HTC announced a brand new component for its Vive family of virtual reality products. The new addition revealed at CES 2017 is known as the “Vive Tracker” and its purpose is to give developers the opportunity to more easily turn ordinary objects into objects that can be tracked in VR using the Vive’s “lighthouse” tracking system. The Vive...
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HTC Vive Integrates Audio With New Deluxe Headstrap Similar To Rift’s
Instead of revealing a brand new Vive 2.0 of some kind, which HTC already told us wouldn’t be happening, the Taiwan-based company is using CES 2017 to unveil a slew of new accessories consumers can integrate into their already purchased HTC Vive VR headsets. One of the most surprising new additions is the “Deluxe Audio Strap.” If...
HTC Announces Subscription Plan For Viveport
Details are sparse at this point but HTC announced a subscription plan for Vive content at CES today. The company is not talking price, what content will be included in the plan or precisely when it will launch, saying only that pricing and content details would be revealed soon and the service would be made...
Intel’s CES 2017 Press Conference Put The Audience Inside VR
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich held his company’s CES press event inside virtual reality, as Intel provided more than 260 VR units in chairs for all of the press attending the event. Intel’s people began prepping the VR setup before Christmas, and it ran miles of wire through the press event room in doing so. ted...
Vive Tracker Enables a Bevy of Bats, Guns, Gloves, and Other Tracked Accessories
Today at CES 2017 HTC announced the Vive Tracker, a standalone tracking module that’s designed to attach to anything to become tracked in the virtual world. We heard at least as far back as the reveal of the HTC Vive headset back in 2015 that we might one day see a standalone ‘puck’ tracker using...
New HTC Vive ‘Deluxe Audio Strap’ Adds Integrated Headphones, Ratcheting Headstrap
HTC has announced a serious looking upgrade for its Vive headset at CES 2017. The ‘Deluxe Audio Strap’ replaces the original device’s harness and upgrades it with integrated headphones and a new, more robust adjustable head assembly. At CES 2017, HTC may not be announcing the next generation of the Vive headset, but it is concentrating...
Samsung Confirms 5 Million Gear VR Mobile Headsets Sold To Date
Finally we have some indication of how many VR headsets are out in the wild, even if it’s only of the mobile variety. At CES 2017 today, VentureBeat reports that Samsung Electronics America chief Tim Baxter has officially stated during the company’s press event that they’ve officially sold 5 million Samsung Gear VR headsets, which are...
Gap And Google Just Showed Us How AR Shopping Will Work
Innovation across industries is being inspired by emerging AR and VR software and hardware, a fact that was made clear today during the ASUS press conference at CES 2017. During the Zennovation keynote, Asus revealed their ZenFone AR that contains a TriCam system for immersive and high-quality AR experiences. One of those highlighted experiences, the...
Google Introduces 60 Member ‘Tilt Brush’ Artist in Residence Program
Ever since Tilt Brush from Google first released earlier this year on Steam with official support for the HTC Vive, thousands of people have created amazing works of art. The app lets you paint in the air using brushes and strokes that actually occupy the 3D space that surrounds you. Game developers have prototyped levels...
Google Announces Tilt Brush ‘Artist in Residence’ Program Featuring Over 60 Artists
Google have announced a new ‘Artist in Residence’ program which will see over 60 artists introduced to the emergent artistic platform of virtual reality via the company’s own Tilt Brush application. As anyone who’s tried it knows, Google’s Tilt Brush is a delight. Not only was the application an apt demonstration of the HTC Vive’s...