The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 29, 2018

For sure this is the case of Rob Farquarson-Cole , that you surely know because he comments a lot on this and other VR blogs under the nickname “R FC” He’s not only a VR enthusiast but a professional Industrial Designer that works on “Exploration of Immersive Computing” at Proof Research and Development in London, UK.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 28, 2022

This Tuesday, Sony, the firm behind the Playstation line-up of console gaming devices, announced new details for its upcoming PlayStation Virtual Reality 2 (PSVR 2) headset. In an official blog post , Sony introduced several new features to improve the PSVR 2 user experience. Four tracking cameras. Eye-tracking, by Tobii.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 30, 2022

For instance, hand and eye tracking solutions are quickly becoming a must-have part of every XR creation. If you’re keen to learn more about hand and eye tracking technology, attending the right events can be an excellent way to get started. Augmented Enterprise Summit. October 18-20, 2022, San Diego, California.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Following anticipation from fans, Sony announced on Wednesday the release window, price, and new features of its PlayStation Virtual Reality 2 (PSVR2) device. Details at PlayStation Blog: [link] pic.twitter.com/e97fVvHvZx. The global electronics firm is debuting the device for its PlayStation 5 gaming portfolio. New Titles.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 1, 2022

This Monday, leaks in a Twitter post by IT Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo revealed a potential 2023 release window for the upcoming PlayStation virtual reality (PSVR) 2 headset. PS VR2 adopts six optical modules (four 720P IR cameras and two eye-tracking cameras). million units for the second half of 2022. (1/5).

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 27, 2022

Meta Platforms has begun raising prices $100 on its Meta Quest 2 headsets, media reported on Tuesday, citing an announcement from the Oculus blog. And for a limited time, every new headset purchase will include an offer to download the popular VR rhythm game Beat Saber at no additional cost.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The integrated Tobii eye-tracking operating at 120hz made a noticeable difference to headset setup and optical comfort, as well as lowering the rendering workload in games compatible with dynamic foveated rendering. The eye-tracking system is provided by Tobii, who is the market leader in eye-tracking technology.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

One of the best experiences of my blogging life. Right now, what people don’t see is that virtual reality is still a baby. We don’t have enough bandwidth, we don’t have enough processing power, we isolate people with goggles, so I can’t see the expression of your eyes when we share the same environment.

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AllThingsVR

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Google buys Eyefluence, an eye-tracking startup Google wanst to know everywhere that you’re looking. The eye-tracking interface startup founded in 2013 had raised $21.6M The eye-tracking interface startup founded in 2013 had raised $21.6M Today, Eyefluence announced that it has been acquired by Google.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 12, 2024

More info Researchers perform eye tracking with audio waves The research project of the week has been for sure the one carried on at Cornell University, where the researchers have been able to perform eye tracking using sonar waves. You can get it from the most important e-book stores. I can help you!

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Very soon, Collabora will also make a SteamVR driver for this hands tracking, so also Windows users will be able to have hands tracking on their Valve Index. Then eye-tracked foveated rendering has been made available in the Meta Quest SDK for all the developers that are targeting Quest Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2023

Meta has even improved the accuracy of eye tracking on Quest Pro , and some people are speculating that it may be to battle the eye-tracking capabilities of the Vision Pro. I think it’s a bit exaggerated for a +20% increase, but still, it conveys the idea of how much this update is important.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

More info Ubisoft to work on the sequel of Assassin’s Creed VR The most confusing news of the week comes from Insider Gaming, which reports that Ubisoft is already working on the sequel of Assassin’s Creed Nexus , which is the virtual reality game of the Assassin’s Creed saga. I will leave you the link to do that below.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

The headset should be operated through the use of hand tracking and eye tracking , exactly like the Vision Pro. More info Immersed VISOR to support hand tracking and eye tracking It seems that Immersed truly wants to compete with Apple with its VISOR headset. I will leave you the link to do that below.

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ARPost

APRIL 10, 2023

The partnership’s goal is the development of “neos ” – a proposed device that would use eye-tracking technology for earlier diagnosis of brain disorders. As a neuro-ophthalmologist, I use the eye as a window to the brain,” said michineMD Medical Director Professor Mathias Abegg in a blog post announcing the partnership. “The

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 6, 2020

Mixing these two kinds of lenses and having the screen being not a traditional one, but a special laser-emitting screen , the result is the one of a virtual reality headset that is very thin, light, and comfortable. More info (Facebook AI supersampling algorithm) More info (Official announcement on Facebook Blog).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2024

This Face Tracking add-on magnetically attaches to the facial interface of the device, and it adds to it both eye tracking and face tracking. It features two 120Hz eye-tracking cameras and one 60Hz lower face-tracking camera. You can see them on its Instagram account which I link to you here below.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The eye and face tracking can also work via Quest Link (but maybe only for developers). There are new complaints about Meta’s privacy policy on eye tracking , as my friend Avi Bar-Zeev points out. You can do with the Quest mixed reality WebXR applications (and this is incredibly cool). Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

A piece of very interesting news about this headset, which has been reported by few people, is that the Chinese company 7Invensun has already developed an eye-tracking module for it, making Vive Flow even more interesting for enterprise uses. This week we had two big news that endorsed the importance of training in virtual reality.

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NVidia VR

JUNE 18, 2020

As working remotely or taking online classes has taken off, virtual reality can help us stay connected and productive in this new norm. The Windows desktop application can run on NVIDIA RTX GPUs, providing teams with the best graphics performance for virtual worlds. Learn more about Autodesk VRED.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Youtube videos or blog posts? Qualcomm XR2 chipset 4K low-persistence 90 Hz Curved Display 3664 x 1920 resolution, 773 PPI 98° FOV 6GB RAM (2133 Mhz) for the Pro model, 8GB for the Pro Eye Model 256GB storage Wi-Fi 6 connectivity USB-C 3.0 Pico Neo 3 Pro costs €600 and Pico Neo 3 Pro Eye (which features Tobii eye tracking) costs €750.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Meta Connect has been the big event of the week, and as it is a tradition of this blog , I’m going to write today for you a super article where you can find inside ALL the news announced during the event! There is also an eye-relief dial, so you can put the lenses very close to your eyes, for added field of view.

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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. The day has come and finally, the sandbox to create games without coding that is Dreams on PlayStation has released a patch to be used with virtual reality.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2020

My blog has just turned 4 years old and I’m incredibly happy about it! Outside VR, the big news to keep an eye on is the dispute between Epic Games and Apple (and Google), which could lead to a complete change in how app stores are managed, even in VR. More info (Modular tracking of avatars) More info (Eye-tracked avatars).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Feature-wise, it is more or less as we expected it to be, with four cameras for inside-out tracking, haptic feedback, IPD adjustment , eye-tracking, HDR display. More info (PSVR 2 unveiled) More info (Official blog post on PSVR 2 headset). But features tell only a part of the story. Other relevant news. Image by Meta).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Pico 4 Pro should feature next-gen functionalities like RGB passthrough, eye tracking, face tracking, and automatic IPD adjustment. says the blog post with the partnership announcement. Virtual Reality Day is back! November, 19th 2022 will be again the Virtual Reality Day! Learn more.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Resolution Games’ tabletop dungeon crawler Demeo is rolling its way onto PSVR 2 next year, with cross-platform play and eye tracking support. On the PlayStation blog , Resolution Games says that Demeo will take advantage of the new hardware to provide visual upgrades and additional features when playing on PSVR 2.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 15, 2022

Eye-tracking technology, for instance, could tell you which parts of your VR experience your customers were most drawn to. For instance, a company called “Key Technology” created a virtual reality demo to demonstrate how the VERYX digital food sorting platform worked. Updated Experiential Marketing.

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ARPost

JUNE 24, 2021

“What this means, in practice, is true virtual teleportation – sharing your reality, your environment, with other people in real time so that others can experience your world.”. In addition to top-of-the-line hardware, Reality Cloud is made possible by advances in software including eye-tracking.

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CraneMorley

JUNE 27, 2023

Back to Blog Page The whole term and concept of Mixed Reality (MR) was first introduced to us by Paul Milgram and Fumio Kishino in their paper titled “A Taxonomy of Mixed reality Visual Displays.” The History of Mixed Reality is closely linked to the development of Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 28, 2020

Two days ago, I had a great day talking at AWE2020 about Brain Computer Interfaces in Virtual Reality. In fact, in this blog I have already written a very long deep-dive on BCIs , and also talked about Neuralink. In fact, in this blog I have already written a very long deep-dive on BCIs , and also talked about Neuralink.

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Upload VR

JULY 3, 2023

Luckey was recently interviewed by Peter Diamandis on a range of topics including Anduril, Diamandis' new XPRIZE contest to end destructive wildfires, and virtual reality. I wrote a blog post years ago called Free Isn't Cheap Enough and in it I lay out an argument against the idea that the thing holding VR back is cost.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2022

This is a great deal, that lowers even more the barrier of cost to enter virtual reality. Google has launched a new cloud service based on Stadia technology: dubbed “Immersive Stream for AR”, it lets you perform cloud rendering for augmented reality applications for mobile phones. Reality vs virtual reality helmets Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 5, 2020

This is the first roundup of news of this new year, and to signal a change with the past, I’ve changed the name from “VR Week Peek” to “XR Week Peek”, because, hey, I like talking about all immersive technologies and not only Virtual Reality. The eye-tracked model costs only $900. Top news of the week. Image by nReal).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2024

I’m not there (I’ve still never been to CES…), but as usual I will follow the news and report it on this blog, so stay tuned! The headset (that you see in the above picture) is quite slick and features pancake lenses, eye tracking by Tobii, integrated audio, and Wi-Fi 6/6E/7. It is not sure the game can survive for long.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

That’s why I feel very honored to host on my blog OpenBCI , a famous company aimed at building neural interfaces that have not only a very high quality, but are also opensource. Our current version includes sensors for EEG, EOG, EMG, PPG, and EDA, with the option to include image-based eye tracking as well.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

PSVR 2 will have eye-tracking from Tobii and maybe a detachable cable. First of all, its eye-tracking technology will be provided by Tobii , one of the market leaders in the field. More info (Tobii will provide eye tracking to PSVR 2) More info (PSVR 2 cable is detachable) More info (First PSVR 2 picture in the wild?—?Road

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