Road to VR

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Hand-tracking on Quest rolled out as an experimental feature in late 2019, but Oculus is letting it gestate before it will accept third-party apps with hand-tracking. And while Oculus’ first stab at the feature is reasonably solid, there’s still limitations around accuracy, latency, pose detection, and tracking coverage.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

While similar to the Asynchronous Spacewarp tech available to Oculus PC apps, Meta says Application Spacewarp will produce even better results. It’s even harder if they want to use the 90Hz or 120Hz display modes (which make apps look smoother and reduce latency). Lower Latency Than Full Framerate.

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APRIL 3, 2019

Beyond being a great VR game, Beat Saber has inadvertently turned out to be an excellent benchmark of controller tracking performance, and thus a great test for the upcoming Oculus Quest standalone headset, the first from the company to feature inside-out tracking. Image courtesy Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2018

At Oculus Connect 5 , Oculus has announced Casting, an amazing feature that lets you stream the content of an Oculus Go to a smartphone. How to use Casting to stream Oculus Go content to your smartphone. Follow my guide on how to update your Oculus Go until you can select the “Cast” option).

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VRScout

AUGUST 31, 2020

compatible device, including most wireless headphones, gaming consoles, and—of course—VR headsets. For devices lacking Bluetooth support, each pair comes with a low latency cable compatible with most standard 3.5mm headphone jacks. .”

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Road to VR

JUNE 24, 2021

Of course, you’ll need an iOS device (iPhone or iPad), but also ideally a 5 GHz Wi-Fi connection. The team says it’s working on bringing it to the Oculus Store in the future, and also to Android by the end of the year. You’ll also need the LIV Connect Quest companion app, which is available for free on SideQuest.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Cloud compute specialists Scalable Graphics are to debut a new 1 pound wireless PC VR solution compatible with both Oculus Rift and HTC Vive VR headsets at next weeks CES convention in Las Vegas. The post KwikVR is an Oculus & Vive Compatible Wireless VR Solution to Debut at CES 2017 appeared first on Road to VR.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Oculus announced last month that Quest will soon be able to play Oculus games on PC via a new feature called Oculus Link. Though Oculus Link will immediately add big boost in value to existing Quest headsets, perhaps even more interesting is what this announcement tells us about next-gen Oculus headsets.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Oculus and HTC have already reduced the prices of their respective headsets, with the Oculus Rift now selling for $500 and HTC Vive for $600. While it only hosts “a few dozen” games, apps and a library of 360 videos at the moment, HTC says more content will be added over time, of course sourced from Viveport.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

If true, it would represent a significant change of course for the HoloLens product line. Samsung partnered with Oculus (now Meta) back in 2014 to build Gear VR, a snap-in VR smartphone holder that was a generational leap in terms of low-latency mobile VR.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Facebook and Rising Metaverse Technology Facebook acquired a virtual reality development company called Oculus, which included the Oculus Rift. If you’re wondering what the Oculus Rift is, it’s a solid step into VR gaming and its immersive nature. Since Meta now owns Oculus, it’s likely to grow beyond just a gaming platform.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

It is simple: imagine that you have little money and can’t afford to buy a full VR rig, but you can only afford to buy a Samsung Gear VR or an Oculus Go , for instance. You launch both apps, and they will connect through Wi-fi (the PC and the HMD should stay on the same Wi-Fi network of course). VRidge controller.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 21, 2019

Original image from Oculus). Oculus Rift and Gear VR have sold 10M units. At the beginning of the week, Jack McCauley, one of the founders of the Oculus startup, had claimed in an interview with CNBC that Facebook VR will never succeed. Of course, he was not only talking about Oculus but about VR in general.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The company’s chipset can be found in leading standalone headsets like Oculus Quest, Go, Vive Focus, HoloLens 2, Lenovo Mirage Solo, and plenty more. While XR1 was made for low-end devices, XR2 5G targets high-end standalone headsets, making it a candidate for Oculus Quest 2, Magic Leap 2, and similar next-gen devices.

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VRScout

JANUARY 26, 2021

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. Of course, HaptX wasn’t alone in this venture. Automakers design and test new vehicles with [the HaptX Gloves DK2].

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AUGUST 5, 2021

Since its launch in 2019 Oculus Quest has represented a major shift in Facebook’s VR strategy by moving away from the PC. 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. Oculus Link & Air Link.

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MARCH 7, 2022

Image courtesy Oculus. Image courtesy Oculus. Furthermore, decoupling controller tracking from the headset has the potential to reduce controller tracking latency. That is: cameras on the headset look for the controllers (typically arrayed with IR LEDs) and use their location to map their movement relative to the headset.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Regarding the photon-to-photon latency of the passthrough, Optofidelity confirmed with a test that it is below 12 ms, as Apple claims. In his article, he says that it is better than other headsets, but it still shows issues, like uneven white color across the display.

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Tech Trends VR

MARCH 31, 2019

In spite of all the investment from companies such as Oculus, the PSVR is the only hardware that has come even close to tapping that elusive jackpot of mass consumer adoption. Easier said than done… This isn’t your regular video streaming of course. Click To Tweet. The same seems to be the case with VR.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Here’s some backstory in case you missed all the hubbub about Pimax’s wide FOV headsets: The Pimax “8K” headset was the result of VR’s most successful Kickstarter campaign , beating out all others, including Oculus, with $4.23 Motion to Photon latency : <15ms. Content : SteamVR and Oculus Home. Output : USB 2.0/3.0,

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 12, 2020

Of course, it is aimed at the enterprise (and the military) market. Of course, he also talks about immersive realities. Oculus Link official cable now available worldwide (but Quest is still soldout). Good news for all the Quest fans: the official Oculus Link cable is now available worldwide in 22 countries.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2022

Its latest headset, the Pico Neo 3 , was a very good Oculus Quest 2 clone , that also brought some innovations, like the DP Cable to connect it to the PC for a true PCVR experience. And for these reasons, Pico has been bought by Bytedance in 2021 … a move that many compared to the acquisition of Oculus by Facebook.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

At the moment, XR Now is compatible with HoloLens 2, Oculus Quest 2, and Android 10 tablets. A test on Oculus Quest 2, where most commercial applications run well at 90Hz would have been more significant; We were in the Bay Area, one of the most advanced technological regions of the world. Final impressions.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 9, 2021

Facebook and HTC offer two standalone headsets ( Oculus Quest 2 and Vive Focus 3 ) that have the possibility of working as PCVR devices when connected with a PC via a USB-A to USB-C cable. All these problems are present of course also when you use the headset as a PCVR device, and hurt a bit your PCVR experience.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 14, 2022

But in reality, achieving this would require perfect eye tracking with zero latency, an absurdly high display refresh rate, and a high-quality reconstruction algorithm so you wouldn’t notice flickering & shimmering. Of course, what really matters is what we don’t know yet: how noticeable are each of these ETFR levels?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Rumors hint to Oculus discontinuing the current Quest and selling the new one at $299 and $399. The Facebook Connect is close and we all expect that during that conference Oculus is finally going to announce the new Oculus Quest. Facebook is temporarily suspending the sale of Oculus Quest devices in Germany.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

He stresses that he wants his metaverse not to be like these ones… but I also have to remember you that currently, Oculus is the most closed VR platform. Oculus Quest 2 goes 128GB and MR. The Oculus Quest 2’s update pace is always impressive: every month we have new features to play with. Image by Facebook).

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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. Oculus Santa Cruz. image courtesy Oculus. Oculus Santa Cruz.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

If you remember well, this platform is based on a modified version of the Snapdragon 865 (3 generations after the 835 of the Oculus Quest) and supports features like eye tracking, high-quality passthrough AR, and 5G. Oculus Connect is starting and a new Facebook AR/VR logo appears. Other relevant news. But let’s see in a few days….

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2018

I expected a lot of AR/VR news from there, like the announcement of the price of the Vive Pro or the release of the Oculus Go by Xiaomi and Facebook… but actually I’ve been disappointed by everyone. This new technology standard reduces a lot the latency of communication and increments a lot of its speed. It has a 5.8-inch

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The actions coming from the US are not much related to VR and Oculus, but mostly to the social space. This could also mean splitting the Facebook Reality Labs into a separate company (a new Oculus?), In Germany, instead, the legal action regards the mandatory Facebook login for Oculus Quest 2. Oculus Rift S now costs $300.

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Road to VR

JUNE 10, 2017

Given recent opinions shared by the founder of Oculus , that current generation virtual reality headsets would not see a successor until 2018 at least, it’s fallen to other technology leaders to push the state of VR hardware forward. ” Sounds impressive.

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OCTOBER 25, 2016

Faster, better Wi-Fi of course means great things for everything from gaming to streaming, but it could also be good news for VR. As we all know, VR requires minimal latency between player movement and the given experience to remain as comfortable and immersive as possible.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

I have to say that this “leak” comes in a very timely fashion , by chance exactly at the moment when Facebook was building the hype for Oculus Quest 2 Pro , convincing so some people to wait for Valve’s moves before buying the new Oculus headset. Facebook hires the first Oculus Ambassadors.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 28, 2023

Since the VPNs let you bypass the restrictions of the government, they are forbidden by law, and the government here says that you can use only “government-approved VPNs” So of course I invite you to use only the VPNs that are approved by the government and that follow the values of the Party. (I

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Road to VR

JANUARY 7, 2017

On top of that, the display boasts low power consumption, low heat dissipation, and a low refresh latency of 10 microseconds. Kopin’s optics seem to be using something similar to fresnel technology, which both the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift use. SEE ALSO eMagin Announces 2K×2K 'Flip Up' VR Headset, Demoing at AWE 2015.

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

The official Oculus Developers Twitter account announced the release with an illustration from the documentation showing a user’s full body pose being tracked. The system shown isn’t fully accurate though and has 160ms latency – more than 11 frames at 72Hz.

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