Road to VR

JUNE 2, 2016

million Series Seed investment back in 2015. We’ve seen a myriad of attempts, but so far none that match the precision, latency, and robustness of the ‘outside-in’ approach employed by devices like the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. The $20 million Series A investment follows a $5.5

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Australian startup Immersive Robotics are poised to deliver what they claim is a truly universal wireless solution for PC VR headsets that delivers tether-free virtual reality with minimal compromises in quality and extremely low latency. Dr Daniel Fitzgerald. IMR was co-founded by Tim Lucas and Dr Daniel Fitzgerald. . ” Skeptical?

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Much like Oculus, FOVE began as a successful Kickstarter which raised $480,000 , nearly twice its goal, back in mid-2015. FOVE hopes to be the first VR headset on the market with eye-tracking, and we expect other major headsets like the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and PlayStation VR to add eye-tracking in future product iterations.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 19, 2016

FacioMetrics spun out of Carnegie Mellon University in 2015 as a response to market demand surrounding use of facial image analysis. It’s taking something that’s a known technology, but it was getting it to be fast on a phone and to be able to be done at a low enough latency, without dropping frames, stuttering, or…blurring.”

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Established in 2015, Circuit Stream has helped over 40,000 people learn to design and develop virtual reality and augmented reality applications. If you’re going to do a lot of development, you had better use Oculus Link through a USB 3.0 Also, install the Oculus app and the Oculus Hub on your computer.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

When accuracy and latency isn’t low enough, the augmented objects swing around with your head and your brain doesn’t consider them part of the world. See Also: Former Oculus VP of Engineering Demonstrates Long Range VR Tracking System. See Also: Oculus CTO Affirms Positional Tracking Priority for Gear VR.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Top 50 Terminologies related to AR/VR The Medical Staff Abbott uses Oculus Go for cardiologist virtual reality training Abbott chooses VR technology to facilitate the user training on its intracoronary imaging platform. The program is done with Oculus Go device and shows amazing results : learning engagement +45% and knowledge retention +72%.

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Oculus Connect 5 is taking place in a few days in San Jose, California on September 26-27th at the McEnery Convention Center. Last year, Oculus Go, a $199 standalone VR headset, has blown people’s minds. It is rumored that the Oculus team will spend a considerable amount of time discussing Project Santa Cruz at the event in California.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 31, 2015

On another level, a high school student’s robotics project is combining the Oculus Rift and motion control to create an experience that takes you wherever the robot goes. The Oculus Rift’s accelerometer is read with a custom C++ app (with plans to rewrite this into the Python app instead). Babbage: The VR Telepresence Rover.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 23, 2016

In June 2015 our experiments of the “variable force feedback” design along with some other force feedback attempt was proven to be working. So what’s the next step for VR? In Oct 2014 we launched and then canceled the KS project. But we found our way of gathering capital after that and pushed Dexmo into Manufacturing afterall.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Launching at an odd time (well before any full 6DOF mobile headsets are available to consumers) is AMD’s Radeon ReLive for VR feature which promises to stream SteamVR games from your PC to mobile headsets with high quality and low latency. When testing at 100 Mbps he found the resultant image sharp but too choppy for play.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus. An iconic image of Jeremy Bailenson wearing an Oculus Rift DK2 (Image taken from Medium). I am always fascinated when I speak with someone that is here before the Oculus Kickstarter campaign. Or how does resolution or latency affect simulator sickness?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

In November 2015, UploadVR.com marked its first birthday at the dawn of the consumer VR age. November 2015. The $100 consumer Gear VR also debuts during this same period, arriving alongside a virtual arcade from Oculus to let people play some classic games. December 2015.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This week has been the week of the Oculus Connect 6 , the biggest yearly event by Oculus where the VR company announces all its most important news, both on hardware and software sides. Oculus Link. You can even access to Oculus Home and Dash. Oculus Link will be available in beta in November 2019.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 13, 2016

When the first consumer version of the Oculus Rift was launched in the spring, it was disappointingly bundled with a Microsoft Xbox controller – and we’ve eagerly been awaiting the native Touch Controllers. Now, the day is here, and the wait was… worth it? …and more… IMAX COMPLETES FIRST ROUND OF $50M FUND.

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