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 […]
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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 […]
Covering “Virtual Insanity” in 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 […]
Nvidia stuns by driving a car in real life through ...
HTC is to suspend trading of its stock on the TWSE tomorrow, ahead of what it says will be the release of “material information” pertaining to its business. Read MoreHTC stock suspension adds fuel to Google acquisition rumors
HTC’s latest financials make for another fairly dismal read for the mobile device and VR headset maker, though — crumbs of comfort — it’s making a slightly smaller year-over-year loss. Read MoreHTC has another tough quarter, with revenue down 13% YOY, ...
As VR and AR mature, they’ll borrow more of each other’s expertise; from the one, more immersive environments; from the other, intelligent means of walking the line between virtual and real. One example of such a crossover is the D3-U, a physical camera made for taking pictures in VR. Read MoreThe D3-U is a VR camera you hold IRL
HTC’s PC-powered VR rig is set to get one of the plusses of cheaper mobile VR systems early next year, after the company announced a wireless add-on that will let users untether the headset from the gaming PC required to power it. Read MoreHTC’s Vive VR headset gets unplugged via $220 wireless add-on
HTC’s PC-powered VR rig is set to get one of the plusses of cheaper mobile VR systems early next year, after the company announced a wireless add-on that will let users untether the headset from the gaming PC required to power it. Read MoreHTC’s Vive VR headset gets unplugged via $220 wireless add-on
A brief in 87870 news offers us some interesting news about Vive sales worldwide. Alvin Graylin, China Regional President of VR at HTC, said that the company sold 100,000 units in August, an acceptable if low number for a comparatively expensive ...
New numbers home in on Vive sales
After getting on top of some teething problems with shipping to domestic buyers, Facebook-owned Oculus Rift has opened up pre-orders for its VR headset outside the U.S., announcing today that the kit is available to buyers in Europe (UK, France a...