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Google is acquiring parts of HTC’s Vive team to accelerate the development of its new Android XR platform for headsets and glasses.
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Audi has revealed that the VR tech for back-seat passengers demonstrated at CES 2019 will roll out to select vehicles from June. The holoride platform can adapt content to the car’s movement during a journey, transforming a boring commute into a rollin… Continue reading June release confirmed for first Audi vehicles with holoride VR platform
“Know your enemy” is the essence of one of the most famous quotes from [Sun Tzu]’s Art of War, and it’s as true now as it was 2,500 years ago. It also applies far beyond the martial arts, and as the world squares off for battle against COVID-19, it’s …read more
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After briefly teasing it at CES back in January, HTC has now fully whipped the covers off the new VR headset, the Vive Cosmos. The new headset seems to be positioned towards the upper-middle of the range, featuring inside-out tracking, improv… Continue reading HTC Vive Cosmos claims crown for clearest VR headset
HTC’s Vive Pro Eye with built-in eye tracking is now available in the United States for a whopping $1,599.
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The HTC Vive Tracker adds real-world objects to your virtual world. While these real-world objects in virtual environments are now mostly limited to a Nintendo Zapper for a Duck Hunt clone and a tennis racket, the future is clear: we’re going to be playing Duck Hunt and Wii Sports while wearing headsets. The future is so bright, it burns.
Of course, with any piece of neat computing hardware, there’s an opportunity for building an Open Source clone. That’s what [Drix] is doing with his Hackaday Prize entry. He’s created an Open Source Vive Tracker. It’s called the HiveTracker, and it …read more
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If you were to make a list of the most important technological achievements of the last 100 years, advanced medical imaging would probably have to rank right up near the top. The ability to see inside the body in exquisite detail is nearly miraculous, and in some cases life-saving.
Navigating through the virtual bodies generated by the torrents of data streaming out of something like a magnetic resonance imager (MRI) can be a challenge, though. This intuitive MRI slicer aims to change that and makes 3D walkthroughs of the human body trivially easy. [Shachar “Vice” Weis] doesn’t provide a great …read more
Erika Ishii and Teagan Morrison turned an HTC Vive and a gaming laptop into a wireless VR backpack. Continue reading Make Your Own Wireless VR By Just Wearing the Whole Dang Computer
Today, Vive announced a new standalone VR headset called the Vive Pro. And it is reducing the price of the previous, PC-based Vive headset.
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HTC introduces a new Vive VR headset with improved displays, integrated audio, and a new wireless adapter that enables Wireless VR.
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