XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 1, 2024

Apple began building the Apple Vision Pro with a focus on enterprise needs. To create more natural experiences in the virtual world, headset vendors are beginning to experiment with spatial computing technology. Innovators like Apple are taking a similar approach with the Apple Vision Pro.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 8, 2024

In a conversation with the BBC, Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple , highlighted some of the productivity gains and accessibility considerations of the firm’s upcoming MR headset, the Vision Pro. Notably, the Vision Pro gives users various options to understand and interact with XR by using eye and hand-based interactions.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 7, 2023

Apple’s new visionOS operating system is easily one of the most anticipated new solutions announced at WWDC this year. For years, Apple fans have been left to scour the rumor mill for news about an impending Apple headset. Now we finally have not just one Apple VR/AR announcement, but multiple. What is Apple visionOS?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 23, 2024

The Apple Vision Pro brought expected eyes to the technology, and late last year, Meta launched its Quest 3, which introduced its brand of MR at an affordable price following its Quest Pro launch. One particular area I see opportunity is in interaction, specifically hand tracking. However, MR has room to grow.

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Upload VR

AUGUST 11, 2023

The Half-Dome prototype presented a solution: track which virtual object your eyes are looking at and rapidly mechanically move the display panels backward or forward to dynamically adjust focus to its distance. Butterscotch Varifocal includes the same eye tracking and mechanical actuators.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 8, 2024

Though mixed reality hasn’t earned as much attention as virtual and augmented reality in the past, that’s all starting to change. Innovators like Apple, Meta, Microsoft, and Varjo have revolutionized the space, showing how flexible, versatile, and powerful mixed reality can be.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 30, 2022

Even in 2007, when Apple announced the first iPhone, Steve Jobs was keen to get rid of the stylus for touchscreen management, arguing separate controllers and devices make using technology more cumbersome. Eye tracking, on the other hand, can record eye positions and movements to provide insights into the human mind.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 11, 2022

ShapesXR will offer creative content developers a new suite of tools capable of building immersive experiences for any app on MR headsets from Meta, Pico Interactive, Apple, and others. The features will enhance collaborative efforts and creativity using Meta’s long-awaited mixed reality (MR) headset.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Compared to other headsets like the Apple Vision Pro , it’s a little heavier, weighing around 960 grams. You also get a handy IPD slider and can adjust interpupillary distance manually or automatically (with eye tracking). Pros: Incredible visual fidelity with excellent resolution per eye. per month.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 31, 2023

Over the last year, VR headsets are gaining reaction thanks to many technological innovations, such as hand-tracking, eye-tracking, and wireless streaming, which benefit business and consumer end-users. MR-integrated immersive wearables allow a user to combine their surrounding real and virtual worlds.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 13, 2017

Mallinson spoke about ‘natural language understanding’, which he compared to voice operated platforms like Apple’s Siri, Amazon Echo. Building on that, the company’s also interested in affecting the virtual world around you with gaze tracking.

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CraneMorley

JUNE 27, 2023

” Published in 1994 the article details MR “as a particular subset of Virtual Reality (VR) related technologies that involve the merging of real and virtual worlds somewhere along the “virtuality continuum” which connects completely real environments to completely virtual ones.” Spatial sound.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 30, 2023

More Immersive, Intuitive User Experiences Perhaps the most significant reason to invest in eye and hand-tracking solutions for extended reality is that they can massively improve user experiences. Many of the most advanced vendors in the XR space offer eye and hand tracking to boost user immersion.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Using your hands to directly interact with the virtual world and speaking naturally to both your friends and NPCs will be a big game changer within the space." Owlchemy Demo Reaches For Mass Market VR Hand Tracking Owlchemy’s hand tracking tech demo at GDC 2023 pointed to the future of mass market VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 30, 2023

I’ve read a lot of articles and XR news this week, but actually, at the end of the day, nothing relevant has happened, except for the usual rumor about Apple… so you can close this roundup now… no ok, I’m kidding! This doesn’t sound to me very “Apple”. And by the way, on the personal side, things are going well for me!

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 8, 2024

We’ve seen evidence of this with the Meta Quest 3 and Apple Vision Pro. Spatial computing solutions for things like hand and eye tracking deepen the level of immersion users feel in a virtual environment by removing the need for controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Feature-wise, it is more or less as we expected it to be, with four cameras for inside-out tracking, haptic feedback, IPD adjustment , eye-tracking, HDR display. Apple headset is rumored to be announced this year. I guess you are not surprised to read a new rumor about the Apple headset also from this week.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Apple’s Vision Pro triggered new discourse on the future of virutal, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR). Revealed at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), the Apple Vision Pro has sparked both praise and criticism from the global XR community. Apple is adept at proposing something you didn’t think you needed.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

And to be the leader in some years, it has to start going public now, also to begin competing with Apple, that will probably announce its AR glasses next year. But Facebook has a big problem and that big problem is called Apple. Concept of a future AR glass by Apple (Image by iDropNews). It will also feature new controllers.

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Bernard Marr

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The bottom line, as more people spend time in realistic virtual worlds, we need our legal systems to catch up fast. Privacy Will Be A Key Concern The metaverse also brings new privacy challenges because all this immersive technology will be even better at tracking our actions and intentions.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

A lot of startups have started working on the so-called “ARCloud”, that is a persistent and shared virtual world that is coherent with the real one. This means that it is possible to create AR experiences that are persistent in whatever place of the world and that are shared among all people of the world.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

PSVR 2, Apple XR visor) and games, will be fundamental to understand its evolution and its potential. Body tracking leaked from Quest SDK documentation. Probably you all recall the iconic Apple commercial inspired by the book 1984 that helped a lot the company in becoming popular. References to Apple RealityOS have been leaked.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 21, 2022

These professionals use new devices to merge the physical and virtual worlds with creative, engaging immersive content. XR blends the physical and virtual worlds with digital overlays that interact in real-time with real-life objects. According to Precedence Research, the global XR market reached $35.14 Defining XR.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

Mirror Lake includes holographic lenses, reverse passthrough (people can see your eyes when you wear it), varifocal, and eye-tracking in a single very lightweight device. We have lots of non-news about Apple’s XR efforts. For every one of the four main themes, a headset solving it has been shown in the video.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The headset takes inspiration from the Varjo VR-3 premium VR headset and removes its famous retina-resolution display and also hands tracking via Ultraleap, making it become a VR headset more similar to the other ones in the market. Aero still features an impressive resolution and pixel density, and also integrated eye-tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2022

He also is aware of Apple entering the market, and said his employees that the battle between Meta and Apple is a battle between open ecosystems vs closed ecosystems. Some people switched to other virtual worlds like Neos. Road To VR) More info (The FTC blocks Meta’s acquisition of Within?—?Upload Upload VR).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Just Dance VR is also part of a big focus on Fitness by Pico , with Pico Fitness already being part of the runtime and tracking the calories you burn while using the headset (clearly inspired by Oculus Move) and sharing them to Apple Health (like Oculus Move). Great job Pico on this one.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

My favorite ones have been: Sony Interactive Entertainment has revealed that the next PSVR headset will be called PSVR 2 and will feature 2K x 2K per eye, up to 120 Hz framerate, and 110° FOV. It will be the first consumer headset with eye-tracking and foveated rendering, and also the first one to feature haptics directly on the headset.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

If SteamVR apps can’t detect your Vive controllers or you see your Vive/Oculus controllers fixed on a point on the ground in the virtual world without any possibility to move them, go on reading! I bought my Vive to experiment with 7Invensun eye tracking and I was really enthusiast about trying eye-tracked UX.

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Bernard Marr

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The headset is expected to be an evolution, rather than a revolution, of the current Quest, lacking technology such as eye-tracking, which is expected to be present in the next generation of higher-end headsets.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

Eight year ago, when I first launched Hypergrid Business , virtual worlds offered a unique set of compelling features. There was presence, and immersion, and the ability to create your own virtual environments. At that time, virtual worlds were the only visible path to an interconnected metaverse of virtual environments.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The devices that will be based on this reference design will have amazing specifications like: 2K x 2K display resolution per each eye ; Have up to 7 cameras used simultaneously, including the ones for tracking, mixed reality and eye-tracking; High-quality passthrough augmented reality with high resolution and framerate.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

References found in the Oculus Quest 2 firmware by users Reggy04 and Basti564 highlight how the Quest 2 Pro should have: Eyes tracking Facial expressions tracking Eye relief knob Granular IPD adjustment External charging station. Apple VR headset may feature a 3000PPI microOLED display. It has 4.5DOF.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

The Neo 2 may not be sexy as the Quest, but it is more powerful (thanks to the Snapdragon 845), has a crisper resolution , and in the “Eye” version, it also features embedded eye tracking. And all of this is cheaper than the $1000 enterprise Oculus Quest : the Neo 2 costs $700 and the Neo 2 Eye costs $900. Picture 2).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The headset will use its eye tracking capabilities to scan the iris of the user and so understand what user has just put on the headset, unlocking itself and maybe also loading the personal preferences; Large scale mapping. Support for the development of local and remote multiplayer applications; Iris login. This is good.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2022

We often talk about Apple and Meta, but we should not forget that Google is still in the match, and that in the AR Cloud race, it has still many cards to play, like the mapping of all the world already made with Google Maps. She lists some interesting stats about Gen Z and how is their attitude towards virtual worlds.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

With this new headset, users won’t just be able to explore more advanced virtual worlds. It costs almost double the predecessor’s price, though it’s still much cheaper than other MR headsets, like the Apple Vision Pro. Both solutions feature hand-tracking capabilities for hands-free functionality.

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