Tech Trends VR

JULY 31, 2019

Back in 2012, a starry-eyed young entrepreneur called Palmer Luckey announced a new and improved head-mounted display that would be better than pretty much everything on the market at the time, and affordable for gamers to boot. VR didn't do as well in 2018 as many hoped - or expected Click To Tweet.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Reports have revealed that Apple could potentially ramp up work on a pair of augmented reality (AR) smart glasses that could support the release of the company’s Vision Pro headset. According to filings with the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPO) last week, the Cupertino-based firm has outlined plans for a head-mounted display (HMD).

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Road to VR

MARCH 12, 2018

1443-ppi 120-Hz OLED Display for Wide-Field-of-View High-Acuity Head-Mounted Displays.” ” Such a display, OLED-Info postulates, could land somewhere around a resolution of 5500 × 3000. The talk is named simply “18 Mpixel 4.3-in. inch AMOLEDs at 90Hz. inch AMOLEDs at 90Hz.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 31, 2022

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. Meta, Pico, HTC VIVE, and Varjo headsets all incorporate this new technology. The History of VR.

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EON Reality

MARCH 13, 2020

Education and Global Innovation, Jamie Justice, is an expert in how AR and VR technologies are changing education. The times are changing rapidly and globally in how people interact with each other and with technology. AR and VR, Random Acts of Progress: A Personal Story. EON Reality’s Director for U.S

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Varjo Technologies, a Helsinki-based startup known for its ‘human eye-resolution’ display intended for VR headets, today announced it’s closed an $8.2M Series A funding round that aims to support the upcoming launch of Varjo-branded enterprise VR/AR/XR products.

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Upload VR

JUNE 16, 2022

It still has best-in-class tracking and audio quality but its 1600×1440 resolution has been surpassed on both the low end with Quest 2 and the high end with headsets like HTC’s Vive Pro 2 and Varjo Aero. Valve Index , the company’s $999 tethered PC VR kit, has now been on the market for almost three years.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 16, 2024

The head-mounted display/headset marketplace may be approaching a broad shift as Apple unveils its Vision Pro headset next month, with the device promising to advance screen-based productivity into a third dimension, leveraging traditional MR technologies to achieve a spatial computing future.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

They also revealed to trainers that visual attention indicated strong metrics for cognitive processing and comprehension in AR and VR, allowing firms to optimise their user experiences (UX). Despite this, issues limit eye-tracking integration for some head-mounted displays. Scalable Tracking Solutions.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MARCH 4, 2024

Shen Ye, Global Head of Product at HTC VIVE , discussed the primary drivers of the XR industry, with the entry of Apple into the market being a significant factor driving changes in the industry. However, HTC VIVE still believes that controllers hold value.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 28, 2016

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. Eyefluence uses a proprietary system of eye-gestures to do everything they could with their hands and a smartphone with just their eyes and a head mounted display.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 31, 2023

As reported in recent months, the new electric vehicle (EV) combines augmented reality (AR) digital overlays from the Magic Leap 2 for an unrivalled driving experience. Now, with Magic Leap’s latest AR technologies, the classic has received an immersive makeover. The latest concept car pays homage to the classic icon. ”

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Digitalnauts

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

WHAT IS XR (VR/MR/AR)? XR, or Extended Reality, is an umbrella term for a variety of immersive technologies including VR (Virtual Reality), MR (Mixed Reality) and AR (Augmented Reality). In a Virtual Reality experience users are fully immersed in a simulated digital environment, shutting out the physical world. What is XR?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 9, 2023

He added that the Cupertino-based firm developed a prototype for the head-mounted display, with a few developers testing the experimental models. Although Apple has lagged in its mixed reality device offering, the company continues to push for fresh augmented reality (AR) solutions for its existing products.

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VRScout

AUGUST 1, 2016

From all-in-one mobile VR headsets to tethered head-mounted displays (HMDs) with hand-controllers that looked eerily similar to brands we already report on, one thing’s for sure, there was no shortage of VR and AR hardware on the show floor. million units and hardware revenues approaching $2.3

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Immersive experiences extend across virtual, augmented, mixed, and extended reality (VR/AR/MR/XR). But what exactly are they, and how do they improve performance for the enterprise? According to a recent PwC study , experts found that VR and AR have the potential to boost GDP globally by 2030 by up to $1.5

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EON Reality

MARCH 13, 2020

There are some things that will dramatically change the opportunities and potential for AVR: 5G – As 5G becomes more accessible in the near future, the benefits of faster and bigger data transfer will greatly increase sharing of 3D AR and VR content. New visual display systems will also dramatically change the AR experience.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 6, 2023

New hardware options have offered the company trailblazing hardware solutions to power its interoperable, scalable, and award-winning VR/AR training platform. Following the release of the Meta Quest Pro, HTC VIVE XR Elite, and Pico 4 Enterprise, the firm’s massive windfall in hardware options has empowered its clients with expansive support.

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2016

As the publisher of Unreal Engine 4, Epic Games is at the forefront of developers creating new worlds in VR, and we recently sat down with the man driving their VR efforts: Nick Whiting, Epic’s Technical Director of VR/AR. VRSCOUT: Who are you and what do you do? . I oversee all things VR and AR for Epic Games.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Spatial audio enhances interactions in virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) spaces with incredible realism. Additional headsets, including the Meta Quest Pro , HTC VIVE XR Elite, Pico 4 and Pico 4 Enterprise, Varjo VR-3 and XR-3, and Lenovo VRX and A3 feature this technology.

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VRWorld

JUNE 8, 2016

Even today, if you own a car with a heads-up display (HUD), you are a user of Augmented Reality. Still, the development of AR applications is extremely difficult due to high barrier of entry. headset (OSVR) for just $299.99 – AR headsets can set you back for thousands of dollars. But that’s not all.

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EON Reality

AUGUST 29, 2019

EON Reality and University of Bologna Announce Prestigious, World-First New Masters Degree in VR, AR and Innovation. These systems run the gamut from mobile devices and Head Mounted Displays (HMDs) such as Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and others, to research-specific spaces likes Cave Automatic Virtual Environments (CAVEs).

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

As stated: “Intel has made the decision to wind down its Project Alloy reference design, however we will continue to invest in the development of technologies to power next-generation AR/VR experiences. The post Intel Abandons Project Alloy VR as it Canceled Its Mobile Processors appeared first on VR World.

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EON Reality

AUGUST 14, 2019

As a result, the three-way partnership has developed AVR applications to be used in a head-mounted display (such as an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive) as a Proof of Concept for the project. EON Reality is the world leader in Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) based knowledge transfer for industry and education.

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VRWorld

JANUARY 6, 2018

The codec also boasts sufficiently low latency that it can reliably deliver VR streams to untethered, mobile, VR head-mounted displays. 265/HEVC compression to HTC VIVE hardware at 2160 x 1200 resolution at 90fps. Currently, the system offers 250:1 H.265/HEVC

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Spatial audio, a key component of virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) headsets, enhances immersion with hyperrealistic, multidirectional sound, leading to greater real-time responses, higher training outcomes, and greater depth of gaming experiences. Which demographics are likely to adopt spatial audio?

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AllThingsVR

JULY 5, 2017

It was founded by Dave Ranyard, the former head of Sony London Studio. This is the first time that Mother has made an investment in the AR and VR space. Vaqso is a Japanese invention consisting of a small device that clips to the bottom of your Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, or PlayStation VR (PSVR). Read more here. Read more here.

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Road to VR

APRIL 17, 2018

Developer Lee Vermeulen didn’t wait for VR headsets like the Vive Pro to get an AR function , but rather strapped a stereoscopic Zed Mini to his original HTC Vive in effort to push Modbox forward into augmented reality. ” Modbox AR Experiments. Drone battle in the living room anyone?:

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Today’s VR systems are both fantastic and restrictive: they blow you away, but it’s clear how far they have to go. Right now we’re stuck thinking in terms of head-mounted displays (HMDs), like the Vive or the Oculus. Check out the bottom of this post for a list of VR inspiration. Body movement.

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Cats and VR

DECEMBER 31, 2016

With nearly 5 billion downloads of made with Unity mobile games in Q3 alone including Super Mario Run, Unity continues to enable developers to create content and are now using that for VR and AR. Fans can attend via most major VR head mounted displays, interact with performers, socialize with friends, dance, paint and more.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2016

Looking at the direction technology is going today, we decided to look at how some of the most well known and then some not so well known VR and AR movies have portrayed the technology in their own unique way. Head mounted display: Resembling the consumer headsets of today, life-like field of view and motion is relayed.

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 21, 2019

However, there are companies that require way more than these headsets can provide, turning to manufacturers like VRgineers and its XTAL head-mounted display (HMD) for that quality and feature set a consumer device just can’t match. But what do you get when spending £5,000 GBP on a VR headset? So that’s a fair amount.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

The system featured a head-mounted display with head tracking that could be used to explore virtual environments or real remote images from a camera — foreshadowing future breakthroughs in teleoperation. Image Credits: TechCrunch When HTC began imagining life after the smartphone, it looked a lot like VR.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 29, 2018

Examples of head measurements (Image by Rob Cole). Other examples are scuba diving masks or full-face motorcycle helmets, although neither of these have the added complication of housing a head-mounted display that relies on a good fit for the correct optical presentation of the display to the eyes.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 14, 2017

Mixed reality will have a huge spotlight on it as well, with a handful of VR and AR sessions and speakers taking the stage at the event May 8 – 11 (specific dates and times TBD): Computational Focus-Tunable Near-Eye Displays. Companies such as Tesla Motors and Bentley are the proud early adopters of this solution.

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Road to VR

MARCH 13, 2018

Oculus Research’s director of computational imaging, Douglas Lanman, is scheduled to give a keynote presentation at SID DisplayWeek in May which will explore the concept of “reactive displays” and their role in unlocking “next-generation” visuals in AR and VR headsets.

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

In addition to the original Pixel and Pixel XL , the VR headset works with the Pixel 2, Pixel 2 XL, Samsung Galaxy S8, S8+ , Note 8 , Huawei Mate 9 , ZTE Axon 7 , LG V30 , Motorola Moto Z , Z2 and Asus ZenFone AR. Its basic functions are very similar to Google Cardboard’s. HTC Vive ($499). Samsung Gear VR ($129.99).

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