Road to VR

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The THXAAA chip, as the company calls it, is an ASIC chip that’s being made in conjunction with Triad Semiconductor , a firm who has also worked with Valve to create components of the HTC Vive’s Lighthouse tracking technology. The THXAAA chip is the company’s first step into component offerings.

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Road to VR

MAY 15, 2017

Half-Life 2: VR , a revamped version of an older mod which will adapt the beloved Half-Life 2 for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, has been green-lit, signifying Valve’s official acceptance of the mod for distribution on Steam. Here’s some gameplay from the original mod played on the Rift DK1.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

More info (Quest 3 going ok in Steam Hardware Survey) More info (Quest 2 selling much better than Quest 3 on Amazon) HTC announced the Vive Ultimate Tracker Finally, HTC has officially announced the Vive Ultimate Tracker, its standalone inside-out tracker unit.

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AllThingsVR

JULY 20, 2016

Razer opens pre-orders for OSVR HDK 2 virtual reality headset Today, Razer announced that it is opening up pre-orders for the company’s second OSVR development kit, called the HDK 2. It’s available for $399 and boasts a new 2160×1200, low-persistence OLED display running at 90 frames per second. Read more here.

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Road to VR

JULY 6, 2018

Stifled is coming July 10th, and will be available on Rift, Vive and PC through Steam , Humble , Itch.io , GreenManGaming and Razer Game Store, and for Rift on the Oculus Store.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The Razer-fronted Open Source Virtual Reality (OSVR) platform was announced along with its very first flagship hardware, the Hacker Developer Kit (HDK for short). At MWC in Barcelona in March that year, HTC unveiled the Valve/SteamVR driven Vive headset and arguably went on to dominate the Game Developer Conference (GDC) show which followed.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

We don’t know if it is just a reference design for external partners (like HTC) or it is an actual headset that Valve is producing. Someone hypothesizes that Valve may produce the headset by itself because: HTC has started its own store, Viveport , and so it is not pushing Steam as an official store anymore.

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Road to VR

JUNE 25, 2016

This particular experience was built for HTC Vive, with room-scale and accurate motion controllers giving trainees that all important ‘hand presence’ throughout. Earlier work include this high voltage switching experience built for the Oculus Rift DK2 and Razer Hydra motion controllers (see above).

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Even if you put aside its decidedly bug-eyed appearance, the leaked HTC Vive Flow is a baffling headset. By all accounts, it’s supposed to be a standalone consumer VR device that’s made for activities like meditating and streaming media. It also will allegedly come with its own take on the metaverse. In a somewhat… Read more.

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VR Bites

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Valve added support for the Open Source Virtual Reality headset from Razer. OSVR is the third VR platform supported by Steam after the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive. The OSVR has been announced by Razer in 2015, along with a first development kit with full-HD screen. Supported games: The Brookhaven Experiment. PolyRunner.

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VR Bites

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Valve added support for the Open Source Virtual Reality headset from Razer. OSVR is the third VR platform supported by Steam after the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive. The OSVR has been announced by Razer in 2015, along with a first development kit with full-HD screen. Supported games: The Brookhaven Experiment. PolyRunner.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The company built the technology behind the magnetically tracked Razer Hydra controller which was one of the only consumer-available 6DOF controllers available when the first Oculus Rift development kit (DK1) started shipping. Sixense was once a name central to the early VR community.

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Road to VR

JUNE 12, 2016

E3 2016 kicks off this week; it’s the first E3 since the launch of the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, and the last before the launch of Sony’s PlayStation VR headset. Also hot off the release of their first consumer-headset, the HTC Vive , HTC and Valve aren’t likely to be sharing anything new on the hardware end at E3.

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Road to VR

JUNE 14, 2016

Razer Earmarks $5 Million to Encourage OSVR Content Development. Yesterday Razer announced a $5 million OSVR development fund which the company will use to incentivize support of its open-source VR platform. Here we take a look at the top 5 announcements from Day 0 of E3, ranked in no particular order (because who would agree?):

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VR Bites

AUGUST 30, 2016

All within the HTC Vive using the Vivecraft mod! With my trusty Oculus Rift, GearVR, Razer Hydras, and many more VR gadgetry, I try to find the best and most compelling experiences to share with the world! Join us as we attempt to survive in a perilous world, fighting monsters, hunger, and not trying to kill ourselves!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Otherwise, contact HTC support to have your Vive fixed (good luck with that). The system will guide you in updating the firmware if any new firmware is available; How to update the firmware on your HTC Vive devices. Razer Synapse. Header image by HTC). This way you can exclude some hardware failure. ASUS AI Suite 3.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 28, 2019

Cloudhead Games have been at the forefront of VR development ever since the studio brought a 2013-era prototype of The Gallery: Call of the Starseed (2016) to the Oculus Rift DK1 and Razer Hydra motion controllers. ” SEE ALSO HTC Confirms Vive Cosmos Will Support OpenVR/SteamVR. From all major players. Bla, bla, bla.”

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Road to VR

JULY 20, 2016

At least in terms of on-paper display specs, the new display puts the HDK 2 on par with both the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. See Also: Razer Want to Make OSVR the “De Facto” VR Platform in China. Sold in its basic configuration for $399, the new HDK 2 will be largely the same as the HDK 1.4, ’s 1920×1080, 60 FPS OLED.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Little more than a day later, a hack surfaced that adds compatibility for the Rift, Touch, and even Razer Hydra to Google Earth VR. While SteamVR is primarily the home of the HTC Vive, it also supports the Oculus Rift and Touch controllers, making it easy to developers to release games that work with both headsets.

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Road to VR

JULY 20, 2016

At least in terms of on-paper display specs, the new display puts the HDK 2 on par with both the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. See Also: Razer Want to Make OSVR the “De Facto” VR Platform in China. Sold in its basic configuration for $399, the new HDK 2 will be largely the same as the HDK 1.4, ’s 1920×1080, 60 FPS OLED.

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Road to VR

JUNE 13, 2016

save for a new and improved display which increases the resolution and frame rate to 2160×1200 and 90 FPS, respectively, matching the paper specs of the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. See Also: Razer Earmarks $5 Million to Encourage OSVR Content Development. The new HDK 2 will be nearly identical to the prior most recent HDK 1.4,

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

More info (Quest 3 Accessories) More info (Quest 3 colored headstrap) More info (Razer Hammerhead earbuds) Some content was announced for Quest 3, but not AAA games One of the disappointing bits of the Meta Connect was the part about the new upcoming content for Quest 3. I would have loved this to come as a standard option for the device.

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VRScout

AUGUST 13, 2017

HTC – Vive. Razer – OSVR. Something to note, all nominees had to be centered on a virtual reality experience, and not an augmented reality experience. Nominees for VR Headset of the Year. Oculus – Rift. Sony – Playstation VR. Starbreeze – StarVR. Nominees for Mobile Headset of the Year.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 30, 2017

We know that now with the Oculus Touch and the HTC Vive, but even when VR was simply a screen strapped to your head many felt that hands were the future. We began to develop The Gallery on the first Oculus devkit with the Razer Hydra (a Sixense technology) to deliver surrogate hand tracking and body presence back in 2013.

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Road to VR

JUNE 14, 2016

See Also: Razer Earmarks $5 Million to Encourage OSVR Content Development. The HDK 2 display has a 2160×1200 resolution, matching the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, and is also OLED, allowing for a 90Hz refresh rate and low-persistence to reduce motion blur. x headsets.

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Road to VR

JUNE 6, 2016

Clearly in the above demo, Donaldson is immersed with the Oculus Rift and using Oculus Touch controllers, but the original unveiling was done on the SteamVR powered HTC Vive. The HTC Vive of course, ships with motion controllers and is available to buy now (give or take a week or two). Elsewhere, UE4 4.12

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VRWorld

JUNE 13, 2016

Razer is the driving force behind the OSVR, an Open Source Virtual Reality industry initiative. This initiative was one of key reasons why Razer became a unicorn, and perhaps a first gaming hardware company to do so (it’s closest competitor, Corsair’s comes in with approximate valuation of $650-800 million).

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Road to VR

AUGUST 16, 2016

After a launch presentation that included a live demo of Gears of War 4 running at 4K on Ultra settings on a GTX 1080 notebook, and Doom running on a mobile GTX 1080 overclocked to 2GHz, we were given some hands-on time with an impressive range of Pascal-based notebooks from Acer, Asus, EVGA, HP, MSI, and Razer.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 13, 2017

The HTC Vive is finally getting integrated headphones later this year, and co-creator Valve’s latest acquisition could help you get the most out of them. Impulsonic had previously signed up to Razer’s open virtual reality ecosystem, OSVR. “We’ll have more to announce soon.”

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VRWorld

MAY 5, 2017

It is normal to buy or lease a car for a few hundred dollars a month, to own a thousand dollar phone with a monthly pay-off plan, but such clever price-reducing strategies were not the part of HTC or Oculus strategies and we all know what happened afterwards. The post HTC VIVE Evolves to a Subscription Model appeared first on VR World.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 20, 2016

SEE ALSO HTC Announces Vive 'Business Edition' for $1200. Sensics, who is a co-founder of Razer’s OSVR initiative, has naturally used the foundation of the OSVR HDK2 headset in creating the Goggles for Public VR. Pre-production models of the Sensics Goggles for Public VR use the familiar OSVR headstrap.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 6, 2023

Many of the world’s midrange enterprise headsets like the Meta Quest Pro, HTC VIVE Elite XR, and Pico 4 Enterprise are priced well below $1,500. Meta even lowered the Quest Pro’s price to $1,099 after receiving backlash on its cost, with HTC VIVE pricing the Elite XR similarly.

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VRWorld

APRIL 28, 2017

Now Batman is taking over virtual reality with Batman Arkham VR on HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. Good news lie ahed though, as Thursday brought the release of Batman Arkham VR for the PC , supporting not just HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift, but also smaller 3rd party vendors such as OSVR initiative from Razer.

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VRWorld

AUGUST 17, 2016

About a year and a half ago, Intel invested in Razer bringing the valuation of the said company to north of $1 billion. Today, Razer is bringing Hacker Development Kit 2.0 Intel claims to bring room scale VR and “global VR” without the need for external sensors such as HTC’s Lighthouse or Oculus Constellation.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Of those 800, all of them support the HTC Vive officially, whereas only 180 support the Oculus Rift. Of those, not all of them are optimized for Touch, but rather may be optimized for the Razer Hydra, or another third-party peripheral.

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Delight XR

MAY 14, 2019

visit website Razer OSVR HDK 1. visit website Razer OSVR HDK 2. visit website HTC Vive. visit website HTC Vive Pro. visit website HTC Vive Cosmos. visit website HTC Vive Focus Plus. visit website HTC Vive Pro Eye. visit website Acer AH101. Field of view. Max Resolution (combined). Positional Tracking.

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Delight XR

MAY 14, 2019

visit website Razer OSVR HDK 1. visit website Razer OSVR HDK 2. visit website HTC Vive. visit website HTC Vive Pro. visit website HTC Vive Cosmos. visit website HTC Vive Focus Plus. visit website HTC Vive Pro Eye. visit website Acer AH101. Field of view. Max Resolution (combined). Positional Tracking.

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