Road to VR

JUNE 22, 2023

It was a good opening gambit to break up the Oculus/HTC Vive PC VR binary that had developed a year prior, although those Windows VR headsets weren’t just new hardware destined to hook into Steam content. Currently major contenders are Meta, Sony, HTC, Valve, Pico, Pimax, and Apple starting next year.

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Road to VR

MARCH 9, 2020

HTC is discontinuing its Vive Pro and Vive Focus headsets in favor of newer versions of the headsets. In a recent opinion piece I argued that HTC’s VR headset lineup, which had reached 11 different packages, had turned into a confusing array of options. SEE ALSO HTC Reveals Vive Proton, a Compact Standalone VR Headset Prototype.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The company’s websites lists its products categories as hybrid experiences, world building, gamified narratives, immersive strategy, 3D headshots, and living brands. ” VIVERSE Advancements Last month, HTC launched its no-code metaverse builder VIVERSE Create , which allows users to create and share interactive multiplayer worlds.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

HTC Vive Cosmos, the company’s upcoming PC VR headset, is officially going into pre-order starting September 12th. HTC announced the news via Twitter, saying that more information, including specs, price, and special offers will be made public at the time when pre-orders go live. — HTC VIVE (@htcvive) September 10, 2019.

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Road to VR

MAY 16, 2017

First-person real-time strategy VR game Cosmic Trip will leave Early Access on May 24th. Since its launch on Steam Early Access in June 2016 for the HTC Vive, Cosmic Trip has seen regular build updates, adding major features such as new game modes, environments and weapons.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 10, 2021

Image by HTC Vive). HTC new products may be the Vive Pro 2 and the Vive Focus 3. According to a leak discovered by Protocol, HTC may launch two headsets tomorrow at Vivecon: The Vive Pro 2, a premium PC VR headset, priced at €842 ($1,012) The Vive Focus 3 Business Edition, a business-oriented standalone, for €1,474 ($1,771).

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Road to VR

JANUARY 7, 2019

Today at CES HTC revealed its latest headset, the Vive Cosmos. While the original HTC Vive launched way back in April of 2016, HTC says that it continues to see strong sales. Image courtesy HTC. Image courtesy HTC. HTC plans to continue to the original Vive product line alongside Cosmos. Photo by Road to VR.

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Road to VR

MARCH 22, 2017

Recently launched on Steam, Warpaint is a turn-based strategy game that lets you customize your troops by painting them to your taste. Real-time strategy gaming seems to suit VR pretty well, but few developers have chosen the turn-based approach; Warpaint shows that the more sedate pace of turn-based strategy is a natural fit for VR too.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Vertigo Games , the developers behind Arizona Sunshine (2016) , today announced their VR strategy game Skyworld (2017) is finally making its way to PSVR. Skyworld reimagines classic strategy gameplay for VR by combining turn-based strategy and real-time battles set in a variety of animated miniature worlds.

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Road to VR

JUNE 13, 2017

Well, it seems that exclusivity may just be a timed arrangement according to some sources and we will in fact see an HTC Vive / Steam VR release. How long that timed exclusivity will remain in place is unclear, but this strategy makes a lot more sense, more inline with expectations. 1hr 3m) with a Sony rep at E3.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

HTC revealed their new standalone Vive Focus headset today , poised to launch into the Asian market. Earlier this year the device was teased to be heading to Western markets as part of Google’s Daydream platform in 2017, but now HTC confirms they’ve canceled those plans. billion earlier this year. billion earlier this year.

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Road to VR

MAY 13, 2017

In a recent interview, HTC Vive General Manager Daniel O’Brien provided a carefully-worded answer when asked specifically about a ‘Vive 2’. HTC’s current VR headset is now over year old; PC VR hardware cycles are anticipated to last somewhere between 1 and 3 years. Photo courtesy Craig Albert. That is an add-on.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

All the speakers have said very interesting things, but the last one, our dear “Mister President” has made a little public reveal of the upcoming strategy of HTC that interests us all. He has so confirmed the rumors of a new HTC headset coming in 2021. So, we now know that in 2021 we’ll see a new HTC device.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

HTC has announced the appointment of Yves Maitre as its new CEO. Cher Wang, who took over as company CEO in March 2015, is stepping down to continue as Chairwoman of the HTC board. HTC says she will focus on future technologies that both align with the company’s portfolio and vision of Vive Reality.

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Road to VR

JULY 2, 2018

HTC is reportedly laying off 1,500 employees in its Taiwan manufacturing division, something Bloomberg’s Taipei bureau chief Samson Ellis reports to be around 22% of HTC employees. HTC has been in financial difficulty for the past few years, with stock prices falling since their all-time high in 2011. controllers.

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JUNE 28, 2017

Just about the only thing we know so far about the new Daydream standalone VR headsets in the works from HTC and Lenovo is that they are… in the works. Qualcomm says that the HTC Vive and Lenovo standalone headsets will be built around the latest version of the VRDK which uses the significantly more modern Snapdragon 835 chip.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 13, 2025

The strategy reduces dependence on expensive physical simulators, reduces operational costs, and improves the scalability of training initiatives. With the help of HTC VIVE, the company revolutionized its training program. Traditional role-play training was time-consuming, inconsistent, and difficult to scale.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The conference kicked off with a fireside chat between two well known names in the industry: Tim Bajarin, founding analyst and Chairman of Creative Strategies and Anshel Sag, principal analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy, who expounded over the course of an hour on the state of the XR industry, as moderated by AR pioneer Dan Cui.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 18, 2021

In an official press release, Joseph Lin, General Manager of Viveport said, “ BIRDIE WING is an important milestone for our Viverse strategy, and together with Viveport INFINITY, the world’s only subscription-based VR content platform, our content ecosystem in the metaverse era is taking form.”. Image Credit: HTC. Image Credit: HTC.

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VRScout

JUNE 5, 2017

Also continuing the theme of VR support for Mac, Industrial Light and Magic staffers demonstrated the first-ever native HTC Vive demo on a Mac system. An ILM user in headset dropped TIE Fighters, Imperial Cruisers, and Darth Vader into a Star Wars-themed world, using nothing more than an on-screen GUI controlled with HTC Vive controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Productivity means especially companies and professionals, and the new expensive Quest Pro headset fits completely this strategy. Meta Quest Pro and the strategy pivot. The headset has a price that could make HTC pale, and I wonder why no one has started making the same comparisons that were usually made for HTC.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Steel Wool Studios, which got an early $5 million boost from HTC in 2016 , has developed a number of VR-native games since its 2012 founding, including Hello Neighbor Search and Rescue (2023) , FNAF: Help Wanted (2019) and its sequel FNAF: Help Wanted 2 (2024).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 22, 2024

More info The Vive Focus Vision has been released HTC has decided to release the Vive Focus Vision the same week as the Quest 3S. It seems that HTC has invested a lot in providing a standalone headset that is great for PCVR and so it features a lossless wired Displayport connection, very high display resolution, and integrated eye tracking.

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Road to VR

APRIL 23, 2024

So that brings us to this week’s Horizon OS news ; the biggest move that Meta has made with its XR strategy in years. ” Gear VR was the first Oculus headset made by a third-party And the company did in fact pursue that strategy. Hopefully it isn’t too late.”

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 24, 2018

The HTC Vive Pro page on Amazon US. As I’ve told in some previous posts of mine, it is all matter of market positioning : HTC wants to position its device as a premium device, not as a consumer one. But f rom a business side, this is most probably the right price to fulfill its strategy. rating is due to the high price.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Originally released back in March of 2018 on the Oculus Go, Rift, and Samsung Gear VR, Catan VR on the Oculus Quest offers the same addictive board game experience you know and love, immersing you in a captivating virtual rendition of Klaus Teuber’s award-winning multiplayer strategy game.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Video games are often ways for us to escape reality for small chunks of time and strategy games tap into that in different ways. Red Alert 2 is one of the most popular strategy titles, a real-time strategy game that had an incredible historical fiction of its own for us to navigate, and it’s being recreated in a VR environment.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 20, 2020

This past week the game also took home the award for “Best Sim / Strategy 2020” at The Game Awards 2020. Since launching on PC this past August, players have so far logged an astonishing 3.5 billion miles over 50 million flights ; not a bad number considering the game has been live less than 6 months.

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Road to VR

MAY 25, 2017

In a curious move, HTC has revealed a new mobile VR headset called Link that is not part of the company’s Vive brand. HTC is by now one of the world’s leaders in the virtual reality space. Instead the Link headset is designed to work with HTC’s newly announced U11 smartphone.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Cosmic Trip (normally $19.99) – Built exclusively for VR, Cosmic Trip is an award-winning real-time strategy game for the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Windows MR headsets. Here’s a full breakdown of the games alongside their descriptions provided by the developers: For $1 or more to unlock – .

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 6, 2023

Sasha Wallinger, Head of Web3 & Metaverse Strategy, Journey. Shen Ye, Global Head of Product, HTC VIVE. Justin Barad, Founder & CEO, Osso VR. Rama Oruganti, Chief Product Officer, RealWear, Inc. Hendrik Witt, Chief Product Officer, TeamViewer. Steve Grubbs, CEO, VictoryXR. Tom Ffiske, Editor, Immersive Wire.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2025

And the latest game by Owlchemy Labs, Dimensional Double Shift, which is free to play, just reached 500K downloads as a testament that this strategy works. Fast Travel Games just made Mannequin free to play. There are anyway a couple of considerations that I want to add to Metas statement.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 17, 2017

Arizona Sunshine developer Vertigo Games announced today that Skyworld , a top-down strategy game built for VR is coming to the Vive, Rift, and Windows VR headsets. The game was shown way back in 2015 as one of the first demos made for the HTC Vive, and it’s now finally resurfacing this Fall. Full-feature VR game.

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Road to VR

MARCH 24, 2021

This makes it one of the most valuable VR companies outside of platform holders Facebook, Valve, and HTC. Although free to download, one of the platform’s largest monetization strategies is undoubtedly selling tokens, which can be used to buy in-game merch and access to user-generated content.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Tencent Technology News added, “In mid-October, there were rumors that PICO [had been] abandoned by ByteDance’s strategy. ” Acquisition Triggers Competition The news comes after ByteDance, the company behind the developments, bought out Pico Interactive in 2021 to compete with major manufacturers like Meta Platforms and HTC VIVE.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 11, 2017

This aggressive pricing strategy means that the Rift and Touch remains considerably cheaper than the HTC Vive – the main competing high-end PC VR solution – which also received a permanent price cut to $599.

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VRScout

JANUARY 6, 2022

Being victorious will require you to think fast as you coordinate your attack against other players, all while being ready to switch over to a defensive strategy in case you find yourself in a tough situation. In addition to cosmetics, you’ll need to choose a loadout that fits you or your team’s strategy and playstyle.

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