We hear that the HTC Vive is getting a makeover soon. Okay, a makeover of its straps.But we should get to know Intugame. The company is behind a communications interface tool of called Quark VR and it could be the bridge between the next Vive headset and the computer — no more wires.The company announced that it has been working with Valve for several months in conjunction with a ...
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It’s not just enough that your virtual reality platform runs on SteamVR with the backing of one of the biggest gaming companies in the world. With augmented reality headsets and smartphones addressing practical issues, the HTC Vive needs to be more than just about hit points ...
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After months of denial, the CEO of HTC finally announced at the comapny’s latest shareholders meeting that it is looking for partnerships and cash to give its virtual reality efforts a full-blown partition in the company.According to Digitimes, Cher Wang described VR as an easy revenue source with an explosion of development taking place in education, healthcare, retail and ...
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Is this whole “online ordering” thing just a crapshoot to you? Want to get away from the evils of Amazon Prime? Or the shipping confirmation pages of those cartel cargo movers? Do you absolutely abhor the
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HTC Vive sales had a short stumble as its first batch of devices had all been ordered up, leaving the product sold out on the website. While things are back up again and backorder fulfilments are now up through May, the company’s still figuring out at how it can extend sales.Dan O’Brien, vice president of planning and product management for HTC Vive, said in an interview with FORTUNE that the company will “have PC bundles with Vive-optimized PCs on our website soon,” but he ...
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Well, someone’s proud of their work.After a ton of build-up, the HTC Vive was unleashed unto the world, at least in pre-order form. HTC VR Product Specialist Shen Ye revealed on Twitter that its Vive headset blew past 15,000 pre-orders in under 10 minutes of its availability.Woah, more than 15k units in less than 10min :o— Shen Ye (@shen)
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Almost every major tech company tasks a unit to head a search for the next vertical that said company can infiltrate and dominate. Yes, Alphabet pretty much has that down-pat, but whether it’s called an “innovation center” or a “creative lab,” it’s there somewhere within the beasts.Enter Drew Bamford, VP of the Creative Labs at HTC. Remember that big three-pronged lifestyle push fronted by the
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In addition to bugfixes and UI enhancements, HTC Vive Pre owners are getting a major feature update to their SteamVR betas. In addition to the Chaperone Mode we got to try out at CES this year, there’s now Direct Mode where the driving computer’s GPU to work with the Vive headset and deliver images separately to both the monitor and the ...
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You know how bad the hype is for the HTC Vive? You really want to know? Well, you may be familiar with Frontier Developments’ big first-person space simulator, Elite: Dangerous. It’s in the process of dawdling its way over to Oculus Rift right now. We say dawdling because the Frontier has admitted to putting ...
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