XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 20, 2023

Although Meta is pushing multiplayer-ready immersive worlds for gaming and the future of work, firms like Pico, Decentraland, Engage, and HTC VIVE are all debuting Metaverse services to provide different use cases. Mover, popular VR gaming solutions from HTC VIVE and Valve attracted more consumers to the emerging space.

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OCTOBER 4, 2024

If you're not familiar with it, Godot is a free and open-source alternative to Unity and Unreal. Standardization Of Seethrough & Passthrough AR "Passthrough is a mechanism where video cameras on a VR headset record the real world and present this real world view as the background inside of our HMD turning the headset into an AR device.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 25, 2024

One leading XR streaming solution provider is Innoactive, which leverages RT3D engines from Unreal, Unity, and NVIDIA to promote the adoption of workplace XR services – allowing clients to distribute XR applications directly to a range of end-devices with the compute processing happening remotely on the cloud.

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Road to VR

JUNE 15, 2017

New The Walking Dead games were revealed, Bethesda clarifies VR platform exclusivity stance, we go hands-on with Ace Combat 7, and try out DisplayLink’s XR wireless solution for the HTC Vive. The games run on Unreal Engine, and are targeting all three major VR platforms. DisplayLink XR wireless tech hands-on: Photo by Road to VR.

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Road to VR

APRIL 4, 2017

Now, developer Rocksteady has announced that it will soon launch the game on the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. Built on Unreal Engine 4 and well optimized for PSVR, it’s also one of the system’s best looking games. Price hasn’t been announced, but the game is presently priced at $20 on the PlayStation Store.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

Ok, of course, I’m kidding, but, you know, the possibility of saying the wrong name is so high that my proposal actually starts making sense… Top news of the week (Image by HTC Vive) HTC reveals inside-out-tracked Tracker With a totally unexpected move, HTC has revealed a new kind of Tracker.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Apple threatens future support in Unreal Engine. According to an evidence presented by Epic Games, Apple has not only removed Fortnite from the Apple Store, but it has also revoked the status of developer to Epic Games. On Reddit, the news has had an insane amount of upvotes (more than 10K) with all negative comments. This is huge.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

See Also: Redefining the Future of Location-Based Entertainment With HTC VIVE Focus 3 and The Park Playground “Virtual reality is often perceived as being limited to the world of gaming. An iteration of Unreal Engine (Unreal Engine 5) is already being used to develop applications for a range of VR devices.

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Road to VR

JULY 29, 2019

The standard has been in development since April 2017 and is presently supported by virtually every major hardware, platform, and engine company in the VR industry, including key AR players like Magic Leap. support in Unreal Engine and plans to update the engine for the 1.0 Epic says that it has previously implemented OpenXR 0.9

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VRScout

MARCH 23, 2018

Now, after a grueling 5-month wait , true fans of the show will finally have the chance to step into the show themselves via a brand new VR experience for the HTC Vive. This technique increases performance and framerate, which is why the number of interactive elements presented in the experience is so staggering.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 12, 2016

Hackathon events in various forms are now commonplace across different technologies and for virtual reality has proven an important catalyst for innovation and creativity in the past, with both Oculus and HTC embracing the format to encourage content creation.

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2017

If you don’t already know Cliff Bleszinski from his involvement with the Unreal Tournament and Gears of War franchises, you may remember him from Oculus’ 2012 Kickstarter video. Bleszinski (middle right) and Boss Key Productions developers present at GDC 2016 | Photo courtesy Official GDC ( CC BY 2.0 ).

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ARPost

JUNE 1, 2023

Qualcomm From the main stage, Qualcomm Vice President and General Manager of XR, Hugo Swart, presented “Accelerating the XR Ecosystem: The Future Is Open.” Keeping the Conversation Going Another talk, “XR’s Inflection Point” presented by Qualcomm Director of Product Management Steve Lukas, provided a deeper dive into Dual Render Fusion.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 4, 2016

It will feature in-depth presentations from numerous members of Valve, as well as a handful of developers and even Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney. Epic Games is heavily invested in VR thanks to deep integration with its Unreal Engine 4 and its own tech demos like Bullet Train. 11:15 am, 12th October. Developing The Lab, with Valve.

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ARPost

APRIL 8, 2020

The talk, presented by HTC’s senior developer Dario Laverde, focused on how developers can integrate hand tracking into their applications. For example, most HTC VR technology supports 3D hand tracking. Tuesday, April 7, saw VIVE’s second weekly developer live stream, “Build for Tomorrow – VIVE Hand Tracking SDK.”.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 12, 2024

These gloves are also compatible with HTC VIVE, Meta Quest, and Pico Neo headsets, offering excellent versatility. Plus, the gloves are compatible with various software platforms, such as Unity and Unreal Engine. Plus, they work alongside Meta Quest controllers and HTC VIVE trackers.

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Road to VR

MAY 23, 2016

The team were present at GDC in March, showing their latest prototype glove along with their in-house developed game Pillow’s Willow. We’re been tracking Manus VR, the start-up dedicated to producing an intuitive VR glove input device, for a while now. Early Manus Glove Prototypes.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 29, 2016

With that in mind, and with CES 2017 imminent, we thought we’d take a look back at the notable VR events from past shows, charting VR’s progress to the present day. The HTC Vive (DK1), SteamVR Controllers and Laser Basestations. CES 2013 / 2014: The Early Years. The final Oculus Rift consumer edition.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2021

Unreal Engine 5 gets released in Early Access. After a lot of teasing of its upcoming fantastic features, Unreal Engine 5 is finally available for download. And it feels weird that HTC hasn’t fixed such a cheap little component that was already faulty on the original Vive. Here you can find the link: [link] Thanks a lot []-).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Being them very kind, they gave me as a gift an aGlass DK II eye tracking add on for HTC Vive and I used it to experiment with eye tracking interfaces. aGlass DK II box on top of HTC Vive one. FOV: >110° (adapted to HTC Vive). In China I met the company 7Invensun , that is a worldwide leader for what concerns eye tracking.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Going by the descriptions for the images, the project was developed for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift using Unreal Engine 4. Still, Assassin’s Creed is no stranger to spin-offs, and the series’ penchant for time-swapping stories presents some interesting opportunities for the genre.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 28, 2018

Well, in VR, you don’t need to, because all three dimensions are present at once, right in front of you; Eye hydration, eye exercises, daily headset disinfection and a polyphasic approach to VR immersion were keys to long immersions with current hardware. Can you imagine modeling 3D without having to switch between projection views?

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 14, 2016

EditorVR (which the company calls EVR for short) provides a robust virtual reality interface for Unity that’s said to support both the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. Unreal Engine , Unity’s biggest competitor, has also launched an early version of a similar ‘VR Editor’ back in June with version 4.12

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ARVR

JANUARY 4, 2021

Apart from these are dozens of SDKs present. Depending upon your app’s feature requirements and your present code architecture, select an SDK and then continue with the development. The HTC Vive headsets have its own SDK. Android & iOS. Most of the SDKs are still evolving. The Oculus headsets have the Oculus SDK.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

Zuck has presented four different prototypes, each one focused on a single one of these aspects. The Metaverse Standards Forum has already gathered many important players of the XR sector like Unity, Unreal Engine, Meta, Microsoft, Lamina 1, NVIDIA, and even other relevant companies like IKEA and Adobe. Image by HTC Vive).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

This reminds me of a similar error HTC made in the past of mixing signals of a pro device and consumer content It has RGB passthrough cameras with three times the resolution of Quest 2 cameras. Zuck still thinks that it is a device that can start substituting the laptop. Weirdly enough, most of the demos he showed were games. More info.

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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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ARVR

JULY 15, 2020

You probably have heard of well-known models such as the Oculus Go, Oculus Rift, Playstation VR, and HTC VIVE?—?these Another industry standard is Unreal Engine, however, it is widely considered to have a steeper learning curve than Unity. these are relatively pricey, starting at ~$200 CAD and going up to $1000 CAD.

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APRIL 21, 2017

But in contrast, it is boldly presented, as the video is a partnership with Lytro , and uses their lightfield camera for VR to capture the singer and the church he later stands in. These are realistic places you can explore in your Oculus Rift or HTC Vive. It is a sacredly soft version, only performed by one man, Bobby Halvorson.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Rikard Steiber (HTC), Joel Breton (HTC). As President of Viveport and Head of Vive Studios respectively, Rikard Steiber and Joel Breton are two of the most senior figures working on the HTC Vive today. State Of Unreal: Epic Games’ Opening Session. : Tuesday, February 28th, 10:00am – 11:00am.

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HaptX

JUNE 20, 2024

The Problem to Address Gloveboxes present a challenge for hands-on training; some gloveboxes can serve as inert containers, filled with an inert gas such as nitrogen, argon, or helium. With their fixed glove ports, gloveboxes also present strain and fatigue on users when used for an extended period.

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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. . sore face and headache).

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HaptX

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The Problem to Address Gloveboxes present a challenge for hands-on training; some gloveboxes can serve as inert containers, filled with an inert gas such as nitrogen, argon, or helium. With their fixed glove ports, gloveboxes also present strain and fatigue on users when used for an extended period.

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Peter Graham

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Still in early access at present, today the studio has announced its next VR project, expanding that universe further with a whole new experience, The SoulKeeper: Chronicles. Set to offer a dark open-world role-playing game (RPG), The SoulKeeper: Chronicles will feature three single-player campaigns with interwoven storylines.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Pimax 12K (Image by Pimax) Regarding the 12K headset, this was still some way off, with a 12K demo planned for Q3 of 2023, a roadshow in Q4, and a presentation at CES in January 2024. The XR2 processor is already used in other products like Meta Quest 2 and HTC Vive XR Elite, making porting of games much simpler.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

XR Today: How was Apple’s presentation of the device? Aneesh Kulkarni : It was an impressive presentation, and they checked a lot of boxes. Emma Ridderstad, Chief Executive and Co-Founder, Warpin Reality Emma Ridderstad : Apple’s presentation of the device didn’t fully demonstrate the range of VR activities that can be achieved.

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Road to VR

MAY 24, 2016

Revive is an application that allows select VR games exclusive to the Oculus Home platform to be played on a rival SteamVR-powered HTC Vive headset. For Valve and HTC’s Vive headset it’s Steam, for Oculus and the Rift it’s Oculus Home. What does Revive actually do under the hood? Who’s behind it?

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