Road to VR

JUNE 2, 2016

Valve have released the Unity based renderer for its superb VR experience collection The Lab in an effort to encourage adoption of what it sees as optimal rendering techniques for VR experiences. The move was announced by Valve’s Chet Faliszek at Unite Europe in Amsterdam yesterday.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

More info (Laval Virtual canceled) More info (XR Europe canceled) More info (E3 canceled) More info (Tribeca canceled). The VR route is instead being pursued by HTC (with its VEC event happening soon) and IEEE. Unity’s HDRP is now VR-compatible. Very good news for all us Unity VR developers. I’ll hug you all in autumn.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

As it had promised on my blog last year , its cool Nreal Light AR glasses have finally arrived in Europe. It’s good to see this cool product finally arriving in Europe, not anymore as a devkit, but as a full-fledged product. Vive Facial Tracker works also with non-HTC headsets. Nreal Light is on sale in Germany. Some XR fun.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The VRARA is hosting its Immerse Global Summit (IGS) Europe event in Savoy Palace At Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal, between September 28-30. We have so much planned for the Immerse Global Summit Europe on Sept 28-30! IGS Europe is hosting over 100 companies and speakers. Here’s a glimpse of the talks! Who is Coming?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

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. Shoutout to @ArcturusXR and @dlxrofficial for helping to make this demo happen.

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VRScout

JULY 28, 2017

You can now slide down Europe’s tallest building in VR. Or you can take a nerve wrecking step across a girder on top of London’s sky line using body motion tracking technology paired to a HTC Vive.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 2, 2016

Valve Releases ‘The Lab’ Unity Renderer for Free Valve have released the Unity based renderer for its superb VR experience collection The Lab in an effort to encourage adoption of what it sees as optimal rendering techniques for VR experiences. The move was announced by Valve’s Chet Faliszek at Unite Europe in Amsterdam yesterday.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

With currently 26 labs operating in the United States, Europe, Asia and Oceania, VR First is bringing the number to 40 labs by the end of year. While the program was principally incubated by Crytek, students working in VR First labs tend use Unity (48%), followed by Unreal (20%) and then CRYENGINE (14%). image courtesy VR First.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Among this free content, the real interesting stuff is $500 in free Azure credits , while the other things are highly questionable (like 3 months of Unity Pro license… it is more a free trial than a real added value!!). Nreal Light is shipping in Europe and US in 2021. More info (Unboxing video on Upload VR).

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VR Game Critic

JUNE 2, 2016

Unity developers will soon be able to use the renderer used by Valve in its HTC Vive title The Lab in their own virtual reality games. Valve’s Chet Faliszek announced onstage at this year’s Unite Europe that the tool would be released for free download to creators via SteamVR.

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ARPost

JULY 22, 2021

Light&Shadows for “ Stipple ,” a point cloud editor plug-in for Unity. HTC for the VIVE Focus 3. Also of note: HTC CEO and Chairwoman Cher Wang was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at last year’s ceremony. Pico Interactive Europe SL for the Pico Neo 3 Pro. Make Real Ltd. Varjo for the XR-3.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The only company not much affected by it is HTC, that manufacturers its headsets in Taiwan and not in Mainland China. HTC Vive releases Cosmos Elite, two models of Vive Pro Eye and creates some confusion. XR Europe will be awesome! base stations and a 20m fiber cable. iPhone 12 may feature a special connection for AR glasses.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 9, 2023

John A Cunningham, Head of Government and Aerospace, Unity , joined the in-person gathering with Pearly Chen, Vice President, HTC VIVE , Dylan Evers, Director, Microsoft , Mattney Beck, Chief Marketing Officer, Lenovo , Dr David Stargel, Technical Director, United States Air Force , John Meyers, Executive Director, US Navy , among others.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Major immersive firms like Meta and HTC provide unique funding opportunities for various use cases. Europe has already offered significant funding for VR and AR solutions addressing problems in the educational, industrial, and entertainment industries. Moreover, methods of funding exist for humanitarian projects.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

For the rest, I foresee the launch of some new Nreal Light clones and the actual distribution of these headsets on the market: Nreal has never truly arrived in Europe and the US, and the launch is expected around this spring. There are vaiours solutions to also export Unity XR projects to the web (Image by Mozilla).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 18, 2018

On one hand, they are able to distribute their content cross platforms (including Oculus Go , Oculus Rift, Gear VR , Steam VR, HTC Vive, MIVR, Android, iOS etc) just with one single click on VeeR; on the other hand, we have developed the free web-based interactive experience creation tool VeeR Experience back in August 2018.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2019

But this time, Valve has made it without the collaboration of HTC. The specs list is very similar to the one of the HTC Vive Pro. I tried it in Beijing at HTC offices and I was amazed by this possibility. The Valve Index is the first PC VR headset completely produced by Valve, from the design to the manufacturing stage.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Five Boroughs of Igloo Vision According to Igloo Vision, its immersive spaces now include: Immersive visualisation room with floor projection : In a 5 x 5-metre space, Igloo Vision displayed 360 video, Insta360 live streams, Unity-based architectural models, Matterport-based photogrammetry models, and immersive presentations built on Slides.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 22, 2024

But it’s also success here in Europe. Just to give you an idea, in 60% of the Ray-Ban stores in Europe, in EMEA, Ray-Ban Meta is the best-seller in those stores. Notice that he’s not talking about the US, which is more advanced than Europe on the technology side. I mean, we, it’s an overall success story that we see.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 17, 2020

And we actually tried to tackle this problem with the help of major headset manufacturers – Oculus, HTC, Leap Motion, Intel — and they supported us to create VR/AR labs around the world. And in addition to that, we have VR/AR managers from all the Accenture, BNP Paribas, KLM, Bosch, HTC Vive. So you can select one of them.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 17, 2020

And we actually tried to tackle this problem with the help of major headset manufacturers – Oculus, HTC, Leap Motion, Intel — and they supported us to create VR/AR labs around the world. And in addition to that, we have VR/AR managers from all the Accenture, BNP Paribas, KLM, Bosch, HTC Vive. So you can select one of them.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 17, 2020

And we actually tried to tackle this problem with the help of major headset manufacturers - Oculus, HTC, Leap Motion, Intel -- and they supported us to create VR/AR labs around the world. Of course Unity, Unreal, and these engines is already important to make you enabled, which we strongly recommend if you already have a commitment for VR/AR.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Alvin is the China President at #HTC leading all aspects of HTC’s business in the region (Vive/VR, phone, Viveport content platform, partnerships and investments). Has been at the forefront when it comes to XR, earlier he was VP, Platform Strategy & Dev Community at #HTC and is currently working at Facebook Reality labs.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

HTC did something with Batman; that Game of Thrones thing; some of the demos that Magic Leap had really. I’ll mention a bunch more: Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Qualcomm, Intel, Unity — you’re looking at these massive companies now, and they’re all betting big on VR and AR. Alan: Yeah? How was it?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

HTC did something with Batman; that Game of Thrones thing; some of the demos that Magic Leap had really. I’ll mention a bunch more: Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Qualcomm, Intel, Unity — you’re looking at these massive companies now, and they’re all betting big on VR and AR. Alan: Yeah? How was it?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2018

And so here we are again: Oculus vs HTC, America vs China, Hugo Barra vs Alvin Wang Graylin. HTC has also been smart because every time someone says “Focus” during some VR event, he’s doing some hidden advertisement for its product. The never-ending story. Vive Focus has just a single 3 DOF controller.

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ARVR

JUNE 20, 2020

Build your first HoloLens 2 Application with Unity and MRTK 2.3.0 In partnership with HTC Vive Arts, Emissive Studio has created the experience Mona Lisa: Beyond the Glass , the first VR experience presented by the Louvre museum, to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Leonardo Da Vinci’s death. Trending AR VR Articles: 1.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

We also have a small office and a couple of people overseas in Europe and America. Software-wise, we use Unity, Vuforia, and OpenCV. The Vive Pro Eye just launched by HTC at CES (Image by HTC). Although we use Unity in-house for development, we don’t require it specifically.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 10, 2024

A few years ago I was interviewing Alvin Wang Graylin , the HTC Executive (or “Mister President” as I like to call him), and we were talking about the book Our Next Reality he’s written together with Louis Rosenberg. In the book they talk about XR and AI , and how they could impact our future, for the good and the bad.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Part of all of this is merit of Jeri (Image by HTC). Compare that to the HTC Vive that has like 40 giant infrared lights that strobe constantly to synchronize everything and spinning lasers with infrared light… and then the Kinect that has this huge laser illumination system, so those systems work totally different than ours.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

A Horizon game is coming for this new headset, and some rumors talk also about Half-Life: Alyx potentially be available in the future; HTC has announced the Vive Wrist Tracker, a 6 DOF tracker for the Vive Focus 3. The Unity Cube ?? (PS Respect for the devs of Cooking Simulator, it is actually a good game.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 17, 2017

Lots of new stuff released for HTC Vive on Steam this week, but not all of it is particularly noteworthy or earth-shattering. 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. Tagged with: htc vive , paranormal activity , steam , Viveport.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2022

Even if it is not so famous in Europe, the SXSW (South by SouthWest) has always been one of the events to be in the United States. I’ve personally met and had a chat with people from Unity and Epic Games, Roblox, The Sandbox, HTC Vive, Microsoft, Rec Room. Going SXSW. SXSW Logo (Image by SXSW).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

HTC has actually released that for the Vive Focus Plus … Well, according to the god John Carmack , it is something about which the company has discussed a lot and has also experimented a lot. Later this year, we’ll expand our Vulkan support on Quest to include Unity and Vulkan validation layers for easier debugging.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

HTC has finally revealed the price of the Vive Pro : it will cost $799 just to have the headset (no controller and no base stations, so you must already have a Vive 1 kit) and will be available for pre-orders since April, 5th. But, as Road To VR has stated, maybe HTC should have clarified that in all its marketing material.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 24, 2021

Thanks to HTC that has kindly provided me a loaner device, I have been able to test in the last days the Vive Focus 3 Business Edition. The latest standalone headset from HTC was announced a month ago, and it generated a lot of buzz in the community for its premium features associated with a high price. Are you ready? (PS

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