Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

VirtualLink was announced back in 2018 with the backing of NVIDIA, AMD, Microsoft, Valve, Oculus, and HTC—representing a bulk of the most significant hardware players in the VR industry. data channel for on-board cameras, and up to 27 watts of power. data channel for on-board cameras, and up to 27 watts of power.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Data about a new Vive Focus device appear on GeekBench. Geekbench has just published the scores for a new Vive Focus headset , indicating that a new standalone headset by HTC is coming. This may explain why Oculus is launching so fast a new iteration of the Quest: because of XR2, the competition is ramping up very fast.

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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. WiGig data rates max out at 7 gigabits per second per channel. ” Sounds impressive.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

But that’s a non-starter for anyone outside of the few million people that own VR hardware (much less the compatible HTC and Oculus hardware). This is more about machine-readable data for AR cloud systems to understand surroundings and overlay content accordingly.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 12, 2016

This is especially acute when attempting to become immersed in room-scale VR as championed by SteamVR’s first flagship VR system the HTC Vive. There are a number of other companies racing to see who can produce wireless video streaming which can carry enough data at a low enough latency to delivery a nausea free, clear VR image too.

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Road to VR

APRIL 2, 2018

Consumer headsets like the Oculus Go, Lenovo Mirage Solo, and HTC Vive Focus are all based on earlier versions of the Snapdragon VRDK, but none of them offer 6DOF controller tracking. Image courtesy Qualcomm.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Australian startup Immersive Robotics are poised to deliver what they claim is a truly universal wireless solution for PC VR headsets that delivers tether-free virtual reality with minimal compromises in quality and extremely low latency. Most of all there is no visible degradation to what the user normally sees with the cables.”

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VRWorld

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

While the second generation handsets from HTC and Oculus are getting shape hidden from the public eye, there are significant changes being announced or previewed for the upcoming Holiday season. Using HTC Vive immerses you in a virtual environment, but you can still feel the wire, ravel and worse. Gbps wireless data transfer.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 28, 2023

But then I started having at another problem: I was downloading stuff at 100Kb/s … and I had to download something like 200MB of data. Oculus Quest Me and my Quest 2 When I’m at home, the Quest is the headset that I use the most. I tried using the VPNs, and I managed to connect to the servers.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2022

It has become one of the headset manufacturers with the biggest worldwide market, and the market leader (together with HTC) in the B2B virtual reality sector. 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.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

See Also: Redefining the Future of Location-Based Entertainment With HTC VIVE Focus 3 and The Park Playground “Virtual reality is often perceived as being limited to the world of gaming. He adds that one of the main causes of motion sickness in VR experiences is poor latency.

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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. HTC has maybe been the virtual reality company that has shown the most interesting things at this MWC. He has a point.

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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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VRScout

JULY 19, 2016

On March 25th, 2014, many people were left scratching their heads: why did Facebook spend 2 billion dollars to acquire a Kickstarter funded virtual reality company called Oculus. So, let’s look at the facts, the numbers and the data. Oculus has sold an estimated 250k Rifts. HTC has sold an estimated 100k Vives.

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VRScout

AUGUST 13, 2017

HTC – Vive. Oculus – Rift. Oculus – Touch. Survios – Raw Data. Zero Latency. Zero Latency – Zero Latency. But enough with the category details, let’s dive right into the fun stuff, look at each category and see who made the nominee shortlist. Razer – OSVR.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 25, 2016

This is done by sending data over higher frequencies and focusing signals between devices. As we all know, VR requires minimal latency between player movement and the given experience to remain as comfortable and immersive as possible. They offer a clunky experience, but one that could potentially be improved with WiGig.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 30, 2017

Currently the Oculus Rift is the only headset to support the former, while the HTC Vive and OSVR both support DX11. VRScore is primarily concerned with finding the framerate and latency you’ll experience when using a VR headset. Tests include rendering with and without a headset, and a baseline 4K 3D test.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 30, 2017

We know that now with the Oculus Touch and the HTC Vive, but even when VR was simply a screen strapped to your head many felt that hands were the future. We began to develop The Gallery on the first Oculus devkit with the Razer Hydra (a Sixense technology) to deliver surrogate hand tracking and body presence back in 2013.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 19, 2024

0:00 / 0:11 1× Apps can leverage this mesh but don't get access to actual camera data. As with TouchID and FaceID, the biometric data powering OpticID is processed on-device by a Secure Enclave Processor. The gap between the pixels is just 7.5 microns, which should mean no "screen door effect" of any sort.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Much like Oculus, FOVE began as a successful Kickstarter which raised $480,000 , nearly twice its goal, back in mid-2015. FOVE hopes to be the first VR headset on the market with eye-tracking, and we expect other major headsets like the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and PlayStation VR to add eye-tracking in future product iterations.

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VRWorld

JUNE 3, 2016

Microsoft decided to take a calculated risk and leave the Virtual Reality market to Facebook (through Oculus and Samsung) and HTC with their dedicated headsets Gear VR, Rift and Vive. One such solution might be the ‘pixelization’ of real-world people, which would dramatically reduce the need for bandwidth.

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VRWorld

JUNE 7, 2016

We started development using Oculus Development Kits (DK1), and our breakthrough came when we started to show our code on DK2’s with different business leads. In our team, we now love the (HTC) Vive and we’re certain Oculus will catch up. It doesn’t matter if you have HTC Vive or an Oculus Rift. That I was crazy.

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Road to VR

MARCH 24, 2017

Today’s most immersive virtual reality systems, like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, rely on a bothersome tether to send power and high fidelity imagery to the headset at low latency. But everyone agrees a dangling cable is not only annoying, it’s an immersion detractor. 264 or similar chip solutions.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Disclaimer: HTC provided three of their Vive Tracker 3.0 What is an HTC Vive Tracker? Whilst the first part of this article looked at the history of the HTC Vive Tracker and its three different versions, the second part will focus on some practical experiments with the latest HTC Vive Tracker 3.0. HTC Vive Tracker 3.0

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 22, 2019

This approach makes sense because one of the key pieces to this puzzle is a 5G network (thanks to its potential for low latency) and Nvidia hopes that carriers who are building out 5G networks will want to offer CloudXR streaming as a way to attract customers to their networks. The SDK includes: Server driver that runs in the data center.

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VeeR VR

MARCH 16, 2018

Facebook is launching the Oculus Go this year (hopefully) for an extremely low price of $200. According to John Carmack , Oculus CTO noted that the Oculus Go will perform "significantly better" than the Samsung Gear. Depending on the success of the Oculus Go will decide how the industry moves forward.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Thanks to the support of HTC, Rob is experimenting with Vive Trackers , and is very eager to tell you everything about his experiments with them, in a series of two very detailed posts. The post finishes also with the little surprise of an interview with HTC’s Shen Ye. HTC Vive Trackers (Image by Rob Cole). Introduction.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

Me wearing the Oculus Quest. On the other side, PC gamers are appreciating the high-quality Valve Index (even if it has some reliability issues ), and casual gamers are loving the Oculus Quest. and the growth, from the data, seems slow (for now), but exponential. So, here you are how I envision this 2020 in virtual reality! (I’ll

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

monthly connected headsets only on Steam (so this doesn’t consider Oculus Store users and PSVR users), and t he year-over-year growth is +75%. He said that only on Christmas day, people spent $5M on the Oculus Store , and we can expect that most of this money was spent on Quest. So, take SuperData’s data with a grain of salt.

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Road to VR

MARCH 4, 2019

An increasing number of users will soon have access to data faster than even at-home fiber optic cables can provide, making the migration from wired to wireless almost a forgone conclusion in the minds of many. and Intel, was delivering a total latency between 4 – 6 ms through their mock-up 5G network. Image courtesy Ericsson.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

At NVIDIA, we’re inventing that system with cutting-edge tools, sensors, physics, AI, processors, algorithms, data structures, and displays. This process introduces ‘latency’, which is the time it takes to update frames with new user input taken into account. Unfortunately, there are many factors that can increase latency.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 23, 2016

Arguably, that next advance will probably involve input. Dexta are now ready to show the latest version of the Dexmo, which they believe now represents the core of what they intend to offer in a final device; this latest prototype can be seen in the images and videos in this article.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2020

The time has come for me to review the Pico Neo 2 Eye , the Chinese competitor of the Oculus Quest (that has been kindly sent to me from Pico)! Discover with me everything about it and especially how does it compare with the Oculus Quest and the HTC Vive Focus Plus. Pico Neo 2 Eye Video Review. Front side of the headset.

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Doc-Ok

OCTOBER 15, 2016

The main issue was that I had been chasing evolving hardware, from the Oculus Rift DK1 to the Oculus Rift DK2, and now to HTC’s Vive. Vrui uses the lower levels of Valve’s OpenVR SDK and SteamVR run-time to receive 6-DOF tracking data and controller events from the Vive and its Lighthouse tracking system.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Vive Wave is HTC’s open platform that offers interoperability between several classes of mobile VR headsets and accessories, something the company hopes will help unite a fragmented market. Although with greater choice in VR accessories comes the task of understanding the key differences between them. Image captured by Road to VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

I expect the smartglasses from Facebook, first of all, to be Facebook-branded (so, goodbye Oculus), to be very stylish (remember that Luxottica is the leading company for glasses and sunglasses), and to be able to connect to the smartphone without a tether. while we have seen the complicated life of Oculus hands-on booths at Best Buy.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2018

If I remember well, some company in China was already experimenting on cloud rendering for the HTC Vive, so users could spare buying a VR-ready PC. and promote the development of rendering processing technology to high image quality, low latency, and low power consumption. The last paragraph of this point talks about VR videos.

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