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How Different XR Companies Approach Cloud Services

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We are now at the level that we are super happy with the latency and deployments.”. At first, we were just building for the phone and porting to the glasses,” Lens Creator Alex Bradt told me when I got to demo Snap’s Spectacles at AWE. Likewise, AutoDesk offers its XR cloud services through a partnership with Amazon.

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HoloLight Earns $12m in Funding amid XR Streaming Push

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It has also secured massive partnerships with key industrial heavyweights such as Amazon Web Services, NVIDIA, Verizon, Qualcomm, and many more. At the premier connectivity event, the company partnered with Nokia Bell Labs to demo next-generational virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) experiences.

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Holo-Light showed me that AR cloud rendering may already work

The Ghost Howls

The same with the other two parts of the experience: everything seemed more or less like an experience running locally on a HoloLens 2, and if I wasn’t in Holo-Light private demo room, I would have thought it was just a normal non-optimized HoloLens app with some little problems of framerate. Final impressions.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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In addition to Netflix, HBO, and YouTube, Daydream also has the Hulu VR and Google Play Movies & TV apps – making Google Daydream’s video content quite impressive (as a sidenote, when is Amazon going to release a VR viewing app to stream their flat content???). MAGIC LEAP’S CONTROVERSY. in funding (with a $4.4B

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All the most interesting AR and VR news from MWC 2018

The Ghost Howls

As I said in my post about ARKit, for sure with ARCore and Gear VR is possible to hack a 6 DOF headset, but its performances would be poor for a comfortable VR experience (where every little latency and tracking error lead to motion sickness of the user). For instance SK Telecom has showcased a 5G powered social VR demo.

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The 5 Most Important Announcements from CES 2017 on VR &.

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The 5 Most Important Announcements from CES 2017 on VR & AR 1) Intel’s ‘Merged Reality’ Demo Brings Actual Hands Into VR on Oculus Rift Intel demoed 2 things at CES: 1) they demoed Intel’s technology to bring your hands into VR, no controller required, with Intel’s Merged Reality RealSense. 2) They demoed Project Alloy.

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Vive Trackers Experiments – Part 2: Setup, Props, and Full Body Virtual Reality

The Ghost Howls

As described in my first HTC Vive Tracker article earlier this year: “Vive Tracker is a wireless, battery-powered SteamVR tracked accessory that provides highly accurate, low latency 6 Degrees of Freedom (6DoF) motion tracking within a roomscale environment.”. Holoball, 2016, £10.99, free demo. Image by Rob Cole). Image by Rob Cole).