Road to VR

APRIL 18, 2023

The interview wasn’t widely shared in the English-speaking side of the Internet until it landed on Reddit , Google-translated to English. That’s especially so since the last time Valve released any VR hardware was its enthusiast-grade PC VR headset Valve Index in 2019.

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VRScout

JUNE 24, 2021

The company says that a larger surface area would allow them to implement additional features, such as face and eye tracking. Earlier this week, the United States Patent & Trademark Office published a new patent filed by Facebook back in 2019 that showcases a “unique” type of AR headgear.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 7, 2020

SEE ALSO Pico Unveils Neo 2 Standalone Headset with Integrated Eye-tracking. Firefox Reality already supports Oculus Go, HTC Vive Focus, and Google Daydream headsets, so its continued push to support newer headsets is a good sign of the overall health of the project.

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Upload VR

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. And in 2019 it partnered with Facebook on Oculus Rift S. Lenovo has a relatively long history in VR.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The headset has a very nice design and features these specifications: Standalone 6DOF headset 1600×1600 resolution per eye 90Hz refresh rate 90° FOV RGB AR passthrough Innovative lenses that make the headset more compact Integrated audio Controller-free hand-tracking Eye-tracking 6GB of RAM 128GB of storage WiFi 6 (802.11ax), Bluetooth 5.0,

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Slim and light XR glasses capable of fluidly serving up novel and meaningful interactions are basically the holy grail in tech right now, with Apple, Meta, Google, Qualcomm, and many more laying down the groundwork to one day make them a reality. Some ideas are inevitable. When that will happen, no one can say.

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AR Insider

JULY 15, 2021

Facebook reportedly has a deal with Ray-Ban, which is part of eye-wear giant Luxottica, which also owns LensCrafters, Sunglass Hut, prescription lens makers and many of your favorite brands. FWIW, Google had also partnered with Luxottica but never shipped a more fashionable version of Glass.]. 2023+: Eye Tracking and beyond.

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Road to VR

JULY 31, 2023

Long considered the holy grail of immersive computing, all-day AR headsets represent a way of interacting with new layers of information in daily life which would span everything from turn-by-turn directions to gaming applications—like Google Maps directions floating on the street in front of your car or a city-wide version of Pokémon Go.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 15, 2019

Virtuleap is for sure one of the most promising startups I have talked with in this 2019. If you apply devices like eye tracking , skin conductance sensors, heart rate sensors or even EEG/EMG to the VR experience, it is possible to detect important information about the psychological state of the user that is living in VR.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Alice Bonasio (@alicebonasio) February 2, 2019. We’re very curious to see how they position Mixed Reality in 2019 and to what extent HoloLens will be a core or ancillary part of that story, and whether we’re going to see OEM devices. UploadVR (@UploadVR) February 20, 2019. pic.twitter.com/UMhQbxgH1g.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

If the rumor is true, probably this is the Del Mar headset , and the Jedi controllers may be like the Oculus Touch but more comfortable and maybe with full finger tracking. Or eye tracking?). SuperData has forecasted an XR market in 2020 that will be similar to the one of 2019, with no actual growth.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The devices that will be based on this reference design will have amazing specifications like: 2K x 2K display resolution per each eye ; Have up to 7 cameras used simultaneously, including the ones for tracking, mixed reality and eye-tracking; High-quality passthrough augmented reality with high resolution and framerate.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Internet technology giants such as Google, AWS, and Microsoft are also making their own investments into the “Edge” space. Cloud rendering at the edge, combined with 5G, will allow for faster operations in an XR environment, where data can move back and forth between eye tracking and motion tracking tools, headsets, and beacons.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Facebook has not done well in the past in guaranteeing user privacy and I’m afraid of what it can do with my data, especially when in the future there will be eye tracking, emotion tracking and such. Google ARCore now adds depth detection. More info (Firefox Realities update) More info (Google Chrome 79).

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Meta’s EMG journey started in 2019 when it acquired CTRL Labs for an undisclosed amount. Thalmic Labs has rebranded as North since then, and Google acquired the firm in June 2020. Meta’s research also attempts to leverage EMG to make user movements in the virtual world more seamless. What Is Meta Doing with EMG?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2019

And in case that even manual is not enough, well, Microsoft comes to help thanks to the HoloLens browser, that can be opened to perform a Google Search when needed (it will try to open Bing, but, ehm …). Holo4Labs has just won Emerging Europe 2019’s award for Best Innovation initiative of 2019. Samples scanning.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Microsoft debuts their latest mixed reality device at Mobile World Conference 2019. One of the more surprising announcements during the presentation, Spatial Anchors serve as a way to share three-dimensional images compatible with Apple’s ARKit as well as Google’s ARCore.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Well, with this new chip, headsets will: Have a resolution of 3K per eye ; Have up to 7 cameras used simultaneously (12 in total for the device). The Quest has dominated the searches on Google and it has gone sold out quite soon, and people that really wanted to buy it had to buy it from some online resellers that offered it at higher prices.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2018

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. But don’t get too excited yet: 5G still needs some time to come (it is expected to start this year, but to roll out completely in 2019-2020).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

I think that, after a year, its specifications don’t sound exceptional anymore and maybe it is better that LG jumps directly to a second generation or that enters the standalone market (as it seems, since there are some rumors about a new revolutionary headset screen developed by Google and LG). Google AR apps.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The magnetical tracking of the Magic Leap One has not had enthusiastic feedbacks, so I wonder how the two-controllers solution will perform. In Q1 2019, Magic Leap will let all developers develop immersive applications using a modified version of Javascript , called Magicscript. MagicScript. Object Recognition.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

High-precision 6DOF tracking, eye tracking, gesture inputs, with dedicated input controllers The SDK will support Unity , with Unreal coming Soon. eye-tracking analysis to see if you have fallen asleep while driving). The entrance to the big WCVRI VR exhibition in Nanchang China, in 2019. for fitness).

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

When you first put it on you’re told to hold the top button, and you feel (and see a visualization of) the lenses moving horizontally to align with your eyes. The eye tracking cameras sense the positions of your pupils and tiny piezoelectric actuators move the lenses into place. And I mean fully. This basic idea isn’t new.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

It took nearly 20 years, but 2019 is the year when digital advertising will overtake spend on traditional media (billboards, newspapers, TV etc.). While not swapping anything out, Google is attempting to make the world an ad through its visual search app–Google Lens. The Evolution of Out of Home and Product Placement.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

Until now, this graph has been realistic during all the XR over-hyping and the depressions: it forecasted the winter of VR in 2017-2018, and the new growth in 2019-2020, so I keep trusting it and I think you should do that, too. I also imagine them trying to add enterprise-oriented features like eye-tracking in all their devices.

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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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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Adam Marblestone, a research scientist at Google DeepMind and PhD in biophysics from Harvard, isn’t so starry-eyed about the initial launch of Neuralink’s N1 tech though. Now AR/VR headsets have near perfect eye-tracking, on-board AI that does object recognition and convincingly speaks to you like a personal assistant.

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EnterpriseWear

MARCH 4, 2019

In a recent mailer campaign to convey the importance of professional alarm monitoring services, ADT sent out Google Cardboard-like VR headsets that put recipients into a simulated life-threatening situation. Accenture Extended Reality, Qualcomm and Kellogg recently teamed up to pilot an eye-tracking VR headset for retail merchandising.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The Valve Index sold around 56K units in Q3, and its real issue is not the demand, but the supply for which Valve can’t keep the pace Half-Life Alyx has earned in less than a year more money than all PC VR games combined made in 2019. More info (Using Google Translate). All of this for $450 and free shipping.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The sentence in Chinese say something like: “explore the world, there are a lot of interesting things” I think it is some kind of word pun, since searching the last three characters on Google Translate, I actually found “Focused” as the translation and the device is the Vive Focus. Thanks to Miss S. Availability.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 2, 2023

This is due to several “false starts” with Google Glass , Microsoft HoloLens2, and Magic Leap, although the companies remain potential customers. Named X-Vision, Augmetics produced the device in Israel, which the FDA approved in 2019. This can cause headaches for viewers aged 40 and up and those with difficulty focusing.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

Bob: I got to tell you, 2019 is turning out to be an extremely exciting year, from a hardware perspective. If you put it into Google Cardboard mode, where you put the phone into a viewer, this cube comes to life in your hands, and they’ve done it really elegantly. And 2019 is becoming a turning point in a hardware perspective.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

Bob: I got to tell you, 2019 is turning out to be an extremely exciting year, from a hardware perspective. If you put it into Google Cardboard mode, where you put the phone into a viewer, this cube comes to life in your hands, and they’ve done it really elegantly. And 2019 is becoming a turning point in a hardware perspective.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

Bob: I got to tell you, 2019 is turning out to be an extremely exciting year, from a hardware perspective. If you put it into Google Cardboard mode, where you put the phone into a viewer, this cube comes to life in your hands, and they've done it really elegantly. The other thing that they've got coming is eye tracking for their VIVE.

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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. Hear about the latest efforts at Chevron from Ed Moore , Senior Technology Strategist – IIoT Technology Area Manager, this September at EWTS 2019.) .

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

You know, I watched your 2019 keynote from AWE again, and put on these these welding glasses that you had back in 2009. I think there’s an inherent risk of collecting eye tracking data, and positional head tracking data, and more data about individuals. And how did you get involved? Alan: USDZ, anyone?

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

You know, I watched your 2019 keynote from AWE again, and put on these these welding glasses that you had back in 2009. I think there’s an inherent risk of collecting eye tracking data, and positional head tracking data, and more data about individuals. And how did you get involved? Alan: USDZ, anyone?

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