Road to VR

APRIL 7, 2021

Creal’s prototype VR headset uses a foveated architecture (two overlapping displays per eye); a ‘near retina resolution’ light-field display which covers the central 30° of the field of view, and a larger, lower resolution display (1,600 × 1,440, non-light-field) which fills the peripheral field of view out to 100°.

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ARPost

APRIL 10, 2023

Twinmotion Programs Come to Varjo Devices The virtual production of Turandot is a highly artistic example of using Varjo for architecture and design. The partnership’s goal is the development of “neos ” – a proposed device that would use eye-tracking technology for earlier diagnosis of brain disorders.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 22, 2024

Eye and hand tracking technologies embedded into wearable devices, or delivered through external sensors, provide the feedback that applications need to optimize the immersive experience for each user. The Swedish company has produced a number of eye-tracking solutions, including the Tobii Pro Glasses 3.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Quest Pro supports Eye Tracked Foveated Rendering, but exactly how much does it improve performance? But in reality, achieving this would require perfect eye tracking with zero latency, an absurdly high display refresh rate, and a high-quality reconstruction algorithm so you wouldn’t notice flickering & shimmering.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

JANUARY 31, 2024

Zinn Labs Debuts AI-ready Eye-Tracking System at SPIE.AR|VR|MR One such firm is Zinn Labs, which is introducing its breakthrough AI-powered eye-tracking framework for AR smart glasses and MR headsets. VR|MR 2024 There are many vendors at SPIE.AR|VR|MR VR|MR 2024 that provide insights into their latest XR products.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 8, 2024

Notably, the Vision Pro gives users various options to understand and interact with XR by using eye and hand-based interactions. Cook notes that when using a Vision Pro, an operator can “just look at something” and “select it with your eyes.”

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 31, 2022

These headsets offer users cutting-edge technologies, often with 6 degrees of freedom, spatial audio , foveated rendering, and bespoke hand, face, and eye tracking for avatar movement and gaming. Manufacturers have also improved pixel densities and image sharpness using pancake lenses. What’s Next?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 2, 2024

The upcoming Vision Pro headset is set to feature two Micro OLED 4K displays with a resolution of 3800 x 3000 per eye, a ring of LED lights to enhance eye-tracking performance, and hand-tracking sensors for a controller-free experience.

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Cats and VR

AUGUST 14, 2018

Featuring the most advanced optics, VR-optimized displays, integrated eye tracking, and vendor-agnostic tracking architecture, StarVR One is built from the ground up to support the most demanding use cases for both commercial and enterprise sectors. StarVR enables a wide variety of use case scenarios.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

Eye and hand tracking technologies embedded into wearable devices, or delivered through external sensors, provide the feedback that applications need to optimize the immersive experience for each user. The Swedish company has produced a number of eye-tracking solutions, including the Tobii Pro Glasses 3.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 27, 2020

It is clear that it is not a Quest 2, since it doesn’t feature mind-blowing features like big FOV or eye-tracking or full-fingers controllers, so it is something like a Quest S. Its 1,600 × 1,600 LCD display per-eye, together with eye tracking and 5G make me dream of great experimentations, especially in the enterprise sector.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 16, 2020

inch 4K panel that includes both eye-tracking and embedded lenticular lens array so users can view 3D content with the naked eye. The post Sony Unveils ‘Spatial Reality Display’ with Eye-tracking for Glasses-free 3D Viewing appeared first on Road to VR.

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XROM

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The groundbreaking multi-chip architecture achieves 50% lower power consumption and 2.5x Purpose-built for AR : To help create the thinnest possible, high-performance AR glass, we have built a multi-chip distributed processing architecture combined with customized IP blocks. This helps reduce power consumption.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 8, 2017

” The company says their new camera processing architecture and Adreno 630 GPU will help Snapdragon 845 deliver “up to 30 percent power reduction for video capture, games and XR applications compared to the previous generation,” and up to 30% improved graphics/video rendering.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Foveated rendering ties closely with eye tracking, the technology that Abrash thought was the most risky of his predictions in 2016. Today, he is much more confident that solid eye tracking will be achieved (it is already part of the way there in Half Dome), but this prediction was also extended by a year.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

Epic Games have detailed Unreal Engine’s support for the Magic Leap One Creator Edition on their blog, which confirms some significant hardware features of the device, including eye tracking, hand tracking, and room scanning. Nvidia RTX. Photo: Remedy Entertainment. Stealth game ‘Budget Cuts’ resurfaces.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The field of view (FOV) is 2x that of Magic Leap 1, while its architecture achieves 12x more efficient light distribution. ML2 conversely starts over with a series of factors including eye tracking with two interior cameras. Practical Outcome One of the headlines for ML2 is its upgraded optics and display system.

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Road to VR

JUNE 15, 2020

Beyond a simple boost in CPU and GPU speeds, the console boasts a new architecture that’s streamlined for a high-speed SSD, which Sony says will allow developers to create games not previously possible. Mallinson also hinted that Sony is researching features like HDR, wireless, and eye-tracking for PSVR 2.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The Vision Pro will be powered by two Micro OLED 4K displays, each with a resolution of 3800 x 3000 per eye. The headset will also have a ring of LED lights to assist with eye-tracking performance and sensors to support hand tracking, allowing operators to interact with their spatial computing environment without controllers.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The field of view (FOV) is 2x that of Magic Leap 1, while its architecture achieves 12x more efficient light distribution. ML2 conversely starts over with a series of factors including eye tracking with two interior cameras. Practical Outcome One of the headlines for ML2 is its upgraded optics and display system.

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Road to VR

MARCH 12, 2018

Investor Chris Dixon recently published an essay titled Why Decentralization Matters where he argues that some of the most exciting entrepreneurial & development opportunities are in building out a robust decentralized Internet architecture that leverages the blockchain technologies and cryptonetworks.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 12, 2023

It will also have a ring of LED lights to improve eye-tracking performance and hand-tracking sensors, allowing users to interact with their spatial computing environment without controllers. The Vision Pro will run on a proprietary software stack and an Apple silicon architecture.

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Upload VR

JULY 31, 2023

It incorporated eye tracking to rapidly mechanically move the displays forward and back to dynamically adjust focus. Each eye gets a separate perspective but the image is focused at a fixed focal distance, usually a few meters away. 0:00 / 1× Butterscotch Varifocal's motors adjusting display focus distance.

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Road to VR

MARCH 22, 2018

The new version also adds eye tracking hardware developed by Tobii, and Qualcomm’s own ‘Adreno Foveation’ foveated rendering solution. Nvidia announced RTX earlier this week, a real-time ray-tracing solution for their Volta GPU architecture. Vive Focus international launch this year. Photo by Road to VR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The upgrades have led to numerous adoptions for industry verticals, namely in medical, architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC), and also the military. Along with its 8MP camera, it also features improved eye-tracking for better human-computer interfacing (HCI) and biometric security. HoloLens 2 and the IVAS Headset.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 12, 2023

” The most notable high-level use case is “architecture, engineering, and construction”, the CEO and Founder remarked. Elements such as hand and eye-tracking were not commonly available in the last decade. However, the data is now becoming more manageable and more accessible for enterprise end-users.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 15, 2023

HoloLens 2 and the IVAS Headset The upgrades have led to numerous adoptions for industry verticals, namely in medical, architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC), and also the military. Along with its 8MP camera, it also features improved eye-tracking for better human-computer interfacing (HCI) and biometric security.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

We know the product will contain 12 cameras, six microphones, and five hand, eye, and voice tracking sensors. The headset will also have a ring of LED lights to assist with eye-tracking performance. We also know the Apple Vision Pro will come with its proprietary software stack and an Apple silicon architecture.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2022

For the transition to a consumer device, Pico employees had to re-architecture the store, the paying system, the accounting system, the backend, the networking, the user interface, and all the rest to make it become a compelling consumer product. As for the content, the company aims at having more than 200 games on its native Pico Store.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2022

And the CEO of Improbable stated that with the current architecture, they could go much beyond that, up to 100,000 users in the same shared space. And, interestingly, the runtime is also being prepared to add authorizations for face tracking and eye tracking, as a leaked screenshot proves. Some articles on the metaverse.

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Road to VR

MARCH 29, 2017

Simply put, foveated rendering in VR aims to render the highest quality imagery only at the center of your vision where your eye can detect sharp detail, while rendering low quality imagery in the periphery of your vision where your eye is not tuned to pick up high resolution details.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Cloud rendering at the edge, combined with 5G, will allow for faster operations in an XR environment, where data can move back and forth between eye tracking and motion tracking tools, headsets, and beacons. Market leaders are already beginning to demonstrate use cases for the Edge and 5G used in tandem.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 7, 2023

While, at an architectural level, the OS shares some core building blocks with MacOS and iOS technologies, it also marks a new era for Apple. At WDCC, Apple CEO Tim Cook finally explained the new operating system is part of Apple’s quest to launch a “new era of computing.”

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NVidia VR

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Immersive environments are delivering new levels of realism for professionals in healthcare, architecture and automotive design. Foveated rendering, lens warping, eye tracking and multi-GPU are delivering the highest performance, highest quality visualizations to AR and VR devices.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

These new pieces of hardware are based on the new Ampere architecture , which offers a big boost in performance compared with the previous Turing one. This sounds like black magic and it is really fascinating: using eye tracking and other hints, the system may understand what is that you want to hear, and filter out all the rest.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 2, 2022

But from a market-viability standpoint, the tech used in the prototype is far too big, draws too much power, and gets way too hot to be built into a real product without completely changing the underlying architecture. Multi-view Eye-tracking. Let’s break those down briefly one-by-one. Image courtesy Meta.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

On PSVR 2, eye-tracking support lets you pick up objects with a quick glance. Next Move - November 30 (PC VR, Quest) Focused on platforming based on your physical movements, Next Move offers a unique platformer with joystick-free movement set across "dreamlike worlds" filled with fantasy architecture set against various challenges.

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