The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The problem is not the headset, but the controllers, that maybe to spare battery are emitting very low IR light, that can’t be detected very well outside, where the Sun emits too many IR rays; A Redditor has published a super cool guide on how to obtain the most from your router to have very low latency on Virtual Desktop. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

If you are wondering why we should listen to the words of Avi Bar-Zeev, well… he helped in shaping the HoloLens, recently worked on XR glasses prototypes at Apple… and also Facebook wanted to hire him to lead its AR program. The idea is that if you are the passenger in a car, you can entertain yourself with virtual reality.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 14, 2020

We have been waiting for “Medal Of Honor: Above And Beyond” for years : it had been announced as an AAA game, made in collaboration with a great studio like Respawn Entertainment, with realistic recreation of war in virtual reality. And while Unreal Engine already supports OpenXR, Unity is a bit lagging, but support is coming in 2021.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Two days ago, I’ve given you my predictions for virtual reality in 2021 (read it, in case you missed it). Now it’s time to make some forecasts about its companion technology, that is augmented reality! Facebook and Apple will jumpstart the smartglasses ecosystem. 2021 is going to be an interesting year for AR.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The new DRIVE Thor superchip aimed at autonomous vehicles, which companies will be able to use from 2025 Omniverse Cloud , which lets companies use Omniverse completely via cloud rendering even on non-powerful machines A connector to let you use Omniverse with Unity. When virtual reality has the wrong kind of haptics… Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

But I would wait to rejoice from it: VR requires a very short motion-to-photon latency, and as of today no cloud rendering service can offer such low latency in every possible location of the user. Apple may unveil RealityOS at WWDC. At the upcoming WWDC, Apple may unveil its operating system for XR glasses, dubbed RealityOS.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Amazon promises “single-digit latency” XR streaming. Amazon has announced some weeks ago “Wavelength”, a new offering of its AWS services, that should provide “single-digit latency” over 5G networks. To have such a low latency, the company needs very fast 5G networks and edge servers very close to the client. Image by Oculus).

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Road to VR

JULY 1, 2017

With Apple’s increasing interest in VR on Mac , the company is adding essential features to its new Metal 2 graphics API to support high performance VR on MacOS. ” SEE ALSO Apple and Valve Have Worked Together for Nearly a Year to Bring VR to MacOS. Single-pass Stereo.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

They could build together something that could seriously compete with Facebook and Apple: let’s keep an eye on them. It may be a new standalone device : we know that HTC is going to launch a new headset this year: Mr. President told this to me during the Virtual Reality Day and has confirmed this in other various public interviews.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In his 1984 classic Neuromancer, characters entered a virtual reality world called “the matrix” (inspiration for the 1999 film of the same name by the Wachowskis). An Apple AR headset has been a mainstay of the rumor mills for several years, and we expect Facebook to be creating an AR Oculus device.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

The XR visual processing pipeline is both compute intensive and latency sensitive. The AR Content Chicken & Egg Building augmented reality or mixed reality content is hard. What about Apple Glass? I was very critical of this approach with the Apple Watch?—?it

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Let me compare it to virtual reality. In virtual reality, you have to do this reprojection, Oculus calls it timewarp, and that means that your video card and your computer has to be running at a really high frame rate to correct for your head motion and we’ve rolled that all into the headset.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The money is said to help in manufacturing and launching the secretive augmented reality company’s first product. A series of announcements from Amazon, Crytek, Epic Games and Unity Technologies showcase an evolution among their respective game engines into VR world creation toolsets. March 2016.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And so Apple bought them shortly thereafter. So SPACES was acquired quietly by Apple this year. And Apple also earlier this year acquired NextVR, which-- that company has all the licensing rights to real-time capture in 360 of NASCAR, and NBA, and all of the other sports. Alex: Near zero latency. Golf, I think.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And so Apple bought them shortly thereafter. So SPACES was acquired quietly by Apple this year. And Apple also earlier this year acquired NextVR, which-- that company has all the licensing rights to real-time capture in 360 of NASCAR, and NBA, and all of the other sports. Alex: Near zero latency. Golf, I think.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Together with connection reliability, the Client updates included much improved inside-out tracking, local dimming, lighthouse mode, audio latency adjustment, bug fixes, and other important features. Highest resolution in consumer VR headsets, on par with Apple Vision. Glass aspheric lenses.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

It’s refreshing to see Pimax continuing to develop high-end virtual reality hardware, whilst other players have scaled back their plans, canceled projects, or just offered… radio silence. Motion-to-Photon latency is touted at 15ms whilst the refresh rate is either 90hz or 120hz.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And so Apple bought them shortly thereafter. So SPACES was acquired quietly by Apple this year. And Apple also earlier this year acquired NextVR, which-- that company has all the licensing rights to real-time capture in 360 of NASCAR, and NBA, and all of the other sports. Alex: Near zero latency. Golf, I think.

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Building the Metaverse

JANUARY 18, 2023

For people who couldn’t realize their creativity in a sandbox or walled-garden — platforms like Unreal and Unity enable the creation of real-time, immersive worlds that simulate reality. exaflops on the “virtual supercomputer” that combined for the Folding@Home Covid 19 simulation. Image from Unreal Engine 5.1 exaflops (10¹⁸) 1.5

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