VRScout

APRIL 13, 2018

The world’s largest VR & AR conference is back again May 4-5 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Rikard Steiber, President Viveport and SVP of Virtual Reality, HTC Vive. The two-day conference’s full slate of keynote speakers also include live performances. There’s quite no conference like VRLA.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 21, 2017

The space will officially be known as Upload LA and it will serve as the premiere destination for Los Angeles-based augmented and virtual reality (AR and VR) companies. If you’re looking for a smaller taste of what we do then come join us on April 21 at Upload LA for a weekend boot camp in developing for the HTC Vive.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 14, 2023

The Los Angeles-based firm boasts a team of veteran technologists from SONY, Apple, Disney, Marvel Studios, and others. Companies such as HTC VIVE, Lenovo, Meta Platforms, Pico, and others have tapped Qualcomm’s solutions. Developers can also download its software developer kit (SDK) for Unity and Unreal Engine.

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VRScout

MAY 7, 2018

The Los Angeles-based conference has become a go-to platform for developers looking to expose their hard work to a public audience, serving as a Comic Con of sorts for those hungry for the latest in XR. The Los Angeles conference continues to prove that the XR industry is here to stay. OMNIVIRT 360-DEGREE ADVERTISEMENTS.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 31, 2017

At SIGGRAPH this week the Boston-based startup is showing its modified HTC Vive which include EEG ( Electroencephalography ) sensors along the interior of the headstrap. Here’s how Neurable describes it : Neurable is debuting Awakening , a VR game preview made in partnership with eStudiofuture , at SIGGRAPH 2017 in Los Angeles.

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VRScout

MARCH 6, 2017

As the two premiere VR hardware manufacturers, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive both recognize this impediment to adoption and are lowering the price to play, albeit in different ways. HTC Vive has launched their own financing program which relieves the upfront pricing burden of their system– although still maintaining the total cost at $800.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 9, 2017

The event is organized by The Virtual Reality Foundation, which is composed of many of the same people behind the Virtual Reality Los Angeles conference and startup Mindshow. In 2014, 2015 and 2016 The Proto Awards were held to recognize some of the groundbreaking efforts pushing forward the emerging medium of VR content.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

During a press event at Milk Studios in Los Angeles Sunday night, Jaguar revealed the I-PACE, the company’s first-ever electric car. Nine circular tables were arranged neatly on a stage, each seating six guests, all of whom were donning a HTC Vive headset, calmly waving a Vive controller in front of their face.

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VRScout

AUGUST 1, 2016

Unity’s most recent update makes the cross-platform game engine even more equally optimized, so with only one API you can simply build for multiple platforms with hardware-specific tweaks held to a minimum. Already supporting the Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, HTC Vive, and PSVR – Unity will now support Google Daydream.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Oculus and HTC had been holding details surrounding Rift and Vive launch windows close to the chest, probably because they had delays to announce and need to nail down new plans. First, HTC delays the Vive until April 2016, with plans to show an updated developer kit at CES in January. In December, these plans become known. April 2016.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 21, 2017

These are realistic places you can explore in your Oculus Rift or HTC Vive. You can either get immersive stuff by building on top of Unity or Unreal, but you’re stuck in a videogame world. Ignatius church in Los Angeles, the grandeur of the space is felt, enhancing the religious overtones of the tune.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2023

At the event in Los Angeles, Jensen Huang, Chief Executive, NVIDIA , gave a keynote address to unveil the news. CloudXR Client Extensions will also offer a key plugin for Unity Editor, providing developers with bespoke CloudXR applications. SIGGRAPH 2023 is taking place in Los Angeles, California from 6 to 10 August.

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VRWorld

JUNE 22, 2016

As an industry, we need immersive experiences that will show what VR brings to the table and so far, there are two experiences one should go through: WeVR’s “theBlu” for HTC Vive and Crytek’s “The Climb” for Oculus Rift. Can you tell me how did you got involved in Virtual Reality and how did you end up in Los Angeles?

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HaptX

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Companies like HTC have employed it in their promotional materials, and from what we’ve seen, this production style is the best way to convey VR from a third-party view. Additionally, we would film using a functioning HaptX Gloves Development Kit (no props), and feature VR environments developed with the HaptX SDK in both Unity and Unreal.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

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. Dean: And I think more critical are these more foundational companies, like Facebook and Valve and HTC. Dean: Yeah, I think.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

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. Dean: And I think more critical are these more foundational companies, like Facebook and Valve and HTC. Dean: Yeah, I think.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

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. Dean: And I think more critical are these more foundational companies, like Facebook and Valve and HTC. Alan: HTC's got their enterprise division.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

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. Dean: And I think more critical are these more foundational companies, like Facebook and Valve and HTC. Dean: Yeah, I think.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Los Angeles and Austin, TX-based startup called The Wave VR is building “the world’s first social VR music platform,” according to CEO Adam Arrigo, “[and] it lets anybody from aspiring DJs to Deadmau5 to put on online virtual shows that are fully interactive. HTC FUNDS STEEL WOOL, SOLO. is excited about VR. FOR VR GAME IN 2017.

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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). Has been at the forefront when it comes to XR, earlier he was VP, Platform Strategy & Dev Community at #HTC and is currently working at Facebook Reality labs.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

And I think the potential of what that means is really exciting, because it doesn’t mean that you have to go and live in Silicon Valley or Los Angeles to be able to collaborate and work with some of these people, or whether it’s New York City or wherever it is in the world, a major city. But once the WebXR 2.0

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Top news of the week. It is very cool.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

And I think the potential of what that means is really exciting, because it doesn't mean that you have to go and live in Silicon Valley or Los Angeles to be able to collaborate and work with some of these people, or whether it's New York City or wherever it is in the world, a major city. But once the WebXR 2.0

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

And I think the potential of what that means is really exciting, because it doesn’t mean that you have to go and live in Silicon Valley or Los Angeles to be able to collaborate and work with some of these people, or whether it’s New York City or wherever it is in the world, a major city. But once the WebXR 2.0

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

So HTC has given us some Vive Focus and we love them, because being untethered is a huge important part of having audience come in and not feeling like it’s a hassle, but really having this like ritualistic atmospheric experience without breaking that sense of immersion. And doing activations so we can import any Unity scene.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

So HTC has given us some Vive Focus and we love them, because being untethered is a huge important part of having audience come in and not feeling like it’s a hassle, but really having this like ritualistic atmospheric experience without breaking that sense of immersion. And doing activations so we can import any Unity scene.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

So HTC has given us some Vive Focus and we love them, because being untethered is a huge important part of having audience come in and not feeling like it's a hassle, but really having this like ritualistic atmospheric experience without breaking that sense of immersion. And doing activations so we can import any Unity scene.

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