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Xiaomi Unveils Low-Cost, Low-Latency VR Headset with Controller

Road to VR

Much like Samsung Gear VR, Mi VR features a built-in dedicated motion sensor for low latency head-tracking and only works with a select number of the company’s phones. Youku has since integrated 360 video support for both their desktop and smartphone platform.

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Sifting Reality From Hype: What 5G Does (and Doesn’t) Mean for VR & AR

Road to VR

Tis the season of 5G, the next-gen mobile data technology which promises to boost bandwidth and reduce latency. You can Google “5G” along with any other hot technology in the same query and you can find someone telling you that somehow and at some point 5G is going to revolutionize that thing. Immersive Video Streaming.

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VR Has Officially Ascended to ‘Crappy Last-Minute Gift’ Thanks to This AXE Bodywash Bundle

Road to VR

The headset, which holds the user’s smartphone, is little more than a plastic shell with lenses which undoubtedly hooks into the massive, but decidedly low-ish quality Google Cardboard content store. SEE ALSO Oculus Go is Facebook's Affordable Standalone Headset Priced at $200, Shipping Early 2018.

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Facebook Experiments With New Unit of Time Called The ‘Flick’

VRScout

For example, say you’re working on a 360° video. Now, instead of telling one of your collaborators to have the bear enter “about fifteen seconds” into the video, you can tell them to unleash the beast “exactly 65 flicks after the fifteenth second.”

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Building a Better 360 Camera from Consumer to Pro, with Insta360’s Michael Shabun

XR for Business Podcast

When you open the box, camera’s inside, but there’s also a VR viewer, like a little Google Cardboard kind of thing, a little plastic thing that you slap on your phone. You see Google. What this does is it uses a technology that Google made popular some years ago and it uses something called dynamic rendering.

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Building a Better 360 Camera from Consumer to Pro, with Insta360’s Michael Shabun

XR for Business Podcast

When you open the box, camera’s inside, but there’s also a VR viewer, like a little Google Cardboard kind of thing, a little plastic thing that you slap on your phone. You see Google. What this does is it uses a technology that Google made popular some years ago and it uses something called dynamic rendering.

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Building a Better 360 Camera from Consumer to Pro, with Insta360's Michael Shabun

XR for Business Podcast

When you open the box, camera's inside, but there's also a VR viewer, like a little Google Cardboard kind of thing, a little plastic thing that you slap on your phone. You see Google. What this does is it uses a technology that Google made popular some years ago and it uses something called dynamic rendering. Put it into VR.