VRScout

APRIL 1, 2020

As people flock online during quarantine we now find ourselves experimenting with new platforms, pushing immersive technologies to the limits, and collaborating in new ways; from eye-tracking technology and facial tracking to biometrics and brain-control interfaces. Eye-Tracking . Brain-Computer Interfaces.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

HTC Vive Cosmos (Image by HTC). The Vive Cosmos is the latest PC VR headset announced by HTC at CES 2019. HTC has been able to create some hype towards th is device, that has appeared intriguing since the beginning. But if you don’t like inside-out tracking, you can get rid of it. Vive Cosmos. base stations.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

HTC released a video showing off its vision of the metaverse, a reflection of what the company thinks virtual spaces will look like in the near future. HTC’s most recent concept video isn’t at fault for shooting for the stars. To think, HTC and Oculus were once competitors back in the early days of consumer VR.

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Peter Graham

JULY 26, 2019

With its headquarters in Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, Zerolight is at the forefront of immersive visualisation techniques for the automotive industry, regularly showcasing its virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) developments. Check out the interview below, and for further updates from Zerolight, keep reading VRFocus.

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2022

In the same demo, the drab surroundings of the room transformed into a lush forest, showing how users could seamlessly transition from AR, in which they can still view the physical world around them, to the more immersive experience of VR—a combination known as mixed reality. N301 could cost around $3,000.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

This is because the sales have not been enormous, and the content for it is not exploiting completely its new features (there are some cool uses of eye tracking, but that’s it). Google and Samsung helped the smartphone ecosystem to grow to what it is today, so we all hope they can do the same with immersive headsets, too.

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ARPost

MARCH 17, 2021

The $5,495 XR-3 features a 12-megapixel pass-through, LiDAR-enabled depth awareness, and an inside-out tracking beta. This replaces the previous model , which shipped in 2019. VR-3 follows the VR-2 , which was announced in 2019. HTC VIVE Cosmos Playing the Long Game. VIVE Cosmos Elite. HP Reverb G2.

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Peter Graham

JULY 19, 2019

SIGGRAPH 2019 starts in just over a week, with the Immersive Pavilion and VR Theater showcasing four world premiere’s including Disney’s a kite’s tale. NVIDIA goes on to note that VRS has particular benefits for VR, especially when combined with eye-tracking tech.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Varjo makes human eye resolution VR headsets and brings those to the market this year. That sounds so simple, but we are 40x resolution of the best competitor headset, HTC Vive Pro. It’s almost a decade ahead of its time, really enabling immersive computing to begin. Integrated 100Hz stereo eye-tracking.

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Upload VR

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. Vision Pro's eye tracking serves three purposes: authentication, foveated rendering, and driving your FaceTime avatar. hours (video) 1.5-2.5

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 12, 2022

While there’s more to XR than just the potential for amazing games, the novel and fun experiences offered by immersive technologies allows all kinds of companies to reach their audience on new levels. This was something the MLB (Major League Baseball) community discovered for themselves, with the help of HTC VIVE.

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ARPost

MARCH 17, 2021

The $5,495 XR-3 features a 12-megapixel pass-through, LiDAR-enabled depth awareness, and an inside-out tracking beta. This replaces the previous model , which shipped in 2019. VR-3 follows the VR-2 , which was announced in 2019. HTC VIVE Cosmos Playing the Long Game. VIVE Cosmos Elite. HP Reverb G2.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 15, 2024

The OpenXR API is a core piece behind many XR headsets from vendors such as Acer, ByteDance, Canon, HTC, Magic Leap, Meta, Microsoft, Sony, XREAL, Qualcomm, Valve, and Varjo. The new stereo-foveated rendering improves eye-tracking features, and the feature is widespread – already finding a home on Unity, Unreal, and NVIDIA Omniverse.

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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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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 5, 2020

This is the first roundup of news of this new year, and to signal a change with the past, I’ve changed the name from “VR Week Peek” to “XR Week Peek”, because, hey, I like talking about all immersive technologies and not only Virtual Reality. The eye-tracked model costs only $900. They are incredibly light (10 grams!)

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Road to VR

MAY 6, 2020

The system lived on in an expanded version of the game, Waltz of the Wizard: Extended Edition , when it launched in 2019. While this may be less comfortable for those more sensitive to artificial motion, it can be more immersive for players that are ok with it.

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ARVR

JUNE 18, 2021

Every year is bringing us more spatial devices, advancing fidelity, field of vision and general feeling of immersion for both business and consumer users. What seemed like a major leak of the new HTC consumer headset, turned out to be only a design concept. billion by 2025. Developing an Original World-Traveling VR Experience 4.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Once the device was on and comfy, I was prompted with a quick eye-tracking calibration scene that displayed a number of pinkish-purple gems that popped in and out of the scene when I looked at them, then I was set and ready to start HoloLensing. Eye-tracking & Voice Input. Image courtesy Microsoft.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 27, 2020

It is clear that it is not a Quest 2, since it doesn’t feature mind-blowing features like big FOV or eye-tracking or full-fingers controllers, so it is something like a Quest S. Its 1,600 × 1,600 LCD display per-eye, together with eye tracking and 5G make me dream of great experimentations, especially in the enterprise sector.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

This is a trend that started in 2019 (with the Quest, Vive Focus, and Lenovo Mirage Solo… yes, the Lenovo Mirage Solo, who else remembers about it?) was already in passthrough AR in 2019 on the Vive Focus Plus , so that to guarantee the safety of the users that could play our fitness game by being aware of their surroundings.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

We don’t know if it is just a reference design for external partners (like HTC) or it is an actual headset that Valve is producing. Someone hypothesizes that Valve may produce the headset by itself because: HTC has started its own store, Viveport , and so it is not pushing Steam as an official store anymore. We’ll see.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

This week in XR has seen the launch of the first standalone MR headset, plus a lot of interesting news and articles about immersive realities. And the fact that it features AR and eye tracking is for sure awesome. Some good roundups of creative immersive experiences. Do you want to discover them with me? Image by Lynx).

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Peter Graham

MARCH 24, 2020

Ever since virtual reality (VR) remerged as a viable consumer product the quest has been to make the technology as immersive and interactive as possible. That’s lead to motion controllers, eye tracking and hand tracking but full-body tracking has stopped and started due to the complexities of this process.

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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. Companies like Pico, HP, Valve, and HTC are already performing very well in this sector. The rise of enterprise.

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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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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

This would have happened on May 2019, in the same period when Apple’s senior manager of prototype development Avi Bar-Zeev left the company. If the report were true, this would mean that Apple doesn’t believe in AR anymore and this would be terrible news for all the immersive realities ecosystem. Elon Musk will detail Neuralink soon.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

But it feels somewhat claustrophobic for fully immersive content or looking around with passthrough, limits the viewability of your keyboard in productivity scenarios, and makes walking around dangerous because you can't see the ground below. But vertically it's one of the narrowest of any modern headset, noticeably narrower than any Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

I’m sure that after April, 20th, the Meta Quest ecosystem will appear even richer than it is now , creating a wider gap with other companies that may think about competing with the Quest, that is Pico, HTC, and even Apple. This proves the value of eye-tracking and its implementation inside PSVR 2. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

They could make AR enter a new immersive phase that leads towards mainstream adoption. 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).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2019

Image by HTC). After some weeks of silence, HTC has started again to rise the hype for its upcoming flagship PC VR headset, the Vive Cosmos. The Taiwanese company has released three new trailers highlighting the high comfort of the device and the great controller tracking ( the best in its category, according to it).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 27, 2019

600,000); We have always predicted that Quest would have sold 1–2M units in 2019. The provided force is variable, so it can simulate both rigid and elastic objects; The last one is a research on how to use eye tracking in VR. More info (Dreamwalker world-scale VR) More info (Capstan Crunch) More info (MS eye tracking research).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2019

The Valve Index is for sure the big surprise for virtual reality in this 2019. But this time, Valve has made it without the collaboration of HTC. Maybe with eye tracking and some more screen resolution, it may have been. The specs list is very similar to the one of the HTC Vive Pro. Is the Index the Vive 2?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2022

On the 11 th of May, I received an email from Pimax about their new “Sword” virtual reality motion controllers , which had finally become available to purchase, following a reveal way back in January 2019 at CES. Used as teleport it was no problem, but this changes gameplay, immersion, etc. Image provided by Rob Cole).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

HTC has finally revealed the price of the Vive Pro : it will cost $799 just to have the headset (no controller and no base stations, so you must already have a Vive 1 kit) and will be available for pre-orders since April, 5th. But, as Road To VR has stated, maybe HTC should have clarified that in all its marketing material.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

You’ve got mobile phone-based AR, eye tracking set devices, taste experiments, hot and cold devices, thermal devices, and then tracking systems for motion capture, and of course, treadmills for omni-directional walking. It’s really full immersion; a bit like we have seen in the Ready Player One movie.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

You've got mobile phone-based AR, eye tracking set devices, taste experiments, hot and cold devices, thermal devices, and then tracking systems for motion capture, and of course, treadmills for omni-directional walking. It's really full immersion; a bit like we have seen in the Ready Player One movie.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

You’ve got mobile phone-based AR, eye tracking set devices, taste experiments, hot and cold devices, thermal devices, and then tracking systems for motion capture, and of course, treadmills for omni-directional walking. It’s really full immersion; a bit like we have seen in the Ready Player One movie.

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