ARPost

JUNE 3, 2020

VR headsets using close-to-eye displays rely on lenses. Advancements like eye-tracking and autofocus try to fix these problems. In a recent webinar given by Bjorn Book-Larsson of VIVEPORT , he said that issues like these may be why VR user sessions tend to be significantly shorter than user sessions in other forms of media.

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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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 10, 2022

These innovators are discovering how important a multi-sensory experience can be when building immersive interactions for users. Multi-Sensory Immersion. However, true immersion relies on more than just visual content. However, true immersion relies on more than just visual content. Teleportation and Holograms.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

There are three very interesting tidbits from this article: Somnium is going to open source the algorithm used for eye-tracking The headset will let developers have access to the raw streams of the passthrough cameras. has been released on all the major VR platforms for $19.99 Hope you enjoy!

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 15, 2022

This immersive technology can also serve another crucial purpose: bridging the gaps between customers and companies. With extended reality, companies have a powerful way to connect with their audience in a host of immersive, memorable formats. What’s more, there are benefits to XR for both the company and the customer.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Instead, consumers may be required to book an in-store appointment with an expert once the product is released. We know the product will contain 12 cameras, six microphones, and five hand, eye, and voice tracking sensors. The headset will also have a ring of LED lights to assist with eye-tracking performance.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

That horrible mess of wires, dated PS Move controllers and dwindling support saw me retire it after Moss: Book 2. Moss: Book 2 In 2023, PSVR 2 was a welcome sight that signaled to me the start of VR's next generation, but I had some reservations. But, much like anything else, my interest slowly moved on.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

PSVR 2 System Pricing & Overall Package For a launch price of $550, PSVR 2 offers some impressive specifications: an OLED display; eye-tracking; adaptive triggers; haptic feedback in both the controllers and headset; and more. Is it actually worth the trade-offs? Let’s have a look. Overall, it’s a familiar design.

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Upload VR

APRIL 19, 2023

As per Gurman's January report, the headset will reportedly use a combination of eye tracking and hand tracking for input, letting you look at the UI and use your fingers to make selections or move through menus.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 13, 2022

For instance, AR apps can help your customers book, prepare, and travel more effectively. Remember, customers can be up to 130% more likely to book a hotel room after having a virtual tour of the location. Everything from eye tracking technology to AI pattern detection could pave the way for new insights into travel opportunities.

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CraneMorley

JUNE 7, 2022

You imagine students fully immersed in an environment where teachings are brought to life. The last thing you would imagine Mixed Reality being used for is to read regular text off a book or a piece of paper. A powerful eye tracking camera on the HoloLens will notice whenever a student is stuck on a word or phrase.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 7, 2023

Rather than interacting with computing systems as outside parties, we step into a world where we can immerse ourselves in intuitive user interfaces. Instead of using keyboards and buttons to control processes, we use gestures, eye movement, and voice commands detected by sensors. Is Spatial Computing just VR?

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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. This book on the Quest has a disturbing cover….

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The devices that will be based on this reference design will have amazing specifications like: 2K x 2K display resolution per each eye ; Have up to 7 cameras used simultaneously, including the ones for tracking, mixed reality and eye-tracking; High-quality passthrough augmented reality with high resolution and framerate.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Plus, Red Matter 2 was the first major title to support eye-tracked foveated rendering on Quest Pro, which resulted in a 30% boost in base resolution. It was a great year for VR multiplayer releases, with titles like Ultimechs presenting a compelling arena-scale experience and Broken Edge paving the way for immersive 1v1 fantasy duels.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

The Neo 2 may not be sexy as the Quest, but it is more powerful (thanks to the Snapdragon 845), has a crisper resolution , and in the “Eye” version, it also features embedded eye tracking. And all of this is cheaper than the $1000 enterprise Oculus Quest : the Neo 2 costs $700 and the Neo 2 Eye costs $900. Contact me.

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Upload VR

MARCH 26, 2023

That’s boosted further by eye tracking for tracking and aiming at enemies, alongside haptic feedback support from the headset and controllers. Puzzling Places One of the best puzzle games in VR is now available on PSVR 2 with 120fps support, eye tracking support, haptic feedback support, and a 1000-piece puzzle.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Charlie Fink is a Forbes columnist and an author of two AR-enabled books – Charlie Fink’s Metaverse: A Guide to VR and AR, and Convergence: How the World Will Be Painted with Data. First of all I want to congratulate you on the launch of your new book Convergence, an AR-enabled book about AR.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Charlie Fink is a Forbes columnist and an author of two AR-enabled books – Charlie Fink’s Metaverse: A Guide to VR and AR, and Convergence: How the World Will Be Painted with Data. First of all I want to congratulate you on the launch of your new book Convergence, an AR-enabled book about AR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2023

So here you are a collection of the best news in immersive realities from the CES 2023, with many links to go deeper! Everyone I spoke with talked about an interesting event to attend for us XR people, and this shows that immersive realities are now in a quite mature status… to be niche technologies. Of course not.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

It’s not clear on what platforms this functionality will be working on, but if I had to guess, I would say Project Cambria, since its body tracking was already revealed in a video some months ago. It is not even clear if it will be full-body tracking or just upper-body tracking. Learn more. Some XR fun.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 5, 2023

There’s no exact launch date on the books, so in the meantime let’s talk about some of the features HTC announced today, some key specs still in need of clarification, and the headset’s slew of gaming-focused content. Immersive Education. Image courtesy HTC. Emmisive, Louvre, VIVE Arts. YouCalligrapher. Luciidream.

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VRScout

JULY 1, 2016

Despite the fact that this genre is being mentioned in combination with VR in many different books, movies and VR games, the classic movement mechanics did not please users that experimented with VR FPS games. VR players cannot even walk normally through the gaming environment – they start vomiting (in a literal sense).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2022

There is a Pico 4 Pro version which includes eye tracking ; It has some interesting lenses , which look very different from the Fresnel lenses used by Pico until now; It features pancake lenses and a sleek design. This has happened on the occasion of the launch of his book about the metaverse. Other news. Learn more.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The following year at CES 2014, Oculus had to share the immersive technology limelight with a slew of new startups who had appeared in the wake of Oculus’ success. Built atop an open source set of APIs, the platform was a refreshing take on how to deliver immersive technology. Oculus’ Pre-DK1 Prototype, shown at CES 2013.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 6, 2020

A lot of the immersive content today has to go through a full production with 360 video recording. Alan: It's interesting you say that, because one of the problems with, especially the co-working needs, is you book a room for four hours. I'm really excited to have eye tracking as part of the daily experience of XR.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

There was presence, and immersion, and the ability to create your own virtual environments. It’s a bit like being caught up in a book or a movie. Movies are more immersive than books because the sound and images help pull you in quicker. Presence is related to immersion. (Image by Maria Korolov.).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 25, 2016

VR blocks out the real world and immerses the user in a digital experience. Because you’re fully immersed in a screen, you aren’t interacting much with the real world. It accompanies you as you move through the world and augments your activities with information, whereas you typically step out of that world to immerse yourself in VR.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

The headset had astonishing specifications, like: Display resolution: 1,830 × 1,464 per lens resolution, total 16 million sub-pixels Display type: AMOLED Refresh rate: 90Hz Field of view: 210-degree horizontal FOV, 130-degree vertical FOV Eye-tracking: Fully integrated Tobii eye-tracking, including Dynamic Foveated Rendering.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Charlie Fink was the first episode of the XR for Business Podcast, and we're talking about his book Convergence, that is fully AR-enabled; you take your phone and point it [at Charlie's book]. I've actually got a copy of that book that arrives tomorrow. It's like hidden Easter eggs within a paper book.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Charlie Fink was the first episode of the XR for Business Podcast, and we're talking about his book Convergence, that is fully AR-enabled; you take your phone and point it [at Charlie's book]. I've actually got a copy of that book that arrives tomorrow. It's like hidden Easter eggs within a paper book.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2022

More than an article, with its 10,000+ words, this is a short book on the Pimax Sword, featuring everything you may need to know about them (what is Pimax, what are the Sword controllers, how do they work… even an interview with the COO of the company!). Used as teleport it was no problem, but this changes gameplay, immersion, etc.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Charlie Fink was the first episode of the XR for Business Podcast, and we're talking about his book Convergence, that is fully AR-enabled; you take your phone and point it [at Charlie's book]. I've actually got a copy of that book that arrives tomorrow. It's like hidden Easter eggs within a paper book.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Charlie Fink was the first episode of the XR for Business Podcast, and we're talking about his book Convergence, that is fully AR-enabled; you take your phone and point it [at Charlie's book]. I've actually got a copy of that book that arrives tomorrow. It's like hidden Easter eggs within a paper book.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

Terry Schussler is the director of Immersive Technology at Deutche Telekom, and he’s working to bring 5G into the XR domain, and expand the capabilities of mixed reality technologies. Kind of like the Dewey decimal system for libraries, to be able to find a book. Welcome to the show, Terry. Terry: Thanks, Alan.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

Terry Schussler is the director of Immersive Technology at Deutche Telekom, and he’s working to bring 5G into the XR domain, and expand the capabilities of mixed reality technologies. It is with great honor that I welcome Director of Immersive Technology at Deutsche Telekom, and founding member of the Open AR Cloud, Mr. Terry Schuster.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

edge detection); Eye-tracking sensors (accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer); A battery system ; A 5Ghz radio communication antenna to make the lens communicate with an external unit; An ARM0 processor , that acts as a “traffic cop” for the data. This proves the value of eye-tracking and its implementation inside PSVR 2.

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