HTC has had a little bit of a rough ride these past few years. After betting the farm on VR, the company has had to make some substantial business strategy shifts to keep the division kicking in the face of a less-than-robust headset market and a behemoth margin-less competitor that’s alright losing a few billion […]
View More HTC revamps standalone VR headset to keep pace with Oculus while it looks to big businessCategory: Vive
Virtual reality training for car assembly line workers feels like a game — but it might work
As the colorful confetti rained down around me, I put my hands up and wiggled in a small victory dance. No one around me knew why I was celebrating; all they could see was the white Vive Focus headset covering most of my head. But I knew: I had succe…
View More Virtual reality training for car assembly line workers feels like a game — but it might workHTC is gone
Gather around, campers, and hear a tale as old as time. Remember the HTC Dream? The Evo 4G? The Google Nexus One? What about the Touch Diamond? All amazing devices. The HTC of 2018 is not the HTC that made these industry-leading devices. That company is gone. It seems HTC is getting ready to lay […]
View More HTC is goneCovering “Virtual Insanity” in virtual reality
A musician from Raleigh, North Carolina named Chase Holfelder, recorded a cover of Jamiroquai’s “Virtual Insanity,” a stonerific acid jazz anthem that should be familiar to ’90s kids. This version, however, is recorded entirely inside a virtual reality rig with the help of the HTC Vive and VRScout. Holfelder used the SoundScape VR project to […]
View More Covering “Virtual Insanity” in virtual realityNvidia stuns by driving a car in real life through virtual reality
Today at Nvidia’s GTC conference the company unveiled a wild technology demo and it’s straight out of Black Panther. Simply put, a driver using virtual reality was remotely controlling a car in real life. “He’s not with us,” Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, said pointing the driver on the stage. “He’s looking at this virtual […]
View More Nvidia stuns by driving a car in real life through virtual realityHTC’s Vive Pro headset will retail for a steep $799, and that doesn’t even include controllers
The top widely-available VR headset that money can buy is… gonna take a lot of money to buy. HTC has released pricing info for its Vive Pro headset that the company showed off at CES and it ain’t cheap. The company had previously detailed that they would begin selling the system as a headset-only package […]
View More HTC’s Vive Pro headset will retail for a steep $799, and that doesn’t even include controllers