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VR Headsets: Expert Roundtable

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Despite the rising trend of MR, which combines partial and fully immersive spatial applications, VR technology is powering this trend – alongside AR developments – to create the foundation for the future of wearable XR/spatial computing products for enterprise clients.

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

The Ghost Howls

HTC’s Marios Bikos: “The HTC VIVE Tracker allows you to not only track objects in VR (getting tracker pose in real-time) but also use the POGO pins to simulate input buttons (Grip/Trigger/Trackpad/Menu) as if you were using a Vive controller.”. The image below shows a layout of the pogo pins, with Pin.3 3 as the Grip button, Pin.4

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The XR Week Peek (2023.10.11): Meta Quest 3 ships now, a cheaper model may come in 2024… and more!

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More info Meta lays off people working on its custom chips An unconfirmed rumor unveiled that Meta is laying off people working on its “custom silicon for wearables team”, that is the team working on Meta’s custom chips. Learn more Some XR fun Should you buy a Quest 3 or a Virtual Boy? Wait, what???

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The Second Coming of Augmented-Reality Glasses

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Virtual Reality: Do We Live In Our Brain’s Simulation Of The World? Photo by Rahul Chakraborty on Unsplash By far the most popular is the Amazon Alexa with about 69% share of the U.S. Designing for a modern 3D world: A UX design guide for VR 2. Scripting Javascript Promise In Spark AR For Beginners 3.

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What to Expect from the Immerse Global Summit 2023

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

In 2022, the Immerse Global Summit featured speakers from some of the world’s best-known brands, including Amazon, Meta, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and Unity, and demonstrations of some of the most exciting metaverse technologies. This year, there’ll be a keynote speech from Meta’s Dan Nieves, the Global Executive responsible for Meta Reality Labs.

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How Are XR Firms Training Sports Athletes and Saving Their Lives?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Ten players trialling the virtual reality (VR) training module were on the team that earned the championship title. Virtual reality is another percentage point of performance and can become very important.” Some provide simulation training and others offer wearables with heads-up displays (HUDs).

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The XR Week Peek (2020.05.17): Apple Glasses are sleek, UE5 rises hype, NVIDIA releases CloudXR SDK, and more!

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What is the only wearable that people is keeping on their face all day? All together will let you stream a very complex virtual reality application from an edge server to a standalone VR headset via 5G. Discover (and buy) the book on Amazon. Apple is really good at selling stuff. Yes, Airpods.

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