Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

So, here’s a reference guide on where to find VR on the show floor along with some handy expo floor maps to ease your itinerary planning. HTC Vive, Oculus Rift). HTC Vive, Oculus Rift). Intel (HTC Vive, Oculus Rift). HTC Vive, Oculus Rift). HTC Vive, Oculus Rift). Oculus Rift). Westin, 4th Floor].

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 6, 2023

What is most impressive are the capabilities of the display and in particular the pixel density: 58 pixels per degree, which is close to retina vision (for reference, Meta Quest Pro has a PPD of 22, while Varjo XR-3 has 70). HTC has made its moves at MWC, too. The 1200 nits of the display also make sure the visuals are very bright.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

XR headset manufacturer HTC VIVE has debuted its VIVE Ultimate Tracker, which will offer users multiple vantage points for body tracking, Shen Ye, Global Head of Product, HTC VIVE announced in a blog post on Wednesday. Building on the successes of the HTC VIVE Tracker 3.0, ” HTC VIVE FOTA 6.0 Named FOTA 6.0,

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

Sony is the first of the big three tethered VR headset makers to drop official PSVR sales figures: 915,000 PlayStation VR headsets sold as of February 19. Speaking with the New York Times recently , Andrew House, President of Sony Computer Entertainment, confirmed the PSVR sales data. million units sold in its first three months.

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MAY 15, 2017

Apologies for the outdated references.). The best design decision that Sony (and Impulse Gear, developers of Farpoint ) made while crafting the gun is that it’s 100% ambidextrous — meaning it can be used either right or left-handed without any issues. Stylistically it isn’t appealing at all. Frankly, it’s ugly.

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JULY 1, 2022

This follows on from a February 2022 announcement that the company was “in negotiation” with Sony to be integrated into the new headset. This refers to a technique that tracks the user’s gaze and then fully renders only the exact center of where they’re looking.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2022

A few months back, a friend referred me to the Moon VR team, and I found what they do pretty interesting stuff. This includes but is not limited to HTC, Oppo, Xiaomi, and Huawei. So I joined the team to help them navigate through the marketing side of the business when the product came back.

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MARCH 2, 2020

Qualcomm releases XR2 5G reference design. Qualcomm has finally released the reference design for AR/VR headsets based on the XR2 chipset (a special version of the Snapdragon 865 for XR headsets), and it will pave the way for the standalone headsets of the future. (Image by Qualcomm). base stations and a 20m fiber cable.

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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? Oculus and HTC), there were some cases when this sensor could actually prove to be very useful for some experiments. Image by Sony). Is it possible that NVIDIA will start a new business in Mobile GPUs?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In two days there will be the Facebook Connect, an Apple event and a Sony event about PS5! Geekbench has just published the scores for a new Vive Focus headset , indicating that a new standalone headset by HTC is coming. Quest has still the best library of content and the best price. Top news of the week. Image by Qualcomm).

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 31, 2016

We introduced [the OZO Player SDK] available for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Gear VR, Google Daydream, and Cardboard (iOS and Android),” Sayed told Road to VR. SEE ALSO Sony Pictures Plans to Use Nokia's OZO to Make VR Content. We decided to really go and have a product that solves most of the key issues with VR playback.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 5, 2016

SEE ALSO Sony Announces Powerful PlayStation 4 Pro with Enhanced PSVR Support. Sony’s years of hardware design experience shines through on PlayStation VR. Sony opted to go with a ‘Bring Your Own Headphones’ approach, and they include a pair of inexpensive earbuds with PSVR. Headphones.

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MARCH 19, 2017

This week we reported that the company’s reference design for such a device won’t just be available to other manufacturers by the end of the year but also the first consumer device will be on the market. HTC Hits Out At Rift Exclusives. Tagged with: cats , htc , htc vive , Intel , oculus , oculus rift , project alloy.

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JULY 24, 2017

The first version of Valve’s SteamVR platform provided us with superior 360 degree room-scale tracking and position-tracked hand input at the hefty price of $799 via HTC’s Vive. Will HTC cut Vive’s price? But regardless of context, these moves put a heck of a lot of pressure on HTC’s Vive.

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AllThingsVR

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

29-Year-Old Gamer Leaves Sony Behind to Bring Eye-Tracking to Virtual Reality Kojima, 29, is convinced the technology will become commonplace in VR devices. earlier this month announced a reference design for an eye-tracking headset that uses its Snapdragon chip. and HTC Corp. Qualcomm Inc. game maker Colopl Inc.,

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 5, 2024

This week saw Microsoft, Google, Samsung, Qualcomm, Meta, and Sony move to optimize their product offerings and business operations. Furthermore, to continue its OEM success, Qualcomm is developing an MR & VR reference design, which Goertek helped create and Tobii assisted by integrating its eye-tracking technology.

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Peter Graham

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Unlike other virtual reality (VR) headsets like the HTC VIve Pro Eye which are geared towards enterprise applications, PlayStation VR is solely a consumer-focused product due to its connectivity to PlayStation 4. Well, the patent filing was by SIE Japan, the division which oversees the PlayStation brand rather than Sony itself.

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JANUARY 15, 2024

Because Korean doesn't explicitly distinguish between singular and plural in the context of the quote, it's actually unclear whether Cho referred to one "device" or multiple "devices". The company's CEO Cho Joo-wan confirmed the plan to a reporter from South Korean news website The Guru.

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JUNE 12, 2017

” Mixed reality is the term Microsoft is using the refer to devices like the VR headsets its making in partnership with the likes of DELL and Acer all the way up to its own devices like HoloLens. Our mixed reality platform with our OEM partners continues to roll out and we’ll have more to talk about in the future.”

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Road to VR

AUGUST 16, 2016

But the company says that Project Alloy will be released in 2017 as an open reference design, upon which partners can build their own branded headsets. With a ‘hanging’ head mount design, Project Alloy’s ergonomics are decidedly more like Sony’s PlayStation VR headset than the Oculus Rift of HTC Vive.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2023

For reference, my head is 59cm meaning I take a medium-sized bicycle helmet, albeit at the upper end for medium. Eye Tracking Apart from sessions a few years ago using the HTC Vive Pro Eye and Microsoft Hololens, I didn’t have any experience with eye tracking. It felt very cool to be detached from the tether.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. If you want to watch it, it’s a very interesting 2-hour-long video and you can find it here [link] together with a summary of the key points he said.

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Steki Amusement

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The VR(Virtual reality) Center is a full functioning virtual reality arcade with all the major platforms including the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Sony PlayStation VR. In order to provide you with more information to help your business plan, please refer to the following: Business Operation Analysis of VR Theme Park.

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DECEMBER 15, 2016

Last month we created a list of the five Oculus Rift and HTC Vive games we wanted to see head over to PlayStation VR. While PS VR and two Move controllers offer pretty good tracking when facing forward, occlusion becomes an issue if you turn around, as the system only has one camera to refer to your position with.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Sony – PlayStation VR. Just days after PSVR’s October launch, Jim Ryan, President of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, spoke to the company’s confidence in early traction of the PSVR headset in an interview with CNBC. “We SEE ALSO Sony Expects Early PSVR Sales to Reach "Many Hundreds of Thousands". HTC – Vive.

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TechCrunch VR

APRIL 3, 2023

The move is especially interesting in light of the relatively recent shift toward enterprise customers that’s been explored by Meta, Magic Leap and HTC. Pretty much all of the big players, outside of Sony’s PSVR. That does not, however, apply to Meta’s Quest headset, owing to what the executive refers to as its “closed system.”

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OCTOBER 27, 2016

And that’s exactly what Carnival Games VR on PlayStation VR and HTC Vive is designed to do. For reference, Job Simulator is one of her only other favorites. But on Sony’s device, I consistently ran into issues. While I was reviewing the game, my wife would ask to play too. Curious about this score?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

To put a concrete example, Unity engine support for OpenGL means that every game developed in Unity can run either in a Windows desktop computer, Linux, Mac or even an OpenGL-enabled console like the Sony PlayStation, with very little to none modifications, which is very good news for us developers. And the same happens with OpenVR!

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Ultimately, though we don’t have exact Apple Vision Pro weight specs to reference, it’s unlikely the company will produce the heaviest headset on the market. Apple is clearly taking steps to ensure its headset isn’t just sleek and sophisticated but also comfortable.

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OCTOBER 13, 2016

Generally speaking, the current state of the virtual reality market is a way for users to wear VR headsets (sometimes referred to as goggles) that sit on top of or in front of your eyes and/or face to provide an immersive entertainment experience. It’s far above and beyond being just another peripheral device. That just about does it.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

But there is even more: Niantic showed its reference design of AR glasses based on Snapdragon AR2, envisioning for them use cases all based on socializing outdoor with other users. HTC’s new headset gets leaked. HTC has been teasing its headsets for a lot of weeks by sharing images of small black corners of the upcoming device.

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Price ranges from $60 to $100, which is rather affordable, compared with Oculus Rift or HTC Vive. During the CES, IDEALENS released the reference market price of K3 basic for USD 499. HTC Vive ($499). Released in April 2016, HTC Vive is one of the most premium VR headsets on the market with a relatively high price if $799.

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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

JANUARY 21, 2020

We have also to consider that in 2019, most of VR companies (Valve, Oculus, HTC, etc…) have already launched their devices, and given that VR headsets have usually a lifecycle of 2-3 years, I’m not expecting them to announce something new next year. HTC will focus more on the enterprise market.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama, Attack on Titan takes place in a world where the remnants of humanity are forced to live behind three massive walls in order to protect themselves from enormous man-eating creatures referred to as Titans.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

But this opens another debate: if it uses 4 cameras, does it mean that it won’t be based on WMR reference design anymore ? Or that Microsoft is working on a new reference design that fixes the issues of the first one? And again… is it possible that this headset can accommodate both forms of tracking ?

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

Tablet mode may be a reference to how to launch 2D Android apps because a Facebook employee has inadvertently revealed that employees can already use some 2D apps like GDoc inside the Quest. More info (HTC Vive Pro 2 review) More info (HTC Vive Pro 2 review?—?cached HTC is having RMAs issues with the Vive Pro 2.

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