The Ghost Howls

MARCH 7, 2022

Virtual Reality is 44% more addictive than traditional gaming. A study conducted by HTC Vive together with a Chinese university shows that Virtual Reality has much more addictive potential (+44%) than traditional flat gaming. Vox Machine has been released with Single Campaign mode. Learn more. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 31, 2021

Triad was an instrumental partner in bringing Valve’s tracking technology to production , with the photodiodes used in SteamVR headsets, tracking pucks, and motion controllers produced by Triad’s factory and shipped to off-shore manufacturing partners building XR equipment for brands like HTC, Pimax, Varjo , StarVR, and Valve.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Attracting a mix of LA locals and tourists visiting from out of town, the IMAX VR center features a unique combination of VR headsets and content for anyone looking to explore new virtual worlds without the hefty hardware investment.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 12, 2024

In the corporate landscape, haptic gloves can offer a more immersive experience to users working on prototypes for new products in the virtual world. Gesture recognition: Some haptic gloves can work alongside artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms. Is there such a thing as VR gloves?

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Road to VR

MARCH 27, 2017

HTC’s Vive X accelerator is a $100 million fund for AR/VR companies that the company announced last year. Today HTC is revealing the second batch of companies that will receive investments and mentorship from the program. Invrse Reality aims to fuse physical and virtual reality. 33 seems to be the magic number.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 27, 2017

HTC’s Vive X accelerator program is welcoming more than 30 new VR and AR startups to the fold with investments in North America and Asia. ” HTC Vive’s investment group also said it planned to open an accelerator in Israel, joining locations in San Francisco, Beijing, Shenzhen and Taipei.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2021

And it feels weird that HTC hasn’t fixed such a cheap little component that was already faulty on the original Vive. VR is the ultimate empathy machine” is a current refrain that we constantly hear in our communities. Learn more (Presentation video) Learn more (Discover more and register). Learn more. Check it out!

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Image credits SCAND Blog Virtual Reality (VR)  — It teleports the user into a completely immersive world that replaces the physical world. Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. It has applications in training and educational use cases.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2017

Google recently announced that they are partnering with HTC Vive and Lenovo to build new wireless headsets which we can look forward to later this year. Founded in 2012, the company’s mission empowers developers to build enormous and detailed environments utilizing machine learning and distributed via cloud computing infrastructure.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The new technology converts the entire M2 vehicle as a controller for the MR system, using cutting-edge immersive solutions from Helsinki’s Varjo Technologies to merge the real and virtual worlds. The vehicle will merge with the physical and virtual world of the users.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2016

Once in the game, the main villain and namesake, Arcade acts as an overlord, challenging players, learning and adapting as gameplay progresses. Little do they know, any players that lose are then imprisoned within the game and disappear from the real world. The Matrix Trilogy (1999-2003).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

HTC is now selling certified refurbished Vive HMDs for $400. HTC has started selling again the OG Vive headset, but this time selling second-hand devices. This also means that HTC is not abandoning the headset and so it will be easy to find second-hand replacement parts, something that is not possible for the Rift CV1, for instance.

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EON Reality

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

We live in an ever-changing world where everything is connected, so the interfaces and the way in which we utilise these connections has the potential to affect billions of people in their day-to-day lives. Over the next two decades, the world’s economy is set to almost double. EON Reality’s Human 2.0

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

The VR route is instead being pursued by HTC (with its VEC event happening soon) and IEEE. The idea of the algorithm is rendering the VR experience at low resolution and then use Machine Learning magic to expand this low-res rendering to the native resolution of Quest while preserving the visual fidelity.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

We iterated on a few different ideas before ultimately deciding to do a song that explored the relationship between humans and their virtual worlds. It’s all about diminishing the learning curve to creating digital art. Why did you decide to create this project?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2019

There wasn’t a different width interface or a spare interface provided , which puzzled me as the HTC Vive (a Valve collaboration) had shipped with both narrow and wide facial interfaces – the “wide” really a regular fit and the narrow for people with narrow faces. . Experiments with the Velcro cushion (Image by Immersive Computing).

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2016

What we found most notable about the conversation was unexpected: a good 40% of Epic’s VR efforts are outside of gaming and Nick provides a lot of interesting insights and lessons learned between the two spaces. What do you think cinematic folks can learn from you folks in gaming? . Read on for the full interview.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2019

But this time, Valve has made it without the collaboration of HTC. The specs list is very similar to the one of the HTC Vive Pro. This great innovation, according to Valve, will let you have +20° FOV on your perceived virtual world. I tried it in Beijing at HTC offices and I was amazed by this possibility.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 8, 2017

Just ask Vander Caballero, founder of Minority Media , creator of the VR game Time Machine VR. Montreal-based Minority Media, which also created the groundbreaking PSN title Papo Y Yo in 2012, created the dinosaur undersea adventure game that launched on the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive VR headsets in May 2017. Did it make money?

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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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EON Reality

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

From the Global Economics standpoint, this means VR and AR are relevant across the world as they are fast becoming the default ways of learning, training and performing – across the workplace, in education organisations, and beyond. Over the next two decades, the world’s economy is set to almost double. EON Reality’s Human 2.0

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Allen discussed the benefits of immersive learning platforms, citing a company study on the return on investment (ROI) for clients via VR training. Regarding upskilling challenges across multiple verticals, Allen discussed the costs and expenses of creating immersive learning experiences. Oberon Technologies.

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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. Alvin Wang Graylin is an industry leader, evangelist and passionate driver of XR technologies, particularly virtual reality. I’m going to jump right into it.

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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. Alvin Wang Graylin is an industry leader, evangelist and passionate driver of XR technologies, particularly virtual reality. I’m going to jump right into it.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 14, 2019

So, putting some of the physical world together with a lot of the virtual world is a really wise idea. What I love about the immersive paradigm is, you can go full virtual or really full physical because you can be immersed in something physical, and really get benefit out of learning about what’s new.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

I ended up at Valve Software running their hardware department, putting the team together that created the HTC Vive. Just recently, in the last few years, I founded a company called CastAR, where we’re making AR glasses that allow you to blend virtual graphics with real-world objects on your table. Ellsworth: VR is amazing.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 14, 2019

So, putting some of the physical world together with a lot of the virtual world is a really wise idea. What I love about the immersive paradigm is, you can go full virtual or really full physical because you can be immersed in something physical, and really get benefit out of learning about what’s new.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 16, 2019

She’s the former head of content acquisition and partnerships for VIVE Port at HTC VIVE, and she used to be the V.P. And that machine at Dave & Busters in Denver, Colorado, was back-to-back booked, and families were playing. When I was at HTC, yes, my job was a quote/unquote, “sit behind a desk” kind of thing.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 16, 2019

She’s the former head of content acquisition and partnerships for VIVE Port at HTC VIVE, and she used to be the V.P. And that machine at Dave & Busters in Denver, Colorado, was back-to-back booked, and families were playing. When I was at HTC, yes, my job was a quote/unquote, “sit behind a desk” kind of thing.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 16, 2019

She's the former head of content acquisition and partnerships for VIVE Port at HTC VIVE, and she used to be the V.P. And that machine at Dave & Busters in Denver, Colorado, was back-to-back booked, and families were playing. When I was at HTC, yes, my job was a quote/unquote, "sit behind a desk" kind of thing. It's tough.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

I’m really excited to learn about the stuff you’re doing. So I think the guys at the Void have really done a great job at bringing the magic into VR and put haptic floors, scent machines — they’ve hijacked all your senses. Have you used haptics or scent machines or anything like that? Greg: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

And it’s this kind of a-ha moment, where they go from the real world of crappy pass-through camera to the completely virtual world. It was a 6DOF simulation machine. Alan: Well, speaking of cell phone guys, you’ve got HTC as a major player. And it’s that moment of delight that you see.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

I’m really excited to learn about the stuff you’re doing. So I think the guys at the Void have really done a great job at bringing the magic into VR and put haptic floors, scent machines — they’ve hijacked all your senses. Have you used haptics or scent machines or anything like that? Greg: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

And it’s this kind of a-ha moment, where they go from the real world of crappy pass-through camera to the completely virtual world. It was a 6DOF simulation machine. Alan: Well, speaking of cell phone guys, you’ve got HTC as a major player. And it’s that moment of delight that you see.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Do you remember when everyone was mocking HTC for its super-high prices and people were praising Meta for its cheap costs? This strategic partnership is very important and I ‘m sure it will make Meta perform huge steps forward in the enterprise world, where until now companies like Pico and HTC seemed to have the leadership.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Though the developers call it a “narrative VR action adventure,” the narrative turns out to be extremely light—bordering on mere lore and setting—with tidbits delivered as brief but well produced live-action videos that play on monitors in the virtual world.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2024

During the interview we talked about practical stuff, like if HTC is working on a new product, and when we can expect to see lightweight AR glasses on the head of everyone. A lot of things have changed in your life since the last time we met: your role in HTC, the country you are in… So, how is life now? We communicate, right?

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