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Reading Time: 2 minutes Exclusive VR escape–room content to be deployed across hundreds of location-based entertainment (LBE) sites. HTC VIVE®, the leader in premium virtual reality (VR) and arcade solutions, today announced a collaboration with ARVI VR to extend their presence to a greater number of location-based entertainment (LBE) VR sites across the globe. The first wave will open this year in China, India, […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes A fan favorite. Reimagined in immersive VIVE VR. Experience it now at VR Zone Portal USA at K1 Speed. With VIVE headsets and trackers, players can not only play Mario Kart Arcade GP in immersive VR, they can shell and peel riders off course too. VR ZONE Portal is a one-of-a-kind virtual reality hub. Originating […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The VIVE family of virtual reality products proudly offers the only native support of wireless for PC VR and we’re excited to extend that distinction to the new Vive Cosmos. We’re fine-tuning performance of the Vive Wireless Adapter with Cosmos and are very close to releasing official support. We expect to deliver adapter compatibility with […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Theme parks are always looking for ways to increase attendance. In theory, VR is the perfect draw. It’s new. It provides a one-of-a-kind attraction. It even breathes life into old rides. Still, enormous as the potential is, VR theme park attractions have long been plagued by fundamental challenges. Long wait times. Questionable sanitary practices. Underwhelming […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Fast, high-quality mocap animation at 400 fps. Brought to you by VIVE Tracker & Shadow® Motion Capture System. Erik Bakke is the co-founder of Motion Workshop, a Seattle-based business that focuses on motion sensor technology and motion capture. We invited him to sit down and discuss his signature Shadow Motion Capture System and what he […]
Reading Time: 5 minutes The future of design, collaboration, visualization—business itself—is immersive. SOLIDWORKS World 2019 has come and gone, but the business world has only just begun to use the tools it revealed to the world. For the next generation of makers, doers, and innovators that want to create things and create them well, there has been incredible advancements […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s that time of year again! We’re excited to share the nominees for the third annual Viveport Developer Awards. In total, there are 8 nominees across 4 categories for PC titles and 3 winners for Mobile titles. This year, we wanted to recognize the developers who are delivering exceptional experiences to our Viveport Subscribers and […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes HTC VIVE™, the leader in room-scale Virtual Reality (VR), today announced a first of its kind collaboration with Mozilla’s Firefox, AWS’s Amazon Sumerian, and Fidelity Investments that will enable consumers to bring VR into their everyday life by providing an immersive web browsing experience in VR. Firefox Reality will become Vive’s native VR browser, providing […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Today HTC VIVE announced a next step in its partnership with Taiwan’s National Palace Museum, one of the major institutions dedicated to preserving human historical artefacts — in bringing the world renowned masterpiece – Up the River During Qingming to life in virtual reality. Starting October 15, A Journey Inside Paintings and Calligraphy: VR Art […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes We sat down with Bob Tetiva, founder and CEO of Sense Arena, a Czech startup that seeks to bring the ice rink to hockey players’ homes, gyms, and training centers. Catch their virtual-reality-based training platform mid-October 2018. Where did the idea of using VR for athletic training come from? Well, for starters, my son plays […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Masterworks: Journey Through History is an educational VR museum where users can explore four culturally significant sites in full roomscale aided by the power of photogrammetry. Developed by FarBridge and published by CyArk, MasterWorks authentically transports users to places not easily accessible, and leverages actual archaeologists and historians to discuss the significance and meaning of these locations and their […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Ultimately, the team decided to build their mock-ups in VR, and it had a profound effect on their entire design process. Bell worked with Sector 5 Digital (S5D), an innovative 3D design and production agency, to help design and sketch the initial model, then create the aircraft in 3D using Computer Aided Design (CAD) software. […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Like most infrastructure companies, Colas Group is not necessarily a household name—though they should be. With 55,000 employees on five continents and an average of 80,000 road construction and maintenance projects every year, Colas’ work and presence are felt the world over. In 2017, their consolidated revenue totaled 11.7 billion euros—with international markets accounting for […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Today at GDC 2018, HTC Vive announced that we are bringing Vive Focus to the global markets later this year. Vive Focus is the first 6DOF stand-alone VR headset to be commercially available. We also are making Vive Focus developer kits available to registered developers in most countries through our developer portal, starting today. […]