XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 20, 2022

Autoliv and Unity. Leveraging real-time 3D technology with the help of the Unity ecosystem , the tier 1 automotive brand has been able to develop a modern product visualisation experience designed specifically to enhance sales and marketing operations. Rinnai and HTC VIVE. Arksen, Varjo and Unity.

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Road to VR

JUNE 2, 2016

Valve have released the Unity based renderer for its superb VR experience collection The Lab in an effort to encourage adoption of what it sees as optimal rendering techniques for VR experiences. You can grab the source for the renderer at the Unity asset store here , and check out the full blog post detailing the release here.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

This is huge news because all the most popular XR headsets that are on the market are based on Qualcomm’s reference designs, so here we are talking about a technology that will pave the way to the next generation of XR headsets. SteamVR 2.0 is now live for everyone.

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Road to VR

JULY 29, 2019

A reference guide published by Khronos Group gives a high-level technical overview of the API’s structure. Other companies who are officially part of the group responsible for developing OpenXR—like AMD, ARM, NVIDIA, HTC, Valve, Unity, and others—voiced support for the 1.0 OpenXR 1.0 is now available on GitHub.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 7, 2020

It is easily accessible in the Unity SDK as a standard WebcamTexture, so if you like hacking things, I guess you can have a lot of fun developing things for it! The Pico SDK can be easily accessed from the Pico website : it is available for Unity, UE4 and also for the native Android platform. User Interface.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Epic Games is a prominent member of the Khronos Group working alongside a host of industry pros including Oculus, HTC, Valve, Microsoft, Google, AMD, NVIDIA, and Unity. Epic Games Store is said to launch soon and begin what Sweeney calls “a long journey to advance the cause of all developers.”

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

During the opening keynote to their annual Unite conference yesterday, Unity announced that their in-development VR authoring tool EditorVR , which allows creators to step inside and work on their projects using virtual reality, is on its way within the next couple of months. SEE ALSO Unity's VR Editor Lets You Create VR Content Like a God.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

More info (Nathie going around the streets with the Vision Pro on) More info (Vision Pro guy with a robot dog) More info (A girl staying in the pool with the Vision Pro) More info (Photos and videos of other people wearing the headset in public places) Unity has released the tools to build for the Vision Pro.

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Road to VR

MARCH 30, 2017

HTC Vive Senior Engineer James Xiong has provided a Vive IK Demo on GitHub , which includes a reference source code and Unity demo. Using the HTC Vive headset and controllers combined with three Vive Trackers, the program uses hardware tracking and inverse kinematics to pose a virtual model that closely matches the human player.

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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. The OZO Player SDK comes as both a native SDK and a Unity plugin for those already building VR apps with Unity. OZO Player SDK architecture.

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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, the unit will have a price tag of $199 USD per unit.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

We used sketches, schemes and references provided by Huawei. App programming (Unity) We developed a simple intuitive application that would help employees understand and remember a sequence of actions. on HTC Vive, connected to a computer, for home training and presentations there is adapted for Oculus Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

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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AllThingsVR

MARCH 31, 2017

HTC Releases Full Body Tracking Code for Use with Vive and Trackers HTC Vive Senior Engineer James Xiong has provided a Vive IK Demo on GitHub, which includes a reference source code and Unity demo.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 28, 2023

While still in Italy, I verified that Microsoft Teams, Unity, and Github were accessible from China. Whenever I’ll mention VPNs in the remainder of the article, I’m always referring to these ones. Verify the most that you can before leaving, so that you can find solution in advance. Absolutely not.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 12, 2023

When you’re doing a sports game like Pickleball, there’s a reference point for the users compared to developing an alien shooter game where the player is using laser guns. For these, there’s not much of a reference point and people won’t criticise me on whether their laser gun behaves differently than in real life.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2018

HTC Vive Focus is one of the most famous standalone VR headsets. I have always been intrigued by this device, since the first time I’ve read about its reveal at an HTC event : I don’t know why, maybe because of the azure color that is my favorite, maybe because it looks so informal. It was funny. Upper view of the device.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

HP and Microsoft have a long track in offering enterprise hardware, so this headset may battle HTC on his own land (B2B). 1” is not the new name of a son of Elon Musk, but it is the (questionable) name of a new opensource AR headset by Combine Reality, based on Leap Motion’s North Star reference design. Unity launches MARS tools.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

We can deploy to a vast of platforms using game engines like Unity, Unreal Engine, the more recent Godot engine or any of the other engines out there, which have all started to add VR features”. But that’s just how Unity works, and this post isn’t about Unity, so let’s move on. You may be saying “Come on!

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VRScout

MARCH 6, 2017

As the two premiere VR hardware manufacturers, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive both recognize this impediment to adoption and are lowering the price to play, albeit in different ways. HTC Vive has launched their own financing program which relieves the upfront pricing burden of their system– although still maintaining the total cost at $800.

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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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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. Bitmovin announced a $10.3M

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 31, 2022

Extended Reality, the umbrella term used to refer to all forms of immersive technology, from AR to VR, presents a host of valuable opportunities for consumers and brands. A powerful name in the VR and XR landscapes, HTC VIVE has made its mark on the extended reality world by creating business-focused tools for new realities.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 19, 2018

If you have seen Avengers: Infinity War, for sure you will get this reference (Image by Memes and Gifs). ” Mister President unleashing the Vive superpowers (Image by HTC). How to hide the object. Once you have found the object, you have to hide it. And so I started experimenting.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 4, 2024

If you're not familiar with it, Godot is a free and open-source alternative to Unity and Unreal. Create a spatial anchor that references a place on your wall, and you can show a virtual screen there anytime your user comes back to your application. We’re also working together with HTC to improve the experience on these devices."

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 18, 2018

On one hand, they are able to distribute their content cross platforms (including Oculus Go , Oculus Rift, Gear VR , Steam VR, HTC Vive, MIVR, Android, iOS etc) just with one single click on VeeR; on the other hand, we have developed the free web-based interactive experience creation tool VeeR Experience back in August 2018.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Based on our recent talk with VP of content, Joel Breton, HTC has plenty of experiences in the works for its Vive VR headset across a wide range of categories. That said, Abrash’s description referred to using VR to augment the real world. ” HTC is also making this an open platform, with an SDK currently in private beta.

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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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Upload VR

OCTOBER 24, 2022

IK refers to a class of equations for estimating the unknown positions of parts of a skeleton (or robot) based on the known positions. The spokesperson described the technology as a combination of inverse kinematics (IK) and machine learning (ML). These equations power all full-body VR avatars in apps today.

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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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Leapmotion

MAY 7, 2016

With our latest Unity Core Assets release , we’re excited to unveil full support for the Unity 5.4 beta, which features native support for the HTC Vive. And in some cases, we’re adding features to the Core Assets to support upcoming Unity Modules. The post Redesigning Our Unity Core Assets Part II: New Features in 4.1.0

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 1, 2020

IrisVR allows you to upload 3D files from Revit, NavisWorks, Rhino, and FBX or other design tools and supports Windows, Oculus Rift, Oculus Quest, HTC Vive, and Windows Mixed Reality headsets. However, the advanced tools require knowledge of the Unity development and design platform. The Prospect v2.10 Image courtesy IrisVR.).

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Road to VR

JANUARY 31, 2017

Available On: SteamVR (HTC Vive). Reviewed on: HTC Vive. Racket: Nx is available via Steam for the HTC Vive initially, though the developer has confirmed to Road to VR that they plan to add Rift and Touch support later this year. In Racket: Nx the HTC Vive can claim another worthy roomscale experience.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

The reveal that Apple will be using Unity to bring 3D applications and games to Vision Pro was exciting. Their partnership with Unity will get them there quickly. There are already a lot of developers on Unity, so I understand that developing for the Vision Pro will be quite effortless. It remains to be seen.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

” Google Pixel XL phone is manufactured by HTC. This is the reference platform for Google’s Daydream VR platform. For more information on Google Daydream and Unity Support, read our previous article. Everyone else will be allowed to publish apps “early next year.” Developers can apply now to join the DAP.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 8, 2016

Import a 3D model of a spoon into Unity and you’ll be able to see the mesh in full 3D but it won’t do much else. Once they’ve figured out how to pick things up using the HTC Vive controller’s trigger, users are off to the races. Or in other words, what allows a spoon in VR to perform its function of being held, scooping and stirring?

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Leapmotion

MARCH 14, 2017

Our Unity Core Assets and the Leap Motion Unreal Engine 4 plugin both handle position and scale out-of-the-box for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. For the Oculus Rift, this offset is 80mm, while on the HTC Vive it’s closer to 90mm. With headsets like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, the user’s eye lenses remain focused at infinity.

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