XR Today - Virtual Reality

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Following funding via COVID-related investments, the region gained the support required to kick off the VR immersive learning program, starting with just 50 Oculus Gos, before reaching its current hardware figure. ” A new wave of XR influence emerges with the Apple Vision Pro recording sales figures of roughly 200,000 headsets.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2023

HTC just sent a Vive Focus 3 headset to the International Space Station to support astronaut mental health. Vive Focus 3 is HTC's $1300 business-focused standalone headset, which it released in 2021. It's the result of a partnership between HTC, XRHealth, and Nord-Space. This isn't the first time this has been done.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Healthcare of the Year Award – FundamentalVR. As COVID-19 cases continue to skyrocket around the globe, how exactly do we train healthcare professionals for this daunting uphill battle without risking their safety? The Accenture VR Lifetime Achievement Award – Cher Wang, CEO and Chairwoman HTC.

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Peter Graham

APRIL 1, 2020

British tech company FundamentalVR has been at the forefront of virtual reality (VR) training in the healthcare system, primarily focused on surgical education via its Fundamental Surgery platform. ” You won’t find @HomeVR on the Oculus Store.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

Image by Oculus). Oculus Quest becomes 1 year old, and Facebook makes many announcements. The Oculus Quest is now one year old. But the greatest feature is that finally Oculus is accepting hands-tracked applications in the Oculus Store from the 28th of this month! Happy birthday, Oculus Quest!

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 8, 2016

HTC today announced that they’ve spun up an internal development and publishing group called Vive Studios. Mirroring Oculus’ own ‘Oculus Studios’ effort, HTC has formed an internal VR game studio and publishing group called Vive Studios. Now it seems that HTC wants to change that.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 20, 2020

The Oculus Touch controllers are great devices for interacting with virtual reality (VR) worlds but they’ll never be as intuitive as simply using your hands , which Oculus Quest users have been able to experiment with for several months now.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

VR Healthcare. For the second year in a row, VR Healthcare of the Year Award went to FundamentalVR. Competition in the category came from last year’s category winners at Oculus , as well as Varjo and others. See Also: Best VR Hand Tracking Games for Oculus Quest in 2020. VR Game of the Year.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

This year’s 70+ person judging panel included academic professors and researchers as well as representatives from Google, HTC, HP, Deloitte, NVIDIA, Apache, and others. This Year’s VR Hardware of the Year Award went to the Oculus Quest. The Oculus Rift S was also nominated for the award. VR in Healthcare.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2016

HTC is making yet more moves in China today, announcing a partnership with the Shenzhen Municipal Government to kick off two new initiatives. Industry rivals like Oculus also have their own research groups dedicated to solving the long-term breakthroughs VR will need to become more immersive and reach mainstream potential.

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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. VR Hardware of the Year: Oculus – Quest. Oculus – Rift S. HTC – Vive Pro Eye. VR Experience of the Year: ILMxLAB & Oculus Studios – Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series – Episode I.

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JANUARY 3, 2017

To do this, an infrared 3D capture camera hangs on the front of your headset (either the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, or other devices) and dangles in front of the lower half of your face, reading your expressions. 9% will use it for research, 8% for enterprise, 6% for healthcare, 3% for education, and 11% for other means.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 30, 2019

More info (Road To VR review) More info (Ars Technica comparison with other devices) More info (Polygon review) More info (Playing Oculus games with the Knuckles) More info (Orders backlog) More info (Valve Index fitting guide) More info (Wireless Index) More info (All games compatible with Index) More info (Gabe Newell talking about the Index).

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InstaVR

AUGUST 13, 2019

As mentioned in last week’s blog , the Oculus Ques t has blown away sales expectations since launching three months ago. The Oculus Quest, in particular, is a great vehicle for delivering VR experiences. So what use cases do Enterprise clients have for InstaVR + Oculus Quest? VR for Training Using Oculus Quest.

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DECEMBER 8, 2016

Today, HTC is announcing the launch of its newest subsidiary: Vive Studios. This brand new content publisher will work to facilitate and release new, high-quality content for the titular HTC Vive virtual reality headset. ” The 3D platformer “Lucky’s Tale” was one of the first Oculus Studios titles.

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ARPost

JUNE 19, 2020

Whether its applications are in healthcare, education, or training, scent experiences enable users to achieve better outcomes. Moreover, it’s compatible with HTC Vive , Oculus Rift , and Windows Mixed Reality. OVR Technology harnesses the power of our olfactory system to make VR immersive. Scentware ION. It also fits most HMDs.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

VR Healthcare. For the second year in a row, VR Healthcare of the Year Award went to FundamentalVR. See Also: How Immersive Technology Is Advancing Healthcare. Competition in the category came from last year’s category winners at Oculus , as well as Varjo and others. VR Education and Training. VR Game of the Year.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

This week has mostly been in the sign of Oculus, with many news and updates from the brand controlled by Facebook. Even if most of this roundup will be about Oculus, I have decided to put another brand on top of it and it is Magic Leap. Together with Air Link, Oculus has also rolled out the new version of Oculus Avatars.

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VRScout

APRIL 1, 2020

Brain-computer interface systems like Neurable’s VR game Awakening uses an electrode-laden headband, connected to an HTC Vive HMD, to track brain activity. With Oculus having launched hand-tracking on the Quest this past December, I wonder how far we are from consumer-ready mind-control systems. Brain-Computer Interfaces.

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DECEMBER 8, 2016

The collective includes Google, HTC Vive, Acer Starbreeze, Oculus, Samsung, and Sony Interactive Entertainment. Strangely, though, there’s a glaring omission from the team: Valve Corporation, which partnered with HTC to power the Vive headset. We’ll update on the GVRA’s movements as they’re made evident.

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ARPost

JULY 16, 2020

Winners from the past three events include Oculus Rift and Quest, Google Tilt Brush, HTC VIVE Pro, and the Vader Immortal series. VRChat , the group bringing the VR Awards online, is a free-to-play virtual world currently in early access on Steam , Oculus , and VIVEPORT. The Oculus Rift S headset. About the VR Awards.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 18, 2017

300 international VR delegates from companies such as AMD Studios, Foundry, Oculus, HTC, Sky, Channel 4, EDF Energy, Google, Jaunt VR, Framestore, Rewind, Ikea, Rebellion, Leapmotion, Deloitte, Epic Games, Barclays, Nokia, and Greenpeace were in attendance. Below are the 2017 winners: VR Headset of the Year : Rift by Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

What is interesting the most are not the features, that more or less are the same as most other headsets: integrated headphones, halo+headband, IPD adjustment, etc… It seems a mix of a Samsung Odyssey and an Oculus Rift S. Oculus Go is not part of the Oculus For Business program anymore. But of course, I hope for a full reveal

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The company built the technology behind the magnetically tracked Razer Hydra controller which was one of the only consumer-available 6DOF controllers available when the first Oculus Rift development kit (DK1) started shipping. Image courtesy Oculus.

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OCTOBER 10, 2016

Mindmaze, a spin off from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, has taken a proficiency in VR and neuroscience that makes them one of the top startups in Switzerland and charged forward into consumer healthcare applications. Dr. Tej Tadi, founder at Mindmaze, recognizes the opportunity in front of them. “To

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Historically dedicated to making XR glasses for the Healthcare niche, the Californian startup has decided to release general-purpose AR glasses that are very similar to the Nreal Light. HTC is going to deprecate Vive Pro and Vive Pro Eye. HTC is so guaranteeing continuity while deprecating the headsets. News worth a mention.

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ARPost

AUGUST 16, 2019

HTC VIVE Loses Its Number One Place as Development Platform. After three years of dominance in the top for platforms preferred by developers, HTC VIVE hands the crown to Oculus in 2019. Perhaps the most surprising thing in the top-platforms list is Oculus Quest taking second place.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

How Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality are Revolutionizing Healthcare Another way to subdivide these figures is hardware versus software. The biggest factor driving that hardware base today is Facebook’s VR investments , most notably the Q4-launched Oculus Quest 2. Ways to Get Your Business into VR 2. the year of AR glasses?

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Alvin Wang Graylin is the China President of Vive at HTC, and I had a chance to talk with him at CES this year about what’s happening in China. The post HTC’s Alvin Graylin on What’s Happening in China & VR appeared first on Road to VR. Support Voices of VR. Subscribe on iTunes. Music: Fatality & Summer Trip.

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VRScout

JANUARY 16, 2019

Patients and their family can also step inside of the VR experience through an Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, or other type of PC-powered VR headset. It’s the patients, however, who stand to gain the most from this new form of healthcare education. Understanding what will happen during surgery is incredibly important to patients.

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Road to VR

MARCH 13, 2017

From healthcare, education, social, training, cinema, gaming, and more, VR has a lot of Killer Use-cases. Today we hear from Alvin Wang Graylin, HTC’s China President of Vive. Graylin is the China President of Vive at HTC leading all aspects of the Vive/VR business in the region. Oculus’ Head of Content, Jason Rubin.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Meta Oculus and Aptiv. Turning to the Leadership Network, and leveraging the power of Oculus for Business, Aptiv achieved phenomenal results. With the Oculus Quest headset, Aptiv has been able to reduce in-person training times significantly, with most courses now only taking between 4 hours and 2 days. HTC Vive and Penn State.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

How Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality are Revolutionizing Healthcare Step Forward All of this took a step forward last week?—?including Google Earth VR also isn’t multiplayer and is only available on PC VR, such as HTC Vive. Realworld will conversely play on the more accessible Oculus Quest 2. the year of AR glasses?

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ARVR

MARCH 9, 2022

As for Virtual Reality (VR), it’s a complete immersion into a virtual world, shutting off the physical world entirely through special VR devices like HTC Vive, Google Cardboard, and Oculus Rift. Virtual Reality is used for entertainment purposes like games and in more serious fields, like healthcare.

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ARVR

MAY 13, 2021

The device uses Google’s Cloud Healthcare API. The API is a service that “helps facilitate the exchange of data among healthcare applications and services that run on Google’s Cloud.” Devices such as the Oculus Rift or Quest and the HTC Vive provide outstanding experiences that can run independently of a computer.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The news comes after the company earned over $3 million USD via a Kickstarter campaign, receiving the highest level of funding for crowdfunded XR device, topping the Oculus Rift. Comments on Series A Funding.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

How Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality are Revolutionizing Healthcare Facebook, Inc. (FB) FB) Facebook is the owners of Oculus Quest , the current gold standard when it comes to VR headsets. billion by 2024, a five-year CAGR increase of 54%.

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