XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The TouchDIVER Pro is also a multi-module product that works across PCVR and stand-alone headsets, with support for Meta Quest, Pico, HTC, and Windows Mixed Reality-ready for a range of end-user situations. Alongside the haptic feedback distribution, TouchDIVER Pro leverages full hand tracking with a deep precision of 0.6

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VRScout

AUGUST 22, 2018

Utilizing Unreal Engine 4, the team eventually aims to recreate every room of NCC-1701-D, including areas not shown during the original program. For more of an Inception -like experience, check out the various simulations available via the Holodeck. Stage 9 currently supports HTC Vive and Oculus Rift headsets.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

The inflatable circles, just a few millimeters across, are aligned into grids; by precisely controlling when and which haptic pixels to inflate, a convincing sensation can be created, simulating the feeling of an insect crawling along your finger or a marble rolling around in the palm of your hand.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

The emulator lets them simulate the presence of a headset and do tests easily without having to continuously put on and off a visor. More info Meta Immersive Web Emulator is an interesting tool for WebXR WebXR developers can now use the Immersive Web Emulator offered by Meta to test and debug WebXR experiences.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

This year’s 70+ person judging panel included academic professors and researchers as well as representatives from Google, HTC, HP, Deloitte, NVIDIA, Apache, and others. The twisted puzzle adventure game beat out more recognizable titles including ASTRO BOT Rescue Mission , Vacation Simulator , and Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs.

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Road to VR

JULY 27, 2017

The education-focused Mars 2030 launches today on SteamVR for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, soon to come to PSVR. As described in our first experience of Mars 2030 at GTC 2016 , the team went to great lengths to represent the martian terrain in the most realistic manner, using Unreal Engine 4’s physically-based rendering.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 12, 2024

Vibrotactile feedback enables other gloves to simulate the feeling of things like touching a surface or clicking a button using actuators in the fingers of the glove. This comfortable glove system uses active contact feedback to simulate sensory experiences when users interact with VR content.

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VRScout

JUNE 9, 2017

Also noteworthy: Final Cut Pro X will be able to support 360 video editing, Unity and Unreal now have VR support for Macs, and SteamVR is coming to Mac… and although there was a sweet on-stage mixed reality demo using Star Wars assets and an HTC Vive, there was no mention of support for Oculus.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 28, 2025

Beyond that, Metas headsets support: Wireless, standalone capabilities Unlike other companies such as Varjo and HTC VIVE, which primarily offer tethered devices, Meta focuses on convenient, standalone functionality. Meta makes it easy to create VR experiences with existing platforms like Unity and Unreal.

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Upload VR

MAY 10, 2024

The thumb and index fingers also have vibrotactile actuators for traditional haptic feedback, allowing Nova to simulate texture of virtual surfaces. Nova gloves don't have onboard positional tracking, but include mounts for HTC Vive trackers or Quest Touch controllers. 0:00 / 1:12 1× The original Nova is already used for training.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

The VR route is instead being pursued by HTC (with its VEC event happening soon) and IEEE. NVIDIA is using its program Folding@Home to help research centers in doing their research and simulations on the new coronavirus. Upload VR has also worked on this side and during the E3 it will do its usual E3 VR Showcase. Who knows….

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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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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

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). HTC launches Vive Flow Business Edition. Some others, like Niantic, will probably join soon.

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Upload VR

AUGUST 6, 2024

VR has many use cases beyond entertainment and with HTC, RiVR's fire safety program aims to minimize training risks. I firmly believe XR devices must go beyond entertainment to ever truly become mainstream, so I was curious when HTC invited me to a VR fire safety training demonstration last month. Here's what we thought.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: In this week’s VRScout Report, we discuss Oculus Story Studio’s Henry Emmy win, NASA training astronauts with virtual reality gloves, Snapchat flirting with augmented reality, HTC Vive trying to go wireless, and iPhone laying potential plans for VR/AR. HOLLYWOOD LOVES HENRY.

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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. Microsoft Flight Simulator is adding VR support, but…. Microsoft Flight Simulator is launching on August, 18th, without support for virtual reality.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Unreal Engine 4 is also an industry standard although it has a steeper learning curve than Unity. Examples are HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Cardboard and other that are now very popular VR platforms for building experiences. You also give 5% of net revenues per quarter although its free to use. Both are free to download and try.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 24, 2020

Suitable for a variety of applications including training and simulation to virtual collaboration Manus Polygon has been designed around easy self-calibration, so you don’t need anybody outside of the VR experience to help with setting up. Another key part of Manus Polygon is the networked object tracking feature.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Owlchemy Labs , creator of popular VR titles like Job Simulator, and the Rick and Morty Simulator for Adult Swim, raised $5M. The Series A was led by Qualcomm Ventures, and also involved The VR Fund (contributors to The Wave’s round as well), Colopl Next, Capital Factory, HTC, and more. HTC FUNDS STEEL WOOL, SOLO.

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2016

As the publisher of Unreal Engine 4, Epic Games is at the forefront of developers creating new worlds in VR, and we recently sat down with the man driving their VR efforts: Nick Whiting, Epic’s Technical Director of VR/AR. If we send you one, would you noodle about with it after hours and see if you can get Unreal Engine running in it”?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

HTC Vive and Penn State. With the help of the HTC Vive environment, Penn State has been able to create a comprehensive environment for training and educational immersion. Now, pilots can train in an environment where physical simulators, live aircrafts, and computer modelling are all combined. HTV VIVE, Unreal, and Nowa Era.

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Road to VR

JULY 28, 2016

The newly revealed design differs from the most recent prototype by doing away with the rigid plastic wrap-around piece (as on the right), and opting for a head strap and cable-management system that appears to be similar to the HTC Vive’s. The technology is generally considered a necessary ‘next step’ for VR headsets.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 24, 2022

But the “Body Tracking” API only provides a “ simulated upper-body skeleton ” based on your head and hand positions, a Meta spokesperson confirmed to UploadVR. It’s not actual tracking, and it doesn’t include your legs.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

UltraLeap Tobii Manus Spectre XR Rokid Contact CI Emerge HTC VIVE OpenBCI UltraLeap Dedicated to transforming the way users share valuable data with XR solutions and applications, UltraLeap has produced a host of powerful technologies for the hand and eye tracking sector. Here are just some of the vendors worth watching.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

At the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA) trade show in Orlando, 3D Live and MediaMation showcased a brand new motion simulator virtual reality ride called Ion Torq. But final production models will use a variety of real ATVs, including Polaris, and the current focus on the hardware side is HTC Vive.

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Hypergrid Business

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Vinci created realistic aircraft models for airmen to train on, and also “built a platform that allows instructors to go in and directly edit training simulations or create their own procedures around our 3D model,” said Eagle Wu, CEO and founder of Vinci VR. Image courtesy Vinci VR.).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

The MRTK is a set of components with plugins, samples, and documentation designed to help the development of MR applications using gaming engines from either Unreal Engine or Unity, providing two versions of the solution – MRTK-Unity and MRTK for Unreal. OpenVR – Windows Mixed Reality headsets, HTC Vive , and Oculus Rift.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 22, 2024

The company’s Maestro EP solution is a multi-force haptic enterprise system, for simulation VR applications. So, which companies are paving the way for the next generation of tracking? Here are just some of the vendors worth watching. The tracking-system agnostic technology can also integrate with virtually any setup.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Over the last couple years, we have gained a lot of experience with them and their Unreal Engine. A qualified safety engineer supervised the entire experience, which leverages hand and eye tracking to simulate the virtual, parallel racing space. With Epic, we have found the best possible partner.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

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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AllThingsVR

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

In March, Polyarc was a recipient of an Epic Games Unreal Developer grant for an unannounced project codenamed “Moss.” Steel Wool Studios , a VR studio formed by creative veterans from Pixar, Lucasfilm and Telltale Games — today announced that they have raised $5 million in Series A funding coming entirely from HTC.

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AllThingsVR

MAY 23, 2017

Weekly Funding & People Roundup: Google acquires Owlchemy Labs VR game studio, Improbable grabs $502M, Vivid Vision raises $2.2M, Oculus’s first employee just left 1) Google has acquired the VR game studio behind such popular gaming titles as Job Simulator and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality. Read more here. Read more here.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

To inspire innovative students in the chemistry landscape, Nowa Era created a powerful new virtual reality lab with technology from HTC VIVE. Thanks to HTC VIVE and Nowa Era, the next generation of students across Poland will now have an opportunity discover the amazing elements of chemistry. Exploring New Opportunities in Education.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 11, 2017

It released with the launch of the HTC Vive in early 2016 and Facebook’s Oculus Touch controllers for Rift late in the year. They recall demos of Owlchemy’s Job Simulator, Google’s Tilt Brush and Valve’s early robot demo, each of which made excellent use of those hand controls. Learning New Skills.

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VRWorld

JUNE 22, 2016

As an industry, we need immersive experiences that will show what VR brings to the table and so far, there are two experiences one should go through: WeVR’s “theBlu” for HTC Vive and Crytek’s “The Climb” for Oculus Rift. For VR engines, we have CryEngine, Unity Engine and Unreal Engine.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

” Google Earth turns all of this data into completely explorable, scalable 3D immersive worlds for the HTC Vive VR headset. Initially, the experience gives you a comfort mode in which your FOV is narrowed as you fly to reduce simulator sickness. The app is available now for free on the HTC Vive.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The most accurate comparisons you could draw would be to that of the Duke Nukem, Unreal, and Quake franchises. Right now in the VR market, if you want a fast-paced shooter in the style of Unreal, Quake , or Serious Sam , there aren’t many options. The Second Encounter followed it in 2002, with Serious Sam 2 releasing in 2005.

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