Cats and VR

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Vive Wave is a clear step forward in bringing together the highly fragmented mobile VR market that has growth up in China the last several years. Furthermore, its high-resolution AMOLED screen realizes the best possible VR experience, with low latency and unmatched clarity.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

This means that cloud rendering could become a reality for always more headsets, and using always more cloud services. On the technological side, it seems all is set to start using cloud rendering, but the big problem of the latency from the nearest server remains; VRSS (Variable Rate SuperSampling) v2 has been announced.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

At WCVRI, China shows its strategic interest for VR. In its upcoming 5-year development plan, there should be measures to favor the growth and the spread of Immersive Realities. And while China always moves chaotically, I think that the push of the government is helping its VR companies. HTC launches Vive XR Suite.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

There will be a new launcher, improved graphics, improved in-game camera, production-ready Unity SDK for the creators, improved full-body VR, and much more. First of all, the Web3 VR platform has announced version 3.0 which is releasing this autumn with a massive update in which basically everything will be improved.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

The idea is that if you are the passenger in a car, you can entertain yourself with virtual reality. Holoride has now announced that it is working with Unity and Pico to release its Elastic SDK and offer devkits to let developers create experiences for the Holoride store , that will also be powered by blockchain.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

It will be released in 25 worldwide markets, so it won’t be a China-only headset. Anyway, while in the West it will be sold as an enterprise device, in China it will target both enterprise customers and the mass market. The latency is really a lot less perceivable. Regarding the release date: somewhere in Q2 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Some use cases that are presented, like realtime streaming of VR games, are still far away : streaming of desktop games has not proven yet to be a successful business, so streaming of VR games, that is even more difficult because of the low latency requirement, is something not so close in the future. The horrors of virtual reality!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The new DRIVE Thor superchip aimed at autonomous vehicles, which companies will be able to use from 2025 Omniverse Cloud , which lets companies use Omniverse completely via cloud rendering even on non-powerful machines A connector to let you use Omniverse with Unity. When virtual reality has the wrong kind of haptics… Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

But I would wait to rejoice from it: VR requires a very short motion-to-photon latency, and as of today no cloud rendering service can offer such low latency in every possible location of the user. It is a company to keep an eye on; Lynx has stated that it wants to use this money to become the “European Champion of Mixed Reality”.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Two days ago, I’ve given you my predictions for virtual reality in 2021 (read it, in case you missed it). Now it’s time to make some forecasts about its companion technology, that is augmented reality! There are vaiours solutions to also export Unity XR projects to the web (Image by Mozilla).

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

The XR visual processing pipeline is both compute intensive and latency sensitive. They are known as the XR line of processors and the XR2 currently powers a few smart glasses in other markets such as China. The tiny chip has to perform a number of tasks parallelly with the smartphone to allow a smooth mixed reality experience.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Let me compare it to virtual reality. In virtual reality, you have to do this reprojection, Oculus calls it timewarp, and that means that your video card and your computer has to be running at a really high frame rate to correct for your head motion and we’ve rolled that all into the headset.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Speaking of things like MetaVRse, you have Invidia, who just announced Omniverse this week, which is their kind of persistent, collaborative platform for high quality virtual reality running in the cloud. We also saw a growth of AR glasses, not in America and not North America, not the rest of the world, but in China.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Speaking of things like MetaVRse, you have Invidia, who just announced Omniverse this week, which is their kind of persistent, collaborative platform for high quality virtual reality running in the cloud. We also saw a growth of AR glasses, not in America and not North America, not the rest of the world, but in China.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Speaking of things like MetaVRse, you have Invidia, who just announced Omniverse this week, which is their kind of persistent, collaborative platform for high quality virtual reality running in the cloud. We also saw a growth of AR glasses, not in America and not North America, not the rest of the world, but in China.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 24, 2021

HTC has followed the footprints of Facebook and now also the Vive Focus 3 has a companion application, called VIVE Manager , that you can find on the most famous app stores in the West, or you can also download directly from the HTC website in China. Device pairing and management via Vive Manager app (video from HTC China).

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