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.

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Road to VR

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. The final Oculus Rift consumer edition.

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Road to VR

MARCH 22, 2018

Qualcomm’s latest reference headset supports Vive Wave, HTC Vive Focus international launch, Oculus talks about their 2018 ecosystem, announces ‘Positional Timewarp’, reveals new Oculus Go details, and Unreal Engine’s real-time ray-tracing demo. Unreal Engine’s real-time ray-tracing live demo.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 28, 2025

Beyond that, Metas headsets support: Wireless, standalone capabilities Unlike other companies such as Varjo and HTC VIVE, which primarily offer tethered devices, Meta focuses on convenient, standalone functionality. Already, its experimenting with advanced tracking solutions, like EMG wrist bands introduced with the Meta Orion prototype.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

People that preorder the game can have a discount Guardians Frontline , a game that is a bit of a mix between Starcraft and Halo, has been positively reviewed by Upload VR Upload has also reviewed Peaky Blinders , but in this case with a mixed opinion, because of many bugs happening here and there Bigscreen VR is releasing new avatars with arms, hands, (..)

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The headset has a very nice design and features these specifications: Standalone 6DOF headset 1600×1600 resolution per eye 90Hz refresh rate 90° FOV RGB AR passthrough Innovative lenses that make the headset more compact Integrated audio Controller-free hand-tracking Eye-tracking 6GB of RAM 128GB of storage WiFi 6 (802.11ax), Bluetooth 5.0,

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

Mirror Lake includes holographic lenses, reverse passthrough (people can see your eyes when you wear it), varifocal, and eye-tracking in a single very lightweight device. Image by HTC Vive). HTC launches Vive Flow Business Edition. It would be great if Meta managed to create a cool device of this kind.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

These new features would include eye-tracking, dynamic foveated rendering, IPD auto-adjustment, and stand-alone mod e: these will be enabled through future software updates. There are also additional IPD “offset” adjustments available in the Pimax PC client, on a per-eye basis, to allow further fine-tuning.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. An eye-tracking accessory built for Vive should work with Rift as well, and so on. Top news of the week. Image by Khronos Group).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 28, 2025

However, there are plenty of other competitors worth considering too, such as: HTC VIVE: Powerful Headsets for Enterprises The HTC VIVE team has been focused on developing VR, AR, and mixed-reality solutions for business users for some time now. Think about the setup process first. Next, consider the user experience.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Get in on the ground floor with this talk from Martz, who will tell you how to get to grips with the new platform including working with Google VR SDKs for Android, Unity, and Unreal. Applications of Eye Tracking in Virtual Reality. Hand Tracked Controls: Design and Implementation for Serious VR. November 3rd, 10:15am.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

Eye and hand tracking technologies embedded into wearable devices, or delivered through external sensors, provide the feedback that applications need to optimize the immersive experience for each user. The Swedish company has produced a number of eye-tracking solutions, including the Tobii Pro Glasses 3.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 22, 2024

Eye and hand tracking technologies embedded into wearable devices, or delivered through external sensors, provide the feedback that applications need to optimize the immersive experience for each user. So, which companies are paving the way for the next generation of tracking? Here are just some of the vendors worth watching.

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Upload VR

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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 15, 2024

The OpenXR API is a core piece behind many XR headsets from vendors such as Acer, ByteDance, Canon, HTC, Magic Leap, Meta, Microsoft, Sony, XREAL, Qualcomm, Valve, and Varjo. Moreover, RT3D development services like Autodesk VRED, Blender, Godot, NVIDIA’s Omniverse, StereoKit, Unreal Engine, and Unity support OpenXR integration.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Quest’s ‘Body Tracking’ API isn’t what it looks and sounds like. Body Tracking API was released on Thursday as part of Movement SDK, which also includes Eye Tracking API and Face Tracking API for Quest Pro.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 4, 2024

If you're not familiar with it, Godot is a free and open-source alternative to Unity and Unreal. In the latest release various improvements have been applied that provide more control over the density map used and allow for eye tracking to impact the density map and ensure quality rendering at the users focal point."

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Peter Graham

MARCH 24, 2020

That’s lead to motion controllers, eye tracking and hand tracking but full-body tracking has stopped and started due to the complexities of this process. Compatible with HTC Vive and other SteamVR headsets, Manus Polygon will be compatible with Unity when it officially launches in June 2020.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Over the last couple years, we have gained a lot of experience with them and their Unreal Engine. Using a physical car park, the company’s G87 M2 motor recreated a cutting-edge virtual race course, complete with coin-collecting activities as the physical vehicle drifted in the physical race track space.

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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. OpenVR – Windows Mixed Reality headsets, HTC Vive , and Oculus Rift.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2022

Responsible for some of the most impressive MR and VR headsets on the market, HTC VIVE could be a phenomenal partner for any company in the gaming landscape. VIVE has a huge range of tools to support different kinds of XR gaming, from the VIVE Flow for wireless wellness, to the VIVE Pro Eye, with built-in eye tracking capabilities.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

Alan: Actually, I would say all of them are based on Unity or Unreal. The HTC Vive Pro has eye tracking-- or the new one has eye tracking. The Pico Neo 2, I believe, has eye tracking option. I would assume, because Facebook has bought an eye tracking company. Apple bought SMI.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

Alan: Actually, I would say all of them are based on Unity or Unreal. The HTC Vive Pro has eye tracking-- or the new one has eye tracking. The Pico Neo 2, I believe, has eye tracking option. I would assume, because Facebook has bought an eye tracking company. Apple bought SMI.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Speaking on Midwam’s industry and global partnerships, he explained that real-time 3D (RT3D) platforms such as Unity Technologies and Epic Games’ Unreal Engine had collaborated “for many years” and were “reliable companies.” Face tracking and camera resolutions need to improve.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

Alan: Actually, I would say all of them are based on Unity or Unreal. The HTC Vive Pro has eye tracking-- or the new one has eye tracking. The Pico Neo 2, I believe, has eye tracking option. I would assume, because Facebook has bought an eye tracking company. Apple bought SMI.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

I believe there will be more excitement around 3D apps and content development, which will raise the tide around content development for all platforms and headsets like Meta, Pico, and HTC VIVE. To make Vision Pro a success, I think Apple will have to build interoperability into its devices so that the headsets don’t become glorified TVs.

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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. eye-tracking analysis to see if you have fallen asleep while driving). The official computational unit runs Android. All APIs have a plain C version.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 6, 2020

It was developed on the Unreal 4 engine and built by our studios team. And previously having been at HTC Vive -- and before that actually HP -- I have an interesting perspective on kind of all three of those. I'm really excited to have eye tracking as part of the daily experience of XR. It was crazy. Alan: All right.

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VRGuy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Specifically, I am aware of plans and work in progress to support Intel Realsense, Tobii eye trackers, NOD devices, Leap Motion camera, HTC Vive and others. Current Status OSVR is integrated Unity, Unreal Engine, and Monogame Future Plans A plugin for OpenVR (Valve) is in beta and should be completed soon.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

” And once we showed them that, like, “hey, you can actually connect your Evo through Wi-Fi to an Oculus Go headset or to an HTC Vive and you can adjust your exposure and your camera settings, live in-headset and see where you’re actually recording,” it was a huge game-changer. Is that correct?

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

” And once we showed them that, like, “hey, you can actually connect your Evo through Wi-Fi to an Oculus Go headset or to an HTC Vive and you can adjust your exposure and your camera settings, live in-headset and see where you’re actually recording,” it was a huge game-changer. Is that correct?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2020

The HTC Cosmos Play will be an enterprise headset. HTC has confirmed this week to Upload VR that the upcoming Cosmos Play will be an enterprise headset devoted to museums and educational institutions. Now HTC has changed its mind, and the Play has become an enterprise headset. The name “Play”, was chosen exactly for this reason.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And once we showed them that, like, "hey, you can actually connect your Evo through Wi-Fi to an Oculus Go headset or to an HTC Vive and you can adjust your exposure and your camera settings, live in-headset and see where you're actually recording," it was a huge game-changer. But that would be even more so as we get eye-tracking involved.

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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

AUGUST 4, 2019

video) More info (Unreal Engine with Octane Renderer) More info (Wi-fi is not enough for VR streaming). Image by HTC). HTC has not confirmed nor denied the price, but 90% of cases when this happens, the rumored price is true. Only $375 to see the notifications of your phone in front of your eyes. Other relevant news.

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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. Half Dome 3 looks impressive: it is compact, it has eye-tracking, an innovative varifocal display and a very good FOV.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Last week at a dedicated Vive X event, Chinese company 7Invensun has presented one of the most interesting eye tracking accessories to date. 7Invensun is one of the worldwide leaders for what concerns eye tracking. The two parts of the Droolon F1 eye tracking device (Image by 7Invensun).

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