Digitalnauts

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

XR, or Extended Reality, is an umbrella term for a variety of immersive technologies including VR (Virtual Reality), MR (Mixed Reality) and AR (Augmented Reality). VR (VIRTUAL REALITY). Some examples include the Oculus Quest and Vive Focus platforms. AR (AUGMENTED REALITY).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 28, 2017

The problem is HoloLens is an augmented reality device with a limited field of view, so the objects only appear in a small window directly in front of your eyes. The HTC Vive and Oculus Rift both offer controllers that bring your natural finger, hand and arm movements into a virtual world for a range of intuitive games and experiences.

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EON Reality

MARCH 13, 2020

Going forward, 2020 will present a line of demarcation between past and future digital learning experiences, prompting a “Visual Revolution” driven by 5G, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, virtual reality, and other emerging visual technologies and experiences. What is different now than in the past?

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The two may go hand-in-hand when it comes to particular uses cases, which initiatives like Oculus for Business has tapped into with Oculus Quest and Go. This does mean XTAL is a beast of a headset and if you thought Oculus Quest was a little front heavy then you’ll find no pleasure with XTAL. So that’s a fair amount.

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VRWorld

JUNE 8, 2016

Augmented Reality, also called Mixed Reality (MR, MxR) is set to represent a very large part of our lives. Even today, if you own a car with a heads-up display (HUD), you are a user of Augmented Reality. “We recognized the problem of very high barrier of entry for Augmented Reality.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 16, 2017

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. Intel showed off its Project Alloy wireless VR head-mounted display to eSports fans. Record-Breaking Numbers.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2016

Since the Oculus Kickstarter in 2012, VR has seen a revival on the big screen as it becomes a more affordable and accessible consumer device. To qualify the list, these movies had to be using technology with the goal of inducing presence, whether that be in a game world, dreamscape, or recording of reality. TRON (1982).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 29, 2018

Examples of head measurements (Image by Rob Cole). Other examples are scuba diving masks or full-face motorcycle helmets, although neither of these have the added complication of housing a head-mounted display that relies on a good fit for the correct optical presentation of the display to the eyes.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 15, 2016

The HTC Vive is arguably the best out there, but having to buy a souped-up laptop just to run it, paying full price for brief games that feel more like demos, and trailing a huge cable off your head and fumbling to mount trackers on your ceiling…it’s not ideal. The visual input is the most important piece of the VR setup.

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VeeR VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

It was a device that the user sat in-front of while their head was encased on four sides by a screen and they watched any one of five films, which all engaged sight, sound, smell and touch. In 1968, Ivan Sutherland and Bob Sproull created the first head-mounted display (HMD) system for immersive simulation applications.

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Road to VR

APRIL 17, 2018

The developers behind Modbox (2016) , the VR physics sandbox for SteamVR-compatible headsets, have been experimenting with augmented reality recently, something they say is a perfect fit for the Modbox software.

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RealVision VR

JULY 14, 2016

2: Build for Room-sized Virtual Reality. The current generation of VR head mounted displays are already beginning to show what’s possible with room scale VR. The HTC Vive headset is in the lead. Usman Farman wrote about this aspect, along with a more basic one: Is your brand story worth telling in VR?

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

The system featured a head-mounted display with head tracking that could be used to explore virtual environments or real remote images from a camera — foreshadowing future breakthroughs in teleoperation. Much of that work was built atop decades of military research into heads-up display (HUD) units for aircraft.

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VRScout

MARCH 28, 2017

They have a rich catalog of award-winning animated music videos, performed live with Madonna via hologram at the 2005 MTV Europe Awards to promote their record Demon Days, and even had augmented reality album art accompany their 2010 release Plastic Beach.

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 10, 2019

In comparison to rival headsets like Oculus Rift/Quest, HTC Vive or Valve Index, for example, the PlayStation VR falls way behind when it comes to tracking the device. There’s another function for the headset mounted cameras and that’s seeing the world around you.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 4, 2016

The idea is that, as soon as we identified VR was coming — this was before the Oculus acquisition by Facebook — it was clear that one part of VR would be computer-generated experiences, games being the major example. Ozo’s output is one single cable going into either your storage or a head-mounted display.

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