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.

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Road to VR

APRIL 2, 2018

Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 845 VRDK , a VR headset reference design for hardware and software developers, is now offering 6DOF controller input with ultrasonic tracking. The latest images of the reference headset show what appear to be six ultrasonic emitters (and/or receivers) on the headset, three on each side.

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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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Road to VR

MAY 16, 2017

SEE ALSO A Look at NASA's Hybrid Reality Astronaut Training System, Powered by HTC Vive. Doug Bruey: We’ve developed prototype circuit boards and built that into a [tracked] reference object. If they want to buy hardware off-the-shelf, that reference design has been picked up by Triad Semiconductor.

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2017

This week we learned that there was indeed something to all that hiring, as Google has announced new ‘standalone’ headsets coming to the Daydream platform , fully self-contained VR devices, the first of which will come from HTC and Lenovo. Core to the discussion was the new ‘standalone’ VR headsets coming to Daydream.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2021

Talking about this with Steve, he pointed me to this reference about how it is complicated for a University to deal with real cadavers. Fisk University, HTC VIVE, T-Mobile and VictoryXR launch 5G-Powered VR Human Cadaver Lab. HTC Vive Focus 3 and its controllers. The virtual cadaver lab at Fisk University (Image by VictoryXR).

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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. The most common concerns are about possible latency issues. An older web page had listed latency of at least 15ms.

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MAY 18, 2017

Yesterday we learned that Google is teaming up with Qualcomm to produce a new line of standalone VR headsets, made in partnership with companies like HTC and Lenovo. There the company stated that its new processor was designed specifically for VR, boosting areas like visual fidelity and audio while combating other areas like latency.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2019

HTC 5G streaming. HTC was at MWC showcasing its new headset Vive Focus Plus together with a 5G network. There was a real 5G network created by HTC where on one side there were some special computers that mocked a rendering farm and on the other side there was a user wearing a Vive Focus Plus.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Image by HTC Vive). HTC is probably going to announce Vive Flow. With a surprise move, HTC Vive has started teasing the launch of a new product. The company has set up a virtual event on the platform ENGAGE (of which HTC is an investor) for October, 14th 2021 at 8 am PDT. Send me hugs while I’m still human!

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Vive Wave is HTC’s open platform that offers interoperability between several classes of mobile VR headsets and accessories, something the company hopes will help unite a fragmented market. Everywhere else it’s sold for enterprise users, although HTC isn’t stopping regular consumers from buying the $600 headset.

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VRScout

AUGUST 5, 2019

If you’re a longtime fan of the first-person shooter genre, chances are you may be familiar with a competitive squad-based shooter referred to as Special Force. Immerse yourself in one of 2004’s most prominent first-person shooters, now available in VR. Simply remove the magazine manually and watch as a fresh clip is automatically inserted.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

XR headset manufacturer HTC VIVE has debuted its VIVE Ultimate Tracker, which will offer users multiple vantage points for body tracking, Shen Ye, Global Head of Product, HTC VIVE announced in a blog post on Wednesday. Additional specs include proprietary, low-latency 2.4 Building on the successes of the HTC VIVE Tracker 3.0,

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OCTOBER 10, 2022

One day before Meta Connect HTC appears to be teasing a consumer Vive standalone headset. Last week HTC teased a new “small” headset on Twitter, sharing a dark image of the corner of what is presumably the visor. — HTC VIVE (@htcvive) October 10, 2022. — HTC VIVE (@htcvive) October 10, 2022.

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2016

Announced today at Google I/O 2016, VR team lead Clay Bavor revealed on stage that the company will be partnering with manufacturers to build Google-approved VR headsets based on an internally generated reference design. See Also: Samsung, HTC, LG, and More Bringing ‘Daydream Ready’ VR Phones to Android. It has to have great optics.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 28, 2023

Whenever I’ll mention VPNs in the remainder of the article, I’m always referring to these ones. Refer to your Chinese contacts to understand how to connect to the internet in the proper way and set everything up BEFORE starting your trip. (I still call them VPNs, where the acronym stands for Very Party Networks).

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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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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

HTC and Valve do this with their Vive controllers that are super low latency and extremely accurate and Oculus does this with their touch controllers and their extremely natural ergonomics. These three announcements are very closely intertwined and show where mobile VR and more specifically standalone VR is going.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Geekbench has just published the scores for a new Vive Focus headset , indicating that a new standalone headset by HTC is coming. But for sure HTC wants Oculus to feel the competition, if this “leak” on the new Focus has “casually” happened some days before the launch of the new Quest…. (Image by Qualcomm).

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Road to VR

JUNE 2, 2016

With ATW, we schedule timewarp at a fixed time relative to the frame, so we deliver a fixed, low orientation latency regardless of application performance. This consistently low orientation latency allows apps to render efficiently by supporting full parallelism between CPU and GPU.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2017

Andy stressed how he believed this is the future of multi-person virtual reality experiences, a platform he referred to as “VR 2.0.” Running at 2,500 hertz with a latency of 5 milliseconds, VRee is effectively future-proof, providing a platform intended to support various types of motion suits, gloves, peripherals and headsets.

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JULY 18, 2020

Discover with me everything about it and especially how does it compare with the Oculus Quest and the HTC Vive Focus Plus. The controllers of the Pico Neo 2 are tracked using electromagnetical signals (or better, a fusion of EM data and IMU data) thanks to the reference design developed by Atraxa. The Vive Focus Plus (Image by HTC).

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 1, 2022

This refers to the plethora of design tools and applications used by developers and content creators to produce digital resources, immersive experiences, and other assets. Spatial computing refers to a technology solution that combines virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) to provide a high level of authenticity. The creator economy.

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JANUARY 12, 2017

But this doesn’t mean a new headset like the standalone reference designs from Qualcomm and Intel, or devices like Oculus’ Santa Cruz and Microsoft’s HoloLens. The company’s solution delivers 6 degrees of freedom (6DOF) movement with what it claims is sub-millimeter accuracy and less than 15 milliseconds of latency.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2023

For reference, my head is 59cm meaning I take a medium-sized bicycle helmet, albeit at the upper end for medium. Together with connection reliability, the Client updates included much improved inside-out tracking, local dimming, lighthouse mode, audio latency adjustment, bug fixes, and other important features.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Therefore, it was inevitable that once virtual reality reached the consumer phase, the company would take an active part in VRs renaissance, in fact with immersive gaming came lofty initial hardware requirements and a necessary obsession with low latency visuals and minimum frame rates of 90FPS.

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

IK refers to a class of equations for estimating the unknown positions of parts of a skeleton (or robot) based on the known positions. The system shown isn’t fully accurate though and has 160ms latency – more than 11 frames at 72Hz. A better name for the API would be Body Pose Estimation.

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Road to VR

JUNE 15, 2016

The secret, I suspect, is treating all of the IMUs as a self-corrective system, and the sensor on my chest is probably an essential reference point for the rest of the array, not to mention the VR headset on my head which is itself tied to an absolute positioning system and may be involved in the positional determination.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2018

If I remember well, some company in China was already experimenting on cloud rendering for the HTC Vive, so users could spare buying a VR-ready PC. and promote the development of rendering processing technology to high image quality, low latency, and low power consumption. The last paragraph of this point talks about VR videos.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Much can be accomplished constrained to chairs and Oculus’ prolific demo mats, but VR frequently compels us to stand up, inspect details up close, flail our weapons in all directions, and duck & dodge in ways that demand a big space—something HTC’s Vive has been doing since its launch earlier this year.

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OCTOBER 15, 2016

The HTC Vive is arguably the best out there, but having to buy a souped-up laptop just to run it, paying full price for brief games that feel more like demos, and trailing a huge cable off your head and fumbling to mount trackers on your ceiling…it’s not ideal.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 5, 2016

On the other hand, the rotational tracking latency is spot on and feels every bit as good as the Rift and Vive. They still work well enough for intuitive motion gaming, but don’t have the same impressive accuracy that we’ve seen with the HTC Vive or Oculus Touch controllers.

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VRWorld

APRIL 30, 2017

“ HTC Vive ecosystem expands with eye tracking. The module is called the aGlass and it will be available for “limited pre-order sales” next month, according to HTC. The company is referring to this first roll-out as a developer kit, but pre-orders are open to anyone.”

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Tech companies across the industry have widely adopted the XR2 for their immersive devices, including market leaders such as Lenovo’s ThinkReality VRX and A3 devices, Meta’s Quest series, as well as HTC VIVE and Pico Interactive product lineups. Gbps of peak speed. AR Smart Viewer Design.

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VRWorld

APRIL 20, 2017

The CPU bogs down under load, resulting in frequent latency spikes up to 250ms (that’s like going around the globe twice, for reference). ” HTC Launches Collaboration with NVIDIA – Save $400 on HTC Vive and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Bundle.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

So at least the collaboration with Valve is true, but notice that it has not been on the headset, so they got no reference design from Valve, it has just been on the software integration. And in fact, a new request to FCC for a new device has arrived from HTC. HTC launches Vive XR Suite. Doug Lombardi, Valve.

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Price ranges from $60 to $100, which is rather affordable, compared with Oculus Rift or HTC Vive. During the CES, IDEALENS released the reference market price of K3 basic for USD 499. HTC Vive ($499). Released in April 2016, HTC Vive is one of the most premium VR headsets on the market with a relatively high price if $799.

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