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MAY 2, 2018

All of the Windows VR headsets use a pair of cameras on the front of the headset for positional head tracking, and generally that’s considered top notch. The same cameras are also used to look for glowing LEDs on the Windows VR motion controllers to determine their position.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Oculus Quest was the main attraction at Oculus Connect 5 this week. Following the high-end standalone headset’s reveal, attendees of the conference got to try several demos to experience the headset’s inside-out positional head & hand tracking, including in an ‘arena-scale’ setting.

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JULY 9, 2021

While the app doesn’t add core VR functionality like hand-tracking, for many games it adds head-tracking, stereoscopy, and other tweaks that make non-VR games playable inside the headset. It supports all Oculus, SteamVR, and WMR headsets.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Oculus dropped prices on several VR titles on their store for Thanksgiving with those prices likely to persist through the weekend until Cyber Monday. Particularly effective with a steering wheel controller, this game is both punishing and rewarding. Here’s what’s on offer. SEE ALSO 'DiRT Rally' VR Review.

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APRIL 22, 2020

Oculus Rift powered the virtual experience. High-resolution imagery and low-latency head-tracking brought people into a virtual environment. Additionally, a leap motion 3D controller enabled them to interact with it. They called it New World Banking. Source: Widiba.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2016

In readiness for the imminent launch of Oculus’ ‘Touch’ motion controllers, the company have rolled out the new ‘Guardian’ feature, their version of SteamVR’s Chaperone VR boundary system for room-scale VR. SEE ALSO Oculus Touch Will Support 360 and Room-scale Tracking With Extra Cameras.

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OCTOBER 10, 2016

UK-based Fierce Kaiju was one of the first developers to support Gear VR when it launched as an Innovator’s Edition back in 2014, and it’ll be one of the first to support Oculus Touch too. The studio today announced that it’s revamping it’s original game, Viral , for the position-tracked controllers.

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

The exhilarating gameplay, heart-pumping action, and tight controls convinced me that Landfall is a game I didn’t know I wanted in VR. Force Field, an AR and VR company restructured from Vanguard Games, is the team behind Landfall and we had the chance to go hands-on with it at this year’s Oculus Connect conference.

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JUNE 25, 2016

The latest release of Dolphin VR, an impressive Nintendo Gamecube emulator that ads VR functionality to games, adds support for Oculus’ consumer headset the CV1 so now you can play Metroid Prime in VR, with head tracking and have it look better than ever. of Dolphin VR has now been released and it adds Oculus SDK 1.3

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NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Oculus Quest 2. The Oculus Quest 2 standalone virtual reality headset is the best in all categories given its room-scale VR capability, a large library of games, fast performance, and good resolution, especially for its price point. Tracking: Inside-out tracking and hand tracking. Controllers: Move controllers.

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MARCH 26, 2019

Now, the company has officially announced pricing and availability for the headset and controller bundle. ” How many of those have been built specifically for 6DOF controllers, we’re not sure at this time; all Vive Focus games are said to work on Vive Focus Plus. Head Tracking : Optical inside-Out. a/b/g/n/ac.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2017

However, despite the clever approximations of avatar mouth movement and hand gestures captured with Oculus Touch motion controllers, the dead eyes of the participants digital doppelgangers left something to be desired.

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JUNE 13, 2016

We ported the support from DX9 into our new DX11 engine which was a large rewrite, but we also had to rewrite other large portions of it to work with the latest Oculus SDK. The sense of scale is immediate, due to the seamless head tracking and excellent stereoscopic 3D. See Also: Top 5 Racing Sims for the Oculus Rift.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2016

The levels move between straight up rail shooting targeting sequences and flying and shooting bits with more control. Space Stalker doesn’t require a control pad, but does support and recommend one. Oddly, I enjoyed just using my head to fly around and aim, tapping the side touch panel to unleash righteous fury on evil space trash.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2016

The annual presentation at Oculus Connect by Michael Abrash, Chief Scientist at Oculus, is always a highlight of the company’s annual developer event, projecting a forward-thinking and ever inspirational look at the future of virtual reality.

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MAY 10, 2017

The footage shows people playing on an HTC Vive, but it seems reasonable to assume support for the Oculus Rift and Touch will be included as well. From the gameplay footage shown above, it’s clear this isn’t just a head tracking port but is instead fully articulated VR game.

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MAY 12, 2017

Bednarski demonstrates both dodging and turning using motion controller inputs. This footage shows how the work of two motion controllers can be operated with just one, by simulating a virtual second controller that can be synchronised with head tracking.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Running on an Oculus Rift headset with Touch control support, Metroid Prime VR includes many of the features that made the original so unique, including lock-on missile targeting, multiple visor options (scan and x-ray), even the one-and-only “charge beam.” Image Credit: Yonic Studios.

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OCTOBER 12, 2017

Today at Oculus Connect 4, the company’s annual developer conference, Oculus revealed the Project Santa Cruz ‘Prototype 2’ standalone VR headset, including 6DOF motion controllers. Image courtesy Oculus. Controllers. Hardware Changes From P1 to P2. Form Factor.

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JUNE 23, 2016

Action-packed tower defence game hits the Oculus Rift. Now the game is available on the Oculus Store priced £22.99, and it’s definitely worth checking out, with 15 island-based levels to defend, more than 50 weapon upgrades and dozens of ways to shoot, blast and destroy alien kittens as they horde towards your base.

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MAY 22, 2017

The VR experience is enhanced by Positron’s Voyager platform, featuring guided 360-degree motion control, head-tracked 3D audio and haptic integration—allowing you to experience the world of The Mummy in an entirely new way.

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JUNE 28, 2016

Google Cardboard powered stereoscopic rendering and head tracking for mobile VR. oculus rift. You can choose to control your spaceship using either a virtual joystick or Google Cardboard. Mission: destroy all space fighters. 3 D VIRTUAL REALITY Space FPS games. 3D VR Space FPS games Cardboard. 3 d cinema.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The platform can support up to 7 seven cameras, two internal, one for each eye for eye-tracking and four external cameras, two RGB cameras for MR experiences and two for head tracking. As Oculus Quest has proven customers want easy to use, wireless devices and 5G is expected to take that to the next stage.

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JUNE 2, 2016

Usens is one of the early developers of hand and head tracking tech; according to the announcement from the company this investment will help launch new and improved non-controller hand and head tracking tools. Tracking is critical to ARVR experiences,” said Anli He, CEO and co-founder of uSens. “As

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MAY 10, 2017

The virtual reality coaster also used Oculus-powered Gear VR headsets which were synced to the action of the coaster. Riders must then use the Gear VR trackpad to shoot down incoming drones controlled with low-latency head tracking. Once the clock strikes zero, you’re transported into space via full virtual reality.

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DECEMBER 21, 2016

Mojang’s Minecraft has evolved in a lot of different ways over the last five years, but adding support for the Oculus Touch controllers should have been its most dramatic departure from the original survival formula yet. Instead, the Touch controllers really just work as pointers. Sadly, that’s not quite the case.

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JUNE 20, 2017

Using the Oculus Touch controllers you move your character through the world by tilting the analog stick on the left Touch controller to traverse the environment one square at a time. Or how about a big sparkling pink ice spike that you can control in the air by waving your hand like a magical conductor?

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AUGUST 30, 2017

As for resolution, the company maintains the screen door effect (SDE) is diminished with the headset’s dual 1440×1600@90 Hz LCD displays, a 70 percent increase in pixels over consumer devices like Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Front IR window for optional embedded Leap Motion controller. Ergonomic and adjustable head strap.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2017

With the HTC Vive, you set up lighthouse base stations in opposite corners of your play space and the system tracks your movement in 3D space around your entire room. With the Oculus Rift, you can accomplish something very similar with extra sensors and the Oculus Touch motion controllers. Iteration and Innovation .

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

I guess that you already know this, but I’ll repeat it the same: the Magic Leap One system is composed of three parts : The actual headset, the Lightwear; The computational unit, the Lightpack; The 6 DOF controller, the Control. From left to right: the Lightpack, the Lightwear and the Control (Image by Magic Leap).

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OCTOBER 21, 2016

Using the Gear VR’s head tracking, you can move your head around inside the cockpit and there is a variety of choices for controlling your ship. Remarkably, a controller isn’t even required, as you can play with just the touchpad if you like, but a bluetooth gamepad will open up many more possibilities.

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OCTOBER 26, 2016

” Head tracking is an essential part of all mixed reality technology, both VR and AR, and the so-called inside-out variety in a VR headset makes set up dramatically easier. The Santa Cruz inside-out tracking prototype from Oculus. An example of the Windows Holographic user interface.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Control it with your Mouse and Keyboard. VLC will probably support VR headsets like Vive, Daydream, Oculus or OSVR, in 2017. VLC will also get 3D audio playback, including head tracking headphones. The full list of features for the new platform includes: Playback of 360 Videos following the Spatial Video spec.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

There was no head tracking, motion controllers, or even games that wouldn’t have played equally as well on a standard Gameboy. ” Granted, the technology has changed a great deal since 2014, the same year Oculus Rift DK2 came out.

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MAY 19, 2016

Epic Games have been a constant in VR technology adoption since the Oculus Rift Kickstarter, with the company’s Unreal Engine 4 consistently one of the first to deliver integration for a myriad virtual reality technologies. This video is also the most that has been seen publicly of the Daydream controller in action.

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MAY 18, 2017

I covered both the outward facing cameras and Google’s tracking technology continued to track my head movements in every direction accurately for about one second. Then it reverted to the kind of 3DOF head tracking seen with current Daydream and Gear VR headsets.

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JUNE 6, 2016

Edge of Nowhere is a third-person VR survival horror game recently released for the Oculus Rift that places you in 1932 in the boots of Victor, a biologist and adventurer attempting to track down his lost fiance Eva. Publisher: Oculus Studios. Available On: Oculus Home (Rift). Reviewed On: Oculus Rift.

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