Road to VR

MAY 8, 2017

But thanks to virtual reality, there might be an exercise machine coming to your local gym or arcade that promises to gamify what many people not only find to be an existential commentary on their personal failings, but also a painfully boring experience. image courtesy VirZOOM. image courtesy VirZOOM.

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ARPost

AUGUST 3, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown how important XR technologies are for mitigating the disruptive effects of lockdown. Platforms: HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, PSVR. Platforms: HTC Vive, Oculus Quest, Rift and Rift S, PSVR, Valve Index, Windows Mixed Reality. Platforms: PSVR, HTC Vive. Platforms: Oculus Rift, HTC Vive.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 13, 2025

Immersive learning case studies from countless industries highlight the potential extended reality technologies have to transform how we build skills and knowledge. With the help of HTC VIVE, the company revolutionized its training program. Traditional role-play training was time-consuming, inconsistent, and difficult to scale.

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The Ghost Howls

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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

HTC’s VIVE Focus 3 has expanded its utility aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as it is being used to support physical and mental health. The VIVE Focus 3 is operating as part of vital exercise routines by astronauts in conjunction with a FERGO exercise bike and a VR experience created by the Danish Aerospace Company.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2018

During my Chinese adventure, in the period that I was leaving Shanghai to go to Chengdu to watch pandas, I had the opportunity to interview via WeChat Qiyong Chen, one of the people leading the Virtual Reality R&D experiments at HTC. Who are you and what do you do in HTC? I’m Qiyong Chen, leader of HTC China Immersive Lab.

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Road to VR

MARCH 8, 2017

In a reverse engineering exercise, two students at Utah State University have hacked positional tracking onto a Gear VR headset using SteamVR Tracking technology. Since Valve opened SteamVR technology to third parties for free , it has become easier to create tracked peripherals and other hardware.

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VRScout

JULY 19, 2020

And what’s better for you muscles than regular daily exercise! Eventually, Virtuleap would like to expand its mind exercises to include well-known neuropsychological exercises such as the Stroop Color and Word Test where your brain needs to adjust to conflict.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Immersive technology continues its push towards mainstream appeal. If 2016 was the birth of modern VR/AR technology, than 2018 was its elementary school graduation. Of course we can’t talk about standalone VR without bringing up the HTC Vive Focus. LOCATION-BASED VR.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Virtual Medical Coaching (VMC) is an immersive training technology developer designing bespoke solutions to enhance the safety of conventional front-line learning environments. The Christchurch, Canterbury-based firm powers its AR/VR solutions by utilizing immersive technology like remote guidance, big data, and artificial intelligence (AI).

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ARPost

MAY 26, 2021

Healium is an AR and VR company that uses biofeedback recorded through wearable technology to help users visualize – and control – their emotions. Patients are guided through motions and exercises through the display as well as by a remotely located human therapist who also helps with pain management. Shout Out to Hardware.

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VRScout

APRIL 21, 2020

This allows students to exercise their skills at home while in isolation using the company’s @HomeVR system which was launched two weeks ago for standalone VR headsets such as Oculus Quest and HTC Vive Focus Plus. Canada, and U.K. UCLH in the U.K. and Sana in Germany. Image Credit: Getty Images / FundamentalVR.

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VRScout

JUNE 17, 2017

VirZOOM is back with a more affordable option for exercising in virtual reality. The $100 device is compatible with most mainstream headsets including the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and PSVR, with support for mobile VR options such as Samsung’s Gear VR and Google DayDream on the way.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Military simulations are one of the fields where virtual reality has always been an important technology , even before that VR had its new renaissance in 2012. BISim’s technology portfolio encompasses desktop training, simulation host, image generation, terrain editing and management, AI, and software development tools.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

We talk about so many potential applications this technology has, but I just never saw the appeal of putting on a Rift or Vive and going for a workout. Granted this was the first bit of exercise of this type I’d have in a while, but I do consider myself to be in decent shape. I gave VR exercise a hard time and maybe you do too.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 4, 2023

More on SenseGlove SenseGlove debuted the initial model of its Nova device at CES 2021, compatible with HTC VIVE, Meta Quest, and Pico Neo headsets. SenseGlove is currently running pre-orders for its product starting at €5,999. Following a successful showcase, SenseGlove opened global shipments of the Nova product in May 2022.

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ARPost

MARCH 24, 2021

Development of immersive technology is happening at a rapid pace and increasing numbers of adults previously unfamiliar with gaming are using virtual reality headsets for fun, fitness, and social interaction. That means you’d need a gaming computer and either a PCVR headset such as the HTC Vive, Valve Index, or Oculus Rift. AltspaceVR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2023

Everyone I spoke with talked about an interesting event to attend for us XR people, and this shows that immersive realities are now in a quite mature status… to be niche technologies. MAIN HEADLINES Let me list for you what have been, in my opinion, the most important XR technologies from this CES.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Some weeks ago I interviewed Mr. Chen of Vive Immersive Labs regarding the interesting research that HTC is conducting regarding the applications of virtual reality. VR technology’s “immersive learning” is in line with the language learning environment. VR can let us do everything (Image by HTC).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

This is made with the purpose of making people playing the game a lot , so that they could exercise a lot, and stay fit without even noticing it. We of New Technology Walkers are releasing HitMotion: Reloaded in Early Access because we want to build this game with the help of the community. Are you ready for the fitness battle?

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VRScout

AUGUST 15, 2017

Starting this September the company will provide nine of its UPS Integrad training facilities spread across the United States with their own HTC Vive headset with custom controls. VR creates a hyper-realistic streetscape that will dazzle even the youngest of our drivers whose previous exposure to the technology was through video games.”.

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Tech Trends VR

APRIL 22, 2020

This allows students to exercise their skills at home while in isolation using the company’s @HomeVR system which was launched two weeks ago for standalone VR headsets such as Oculus Quest and HTC Vive Focus Plus. Student surgeons are seeing their studies interrupted as hospitals are reserved for essential care Click To Tweet.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2018

These guidelines are contained in a document entitled “Guiding Opinions of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on Accelerating the Development of Virtual Reality Industry” and has been released by the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Problems such as imperfect application ecology.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 9, 2017

Not many realize, however, just how dramatically Valve’s SteamVR Tracking technology could impact the industry over the next few months. 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.

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Road to VR

JUNE 25, 2016

Anyone who’s experienced the torture of mandatory safety training and the accompanying exercises and videos will know that traditional methods to educate employees on the risks of a workplace are often less than effective. But what if you were able to step into different scenarios and environments that demonstrated these things to you?

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 12, 2023

There’s also a major emphasis on Meta’s mixed reality technologies, which use passthrough cameras for VR training and practice. We want also to bring in additional exercises and mini-games different from Pickleball. I think we can all imagine in a couple of years these headsets will become a lot lighter and sleeker.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

This week’s collection of new HTC Vive releases isn’t exceptionally lengthy, but it does provide a handful of interesting experiences. An experience that’s on the complete opposite of the scale from the wave shooting of John Wick is Vision Therapy VR , a collection of exercises to supplement your eye’s health.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 10, 2020

The model I tried out also included IMU-based motion capture and a host of biomedical gubbins like electrocardiogram (ECG) and galvanic skin response sensors to capture user vitals, something that positions the suit as a pseudo medical device for diagnostics when taking part in training and simulation exercises.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 14, 2016

After thrusting a glimpse of a modern VR technology into the public realm 4 years ago at E3 2012 there’s a certain irony in Bethesda’s flurry of VR activity at this year’s show. Was it a PR exercise? “The way the technology is set up, we are fairly (platform) agnostic. Would the demo be released?

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AR Insider

JULY 24, 2020

You can actually use today’s technologies — phones, game engine tech, web tech — to pretty faithfully represent these things now. “If you focus on, say, building one experience, typically that means you’re going to do some kind of production exercise that’s going to be a bit expensive [for] your first one.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

One such company, Penumbra, leverages HTC VIVE headsets to provide patience with cutting-edge rehabilitative services aimed at expediting patient outcomes and tracking overall progress. In addition, the pandemic accelerated the adoption of technology broadly in the healthcare experience.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 22, 2024

Creating the most immersive XR experiences requires more than just the best visuals or spatial audio technologies. Leveraging the technologies across their line of enterprise-exclusive headsets, such as the VR-3, XR-3, and Aero, has birthed several key secondary tools for hand and eye tracking. Under its Varjo Base v3.5

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

It believes this will improve interpersonal and technological interactions across verticals such as hospitality, wellness and fitness, telehealth, remote-support, education, entertainment, and creative collaboration. Alternatively, visitors can choose to interact with VEDA as a hologram-like projection without needing to wear the AR glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 29, 2018

I’m at the technology store today in my local shopping mall because I want to get a new VR headset. Three different models of HTC Vive, three different form factors (Image by Rob Cole). Have a nice read!

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Peter Graham

JANUARY 14, 2020

Immersive Factory is a specialist in VR-based training exercises for occupational health, safety and environment (HSE) and was part of HTC’s Vive X accelerator in London, UK. Companies across the world are discovering the benefit of implementing virtual reality (VR) training as a way of safely teaching employees new skills.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Then how can I solve it with web3 technologies?” Then the technological advancement with the mobile phones and then the social media said, “Why do we make those people look for something? There were some moments when we had some lessons, then we had some exercises. I met lots of people.

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Cats and VR

JANUARY 8, 2018

The Black Box VR studio has developed the world’s first fully automated cable resistance machine that integrates virtual reality hardware and original virtual eSport software powered by HTC Vive. We couldn’t be more excited to unveil our product in Las Vegas, and proud to have been honored with a CES Innovation Award.”

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