XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 19, 2024

While the Meta Quest Pro offered a big step up to the Quest 2 when launched in October 2022, the arrival of the Quest 3, with features that outshine the Pro in certain areas and a lower price tag, has left business leaders wondering whether the premium headset is worthwhile. Here’s everything you need to know about the Meta Quest Pro.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Besides the A5 chip, backlit touch surface, support for stereo speaker setups, Ultra Wideband capability and $100 price tag, there’s something else about the new HomePod Mini that you might not have noticed: support for a little-known smart home protocol called Thread. The protocol could become a lot more significant… Read more.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Gorilla Tag is launching on the Quest Store after gathering more than 4.5 Push off of surfaces to jump and squeeze them with both hands to climb. The game mode is simple tag, for up to 3 players, or infection mode, with 4 or more. Gorilla Tag is also available on Steam. ” No buttons, no sticks, no teleportation.

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AR Insider

MAY 4, 2021

Its Windows Mobile OS licensing model lost share to Android’s more compelling price tag (free) last decade. That can be seen in Surface laptops (a vessel for Windows and Office products), as well as Hololens.

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Digital Trends

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Microsoft's Surface Duo 2 debuted with a $1,499 price tag. In light of last year's debacle, you might think that's a mistake. It's not.

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JUNE 14, 2017

Now new images of the experience have surfaced. Tagged with: Mario Kart Arcade GP VR Facebook Twitter Reddit More. Bandai Namco had a very non-E3 surprise for us yesterday, announcing new additions to its VR Zone arcade in Tokyo, Japan that included a Mario Kart VR titles running on the HTC Vive.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 22, 2023

Brands can use the service to create goe-tagged AR graphics, which consumers can view via smart glasses or a phone. Environmental understanding: This supports the phone in detecting the location and sizes of all surface types, including horizontal, vertical, and angled surfaces. Who Can Use Google ARCore?

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ARVR

MARCH 10, 2021

Collective experiences are experiences that are highly social, and in terms of virtual worlds, I tend to define them as ones that result in information spreading across platforms, to draw people into a virtual world from flat surfaces. Enticing People to Try Out Your Universe Intent to enter into a virtual world starts on flat surfaces.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

When users access the experience through the USA TODAY app, they place an AR model of the crime scene on a flat surface in their physical environment. The elements to select include a body outline, evidence tags, and items in the virtual environment. So, what does the AR experience bring to the table? Experiencing True Crime.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Without it, our virtual fingers are little more than ghosts floating through items and surfaces. Technology that stops us putting our hands and heads through virtual surfaces, or allows us to have far more realistic sword battles is still some ways off, but we’ll welcome any enhancements to existing systems in the meantime.

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JANUARY 5, 2017

Objects created by HoloLamp can be manipulated with a PlayStation 4 controller today, but in the future the company wants to make control of objects possible by touching the surface where an image is projected. Tagged with: ar , CES , hologram , hololamp. This post by Khari Johnson originally appeared on VentureBeat.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 7, 2020

All of this is done by moving your feet on a low-friction parabolic surface that requires special low-friction shoes. Omni One is a consumer version of the Omni that Virtuix says is optimized for home use, including a light frame, foldable body for easy storage, and a freedom of movement that boasts walking, running, crouching and jumping.

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JUNE 22, 2017

A quick start guide for these new controllers has just surfaced online, letting developers know how to (literally) get to grips with them. Tagged with: SteamVR Facebook Twitter Reddit More. Earlier this week we saw a virtual prototype for the kit within SteamVR Home, and now a setup guide has revealed even more information.

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MARCH 1, 2017

Similar to Kingspray, Ghost Paint allows you to spray paint and tag various surfaces all while donning your Vive headset. There are also a variety of locales such as alleyways, concrete drainage channels and city buildings where you can plop and tag to your heart’s desire. Tagged with: Epic Games , GDC , painting.

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JUNE 26, 2017

Less than a week ago new models of Valve’s prototype Knuckles controller surfaced in SteamVR Home. Tagged with: Knuckles , valve Facebook Twitter Reddit More. The device is an attempt to innovate in the VR space with controllers that allow you to grab and release in VR without being concerned with dropping a controller.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 30, 2022

When people search phrases related to suicide or domestic violence, Google will surface an information box with details about how to seek help. Previously, Google manually tagged searches for known hotspots that would surface harm reduction information boxes. For example, there are some places known as suicide "hot spots."

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APRIL 6, 2017

From the looks of the images, it seems that these AR projections will be placed onto commonplace 2D surfaces such as dining tables. Tagged with: augmented reality , disney Facebook Twitter Reddit More. The patent was filed by the Mouse House today and is titled: Augmented Reality Controls for User Interactions with a Virtual World.

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APRIL 6, 2017

To put it in a little more detailed way: if we can capture and describe every single light ray across an extended surface, that means that for anyone that is walking inside that surface we can direct the light rays into their pupil. Tagged with: display , light field display , light fields , visby Facebook Twitter Reddit More.

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ARPost

JANUARY 8, 2020

We’ve only scratched the surface of what is possible when WebAR is applied creatively. Customers could interact with Puma’s web app by scanning QR codes found on shoe tags and throughout the store. The technology has gained significant traction already with awesome new campaigns popping up in mainstream contexts.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Its Windows Mobile OS licensing model quickly lost share to Android’s more compelling price tag (free) last decade. That can be seen in Surface laptops (a vessel for Windows and Office products), as well as the category-leading Hololens. Of course, the trend stretches beyond the big five ( let’s not forget Facebook ).

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Road to VR

JANUARY 9, 2023

That means that as you tighten the headset you can feel a big, flat, plastic surface pushing against your head. And even if we ignore that Quest 2 has a much more extensive content library… it’s difficult to see how, for most people, Vive XR Elite can justify an $1,100 price tag compared to Quest 2 at $400.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

This breed of quick run-and-gun gameplay is par for the course in non-VR arena shooters, and on the surface Solaris has done a commendable job of translating the main tropes into VR. After playing a few matches, it felt like I was playing a very cool version of VR laser tag.

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MAY 4, 2017

Surface relief waveguides. Now engrave a series of these into the surface of a lens. These micro-ridges are referred to as a “surface relief” waveguide. A surface relief waveguide of this kind was patented and first commercialized by Nokia. Others have been inspired by the surface relief design.

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JULY 28, 2017

This week, though, impressive new footage of the game has surfaced online. Tagged with: arktika.1 It’s been a while since we’ve seen 4A Games’ Arktika.1 1 , the post-apocalyptic first-person shooter for the Oculus Rift. We don’t know when it’ll be out just yet, but we’re hoping it’s soon.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2017

It’s the same game as it was on mobile VR, with a core mechanic that lets players walk on any surface in a square room, with that surface then becoming the floor and gravity shifting accordingly. The former is the standard way to play the game; you’ll see walls shift around you as you step onto new surfaces.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

Tooltip – Annotation user interface includes a flexible anchor/pivot mechanism for tagging motion controllers and other items. All solutions may be safely layered, such as tag-along behavior plus surface magnetism and momentum. Slider – User interface slider for altering settings that support direct hand tracking.

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MAY 17, 2017

That said, the Daydream controller features a touchpad that can offer some depth effect by running your finger backward or forward along its surface. Tagged with: Worldsense Facebook Twitter Reddit More.

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MAY 30, 2017

Using HoloLens’ depth sensing Mario traverses a bedroom, jumping over tables and surfaces, occasionally falling to the floor. Tagged with: super mario Facebook Twitter Reddit More. 好きなところにマリオを出現させて歩きまわらせられるアプリを作りました。 pic.twitter.com/DVKTIeuqZP. — niu（にぅ） (@niusounds) May 20, 2017.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Rumours of renewed work on Google’s Project Iris augmented reality (AR) smart glasses have surfaced on the internet, according to reports. However, reports in August surfaced that Google insiders had said original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) had received pitches from potential Project Iris developers, including Samsung Electronics.

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VRScout

JUNE 11, 2020

The lens design combines different refractive index lenses for minimal color aberrations, zero ghost rays, and minimal reflections and each surface coating has been designed to maximize the brightness and clarity of the light needed to achieve human-eye resolution.

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AR Insider

JUNE 19, 2020

For example, lens creators can tag their lenses so that they’re surfaced whenever users scan thematically-related objects. There are also now more tools in Lens Studio to help them get discovered — a key feature given that the library is getting crowded with one million lenses to date. ” Eyes and Ears.

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AUGUST 5, 2017

When someone brings up the idea of augmented reality gaming a couple of pop cultural references tend to surface. Tagged with: ar , augmented reality , HoloLens , yugioh Facebook Twitter Reddit More. As AR starts to take off amongst developers it was only a matter of time before we saw a fully functional Yu-Gi-Oh!

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JULY 14, 2017

Notably, he is also wearing gloves that resemble Manus VR gloves and is standing on a treadmill-like surface. Tagged with: ready player one Facebook Twitter Reddit More. The headset in the image looks very similar to the ones we saw teased from when the movie was filming. Let us know down in the comments below!

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 7, 2023

You can watch the headset part of the presentation below: The price tag. OMG, the price tag Really? Not because the display is transparent — but because the entire outside surface is a display screen that shows you a video of the person’s eyes. I was very much disappointed by the actual announcement on Monday.

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JANUARY 6, 2017

Through the application, images of varying complexity and detail are overlaid onto a flat surface, be it a sheet of paper or even a wall. Tagged with: ar , art , drawing , Practical , SketchAR. Using your mobile device, SketchAR is going to make an artist out of you yet.

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JUNE 9, 2017

Built with Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4, the app’s take on Mars was assembled using real-world orbital satellite data, allowing users to explore 15 square miles of the planet’s surface. Tagged with: Mars 2030 Facebook Twitter Reddit More. Please god let it be better than The Martian VR.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2017

As a simple side project, the developer has brought a fully functioning Portal gun onto Microsoft’s HoloLens, and it’s able to shoot its iconic orange and blue reality-defying doors onto different surfaces in the real world. Tagged with: HoloLens , mixed reality , portal. It even realistically rolls down a set of stairs.

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