The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2018

When I wrote my post about CES 2018 , I briefly talked about a headset called LooxidVR, able to “read the emotions” of the user by employing a combination of EEG sensors and eye tracking. LooxidVR enables them to collect the user’s eye and brain data simultaneously during a VR experience. What is Looxid Labs?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Apart from the splendid Cathedral and the tasty Trdelnik, Prague also features an interesting Virtual Reality startup: VRgineers. Having a tour inside VRgineers, that is a startup that is trying to develop almost all the main parts of its headset , made me understand how creating a Virtual Reality headset is incredibly difficult.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 30, 2022

For instance, hand and eye tracking solutions are quickly becoming a must-have part of every XR creation. If you’re keen to learn more about hand and eye tracking technology, attending the right events can be an excellent way to get started. Augmented Enterprise Summit. October 18-20, 2022, San Diego, California.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

FOVE has announced that their first eye-tracking VR headset, the FOVE 0, will open for pre-orders on November 2nd, and has also released the final specifications of the device. See Also: NVIDIA Says New Foveated Rendering Technique is More Efficient, Virtually Unnoticeable. Tracking: Head Tracking. Eye Tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2018

Mr. Mi highlighted his passion for using virtual reality to teach creativity to children and in fact, all four Lenqiy’s products are aimed at fostering creativity in children. There were lots of similarities of course, but I think that for the purpose it has been designed for, Space Draw is surely better.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Of course, it’s also more expensive. One downside is that the Quest 3 lacks the eye-tracking technology of the Quest Pro, so you can’t just control your software with a glance, and there’s no foveated rendering when you’re moving through mixed or virtual reality.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 10, 2022

They had no new hardware for me to review, but they let me have a test with a Neo 3 Pro Eye ( Pico Neo 3 with Tobii eye-tracking incorporated) and showed me a few demos while they explained to me me the importance of eye-tracking. With eye tracking, the avatar felt of course more natural.

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Road to VR

JUNE 23, 2016

The headset, which sets itself apart from others with a massive 210 degree field of view, is designed for high-end virtual reality experiences in the out-of-home market. Which of course leads to the question of what kind of input users will have when using the system. After my hands-on with the latest StarVR ‘1.4’

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 27, 2023

Demand for virtual reality is expanding at an incredible rate. Users are discovering that virtual reality isn’t just a powerful tool for entertainment. HP In recent years, the computer and software company HP has also begun branching out into the virtual reality landscape.

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Road to VR

MARCH 12, 2021

“[…] Quest 2 is I think going to be the first mainstream virtual reality product. “So we have product teams spun up now working on the next few generations of virtual reality and what Quest 3 and 4 are going to look like. Because, of course, in VR the screen isn’t just in one place.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Two days ago I was reading an interesting editorial about PSVR 2 by Scott Hayden, and my mind started wandering about the current moment of virtual reality, the stasis we live in, and our expectations for the upcoming headset. I hope to be wrong, of course and see Quest 3 selling 50 million units, but I highly doubt it.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 1, 2024

Demand for virtual reality is expanding at an incredible rate. Users are discovering that virtual reality isn’t just a powerful tool for entertainment. The Gear devices build on the capabilities of mobile virtual reality, allowing users to turn their existing smartphone devices into tools for immersion.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In a 5 November lauch date to the International Space Station (ISS), XRHealth’s immersive healthcare solution will set course for the stars with HTC VIVE and Nord-Space Aps. Some advancements in eye tracking, gait detection, face tracking, and others could allow the Apple Vision Pro to accurately detect a persons expression of emotions.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

But hey, let me play this game anyway, so here you are my predictions for virtual reality in 2021 based on the trends and the anticipations that we had at the end of 2020! Every year since when I entered VR, someone says that “this will be the year of VR” and then of course this never happens.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2018

We all know that China is a country that is betting big on Virtual Reality. 7invensun for eye tracking addons). It can also be an opportunity to get to know what each country should try obtaining in the next years for what concerns virtual reality. Me using Space Painter virtual reality experience by Lenqiy.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 7, 2019

But if we compare it with the other premium headsets on the market (like XTAL, StarVR or Varjo ), we notice that it lacks a very important feature: eye tracking. Foveated rendering in an experience produced by HTC together with NVIDIA for BMW on the Vive Pro Eye (Image by HTC Vive).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2023

If you want to start playing around with these tools, of course, you need a Mac , and if you are a Windows guy like me, you are SOL (S**t Out of Luck). Meta has even improved the accuracy of eye tracking on Quest Pro , and some people are speculating that it may be to battle the eye-tracking capabilities of the Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 31, 2020

Before telling you my impressions, let me tell you the specifications of this jewel: Display resolution: 1440×1600 per eye (standard screen) + 1920×1080 per eye (micro-display) Refresh-rate: 60/90Hz Field of view: 87° Tracking: SteamVR 2.0 Eye-tracking. Let’s start my impressions from the design.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

In the XR communities, the hype for the Qualcomm XR2 reference design is high, because it will bring many innovations to standalone XR headsets : better graphics, eye tracking, passthrough vision, AI, and much more. Of course, a device with eye tracking, passthrough vision, 5G, high resolution, etc… can’t cost $400.

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ARPost

APRIL 10, 2023

The partnership’s goal is the development of “neos ” – a proposed device that would use eye-tracking technology for earlier diagnosis of brain disorders. Of course, Varjo is also excited to be a part of the important work which could have far-reaching benefits in the brain health world. “VR-based

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Pimax, the Chinese startup building wide field of view (FOV) virtual reality headsets, has secured $20 million in Series B financing. Shortly after completing its successful Kickstarter campaign in late 2017, which garnered the company $4.2 million Series A to further its reach. .”

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

So, here you are how I envision this 2020 in virtual reality! (I’ll PlayStation VR selling more than 5 million units until now has proven that console players like virtual reality. Too many people still don’t understand the potential of virtual reality. Me wearing the Oculus Quest. The reasons?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2024

This Face Tracking add-on magnetically attaches to the facial interface of the device, and it adds to it both eye tracking and face tracking. It features two 120Hz eye-tracking cameras and one 60Hz lower face-tracking camera. You can see them on its Instagram account which I link to you here below.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 20, 2022

On the sensors side, there are 2 sensors for eye tracking and an additional sensor for face tracking. These sensors can be used to track what the user is doing, for instance, to provide better training. Eye tracking sensor on a Pico 4 Enterprise devkit. Face tracking sensor on a Pico 4 Enterprise devkit.

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Upload VR

JUNE 5, 2023

Its plethora of cameras and sensors are said to enable high resolution color passthrough for AR, hand tracking, eye tracking, face tracking, environment meshing, and potentially even body tracking. Some even suggest it will have a screen on the front showing the wearer's eyes.

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ARPost

JANUARY 16, 2020

There’s also the Pico Neo 2 Eye, which is the same as the standard Neo 2 but with eye-tracking technology. So, other than eye-tracking, what kind of features make the Neo 2 so impressive? Of course, no one can compare with Varjo’s reported human eye resolution. The VR headset is called the Pico Neo 2.

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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. Sam & Max: This Time It’s Virtual has been released on the Oculus Quest. Read this analysis of the various tracking systems.

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Voices of VR

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The $3500 baseline cost is of course a barrier for the general public, but like many other Pro devices, most people will be writing off the Apple Vision Pro as a business expense if they can functionally use it within the context of their business (which many XR developers are using it a developer kit).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2022

Today is a watershed moment for virtual reality : Pico has finally done what everyone in the XR community was waiting for with the launch of Pico Neo 3 Link , the first Quest 2 competitor. And today, at Laval Virtual, Pico has broken through the hesitation and has launched also the West its first consumer headset: the Pico Neo 3 Link.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 6, 2020

Mixing these two kinds of lenses and having the screen being not a traditional one, but a special laser-emitting screen , the result is the one of a virtual reality headset that is very thin, light, and comfortable. Of course, the reconstructed image is not exactly as the original one, but it is very similar. milliseconds!

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 15, 2019

Thanks to an accelerator program he attended in 2015, he got in contact with virtual reality and remained fascinated by it. Due to his background, he started thinking about performing analytics and market analysis in virtual reality. but of course, it is not enough. Analysis of emotions in VR.

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Road to VR

JULY 31, 2023

At $3,500, Vision Pro is undoubtedly an expensive steppingstone to the company’s future augmented reality ambitions, but even if it’s ostensibly ignoring virtual reality in the meantime, it probably won’t forever.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Valve Job Listing Confirms It’s Planning To Ship A New VR Headset Valve posted a job listing to “prototype, ship, and support” a VR headset with advanced tracking features: At Valve, we are pushing the boundaries of virtual reality (VR) experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

Of course for some ad-based tech companies, the current economic situation is not the only problem, but there is another big one which is Apple and its new privacy features embedded into iOS. This is of course the base technology needed for foveated rendering. PSVR 2 will have eye-tracking from Tobii and maybe a detachable cable.

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ARPost

MARCH 15, 2023

One of the big updates that Lattipally showed me was the ability of a VR user to open an Arthur browser window and screen share it with VR users creating an entirely virtual version of a hybrid meeting. Of course, that browser window can be used for other things as well. The solution was a little disorienting but entirely practical.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 9, 2024

Mixed reality (MR) has been the overlooked sibling in the extended reality landscape for a while now. While vendors have produced countless AR apps, smart glasses, and virtual reality headsets, mixed reality has only just begun stepping into the spotlight.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

It is weird that it is only one camera when mixed reality must be stereo. But maybe the system performs sensor fusion between all the three cameras to create a colored stereo passthrough Two 480p 120FPS eye-tracking cameras Two 400p 120FPS face-tracking cameras. If you want to become a VR developer, check them out!

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