Upload VR

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

I've been a bespectacled individual for a very long time, and back when I bought the Oculus Rift DK1 in 2013, it was arguably the only player in the game in terms of consumer level VR hardware. I watched as the green outlines inside Apple Vision Pro adjusted to my eyes and set up eye tracking.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 29, 2024

Developer Platform spoke to XR Today during GTC 2024 to highlight how NVIDIA plans to scale spatial computing solutions for the workplace. Now, an Oculus Quest, which couldn’t compute this [Omniverse] model, can now compute this model by streaming it from the cloud, and that’s great.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 27, 2020

The Oculus Quest 2 has been leaked. The famous leaker WalkingCat did it again, leaking this time a new model of the Oculus Quest , in the beginning with some renders, and then with true pictures of a pre-production device (that had been originally shared by redditor CallThePlumber). Top news of the week. Image by WalkingCat).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

In the case of VR, we all remember the competition between HTC and Oculus in 2016, with HTC clearly winning the market until Oculus used Facebook’s money to slash the price of the Rift around 2017. This led to a growing importance of Oculus, until with the Quest it started dominating the market in a way no one was able to face.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

After announcing $3 million in seed funding from investors including The Venture Reality Fund and Oculus founder Nate Mitchell, AstroBeam says its focus will be on creating "more comfortable, more accessible, and more human ways to hangout and have fun with friends in VR."

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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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ARVR

JUNE 18, 2021

With large tech players like Facebook with Oculus Quest 2 , Varjo with Varjo VR-3 , HP headset HP Reverb G2 , launching their new VR headsets. As well as growing numbers of VR users, with the expected number of installed base worldwide, to surpass the 34 million mark by 2024. Last year brought us many VR innovations.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Using holocake [lens], using multi-view eye tracking, using reverse passthrough, with hardware components that exsist. 2024: What are the Next Steps for Meta? But we are getting closer. Here is a rendering [of the Mirror Lake prototype] of a device that we felt, a few years ago, is practical to build now.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 14, 2023

According to the now-deleted article from Gyro Technology, the upcoming headset will leverage four tracking cameras, a pancake lens, two RGB outward-facing cameras, a depth sensor, eye-tracking, hand-tracking, OLED microdisplays, and Samsung’s Exynos 2200 chipset.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 10, 2022

Conversely, global VR revenues will surpass $12 billion USD by 2024, which indicates a smaller market. The user must their adjust the lenses with eye-tracking technologies, depending on the unique movement of each eye. For instance, the global market for AR was valued at roughlyt $17.67 percent up to 2028.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2022

As the XR landscape continues to grow, accelerating towards an expected value of $300 billion by 2024, immersive technology is evolving at an amazing rate. Hand and eye tracking tools, capable of sensing the movements, gestures, and gaze of a user, can take XR experiences to a new level.

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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). He has tweeted “I’m very excited about our upcoming announcements next week, and all that we have planned for 2020–2024”. Oculus products have gone pretty well during the Black Weekend.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 10, 2024

Hall-walkers at CES 2024 this week noticed a headset that looks awfully familiar. inch LCD panel serving up 1,832 x 1,920 pixels per eye, clocked at 72Hz. Meanwhile, Apple Vision Pro is set to launch on February 2nd , priced at an eye-watering $3,500. Still, we didn’t expect to see a knock-off of Vision Pro so soon.

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Upload VR

AUGUST 3, 2022

We’ve got a good look at the white and black design with a halo strap design, an OLED display with near-4K resolution, wider field of view, eye tracking and in-headset vibration. Reports also indicate it could have eye tracking and use dual 4K screens, while running a new operating system – rOS (“reality OS”).

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Upload VR

JANUARY 10, 2024

UploadVR's Operations Manager Kyle Riesenbeck tried AX162 by EmDoorVR's stall at CES 2024 in Las Vegas, and relayed his impressions to me. In fact, its GPU is less powerful than even the one in 2018's Oculus Go. But the basic design language is where the similarities end. It's significantly less powerful than the XR2 used in Quest 2.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

3 hours Eye Tracking ❌ ✅ ❌ Face Tracking ❌ ✅ ❌ Controllers Touch Tracking Rings Basic Haptics Touch Pro Self-Tracking TruTouch Haptics Touch Plus Ringless TruTouch Haptics Pricing $300 (128GB) $350 (256GB) $1000 (256GB) $500 (128GB) $650 (512GB) Quest Pro is still the only Meta option for local dimming, eye tracking, and face tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 30, 2020

Waiting until now would mean that next VR game by Valve would come out in 2024–2025… do you really think they don’t want to make the ecosystem to grow now? If Microsoft will improve the WMR ecosystem with at least 4 tracking cameras, this can be an headset to look at with much attention. Oculus rolls out runtime v15 for Quest.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys — Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go. Facebook is still investing in Oculus, obviously. Dean: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys — Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go. Facebook is still investing in Oculus, obviously. Dean: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys -- Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go. Facebook is still investing in Oculus, obviously. well, failing.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys — Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go. Facebook is still investing in Oculus, obviously. Dean: Yeah.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Meta Quest 3 (left) and Apple Vision Pro (right) We once asked Oculus executive Jason Rubin whether his company was considering a tethered compute model. 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. And I mean fully.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2022

To summarize, these are its specifications: Qualcomm XR2 chipset 4K low-persistence 90 Hz Curved Display 3664 x 1920 resolution, 773 PPI 72Hz with support for 90Hz 98° FOV 6GB RAM (2133 Mhz) for the Pro model, 8GB for the Pro Eye Model 256GB storage Wi-Fi 6 connectivity USB-C 3.0 Meta plans AR glasses for 2024. 10 Years of Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 30, 2022

I totally want them to care more about our privacy, and I’m all in with Avi Bar-Zeev in having better management of eye tracking data on the Quest Pro. That’s why its greatest bet is AR glasses that are coming from 2024 or 2026. I’m not a huge fan of Zuck, and I ‘ve always criticized Meta when needed.

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