The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Or will it become a partner and will help mobile GPUs in Snapdragon reference designs in growing even faster? Leap Motion released a second sensor some years later, but as Alex Colgan revealed me , it was not intended for sale , but only for integration in other headsets. Will we have NVIDIA GPUs in the Quest 3? Check it out!

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Road to VR

AUGUST 22, 2016

La Péri appeared alongside the HTC Vive’s launch back in April and perhaps didn’t receive the coverage it deserved (and I include ourselves as guilty parties here). Now relaunched as Firebird: La Péri , in reference to the central, ethereal dancer, Innerspace has revisited the original and laivished some significant updates.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

This release (available 9/8 for HTC Vive) is really just a taste of the larger project to come: Favreau’s ultimate goal is a sprawling open world that you explore and build relationships with the gnome and goblin inhabitants… we can only hope that funny elves will somehow be involved.

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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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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

HTC has finally revealed the price of the Vive Pro : it will cost $799 just to have the headset (no controller and no base stations, so you must already have a Vive 1 kit) and will be available for pre-orders since April, 5th. But, as Road To VR has stated, maybe HTC should have clarified that in all its marketing material.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

DECEMBER 1, 2023

HTC VIVE Debuts Ultimate Trackers HTC VIVE unveiled its VIVE Ultimate Tracker. According to Shen Ye, the Global Head of Product at HTC VIVE , this new tracker offers users multiple vantage points for body tracking. It allows users to receive full-body tracking with minimum gear and multiple reference points.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 29, 2017

“People refer to the haptics in the experience. ” They worked with HTC to figure out a solution for motion capture. Then the idea of a live actress in the space with some form of motion capture came in. We didn’t tell Jordan or the other artists, ‘You need to have a live component.’

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VRScout

JULY 19, 2016

HTC has sold an estimated 100k Vives. Many currently refer to virtual reality content creation as the “wild west” since anything goes. Small studios and children’s entertainment see the most value in virtual reality. Gen Z is the the most passionate segment in VR. Average time spent in headset is 25 minutes.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 16, 2023

Location-based Virtual Reality or LBVR refers to an out-of-home location where people can play unique VR games, usually as a team, that they can’t find on consumer headsets. None of the LBVR venues we visited used Quest 2; various iterations of the HTC Vive (usually the Focus 3) or PiMAX were the headsets of choice at the venues.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

confirmed with the company that it may not be a Niantic-branded pair of glasses, but a reference design that Niantic is building with Qualcomm since 2019. This pairs well with a piece of news from mid-2020, where Niantic said that it intended to build a reference design, but not its own Pokemon Go glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

Digilens shows a reference design for AR glasses. DigiLens, one of the most important Waveguide optics manufacturers, has just announced the “Design v1”, a reference design for modular AR glasses. HTC had $210 million as the total revenue for 2020. Facebook may be losing at least $100 for every sold Quest 2.

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