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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VRScout

DECEMBER 6, 2017

The experience was built in 1:1 scale within Unreal Engine. Since being originally developed by the BBC and REWIND in 2016, Home – A VR Spacewalk has won multiple awards, including a Cannes Lion, and has been shown at film festivals around the world. The experience is now available for both HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.

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ARPost

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. VR Film of the Year. VR Film of the Year went to Wolves in the Walls: It’s All Over. Anybody can make nominations, which are then judged by a massive panel.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 18, 2025

It seems anyway that Valve is taking a very open approach for what concerns PCVR: its Steam Link software is allegedly coming also to Pico and HTC headsets, giving more people the ability to play Steam VR games on their standalone devices. This is something absolutely impossible to have with Unity or Unreal.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 30, 2017

As for resolution, the company maintains the screen door effect (SDE) is diminished with the headset’s dual 1440×1600@90 Hz LCD displays, a 70 percent increase in pixels over consumer devices like Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Supported by all major game engines including Unity, Unreal and more. image courtesy Sensics.

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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. A host of filming environments in a compact, lightweight form factor.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

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. There are also a couple award winning virtual short films worth your attention. Ship It, from Think On Labs. Price: $14.99.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 4, 2017

“I thought it’d be amazing to document this, but if you film this you’d just watch someone else’s experience,” Schnitzer said. “I I thought it’d be cool to film something in 3D, but I decided to wait until we could do 3D VR so we could put people into the experience and have that visceral and emotional connection.”.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

The Seebright SDK also supports Unity and Unreal engines and is compatible with both iOS and Android. Someone is Always Ready to Help THIS version of the HTC Vive…. Someone is Always Ready to Help THIS version of the HTC Vive…. Two well-established companies with serious Hollywood money are joining forces.

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OCTOBER 20, 2016

It makes me feel like a hero from one of The Terminator films. However, you probably shouldn’t expect official support for Robo Recall to come to other VR platforms, like the HTC Vive or PlayStation VR — at least not any time soon. “ Bullet Train was made on a short timeframe with a small group,” said Whiting.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: In this week’s VRScout Report, we discuss Oculus Story Studio’s Henry Emmy win, NASA training astronauts with virtual reality gloves, Snapchat flirting with augmented reality, HTC Vive trying to go wireless, and iPhone laying potential plans for VR/AR. HOLLYWOOD LOVES HENRY.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

The VR route is instead being pursued by HTC (with its VEC event happening soon) and IEEE. This means that now with Unity you can create visually stunning VR experiences that before you could obtain just by using Unreal. This is so sad. Upload VR has also worked on this side and during the E3 it will do its usual E3 VR Showcase.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

This reminds me of a similar error HTC made in the past of mixing signals of a pro device and consumer content It has RGB passthrough cameras with three times the resolution of Quest 2 cameras. The new film in the Marvel Universe… the one you don’t want to watch… Funny link. Weirdly enough, most of the demos he showed were games.

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VRScout

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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VRScout

JULY 12, 2016

As the publisher of Unreal Engine 4, Epic Games is at the forefront of developers creating new worlds in VR, and we recently sat down with the man driving their VR efforts: Nick Whiting, Epic’s Technical Director of VR/AR. If we send you one, would you noodle about with it after hours and see if you can get Unreal Engine running in it”?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

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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VRScout

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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Developed at 20th Century Fox’s Fox Innovation Lab along with RSA Films and The Virtual Reality Company, the cinematic piece has been shown at a handful of events throughout the year but, tomorrow, you’ll get to experience it at home on both the HTC Vive and PlayStation VR.

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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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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2016

Development — Get hands-on training for how to build the world’s best VR applications, from tutorials covering the latest Oculus Mobile and PC SDKs, to workshops on top game engines including Unity and Unreal. Explore the endless possibilities for VR across 360 video, film, art, and education.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Davis recently served as general manager for the Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4. Drifter plans to make action games for VR headsets; in particular, it will focus on the headsets that support good motion controls such as the HTC Vive, the Oculus Touch and Oculus Rift, and the PlayStation VR. You have to take the comfort very seriously.”.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 3, 2023

Nintendo’s Power Glove was, to quote one of the eighties’ finest films, “so bad.” It’s compatible with HTC Vive headsets, as well as Steam VR hardware. The company is also making an SDK available for Unity and Unreal Engine developers to make better use of the system.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

In addition to the free Trials on Tatooine virtual reality experience for HTC Vive, the studio released a 360-degree video that serves as a prequel to the upcoming Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Disney’s ILMxLab has been busy of late.

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OCTOBER 14, 2016

Graphically, the game uses the Unreal Engine 4 to modest effect. Yes, the AI Lucy was fun at times, but an artificial voice cracking jokes and referencing the classic film 2001 does not make a game. Support for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive is coming soon. There are fewer bugs this way, but the sense of immersion is much lower.

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AIXR

AUGUST 26, 2022

In doing so, she has been pursuing the mission of bridging the gap between lightning-fast advancements in technology and film. Using an HTC Vive and a gaming PC, the viewer enters Nick’s studio, where he explains why he feels that those around him do not understand him. Image Source: Cassandra De Klerck. ” Future plans.

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HaptX

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Companies like HTC have employed it in their promotional materials, and from what we’ve seen, this production style is the best way to convey VR from a third-party view. To maintain the integrity of the video we decided that all compositing would be handled in real-time as we filmed. LIV’s support was astounding. Let the testing begin.

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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. We don’t know in the next 25 to 40 years what the media landscape will look like or how we’re going to be consuming content.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 19, 2017

. • Lindero's VR content was designed for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, which is accessible to a niche audience able to afford headsets and additional hardware; VR's financial premises hence enter a tug-of-war with the general audience's desire to enjoy free content.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. The biggest highlight is likely Paranormal Activity: The Lost Soul , a made-for-VR horror title that’s based within the iconic film franchise’s expanded universe. New Steam Releases. What’s that?

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VRScout

APRIL 21, 2021

To learn more about the collaboration as well as each festival’s unique approach, I caught up with Michael Swierczynski, Director of NewImages Festival; Guillaume Esmiol, Deputy Director of Cannes’ Marché du Film; and Loren Hammonds, Vice President of Immersive Programming of the Tribeca Festival. The XR community are really experts on that.”

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ARPost

JUNE 27, 2019

The virtual reality toolset makes it easier than ever to create VR content from live film. Another method involves using a special camera to film events from multiple angles, which are then spliced together. This method merges the potential for imaginative computer imaging with the realism of 3D filming. How 3D Imaging Happens.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

Development is divided evenly across the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift platforms, each accounting for 31% of projects created, with other major VR platforms such as Samsung Gear VR, OSVR, and Daydream rounding out the bottom numbers. Vancouver Film School, Canada. image courtesy VR First. image courtesy VR First. University of Florida, USA.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Chaitanya has had a multi-faceted career in the Indian Film & CreativeArtsIndustry for over 17 years. 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). 6- Chaitanya Chinchlikar. 7- Alvin Graylin. 9- Eddie Avil.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

MAY 26, 2023

During the event, VP and film production industry experts introduced Sony’s DMPC Institutions, located at Pinewood and Los Angels, respectively, two learning institutions the firm built for industry professionals and students.

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