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FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Swedish company Tobii , who has specialised in eye tracking since its inception in 2001, have produced hardware for gaze detection hardware in various guises for some time now, and has recently announced plans to bring its tech to virtual reality, via a $50M funding round.

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MARCH 15, 2018

SEE ALSO Hands-on: HTC Vive Focus Brings Best-in-class Displays to Standalone VR, For a Price. The Mirage Solo will have to compete with the soon-to-launch Oculus Go standalone headset, which lacks positional head tracking, but is also half the cost of the Solo’s purported $400 price point.

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

Launched today across all platforms including PSVR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive comes the Winter Update which includes custom matches, spectator mode, a new map, and support for TrackIR and Tobii for non-VR players. One of the most important parts of the update is invariably the ability to make your own custom matches.

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APRIL 30, 2018

In this article we compare three standalone VR devices which will be available worldwide this year: the Oculus Go, Lenovo Mirage Solo, and HTC Vive Focus. HTC Vive Focus – Best-in-Class Displays and new Content Platform. Image courtesy HTC. The main appeal of standalone VR is the self-contained hardware design.

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JANUARY 4, 2022

Pancake optics are included here too—a design element which Huawei and Pico have used in their respective prototype headsets, and which HTC has used to slim down its Vive Flow standalone headset. Tracking system : 6DOF, camera based inside-out head tracking. Image courtesy Shiftall. Weight : Approx.

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MARCH 8, 2017

Mobile VR solutions like Samsung’s Gear VR currently employ rotational tracking only. Three infrared sensors, detecting the flashes from an HTC base station (Lighthouse technology), are attached to the front of the Gear VR headset and connected to a microcontroller, which collects the timing data.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

HTC’s latest VR headset, Vive Cosmos, is just around the corner. In a meeting at HTC’s Vive office in San Francisco this week, I got to go hands-on with the Vive Cosmos headset. However, HTC is thoughtfully not abandoning external tracking altogether like Oculus chose to do when moving to inside-out tracking with the Rift S.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

HTC surprised the VR community last week when it announced that TPCAST, one of the companies inducted into its Vive X accelerator program, was working on a $220 wireless upgrade kit for the HTC Vive. A wired Vive offers low latency head-tracking and position-tracked controls to ensure a comfortable and immersive experience.

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MAY 17, 2017

When first announced at last year’s Google I/O , Daydream-compatible phones were supposed to come from several manufacturers including Samsung, HTC, LG, Mi, Huawei, ZTE, Asus, and Alcatel.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

The UK-based developer this month confirmed that Tethered is on its way to both the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive on PC. Still one of the better games for Sony’s PlayStation VR headset, Secret Sorcery’s Tethered [ Review: 7/10 ] will soon be landing on other platforms. Tagged with: Secret Sorcery , Tethered.

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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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NOVEMBER 20, 2019

It doesn’t have controllers, and only features 3DOF head tracking; what it does have is a decidedly more approachable opera glasses-style design that lets you hold the headset with one hand so you can press it to your face without needing a headstrap, which could otherwise ward off some users.

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MAY 10, 2017

The footage shows people playing on an HTC Vive, but it seems reasonable to assume support for the Oculus Rift and Touch will be included as well. From the gameplay footage shown above, it’s clear this isn’t just a head tracking port but is instead fully articulated VR game.

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AUGUST 1, 2018

Near the end of 2017, the company then launched Pico Neo with both 6DOF head tracking and 6DOF controllers, accomplished by ultrasonics. Working with HTC, the Pico provides app store access to both its own Pico Store as well as HTC’s multiplatform Vive Wave-based Viveport mobile store.

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MAY 12, 2017

This footage shows how the work of two motion controllers can be operated with just one, by simulating a virtual second controller that can be synchronised with head tracking. The software also accommodates those with limited arm movement.

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APRIL 2, 2018

Options like hand-tracking and eye-tracking have made their way into the offering, and now ultrasonic tracking for 6DOF controller input is available, as noted in a press release by Goertek , the manufurating partner of the Snapdragon 845 VRDK.

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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. image courtesy Sensics. image courtesy Sensics. image courtesy Sensics. image courtesy Sensics. .”

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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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APRIL 30, 2020

(Image courtesy HTC Vive.). Yesterday afternoon, I got a preview of the new HCT Vive Sync virtual meeting platform from HTC Vive, and it’s the best one I’ve seen yet — and I have seen a lot of these platforms. — HTC VIVE (@htcvive) April 30, 2020. Image courtesy HTC Vive.). VIVE Focus Plus.

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

Just in time for the holiday season, cinematic VR pioneer, Jaunt, has launched its custom Jaunt VR App for PlayStation VR, adding it to their existing integrations in iOS, Android, Gear VR, Google Daydream, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and major desktop browsers. ” The post Jaunt Launches Custom App on PSVR appeared first on VRScout.

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MAY 2, 2017

He’s already taken the Rfactor 2 beta for a spin in VR with the Rift and the results he captured look nothing short of intense; you can see him in action in the video heading this article. Photo courtesy Studio 397.

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APRIL 28, 2018

But we could see that change in the near future, thanks to research from Google which details a system for low-cost, mobile inside out VR controller tracking. But both headsets have controllers which track rotation only, meaning that hand input is limited to more abstract and less immersive movements.

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MAY 18, 2017

First, he said, I was going to use a generation older hardware from internal prototypes that likely would be improved upon in practically every way before its release as a reference design to developers and eventually to consumers (Google hopes at least HTC can achieve consumer release in 2017 with its first standalone headset).

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This includes but is not limited to HTC, Oppo, Xiaomi, and Huawei. Bytedance acquired Pico, and they are spending a great deal of time and money to promote Pico Neo 3 , so we anticipate a massive wave of VR devices adoption.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2016

This is why they created the Waves NX head tracker. At first, I didn’t understand the point of having head tracking audio, but after they put the headphones on me, I got the weirdest vibe. If you want to try it yourself, Waves has a web demo which uses your webcam for head tracking audio.

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MAY 2, 2018

While the Windows VR headsets are often criticized for the precision of their hand-tracking, I was surprised to find how well they hold up in practice even with a fast paced, highly active game like Beat Saber (2018). The same cameras are also used to look for glowing LEDs on the Windows VR motion controllers to determine their position.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2016

Headsets like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive alone will run you anywhere from $600 to $800 depending on your set up. That kind of frame rate, head tracking, processing power, requires a powerful system to run everything simultaneously.

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MAY 3, 2017

Other than being a single player focused title the other thing that sets this game apart in a major way is the full, official, VR support for HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, OSVR, and tracked motion controllers. Even Ark at least has minor VR support (just the Oculus Rift officially) which is better than nothing. What do you think?

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NOVEMBER 29, 2017

450 Mpix/second on an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive today is almost a seven times increase in the number of pixels per second compared to 1080p gaming at 30 FPS. Instead, the head tracking data are routed to a GPU stage that appears after rendering is complete.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2021

HTC Vive Pro 2. Controllers: HTC Vive and Vive Pro wireless controller. Price : $1, 400 for full kit on Amazon or $900 directly from HTC. HTC Vive Cosmos Elite. or directly from HTC , including controllers and two base stations. Connections: DisplayPort, USB 3.0, Battery life: 5 hours. Playstation VR. HoloLens 2.

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MARCH 27, 2017

Now that virtual reality is coming to a wider audience, it seems the medium is mature enough to open the conversation about funding games with ads, something HTC is letting developers enable in a big way with their newly announced VR Ad Service—and VR ads are different. Very different. A full list is available on the Vive developer site.

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

Today, Jaunt has applications on just about every consumer VR platform including the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Samsung Gear VR and Google Daydream. The only notable exception to Jaunt’s availability on the various hardware platforms was Sony’s PlayStation VR headset.

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JUNE 2, 2016

Usens is one of the early developers of hand and head tracking tech; according to the announcement from the company this investment will help launch new and improved non-controller hand and head tracking tools. Tracking is critical to ARVR experiences,” said Anli He, CEO and co-founder of uSens. “As

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JUNE 3, 2022

Leia Inc makes a “lightfield experience platform” – a 2D device that displays 3D content through head tracking. The panelists were technologist and author Charlie Fink, futurist at Paramount Ted Schilowitz, HTC China President Alvin Graylin, and Media.Monks SVP of Growth and Metaverse Innovation Strategy Catherine D.

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JUNE 13, 2016

Bethesda surprised everyone at this year’s pre-E3 press conference when they announced to the crowd that VR demos of Fallout 4 (coming to HTC Vive in 2017), and what’s shaping up to be a VR tech demo of Doom, would be available afterwards for press to try out. We tend to agree. Even Dogmeat was off limits.

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MARCH 29, 2017

However despite this they almost immediately began using the freedom of head-tracking to draw their assignments in three-dimensions. Based on their reactions it would be fair to assume that this may of been Johansson and Cameron’s first time in virtual reality. Scarlett went from nausea to ecstasy in almost the blink of an eye.

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OCTOBER 17, 2016

The clip guides you through the game’s central mechanics, using head-tracked controls and a gamepad to soar above the streets of a Paris that’s been reclaimed by nature. Rather smartly, the French publisher has opted to release a trailer that explains exactly what the game is instead of a cinematic selection of footage.

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