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The Future of Play: How Intel And The ESL Are Helping Bring Virtual Reality To ESports

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While traditional eSports aren’t going away, many companies are building the foundation for a virtual reality subset. When you look at the gaming landscape, the only thing as “hot “as eSports is virtual reality. Newzoo forecasts global virtual reality and augmented reality will generate $569 billion by 2025.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.12.19): Vision Pro is slated for January, Quest 2 is selling incredibly well, and more!

The Ghost Howls

More info (Quest 2 mosly out of stock) More info (VR had a great Black Friday in UK) More info (Quest 2 selling much better than PSVR 2) Pico 5 has been canceled, Pico 4 Plus not After last month’s layoffs, it seems that Bytedance is totally changing its plans related to virtual reality.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.12.04): Varjo announces XR-4 headset, Quest 2 sells much more than Quest 3, and more!

The Ghost Howls

It is relevant that for the first time, a Varjo headset is adding integrated audio and integrated controllers. Virtual Desktop Guy Godin commented on the news saying that he is not worried much by Steam Link, since his software offers many more functionalities , and it also works with the Meta PC runtime games (e.g. Lone Echo).

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Facebook Researchers Explore Mechanical Display Shifting to Reduce Screen Door Effect

Road to VR

Researchers from Facebook Reality Labs and the University of Arizona published new work exploring the use of high-speed mechanical display shifting to reduce the so-called screen-door-effect (SDE) of immersive displays. “Pixel shifting is not limited to a circular shape.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.09.06): A week full of VR events, Chinese headsets are on the rise, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Venice VR, Burning Man, and TGS show the beauty of virtual events. It has been a huge week for events in virtual reality , thanks to three important initiatives of this kind: Venice VR Expanded, Burning Man, and Tokyo Game Show. Top news of the week. Image by Venice VR).

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Over 30 Games Optimized for Valve Index and Controllers at Launch [Updated]

Peter Graham

Announced in March followed by an official reveal in April , the Valve Index is the company’s first branded VR headset whilst introducing the new Valve Index controllers – formerly Knuckles. The headset by itself, controllers as a pair, or both together (all three options suitable if you own HTC Vive). Arizona Sunshine *.

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Vive Trackers Experiments – Part 2: Setup, Props, and Full Body Virtual Reality

The Ghost Howls

Today I host another amazing article by the VR ergonomics expert Rob Cole , which has already written on this blog amazing posts, like the series about the ergonomics of the Valve Index or the viral article about the amazing Caliper VR controllers he worked on by himself. Image provided by Rob Cole). Second-generation base station (2.0)