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An apparently never-before-seen HTC headset won an IF Design Award today, which arrived with multiple photos of what was listed as a consumer headset targeting release in 2021. The fitness-focused headset is just a concept, the company says, but we’re probably going to see many of its design elements in an upcoming HTC headset.
This enhancement allows learners to improve their situational awareness, dexterity, and coordination during simulation exercises. Moreover, as the digital training sector moves towards hand-tracking and haptic gloves, the need for controllers and the difficulty of worker VR hardware familiarity will decrease.
Axon’s simulator training is powered by the Vive Focus 3 , HTC’s all-in-one VR headset in combination with the company’s Vive Wrist Trackers , which track the position of the user’s hands in VR. Officers can now use the exact same objects in VR training sessions that they would out in the field.
With eye-tracking solutions, software can be designed to effectively render the content users are viewing according to their specific needs, reducing bandwidth use and improving clarity. With hand-tracking capabilities, innovators can remove the need for teams to utilize external controllers and devices when interacting with digital content.
While hardware advancements such as the HTC Vive Pro and Oculus Rift have solidified at-home VR as a viable option, those looking for next-level immersion will still find the most success with location-based VR installations. Of course we can’t talk about standalone VR without bringing up the HTC Vive Focus. LOCATION-BASED VR.
HTC Vive XR Elite HTC Vive XR Elite (Image by HTC Vive) The star of the event has for sure been the Vive XR Elite, HTC’s latest flagship headset. One is the high cost: HTC markets it as a consumer device, but at that price, not many consumers are going to buy it, so it will be a prosumer one.
The HTC Vive and Oculus Rift title fuses dance choreography with skillfully posing through carved out walls. This is perfect for getting over human excuses not to exercise or becoming a couch zombie. Hold up those robot hands! To conclude, the Quest handtracking would be a welcome option when the time comes.
You have to buy base stations and controllers separately from HTC or Valve. Huawei is advertising these glasses as competitors of Oculus Quest and HTC Vive Pro, but don’t get mislead by this. The actual specifications are more or less this one: Total 3K resolution (3200×1600); Around 70° FOV; 3 DOF rotational tracking.
Even the Oculus Rift’s largest “ experimental ” room-scale setup is smaller than what’s possible with the HTC Vive, which uses Valve’s tracking system. Demos shown by HTC at CES include tracking a wrist and glove combo for handtracking, as well as a fire hose and gun.
This is often referred to as brain neuroplasticity and is the key to long-term functional recovery” An exercise on the Ulysses VR rehabilitation platform. For example, when wearing the first prototyped haptic glove device, headsets failed to utilise hand-tracking tools due to the wearable’s exoskeleton.
Beyond these headline-makers, other enterprise vendors such as Lenovo, PICO, and HTC VIVE contribute to developing a healthy market. The device notably ditches controller-based input to focus on eye and hand-tracking controls that support gaze and pinch controls.
During all these months, I had the occasion of reading on Linkedin about all his cool prototypes and enterprise solutions that he and his colleagues have developed inside the company, ranging from 360 videos to hand-tracked training solutions with the Quest, not to mention XR entertainment solutions for airplane passengers.
HTC Vive Cosmos and its controllers, just announced at CES (Image by HTC). HTC has been the VR star of this CES 2019. The biggest announcement has been the HTC Vive Cosmos , a headset that has generated a lot of hype also because HTC has not revealed all its features, but it has only teased them. FinchShift.
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