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APRIL 14, 2023

Companies such as HTC VIVE, Lenovo, Meta Platforms, Pico, and others have tapped Qualcomm’s solutions. Developers can also download its software developer kit (SDK) for Unity and Unreal Engine. The company is a major designer of immersive gaming experiences for media and entertainment.

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JULY 15, 2020

With the world reeling from COVID-19, changes to consumer experience across numerous industries, from live sports and entertainment to education, are inevitable. Apple seems to be cornering the popular entertainment industry, with the acquisition of NextVR, as industry rivals such as Magic Leap focus on enterprise solutions.

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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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