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Major Report Calls for Standards on XR Metrics

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Extended reality and Metaverse firms lack standardised metrics for measuring human behaviour in virtual environments based on current legacy data analytics, a new report on Monday has found. What’s the Deal on Data? Data and metrics on attention were scalable with current headset and handset technologies, the report noted.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.02.17): Half-Life Alyx will launch on March, 23rd, MWC has been canceled and much more!

The Ghost Howls

When I interviewed Facebook’s Sean Liu , he told me that 2019 was an inflection point for VR, and the data around us seems to confirm this statement. Both Sony and Microsoft have not given clear plans on their VR offerings for their next-gen consoles , the PS5 and the Xbox Series X, but we have some interesting hints.

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How Nokia Broke Into Virtual Reality With Its Ozo Camera

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Voltolina talked about the advantage the Ozo has in capturing and processing a lot of data at once, and he talked about the company’s plans for expansion in VR. With that, we also have to consider the technology related to carrying and distributing data for playback. The data rate is significant. That’s still happening.

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Holographic Waveguides: What You Need To Know To Understand The Smartglasses Market

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Google and Sony both have intellectual property around waveguide designs similar in nature. Dispelix of Finland has not only produced a surface relief waveguide, they’ve made a significant contribution to the manufacturing process. They recently closed a $22M round co-led by Sony and Foxconn.

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Varjo talks with me about its human eye resolution VR headset and its mixed reality add-on (that will be available at AWE 2019)

The Ghost Howls

What we have here is two really high-quality cameras and ISPs (image signal processors) from Sony and Socionext. It’s insane amout of data processing, and our latency is ridiculously low. Data is processed and sent to the GPU at the same time as camera sensor is being red. These digitize the world at 26MPIX, 90 fps.

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Building the Foundation of XR with 5G, with Nokia’s Sandro Tavares

XR for Business Podcast

It started as a paper mill in the countryside of Finland. So if we talk about data speed, you would say that an average connection on a 4G network — nowadays, of course, that depends on the country and where you are — but it’s usually on the tens of megabits per second. So data speeds are 10 to 100 times faster.

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Building the Foundation of XR with 5G, with Nokia’s Sandro Tavares

XR for Business Podcast

It started as a paper mill in the countryside of Finland. So if we talk about data speed, you would say that an average connection on a 4G network — nowadays, of course, that depends on the country and where you are — but it’s usually on the tens of megabits per second. So data speeds are 10 to 100 times faster.

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