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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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Spatial Beats: Pico, Apple & SXSW

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Zero Latency is opening its 52nd free-roam multiplayer VR gaming center in Milan. Zero Latency allows up to eight players to fight zombies and play other games in a free-roam VR space. The Pico NEO 3 will be released in Q2 2021. This is big news because it shows that the LBE industry is going to thrive in the upcoming quarters.

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Quest 2’s 120Hz Refresh Rate Will Soon No Longer Be Experimental

Upload VR

But titles like Eleven Table Tennis use it to give extra responsiveness and lower latency than is possible on Pico or HTC standalones. . — John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) September 5, 2022.

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NextVR’s Latest Tech is Bringing New Levels of Fidelity to VR Video

Road to VR

Parallel with new, more powerful and higher resolution VR headsets, improvements to NextVR’s technology are bringing promising new levels of quality and volumetric capability to VR video content. Attitudes toward 360 video content among high-end VR users are generally quite bad. Photo by Road to VR.

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Hands-on XCOM Labs streaming… and more from AWE!

The Ghost Howls

This experience had everything I could expect from a remote rendering solution: the scene was much more complex than anything the HoloLens could handle , and the rendering latency was low, so almost not noticeable. Again, I noticed that the remote rendering was working well, with good visuals and low latency.

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HTC Partners to Stream VR Games to Vive in China, Cutting VR-Ready PCs Out of the Equation

Road to VR

While it only hosts “a few dozen” games, apps and a library of 360 videos at the moment, HTC says more content will be added over time, of course sourced from Viveport. HTC Vive China Regional President Alvin Wang Graylin admits however some latency is to be expected, saying it would be “ok for most non-twitch apps.”

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Hands-on review on Oculus Quest 3DOF mode and Passthrough+!

The Ghost Howls

This mode is very similar to the “Passenger mode” of the Vive Focus Plus , and lets you disable positional tracking if you don’t need it , something that can be useful to spare your battery when you just want to watch 360 videos. Incredibly handy. There are still issues with distortions, resolution and colors.

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