Road to VR

APRIL 3, 2019

Oculus is today launching their ‘Expressive Avatars’ update on Rift and mobile VR; it’s a significant step up in realism thanks to a few additions including cleverly simulated eye models, lipsync, and even microexpressions. Oculus previously used eye wear to avoid off-putting stares, Image courtesy Oculus.

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JULY 3, 2023

Palmer Luckey gave his take on Meta Quest Pro and Apple Vision Pro and explained what he would do differently if still at Oculus. If you're unaware, Luckey founded Oculus VR in 2012 to launch the Kickstarter campaign that would eventually lead to the consumer Oculus Rift in 2016, after two publicly sold development kits.

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JULY 5, 2017

inches diagonally that boast 3,000 pixels per inch (PPI)—a significant jump from Oculus Rift of HTC Vive’s 447-461 PPI. It’s also difficult to say how a hardware-based solution will stand up to everyday use since it requires lenses to physically move every time your eye shifts position. Oculus, Vive.

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OCTOBER 31, 2022

Developers and hardware solution providers have been working together over the past few decades to build VR headsets capable of hosting immersive experiences. Form factors have improved dramatically since then, and most people are familiar with the first commercially-available VR headset, then-Facebook’s Oculus Rift. VR, Defined.

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JULY 8, 2018

With leading high-end VR headsets debuting in 2016, we’ve had about two years to see what the first-generation VR experience looks like. Oculus Half Dome Prototype. Prior to launch the first consumer Rift headset, Oculus had a long history of showing prototypes and development kits. Oculus Santa Cruz.

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OCTOBER 18, 2016

It may only be two years old, but Oculus’ Connect developer conference has already established some cherished traditions. Abrash’s 2021 predictions for VR, presented at Oculus Connect 3 in 2016. Prediction: Eye-tracking will play a big part in the future of VR. So what exactly did Abrash predict?

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DECEMBER 17, 2019

Considering the timing and scope of London Studio’s work, we expect the title will target next-gen PSVR 2 and PS5 hardware. The studio was responsible for the PSVR launch title PlayStation VR Worlds (2016) , a collection of mini-games which remains today one of the best introductions to the possibilities of VR gaming.

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MARCH 20, 2018

Epic Games have detailed Unreal Engine’s support for the Magic Leap One Creator Edition on their blog, which confirms some significant hardware features of the device, including eye tracking, hand tracking, and room scanning. Nvidia RTX. Stealth game ‘Budget Cuts’ resurfaces.

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JANUARY 19, 2024

It introduces new features never before shipped, and its visionOS fuses eye tracking and hand tracking for intuitive input with a unique take on the spectrum of immersion. Hand Tracking Apple describes the hand tracking quality as "so precise, it completely frees up your hands from needing clumsy hardware controllers."

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 21, 2019

Original image from Oculus). Oculus Rift and Gear VR have sold 10M units. At the beginning of the week, Jack McCauley, one of the founders of the Oculus startup, had claimed in an interview with CNBC that Facebook VR will never succeed. Of course, he was not only talking about Oculus but about VR in general.

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VRScout

JULY 19, 2016

On March 25th, 2014, many people were left scratching their heads: why did Facebook spend 2 billion dollars to acquire a Kickstarter funded virtual reality company called Oculus. Superdata, a market research company, continues to downgrade its 2016 virtual reality sales projections ; beginning the year at $5.1 VR Consumption, 2016.

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JUNE 6, 2019

HTC had the hottest VR headset out of the gate in 2016, but the thinning margins on consumer hardware thanks to Oculus have pushed them into the enterprise business. The only difference over the previous-generation Vive Pro (with a $1,399 bundle price) is the eye-tracking capabilities.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

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. There are so periods during the evolution of a tech with a certain group of leaders, who change over time.

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JANUARY 10, 2022

Comparing PSVR vs. PSVR 2 specs side-by-side shows us how much has changed since Sony’s first consumer headset released in 2016. The original PSVR was released about six months after the first major consumer VR headsets—HTC Vive and Oculus Rift—hit the market back in 2016. 3.5mm aux output. 3.5mm aux output. Microphone.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

As it turns out, heavy Oculus Rift usage is linked to increased dream lucidity ; the more time people spent in virtual environments, the higher their ability to dream lucidly. RAZER: ZVENTURES VC FUND – Starting as a hardware company and evolving into a software company as well, Razer is now also growing into an investing company.

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JUNE 15, 2020

The Pico Neo 2 Eye is a standalone VR headset built for business. Going by the hardware specifications, it is an upgrade in many areas compared to the Oculus Quest. Plus, it has some unique features too, like electromagnetic tracking, wireless SteamVR streaming, and integrated eye-tracking. Eye-Tracking.

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MARCH 16, 2019

According to a report by UploadVR , citing emails sent from Facebook to Oculus developers, the rumored Rift S headsets will be revealed next week at GDC. Rift S was first brought to light in a TechCrunch report last year about the leadership shakeup at Oculus and purported shifting product plans. Image courtesy Oculus.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Oculus Connect, the company’s annual developer conference, is here once again. Now in its fifth year, Oculus is expected to update the world on what’s next from in VR content and hardware. Taking place this week on the 26th & 27th, Oculus Connect 5 will be hosted in San Jose, CA. Image courtesy Oculus.

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

Wedged somewhat inconsiderately at the very start of every year (it’s OK CES organisers, no one in the tech industry have families they want to spend time with), the annual Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas is still the biggest event for hardware in the world. Oculus’ Pre-DK1 Prototype, shown at CES 2013.

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JANUARY 9, 2020

While the company is targeting enterprise customers in the West, the Neo 2 line is eyeing up the same hardware category as Facebook’s Oculus Quest, and doing a solid job at that. The only appreciable difference between the the Neo 2 and Neo 2 Eye is that the latter includes integrated eye-tracking from Swedish firm Tobii.

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JANUARY 21, 2020

Me wearing the Oculus Quest. On the other side, PC gamers are appreciating the high-quality Valve Index (even if it has some reliability issues ), and casual gamers are loving the Oculus Quest. This year, I’m not going to make an exception, also because my predictions for 2019 performed pretty well.

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JANUARY 2, 2019

The device is still too expensive and too limited both in hardware and in available content for the general consumer. No other app has replicated that success and there must be a reason: the user experience of AR mobile app is awful, with the user required to continuously have the smartphone in front of his eyes.

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OCTOBER 31, 2016

I think Oculus is getting there, but I still think it’s behind, to be candid, even with the latest stuff that is coming out for Christmas. The big issue with mobile VR today is that it doesn’t have six degrees of freedom, so it’s very limited in positional tracking. There’s actually understanding there.

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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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MARCH 24, 2017

Today’s most immersive virtual reality systems, like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, rely on a bothersome tether to send power and high fidelity imagery to the headset at low latency. IMR has developed an algorithm and hardware that enables wireless transmission and streaming of VR video over the leading wireless standards.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Here’s our technical analysis of it as VR hardware. PSVR 2 offers major upgrades over the original 2016 product. PSVR 1 required an array of cables connected to a breakout box and a PlayStation Camera, while PSVR 2 connects via a single USB-C cable and has onboard cameras for inside-out tracking. Headset Rumble ?

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AUGUST 7, 2019

In January 2014, he launched his second print titled The Startup Monthly in May 2016, he launched — what I love — VRVoice.co, a content vertical on all things virtual reality. One my the reasons I started looking at VR again in 2016 was because of that video gaming interest. Huge, huge gaming conference.

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AUGUST 7, 2019

In January 2014, he launched his second print titled The Startup Monthly in May 2016, he launched — what I love — VRVoice.co, a content vertical on all things virtual reality. One my the reasons I started looking at VR again in 2016 was because of that video gaming interest. Huge, huge gaming conference.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Additionally, founding the Upload Academy, a VR/AR developer training program, which graduated its first class in August with a number of success stories including Found – a gorgeous Miyazaki-esque narrative experience created by four of our students which was recently recognized on stage during the Oculus Connect Keynote. January 2016.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Apple Vision Pro is a very impressive fusion of hardware and software, but it's by no means perfect. Read on for my breakdown of the Vision Pro hardware and software and the experience they enable. That Damn Battery Arguably the fiercest hardware debate right now in the industry is what to do with the damn battery.

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AUGUST 7, 2019

In January 2014, he launched his second print titled The Startup Monthly in May 2016, he launched -- what I love -- VRVoice.co, a content vertical on all things virtual reality. One my the reasons I started looking at VR again in 2016 was because of that video gaming interest. Huge, huge gaming conference. It makes E3 look minuscule.

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JANUARY 9, 2017

Unless overuse of VR headsets has granted them telepathic super powers, it would have been pretty hard for any one person to predict everything that happened to the VR industry in 2016. 2) 2017 needs to be about experimentation, just like 2015 and 2016. 4) VR is here, 2016 was the year of VR availability.

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JANUARY 14, 2017

I ended up at Valve Software running their hardware department, putting the team together that created the HTC Vive. As hardware and software mature, awareness is driven by wonderful things like Pokemon Go. Instead of having to install applications to do this, it’ll be part of the OS and part of the hardware itself.

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

Asgard’s Wrath 2 Developer: Sanzaru Games Publisher: Oculus Studios Available On: Meta Quest (exclusive) Release Date: December 15th, 2023 Asgard’s Wrath 2 is massive in every measurable dimension. Want to learn more about Vertigo 2 ? Read our full review to find out why we gave it [9.5/10].

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VRScout

MARCH 6, 2017

In the fall of 2016, Microsoft announced a partnership with a handful of hardware manufacturers to make developer headsets implementing the inside-out tracking technology seen on the HoloLens. VALVE’S R&D IN EYE-TRACKING TO INCREASE. …and more. LA, GET EXCITED: BJORK’S VR EXHIBITION COMES TO LOS ANGELES.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2022

As someone who has spent a lot of time using different PCVR controllers like Wands, Index, Windows MR, and different versions of Oculus Touch, I wondered: how would these Sword controllers compare? The new design was certainly different, a first glance a mutant offspring of the new PSVR2 controller and an Oculus Touch.

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DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the two different components about that, one being the resource guide, just starting to learn about how to meet as an avatar, which hardware to use, the accessibility challenges that are out there and really writing. So front facing cameras, IR cameras, eye tracking cameras, facial tracking cameras, all of these things.

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