The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 19, 2022

HTC to reveal its headset at CES. After many weeks of teasing, HTC is finally ready to unveil its new headset at CES. I expect the usual HTC headset, with technical innovations, but a price that doesn’t make it compelling for users. More info (HTC’s new headset — Road To VR) More info (HTC’s new headset — Upload VR).

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Cats and VR

JANUARY 6, 2023

HTC is collaborating with Lamina1 to accelerate the realization of an open metaverse ecosystem for society. HTC's VIVERSE platform will be utilizing Lamina1's layer one tools to enable more efficient cross-world cross-platform asset distribution and management, so users can seamlessly keep their digital assets (avatars, clothes, artwork, etc.)

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

HTC has partnered with IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group) to bring HTC Vive VR systems to select hotels in China. Launched on October 31, IHG is the first international hotel group in China to provide guests with VR amenities, including in-room experiences. Graylin, China Regional President of Vive, HTC. “We

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VRScout

OCTOBER 27, 2018

Located at the Consumer Electronics Exchange/Exhibition Center in the modern metropolis of Shenzhen, the store appears to be a one-stop-shop for everything HTC Vive. Alvin Wang, President of HTC Vive China, recently shared several photos of the flagship location via his Twitter account. Image Credit: HTC Vive / Alvin Wang.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 23, 2022

Today, ENGAGE XR (extended reality) Holdings, a virtual reality (VR) immersive communications firm announced a significant partnership with HTC VIVE and The Virtual Human Interaction Lab at Stanford University to trial its upcoming ENGAGE Link metaverse service. ENGAGE Link is due for release in Q4 of 2022. pic.twitter.com/IBO8OEO2Ea.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Back in July, many of VR’s biggest players announced the VirtualLink Consortium , a group unified around creating a connection standard for future VR headsets. HTC was seemingly the odd one out back at the initial announcement, but this week the company joined the group in support of the standard.

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Road to VR

JULY 6, 2017

Volkswagen Group, the multi-brand automotive company, has developed VR apps to make long-distance collaboration in production and logistics an easier task. image courtesy Volkswagen Group. “[E]xchanging knowledge is just as important as bundling knowledge.

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The Ghost Howls

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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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The Beat Saber Modding Group is putting on a special event starting today that could net you a new HTC Vive Pro or thousands of dollars in prizes just by playing custom songs on Beat Saber. Prizes include two complete HTC Vive Pro kits with SteamVR 2.0 Prizes include two complete HTC Vive Pro kits with SteamVR 2.0

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Earlier this month, HTC quietly opened their first Vive flagship store in Shenzhen, China. Image courtesy HTC Vive. The store sells all of the company’s latest products, including HTC Vive Pro, HTC Vive Focus, and a number of HTC’s latest U-series smartphones; a service center is also available in-store.

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Road to VR

JULY 7, 2017

As reported by Vocativ , virtual reality played a big part in a recent marketing campaign for an upcoming sequel to the dating sim series Niizuma Lovely x Cation that saw the non-legal marriage between a number of men and their virtual girlfriends interacting through an HTC Vive headset. ’ image courtesy Hibiki Works.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 25, 2023

VIVEPORT is HTC VIVE’s digital storefront and subscription service. To scale and support its storefront ecosystem, HTC also founded ‘VIVE for Developers,’ an online network of resources to educate individuals on developing immersive content.

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Road to VR

JULY 5, 2017

With Apple’s newly public interest in VR , developers from the company have join the W3C WebVR Community Group to have a say in the development of the WebVR standard. To achieve that, W3C hosts online groups to get developers talking to one another and deciding what a standard should look like and how it should work.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

In mid-October this year, HTC made a few announcements signaling a major push forward with VR content. Those announcements included a content partnership with the Alibaba Group, a VR arcade publishing model, and the mobile VR platform Viveport M. HTC Vive has finally launched the dedicated mobile content platform Viveport M.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 7, 2022

Chinese firm Sinobo Group recently revealed it had launched a metaverse platform in a bid to chart its course across the digital landscape, the company announced at an event on Tuesday. Sinobo Group chairman Zhou Jinhui said in a statement, “[The] Metaverse is not only a concept.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 18, 2023

BMW Group USA has teamed up with Meta Platform’s Reality Labs division to develop an automotive virtual and mixed reality (VR/MR) solution. According to the group, the technologies struggle to keep pace with fast-moving vehicles, leading to “conflicting signals” across devices.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

This includes HTC, who despite selling its Pixel smartphone team to Google last week is now giving 100% of its holiday app revenue directly to Vive developers. Pretty generous move by HTC, huh? Finally, HTC made one more generous contribution to the industry by leading an impressive round of investment in social VR company, VRChat.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 27, 2017

HTC is constantly exploring new ways to get its Vive VR headset out to as many people as possible, be it through traditional transactions, payment plans, or location-based VR. HTC is aiming the bundle at the entertainment, enterprise and education markets. This is just one of several announcement HTC had to make today.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

VRChat , one of the earliest social VR apps, announced that they’ve completed a $4 million Series A investment round lead by HTC’s Vive group. Joining HTC are venture capital firms Brightstone VC , GVR Fund and Rothenberg Ventures. VRChat says HTC is both a key investor and strategic partner now.

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Cats and VR

JANUARY 12, 2023

A virtual reality fiction (6DOF) on Steam and HTC Viveport, a 360° video on YouTube and a short film on ARTE.tv Polo is a ball of fire, and for her, truth means expressing her opinion loud and clear " explains Benjamin Steiger Levine, director of Marco & Polo Go Round. and YouTube.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The startup is pretty new, in fact, and its owner group is Megadodo, another unknown company that is working on an MMO game about which is difficult to find any information. A new FCC listing appears for an HTC Vive headset. And in fact, a new request to FCC for a new device has arrived from HTC. HTC launches Vive XR Suite.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2022

That’s why when I saw a tweet from “Mister President” Alvin Wang Graylin about a study that HTC conducted about XR addiction together with a Chinese University, I was intrigued by the results. Chen, together with the graphs from HTC and the Communication University of China that show their findings.

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Road to VR

JUNE 13, 2017

Well, it seems that exclusivity may just be a timed arrangement according to some sources and we will in fact see an HTC Vive / Steam VR release. The post Report: ‘Skyrim VR’ Likely Coming to HTC Vive, PSVR Version a “Timed Exclusive” appeared first on Road to VR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2024

Moreover, the August 20th reveal date occurs just weeks after HTC VIVE posted a YouTube video hinting at the impending release of a ‘ game-changing ’ headset. However, the launch date carefully places the announcement ahead of Meta Connect 2024.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 28, 2016

It starts with popping on an HTC Vive headset and placing your head into a tree knot installation to fully transport yourself into the world inside a Giant Sequoia. The post How This Group of Tree Huggers is Using VR to Inspire Conservation appeared first on VRScout.

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 26, 2023

HTC VIVE announced on Wednesday it had upgraded its hand-tracking capabilities for its flagship mixed reality (MR) device, the VIVE XR Elite. ” Two of HTC VIVE’s top-tier headsets — the VIVE XR Elite and Focus 3 — leverage hand tracking for numerous capabilities. They can also disable hand tracking in the settings menu.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

It was a hard decision, but you’ve decided to go with the HTC Vive as your first ‘serious’ VR headset, a room-scale device that released early 2016 as a result of a decisive collaboration with Valve. The post The Top 5 Games For HTC Vive appeared first on Road to VR. Better leave out the alcohol anyway.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 9, 2024

According to Kit-Chong, investment in supporting Web3 assets and groups can lead to new growth opportunities, including helping Web3 firms open customer accounts and facilitate digital asset services. While web3 assets are not strictly an XR technology, the processes behind 3D assets owned by an individual or group overlap.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2018

HTC has been experimenting with some new features in a recent SteamVR beta update which allows up to 16 SteamVR Tracking 2.0 In this case the setup was using six base stations across three tracked areas, though HTC’s Vive China president, Alvin Wang Graylin, said the group had hooked up 16 base stations at one point.

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The Ghost Howls

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 event hosts people from very important companies like NVIDIA, VR Chat, The Khronos Group, Alibaba (there is Jack Ma!),

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Although a headset option appears available, HTC VIVE devices are in the promotional images. This initiative signifies a growing partnership between hardware provider HTC VIVE and CareerViewXR, as the firm distributes VIVE Focus Plus headsets to education groups in the North Dakota region.

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VRScout

JULY 8, 2016

A significant moment for HTC, the entire ride is powered and built using the HTC Vive, giving you a 13-minute experience that is filled with thrills and scares. Once boarded on the train, you will find an HTC Vive headset and headphones attached to the wall over your seat. The ride opened Friday June 8.

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Road to VR

JULY 3, 2016

While between HTC/Valve and Oculus, the companies have been coy on official sales figures, Steam data suggests that the HTC Vive headset is approaching the 100,000 sales mark. See Also: HTC Vive – Review A Mesmerising VR Experience, if You Have the Space. See Also: How to Use the Oculus Rift With SteamVR in 4 Steps.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Since the launch of HTC’s dedicated VR app store, Viveport , it was clear that the company was looking to give us more ways to discover and experience non-gaming content with the Vive. Which is probably why HTC has been exploring entirely new ways to bring VR to art, education and culture — starting with museums around the world.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 16, 2017

We previously reported on a collective including HTC Vive, Sony, and many others that would work together to harness the potential of immersive technology. The group is looking to raise investment. Tagged with: 3D Content Hub , Cow Prod , INVR.SPACE , Lumiere Awards , VCG , Virtual Content Group , VR.

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Road to VR

APRIL 6, 2017

Arcade Saga , a futuristic sports action game from HTC’s internal Vive Studios development and publishing group, could be coming to PSVR. Now wanting to bring the game to PSVR, HTC is going a step above to demonstrate their commitment to platform agnostic VR content. Photo courtesy HTC.

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