I have just tried the hands tracking solution offered on the Vive Focus Plus by the Vive Hands Tracking SDK and I want to tell you what has been my experience with it and how it does compare with other hands tracking technologies, like the ones offered by Facebook or UltraLeap. It’s a long time […]
This year I am going to be a speaker at the Vive Ecosystem Conference in Shenzhen, where I will also showcase a game of ours of NTW (Yeah!). I’ve already written a blog post on this, and after that, various people have asked me how to get info about this event, since most of the […]
We know that virtual reality and augmented reality will help all of us in improving a lot of sectors of our lives. A new research by Vive Immersive Labs shows how it can be fundamental to make our office lives better. Let’s see how.
Today it’s a great day for virtual reality: at WCVRI conference, HTC has just announced a kit to provide 6 DOF controllers for Vive Focus and has showcased a hands-tracking technology for the Vive Pro!
The Vive Focus was most probably the best VR standalone on the market when Oculus last week announced what will be the first consumer 6DOF VR standalone headset. And so here we are again: Oculus vs HTC, America vs China, Hugo Barra vs Alvin Wang Graylin. The never-ending story. A commercial war that has given […]
I’ve obtained the beta version of the gesture SDK that Vive is developing for the Vive Focus and that will allow people to command the Vive Focus using only the bare hands and not the controllers. So I started thinking about what I can develop with it and a lot of good ideas came in […]
I have many sweet memories of my trip to China. One of the best of them is when in Beijing I visited the company 7Invensun, a worldwide excellence in eye tracking. It has been a great moment both from a personal and professional side: as a person, I was delighted by their kind attitude: they […]
“Hold my beer”: this is what the Vive Focus has told to all other standalone headsets yesterday at the Vive Ecosystem Conference in Shenzhen. The headset has taken a big step forward with the 2.0 update, that introduces so many features that now it completely justifies its high price of $500-$600. The Focus is now […]
In these days I’m playing a bit with the Vive Focus that Mister President has lent me and one of the first things that I wanted to understand is: how can I stream its content to an external monitor? How can I record a video showing what I’m seeing inside? These things could be useful […]
The past week has been the week of CES, the exhibition where a lot of companies showcased innovative projects or announced disruptive news. Of course it has been an interesting event for AR and VR too: in the first two days, we had some key announcements that will shape how the XR market will be […]
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 […]
