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AUGUST 1, 2017

Today at SIGGRAPH 2017 OptiTrack is showing a new clip-on face plate for Oculus Rift CV1 headsets that let them interface directly with their system. Go beyond room scale with superior, low latency, artifact free tracking.” Upload (@UploadVR) August 1, 2017. It] carries a factory installed Active Tag with 8 LEDs.

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JULY 3, 2017

Free-roam VR Zero Latency unveil world’s first 8-player game via @Blooloop [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 3, 2017.

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Road to VR

MARCH 29, 2017

Held from May 8-11th in Silicon Valley at the San Jose Convention Center, NVIDIA’s GTC 2017 session schedule is chock full of deep tech talks that we’re looking forward to. SEE ALSO NVIDIA Demonstrates Experimental "Zero Latency" Display Running at 1,700Hz. Register for GTC 2017.

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VRScout

JUNE 14, 2017

Initially revealed back in January during the 2017 Consumer Electronics Showcase, aka CES, Intel’s new wireless solution for the HTC Vive has finally emerged from the shadows and was being shown at the 2017 Electronic Entertainment Expo, currently taking place at the Los Angeles Convention Center. There was no perceived latency.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Zero Latency is an Australia-based creator of a VR attraction platform and content. Road to VR got to preview the new title and see how Zero Latency is tackling the unexpected challenges that come with PVP at a VR attraction. To learn more about Zero Latency’s approach to Sol Raiders. Stepping into Zero Latency.

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VRScout

JANUARY 4, 2017

And if 2016 was the year VR had its coming out party, 2017 is looking to be the year we see VR content ecosystem really grow and hardware accessories take shape. In addition to their latest hardware announcements at CES today, Vive also announced that it expects commercial wireless VR adapters to ship in 2017.

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JANUARY 4, 2017

HTC has kicked off 2017 by showcasing new Vive accessories and services at CES that will lay the foundation for VR in 2017 and beyond. It includes a one and a half hour battery, and latency as low as 2ms. TPCast will be shipping in Q2 2017 and will retail for $249 USD. Lastly: Viveport & Chill?

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Road to VR

MAY 10, 2017

While virtual reality can get away with comfortable and immersive performance at latency under 20ms, augmented reality has the backdrop of the instantaneous-latency real life view against which the digital information is compared, increasing the need for high frequency output to keep the real and digital world in very close sync.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Edge computing is an important part of the cloud-based gaming of the near future: ideally apps should be rendered as close to the person as physically possible to minimize latency across the board, including user input over the realistically assumed 100 Mbps 5G data transfer speed and near instant delivery of the compressed image to the headset.

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Road to VR

JUNE 12, 2018

At the DisplayLink booth the company is showing off the Vive Pro with the Vive Wireless Adapter, and a custom-built gatling gun controller made to show Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope (2017) at the booth.

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AllThingsVR

JANUARY 10, 2017

The 5 Most Important Announcements from CES 2017 on VR & AR 1) Intel’s ‘Merged Reality’ Demo Brings Actual Hands Into VR on Oculus Rift Intel demoed 2 things at CES: 1) they demoed Intel’s technology to bring your hands into VR, no controller required, with Intel’s Merged Reality RealSense. 2) They demoed Project Alloy.

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Road to VR

JUNE 15, 2017

At Computex 2017, Intel’s Gregory Bryant demonstrated the company’s wireless VR solution on stage. Ben Lang went hand’s on with DisplayLink’s own reference design , which is very similar to Intel’s solution, using the same DisplayLink technology, and came away impressed by its quality and unnoticeable latency.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

HTC Vive China Regional President Alvin Wang Graylin admits however some latency is to be expected, saying it would be “ok for most non-twitch apps.” ” There’s no word if the service can provide what’s largely considered the minimum acceptable latency at 20ms motion-to-photon.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Launching in early 2017 with pre-orders starting Friday, HTC claims the device will eliminate the direct connection to the PC without any noticeable difference in latency or gameplay. The release date for the TPCAST device is said to start in Q1 2017.

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Road to VR

JULY 24, 2017

Microsoft has undoubtedly been working on the next version of HoloLens, the company’s AR headset, but now we know a little more about what’s going into the next iteration: a Microsoft-built custom AI chip designed to carry out low-latency computer vision tasks.

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Road to VR

JUNE 15, 2017

At E3 2017, DisplayLink is touting their ‘XR’ wireless solution to eliminate the tether on VR headsets. Our hands-on with their reference device revealed a robust solution with impressive quality and unnoticeable latency. Here at E3 2017 I got to try the solution for myself.

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Road to VR

JUNE 9, 2017

We cover the underlying technology in the phone, world locking & latency comparisons to HoloLens, virtual positioning system, privacy, future features of occlusions, object segmentation, & mapping drift tolerance , and the future of spatially-aware computing. . — Kent Bye VoicesOfVR (@kentbye) May 17, 2017.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

“To move in a VIROO® Room needs a few things, including precise and reliable tracking for multiple people who are simultaneously engaging in a shared physical space, and optimized data transfer rates to minimize latency, ensuring a smooth and responsive experience,” he explained. “The

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Road to VR

MAY 25, 2018

” Henry was the first VR short film released by Oculus Story Studio, the company’s in-house narrative studio which ended up closing in 2017. Vsync locked frame release + low latency fast-path Audio 360 spatialization. Image courtesy Oculus. John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) May 25, 2018.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

30th, 2017.” Only a few short months later, HTC announced at CES earlier this year that the device would go on sale worldwide in Q2 2017 for $249. Our friends over at UploadVR got a hands-on, stating that visual fidelity of TPCast was “very high” and there was no noticeable latency when they tried it back in June.

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MARCH 11, 2019

It would also need to do this at the lowest possible latency, something that is much less important in a task like streaming content via AirPlay to Apple TV. An iPhone built from the ground-up with AR rendering and low latency wireless transmission in mind could make for a unique product offering to say the least.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2017

At CES 2017, the company are set to announce their latest product, the Snapdragon 835. ” Perhaps as interesting though are Qualcomm’s claims that the new SoC can deliver a reduction in motion to photon latency processing 6 DoF motion tracking. We’ll be watching the rest of CES 2017 unfold for news on this.

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ARVR

JULY 9, 2020

Augmented Reality Definition Augmented Reality (AR) is a technology that overlays digital content (graphics, text, audio, and video) on real-world images using mobile devices, PCs, or glasses, which have an integrated camera and specialized software (Papagiannis, 2017). Read more here: AR 101?—?Augmented Trending AR VR Articles: 1.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 8, 2020

Korea-based TEGway , developers of a haptic accessory which generates hot and cold temperatures with impressively low latency, plans to launch a wearable VR thermal haptic dev kit aim in March. The ‘cold’ effect was the fastest in terms of latency and impressively quick at that. Photo by Road to VR.

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Road to VR

JUNE 10, 2017

Tom’s Guide got an exclusive sneak peek at a prototype iteration of the technology recently and according to them, when coupled with an HTC Vive, which sports dual 1080×1200 resolution OLED panels running at 90Hz, the new system delivers “razor-sharp”, low latency wireless image quality. ” Sounds impressive.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Oculus may be be closing out 2016 with a bang with the launch of its Touch controllers, but HTC is going to kick off 2017 with something special: a peripheral that makes its Vive headset wireless. The kit is said to ship starting in Q1 2017. We’re told the standard battery can deliver around one and a half hours of power.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 19, 2017

TwinCam is an omni-directional stereoscopic live-viewing camera that reduces motion blur and latency during head rotation in a head-mounted display. Based in Prague, the Czech Republic, the group brings to SIGGRAPH 2017 their new Digital Playgroundz augmented reality platform for large-scale applications.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The most common concerns are about possible latency issues. A wired Vive offers low latency head-tracking and position-tracked controls to ensure a comfortable and immersive experience. Increasing that latency in any way is a risk to both of those factors, though TPCAST claims the kit adds less than 2 milliseconds of delay.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 3, 2017

During the Qualcomm press conference at CES 2017 in Las Vegas, NV, Keith Kressin, Senior Vice President for Snapdragon Roadmap & Technologies at Qualcomm, outlined the laundry list of features and specs. The device will support Google’s operating systems, as well as full Windows 10 and all legacy Win32 applications.

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ARPost

APRIL 21, 2021

Manifest was launched in 2017 as essentially an on-screen to-do list. This is closely linked to XR because XR applications require greater computing power than 2D media and therefore are more impacted by latency when run on slow networks. One of the major benefits of 5G that we are used to hearing about from the consumer side is speed.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 1, 2017

KwikVR from 3D cloud solutions company Scalable Graphics is set to debut at CES 2017 in Las Vegas next week as the latest device to try and remove the troublesome wire that connects your headset to the PC running what’s showing inside. The trailer above only shows it being played on the HTC Vive, however.

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VRWorld

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

As a part of TPCast announcement, HTC representatives stated that the latency challenge over Wi-Fi with the resolution of 2160×1200 at 90Hz is not visible, nor the quality is reduced. Existing Vive owners have priority in delivery, which is expected to commence during the first quarter of 2017. Great… or weird?

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VRScout

APRIL 21, 2018

Apparently the team uses a critical latency-reducing process with rendering all happening within the HMD, this means Alien: Descent doesn’t require a PC backpack. Alien: Descent isn’t the first movie franchise to get the fully immersive treatment.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Graylin, China Regional President of Vive at HTC, told UploadVR that the kit had completely sold out of its initial stock, set to ship in Q1 2017, in 18 minutes. A translation of TPCAST’s website notes that the kit has a “lowest latency” of 15ms, however. Clearly, a lot of you wanted one.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 9, 2017

However, HTC — the creators of the Vive high-end, PC powered VR headset — were on hand for a press conference that teased and revealed an intriguing road map of new hardware strategies for 2017. The first is latency. Every millisecond an image takes to properly render in your Vive increases the latency of the image.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Pimax is boasting a ton of features with Portal, including analogue triggers, mappable buttons, “low latency” input lag, standard compatibility with Android, native HDMI compatibility for wired SteamVR gameplay, Bluetooth 5.1, Those are meant to drive both the smartphone-style AR capability and 6DOF VR room-scale tracking.

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Road to VR

JULY 10, 2017

The place illusion is largely enabled by the objective details of the VR technology with features such as 1:1 head tracking, low latency, and large field of view. But all of the different dimensions of what makes an experience plausible are still widely unknown, not very well researched, and also difficult to isolate and determine.

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