Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

The improved headset is pitched as an upgrade for current Vive owners, as it works with the original controllers and base stations. It is still not known exactly when the improved controllers and SteamVR 2.0 At the same time, the original Vive package has dropped by $100. No presence from LG at GDC. image by Road to VR. Nvidia RTX.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Made for the casual gamer, that wants more resolution than the Rift S; Cosmos Elite (around $900) : features SteamVR tracking and is compatible with all SteamVR accessories. Developers are coming up with creative uses of Oculus Quest hands tracking. Oculus Quest hands tracking is being a success among developers.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Pre-orders for Oculus Touch officially went live today. This is a significant moment in the life of Oculus as a company, and it is also a significant moment in the ongoing virtual reality “console wars.” Check it out below: Step 1: The Controllers . 1 Oculus Touch system + tracking sensor ($200).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

The Reverb was already a very good headset (as you can read in my hands-on impressions ) with good comfort and an astonishing resolution, but it had some problems with the display (mura, red smearing) and with the controllers (classical mediocre WMR tracking). Oculus Link 2 could be tetherless.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Although his original background is in architecture, his work in VR spans from indie games like Cubism to enterprise software for architects and engineers like Resolve. In this Guest Article, developer Thomas Van Bouwel explains his approach to designing an MR game that adapts to different environments.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

The Oculus Quest 2 continues its march towards mainstream adoption. It wouldn’t be a normal week without some news about Facebook and/or the Oculus Quest. The first one is that the Quest 2 has now sold in some months more than all the other Oculus headsets (with the exclusion of Gear VR) combined in all these years.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

The glasses are expected to run a new operating system, rOS (or reality OS), and Apple is exploring touch panels, voice activation, and head gestures as a means of control. Oculus Link now works with USB 2.0. Very Silently, Oculus has changed the specifications of Oculus Link , which now doesn’t require anymore a USB 3.0

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

Road To VR reported about Manus VR’s new Quantum Metagloves with very precise hand tracking for enterprise use (cost: $9000). I have anyway selected four news that can be relevant for you: NVIDIA has announced a new GPU architecture, called Hopper, that represents the evolution of Ampere. The interest in Magic Leap 2 is growing.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 22, 2020

Oculus has gained in these years always more success in the consumers’ landscape, and now with the Oculus Quest , thanks to an affordable device running great content , it is making strides in the market. Today, finally, Facebook has changed all of this and i s making Oculus For Business available to all interested companies.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But, instead of holding a plastic peripheral in your hand, the Quest version of the game relies entirely on hand-tracking. It's got a fantastic tracklist of rock classics and the hand tracking, for the most part, is now reliable enough for the experience to work as intended. Here’s our updated Unplugged review.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 10, 2020

Finland-based startup Varjo, makers of high-end enterprise VR headsets, has charted a rapid growth, similar to the early years of Oculus. Varjo even showed how they could turn on hand-tracking so that my real hands could be projected into the cockpit with me.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 17, 2020

So, coming back to your question, I am an associate professor of the Computer and Control Engineering department at the Politecnico di Torino , where I am heading the Computer Graphics and Vision research group. Then, of course, we started fighting with issues related to the field view and hand-tracking capabilities.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

The console works in conjunction with the innovative DualSense controller. Late to the party after Oculus and Microsoft already released prototypical implementations, but finally Valve has implemented OpenXR into its runtime SteamVR. Indie developer Thaytan is working on a Linux driver for the Oculus Rift. SSD (8–9 GB/s).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

These advanced haptics make us dream of PSVR 2 controllers with best-in-class immersive haptics … but we have to still wait various months before discovering if this is the truth. All the reviewers are amazed. EXECUTION IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING FOR A COMPANY. Everyone can have an idea, everyone can make a prototype.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

And to be clear, I used it in a real home, not a carefully controlled demo environment or a well-lit studio. Meta Quest 3 (left) and Apple Vision Pro (right) We once asked Oculus executive Jason Rubin whether his company was considering a tethered compute model. Apple Vision Pro on the other hand has occlusion in two distinct forms.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2021

They have hired the popular singer Madison Beer (I had no idea who she was, honestly) and have made her perform inside a virtual venue for a virtual concert that won’t be available only in streaming, but also via Oculus and PSVR headsets. You know that I organize VR concerts with VRrOOm (and our last one even had 75M total views!)

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

We’re used to navigating our computing with keyboards, mice, and maybe track pads — analog input. That’s why we need gesture controls ASAP, according to today’s guest, Clay AIR’s Varag Gharibjanian. Varag: So Clay is a software company, we're specializing in hand tracking and gesture recognition, mostly in the AR and VR space.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

We’re used to navigating our computing with keyboards, mice, and maybe track pads — analog input. That’s why we need gesture controls ASAP, according to today’s guest, Clay AIR’s Varag Gharibjanian. Varag: So Clay is a software company, we're specializing in hand tracking and gesture recognition, mostly in the AR and VR space.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

We’re used to navigating our computing with keyboards, mice, and maybe track pads — analog input. That’s why we need gesture controls ASAP, according to today’s guest, Clay AIR’s Varag Gharibjanian. Varag: So Clay is a software company, we're specializing in hand tracking and gesture recognition, mostly in the AR and VR space.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 12, 2021

For instance, in the box I’ve found a cleaning cloth for an Oculus device… and I don’t think it actually comes with a Microsoft HoloLens! But at least I could adjust brightness manually using the brightness controls that are on the headset. Hands Tracking. But it is already very good.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 25, 2016

But because you’re much likelier to hear about VR today, especially this month with the launches of Playstation VR, Google Daydream, and Oculus Touch, AR can feel distant and overhyped. Visualize your updates however you like, such as a data control room with lots of screens. Construction and architecture.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

Last year, it was still called Oculus Gaming Showcase, and it featured important updates on games like Pistol Whip, The Climb 2, I Expect You To Die 2, and Resident Evil 4 VR. Ruth Bram, Executive Producer at Oculus Studios, will be the host of the show. Pico Neo 3 , Vive Focus 3 , Oculus Quest 2 ) only offer Wi-Fi connectivity.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2021

base stations) Controllers : Vive Wands. You can purchase the VIVE Pro 2 in two flavors, exactly as it happened for the Vive Pro: Headset only : if you already have the base stations and the controllers, you can preorder just the headset for the discounted price of £659 / $749 / €739. technology (with support for Steam VR 1.0

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Leapmotion

JULY 21, 2015

One of our tracking engineers suggested using our prototype Dragonfly module to augment a physical display with virtual widgets. Our team’s video got shared on /r/oculus and led to a feature on Wired. The project used the public Leap Motion SDK with standard tracking to receive hand tracking and video passthrough data.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

And so anybody that’s doing design and 3D objects, it’s almost like a no-brainer, whether it’s in architecture, or designing 3D objects, or big aerospace, airplanes, cars. So you see a lot of it in architecture, engineering, construction. I mean, I will say that with Oculus Quest that’s changing for me.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

And so anybody that's doing design and 3D objects, it's almost like a no-brainer, whether it's in architecture, or designing 3D objects, or big aerospace, airplanes, cars. So you see a lot of it in architecture, engineering, construction. I mean, I will say that with Oculus Quest that's changing for me. Alan: Oh, I can't wait.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

And so anybody that’s doing design and 3D objects, it’s almost like a no-brainer, whether it’s in architecture, or designing 3D objects, or big aerospace, airplanes, cars. So you see a lot of it in architecture, engineering, construction. I mean, I will say that with Oculus Quest that’s changing for me.

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