Road to VR

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

And while Oculus’ first stab at the feature is reasonably solid, there’s still limitations around accuracy, latency, pose detection, and tracking coverage. ” The document notes the challenges that come with the territory, and reminds developers to “remember that hands aren’t controllers.”

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ARPost

APRIL 27, 2023

Dreamscape Immersive uses trackers for motion control, one for each hand and one for each foot, as well as laptop backpacks. In my case, for example, at one point, I took a torch from another participant and ended up carrying two. Zero Latency VR Zero Latency VR is a well-known company in the LBE space.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

A defining factor of the Vision Pro is its controller-less design, instead leveraging tracking technology to record inputs. The firm also believes controllers hold a place; “we believe that controllers give you a certain immersion,” Shen remarked. While HTC VIVE also offers user tracking for its XR headsets.

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Upload VR

MARCH 14, 2024

This lets you, for example, use Quest 3's IOBT for the upper body and real Vive Trackers for the lower body, giving you true 6DoF body tracking at the lowest possible cost. It also adds the ability to emulate Valve Index controllers using Quest's controller-free hand tracking, enabling finger tracking in SteamVR games which support it.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

While you can get the full specs and details right here , the overall summary is that the headset is an improvement over Quest 2 nearly across the board: Better lenses Better resolution Better processor Better audio Better passthrough Better controllers Better form-factor The improvements really add up.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

For example, while holding a physical prop, such as a welding torch, the hand tracking remains robust. Object tracking : Hyperion allows the Leap Motion Controller 2 camera to track AR Markers (also known as fiducial markers) enabling tracking of any object. I believe there will be many use cases for this.

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VRScout

MARCH 26, 2022

Controlled by a CDL certified operator, each Einride Pod features a cockpit-style workstation complete with three screens and a dashboard of controls to monitor the vehicle’s movements. All in real time with zero latency. Goliath is a powerful example of how VR can be used for good. MINIMUM MASS (VR).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Tracking And Controllers Varjo XR-4 in use (Image by Varjo) Varjo XR-4 can still work with SteamVR with a dedicated faceplate, but it will natively work with inside-out tracking. Finally, the headset will ship with its own controllers, so companies buying the headset will already have the full package to make it work from day 0.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 10, 2022

For example, some of the cloud services that we’ll look at are cloud storage solutions. We are now at the level that we are super happy with the latency and deployments.”. The solution allows IT specialists to “easily control and manage their entire RealWear device fleet from one easy-to-use interface.” Parents and Partners.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 16, 2020

They don’t make depth sensors, or controllers, or lenses either. However, almost all examples are in enterprise. So, while 5G has speed and I doubt it has the latency, what’s the power impact?” McIntyre uses the example of a digital doorbell and security camera that sends info to the cloud when it senses movement.

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Road to VR

JUNE 22, 2017

Korea-based TEGway is developing ThermoReal , a thermoelectric array which can generate heat and cold with impressively low latency. The flexible nature of ThermoReal could make it suitable for integration into VR controllers, gloves, and more. That’s thanks to three things: Latency.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

At first glance it might not be apparent, but Beat Saber is an excellent challenge for a VR controller tracking system. For example, if our math says you are behind your only basestation, clearly we made a mistake, because we wouldn’t be getting any signal from behind the basestation. than we thought.

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Road to VR

APRIL 6, 2021

On a more closed-off system like the Oculus Quest, the controllers are mounted on the gloves to make motion tracking possible. Still, like the first glove, I was able to feel the difference between, for example, a soft, squeezable ball and a battery made of glass. When I touched an object, I felt vibration.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 19, 2024

For example, when watching 24 FPS movies the screen will run at 96 Hz, showing each movie frame for three display frames. Hand Tracking Apple describes the hand tracking quality as "so precise, it completely frees up your hands from needing clumsy hardware controllers." hours (video) 1.5-2.5 5 GHz) 6E (2.4+5+6

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VRScout

MARCH 5, 2019

HaptX lets you control a robotic hand, and feel what the robot feels, anywhere in the globe. One partnership in particular has resulted in what the developers claim to be the first haptic telerobotic system that allows users to control a robotic arm remotely from anywhere in the world. “ The gloves control the robotic hand.

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ARVR

JULY 29, 2021

Enterprise AR: 7 real-world use cases for 2021 WebXR Device API Introduced in 2018, it is an API that implements the core of the WebXR feature set, manages the selection of output devices, renders the 3D scene on the chosen device at the appropriate frame rate, and handles the controller's input. Babylon.js

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Oculus may be be closing out 2016 with a bang with the launch of its Touch controllers, but HTC is going to kick off 2017 with something special: a peripheral that makes its Vive headset wireless. A preview version of the kit was shown off today at Alibaba’s “11/11” global shopping festival in Shenzhen, China.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

The company’s so-called ‘Portal Ridge’ system streams SteamVR content to a smartphone-based headset over WiFi while using the Vive Tracker and controllers for tracking of the headset and input. VRidge is one example that does just that. Photo by Road to VR.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Hand-tracking, controllers. For example, there was a robot arm that calibrated the display, and pre-production units were assembled by hand. The passthrough had a bit of latency but was low enough for me to comfortably walk around while looking at the passthrough footage. Controllers. Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax), Bluetooth 5.0.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2024

For instance, one classical example of our future in MR is having a virtual assistant that provides you with suggestions related to what you are doing. Another example could be an educational experience that trains the user in doing something (e.g. operating a machine) and verifies that the user is doing those actions correctly.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 10, 2022

They offer superior visuals and performance but are somewhat expensive, and can include the Oculus Rift or Quest , the Vive , and the PlayStation VR, to name a few notable examples. Google Cardboard and Gear VR are two well-known examples. AR applications need at least 100 Mbps and latency of no more than 1 millisecond.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 8, 2018

While it’s not mixed reality capture (example video at the bottom of the article), giving someone a window into a VR game that they can control helps address the same fundamental task of dissolving barriers between the prospective user and the VR content.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 6, 2021

For example, the firefighters at Marcus Hook Fire Department, which protects the borough of Marcus Hook near Philadelphia, use the X2 MR Glasses with an attachable FLIR (forward-looking infrared) thermal sensor to stay safe, remain hands-free, and keep focused during their mission-critical tasks. The full list of specs can be found here.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

For example, GigXR provides digital modules and content for medical students with digital twins of human anatomy. Remote workers can conduct full audits, inspections, and quality control checks at facilities with real-time AR guidance. This can provide better training, collaboration, and engagement for learners. Moth+Flame.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 5, 2021

While there’s a handful of hand-tracking games available on the headset, the entire Quest menu, including the Oculus browser, can be controlled completely by your hands. This is really handy when you want to do something in the headset that doesn’t really need the precision of controllers (like watching videos).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2020

Developers have not had great examples yet of how to make visually polished, reliable applications. We’ll continue to provide examples, documentation, and tutorials that will help developers to deliver native-quality applications in WebXR. Graphical quality is simple, the applications are still a bit buggy.

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VRScout

JANUARY 26, 2021

If, for example, you were to pick up a digital orange in VR using your fingertips, only your fingertips would receive that tactile feedback. HaptX also employs the use of magnetic motion tracking, a proprietary motion capture system featuring sub-millimeter precision, 30 DoF (degrees of freedom) per hand, and no latency or occlusion.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 6, 2022

What’s the latency from our camera to their back end? It’s RTMP push streaming and they will do some effects and some encoding and then the total latency will be about 20 seconds or 30 seconds for the end user. Nikk: From our system, we go with just 2-second latency to their back end. Nikk: Live. Wilson: Yes.

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2016

Google’s newly announced Daydream VR platform , an initiative that’s poised to bring low latency VR to a number of select Android smartphones later this fall, wasn’t exactly what the Internet was expecting when it heard about Google wanting to make its own VR headset. Watch Google I/O 2016 Livestream.

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Upload VR

MAY 11, 2023

In September, Meta AI researchers showed off a neural network trained with reinforcement learning called QuestSim that estimates a plausible full body pose with just the tracking data from Quest 2 and its controllers. But QuestSim's latency was 160ms – more than 11 frames at 72Hz.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In-the-Field 360-Degree Awareness Industrial metaverse innovations will also bring greater levels of control and monitoring of physical assets during operations, offering more ways to remove responders from harm’s way whenever possible while they do their jobs.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Firms such as Magic Leap, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Varjo, Matterport, and Siemens have debuted solutions for remote collaboration and built virtual control centres for smart factories. Most companies exploring holographic content use them with augmented and mixed reality (AR/MR). Current Use Cases for Holographic Content.

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ARVR

JANUARY 25, 2021

Hand-Held Controllers Will Dominate When we think about virtual reality , the first that usually comes to mind is the headset, but you can expect the handheld controllers to play a key role over the next five years. For example, suppose pilots are training to fly the plane. Trending AR VR Articles: 1.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2019

For example, Entermission provides VR escape games with special effects such as scent, wind and temperature. Image Credit: TripAdvisor, Zero Latency Madrid. Zero Latency was the first to provide such experience. You can drive a racing car, fly, control a robot or a spaceship. They don’t hold any controllers.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Haptics be used to assist in the creation of virtual objects in a computer simulation, to control such virtual objects, and to enhance the remote control of machines and devices (telerobotics). Latency? —?The In the real world, there is virtually no latency. Hit-testing ?—?used Runtime ?—?when Scaling? —?When

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Called Nolo CV1 Air, the kit is comprised of a sensor bar which attaches to the top of Huawei’s glasses, an additional sensor which is placed in front of the user (on a shelf for example) and two wireless controllers. From initial inspection, VRFocus found that it worked fluidly enough, even on faster-paced sections.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

David of Upload says that thanks to its big boost in specifications , PS5 can offer an amazing flat screen experience : better resolution, better framerate, better graphics, better load times, better controller. Talking about original games, Finger Gun is another cool example. Other relevant news. Image by Microsoft).

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