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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In late 2019 Facebook acquired a New York based startup called CTRL Labs, which had been working on the idea of a finger tracking wristband since at least 2015, though an early 2019 patent filing suggests Facebook was already working on it too internally. 0:00 / 0:13 1× Meta research demo of neural wristband tracking, from 2021.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2018

An official release for the Oculus Quest is scheduled for 2019. According to a Reddit post made by Gordin, the mobile version includes a 20ms + network latency versus what you see on the monitor; a limitation he claims isn’t much of an issue, so long as you’re not playing competitive Counter-Strike: GO.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Last month the Consumer Electronics Expo 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada, HTC announced the latest addition to their VR hardware line-up, the HTC Vive Comos , a combination PC/mobile 6DoF headset featuring inside-out tracking and a flip-up visor. — HTC VIVE (@htcvive) February 20, 2019. link] pic.twitter.com/gVSq7vqQqu.

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MP resolution, a visible coverage range of 8 meters and a latency time of 3.2ms. The new ViperX keeps the same low latency time whilst upping these other features. Check out the full interview with Vicon at VR Days Europe 2019 below. Offering an improved 6.3

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JANUARY 11, 2021

This is a huge leap from the 50 channels the platform launched back in 2019. Each Bigscreen TV channel serves as its own social space. But that’s all Bigscreen is telling us right now. The company is promising us more updates as we continue further into 2021.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Carmack, who makes no bones about telling unambiguous truths on the company’s technology in his famous unscripted talks , says that Rift S still has a few key selling points over the standalone Quest: Rift S is more comfortable, lower latency (for now; that may eventually change), doesn’t get compressed graphics, and has five-camera tracking.

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JANUARY 28, 2020

Among them is Marc Piuzzi who spent two years at StarVR, a company which was developing a promising ultrawide FOV VR headset before abruptly going dark in late 2018 ; Piuzzi joined Lynx in June 2019, according to his LinkedIn profile.

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JULY 15, 2022

Nofio is a new Australia-based company building a low latency adapter to make Valve’s Index headset wireless. Nofio’s adapter will leverage Wi-Fi 6E, the new 6 GHz band of Wi-Fi, to achieve a claimed latency of less than 5 milliseconds. Valve Index might be getting a wireless adapter by way of Nofio.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

It was shipped as a software update in early 2021, but third-party alternatives like Virtual Desktop and ALVR have been available since the release of the original Quest headset in mid-2019. Using your home Wi-Fi network rather than a dedicated dongle presents several issues though.

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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. The post HoloLens 2.0 to Put a Custom A.I.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

With the 2019 Mobile World Congress currently underway in Barcelona, Spain, HTC has been busying themselves with a slew of exciting announcements and demonstrations ranging from a smartphone aimed at cryptocurrency fanatics, to their HTC Vive Focus Plus VR headset. Could 5G streaming be the future of VR entertainment?

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JULY 22, 2023

Since its introduction to the original Quest headset in 2019, Meta’s hand-tracking capabilities have significantly improved. reduces latency by 40 percent during typical use and up to 75% when making quick movements – a must if it wants to compete with the upcoming Vision Pro mixed reality […]

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JANUARY 7, 2019

At its CES 2019 unveiling, a trailer (linked below) prominently showed Cosmos beside the outline of what appears to be an HTC U12+, pointing to the company’s intentions to eventually support mobile devices in addition to PCs. We’re hoping to learn more about Vive Cosmos in the coming months before dev kits head out in early 2019.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Still, developers found success with early mobile games on the App Store, which Apple gradually embraced, culminating in the launch of Apple Arcade in 2019. They’re gone now, and Apple is the world’s largest by market capitalization.

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JANUARY 9, 2019

” After going hands-on with the production version of the Pimax “8K” and “5K” Plus this week at CES 2019, I came away impressed with the progress the company has made toward delivering a headset with an ultrawide FOV that can stand as a real option next to contemporary headsets. an inherent issue?—they

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MAY 29, 2019

Outfitted with dual 12mpx cameras located on the headsets front plate, the XR-1 is essentially an upgrade to the VR-1, the companies first headset capable of human-eye resolution; only this time users can access photorealistic video pass-through that layers impressive AR renderings over reality with an unnoticeable 15 ms of latency.

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MARCH 11, 2019

Kuo suggests that Apple will likely begin production on its AR headset sometime between Q4 of 2019 and Q2 of 2020, 9to5Mac reports, citing Kou’s translated statements in Money UDN (Chinese). It won’t be a standalone affair like HoloLens 2 either, Kuo suggests.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In a follow-up tweet, Kipman says he hopes HoloLens 3 will be as “mind blowing” of an upgrade as the 2019-era HoloLens 2 was over the 2016 version, both of which were class-leading standalone AR headsets. — Alex Kipman (@akipman) February 3, 2022.

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MAY 10, 2018

JDI says in a press release they plan to start commercial shipments by the end of March 2019, and will accelerate the design of even higher resolution displays for VR headsets in the future. JDI’s upcoming 1001ppi low temperature polysilicon (LTPS) TFT LCD is said to feature an improved latency of 2.2 Image courtesy JDI.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

While we’ve seen solid inside-out tracking in recent headsets, the outside-in approach with external trackers still tends to offer the best tracking performance in terms of accuracy, precision, latency, and coverage. Cosmos itself is priced at $700 and launches October 3rd, 2019.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Analysis of this evolving market shows companies are rapidly becoming more focused on Edge Computing as a way of keeping IoT devices connected, improving network security, and reducing latency in digital content streams. However, generating these experiences requires XR hardware to utilise large amounts of data in a small space of time.

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APRIL 21, 2021

They were also named Microsoft Partners of the Year in 2020 and received funding through Magic Leap’s Independent Creator Program in 2019. 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.

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MARCH 4, 2019

High throughput, speed and bandwidth, combined with low latency have long been the promises of 5G. Availability with various carriers will be announced soon and MiFi IQ 5G NR devices are now deploying with numerous Tier One global operators all throughout 2019.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Hand-tracking on Quest rolled out as an experimental feature in late 2019, but Oculus is letting it gestate before it will accept third-party apps with hand-tracking. And while Oculus’ first stab at the feature is reasonably solid, there’s still limitations around accuracy, latency, pose detection, and tracking coverage.

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OCTOBER 23, 2019

From a protocol/latency/throughput perspective though, it’s identical to any other USB 3.0 Quest Users: @Oculus Link ships in November #OC6 pic.twitter.com/rDAijWIjdc — VRScout (@VRScout) September 25, 2019.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2019

With 5G networks promising reduced latency, higher system capacity, and massive device connectivity, Qualcomm is pursuing the development of a smart phone-powered 5G “XR viewers” – a unique headset device capable of delivering both VR and AR experiences. Qualcomm wants to use the power of 5G to deliver VR and AR to your XR glasses.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2019

However, Juniper Research’s report estimates that 2019 will close with 3 billion global mixed reality app installs. This means ultra-high-speed internet connection and very low latency. While 2019 will close with total global revenue of US$2 billion, by 2024 it will reach US$11 billion. million – mobile enterprise AR; $29.3

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OCTOBER 3, 2022

The partnership comes as Vicon backed the 2019 launch of the Amber Sky 2088 experience, which leveraged Sandbox VR’s true free roam immersive experience. Vicon’s cutting-edge LBVR technologies with low latency, real-time, and precise tracking solutions created a seamless gaming experience for launch attendees.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2018

If you were to hypothetically pre-order today, November 30th, the company estimates they’ll ship your headset on February 19th, 2019. Motion to Photon latency : <15ms. Motion to Photon latency : <15ms. The Pimax “8K” site notes that customers will receive their orders “within 90 days.”

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Apart from the others, the aptly named S10 5G is Samsung’s first smartphone equipped with 5G connectivity, the next-generation data technology which carriers and smartphone makers say will offer a leap in bandwidth and latency. Pricing starts at $900 for the S10, $1,000 for the S10+, and $750 for the S10e.

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JANUARY 26, 2021

HaptX also employs the use of magnetic motion tracking, a proprietary motion capture system featuring sub-millimeter precision, 30 DoF (degrees of freedom) per hand, and no latency or occlusion. In 2019, the company secured $12 million through a Series A financing round that allowed it to spend the last two years perfecting its Gloves DK2.

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JANUARY 11, 2019

But VR headsets are inevitably moving toward higher resolutions— as we’ve seen this week at CES 2019 —making it increasingly harder to make them wireless.

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DECEMBER 4, 2019

— Alvin Wang Graylin (@AGraylin) December 4, 2019. Whatever the case, HTC’s native implementation will need to hit an acceptable latency and video quality to be considered a true competitor to Oculus Link for Quest, which thus far has worked pretty flawlessly. No need for special #wires or cables.

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MAY 27, 2022

Brad Lynch wrote on Twitter that the redditor directly contacted him about their experience, saying “they were able to get into a totally remote game of Asgards Wrath via a UK Wifi5 session” Asgard’s Wrath is a 25+ hour action-adventure RPG released for the PC-based Oculus Rift platform in late 2019.

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MAY 20, 2022

The standoff between Rockwell and Ive reportedly lasted months, when CEO Tim Cook sided with Ive in 2019. To handle this Apple built a dedicated image signal processor (ISP) chip called Bora, but engineers are apparently struggling to eliminate latency between it and the headset’s main processor – the upcoming M2.

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OCTOBER 16, 2023

Image courtesy Apple With SharePlay, Apple also provides the behind-the-scenes piping to keep apps synchronized between users, and it says the data shared between participants is “low-latency” and end-to-end encrypted. The company shut down Spaces in 2019, but even at the time we thought there was much to learn from the effort.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Gartner Hype Cycle 2019. Some of this infrastructure and requirements will be ushered in by the arrival of low-latency, wireless networking (5G will serve as an enabling tech), while others are still being developed. As you can see, there is no mention of AR (Image by Gartner).

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