Road to VR

MARCH 1, 2024

Such a deal would make Meta more competitive with Apple in the near-term by allowing users wider access to Android apps not built for XR, however it would require the company to give up a good deal of control over its platform.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

This includes support for motion controls as well as cross-platform multiplayer. Since the launch of the original Oculus Quest back in 2019, players have been begging for an official VR port, not including 2016’s Minecraft: Gear VR Edition for the now-discontinued Samsung Gear VR headset.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 6, 2020

Although the headset is able to use Valve’s SteamVR tracking standard, a model is set to arrive with a NOLO VR tracking and controller kit, a move that’s meant to appeal to entry-level users without SteamVR base stations or controllers. base stations and Index controllers alone costs $580. Image courtesy NOLO VR.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

.” Update (September 2nd, 2020): A Microsoft developer says the reference to “upcoming hardware releases” is in fact just referring the Reverb G2 and its controllers. Specifically we’re working on fixes & improvements for the upcoming HP Reverb G2 headset and the new motion controllers (hence the plural devices).

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Anand Tech

AUGUST 31, 2020

In what seems to be an accidental leak, a product page for the highly-awaited Samsung 980 PRO SSD was posted and later taken down from Samsung's website for Singapore. No release date was announced but Samsung's PR said to expect more information in Q2. Samsung High-End NVMe SSD Comparison. Controller.

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Road to VR

APRIL 25, 2024

Google: Keep on Daydreaming After having abandoned its ill-fated standalone XR platform Daydream in 2019, Google took a giant step back from VR that it never quite recovered from. Or maybe just a version that comes out of the box with Xbox controller and Game Pass, and you can immediately start playing on a big screen anywhere you go.”

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Anand Tech

AUGUST 5, 2020

Today Samsung is announcing the much-awaited new Galaxy Note20 and Galaxy Note20 Ultra via its Unpacked August 2020 live stream event. Naturally, the area where the Note series differentiates itself the most from the S-series is the fact that the phones come with the S-Pen stylus that allows you to write and control the phone with.

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Road to VR

MARCH 31, 2021

Quest & Rift S – May 2019. We’re guessing that Facebook is not including in the calculation Samsung Gear VR—which was an early smartphone-based Samsung VR headset made in collaboration with Oculus—though we’ve reached out to the company for comment. Go – May 2018. Quest 2 – October 2020.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The company also convinced a handful of its major PC partners—Dell, Lenovo, Acer, HP, Samsung, and Asus—to launch VR headsets attached to the platform. Windows VR headsets peaked at 11.13% of the share of headsets in use on Steam in June 2019, but have been slowly declining since then, down to 8.05% as of January, 2020.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

An official release for the Oculus Quest is scheduled for 2019. Previously available strictly on PC VR headsets, creator Guy Gordin recently revealed that a version of the tool optimized for mobile platforms will launch on the Oculus Go and Samsung Gear VR later this week, with plans for an Oculus Quest release planned sometime next year.

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Delight XR

MAY 14, 2019

Complete List of VR Headsets 2019 Updated: 05/2019 Virtual Reality (VR) invites you to explore alternative worlds as if you’re actually there. Motion Controller. Motion Controller. Motion Controller. Motion Controller. Motion Controller. Motion Controller. Motion Controller.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

One of the unique elements the company developed was a physical control on the headset which created a seamless transition between a fully immersive VR view and a passthrough AR view—this was at a time when most headsets were either strictly AR or strictly VR, but not both. Alas, Vision Pro was announced in 2023 and shipped earlier this year.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

By the end of 2019, it had been expected to reach $15.1 As virtual reality technology gained prominence, the use of VR devices like the Samsung Gear VR, Oculus VR, and HTC Vive, have also become popular. The leading producers of VR headsets like Sony, Oculus, Google, HTC, and Samsung, mainly focus on creating cost-effective devices.

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Delight XR

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

External tracking devices, cameras, and advanced controllers allow for high-end experiences and get the most out of what’s currently possible in VR. Samsung Gear VR. Motion Controller. Vive Controller. Gear VR Controller. Daydream Controller. Samsung Smartphone. Apple and Samsung Smartphones.

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Road to VR

JUNE 24, 2020

Although hobbled by its rotation-only headtracking and single non-positionally tracked controller, Go was championed for its low price-point of $200 and ability to serve up casual games and traditional streaming content, such as Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube. SEE ALSO Samsung is Terminating Its VR Video Apps on All Devices.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The YouTube VR app originally debuted on Google's own Daydream VR platform (which it killed back in 2019 ) in 2017. In the years since, Google also brought YouTube VR to the Oculus Store on Samsung Gear VR in 2018 , then Oculus Go later that year , and was a launch title for the Quest Store. Pico 4 now has the official YouTube VR app.

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InstaVR

OCTOBER 17, 2019

First off, some of the early major players like Google, Apple, and Samsung seem to be taking a step back. Google is discontinuing Daydream (more on that below), Apple seems to be focusing most of its efforts on AR, and Samsung is doing very little promotion of Gear VR despite launching a new phone line.

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Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2019

At launch, the headset was priced at $600 and included an Xbox One controller as the primary input device, with content primarily designed for seated gameplay. The Oculus Rift original shipped with an Xbox One controller in the box for seated gameplay. Photo by Road to VR. Rift S Expectations. Pictured: Oculus Quest.

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Road to VR

MAY 28, 2020

With leading visual clarity, high quality off-ear headphones, improved tracking, and new controllers, there’s a lot to look forward to. HP launched the original Reverb headset back in May, 2019; now just a year later the company is revealing its successor, the Reverb G2. New Controllers, Compatible with All WMR Headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 20, 2021

I have tried it in Nanchang in 2019 and I came out pretty impressed from it (you can read my full review here ). 6DOF headset and controllers (Image by FXG). The buttons and the triggers are the ones that are now the de-facto standard for VR controllers. Zoom on the 6DOF controllers. Me trying the Huawei glasses at WCVRI.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 6, 2021

While Google stopped the development of the Cardboard software in 2019 , the code is still available as an open-source project. In 2016, Google Cardboard was supplanted by Daydream, a slightly better development platform for mobile-based virtual reality that supported a headset button and a motion controller. Some of this still exists.

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Anand Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Samsung, SK hynix and Kioxia (+Western Digital) are sharing their latest 3D TLC NAND designs and Intel is presenting their 144-layer 3D QLC NAND. Samsung, SK hynix, and Kioxia/WD presented information about their upcoming generations of 3D TLC. 3D TLC (3-bit per cell) Updates. 3D TLC NAND Flash Memory. ISSCC Presentations. 40 µs.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 14, 2018

The feature is baked into the latest release of the increasingly wordy AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition , and is backed up by a Radeon ReLive for VR app available currently on Vive Focus and Daydream devices, though eventually coming to Oculus Go and Samsung Gear too, according to an AMD spokesperson.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Oculus Quest is due to launch sometime in Spring 2019 at $400 for the 64 GB version, including a pair of optically-tracked controllers, also dubbed ‘Touch’ like the Rift’s controllers. . “With Oculus Quest, we will complete our first generation of VR products,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Included in the system is a Samsung Odyssey Windows Mixed Reality VR headsets and controllers, two Intel Realsense depth cameras, a Xiamomi Mi 8 GPS, an HP Omen PC backpack, as well as additional batteries. Image Credit: Microsoft Research.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2019

Unlike the PC-dependent Rift S, Oculus Quest is more like a console in the sense that you don’t need anything else besides the headset and supplied controllers—no computer required. Touch controllers, Image courtesy Oculus. For comparison, that’s the same chip you’ll find in the Samsung Galaxy S8 line from 2017.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

This year, I’m not going to make an exception, also because my predictions for 2019 performed pretty well. 2019, after a false start, has been a very good year for VR , and we had the arrival on the market of very interesting VR devices that have driven adoption. Every year, I cast some predictions for the new year in AR and VR.

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Anand Tech

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In 2018 Marvell announced the 88NR2241 Intelligent NVMe Switch: the first—and so far, only—NVMe hardware RAID controller of its kind. Enterprise NVMe Round-Up 2: SK Hynix, Samsung, DapuStor and DERA. Marvell at FMS 2019: NVMe Over Fabrics Controllers, AI On SSD. Related Reading.

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Road to VR

APRIL 17, 2018

Oculus Santa Cruz is a VR prototype that brings many high-end features of the Oculus Rift and Touch, most notably positional (6DoF) tracking on both headset and controllers, into a self-contained, standalone design. Oculus initially debuted the Santa Cruz controllers with trackpads, but has since said they’ll return to thumbsticks.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Quest 3 is better for gaming and has precision controllers. It’s true that Vision Pro does not have controllers, it’s true that Quest Pro had eye and hand tracking, too, but the eye and hand tracking UX offered by the Vision Pro is unrivaled in the whole XR space (even if not perfect, as I explain in this article ).

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Anand Tech

AUGUST 26, 2020

GAA-FETs offer significant advantages when it comes to transistor performance control – for most FinFET processes, foundries can offer several designs based on voltage and performance, but GAA-FET designs turn those discrete options into something more continuous. From Samsung. version of its 3GAE PDK was ready for customers.

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Anand Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

This is due to the SSD controller that was originally built for PCIe 3.0 drives on the market used the Phison E16 controller which was, for lack of a better word, a hybrid design: it took the PCIe 3.0 E12 controller, removed the PCIe 3.0 controllers to come to market. SSD turnkey designs as early as Computex 2019.

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InstaVR

MAY 6, 2019

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg revealed at F8 Conference the new Oculus Quest will begin shipping this month (May 2019). We announced shortly afterwards InstaVR publishing compatibility with the headset, including use of the Touch Controllers. Others like the single-touch option of the Oculus Go & Samsung Gear VR controllers.

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Anand Tech

JANUARY 12, 2021

It uses Silicon Motion's 4-channel SM2267 controller , so it isn't aiming for the performance crown that most PCIe 4.0 The GAMMIX S70 is particularly interesting because it marks the debut of a new competitor for high-end consumer SSD controllers. Controller. NVMe SSD controllers. models are vying for.

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Road to VR

MARCH 2, 2019

Windows VR headsets seem to be continuously discounted , including some big sales on the Samsung Odyssey last month, which likely contributed to the ongoing growth. Those gains came primarily at the expense of the Vive and Vive Pro. The Vive dropped to 39.36% ( -1.26% ) share, while the Vive Pro dropped to 1.82% ( -0.78% ).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2021

Facebook has already launched the Quest 2 ; HTC hasn’t tweeted anything, so I expect it to not launch its Quest 2 competitor at this CES ; Nreal is still in the middle of its logistic problems; Samsung is silent; etc… I hope to be wrong, but I don’t think we’ll see any kind of disruptive XR headset at CES 2021.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2019

The Vive Cosmos is the virtual reality superstar of this CES 2019. Oculus Quest and controllers (Image by Oculus). Me, wearing the Vive Focus and using its 6 DOF controllers. Actual photo of the Cosmos with its controllers (Image by Upload VR). The fact that the controllers are lit confirms this suspect.

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