XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Over the years, technology has become smaller, lighter, more comfortable, and with faster processing, breathing life into the virtual world. Also, unlike augmented reality (AR), which people can access via smartphones and smart glasses, VR relies on larger headsets and controllers to interact with fully-immersive virtual worlds.

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2018

Oculus Half Dome Prototype. Prior to launch the first consumer Rift headset, Oculus had a long history of showing prototypes and development kits. Following the launch of the Rift, Oculus kept their R&D efforts on future PC headsets mostly secretive. Image courtesy Facebook. Image courtesy Facebook. . Valve Knuckles.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In 2012, the first Oculus Rift emerged, triggering a burst of excitement followed by relative silence from consumers. Virtual Reality Guides: Case Studies. These experiences connect people to simulated virtual worlds, visualised data, and collaborative platforms to connect with others. Enhanced Headsets.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

After announcing $3 million in seed funding from investors including The Venture Reality Fund and Oculus founder Nate Mitchell, AstroBeam says its focus will be on creating "more comfortable, more accessible, and more human ways to hangout and have fun with friends in VR." I believe a big part of this starts with input.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Image leaked from Oculus runtime). The design of Oculus Quest 2 Pro and controllers has been leaked. The images show that the headset and the controllers follow exactly the same specifications suggested by the rumors of some weeks ago. Positional Tracking : SteamVR 2.0/1.0 Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

3 hours in active use Controllers : Two AA batteries, which last about 80 hours in active use Connectivity : Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.1, Controllers. Pico 4 Controller (Image by Pico). I was the first one to tease the controllers of Pico 4, and they are exactly how I described them in my dedicated post. Computational power.

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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. It doesn’t have controllers (you just use your hands), but you can buy external controllers by Finch to use with it. Other relevant news.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2021

The goal is to allow eye-contact between the headset wearer and others in an effort to make it less awkward while wearing a headset and communicating with someone in the same room. What the observers see isn’t a real image of the user’s eyes however. Image courtesy DigiLens.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 29, 2024

Meta to Drive AI-Powered XR Devices The upcoming AI features come as Meta seemingly sets its last hurrah for the previous Oculus branding, with all future sails featuring Meta. This month, Meta will remove all Oculus accounts and related data by the end of the month. Meta will enforce these changes today, on March 29th.

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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. Magic Leap 2 has inside-out tracked controllers. During a presentation, Magic Leap has unveiled some more features about its headset and controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

But before talking about it, let me invite you once more to visit the Venice VR Expanded virtual worlds that we did in VRChat for the Venice Film Festival. Rumors hint to Oculus discontinuing the current Quest and selling the new one at $299 and $399. Walmart seems to have leaked the price of the upcoming Oculus Quest S.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

Image by Oculus). Facebook is working on a new version of the Oculus Quest. According to a report by Bloomberg, Oculus is working on a new Oculus Quest model, and it has already done prototypes that are lighter and more powerful than the current device. Or eye tracking?). Top news of the week.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 10, 2022

The system creates everything in the user’s environment, which may be exhibited inside a blank room via head-mounted displays (HMDs) or other equipment that helps users feel they are physically inside the virtual world. Users may utilize visual, sound, and haptic (touch) stimuli to create an immersive manufactured world.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 17, 2017

Coatsink has previously worked under the Oculus Studios banner with its two Esper games, which released first on Gear VR before coming over to the Oculus Rift. Currently the only prominent new VR hardware on the horizon we can think of is Vive’s new tracker , which can be stuck to objects to bring them into the virtual world.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 31, 2023

Over the last year, VR headsets are gaining reaction thanks to many technological innovations, such as hand-tracking, eye-tracking, and wireless streaming, which benefit business and consumer end-users. MR-integrated immersive wearables allow a user to combine their surrounding real and virtual worlds.

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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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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

This year we saw the launch of: Oculus Go ; Lenovo Mirage Solo ; Vive Focus ; Pico Neo / G2 ; S hadow VR; and the announcement of the Oculus Quest. Oculus has been the king of standalones , because it is selling devices at very low prices that offer great content. Oculus Quest and controllers inside a stand.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2022

First of all, finally, also PSVR 2 gets passthrough vision, and the possibility of setting your play area from within the headset by drawing the play space with your controllers, like in all other devices. Pico 4 Controllers have been leaked. We don’t have images of the headset, but most probably it will be sleek as the controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2019

Maybe with eye tracking and some more screen resolution, it may have been. There is also an eye-relief knob Tracking : outside in ( Steam VR 2.0 ) Connection : 1x USB 3.0, GHz Wireless Battery life : 7+ hours; Charging : 900mA fast charging, 1100mAh capacity Li-Ion polymer battery Tracking : outside in ( Steam VR 2.0 ).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

The Reverb was already a very good headset (as you can read in my hands-on impressions ) with good comfort and an astonishing resolution, but it had some problems with the display (mura, red smearing) and with the controllers (classical mediocre WMR tracking). Oculus Link 2 could be tetherless. pounds (0.55kg) Cable Length: 19.5

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VRScout

JULY 2, 2019

Beach Body Bros – While showcasing Oculus Medium as a production-ready sculpting tool, Beach Body Bros takes you on a ridiculous musical journey through a world of pure muscle, intense strength, and stupid greatness. The audiences can feel different emotions through exploring through the world of tweets.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 29, 2018

The * just made my head hurt, and I found the controllers too small (I have large hands), but the * fitted great and the controllers were way more comfortable. These are all real responses on a virtual reality forum after posters have asked: “Which headset is best?”

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

It is the first event of this kind organized by Magic Leap: we can say that LEAP Con is like the Oculus Connect of Magic Leap and will probably become always more important, year after year, exactly as it has happened to Oculus. Some of the most notable points are: 2 Controllers support. pic.twitter.com/MbJZV8aOdf. MagicScript.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

References found in the Oculus Quest 2 firmware by users Reggy04 and Basti564 highlight how the Quest 2 Pro should have: Eyes tracking Facial expressions tracking Eye relief knob Granular IPD adjustment External charging station. Top news of the week. Image by Facebook). Watch a Quest 2 getting watercooled.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Body tracking leaked from Quest SDK documentation. A leaked image from the Oculus team shows that the company is working to implement body tracking inside the Oculus Unity SDK. We are not supporting eye tracking or biometrics for this closed beta. Virtual worlds then and now Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2023

At CES, Shiftall brought also the concept of innovative controllers called FlipVR. Then, with another fast hand flip, you can regain control of the buttons to keep playing. Transformable/adjustable @shiftall_global VR controller at CES 2023, no problem grabbing a drink or switching between controller input and finger tracking!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

A lot of startups have started working on the so-called “ARCloud”, that is a persistent and shared virtual world that is coherent with the real one. This means that it is possible to create AR experiences that are persistent in whatever place of the world and that are shared among all people of the world.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

The new VR headset enhances everything from resolution and field of view to tracking and input ; It will connect to PS5 with a single cord to simplify setup and improve ease-of-use while enabling a high-fidelity visual experience; It will feature controllers carefully studied for VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

Glasses : Weight : 88g Connectivity : USB-C compatible Optics : Combined Lightguide FOV : 52° Maximum resolution: 1080p Environmental Understanding : SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping), 6DoF tracking, Plane detection, Image tracking Cameras : two tracking cameras + one RGB. On top of it, you can see the controller.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

More info (Oppo AR glasses) More info (Oppo’s hands tracking) More info (Description and hands-on Oppo glasses) More info (Godview 5K) More info (Amazon Echo Frames) More info (JVC XR glasses) More info (JVC XR glasses showcased with stock photos). Oculus Link gets updated to 90Hz. Other relevant news. Image by Facebook).

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

PSVR 1 required an array of cables connected to a breakout box and a PlayStation Camera, while PSVR 2 connects via a single USB-C cable and has onboard cameras for inside-out tracking. Positional Tracking Camera Bar Required Built-In Inside-Out Passthrough ? Black & White Eye Tracking ? Controller Thumbsticks ?

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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. Let me quote Upload VR: The executives say the average number of Oculus friends per account was 0.5 Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 31, 2022

The headset won’t come in two sizes, but in a single one, because the eye box of the lenses is big enough to accommodate for different positions of the eyes in the users. To be exact, the eye box is twice as large as the one in Magic Leap One. Meta abandons the Oculus name on Twitter. Upload VR). Learn more. Some XR fun.

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Road to VR

MARCH 24, 2017

Today’s most immersive virtual reality systems, like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, rely on a bothersome tether to send power and high fidelity imagery to the headset at low latency. Ridding our headsets of the cable would mean deeper immersion and physical freedom within the virtual world.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

When you want a more all-encompassing experience, you can simply switch the headset to VR mode and you’re instantly in a massively multiplayer virtual world. SEE ALSO Oculus Chief Scientist Dives Deep Into the Near Future of AR & VR. The headset has an eye-tracking based UI that sometimes feels like magic.

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VRScout

MARCH 6, 2017

First Windows mixed reality dev headset ships, dive into the virtual world via Xbox, high-end VR gets more affordable, Rogue One used VR to direct scenes, the investment & funding wrapup, and much more… FIRST WINDOWS MIXED REALITY HEADSET SHIPS LATER THIS MONTH. VALVE’S R&D IN EYE-TRACKING TO INCREASE.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

HoloLens 2 is an amazing device, with a decent FOV, eye tracking, and hands tracking, that for sure will make many companies happy. If you like shooter games and you like Half-Life, this is the game to keep an eye on, until Valve actually announces its long-awaited flagship game. Oculus Link is coming soon.

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