In China I met the company 7Invensun, that is a worldwide leader for what concerns eye tracking. Being them very kind, they gave me as a gift an aGlass DK II eye tracking add on for HTC Vive and I used it to experiment with eye tracking interfaces. After some days of usage, I think […]
During my Chinese adventure, in the period that I was leaving Shanghai to go to Chengdu to watch pandas, I had the opportunity to interview via WeChat Qiyong Chen, one of the people leading the Virtual Reality R&D experiments at HTC Immersive Labs. I wanted to ask him about HTC’s research on the use of […]
Two days ago, I’ve been at HTC Vive Chinese headquarters in Beijing. It has been a really amazing day, where I have been able to try some amazing HTC tech demos (more on this later on! Don’t miss it!) and especially to talk with some special people. I’ve been able to speak with three companies […]
6 DOF Virtual reality standalone headsets are cool, but of course introduce some safety problems: how can you be sure that moving you aren’t going to stumble on a wall, on a cat or on your girlfriend? For this reason, headsets producers are working on solutions to show you some safety boundaries telling you where […]
In this period, I’m so lucky that I have on my desk two great 6 DOF standalone headsets that have been lent to me: the Lenovo Mirage Solo and the Vive Focus. Both headsets are able to track your position in space, to offer you a virtual reality where you can move potentially wherever you […]
Today I’ve had the occasion to meet HTC China president Alvin Wang Graylin in my city, Turin (Italy). He had to be here to do some business, so two weeks ago he asked me if I was ok with the idea of meeting him for a chat. Being a big fan of him, I was […]
Some days ago, the Mobile World Congress 2018 has finished. I expected a lot of AR/VR news from there, like the announcement of the price of the Vive Pro or the release of the Oculus Go by Xiaomi and Facebook… but actually I’ve been disappointed by everyone. The number of announcements or important news has […]
Today I want to talk with you about the interview I made with China Regional President of Vive, Mr. Alvin Wang Graylin. Yes, you’ve read it well, I interviewed for one hour the president of Vive China and I asked him about the recently announced Vive products, China XR ecosystem and VR in general. It […]
Hello everyone! Last year at CES, HTC Vive announced two great products: the Vive Tracker and the Vive Wireless Adapter, that have been great both for innovators and enterprise users. This year the company has made other great announcements, even bigger than the ones of last year, by presenting: A new improved Vive Pro headset […]
Yesterday, during Vive Developer Conference in Beijing, Vive China president has announced two great news for the company: the standalone headset Vive Focus and the mobile VR platform Vive Wave. The event has taken place in China and these announcements will regard only the Chinese market, but I think that in the long term these […]
I talked a lot about how headsets wire is a big issue in virtual reality. I talked about standalone headsets and about HTC project to make Vive wireless. We were all thinking that this was only experimental research, when yesterday HTC made the big announcement: you can buy a device to make your Vive wireless! […]
