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This Startup Aims to Deliver a VR Headset with ‘Human Eye Level’ Resolution

Road to VR

.” Codenamed 20|20 , Varjo (meaning ‘shadow’ in Finnish) built their early prototype inside of a hacked Oculus Rift by a team of optical scientists, creatives and developers who formerly occupied top positions at Microsoft, Nokia, Intel, Nvidia and Rovio. Comparative matrix. Effective resolution. Field of view. Varjo 20|20.

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Getting Hands-On with the New HoloLens

Tech Trends VR

Microsoft’s new piece of kit doesn’t disappoint, but the real excitement of its MWC announcement goes well beyond the hardware. Microsoft is in this for the long haul and will continue cashing in just fine without even touching the consumer market Click To Tweet. That’s the low-hanging fruit as far as Microsoft is concerned.

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Breaking Down Facebook’s XR Road Map

AR Insider

Instagram-ready) cameras, and possibly eye-tracking too. And that means they’ll collect a ton of user data now, using machine learning to inform more optimized hardware for actual consumers later. 2023+: Eye Tracking and beyond. If the first glasses don’t have eye-tracking, expect it to follow within a year or two.

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PlayStation VR2 Review: Next-Generation VR Gaming For PS5

Upload VR

Microsoft briefly showed interest for Xbox , while Nintendo’s Labo VR efforts barely count. PSVR 2 System Pricing & Overall Package For a launch price of $550, PSVR 2 offers some impressive specifications: an OLED display; eye-tracking; adaptive triggers; haptic feedback in both the controllers and headset; and more.

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Meta and the next 24 months crucial for its leadership

The Ghost Howls

In the case of VR, we all remember the competition between HTC and Oculus in 2016, with HTC clearly winning the market until Oculus used Facebook’s money to slash the price of the Rift around 2017. Other companies like Nreal and Microsoft are in a better position, but just because we are in the very early stages of the market.

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My predictions for augmented reality in 2019

The Ghost Howls

On the contrary, Microsoft has worked a lot on the platform, to make it more appealing to enterprise customers. It has released experiences like Microsoft Remote Assist, that let different teams in a company work together to solve maintenance problems. Of course, it will exploit the already awesome Microsoft platform.

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Pimax Crystal hands-on part two : A very versatile headset

The Ghost Howls

Introduction Following my first article earlier this year, Pimax’s Crystal has pleasantly surprised me with a series of software updates that activated new hardware features , whilst bringing quality-of-life improvements to headset connection and tracking. Happy anniversary , Pimax!