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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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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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Rumors hint to Oculus discontinuing the current Quest and selling the new one at $299 and $399. The Facebook Connect is close and we all expect that during that conference Oculus is finally going to announce the new Oculus Quest. Facebook is temporarily suspending the sale of Oculus Quest devices in Germany.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2022

Its latest headset, the Pico Neo 3 , was a very good Oculus Quest 2 clone , that also brought some innovations, like the DP Cable to connect it to the PC for a true PCVR experience. And for these reasons, Pico has been bought by Bytedance in 2021 … a move that many compared to the acquisition of Oculus by Facebook.

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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. Register for GTC 2017.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 31, 2019

Facebook’s Oculus Quest launched this past May, creating more interest in VR than ever and serious momentum across the consumer market. Matthew Wren: Wireless was a big jump, and I’m expecting to see resolution and motion tracking improvements, as well as hopefully some better innovations in haptics. Sarah Hill.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

If you built an application without these patterns, the device was useless… an eye-tracking add-on was more practical than the NextMind dev-kit in a VR scene. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Well, with this new chip, headsets will: Have a resolution of 3K per eye ; Have up to 7 cameras used simultaneously (12 in total for the device). for prototyping or architecture), I advise you to give a look to the XR-1. Oculus products have gone pretty well during the Black Weekend. Adobe acquires Oculus Medium.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

No smearing, reduced mura; The lenses have been upgraded, using the ones engineered by Valve for the Index; The audio is conveyed through off-the-ear speakers , like the ones of the Valve Index; Comfort has been improved; There is IPD adjustment; There are now 4 tracking cameras. Oculus Link 2 could be tetherless.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

Oculus Go showcased. The Oculus Go (Image by Oculus). At GDC, the Oculus Go has been one of the main characters. First of all, Oculus has showcased all its main technical characteristics : I advise you to read the post dedicated to that on Oculus blogs , where Chris Pruett introduces you to them.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

In the meanwhile, the community is still rioting about the Facebook login , and /r/Oculus should now be called /r/FacebookBannedMyAccount because this is the only topic people are talking about. AMD today introduced the Radeon RX 6800, 6800 XT, and 6900 XT graphics cards based on its latest RDNA 2 architecture. Boost Clock (GHz) 2.25

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 31, 2022

The system is capable of quintillions of operations per second and it is able to speed up the machine learning process from 3x to 20x with regard to the previous supercomputer cluster architecture in use by Meta. To be exact, the eye box is twice as large as the one in Magic Leap One. Meta abandons the Oculus name on Twitter.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

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. When you first put it on you’re told to hold the top button, and you feel (and see a visualization of) the lenses moving horizontally to align with your eyes. And I mean fully.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

Bob: Well, actually, what was interesting for me being at Laval is, I put on a — for the first time — a VR architecture event… actually, over a year ago, now; this was January 2018. But it was hard for me to get a feel for where architecture uptake was, from a VR perspective, in the US. We had good participation.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

Bob: Well, actually, what was interesting for me being at Laval is, I put on a — for the first time — a VR architecture event… actually, over a year ago, now; this was January 2018. But it was hard for me to get a feel for where architecture uptake was, from a VR perspective, in the US. We had good participation.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

Bob: Well, actually, what was interesting for me being at Laval is, I put on a -- for the first time -- a VR architecture event. But it was hard for me to get a feel for where architecture uptake was, from a VR perspective, in the US. And I see that right now, Oculus is filling that void. We had good participation.

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Peter Graham

JULY 19, 2019

NVIDIA goes on to note that VRS has particular benefits for VR, especially when combined with eye-tracking tech. Foveated rendering is directly supported with Tier 2 VRS, which the NVIDIA RTX architecture supports. Whereas basic Tier 1 VRS can only specify the shading rate based on the high-level geometry.

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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! The Achille’s heel of positional tracking is the light: if the room is completely dark, it doesn’t work anymore. Hands Tracking. Eye Tracking.

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Tech Trends VR

AUGUST 22, 2020

Enterprise-level Tobii eye-tracking and foveated rendering at an affordable price. The newly launched Neo 2 & Neo 2 Eye headsets from Pico Interactive are lightweight, untethered, deliver 4K, and look most like a beefed-up Oculus Quest. compatibility.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. Who owns the eye tracking data? People don't understand; once you have eye tracking in these glasses. Do you have control?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. Who owns the eye tracking data? People don't understand; once you have eye tracking in these glasses. Do you have control?

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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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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

Same with eye tracking; it’s very difficult to track someone’s gaze through a phone right now. This could be for something like a Magic Leap or an Oculus or something like that. Austin: Another area where I see a lot of B2B traction is in architecture and construction planning.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

Same with eye tracking; it’s very difficult to track someone’s gaze through a phone right now. This could be for something like a Magic Leap or an Oculus or something like that. Austin: Another area where I see a lot of B2B traction is in architecture and construction planning.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. Who owns the eye tracking data? People don't understand; once you have eye tracking in these glasses. Do you have control?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. Who owns the eye tracking data? People don't understand; once you have eye tracking in these glasses. Do you have control?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

Same with eye tracking; it's very difficult to track someone's gaze through a phone right now. This could be for something like a Magic Leap or an Oculus or something like that. Austin: Another area where I see a lot of B2B traction is in architecture and construction planning. And these B2B use cases.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

What that means that from a software architecture standpoint and a hardware standpoint, we try to make our software as optimized as possible for their reference designs. But let's get back to hand tracking, because this is a vital part. And I know Oculus Quest just introduced hand tracking. And likely in the future, too.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

What that means that from a software architecture standpoint and a hardware standpoint, we try to make our software as optimized as possible for their reference designs. But let's get back to hand tracking, because this is a vital part. And I know Oculus Quest just introduced hand tracking. And likely in the future, too.

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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. Construction and architecture. Eye tracking: ads can detect if you’re looking at them and move to your center of vision.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

What that means that from a software architecture standpoint and a hardware standpoint, we try to make our software as optimized as possible for their reference designs. But let's get back to hand tracking, because this is a vital part. And I know Oculus Quest just introduced hand tracking. And likely in the future, too.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2021

architecture firms), and it also has the typical solid manufacturing of HTC. Hand tracking support is coming in the future; The two new controllers of the Focus 3. They are clearly inspired by the Oculus Touch (Image by HTC Vive). The battery is rechargeable and every charge lasts for 15 hours.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

There’s a lot of, for example, architectural firms in town, and they aren’t as flashy as a virtual sports or something, but they’re all using VR for showing the buildings, or going to a client and saying, “hey, would you like this room moved over here? Oculus has sold a couple million. Amazon Sumerian.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

There’s a lot of, for example, architectural firms in town, and they aren’t as flashy as a virtual sports or something, but they’re all using VR for showing the buildings, or going to a client and saying, “hey, would you like this room moved over here? Oculus has sold a couple million. Amazon Sumerian.

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