Road to VR

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

HTC plans to offer a wireless upgrade accessory for the Vive created by TPCAST. Launching in early 2017 with pre-orders starting Friday, HTC claims the device will eliminate the direct connection to the PC without any noticeable difference in latency or gameplay.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Oculus and HTC have already reduced the prices of their respective headsets, with the Oculus Rift now selling for $500 and HTC Vive for $600. According to a report by Engadget , HTC will be trialing the new project in Dalian, China where it will offer access to games hosted on a digital marketplace separate from Viveport.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 14, 2025

Thats because countless organizations are beginning to discover the benefits of VR hardware for workplace use cases. Pico, Varjo, HTC VIVE, and even Meta are all experimenting with premium and affordable VR headsets for business use, as well as intuitive device management software.

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Road to VR

JUNE 28, 2018

HTC and China Mobile Communications Corporation today jointly announced a partnership to “accelerate the proliferation of 5G infrastructure and devices in China.” ” Further, China Mobile, the country’s massive state-owned mobile phone carrier, will help HTC push its VR devices into more retail channels.

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Road to VR

JUNE 1, 2021

Three years after the original Vive Pro, HTC’s Vive Pro 2 is here. HTC Vive Pro 2 Summary. HTC’s Vive Pro 2 brings some serious specs that, on paper, make it look like the headset will deliver an unbeatable experience compared to its competitors. HTC Vive Pro 2 In-depth Review. Microphone. Dual microphone.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 31, 2022

Last month, in a VIVE TALK session, HTC VIVE introduced a virtual reality (VR) behavioural training solution that helps individuals with public speaking by placing users in a virtual environment – like a stage – with digital humans. Immersive training solutions provide many avenues for enterprise-grade use cases.

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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 Venture Reality Fund and of course HTC. — Alvin Wang Graylin (@AGraylin) October 18, 2018. Really fantastic.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

With much surprise for us all, HTC has just announced the Vive Focus Plus , its first full 6 DOF standalone headset! The Vive Focus Plus, in all its majesty (Image by HTC). Internal view of the Vive Focus Plus (Image by HTC). Do you want to know more? Well, you are in the right place. The Vive Focus Plus.

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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

JANUARY 11, 2023

Previously, via the Quest’s AirLink PCVR steaming feature, the device’s wireless performance hinged massively on the user’s internet connection, which means that Meta Quest users would face low-latency connections during a streamed session. Boz (@boztank) January 9, 2023.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

HTC announced a new product out of left field here at Mobile World Congress (MWC) this week, the 5G Hub mobile hotspot that includes a media streaming device, a digital assistant, and Internet access point for up to 20 concurrent devices.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

HTC today announced its third batch of AR/VR startups backed by the company’s Vive X accelerator program. ” Started last year, Vive X is a $100 million fund for AR/VR companies that, according to HTC, provides “unparalleled access to expertise, resources, planning and an extensive network throughout the AR/VR industry.”

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Road to VR

JANUARY 9, 2023

At CES 2023 HTC revealed its new Vive XR Elite headset which is positioned as a Quest Pro competitor. Inside-out head-tracking feels pretty good and is surely ‘good enough’, though the instantaneous rotational latency doesn’t feel as tight as Meta’s bar-setting inside-out solution.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Lynx R-1 features the same Qualcomm XR2 chipset as Oculus Quest 2 and HTC Vive Focus 3, and like those two it’s also based on a heavily modified version of Android. 1,600 × 1,600 LCD @90Hz per eye, with ultra low-latency Color Passthrough for Augmented Reality. million in June. Here’s a look at the headset’s specs.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 31, 2025

HTC XR solutions have been revolutionizing the extended reality landscape for some time now. Ever since the original launch of the first HTC VIVE headset in 2016, HTC has constantly strengthened its position in the enterprise market, proving that XR solutions can be intuitive, cost-effective, and versatile for a range of business use cases.

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Cats and VR

JANUARY 6, 2023

HTC VIVE has unveiled its new consumer flagship all-in-one, VIVE XR Elite. VIVE XR Elite can be connected easily to a PC via USB-C to access PCVR content from VIVEPORT and Steam and supports wireless PC streaming over WiFi or the latest generation - WiFi 6E with low latency and great graphics. Its environment-first packaging is 99.9%

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Road to VR

MARCH 24, 2017

Today’s most immersive virtual reality systems, like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, rely on a bothersome tether to send power and high fidelity imagery to the headset at low latency. IMR has developed an algorithm and hardware that enables wireless transmission and streaming of VR video over the leading wireless standards.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Cloud compute specialists Scalable Graphics are to debut a new 1 pound wireless PC VR solution compatible with both Oculus Rift and HTC Vive VR headsets at next weeks CES convention in Las Vegas. What’s more, the firm is due to demonstrate the new hardware at CES next week.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 8, 2018

TPCast , manufacturer of wireless adapters for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift systems, has announced an upgraded version of its eponymous wireless system called TPCast Plus. TPCast’s initial hardware launch hasn’t been the smoothest of rides, both in terms of delayed product availability, and the rather complicated setup process.

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Road to VR

MAY 3, 2017

264, which IMR says uses frame-to-frame compression (comparing one frame to the next) which necessitates a minimum 11ms latency given the 90Hz framerate. The entire end-to-end wireless VR system, including latencies introduced by various hardware interfaces like HDMI is around 2-3ms, the company says. Photo by Road to VR.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 28, 2022

There’s still a lot to learn about X Mask, however the unique face-tracking mask is said to bring “over 95% accuracy” in replicating facial movements, with face-tracking latency speeds reaching 200 milliseconds. It’s also said to be fairly light, weighing in at 4.5oz (128g).

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Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2020

HTC’s Vive Cosmos Elite headset is set to ship on the 18th and we’ve been testing the unit to bring you a full review. HTC also plans to also sell the ‘External Tracking Faceplate’ separately so that Cosmos users have the option to upgrade.

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Road to VR

MARCH 24, 2023

With three versions of SteamVR trackers under its belt, HTC has been a leading enabler of full-body tracking in VR. HTC’s new standalone Vive tracker (still unnamed) has a straightforward goal: work like the company’s existing trackers, but easier and on more platforms. Until then, our fingers shall remain crossed.

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VRScout

JUNE 18, 2019

VR hardware is front and center at this year’s festivities following the release of Oculus Quest and HP Reverb. The award ceremony recognizes multiple achievements in VR, such as hardware advancements, gaming, film, social experience, and marketing to name a few. VR Hardware of the Year: Oculus – Quest. HTC – Vive Pro Eye.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

This process introduces ‘latency’, which is the time it takes to update frames with new user input taken into account. For an action title to feel responsive, latency needs to be under 150ms in a traditional video game, so keeping it reasonably low is a challenge. Let’s look at latency first.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Disclaimer: HTC provided three of their Vive Tracker 3.0 What is an HTC Vive Tracker? Whilst the first part of this article looked at the history of the HTC Vive Tracker and its three different versions, the second part will focus on some practical experiments with the latest HTC Vive Tracker 3.0. HTC Vive Tracker 3.0

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ARPost

MARCH 31, 2023

The hardware consisted of blue HTC Vive Pros connected to the gaming PCs above. The HTC Vive Pros were tethered, so there was no latency but the game did have a peculiar dense, dreamlike aspect to it, which often stems from lower refresh rates. Perhaps more like 60fps or 45fps with reprojection to 90hz?

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Road to VR

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. And yet I was still very impressed with what I saw.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

While the Vive Focus initially launched with a single 3DOF controller, HTC recently announced a dev kit add-on which brings a pair of 6DOF controllers to the standalone headset. We got our first chance to try out the system today at an HTC press event in San Francisco.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This week at Mobile World Congress (CES) 2024 in Spain, HTC VIVE is showing face with a strong presence as a leading enterprise XR solutions provider reacting to industry trends to create its products. While HTC VIVE also offers user tracking for its XR headsets. Shen said that tracking is something HTC VIVE is invested in.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 17, 2023

How can the right combination of hardware and software instantly transport us into a new world? Using a combination of hardware and software, VR solutions replace our real-world view with a computer-generated alternative. Now, innovators have transformed virtual reality experiences with low-latency software and upgraded hardware.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 2, 2017

You can sense CES is just around the corner as new VR-focused hardware is emerging in the run up to the event. One of the more intriguing is Nolo, an add-on which promises to add both positional ‘room scale’ head and motion controllers to your Android powered virtual reality headset with latency quoted at less than 20ms.

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Road to VR

JUNE 10, 2017

Given recent opinions shared by the founder of Oculus , that current generation virtual reality headsets would not see a successor until 2018 at least, it’s fallen to other technology leaders to push the state of VR hardware forward. SEE ALSO HTC and Intel to Show New WiGig Wireless VR Solution at E3 2017 (Updated).

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AR Insider

JANUARY 27, 2021

But that’s a non-starter for anyone outside of the few million people that own VR hardware (much less the compatible HTC and Oculus hardware). As we’ve examined , 5G enables not just faster speeds and low-latency, but its high-frequency signal enables millimeter-level geo-precision.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

TPCast, the wireless streaming device that lets HTC Vive owners play VR games cable-free, is now available for pre-order in most of continental Europe starting at €349 (or the regional equivalent). ” TPCAST has already been available for pre-order via HTC’s Chinese Vive online store since November last year. 1x PC Transmitter.

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Road to VR

JUNE 15, 2017

Our hands-on with their reference device revealed a robust solution with impressive quality and unnoticeable latency. For VR, the company is developing what it calls DisplayLink XR, and it’s developed a wireless VR reference device for the HTC Vive to show what it can do. Photo by Road to VR.

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Upload VR

MAY 20, 2022

Location based VR company Zero Latency is getting rid of the backpacks. Zero Latency’s existing offering uses a HP Reverb headset connected to heavy backpack PCs worn by each user. Vive Focus 3 is HTC’s standalone VR headset, designed for businesses, priced at $1299. Wi-Fi 6E support was added in a recent Focus 3 update.

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