Road to VR

JULY 31, 2017

Linden Lab, the company behind the virtual world Second Life , is today launching successor Sansar into open beta, this time built for the VR era. While Second Life was built as one giant world, Sansar’s architecture is more like a platform. Image courtesy Sansar.

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VRScout

APRIL 17, 2018

How is modern technology setting us up to move around the virtual worlds of the future? It wasn’t long ago that the best method of moving around games and virtual worlds were two joysticks or a set of keyboard keys and a mouse. No longer is a joystick or a button needed to move your head around. With the SteamVR 2.0

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VRScout

JANUARY 8, 2019

It’s only day one of the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and already we’ve seen the unveiling of two never-before-seen HTC Vive headsets, as well as new controllers and tracking capabilities for the ultrawide Pimax 8K. “Basically, with Holoride every street pattern turns into a canvas for virtual worlds.”.

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VRScout

MARCH 5, 2018

This VR cane is opening new worlds for the visually impaired. Whole experiences are built around immersing the eyes in headsets to explore virtual environments. Now it appears that Microsoft is working on a cane controller that could someday allow visually impaired people to explore new worlds.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 16, 2018

. ‘Return to Grindelind’, as its called by creators Jeremy Kirshbaum and Alexander Goldman, is a rough prototype of a world-scale VR game that’s designed to fit within a football field. “When you take off the headset, you almost feel that the virtual environment is still there, albeit invisible.

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ARVR

JANUARY 10, 2023

In the novel, the metaverse is a virtual world where users can interact with each other and with virtual objects in real time. MMOs are virtual worlds that allow large numbers of players to interact with each other and with the game environment in real time.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Having that type of control in a virtual environment opened up so many possibilities for Vermeulen. ZedMini camera mounted to HTC Vive / Image Credit: Lee Vermeulen. When asked about why he focuses more on AR, Vermeulen says , “I don’t want to completely escape reality, I don’t want to be in a complete virtual world.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 29, 2024

However, as the genAI hype train rolls on, as does its success, becoming an essential investment for firms such as NVIDIA, Meta, and HTC VIVE, firms that recognize not only the paradigm-shifting nature of genAI but also its effect on enterprise XR.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 23, 2017

The idea behind this concept is to give a second player outside of VR a window into the virtual world. By tracking the position and rotation of the tablet it functions as an actual window or portal to the virtual environment. The end result is similar to what HTC showed off at CES earlier this year.

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VRScout

JUNE 29, 2016

We have experienced creation tools like Google’s Tilt Brush on the HTC Vive, which lets you paint in a 3D space, letting you wave your hand controllers in the air to lay to down strokes of paint. It’s an amazing experience, creating in VR and building the world around you. They felt comfortable performing and speaking in funny voices.

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TechCrunch VR

AUGUST 23, 2022

Now, in a spot of perfect timing, a startup out of Talinn, Estonia, called Ready Player Me — which has built a popular platform for creating dynamic, animated avatars to use across virtual worlds built and operated by others — is announcing $56 million in funding to grow its business.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 17, 2020

At the end of this simultaneous performance, the participants gathered in the courtyard of the Palais Royal will be able to chat live with Jean-Michel Jarre’s avatar, erasing even further the boundaries between the physical and the virtual worlds. Also involved in the project are tech startups such as SoWhen?

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 17, 2023

However, there are various levels of immersion offered by virtual reality. However, with these types of VR, you only interact with the virtual environment on a fundamental level. These headsets use AI and sensor technology to respond to your actions and move you through a virtual world.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Zuck and another Meta employee entered an empty virtual world, and Zuck started saying what he wanted to see in it and the AI answered by crafting exactly what he wanted. “I HTC released a trailer about his vision for the metaverse. HTC has released a trailer video with his vision of the metaverse.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

It’s interesting to see that Neurable is still around and kicking: a few years ago there was a bit of hype around it when it created an EEG-based “mind controller” for the HTC Vive. Go to SideQuest Sponsored Area Do you need a virtual world? I wonder if VR remains one of its most important use cases.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 17, 2024

We’re excited to integrate VIVERSE’s Polygon Streaming technology into our platform to allow us to deliver highly detailed and immersive environments to our users, regardless of their device capabilities. “It ” Polygon Streaming technology will be demoed at SIGGRAPH 2024 is available in early release from $99.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2018

He has this idea of making the world better, of letting people live freely and exchanging their expertise. That’s why HTC couldn’t do anything but accepting his proposal. As I’ve said, he has not spent 24h each day in VR, but he has spent an average of more than 7 hours a day inside HTC headsets, mostly the Vive Pro.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 12, 2025

For instance, GE Healthcare transformed radiography training with VR, offering healthcare professionals a virtual environment where they could interact with three-dimensional scanners, and access real-time support from an AI assistant. In the aviation industry, companies are using XR to enhance flight training simulations.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

We talked with The Park Playground CEO Peter Vindevogel, who shared his thoughts on these myths and misconceptions, shedding light on virtual reality technology. AR Apps to Increasingly Leverage AI Tech To create more immersive virtual environments, AR applications must be able to collect a wealth of information about the user’s surroundings.

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VRScout

JANUARY 31, 2017

The Vive controllers did a great job tracking my arm movements accurately as they were transformed into fins in the virtual world. There was a comfort of being in a virtual space that made us forget about the boundaries we put upon to strangers when it comes to physical space.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 29, 2018

However, following the release of consumer equipment like the HTC Vive , Oculus Rift , Sony PSVR and the various mobile VR headsets , we now have a different situation with a much larger group of people (the general population) using virtual reality on a regular basis, for longer periods of time.

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Sinespace , a virtual world platform from OpenSim co-founder Adam Frisby, launched its virtual reality beta last week and reports 20 percent weekly user growth. Previously, the Unity-based social virtual world was only available for desktop clients. Virtual meeting. (Image courtesy Sinespace.).

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Cats and VR

JULY 20, 2016

HelloVR’s MetaWorld will place players in nearly 10,000 square miles of virtual environment in the first ever massive, physics-based virtual social space of its kind. The scale of the simulated world, and its networked physics, is enabled by SpatialOS. That’s a key part of making a virtual world feel real.”.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2022

Sense Arena and HTC VIVE. Combining the worlds of sports and gaming, Sense Arena wanted to create an immersive experience to transform the way hockey players develop their skills. To unlock this new world, Sense Arena worked with the experts at VIVE.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

This new standard is being rapidly adopted across the ecosystem by HTC, Microsoft, Varjo and dozens more, resulting in faster product development cycles and a flurry of new applications. XR Visual Ecosystem Flowchart.

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Road to VR

MARCH 2, 2017

Enter Sprint Vector’s new approach to VR locomotion which has players literally racing through virtual environments by means of direct interaction with the game world. At first glance it’s the sort of virtual movement that VR veterans would suspect would lead to instant nausea.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 19, 2023

The unmistakable bumps of the road and lurches of acceleration seemed believably matched to my movements through each virtual environment. The pack is priced $800 including an HTC Vive Flow headset, an 8BitDo controller, and a one-year subscription to Holoride’s platform.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

My arms swing at my sides (in real life, and in the virtual world) as I move along the rail. The world we visited is called Wonderland and it is a container for a variety of experiments in virtual reality software design from Texas-based Playful Corp. He pressed the button to call the trolley but it wouldn’t come.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

My arms swing at my sides (in real life, and in the virtual world) as I move along the rail. The world we visited is called Wonderland and it is a container for a variety of experiments in virtual reality software design from Texas-based Playful Corp. He pressed the button to call the trolley but it wouldn’t come.

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Researchers at Microsoft have developed a device they call the “canetroller”, a haptic VR controller that works with the HTC Vive headset and tracker to help people with visual impairments navigate virtual environments. Object location went smoother in the indoor environment.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 17, 2017

The idea behind merged reality (AKA virtual augmented reality) is to make the virtual world account for the physical environment around you. In the demo, that meant turning the physical objects in the room into virtual objects in the game world that could be used for cover.

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XROM

MAY 1, 2023

Virtual reality (VR) headsets have gained popularity in recent years due to their immersive and engaging experience. Among the highest-selling VR headsets are the Oculus Quest 2, PlayStation VR, and HTC Vive.

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 1, 2020

Another aspect of the tool is to allow the creation of custom experiences and adjusting of the virtual environment using a library of virtual objects and virtual locations — it comes with 1,200 3D objects by default, and also allows users to build and customize new objects and features. The Prospect v2.10

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VRWorld

APRIL 11, 2017

PowerDVD 17 adds support for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive VR headsets to bring virtual reality content front and center for users, along with groundbreaking innovations in 360 video playback. ” Furthermore, TrueTheater HDR technology is bringing GPU-accelerated video conversion that emulates HDR video on standard non-HDR video.

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Doc-Ok

OCTOBER 21, 2016

There was an article on Medium yesterday: My First Virtual Reality Groping. In it, a first-time VR/HTC Vive user describes how she was virtually groped by another player inside an online multi-player VR game, within the first three minutes of her first such endeavor, and how it ruined her experience and deeply disturbed her.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 30, 2024

HTC has launched its no-code metaverse builder VIVERSE Create, which allows users to create and share interactive multiplayer worlds. In fact, the tool suite lets creators share their worlds with anyone and any device, including VR headset, mobile, PC, or Mac, without the need for a gaming machine.

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HaptX

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Mixed reality (MR) filmmaking (not to be confused with mixed reality headsets) is a technique that super-imposes a real-world VR user into the virtual environment, creating an eye-catching blend of the physical and digital.

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