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Varjo Promises “Human-Eye” Resolution With VR-1 Headset

VRScout

Industry-caliber VR/XR specialists Varjo today announced their latest hardware release, the Varjo VR-1. The incredible visuals provided by Varjo VR-1, combined with the industry-leading graphical power of Unreal Engine 4, show an exciting future for high-end visualization,” adds Simon Jones, Director of Unreal Engine Enterprise at Epic.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.02.15): Facebook keeps working on its masterplan, WebXR arrives on iOS, and more!

The Ghost Howls

A Facebook operating system, pervasive of all devices (Portal, Quest, Smartwatch, etc…) could give Facebook the same power as Apple: having full control of hardware and software , with also complete interoperability. More info (News on The Verge) More info (Original News on Nikkei Asia) More info (A cool render of the Apple XR glasses).

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ByteDance-owned VR startup Pico strengthens ties with Qualcomm

TechCrunch VR

“We are excited we will be working together on hardware, software and technology roadmaps to enable the ecosystem for people,” Rubo Liang, ByteDance’s CEO, remarked remotely via video. ” It also includes handy developer kits for mainstream 3D engines, including Unity and Epic Games’ Unreal.

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Eido Inoue tells us everything we need to know about HADO and location based augmented reality

The Ghost Howls

What are the software and hardware platform used by HADO? We have very unique needs for our products that makes most off-the-shelf XR solutions not viable for us: The hardware platform has to be lightweight, completely portable, and robust enough to survive rough semi-contact sports. Software-wise, we use Unity, Vuforia, and OpenCV.

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SXSW 2022 CHAT WITH CHARLES SEGUIN: FIRST IMPRESSIONS, XR INDUSTRY AND EMERGING TECH

Digitalnauts

We met a lot of new companies from all over the globe, UK, Europe, Asia and the US, that we think might link to new projects in the near future. There are also companies that create d their own hardware to capture their subjects to higher resolution. We’ll keep you updated on that!

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7Invensun is a Chinese company that wants to disrupt the VR eye tracking sector

The Ghost Howls

I’ve not been able to test it in person, but looking around its users manual, the aGlass DK II seems quite easy to install and also easy to be used as a developer , thanks to its handy Unity and Unreal plugins. And if you have an NVIDIA graphics card, it can already offer foveated rendering out of the box! Isn’t it a cool device?

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The XR Week Peek (2022.09.26): Pico 4 announced, RTX40 cards revealed, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Some hardware accessories have been announced for this headset, like a fitness 3DOF tracker for the feet, and a dedicated router for wireless streaming. The RAM is bigger than on the Quest, and the display is very crisp, with a 1200 PPI screen that makes sure that the screen door effect is absolutely not visible.