XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 27, 2023

Here are some of the VR vendors making waves in the industry as of 2023. HP also recently introduced its own XR device management platform to help companies keep track of their immersive devices. HTC VIVE With tools for augmented, extended, and virtual reality , HTC VIVE has a strong presence in the immersive technologies landscape.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

Following its Vive XR Elite reveal, HTC confirmed which games and apps will arrive during the headset’s launch window. Announced during CES 2023, Vive XR Elite is an $1100 Quest Pro competitor releasing next month. Sushi Ben VR (in development, launches 2023). Sam and Max: This Time It’s Virtual! Shores of Loci.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 9, 2023

Last week, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2023 kicked off its yearly event by bringing leading firms and representatives together to discuss emerging technology trends and innovations. CES 2023 occurred between January 5 – 8 in Las Vegas, Nevada. CES 2023: Fresh AR/VR Hardware. Hand tracking. Eye tracking.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

However, the Menlo Park-based firm appears to be ramping up its Horizon service leading into Connect 2023. Moreover, Meta may enhance the feature as it heads towards Connect 2023. Meta Connect 2023 Speaking of Horizon Worlds, Meta is once again partially hosting its Connect showcase event on the Metaverse platform.

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MAY 8, 2023

Eye and hand tracking technologies embedded into wearable devices, or delivered through external sensors, provide the feedback that applications need to optimize the immersive experience for each user. The Swedish company has produced a number of eye-tracking solutions, including the Tobii Pro Glasses 3.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 11, 2023

Meta Platforms is expected to release its Meta Quest 3 in 2023, social media reports confirmed last week. Brad Lynch (@SadlyItsBradley) January 6, 2023. According to the YouTuber, Meta began its subsequent phases of device testing, with third-party developers shipping developer kits in the second quarter (Q1) of 2023.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Notably, the headset doesn’t include the requiste SteamVR tracking base stations or SteamVR-compatible controllers like the Valve Index controller or HTC Vive wand—you’ll have to purchase those separately. A third wave of will come sometime in late 2023, including Japan, Australia, New Zealand. Base Stations.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

This Face Tracking add-on magnetically attaches to the facial interface of the device, and it adds to it both eye tracking and face tracking. It features two 120Hz eye-tracking cameras and one 60Hz lower face-tracking camera. The device costs $200 and it is available starting today.

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JANUARY 4, 2024

per eye at 90Hz or 2.7K per eye at 120Hz for the base XR2 Gen 2. Finally, the chip includes support for up to 12 concurrent cameras, up from 10 on the base XR2 Gen 2, to enable headsets with a plethora of face and eye tracking sensors. That compares to up to 3.1K

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

On the sensors side, there are 2 sensors for eye tracking and an additional sensor for face tracking. These sensors can be used to track what the user is doing, for instance, to provide better training. Eye tracking sensor on a Pico 4 Enterprise devkit. Face tracking sensor on a Pico 4 Enterprise devkit.

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JANUARY 8, 2023

One of the most important XR news from CES has been the reveal by HTC of the Vive XR Elite. In case you missed it, I can summarize it by saying that HTC launched a new Quest Pro competitor priced at $1100. Big kudos to HTC for this. The HTC Vive XR Elite has some of the best passthrough I have seen yet. Parts Recycling.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 22, 2024

Eye and hand tracking technologies embedded into wearable devices, or delivered through external sensors, provide the feedback that applications need to optimize the immersive experience for each user. So, which companies are paving the way for the next generation of tracking? Here are just some of the vendors worth watching.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 31, 2023

HTC Vive has been doing it for a while” He later quotes D an O’Brien, President, Americas, HTC , stating use case data from the Taoyuan-based firm. You can add facial tracking, you can add eye tracking, you can add accessories and peripherals. USD in 2023, up $866.04

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JANUARY 18, 2023

So here you are a collection of the best news in immersive realities from the CES 2023, with many links to go deeper! HTC Vive XR Elite HTC Vive XR Elite (Image by HTC Vive) The star of the event has for sure been the Vive XR Elite, HTC’s latest flagship headset. Could I make an exception for this year?

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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). The Quest Pro already introduced mixed reality and eye tracking: I’ve seen a few interesting experiments with it, but the device was a total flop.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

HTC is looking to differentiate itself in consumer VR with Vive XR Elite. We went hands-on with the new modular headset at CES 2023. Starting at $1100, the Vive XR Elite marks HTC’s initial effort to reclaim some of the consumer standalone VR market after retreating to focus on enterprises.

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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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JUNE 12, 2023

OPPO MR Glass will be available as a Snapdragon Spaces developer kit in China, distributed in the second half of 2023. More info HTC VIVE launches VIVE Business+ HTC is one of the leading companies in enterprise virtual reality. It also features a heartbeat sensor, even if it is not clear where it is installed.

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JANUARY 5, 2023

HTC officially unveiled its next consumer-focused headset at CES 2023 today. Called Vive XR Elite, the standalone mixed reality device boasts a feature set that positions HTC to go toe-to-toe with Meta’s Quest Pro, but at a notably cheaper price of $1,100. Image courtesy HTC. Image courtesy HTC.

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MAY 18, 2022

It was more of a conceptual showcase at the time, the report maintains, as some prototypes ran on Windows while others were based on the original HTC Vive. N301 may pack a dozen cameras for room-scale tracking, hand-tracking, eye-tracking, and passthrough AR. N301 could cost around $3,000.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Introduced at CES 2023 , the Pimax Crystal builds on Pimax’s growing collection of high-resolution headsets. Similar to previous Pimax devices, this headset features an exceptionally high pixel count, external tracking cameras, and robust glass lenses. There’s also free shipping to the US, UK, EU, AU, and Japan.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 4, 2024

Moreover, to continue its OEM success, Qualcomm is developing an MR & VR reference design, which Goertek helped create and Tobii assisted by integrating its eye-tracking technology. The chipset also includes: 8x better AI performance 12ms full-colour video see-through 90 FPS support for the 4.3K

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 4, 2024

Moreover, in 2023, Meta sees partnerships with various large-scale companies to scale its immersive solutions, notably through a Ray-Ban collaboration over smart glasses and a recent alliance with LG to create unconfirmed AI-ready XR products. In the final quarter of 2023, Meta secured $7.8 While the Reality Labs division did lose $4.65

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Moreover, Immersed is debuting its Visor product at a lower price than the Vision Pro, perhaps creating a wild card in XR competition alongside significant players such as Meta, Microsoft, HTC, Lenovo, Xreal, and Varjo. or 4K micro OLED per eye (depending on the model.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Pico’s even secured its first major exclusive for the platform, Just Dance VR , coming in 2023. Facebook’s profit-deferring strategy had pushed would-be competitors like Lenovo and HTC to focus on enterprise markets where buyers are less sensitive to price than the value of not using anything connected to Facebook.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This is the same confusion that created issues for HTC in the past with the Vive Pro, for instance. The eye and face tracking can also work via Quest Link (but maybe only for developers). There are new complaints about Meta’s privacy policy on eye tracking , as my friend Avi Bar-Zeev points out.

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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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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 26, 2023

@AudiOfficial @territorystudio pic.twitter.com/v0gSHQxPU8 — Magic Leap (@magicleap) April 18, 2023 Drivers can configure the Magic Leap 2 to display driving modes, trip data, location and destination, and other key information. The solution also features HTC VIVE Flow headsets as part of its full package system.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 3, 2023

Head pose and eye-tracking. 2023 looks to be yet another transformative year for the XR industry. On the other hand, Meta is facing increasing competition from XR companies like HTC, Pico, and NReal. The product contains a headset, controllers, a separate computing device, and accessibility add-ons. 120 Hz refresh rate.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Meta Connect 2023 Meta is highlighting XR workplace use cases as the Menlo Park-based firm works towards its online Connect showcase, due to take place later this month, September 27 – 28, 2023, as a virtual showcase for users to watch via Facebook and Horizon Worlds.

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MARCH 13, 2023

You can discover more on the dedicated Linkedin post that I’m sharing below.

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MAY 23, 2022

Since the hardware is almost ready, the company is now ramping up the development of the actual rOS (Reality OS) operating system, for the launch that may happen in 2023. Thanks to the leak reported by around ten insiders, the online magazine has been able to cast a light on some unknown details about the headset.

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APRIL 13, 2022

It has become one of the headset manufacturers with the biggest worldwide market, and the market leader (together with HTC) in the B2B virtual reality sector. Its latest headset, the Pico Neo 3 , was a very good Oculus Quest 2 clone , that also brought some innovations, like the DP Cable to connect it to the PC for a true PCVR experience.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Meta Connect 2023 just concluded. The firm revealed various updates regarding its business, upcoming services, and products during Connect 2023 – most notably the Meta Quest 3. or 4K micro OLED per eye (depending on the model. The wait is over.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2023

See Also: The Future Is Now: 2023 Metaverse and XR Predictions Worth Looking Into Think how Microsoft revolutionized personal computers, or how Apple changed the mobile phone market forever. HTC HTC is about to release its offering in the form of the VIVE XR Elite with a release date of February 25 and an entry-level price of $1,099.

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AUGUST 24, 2020

Who doesn’t want to do that can still use his/her Oculus account to log in until 2023 , but he/she won’t be able to use all the social functionalities of the device (like Venues, Horizon, etc…). After 2023, the devices won’t be guaranteed to work with an Oculus login. The same on Twitter. Other relevant news. Image by Epic Games).

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NOVEMBER 3, 2023

According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, during demonstrations and events like the Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) 2023, testers expressed concerns that the metal-framed device was too heavy for long-term use. Early tech reviewers have said the device weighs anywhere between 1 and 1.5 pounds (somewhere between 453g and 680g).

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