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VRgineers Reveals Improved ‘XTAL’ Professional Headset with Wider FOV

Road to VR

VRgineers, a Czech Republic-based startup building enterprise VR headsets, today announced a more advanced version of their wide field of view (FOV) professional headset XTAL. The most recent hardware revisions brought automatic IPD adjustment, an embedded Leap Motion sensor for wide FOV hand-tracking, and reduced weight and size.

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2019 Was a Major Inflection Point for VR—Here’s the Proof

Road to VR

Tipatat is a General Partner of the Venture Reality Fund investing in early stage VR, AR, and AI companies. We believe this is thanks to the introduction of new hardware—Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift S—as well as the launch of several exclusive hit games like Asgard’s Wrath and the continued success of Beat Saber. for developers.

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Interview with VRgineers: we want to push XR forward, but we’re not manufacturing a consumer XTAL

The Ghost Howls

The distortion… it is good that it’s not a hardware issue, but it’s a software one and we are able to update it on the fly… so, basically, whoever buys a headset right now and still see the distortions, can expect that it will be fixed soon because it’s a software thing. What about AR and MR?

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From Giant Spiders to Ancient Legends, DIVR’s Arcade Offers Polar Opposite Experiences

Peter Graham

The virtual reality (VR) industry is still very much a community which wants to see everyone succeed, whether that’s an indie developer or hardware manufacturer. It’s why if you go to a dedicated VR or augmented reality (AR) event everyone is always so friendly and helpful.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.12.02): Facebook acquires Beat Games, Valve gets the Index sold-out and is maybe working on Left4Dead VR, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Welcome back to The VR Week Peek, the place where you can find the most interesting AR/VR news of the week! A new forecast by IDC shows how 2020 will still be a transition year for AR and VR. This means that in 2020, AR and VR will still be used mostly in the enterprise sector, and mostly for training and maintenance.

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Founded by CERN Engineers, CREAL3D’s Light-field Display is the Real Deal

Road to VR

Co-founded by former CERN engineers who contributed to the ATLAS project at the Large Hadron Collider, CREAL3D is a Switzerland-based startup that’s created an impressive light-field display that’s unlike anything in an AR or VR headset on the market today. One of those projects wasn’t in CES’s AR/VR section at all.