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CES 2017 VR And AR News Roundup: Everything You Might Have Missed

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Many of the biggest companies on the planet, from Samsung and HTC, to Facebook, Amazon, and Google, and even all the way to Ford, Mercedez, and countless startups, all gather in the desert at the start of the year to unveil the latest and greatest advancements in consumer electronics. HTC Announces Subscription Plan For Viveport [ Link ].

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Oculus Enters The VR Eye-Tracking Arms Race With ‘Eye Tribe’ Acquisition

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There is something of an arms race developing between the major VR hardware companies (Facebook, Google, HTC, Sony) to add more intuitive controls for VR. Eye controls are the future for immersive tech, but there are other use cases for eye tracking too. The solution seems to lie in one place: our eyes.

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Hands-on: HoloLens 2 is a More Than Just a Larger Field of View

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Yesterday at Mobile World Congress, Microsoft unveiled HoloLens 2, the company’s next iteration of its enterprise-focused standalone AR headset. That’s the question that ran through my mind for my half-hour session strapped into the AR headset. That’s all well and good, but is the HoloLens 2 hardware truly a ‘2.0’

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The High-end VR Room of the Future Looks Like This

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Today’s VR systems are both fantastic and restrictive: they blow you away, but it’s clear how far they have to go. We’d wear these contacts all the time, switching between AR mode (high transparency so you can see the world underneath digital overlays) and VR mode (low transparency so you can achieve full immersion). Body movement.

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Learn about Headsets

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In 2018, all-new stand-alone devices are coming, and upgrades to the current generation will be released. The HTC Vive, produced by HTC and developed together with video game industry giant Valve, was released on April 5th, 2016. HTC Vive Pro. Check out our article for what comes next. Oculus Rift. Samsung Gear VR.

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Best VR Headsets 2018/2019

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In 2018, all-new stand-alone devices are coming, and upgrades to the current generation will be released. The HTC Vive, produced by HTC and developed together with video game industry giant Valve, was released on April 5th, 2016. HTC Vive Pro. Check out our article for what comes next. Oculus Rift. Samsung Gear VR.

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A Brief History of Virtual Reality at CES

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CES 2015 brought yet more impressive advancements from VR and AR fields, and some notable setbacks. At MWC in Barcelona in March that year, HTC unveiled the Valve/SteamVR driven Vive headset and arguably went on to dominate the Game Developer Conference (GDC) show which followed. CES 2015: Consumer VR Takes Shape.