Upload VR

MARCH 20, 2024

While Apple Vision Pro validated much of what Meta (formerly Facebook) did in VR over the last decade, the headset also echoes work under Google's umbrella at Job Simulator development studio Owlchemy Labs. Owlchemy Labs has a prominent history when it comes to hand-tracking controls. So yeah, it felt like a huge vindication."

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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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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 24, 2016

After announcing Daydream earlier this year, Google’s platform for high-end virtual reality on Android, the company has now says the Daydream VR SDK has reached version 1.0 Building upon the prior Cardboard SDK, Google has now combined both Cardboard and Daydream development into the Google VR SDK.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Today it’s a great day for virtual reality: at WCVRI conference, HTC has just announced a kit to provide 6 DOF controllers for Vive Focus and has showcased a hands-tracking technology for the Vive Pro ! 6 DOF Controllers for Vive Focus. In short: the Vive Focus will finally have two 6 DOF controllers.

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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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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2022

According to the company, the added latency for wireless communication is just 3ms. Google launches “Immersive Stream for AR”. Google has launched a new cloud service based on Stadia technology: dubbed “Immersive Stream for AR”, it lets you perform cloud rendering for augmented reality applications for mobile phones. Other news.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

This is a period with many tech announcements: we had Meta telling about its Horizon OS, yesterday OpenAI unveiled the new GPT-4o, and today Google will hopefully unveil its Android XR operating system. What a time to be alive! For example, while holding a physical prop, such as a welding torch, the hand tracking remains robust.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Those are a lot of buttons on those magnetically attached controllers. Pimax is boasting a ton of features with Portal, including analogue triggers, mappable buttons, “low latency” input lag, standard compatibility with Android, native HDMI compatibility for wired SteamVR gameplay, Bluetooth 5.1, Image courtesy Pimax.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 10, 2022

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.” For example, Magic Leap has had a partnership with Google Cloud for the past year now. Parents and Partners.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Tis the season of 5G, the next-gen mobile data technology which promises to boost bandwidth and reduce latency. You can Google “5G” along with any other hot technology in the same query and you can find someone telling you that somehow and at some point 5G is going to revolutionize that thing. What Does 5G Mean For You.

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ARPost

JULY 23, 2019

However, it comes with additional resources including a controller and a proprietary computing pack. See Also: Developing AR Apps with Google's ARCore. Algorithms also allow for smooth rendering with minimal latency. While the full SDK will come with a 3DoF controller, the beta works with a mobile phone as a controller.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 24, 2017

According to the company, the seed investment comes from the Europe-based IIDF venture capital fund and will be used to accelerate the release of its “anti-latency tracker” which goes by the name ALT. The company is also planning motion controller support using the same technology. The startup company was founded in 2015.

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Anand Tech

MARCH 21, 2024

Formed in the summer of 2023, the UEC aims to develop a new standard for interconnection for AI and HPC datacenter needs, serving as a de-facto (if not de-jure ) alternative to InfiniBand, which is largely under the control of NVIDIA these days.

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Road to VR

MARCH 4, 2019

Nvidia has GeForce Now, Sony has PlayStation Now, and both Google & Microsoft have their own future cloud gaming projects in the work too. and Intel, was delivering a total latency between 4 – 6 ms through their mock-up 5G network. Cloud gaming isn’t a new concept, at least in the world of traditional flatscreen games.

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Road to VR

MAY 31, 2017

HTC Link headset with controllers and sensor | Photo courtesy HTC. The Neon system uses visible-light optical tracking markers on the headset and on each controller which are seen as glowing orbs; the orbs are detected by a small external stereo camera. Although it’s an outside-in solution, it has one huge advantage: controllers.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 18, 2017

Before my demo at Google I/O, Google’s head of VR Clay Bavor outlined a series of caveats and expectations for what I was about to experience. The demo, according to Google, would reset after each journalist so the hardware would see the room fresh each time after each person donned the headset. WorldSense. Bottom Line.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 13, 2016

When the first consumer version of the Oculus Rift was launched in the spring, it was disappointingly bundled with a Microsoft Xbox controller – and we’ve eagerly been awaiting the native Touch Controllers. The Touch controllers feel like little magical half-doughnuts and are smooth and intuitive. in funding (with a $4.4B

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VRWorld

JANUARY 24, 2018

If the idea of cardboard-based peripherals sounds familiar to you at all, that’s probably because of Google Cardboard popularizing the concept since 2014. For most people using the Joy-Cons on the Nintendo Switch, they serve little purpose besides being pop-on, pop-off controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2022

It is a bit like GIT (or Google Doc, if you find it easier to imagine), but for artists and designers. Because there are people in the communities that think that it is (and will be) impossible that wherever we are, there is always a server close-enough to do the rendering with minimal latency. Video courtesy NVIDIA).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 6, 2017

I was using Google’s Tilt Brush and rapidly moving from one side of the tracked area to the other, twisting my body to test the latency and whirling the motion controllers around my head. Cutting the cord on your VR headset just isn’t worth it when it comes at the cost of added latency that’s noticeable.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

One of the leading platforms for software development added improved support for Google’s upcoming Daydream VR platform. The new Google VR SDK 1.0 We have also made it easy to switch in and out of VR mode so that your applications can easily expand to the Google VR audience.”

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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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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Image by Google). Meta and Google announce layoffs. This week we had the announcement of both Meta and Google laying off people. On a separate note, the Quest 2 has just been updated to Runtime v44, which brings additional parental control tools, plus finally many customization options to record videos on the device.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Anyone that has used mobile VR knows that controllers are nice, but unless you can ‘see’ your hands and interact with your surroundings with your hands, the immersion is lost. I do not hold any equity positions with any companies cited in this column.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 11, 2017

The system tracks three LED lights, two of which are fitted to the end of remote-like controllers with back triggers, circle pads, and grip, menu, and home buttons. They look a little like someone took the PlayStation Move’s light and fitted it to Google’s Daydream controller along with some added buttons from the Vive wands.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

On the server-side, it is being integrated with Microsoft Azure, and it is also coming in the future for Google Cloud and Tencent Cloud. 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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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2016

The VR spotlight might be on Oculus right now after last week’s developer conference, but we haven’t forgotten about Google’s Daydream ecosystem. You may have already seen a snippet of our chat with VP of VR Clay Bavor from last week’s Made By Google event, but he had plenty more to share during our in-depth interview.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Google Poly ?—?a 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

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The Gear VR and the upcoming Google Daydream are the primary devices in that market, carrying a price between $79-$99. As far as specs, the gadget works with Xiaomi smartphones and is said to include a motion sensor, 16ms latency time (which should alleviate VR sickness), and a motion controller.

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ARVR

JULY 29, 2021

On the other hand, developers only have to write the code once and it will work on all devices (Oculus, Vive, HTC, Google Cardboard, etc.) Latency, which refers to the delay in communications between a user’s movement and what they see, has to be as low as possible, to create the illusion of reality. Trending AR VR Articles: 1.How

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Watts was joined by Pearly Chen, Vice-President of HTC VIVE , Brian Vogelsang, Senior Director of Product Management for Qualcomm Technologies , and Maria Pace, Head of XR Hardware, Global Partnerships and Strategies for Google. Maria Pace, Head of XR Hardware, Global Partnerships and Strategies for Google. ” Comfort is Key.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 1, 2022

According to Radoff , spatial computing enables users to control and explore 3D places and digitize items utilizing the cloud as well as surrounding physical worlds using spatial mapping, which visualizes data linked to physical spaces in user environments. The infrastructure layer. Closing thoughts.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash of 1992, the internet has been superseded by the Metaverse, a multi-person shared virtual reality with both human-controlled avatars and system “daemons”. Both Azure Spatial Anchors and Google Cloud Anchors are leveraging existing strengths in mapping towards the AR Cloud.

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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. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. 9 Must Have Skills To Become An AR/VR Developer (With Course Recommendations) 2.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

If Microsoft commits to building this platform and doesn’t abandon it (a la Google), it can become an incredible tool for us developers. Google stops selling Cardboard viewers. Google had already abandoned the Daydream and Cardboard platforms, leaving the source code for Cardboard to the community to maintain. Some XR fun.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2021

Here you are the original footage of our friendly chat that went out on Google Meet, with many interesting insights on what is the AR Cloud and what are its advantages: I’m not very lucid in this interview, but the answers of Julia and Vladimir are very interesting the same! You have not any kind of control on this process.

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