Google to Buy Parts of HTC’s Vive Engineering Team to Speed Up Android XR Development

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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HTC VR headset prepped and ready for mental health mission to ISS

A resupply mission to the International Space Station is planned for next week, which will include a special delivery for Andreas Mogensen in the shape of a Vive Focus 3 VR headset intended to help the Danish astronaut cope with the stress of working i… Continue reading HTC VR headset prepped and ready for mental health mission to ISS

5G smartphones cheat sheet: Complete guide for 2023

5G is poised to change everything: our phones, our cities and the world around us. This cheat sheet provides an overview of 5G phones as well as a forecast of when manufacturers will release new devices.
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HTC targets professionals with two new high-end Vive VR headsets

It’s been a while since we saw a hardware update to the Vive line, but HTC has made up for it by launching two 5K-resolution virtual reality headsets at the same time: the PC-connected Vive Pro 2, and the standalone Vive Focus 3.Continue ReadingCategor… Continue reading HTC targets professionals with two new high-end Vive VR headsets

HTC Introduces New Standalone Vive VR Headset in China, Cancels Daydream VR headset

HTC has a new standalone Vive VR headset coming up, but it’s cancelling its standalone Vive VR headset powered by Google Daydream.
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Low-Tech Chair Enters the Matrix

This video demonstrates a really interesting experiment: sticking a Vive Tracker onto an ordinary chair in order to sync it up perfectly with its VR counterpart. The result? A chair that is visible in VR as a virtual object, but has a 1:1 physical world version occupying the same space. This means that unlike any other virtual object, this chair can be seen, touched, felt, moved, and actually sat in while the user is immersed in VR.

The purpose of this experiment seems to have been to virtually explore seating arrangements for real-world environments, and spawned a theatre planning tool …read more

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