Cats and VR

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

pic.twitter.com/L4tln5SM8I — Google VR (@googlevr) February 22, 2017. Google has made some neat technology that makes VR headsets "transparent" for Mixed Reality use. Next, we use an HTC Vive, modified by SMI to include eye-tracking, to capture the person’s eye-gaze from inside the headset.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In 2018 it partnered with Google on the $400 Mirage Solo , the first standalone headset with positional tracking launched outside China – though it was overshadowed by Facebook’s $200 rotation-only Oculus Go. Lenovo has a relatively long history in VR. And in 2019 it partnered with Facebook on Oculus Rift S.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 3, 2017

More than 70 virtual and argumented reality companies will showcase their products, innovations and demos at CES 2017, starting this Thursday in Las Vegas. Three degrees of freedom refers to headsets that only track if the user is turning their head — looking left and right, tilting the head left and right, and looking up and down.

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MAY 18, 2017

Yesterday we learned that Google is teaming up with Qualcomm to produce a new line of standalone VR headsets, made in partnership with companies like HTC and Lenovo. We wrote about the 835 as a processor for phones at CES 2017 back in January. It was also said that the chip could be used for 6 degrees of freedom (6DOF) tracking.

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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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NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Google’s Most Experienced VR Studio Changes Leadership Andrew Eiche is taking over Job Simulator studio Owlchemy Labs. The long time operations head at the Google-owned VR development studio is taking over for Devin Reimer, who says he’s leaving “to focus on new opportunities outside the company” after 12 years with the studio.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

That’s nothing in comparison to the truly dizzying array of features and usecases—you might call ‘Pimaxian’ at this point—as the company is again throwing out a long list of attractive-sounding accessories, much like its original Pimax ‘8K’ headset Kickstarter in 2017. But wait, there’s another headset.

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Road to VR

MARCH 12, 2018

The Decentralized Identity Foundation formed in May 2017 with a number of blockchain companies and bigger companies like Microsoft who got together to open source their blockchain identity IP in order to create a number of decentralized identity open standards.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

Just to make an example, I was there when there was the Netscape vs Internet Explorer war, but now the leading web browser is Google Chrome. Google Chrome, for instance, has been helped a lot by the fact that it is the pre-installed browser on all Android phones. Google Glass v2. No one can compete now. What will happen?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

More or less AR in 2018 has gone as I predicted in 2017. This has already started happening in 2018: the Vive Focus has an AR/MR hack made by me; the Lenovo Mirage Solo is getting MR functionalities offered by Google; the Oculus Quest is expected to have some particular MR features, as Facebook has teased during OC5. Magic Leap.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

Actually, the first launch has happened in China with the Vive Focus at the end of 2017, but we had the full development of the ecosystem now. The latest phones produced by Google and Samsung are still compatible with Daydream View and Gear VR headsets, but there has not been any new release of a mobile VR headset. Standalone headsets.

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VRScout

MARCH 23, 2017

SVVR 2017 is less than a week away , and with an exciting roster of speakers and demos across all major industry verticals, with 100+ VR/AR companies represented, it’s slated to be a star-studded gathering of VR experts. Here’s a peek of the far-reaching topics at SVVR 2017: Education And Virtual Reality – Clay Park VR.

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JANUARY 9, 2017

As we look forward to 2017 then, we’ve reached out to a bunch of industry experts and insiders to get their views on where we’re headed over the next 12 months. We asked all of these developers the same four questions: 1) What do you think will happen to the VR/AR market in 2017? 2) What NEEDS to happen to the VR AR market in 2017?

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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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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2018

What has surprised me is that a new Gear VR headset not been released: the Galaxy S9 will work with 2017 edition. The company plans for the future to use eye tracking plus some opto-mechanic device to move this high-resolution area so that to follow your eyes.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

At GDC 2017 LG showcased a virtual reality headset that was SteamVR compatible: it was a game-changing moment since for the first time a new non-Vive headset would have been compatible with SteamVR tracking and ecosystem. But we also know that when in VR, most people just look forward with their eyes. Google AR apps.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

Austin McCasland is a UX prototyper working with Google, and he and Alan chat about the finer points of UX design for AR. He's designed and developed Paint Space AR, named by Apple as one of the best apps of 2017 and currently works full time at Google as an AR Interaction designer.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

My favorite ones have been: Sony Interactive Entertainment has revealed that the next PSVR headset will be called PSVR 2 and will feature 2K x 2K per eye, up to 120 Hz framerate, and 110° FOV. It will be the first consumer headset with eye-tracking and foveated rendering, and also the first one to feature haptics directly on the headset.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The New York Times distributes more than 1 million Google Cardboard phone VR viewers to subscribers with the launch of The Displaced , a 360-degree video project focusing on children driven from their homes by war. Eye-tracking startup Eyefluence, which raises $14 million this month, is acquired about a year later by Google.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

From time to time, I like to look at the adoption graph of XR shown by John Riccitiello (the CEO of Unity) in 2017 , where you can see that the real acceleration of immersive technologies should start around 2022-2023. I also imagine them trying to add enterprise-oriented features like eye-tracking in all their devices.

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JANUARY 14, 2017

CES 2017, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas last week, was loaded with augmented reality smartglasses, which layer digital animations and information on top of the real world. Above: ODG augmented reality smartglasses at CES 2017. Above: ODG’s booth at CES 2017. GB: Google Glass. Or it’s a Google problem.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

WHAT A DAY FOR A DAYDREAM… The highly-anticipated Google Daydream headset is here. Priced at $79, it is currently only compatible with the Google Pixel phone. Recapping the top stories covered on the VRScout Report , a weekly live video show and podcast discussing the best in VR, hosted by Malia Probst.

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JUNE 23, 2020

So all the way up to-- we did VR stuff with ARKit in 2017 -- if I don't say wrong -- then all the way up to there it was marker based. We did this with Hololens in 2017, I think. The HTC Vive Pro has eye tracking-- or the new one has eye tracking. The Pico Neo 2, I believe, has eye tracking option.

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JUNE 23, 2020

So all the way up to-- we did VR stuff with ARKit in 2017 -- if I don't say wrong -- then all the way up to there it was marker based. We did this with Hololens in 2017, I think. The HTC Vive Pro has eye tracking-- or the new one has eye tracking. The Pico Neo 2, I believe, has eye tracking option.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

Austin McCasland is a UX prototyper working with Google, and he and Alan chat about the finer points of UX design for AR. He’s designed and developed Paint Space AR, named by Apple as one of the best apps of 2017 and currently works full time at Google as an AR Interaction designer.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

Austin McCasland is a UX prototyper working with Google, and he and Alan chat about the finer points of UX design for AR. He’s designed and developed Paint Space AR, named by Apple as one of the best apps of 2017 and currently works full time at Google as an AR Interaction designer.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

And earlier this month, Google released Blocks , which is a prim-based building tool for virtual reality. Google did release a prototype of a multi user Tilt Brush last fall, but there’s no word yet when it will actually be available. And there’s no in-world equivalent of Google search. Advertising and marketing.

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JUNE 23, 2020

So all the way up to-- we did VR stuff with ARKit in 2017 -- if I don't say wrong -- then all the way up to there it was marker based. We did this with Hololens in 2017, I think. The HTC Vive Pro has eye tracking-- or the new one has eye tracking. The Pico Neo 2, I believe, has eye tracking option.

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EnterpriseWear

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

HoloLens 2 has eye-tracking and retina-scanning features, doesn’t require any fitting (making for a more streamlined experience) and even takes hygiene into account in its design. Watch Brian Laughlin and Paul Davies of Boeing go through the multiple ways in which Boeing is applying AR in this joint presentation from EWTS 2017. .

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 13, 2018

At the beginning of 2017, Microsoft stopped thinking about releasing a HoloLens v2 , because it had no real competitors and the AR market was in any case small, so the effort of releasing a new version had little sense. Am I developing because I bet that this platform will win against Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Facebook?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And it's a super powerful chip that will allow you to have AI built in for facial tracking and object recognition in these types of things, but also allow you to have-- I think it's up to seven cameras. So front facing cameras, IR cameras, eye tracking cameras, facial tracking cameras, all of these things. 30 percent."

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DECEMBER 29, 2020

And it's a super powerful chip that will allow you to have AI built in for facial tracking and object recognition in these types of things, but also allow you to have-- I think it's up to seven cameras. So front facing cameras, IR cameras, eye tracking cameras, facial tracking cameras, all of these things. 30 percent.".

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2022

Google searches are very revealing. But for many VR users, even the long time PCVR gamers, it’s still a brand at the more extreme end, and one that many seem reluctant to even try; is it a fear of the unknown perhaps combined with the previous online drama that played out around the Kickstarter?

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DECEMBER 29, 2020

And it's a super powerful chip that will allow you to have AI built in for facial tracking and object recognition in these types of things, but also allow you to have-- I think it's up to seven cameras. So front facing cameras, IR cameras, eye tracking cameras, facial tracking cameras, all of these things. 30 percent.".

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Oculus and Respawn Entertainment teased it in 2017 at OC4 describing it as an AAA war game. They also feature eye tracking, hand tracking and now the XR-3 version has also added a Lidar camera for environment scanning and a custom-made inside-out tracking algorithm. Google shuts down Google Poly.

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