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

APRIL 19, 2021

On the technological side, it seems all is set to start using cloud rendering, but the big problem of the latency from the nearest server remains; VRSS (Variable Rate SuperSampling) v2 has been announced. HTC is going to launch its headset on May, 11th. HTC is keeping rising the hype for its new upcoming headset.

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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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Road to VR

DECEMBER 4, 2019

HTC today announced that it’s released support for 5Ghz WiFi streaming for Vive Focus Plus, as well as all 6DOF standalone headsets supporting the Vive Wave platform. The post HTC Launches Viveport PC Streaming for Vive Focus Plus appeared first on Road to VR. SEE ALSO Viveport Has Earned a Second Chance Thanks to Infinity.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

HTC launched Vive Focus 3 back in late June, a high-end VR standalone with a price tag to match its ambitions as a device meant for businesses. As it is, here’s a quick rundown of the major updates HTC is bringing to Vive Focus 3: Better PC VR Streaming with WiFi 6E. Check out HTC Vive Focus 3 specs below.

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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

MAY 24, 2018

Today at the Vive Ecosystem Conference 2018 in China, HTC announced that the Vive Focus standalone headset will be able to wirelessly stream PC VR content from both Steam and Viveport over a 5GHz WiFi connection. We’ve reached out to HTC for clarification.

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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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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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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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VRScout

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

With a live video feed established you can now begin recording content, live streaming directly to Twitch, YouTube, or any other of your favorite platforms using software such as OBS (Open Broadcast Software), or attending remote work meetings using your virtual avatar.

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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. But everyone agrees a dangling cable is not only annoying, it’s an immersion detractor. 264 or similar chip solutions.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 2, 2017

On top of that, the company is claiming SteamVR ‘compatibility’ through remote play via Riftcat’s VRidge software, all with an expected launch price of $99. Right now there are no mobile VR headsets with positional tracking and therefore no software built to utilise this.

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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

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

And they’ll be powered by new GPUs and graphics software that will be almost unrecognizably different from today’s technology. All of this innovation points to a new way of interacting with computers, and this will require not just a new devices or software but an entirely new system for VR. Let’s look at latency first.

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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. A 4-cell battery charging cradle, is said to be part of a series of complementary products that enhance TPCast Plus product family.

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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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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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 24, 2024

The best VR headset for PCs can often offer faster performance, lower latency, and access to a broader range of high-quality applications. This could mean you can access crucial business tools, from CAD software to Microsoft Teams’ Immersive Spaces. Remember to account for extra fees, like software costs, too.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

We had a chance to play with a prototype of Pimax 8K at this year’s CES before the company integrated Valve’s Lighthouse tracking solution—one of the first to do so outside of HTC. image courtesy Pimax. image courtesy Pimax. e.g. hand motion, inside-out tracking, wireless, eye tracking, etc,” the company says.

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 27, 2017

The TPCast wireless solution for the HTC Vive virtual reality headset is expanding its slate of products to include a multi-user device. All of this two-way communication has to happen many times each second in order to prevent any lost frames or image latency — each of which are catastrophic for VR experiences.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Its software toolkit Spatial Stories allows developers, designers or anyone without coding knowledge to build fully interactive XR content quickly and efficiently within an immersive environment, then export it to various platforms. The post HTC Vive X Accelerator Invests in 26 More AR/VR Startups appeared first on VRScout.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2021

Fisk University, HTC VIVE, T-Mobile and VictoryXR launch 5G-Powered VR Human Cadaver Lab. VictoryXR has provided the software, that is clearly based on the famous ENGAGE platform. HTC Vive Focus 3 and its controllers. The virtual cadaver lab at Fisk University (Image by VictoryXR). My experience with it.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The immersive training industry faces a double-edged sword of a rapid uptake adoption and conversely, limitations from current hardware and software solutions. . These can train workforces flexibly from any location in the world, using unicast, multicast, or omnicast broadcasting, and uniquely overcoming any latency issues. .

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

These display resolutions are however higher than your standard Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, which is where some of the fanfare is coming from. Pimax says users “perceive a complete 8K at 150/180 Hz with high frame rate,” and that it “boosts refresh rate, reduces latency and decreases GPU pressure for Pimax 8K.”. image courtesy Pimax.

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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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VRScout

JUNE 19, 2017

It’s a Helsinki-based company (“varjo” is “shadow” in Finnish) that’s been in stealth until now, working to develop a 70 megapixel solution for XR (by comparison, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive run about 1.2 For developers independent software vendors interested in seeking access to Varjo’s Beta program, contact beta@varjo.com.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 22, 2019

This approach makes sense because one of the key pieces to this puzzle is a 5G network (thanks to its potential for low latency) and Nvidia hopes that carriers who are building out 5G networks will want to offer CloudXR streaming as a way to attract customers to their networks. NVIDIA CloudXR SDK. CloudXR Demo.

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Road to VR

MAY 17, 2017

Taking the stage at I/O, Clay Bavor, the head of Google’s VR team, announced that Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus phones will finally be receiving Daydream support via a software update this summer. This is the first mention of a specific Samsung device supporting the Daydream VR platform.

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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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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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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.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 12, 2020

According to popular YouTubers Cas&Chary, though, this cable doesn’t offer at the moment any noticeable improvement in the quality of the streaming , since the bandwidth of the Link solution is already limited via software to keep latency low. HTC reduces the Vive Pro price by $200. base stations now costs $1200.

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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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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Introduction Following my first article earlier this year, Pimax’s Crystal has pleasantly surprised me with a series of software updates that activated new hardware features , whilst bringing quality-of-life improvements to headset connection and tracking. If you want to read his previous post, you can find it here.

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