XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MAY 24, 2022

According to IDC’s March 2022 quarterly report , headset shipments grew by a staggering 92 percent in 2021, with several players vying for the top spot. XTAL won the prestigious Red Dot Product Design Award in 2020 and was also among the finalists for VR Awards 2021. Precise eye-tracking. 8K resolution and user comfort.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Regarding technologies, the Metaverse will incorporate artificial intelligence (AI), virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR), the internet of things (IoT), and hand and eye tracking tools. Companies like Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Epic Games, Unity, and others are facilitating the rise of serious gaming technologies.

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ARVR

JUNE 9, 2021

Microsoft Microsoft is one of the few companies that has approached augmented reality wearables more successfully. We expect to see Microsoft still at work for a long time in this area and we think it can succeed where it has failed with mobile devices. Again, as of 2021, we just have rumors. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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AR Insider

MAY 3, 2021

While Burning Man announced it’s throwing in the towel on a live 2021 event, the world’s largest trade show, CES, will be back in Las Vegas the first week of January, 2022. The new holographic displays will ship with a number of standalone demos on them, including one from Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture Studios.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The Chinese firm overcame legal action to hit US markets in 2021. Additionally, in a software development kit (SDK) update Nreal doubled down on its hand and eye-tracking abilities using an artificial intelligence (AI) network and Microsoft’s Mixed Reality Toolkit. 15 Million Investment.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. An eye-tracking accessory built for Vive should work with Rift as well, and so on. But I want to be positive about this… go OpenXR! .

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Inward-facing cameras for enhanced hand, face, and eye-tracking. The headset currently retails for £1,499 and offers a trove of upgraded features compared to the Quest 2 for enhanced productivity, avatar building, hand and eye-tracking, and cross-compatible integrations. TruTouch haptics to interact with virtual content.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

Although, an emerging presence in the development space is hand and eye tracking. AR/VR/MR headsets are increasingly equipped with hand and eye tracking technology. Previously, commercial XR devices like the Meta Quest had experimented with hand-tracking features which improved as the device matured.

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

Although, an emerging presence in the development space is hand and eye tracking. AR/VR/MR headsets are increasingly equipped with hand and eye tracking technology. Previously, commercial XR devices like the Meta Quest had experimented with hand-tracking features which improved as the device matured.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

This is not a tweet, it is a #metaverse message… #VirtualReality #VR #AR pic.twitter.com/f9aDJ2mbc3 — TonyVT SkarredGhost (@SkarredGhost) July 25, 2021. If it manages to enter the European market, it means that Meta can sell many millions of headsets more than in 2021. Eye tracking. HoloLens has been warned.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

Rendering of the 2021 version of the Panasonic VR glasses. Qualcomm and Microsoft partnership. Qualcomm and Microsoft have announced a partnership to push together the next-generation lightweight AR glasses. Qualcomm and Microsoft partnership (Road To VR). They looked quite cool (Image by Panasonic). Further references.

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AR Insider

JULY 15, 2021

2021: Get any Advertising Objections Flushed Out Early. 2021+: Drive VR Costs Below All Competitors. Instagram-ready) cameras, and possibly eye-tracking too. 2023+: Eye Tracking and beyond. If the first glasses don’t have eye-tracking, expect it to follow within a year or two. 2024+: More BCI.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Image by Microsoft). Microsoft ramps up distribution of HoloLens 2 and Kinect For Azure. Microsoft is working to improve the distribution of its latest devices: HoloLens 2 and Kinect For Azure. Nreal Light is shipping in Europe and US in 2021. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

Apple Glasses may release in 2021 for $499. In a Youtube video, he revealed some juicy details, like: The cost of the glasses is $499 + prescription lenses; They are connected to the iPhone, that does all the heavy lifting; They were planned for a “one more thing” announcement for Q4 2020- Q1 2021 , and for release one year later.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

A piece of very interesting news about this headset, which has been reported by few people, is that the Chinese company 7Invensun has already developed an eye-tracking module for it, making Vive Flow even more interesting for enterprise uses. Lone Echo 2 is one of the best games of 2021, but…. Other relevant news.

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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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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

They “will incorporate some of the key features found in the DualSense wireless controller, along with a focus on great ergonomics”; There will be a “new generation” of games and experiences for it; It is still under development and won’t launch in 2021. MWC Shanghai 2021 showcased some XR technologies. More info (Qualcomm AR Viewer?—?Road

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

It will be released to selected partners in Q4 2021 and to the general public in Q1 2022. Johnson has worked at Microsoft and Qualcomm before, and she is a very respected executive. Chip shortages are going to continue throughout 2021. Honestly speaking, we already knew most of this information.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

I think I’ll miss the joys of summer (and all the trophies that Italy has won), but at least I’ll be able to enjoy again some delicious hot chocolate Before leaving you to the news of the week, I’m happy to announce to you that I’ve been selected as a speaker for AWE US 2021 ! And are also good for data harvesting cough cough cough.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

On the other side, this is massive for Apple, that mixing the data of Apple Maps together with all these point clouds detected by the rear cameras when in use, will be able to create an AR Cloud ecosystem probably even before Facebook, Microsoft, and Google. Microsoft releases Azure Remote Rendering. In 2018, this was mindblowing.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 2, 2023

percent from 2021 to 2028. This is due to several “false starts” with Google Glass , Microsoft HoloLens2, and Magic Leap, although the companies remain potential customers. With DeepOptics, Lumus integrated eye-tracking with transparent, liquid crystal displays that “rotate the molecules in real-time.”

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

All the other major companies (Samsung, Huawei, etc…) are working on AR and Apple for sure can’t stop experimenting with if it doesn’t want to miss the next communication platform as Microsoft did with Windows Phone. Probably not this year, but next one or in 2021… but it will happen. So, don’t panic.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

Per se, this is not a surprising news (all companies are working on next iterations of their devices), but what is surprising is the timing that the report suggests: a new Oculus Quest should have been announced at the end of 2020, but due to the coronavirus pandemic, it will come in 2021. Or eye tracking?).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2020

A worker wearing HoloLens 2 (Image by Microsoft). Maybe with eye-tracking, AI, 5G connection, and a battery that lasts all day. So, I envision the main companies in the field, like Microsoft and Magic Leap, to put their efforts into improving their platform to offer better services to their enterprise customers.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

Today, we’re looking at some of the top MR headset manufacturers in the industry, to help business leaders track down the right endpoints for their technology stack. Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 headset enables 6 degrees of freedom tracking, with spatial mapping and mixed reality capture.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

While the first version was an all-in-one with diffractive waveguides like Microsoft HoloLens, the new one is an all-in-two light device that connects to your smartphone and uses birdbath optics. If you want to buy it, it is already backordered, and new purchases will be shipped in 2021. Facebook launches two weird marketing campaigns.

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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

MARCH 23, 2023

Today, we’re looking at some of the top MR headset manufacturers in the industry to help business leaders track down the right endpoints for their technology stack. The flagship MR solution from the company is the Samsung HMD Odyssey, which combines Microsoft Windows Holographic computing components with a 110-degree Fresnel lens.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

The Quest 2 is quite powerful and so Facebook has confirmed tha t in 2021 there won’t be the need for a Quest 2 Pro as some people were supposing. NVIDIA doubles down on Cloud Rendering and Omniverse at GTC 2021. Facebook has also brought another innovation to the Quest Store, that is subscriptions. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 21, 2019

Some claimed it will be wireless, others claimed it will be wireless, with eye-tracking, high resolution, 200° FOV, and other cool stuff… all for $250. Microsoft has showcased a great holographic translating technology. I have to say that it is an impressive demo , that shows a lot of expertises that Microsoft actually owns.

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ARVR

JANUARY 21, 2022

Enterprise AR: 7 real-world use cases for 2021 ARCORE The Android equivalent of ARKit, ARCore provides the open source native tool set needed for developers to create augmented reality apps on Android devices. billion in 2021. Microsoft Mesh is a project with HoloLens that helps enable hybrid meetings that enable VR and AR features.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Plus, it was one of the finalists for the VR Awards 2021. Integrated tracking: The eye-tracking capabilities within the XTAL 3 are amazing. The company’s flagship product is the XTAL, a virtual and mixed reality headset, which offers some of the best field-of-view and visuals in the landscape.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2019

Microsoft has just released its OpenXR implementation, while other companies like Oculus and Epic Games are still working on theirs, and they will be released soon. Only $375 to see the notifications of your phone in front of your eyes. said that he used Microsoft Azure and Cloud anchors to provide such features.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And moving on, I want to say that 2021 is looking pretty damn amazing to begin with for the XR world. Our VP of Marketing and Strategy, Alex Colgan, will turn the tables and interview me on what happened in 2020 and what we can expect from 2021. But I think we're all looking forward to 2021, and what it's going to mean for all of us.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And moving on, I want to say that 2021 is looking pretty damn amazing to begin with for the XR world. Our VP of Marketing and Strategy, Alex Colgan, will turn the tables and interview me on what happened in 2020 and what we can expect from 2021. But I think we're all looking forward to 2021, and what it's going to mean for all of us.

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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. But it will come in 2021 , and two years is a long time to survive.

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