The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2022

Google starts testing its AR glasses in the wild. Google has announced that it is going to start to test the prototypes of its AR glasses in the wild. What is relevant about this piece of news is that Google has just confirmed its strong commitment to augmented reality. More info (Google testing AR glasses?—?Official

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Eye-tracking is arguably one of the most important pieces of VR’s future, and SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI) and Valve are working together to bring the tech closer to reality. Those units have been shipped out to research partners who are currently busy toiling away at getting the most out of VR eye-tracking.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Samsung has partnered with Google to make an XR headset, although the South Korean tech giant hasn’t tipped its hand on what to expect just yet. Despite its $3,500 sticker price, Vision Pro has shown that big and expensive is okay as long as you can engage diehard fans with compelling hardware and greater ecosystem integration.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2024

This Face Tracking add-on magnetically attaches to the facial interface of the device, and it adds to it both eye tracking and face tracking. It features two 120Hz eye-tracking cameras and one 60Hz lower face-tracking camera. This does not mean that Google is not still committed to AR, though.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 16, 2024

The device’s specifications include a 3840 x 3840 pixels per eye resolution, 72Hz/90Hz/120Hz (QLED version)/70Hz/90Hz (micro-OLED 70Hz/90Hz) refresh rate, glass aspheric lenses (QLED version)/glass pancake lenses (micro-OLED), and eye tracking. Its removed features include the Super’s modular design and integrated eye tracking.

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Road to VR

MARCH 12, 2018

Google announced at last year’s Society for Information Display (SID) Display Week that the company was actively working on a VR-optimized OLED panel capable of packing in pixels at a density heretofore never seen outside of microdisplays – all at a supposedly ‘wide’ field of view (FOV). inch AMOLEDs at 90Hz.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 4, 2024

per eye at 90Hz or 2.7K per eye at 120Hz for the base XR2 Gen 2. Finally, the chip includes support for up to 12 concurrent cameras, up from 10 on the base XR2 Gen 2, to enable headsets with a plethora of face and eye tracking sensors. That compares to up to 3.1K Details here: UploadVR David Heaney

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Road to VR

APRIL 18, 2023

The interview wasn’t widely shared in the English-speaking side of the Internet until it landed on Reddit , Google-translated to English. That’s especially so since the last time Valve released any VR hardware was its enthusiast-grade PC VR headset Valve Index in 2019.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 5, 2024

Samsung announced last year that it’s working with both Google and Qualcomm on an XR device. Alongside the announcement of the new Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 chip, Qualcomm also revealed its latest reference headset, a mixed reality device that’s likely the foundation of Samsung’s upcoming headset.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Today at MWC 2024, Samsung unveiled an upcoming XR headset the firm created alongside partners Google and Qualcomm, with a scheduled release window coming in 2025. However, reports suggest the device will have a microOLED display, eight tracking cameras, a ToF sensor, voice commands, eye tracking, and hand tracking.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 11, 2023

Google has unveiled its Geospatial Creator for Unity platform, allowing developers to preview 3D assets via the Unity Editor. Viewing spatially-linked assets on a hyperrealistic 3D planet map, the toolkit powers ARCore and Photorealistic 3D Tiles via the Google Maps Platform, it said on its website.

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Road to VR

MAY 20, 2021

This week Google revealed Project Starline, a booth-sized experimental system for immersive video chatting, purportedly using a bevy of sensors, a light-field display, spatial audio, and novel compression to make the whole experience possible over the web. Image courtesy Google. Image courtesy Google.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Earlier this year, Clay Bavor, VP of VR/AR at Google, revealed a “secret project” to develop a VR-optimised OLED panel capable of 20 megapixels per eye. Bavor went on to explain the performance challenges of 20 MP per eye at 90-120 fps, which works out at unreasonably high data rates of 50-100 Gb/sec.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

As I said a few months ago , we are in the middle of a paradigm change: the cycle that started with the Quest is arriving at an end, and a new cycle driven by new technologies (mixed reality headsets) and new players (Apple, Google) is starting. Google and Samsung Prototype of the Samsung XR headset. Not an easy task.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 23, 2017

A flurry of new job postings suggests Google is ramping up a team to create new consumer VR/AR hardware that goes beyond their Daydream View headset. All of these products are Google designed and branded, marking a major shift for the company which has formerly largely focused on software. Optical Lab Technician.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 9, 2021

Talking about the hardware, we have confirmation about the 2K x 2K per eye resolution and the eye-tracking used for foveated rendering. Google Tensor chip is made for AI and AR. Google has teased its Pixel 6 phones and at the same time, it has also unveiled its first custom-made SoC, called Tensor.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 29, 2023

Google is currently working with Samsung to create an XR headset that directly competes with upcoming Apple’s Vision Pro, leading to a “weird bureaucratic mess,” an employee told Insider. Another employee commented: At Google, there is a great fear that when Apple releases new products, it shifts the landscape.

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ARVR

JUNE 29, 2022

This is something Google doesn`t yet have. New Software VisionLib : SDK with super impressive tracking on 3D objects (ready for Unity as well). link] New Hardware Pico Neo 2 eye : eye tracking, vr and ar, hand tracking. This is something AR has been waiting for in a long time. super expensive.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

JANUARY 31, 2024

AR|VR|MR 2024, apart from other emerging technology, shows its focus display and waveguide solutions – the hardware and software that powers immersive visualisation on MR headsets, AR smart glasses, and more. Yesterday, Google and Mojo Vision representatives introduced the event, kicking off the monumental event with an opening keynote.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 12, 2024

It is always a matter of money and I think this case makes no exception, especially because Meta subsidizes hardware costs with the Store sales. Tiny emitters emit sound waves towards the eyes, and some receptors read how the waves bounce back. I send a big hug to all the people from Plutosphere.

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2017

Over the last 12 months or so we’ve been keeping an eye on Google’s aggressive hiring for its AR/VR team which, among other things, suggested that the company was working on new “mass production” hardware that would go beyond the simple smartphone snap-in Daydream headsets. No pictures were allowed.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

It’s not much, but if this data is starting to surface, probably very soon we’ll discover more info about it via patents or hardware certification websites. Learn more Inseye proposes camera-less eye tracking Inseye has just announced its eye-tracking solution which doesn’t use cameras but photosensors and AI software.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 3, 2024

Moreover, during the set-up process, Vision Pro users can customise “EyeSight,” the device’s eye-tracking system, showing what applications a caller uses during a remote collaboration session. However, the success of the hardware is crucial for a positive user experience and adoption.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 4, 2024

The chipset also helps boost consumer and enterprise-grade XR use cases on headsets and smartglasses by leveraging partnerships with Samsung, Google, Tobii, and Goertek to provide visual clarity for gaming and productivity applications. A leading selling point of the Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 chipset is the hardware’s ability to unlock 4.3K

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 13, 2022

Among the biggest technology brands in the world, and a major name for any company interested in advertising within the digital world, Google has plenty to offer in XR promotion. Most companies investing in concepts like SEO and content marketing will already have a strong knowledge of Google and the company’s wide range of tech resources.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MARCH 4, 2024

Major Firms Enter the XR Market During a launch event at MWC 2024, Samsung showcased a new XR headset developed in collaboration with Google and Qualcomm. Additionally, as Samsung and Google have partnered with Qualcomm, it is reasonable to assume that the device will use the Qualcomm XR2+ Gen 2 Platform, which supports AI-ready wearables.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2024

Vision Pro isn’t exactly revolutionizing XR hardware (though the external display is pretty cool), but its real advantage stands to be a mature software platform that’s easy to use and easy to develop for. The company will now have an equally large peer whose moves in the market can’t be ignored.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

What made the VR 820 so compelling was that it had 6-DoF tracking as well as integrated compute (Snapdragon 820) which was on par with all the latest flagship phones. It even had support for eye tracking, which we now know was through a partnership with none other than SMI.

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VRWorld

JANUARY 9, 2018

Previous winners in the category have included Samsung, for their Gear VR headset, and Google, for their Tilt Brush 3D/VR painting system. LooxidVR is a mobile-based VR headset, similar in design to Samsung’s Gear VR and Google Daydream View , with the added features of having embedded EEG sensors and eye-tracking cameras.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 29, 2024

Meta Quest for Business service allows companies to use a framework of XR hardware, software, and management tools to help enterprise end-users get started with the firm’s immersive portfolio. million from app revenue, which could become a valuable source of income and services for Meta’s XR hardware ecosystem.

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AllThingsVR

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Funding Roundup: Google Acquires Eyefluence, Oblong Industries Raises $65M & InContext Raises $15.2M Google buys Eyefluence , a company that specializes in turning eye movements into virtual actions, to boost its VR hardware. The eye-tracking interface startup founded in 2013 had raised $21.6M

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 5, 2024

The reference design is available to customers now, ready for a range of industrial-specific headset vendors, allowing teams across construction, factories, and marketing to adopt innovative XR hardware. Tom Carter, CEO and co-founder at Ultraleap , said: We believe natural hand interactions will be to VR what touch was to smartphones.

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Road to VR

MAY 25, 2018

.” Standalone headsets have largely made use of SoCs originally designed for smartphones, including the Snapdragon 835 chipset, which services a number of the latest and penultimate-gen flagship smartphones including Samsung’s Galaxy S8, Google Pixel 2, and HTC U11. image courtesy Qualcomm.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 20, 2021

I’m not surprised at all: I’m more surprised actually that Facebook entered the hardware business than I am for Facebook doing ads in AR and VR. When there will be eye-tracking on the Quest 2 Pro, for instance, I bet that viewing and hovering may regard also what you are looking at with your eyes.

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ARPost

JULY 21, 2023

However, Almeida said that he had been waiting for something like an Apple headset for even longer than that – ever since he was, like so many others, disenchanted by the Google Glass device that launched in 2013. If there are a few hidden gems on the Apple Vision Pro, eye tracking and hand tracking are among them.”

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Road to VR

MAY 11, 2018

Because INT hasn’t detailed the size of the panel, it’s impossible to say where it fits on the spectrum of VR hardware. Both JDI and Google are presenting high-pixel-density displays at SID Display Week, with Google showing their 1443ppi OLED on-glass display there as well. ” Image courtesy INT.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

For a while now we’ve been waiting for the industry to coalesce around a standard VR hardware platform. Obviously, not everyone will utilize all of the features of the VR820’s capabilities, but having them available is ultimately what makes a hardware platform a good one. Guest Article by Anshel Sag.

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