VRScout

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

Like any new technology hitting the consumer market for the first time, virtual reality is currently a pretty expensive form of entertainment. Headsets like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive alone will run you anywhere from $600 to $800 depending on your set up. New Tech Allows Lower-End PC’s To Run Smooth VR Despite Low Framerates.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

We’re working to take virtual reality from an early adopter concept to a revolution for all of computing. Modern Virtual Reality Systems. 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. Research is Vision.

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Hypergrid Business

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

The Oculus Quest 2 standalone virtual reality headset is the best in all categories given its room-scale VR capability, a large library of games, fast performance, and good resolution, especially for its price point. HTC Vive Pro 2. Controllers: HTC Vive and Vive Pro wireless controller. HTC Vive Cosmos Elite.

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VRScout

MARCH 29, 2017

Honestly the most interesting part of the segment was how easy it was for each player to pick up the Vive controller and begin enjoying the virtual experience. Based on their reactions it would be fair to assume that this may of been Johansson and Cameron’s first time in virtual reality.

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Road to VR

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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Jaunt is a Palo Alto-based company that is currently one of the leading providers of 360-degree virtual reality content. Today, Jaunt has applications on just about every consumer VR platform including the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Samsung Gear VR and Google Daydream. As of today, however, that exception no longer applies.

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Road to VR

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. People actually have to look at the ads.

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ARPost

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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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Regarding what components have been opensourced, Google states that “The open source project provides APIs for head tracking, lens distortion rendering, and input handling. HTC is now selling certified refurbished Vive HMDs for $400. HTC has started selling again the OG Vive headset, but this time selling second-hand devices.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 31, 2023

Meta Platforms ensures that each of its officially distributed Quest experiences passes a series of virtual reality checks (VRC). VRCs avoid sickness by reviewing refresh rates, head-tracked graphics, render scaling, headset positional tracking, multiple locomotion styles, and head-tracked user interfaces (UI).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 26, 2016

. “This means shifting from being a HoloLens-focused mixed reality company to a Windows Holographic focused mixed reality and virtual reality company. HoloLens will continue to be at the core of what we do, but Windows Holographic is the larger and more diverse ecosystem that HoloLens exists within.”

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Upload VR

JUNE 17, 2024

Later, the HTC Vive powered over PC by SteamVR promised to pair with your phone to keep you connected while in VR. enjoy a simple head-tracked game like Proton Pulse inside a literal cardboard box – just as you can today on a $3500 Apple Vision Pro. 0:00 / 1:14 1× Playing Call of Duty Warzone in VR via iPhone AirPlay Mirroring.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

The kind that’s so good that you can shake your head back and forth much faster than you’d normally have reason to, and see that the augmented objects in the environment appear locked in place; the same kind of tracking quality you’d experience with top outside-in tracking systems like the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

They also say that the user’s gaze can be used to make UI selections, target enemies, create depth of field, or trigger context-sensitive events that only happen when the user is looking in a certain location within the virtual world. Tracking: Head Tracking. Eye Tracking. Field of View: 90 ~ 100 degrees.

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VRWorld

DECEMBER 28, 2017

The new Pico Neo comes with the same Snapdragon 835 chipset, but now has full head tracking and is compatible with Vive Wave, like the upcoming HTC Vive Focus. It released in 2016 to little fanfare, but now the Pico Neo is making a comeback with a truly standalone VR headset.

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VR Geeks

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Whether you have a terrible Steam library (in a good way), youre probably wondering if and how you can play all of your games on your Oculus Rift or HTC Vive. Apps for Steam that allow you to play non-VR games in virtual reality When you use a VR headset, these Steam applications basically place a screen in front of your virtual face.

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Road to VR

JUNE 13, 2016

DK2 owners will be pleased to hear that the racing sim remains fully compatible with the older headset too, but HTC Vive owners will have to wait a bit longer, as iRacing currently lacks official support for the headset. The sense of scale is immediate, due to the seamless head tracking and excellent stereoscopic 3D.

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Doc-Ok

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Now that Vrui is working on the HTC Vive (at least until the next SteamVR update breaks ABI again), I can finally go back and give Vrui-based applications some tender loving care. Figure 1: Analyzing a CAT scan with 3D Visualizer on the HTC Vive. Figure 1: Analyzing a CAT scan with 3D Visualizer on the HTC Vive. Cat included.

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Steki Amusement

JULY 13, 2021

As a leading supplier and manufacturer of virtual reality equipment in China, Owatch provides services to many customers around the world. What is a virtual reality roller coaster simulator? Experience an unprecedented feeling with 360-degree panoramic vision and immersive head tracking technology.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 14, 2017

Click To Tweet To bring Leap Motion tracking into a VR experience, you’ll need a virtual controller within the scene attached to your VR headset. Our Unity Core Assets and the Leap Motion Unreal Engine 4 plugin both handle position and scale out-of-the-box for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Depth Cues. Body frame of reference.

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VRWorld

JANUARY 30, 2017

This should overall improve head tracking problems we had on Pimax 4K. This is now a price competitor to HTC Vive, which sells at the same price (not in all markets). In addition, this new headset still has a built in gyroscope, distance sensor, motion sensor, light sensor and magnetometer.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

What is your vision for virtual augmented reality? Was the best virtual reality or a AR experience is what is the best thing that you have done? You are the voice of virtual reality in the Midwest. When it comes to augmented reality, you’re gonna go more towards the marketing thing.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

What is your vision for virtual augmented reality? Was the best virtual reality or a AR experience is what is the best thing that you have done? You are the voice of virtual reality in the Midwest. When it comes to augmented reality, you’re gonna go more towards the marketing thing.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At the same time, it uses your phone’s internal gyros to provide the head tracking. This transforms your phone into a VR headset screen, simulating devices like the HTC Vive. The experience within the headset will be at least a couple of frames behind what you would experience on the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive.

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Doc-Ok

JUNE 8, 2016

Virtual Reality, especially its head-mounted implementation, is quite good at overriding its users’ sense of place and space. At its core, Chaperone is a combination user interface / software / API system that brings relevant parts of users’ physical environments into their virtual environments.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

What is your vision for virtual augmented reality? Was the best virtual reality or a AR experience is what is the best thing that you have done? You are the voice of virtual reality in the Midwest. When it comes to augmented reality, you're gonna go more towards the marketing thing.

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 6, 2016

The judges will award points based on your head and hand dancing performance, awarding between 1 and 10 points. Hand tracking (via Leap Motion) and positional head tracking (via the Oculus Rift DK2/CV1 or HTC Vive) is required. How does the competition work?

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

We wrote just today that eye-tracking used inside virtual reality headsets, used to detect the gaze of the user, could play an extremely important part in making more realistic VR scenes at higher resolutions possible through the use of foveated rendering, but eye-tracking has important implications for a more human aspect of virtual reality.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

By the time Howard Rheingold’s “Virtual Reality” was published in 1991, the Sensorama was already a “slowly deteriorating” relic stashed away in a cabana next the pool at its inventor’s West Los Angeles home. NASA promotion shot of VIEW (Virtual Interactive Environment Workstation). Helig died in 1997 at age 70.

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VRScout

JUNE 13, 2016

When Ashley Pinnick of LA-based virtual reality creative studio, California Rex, set out to develop an adventure game for the new medium, little did she know how much her childhood growing up in a rural town in the Sonoran Desert would influence her creation. Developing the Absurd.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

For many people, the end-all be-all of virtual reality is being able to get up and move around inside of a digital space with roomscale. With the HTC Vive, you set up lighthouse base stations in opposite corners of your play space and the system tracks your movement in 3D space around your entire room.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

There’s a couple of companies making some really interesting headway in virtual reality training, and I’ve tried a few of them. It helps that a lot of the big companies, HTC, Oculus, Lenovo, they’re pivoting to enterprise. It may have been in virtual reality and physically haven’t really tiled a wall.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

There’s a couple of companies making some really interesting headway in virtual reality training, and I’ve tried a few of them. It helps that a lot of the big companies, HTC, Oculus, Lenovo, they’re pivoting to enterprise. It may have been in virtual reality and physically haven’t really tiled a wall.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

There's a couple of companies making some really interesting headway in virtual reality training, and I've tried a few of them. It helps that a lot of the big companies, HTC, Oculus, Lenovo, they're pivoting to enterprise. It may have been in virtual reality and physically haven't really tiled a wall. Alan: I did.

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