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XTAL hands on: an interesting glimpse to Virtual Reality 2.0

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XTAL is an enterprise headset with incredible specifications, like for instance: 5120 x 1440 display resolution (2560 x 1440 per eye); OLED display Custom non-Fresnel lenses 180° diagonal FOV Spatial 3D sound from a built-in sound card Embedded microphone Embedded eye tracking Auto-IPD adjustment Embedded Leap motion v2 sensor.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.12.09): Qualcomm XR2 defines the future of XR, Magic Leap having tragic sales, and much more!

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Past weekend has been the weekend of the Black Friday and Cyber Monday and the company that has dominated the sales of VR hardware has been of course Oculu s, thanks to the discounts on Rift S and Go and the great reputation of the Oculus Quest. HTC won’t announce anything big at CES. Adobe acquires Oculus Medium.

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15 things to keep in mind if you have to showcase your VR game in China

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Of course, you must also pre-install the game on all the devices; Batteries and chargers. These, of course, are to be bought in China and not to be taken from home. If you can not, buy them in your country, with Amazon or eBay. I used them to cover the light sensors of the headsets, for instance; Business Cards. Food and water.

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All the most important AR and VR news from Facebook F8

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There it has presented a lot of news regarding all Facebook companies (Messenger, Instagram, Facebook, etc…) and of course, among these pieces of news, we had some AR and VR ones. Of course, the quality of the tracking is not the one of the Kinect yet, but we’re getting close. Other research projects.

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All you need to know on Oculus Connect 6: the most important news in one single article!

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Of course, there are some little issues, like for instance: There is a little latency for positional tracking and tracking of controllers (even if it is hardly noticeable); Sometimes you can spot some artifacts , especially if you move very fast; The images do not appear as crisp as on the Rift S , because of the compression stuff.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.05.24): Snap releases new Spectacles AR glasses, Quest releases runtime v29, and more!

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But it’s an experimental project, so of course, it has issues. Quest 2 recalled from Amazon EU for skin irritation issue. Facebook is working with Amazon to solve all the bureaucratic stuff and we hope that sales can start again soon. HTC had $210 million as the total revenue for 2020. News worth a mention.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.03.23): Half-Life: Alyx launches, Oculus Del Mar leaked, PS5 revealed and more!

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Of course, I also expect full fingers tracking. We’re talking about the native SDK, of course; Beat Saber announces to have sold more than 2M of copies , with projected earnings of around $67M. Another great UX post by Leap Motion. Something like the Valve Index controllers. New iPad Pro will feature a LIDAR sensor.

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