Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2023

Apple TV : both immersive sports content and traditional video content – the latter presented in virtual environments, such as a desert or the sky. Apple Books : will allow users to read in virtual reality. Fitness+ : will let users exercise while watching an instructor in VR.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2024

I had the pleasure of interviewing again “Mister President” Alvin Wang Graylin in the occasion of the launch of his book, Our Next Reality , that he wrote together with Louis Rosenberg. And now the book is out , it’s nice to be able to get that message out and hopefully deliver some good. That’s good.

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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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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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 15, 2022

You can use VR to take your customers on a tour of your hotel when you’re trying to convince them to book a stay, or use AR to show people what a product looks like in Lifesize, from every perceivable angle. Eye-tracking technology, for instance, could tell you which parts of your VR experience your customers were most drawn to.

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AR Insider

MAY 3, 2021

Pico Interactive partners with REACT Neuro to measure brain health via wireless Virtual Reality headsets. The headset was appealing to REACT Neuro due to the Tobii Eye Tracking. See his books here. You can find it on podcasting platforms Spotify , iTunes , and YouTube. Watch the latest episode below.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

French startup Lynx announced some months ago a quite interesting headset featuring pass-through augmented reality , hands tracking, eye tracking, and an innovative lens design. Sam & Max: This Time It’s Virtual has been released on the Oculus Quest. Netflix may be interested in the VR market.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Moss and Moss: Book 2, the fantasy adventure duology from Polyarc, are both arriving as PSVR 2 launch titles next year. Previously released on PSVR , the Meta Quest platform and PC VR via Steam, Polyarc’s announcement comes hot off Moss: Book 2 winning Game of the Year at the VR Awards 2022.

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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. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The Galea hardware is designed to be integrated into existing HMDs and is the first device that simultaneously collects data from the wearer’s brain, eyes, heart, skin, and muscles. 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

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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XROM

JUNE 11, 2024

Virtual Reality (VR) : VR immerses users in entirely virtual environments using VR headsets. These devices create a fully simulated reality, transporting users to places and scenarios that are entirely computer-generated. It senses body expressions and hand movements, making interactions in XR more natural and immersive.

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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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Upload VR

AUGUST 28, 2023

We'll have impressions of some projects in the days ahead, but here are six Venice Immersive experiences we're looking forward to trying: Jim Henson's The Storyteller: The Seven Ravens Based on Jim Henson's The Storyteller TV series, The Seven Ravens from Felix & Paul Studios brings an AR pop-up book to life with Neil Gaiman narrating.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Spatial audio and haptic feedback could potentially work together to create more meaningful virtual experiences and training environments for people in challenging industries. This could lead to a new generation of virtual, augmented, and mixed reality interactions. Teleportation and Holograms.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2024

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. Readyverse will work on the creation of the metaverse of the book Ready Player One. Summarizing: Futureverse created Readyverse to build the metaverse.

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 13, 2022

Over the last couple of years, extended reality has grown to become an increasingly mainstream part of our world. We’re using virtual reality to enhance collaboration, and augmented reality to connect with customers. Mixed reality solutions are even paving the way to the promise of teleportation.

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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 - 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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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2023

Of course, they are not meant for XR playing, but for e-book reading. The idea is to let people read books when lying down on a bed without having to keep a tablet or e-book reader in their hands. Sol Readers is going to cost around $350 and is of course targeted at people that love reading books.

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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. Hope you enjoy!

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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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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

At a time when modern VR was finding its feet, Sony championed the potential of console-based virtual reality with PlayStation VR on PS4, housing an impressive library of exclusive games like WipeOut: Omega Collection , Astro Bot: Rescue Mission and Blood & Truth. Is it actually worth the trade-offs? Let’s have a look.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2019

, the answer will be “No”, or “a bit” or, in alternative, you will see the panic in his/her eyes. Nolan Bushnell really believes that Virtual Reality is the next big thing in out-of-home entertainment. And I also learnt about the eye tracking features or the 3D spatial audio features offered by the Vive SDK.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 8, 2022

Also when you move them close to a virtual object, and you move them up and down to make them appear and disappear, you see that the hands get occluded and shown always as a combination of big jagged blocks, which are probably a representation of the resolution of the depth estimation algorithm. Eye-tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Probably you all recall the iconic Apple commercial inspired by the book 1984 that helped a lot the company in becoming popular. Virtual Reality is creating a rise in insurance claims. Virtual Virtual Reality 2 has been released. We are not supporting eye tracking or biometrics for this closed beta.

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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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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

It was an exciting vision, and many people — including myself — got into virtual worlds as much for the possibilities they promised as for what they were actually able to deliver in the present. Virtual worlds aren’t the only visible path to a metaverse. It’s a bit like being caught up in a book or a movie.

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VRScout

JULY 1, 2016

One of the biggest problems that all virtual reality (VR) developers currently face is movement within virtual reality and the potential of motion sickness. Lighthouse room tracking for HTC Vive is such a solution and is available on the market today.

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 9, 2017

With CES, the year’s first major event, now in the books, let’s hear from some those that work with VR itself about what happens next. Wireless headsets and eye tracking and whatever aren’t going to be game changers, we already have the hardware to change your life. Also higher res displays would be really nice.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 21, 2022

This year, our Best of VR 2022 highlights the latest and greatest virtual reality hardware and software (including headsets, accessories, games and more) to see general release during the 2022 calendar year. We’re also keeping our eye on the Portal-like Warp Lab coming to PC VR next year.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 7, 2023

Instead of using keyboards and buttons to control processes, we use gestures, eye movement, and voice commands detected by sensors. Without spatial technology, a virtual reality environment would be something you could see and walk around, but never touch or interact with.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2019

This is even truer in a new and complicated market like virtual reality. When I needed a Vive OG last year to play around with eye tracking , I bought a used one. I have been featured in the amazing book Convergence by Charlie Fink because I asked him if I could help him for an article. This actually can help them.

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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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