The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

Facebook is also working with haptics, and it has presented two prototypes of the wristbands that could apply vibrations or pressure sensations on the wrist. Vive Facial Tracker works also with non-HTC headsets. Last week, HTC Vive has announced the Vive Facial Tracker, a sensor to track your facial expressions while you are in VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 21, 2018

One of the biggest drawbacks of HTC Vive headsets with regard to Oculus Rift are the controllers: while Oculus Touch is ergonomic and can emulate the hands quite well, Vive has controllers that are quite big and are usable only as wands. This is possible thanks to capacitive sensors present on all the controller. Knuckles EV2.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

We don’t know what Oculus will present, but we have some hints. In all of this, someone has created the design for a Leap Motion mount for the Index that exploits the frunk. HTC has released some interesting statistics on the VR market. Companies are studying foveated rendering for AR glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 1, 2019

The Business Quest is present only in the 128 GB edition and it costs $999. This seems crazy to me: HTC has always been blamed for its high prices (well, $1400 for the Vive Pro was a bit too much…) but the Vive Focus Plus , that is an enterprise device, costs $799… $200 less than the Business Quest!

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Fallout 4 (2015), Bethesda’s beloved post-apocalyptic open world RPG, is now in VR, letting you stalk the Wasteland as the sole survivor of Vault 111 from the immersive point of view of the HTC Vive headset. Available On: HTC Vive ( Steam ). Reviewed On: HTC Vive, Tested on Rift (see note below).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

HP and Microsoft have a long track in offering enterprise hardware, so this headset may battle HTC on his own land (B2B). More info (Roadmap presented by Qualcomm) More info (Qualcomm and Ericsson working on 5G) More info (Qualcomm’s Wi-fi 6 chips?—?Road Rony Abovitz steps down from Magic Leap CEO. Upload VR).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

The epic Noah Zerkin (the guy making the Leap Motion North Star headsets) at our booth to try the game! So the venue was closed and only selected people were able to be at the booth during this time (the big bosses of HTC, Huawei, etc…). You may ask me how the event is big. I thought it was as big as the Gamescom.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 14, 2018

That application became Cat Explorer , which you can download now for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. The scene presents the cat located at about chest height in front you, within an ergonomic area for both seated and standing hand manipulation. This is the core of our mission at Leap Motion. Scene Composition.

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Retailing for nearly £5,000 GBP (more than Magic Leap One or an HTC Vive Pro Eye) Manus Prime Haptic offers full finger tracking thanks to Flexpoint’s Bend Sensors as well as individual haptics for each finger and thumb. Rather than a feeling of pressure, the actuators offer more of a sense that an object is present.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2018

There it has presented a lot of news regarding all Facebook companies (Messenger, Instagram, Facebook, etc…) and of course, among these pieces of news, we had some AR and VR ones. On May 1st-2nd, Facebook has had its annual F8 conference. Other research projects.

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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. This dynamic presented a problem for consumers, who had to spend a considerable amount of money on both items to jump in virtual reality. HTC Vive ($499). The Gear VR headset has 101 degrees of FOV and weighs 345 g.

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VRGuy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Since the OSVR launch in January this year, nearly 250 organizations including Intel, NVIDIA, Xilinx, Ubisoft, Leap Motion, and many others have joined the OSVR ecosystem. Concurrent with the expansion of the OSVR community, the capabilities of the software platform have grown by leaps and bounds.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

HTC’s Alvin Wang Graylin discusses what this means for everything from automotive design to helping children learn about the universe. As the China President at HTC, he leads all aspects of the company’s VR and smartphone business in the region. Alan: Oh, well thank you so much for taking the time to record this with us.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

HTC’s Alvin Wang Graylin discusses what this means for everything from automotive design to helping children learn about the universe. As the China President at HTC, he leads all aspects of the company’s VR and smartphone business in the region. Alan: Oh, well thank you so much for taking the time to record this with us.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Alan: I did a presentation last week and there one of the slides I put up shows the growth of the whole XR industry, and consumer was leading the way. Dean: And I think more critical are these more foundational companies, like Facebook and Valve and HTC. It makes the Pro Eye more expensive than the other HTC offerings for sure.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Alan: I did a presentation last week and there one of the slides I put up shows the growth of the whole XR industry, and consumer was leading the way. Dean: And I think more critical are these more foundational companies, like Facebook and Valve and HTC. It makes the Pro Eye more expensive than the other HTC offerings for sure.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Alan: I did a presentation last week and there one of the slides I put up shows the growth of the whole XR industry, and consumer was leading the way. I mean, it sort of makes more sense to me that, as long as the prices for the headsets are lingering up pretty high -- like the Cosmos from HTC, the brand new one, it'll be an $800 purchase.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Alan: I did a presentation last week and there one of the slides I put up shows the growth of the whole XR industry, and consumer was leading the way. Dean: And I think more critical are these more foundational companies, like Facebook and Valve and HTC. It makes the Pro Eye more expensive than the other HTC offerings for sure.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

A frame of the presentation where Oculus explained the compression method of the Oculus Link. HTC has actually released that for the Vive Focus Plus … Well, according to the god John Carmack , it is something about which the company has discussed a lot and has also experimented a lot. Why not wireless? Oculus for Business.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2019

HTC Vive Cosmos and its controllers, just announced at CES (Image by HTC). HTC has been the VR star of this CES 2019. The biggest announcement has been the HTC Vive Cosmos , a headset that has generated a lot of hype also because HTC has not revealed all its features, but it has only teased them. FinchShift.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Alvin is the China President at #HTC leading all aspects of HTC’s business in the region (Vive/VR, phone, Viveport content platform, partnerships and investments). Prior to Spatial, he founded BumpTop, a pioneering 3D, multi-touch, physics desktop interface inspired by real desks that he presented at TED. 7- Alvin Graylin.

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