# HTC Vive Projects at AI Tinkerers

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The HTC Vive is the PC-powered virtual reality headset (released April 2016) that pioneered 'room-scale' 6DoF tracking via its Valve SteamVR Lighthouse system.

The HTC Vive, a virtual reality (VR) headset released in April 2016, was a landmark collaboration between HTC and Valve Corporation. It introduced the industry-defining 'room-scale' VR experience, utilizing external Lighthouse base stations to precisely track the user's headset and two handheld controllers across a large play area (up to 14 feet by 14 feet). The original PC-tethered model featured dual 1080x1200 OLED displays with a 90 Hz refresh rate, running on the SteamVR platform. This technology fundamentally shifted VR from a seated experience to an active, full-body immersion, proving its value across gaming, education, and professional enterprise applications.

- Official technology site: https://www.vive.com
- Public AI Tinkerers demos and talks: 1
- Result page: 1 of 1

## Recent Public Talks and Demos

### [Lightning Artist Toolkit: A Hand-Drawn Volumetric Animation Pipeline](https://toronto.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_xMiqZgrEDLU)

We propose a set of ML methods for freely integrating live-action volumetric video with hand-drawn volumetric animation. The Kinect, the first consumer depth camera, arrived in 2010; in 2016, the HTC Vive headset introduced the first mass-market 6DoF controllers. Combined, these two advances unlocked a new approach to creating frame-by-frame animation with 6DoF drawing tools, which our research develops as the Lightning Artist Toolkit (Latk)—a complete pipeline for hand-drawn volumetric animation.

- Event context: AI Tinkerers - Toronto - May 2024 Meetup — 2024-05-30 — Toronto
- Public talk page: https://toronto.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_xMiqZgrEDLU

## Related Technologies

- [6DoF controllers](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/6dof-controllers) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/6dof-controllers.md)) — 1 public demo
- [Kinect](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/kinect) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/kinect.md)) — 1 public demo
- [Volumetric video](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/volumetric-video) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/volumetric-video.md)) — 1 public demo