XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 1, 2024

To create more natural experiences in the virtual world, headset vendors are beginning to experiment with spatial computing technology. Spatial technologies like eye tracking, hand-tracking tools, sensors, and voice controls are becoming popular VR headset trends.

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Tech Trends VR

JANUARY 11, 2019

So by that measure, Pimax over-delivered at CES 2019 with its Leap Motion bundle featuring 8K VR headset with built-in speakers, 200° FOV and optional eye tracking being developed in partnership with 7invensun. Pimax holds the Guinness World Record for the most successful crowdfunded VR project with over $4m in funding.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Varjo’s professional-grade headset features retina-grade resolution and eye-tracking functionality. Combined with the headsets integrated eye-tracking functionality, users can supposedly expect lifelike virtual content featuring levels of detail not currently offered by other major providers. FOV: 87 Degrees.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 31, 2020

The last two days I’ve been in Germany to attend the LearnTec event together with Massimiliano Ariani , the game designer of the fitness game HitMotion: Reloaded , to have a speech about the latest developments of Mobile AR. Integrated eye tracking (+automatic IPD adjustment) Integrated hands tracking (by Ultraleap).

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VRScout

JULY 2, 2019

Dadum: Experiencing Memories of My Father – Dadum is a wearable AR experience that utilizes spatial tracking of the Hololens1 to produce a unique AR mask-based social artwork. Gloomy Eyes – When the sun got tired of humans, it decided to hide and never rise again.

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VRScout

JANUARY 7, 2019

Fresh hardware, a bold new social platform, and Vive Pro eye-tracking are on the way. In actuality HTC was teasing the latest addition their VR hardware lineup, the HTC Vive Cosmos, a PC-based 6DoF VR headset featuring inside-out tracking and a flip-up visor. VIVE PRO EYE. Image Credit: HTC Vive.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Despite the growth of the augmented reality (AR) marketplace, the smart glasses segment is slower to take off. Smart glasses remain a luxury product, like virtual reality headsets (VR), but a lack of system-selling software slightly stuns the growth of AR hardware. Defining Electromyography or EMG in the Context of AR.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Over the years, technology has become smaller, lighter, more comfortable, and with faster processing, breathing life into the virtual world. Also, unlike augmented reality (AR), which people can access via smartphones and smart glasses, VR relies on larger headsets and controllers to interact with fully-immersive virtual worlds.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2022

This week, Xiaomi actual unveiled the real hardware that should make that vision become real: dubbed Mijia AR Glasses , these glasses have a nice set of features. Anyway, if you are in China and you want to look ??, More info (Mijia AR Glasses?—?Road Road To VR) More info (Mijia AR Glasses?—?Input Have fun with them.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Priced at $1,500, the headset packs a new Snapdragon XR2+ processor along with a bevy of sensors for tracking the user’s expressions and the world around them for improved passthrough AR capabilities. 1800 × 1920 (3.5MP) per-eye, LCD (2x). Let’s take a look at the on-paper specs: Quest Pro Specs. Resolution.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

Updates will appear below, no need to refresh your browser: Here’s the description of the talk: Mixed reality is the combination of the real world with virtual worlds, allowing developers to bring games and interaction to the real world around you.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2021

Even though it’s easy for the person in the headset to see people outside of the headset, it isn’t clear to people outside of the headset when the person in the headset is actually looking at them (rather than looking at an entirely different virtual world. Image courtesy DigiLens.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The new technology converts the entire M2 vehicle as a controller for the MR system, using cutting-edge immersive solutions from Helsinki’s Varjo Technologies to merge the real and virtual worlds. The vehicle will merge with the physical and virtual world of the users.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2022

Qualcomm has released its latest reference design for AR glasses and it features an important new feature. I think this news is pretty important because it improves a lot the usability of smartphone-connected AR glasses. More info (Qualcomm AR reference design / Road To VR) More info (Qualcomm AR reference design / Upload VR).

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Road to VR

MARCH 9, 2019

First was the punch card, then the command line, the mouse… and now we’ve got touchscreens, voice assistants, and VR/AR headsets which read the precise position of our head and hands for natural interactions with the virtual world. Showing something awesome in AR or VR? Get in touch!

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ARPost

JUNE 3, 2020

Even if VR headsets don’t cause you physical discomfort, you might feel that your virtual worlds seem… flat. That’s because they are flat. VR headsets using close-to-eye displays rely on lenses. Advancements like eye-tracking and autofocus try to fix these problems. But, they’ll never work.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Virtual reality (VR) is one of four key forms of immersion, with others including augmented, mixed, and extended reality (AR/MR/XR). The concept captured the world’s attention after introducing VR headsets for gaming and entertainment. Virtual Reality Guides: Case Studies. billion USD by 2027, according to research.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 7, 2019

But if we compare it with the other premium headsets on the market (like XTAL, StarVR or Varjo ), we notice that it lacks a very important feature: eye tracking. Foveated rendering in an experience produced by HTC together with NVIDIA for BMW on the Vive Pro Eye (Image by HTC Vive).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 30, 2022

Hand tracking can provide insights into where employees might be making mistakes in their performance, even when learning how to do complex things, like operate heavy machinery. Eye tracking, on the other hand, can record eye positions and movements to provide insights into the human mind. Improved Interactions in XR.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Ok, enough with football… let’s get back to AR and VR…. French startup Lynx announced some months ago a quite interesting headset featuring pass-through augmented reality , hands tracking, eye tracking, and an innovative lens design. AR users to reach 800M by the end of the year. Top news of the week. billion).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 23, 2024

MR headsets aim to mix spatial data with natural environments, as opposed to fully immersive VR headsets; what are this approach’s potential benefits and drawbacks? Frame-based sensors, which traditionally power hand and/or eye tracking on these headsets, tend to drain batteries, so they can’t be used for hours on end.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 19, 2024

Apple Vision Pro is a physically opaque VR-style headset that can use its high-resolution passthrough cameras to show you your real environment with virtual interfaces and objects added to it, or a fully virtual world instead. Vision Pro's operating system, visionOS, is controlled with eye tracking and hand gestures.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 10, 2022

Augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) are technologies that overlay or replace physical environments with virtual content. While AR enhances surroundings by incorporating digital components into live view, VR is an experience that replaces the actual world with a computer-generated simulation.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Apple Vision Pro is a physically opaque VR-style headset that can use its high-resolution passthrough cameras to show you your real environment with virtual interfaces and objects added to it, or a fully virtual world instead. Vision Pro's operating system, visionOS, is controlled with eye tracking and hand gestures.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

This fall promises to be very interesting for AR and VR, and in this first week of September we had many interesting XR news that are going to heat up the competition in the space! FRL Research is working towards giving you audio superpowers in AR. One is devoting to give you more realistic audio in AR and VR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 8, 2024

Specific patterns are emerging as mixed reality surges into the spotlight, promising access to incredible immersive experiences for training, collaboration, and more. In the past, mixed, augmented, and virtual reality solutions were all considered distinct, separate technologies.

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Across the XR industry, global firms and startups have leveraged ShapesXR’s platform to develop user experiences and interfaces for virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) applications, world-building, and other use cases.

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TechCrunch VR

AUGUST 26, 2022

He said that the new VR headset, a sequel to the popular Oculus 2, will focus on “social presence,” with features like eye-tracking and face-tracking. He also noted that while Meta’s AR glasses are a few years away, the headset launching in October will have some mixed reality features.

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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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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

It’s the beginning of 2019, and this means that this is that time of the year when we all make predictions for this year in AR and VR! Jokes apart, what has happened in AR in 2018… and what can you expect to happen in 2019? More or less AR in 2018 has gone as I predicted in 2017. Trendy AR glasses.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 29, 2024

The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are affordable for those interested in augmented reality. Although they don’t offer comprehensive AR or MR features, they allow you to capture video and communicate while moving. Starting at $299, they come with stylish eyewear, an integrated camera, and open-ear headphones.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 8, 2024

As well as an increase in the number of lightweight and comfortable smart glasses available for AR immersion. Not only are headsets growing more comfortable, powerful, and innovative, but accessories in this landscape are evolving, too.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2023

Another feature that has been praised by many is the RGB color AR passthrough, which has some warping and not the same depth as the Quest Pro’s one, but it features a very detailed resolution. Resolution and color are very good in VR, and also in passthrough AR. Many people were impressed by this.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 21, 2022

This up-and-coming technology seamlessly blends virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR), namely for enterprise use. These professionals use new devices to merge the physical and virtual worlds with creative, engaging immersive content. Here’s a closer look at each: Augmented Reality (AR). Virtual Reality (VR).

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The studio continues to ship projects like Cosmonious High on VR platforms, despite its new parent company's shifting levels of commitment to a wider VR/AR effort. In August 2022, Owlchemy announced work on a new hand tracking-focused multiplayer VR game. In 2017, Google acquired Owlchemy Labs.

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2017

Over the last 12 months or so we’ve been keeping an eye on Google’s aggressive hiring for its AR/VR team which, among other things, suggested that the company was working on new “mass production” hardware that would go beyond the simple smartphone snap-in Daydream headsets. No pictures were allowed.

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