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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

HTC has submitted a new trademark application in both Europe and the US, specifically requesting the use of a new name: Vive Focus. First revealed at Google I/O 2017 developer conference, both HTC and Lenovo announced they were building standalone VR headsets for the Daydream platform. Check out the hands-on here.

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JUNE 19, 2020

HTC has announced that it will offer its Vive WAVE mobile VR platform to all Snapdragon-based headsets. The move means that headset makers will be able to adopt HTC’s ready-made headset OS (instead of developing their own) and gain instant content compatibility with a pre-existing VR app ecosystem.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Samsung’s 2023 Unpacked event was all about the company’s Galaxy S23 hardware, although at the end of its hour-long presentation the South Korean tech giant announced it was working with Qualcomm and Google to develop an XR device. Notably, Samsung hasn’t released a VR product since the launch of the PC VR headset Odyssey+.

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JULY 26, 2017

HTC today announced a new variant of its Vive standalone VR headset which is aimed specifically at the Chinese VR market and will tap the company’s Viveport content platform as the official app store for the headset. Meanwhile, in the US & EU markets, the standalone Vive headset is backed by Google’s Daydream ecosystem.

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MAY 17, 2017

.” This is the tagline accompanying the shadowy image of a brand new virtual reality headset that was unveiled today from the manufacturers of the popular Vive VR system: HTC. One of these partners is HTC. The new headset will be releasing from HTC “later this year.” HTC VIVE (@htcvive) May 17, 2017.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

You will be able to finally buy it in Europe and North America for $599, from the dedicated page on the HTC website. HTC Vive Focus Specs. The Vive Focus is HTC’s standalone headset , the one that the Taiwanese/Chinese company wants to use to start making virtual reality widespread.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2017

HTC could be showing off its standalone VR headset at the company’s November 14th Vive Developer Conference (VDC) in Beijing. To wit, HTC says it will have ‘some important announcements’ to make. To wit, HTC says it will have ‘some important announcements’ to make. image courtesy HTC.

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DECEMBER 7, 2017

HTC today announced more specifics around Vive Focus, the company’s standalone mobile VR headset for China-based customers. As reported by YiVian , HTC is putting out two versions: Electric Blue for ¥4,299 (~$650) and Almond White for ¥3,999 ($600). Both 6 DoF headsets will arrive with a 3 DoF Bluetooth controller.

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

So at least the collaboration with Valve is true, but notice that it has not been on the headset, so they got no reference design from Valve, it has just been on the software integration. And in fact, a new request to FCC for a new device has arrived from HTC. HTC launches Vive XR Suite. Doug Lombardi, Valve.

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JULY 3, 2017

The company showcased its new standalone reference design, the ExynosVR III , at the Mobile World Congress in Shanghai last week. The reference design looks like it’s armed with cameras on the front, likely used for inside-out positional tracking. We actually caught sight of this surprising reveal by way of Visual Camp.

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OCTOBER 4, 2016

Google is set to unveil a number of new devices and services at today’s big event, mainly focusing on the Pixel and Pixel XL phones (which have already been widely leaked ). ” Variety further reports that the first Daydream headset may also be built by HTC, the manufacturer of the Pixel and Pixel XL.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Now Qualcomm , a leading semiconductor company which regularly releases smartphone ‘reference’ platforms from which companies build their products, aims to fill that gap in the mobile VR space. He has been a believer in VR since the DK1 days but became sold on the current iteration of VR with the HTC Vive prototype.

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MAY 23, 2022

Qualcomm’s new reference design is wireless. Qualcomm has released its latest reference design for AR glasses and it features an important new feature. If all the previous reference designs were about smartphone-tethered glasses, this new one is totally wireless. Google launches “Immersive Stream for AR”.

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JANUARY 11, 2022

Further references. HTC Vive Wrist Tracker. HTC Vive Wrist Tracker. HTC Vive Wrist Tracker (Image by HTC). HTC has made an announcement at this CES and it has been a pretty cool one. Further references. Further references. With the Vive Tracker, this setup can become much more compact.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

Google’s team at Daydream Labs have been prototyping ways of animating objects and characters in Blocks , the company’s recently released VR modelling tool. Olson references the creative app Mindshow that embraces this ‘puppeteering’ technique, due to launch into open beta soon.

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MAY 18, 2016

Google’s newly announced ‘Daydream’ promises to raise the bar for virtual reality on Android compared to Cardboard. We also see Google’s new VR controller reference design in action, which allows gesture-based interactions within the virtual world.

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MAY 18, 2017

Daydream-compatible standalone headsets are coming, revealed on stage at Google I/O yesterday, but the big question remains: how much is one of these inside-out positional tracking headsets going to cost? We sat down with Google’s VR team at a press briefing to learn more about how much the convenience (and immersion) was going to cost.

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JANUARY 24, 2018

Vive Focus, HTC’s first standalone VR headset, has officially launched in China. Based on HTC’s new mobile VR platform, which includes a mobile version of the Viveport content store, the headset debuts with more than 40 apps. image courtesy HTC. Image courtesy Alvin Wang Graylin, HTC.

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

Today it’s a great day for virtual reality: at WCVRI conference, HTC has just announced a kit to provide 6 DOF controllers for Vive Focus and has showcased a hands-tracking technology for the Vive Pro ! The city is full of references to Virtual Reality, and so it is like a paradise for us VR enthusiasts. Really fantastic.

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OCTOBER 3, 2016

Tucked away in a corner of the internet is a YouTube user who immediately stood out like a blazing sun to me for two reasons: He was posting HTC Vive Tilt Brush content. John Sterling McGregor is a student learning calculus and he’s learning it using Tilt Brush in VR with the HTC Vive. Tilt Brush (Google). With Tilt Brush….

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MAY 23, 2017

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information, and so they’ve been long-time advocates for the open web. At Google I/O last week, the company announced that they’ll soon be shipping Google Chrome for Android with WebVR , and that they’re going to start experimental builds for WebAR.

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MARCH 18, 2025

The approach chosen by Meta is similar to the one that Google promised to take with Android XR. There have been discovered references to controllers with the model number ET-OI610. This will let Google enrich its content library pretty fast. This means that Samsung wont go all-in with hand tracking like Apple did.

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MARCH 30, 2020

SPACES works by creating a virtual camera showing the user in their virtual environment which can then be connected to existing platforms like Zoom, Google Hangouts, Skype, and Facebook Messenger. We tested Zoom, Google Hangouts, Facebook Messenger, and Skype. “SPACES creates a virtual webcam that most software can see and use.

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AUGUST 6, 2020

According to the test conducted by VDC Fellbach, HTC Vive Cosmos’ inside-out optical system consistently shakes out as the least accurate of the bunch. Note : This article refers to the stock HTC Vive Cosmos , and not Vive Cosmos Elite, which ships with a SteamVR tracking-compatible faceplate. How It Was Measured.

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MAY 25, 2018

.” Standalone headsets have largely made use of SoCs originally designed for smartphones, including the Snapdragon 835 chipset, which services a number of the latest and penultimate-gen flagship smartphones including Samsung’s Galaxy S8, Google Pixel 2, and HTC U11.

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MAY 18, 2017

Over the last 12 months or so we’ve been keeping an eye on Google’s aggressive hiring for its AR/VR team which, among other things, suggested that the company was working on new “mass production” hardware that would go beyond the simple smartphone snap-in Daydream headsets.

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OCTOBER 5, 2017

The PlayStation VR platform is heavy on games, but PSVR owners will soon be getting a paint program that’s very similar to Google’s Tilt Brush (2016), the art program that supports Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.

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OCTOBER 5, 2018

Powered by VR, The Wild’s cross-platform 3D design platform works much like Google Docs. Founded by Gabe Paez, The Wild seeks to do what Google Docs does for collaborative word processing, but instead of fulfilling the role of an organizational tool, this app is meant to serve more creative purposes. . Image Credit: The Wild.

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MAY 18, 2016

Announced today at Google I/O 2016, VR team lead Clay Bavor revealed on stage that the company will be partnering with manufacturers to build Google-approved VR headsets based on an internally generated reference design. To boot, Google is also providing their new VR ecosystem with a handy Wiimote-style motion controller.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

Citing people familiar with the situation, the report maintains that TikTok parent ByteDance is canceling Pico’s next VR headset, or what is being referred to as ‘Pico 5’ It’s said this was in direct response to middling sales of Pico 4, the standalone released in Asia and Europe to compete with Meta Quest 2.

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JULY 27, 2017

Google Daydream, the company’s mobile VR platform, is compatible with a number of flagship smartphones from various manufacturers. Note: Google advertises the View as the only available Daydream headset at this time. Google Pixel and Pixel XL. image courtesy Google. image courtesy Google. ZTE Axon 7.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

What if I told you that smart devices such as your iPhone and Google Assistant aren’t just listening to you, but persuading and manipulating your actions as well? For example, say you hop on Google at 4 in the morning and begin searching for more information on the early signs of cardiac arrest.

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JANUARY 1, 2019

” review of standalone headsets (you can find in other posts the ones related to Oculus Go and HTC Vive Focus ). it is bigger than the Oculus Go but smaller than the massive HTC Vive Focus. What I really appreciated have been the lenses : I think that Google here used all its expertise on the field. Then, keep reading.

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APRIL 30, 2017

This creation likely made use of Tilt Brush’s ability to import reference images, allowing the artist to view a virtual version of her original acrylic painting within the VR environment, and at the correct position and scale. See Also: Watch – Star Wars Battle Brought to Life in VR Via Tilt Brush. Photo courtesy Anna VR.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Up to four artists can collaborate on a piece while up to 20 spectators look on—something that Google-owned Tilt Brush (2016) , Oculus Medium (2017) nor Quill (2017) can manage currently. MasterpieceVR features cross-play with HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, with Microsoft’s upcoming VR headsets soon to see support as well.

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MAY 18, 2017

Yesterday we learned that Google is teaming up with Qualcomm to produce a new line of standalone VR headsets, made in partnership with companies like HTC and Lenovo. Since then Qualcomm revealed an updated version of its own reference design for a standalone VR headset (pictured above) that used the 835 too.

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MAY 18, 2017

Before my demo at Google I/O, Google’s head of VR Clay Bavor outlined a series of caveats and expectations for what I was about to experience. The demo, according to Google, would reset after each journalist so the hardware would see the room fresh each time after each person donned the headset. WorldSense. Bottom Line.

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