The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 6, 2022

It’s like Oculus or Meta currently. What’s the latency from our camera to their back end? It’s RTMP push streaming and they will do some effects and some encoding and then the total latency will be about 20 seconds or 30 seconds for the end user. About 20 or 30 seconds for the total latency. Nikk: Live.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Once you’ve got a few hours under your belt though, you’ll probably notice a few things that definitely need improving, many of which can thankfully be solved with a few key aftermarket accessories. The better the connection, the lower the latency involved. Note : to play PC VR games via Link, you’ll need a VR-ready PC.

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Road to VR

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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JANUARY 6, 2017

KwikVR, a wireless add-on kit for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, is going to beat TPCAST’s solution to market, but, if you’re desperate for untethered VR, you might want to hold on for the latter’s launch instead of jumping the gun early. I’m also concerned about the products compatibility with the Oculus Rift.

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JANUARY 1, 2017

TPCAST’s wireless add-on kit for the HTC Vive has a new rival that’s promising to cut the cord on both HTC’s headset and the Oculus Rift. It also states that latency introduced is “guaranteed” to be under 12 milliseconds, though it sounds like this is in addition to existing latency from the headset itself.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 27, 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). It offers high-definition 3D models of 75 major cities. And Google Earth VR , lets users fly around cities in strikingly immersive ways.

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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. Ever since the Playstation was first launched, Sony has been in the business of reinventing gaming. Click To Tweet. The same seems to be the case with VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 12, 2020

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. Anyway, with future software updates of the Oculus runtime, the official cable will be able to exploit all the maximum speed possible.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Unplugged Details: Available On: Oculus Quest (coming soon to PC VR). You have to be very deliberate in your finger positions to make sure they not only register correctly, but also register in enough time for whatever latency there is to resolve itself before you strum to the beat. Release Date: October 21st, 2021. Price: $25.

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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. On Quest 2 FFR Level 1 isn’t noticeable at all, but Level 3 definitely is.

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APRIL 5, 2023

Carmack formally left Meta in December to focus on developing Artificial General Intelligence after a decade-long run helping shape the direction of VR development at Oculus and advising executives at Facebook. I keep saying how VR needs to displace all of these other devices.

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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). It offers high-definition 3D models of 75 major cities. And Google Earth VR , lets users fly around cities in strikingly immersive ways.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

I think that Gartner was not referring to the consumer market, where VR is still unripe (even if devices like the Oculus Quest and the Vive Focus Plus are helping it in becoming more widespread), but at the B2B one, where VR is already helping companies to spare money (e.g. thanks to a better training). Considering that companies like 6d.ai

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NOVEMBER 17, 2016

This system makes the headset dependent on static hardware, however, and so top engineers at Oculus , HTC and Google are all racing to crack the inside-out code first. According to Stereo Labs, “Through high definition stereo cameras, the headset blends the virtual and real worlds together in an immersive and photorealistic way.

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Road to VR

JUNE 28, 2017

OmniVision specifically positions the OV9282 image sensor as ideal for VR headsets thanks to the low latency. Interestingly, neither design showed so far includes on-board headphones (which is definitely a scale-tipping feature). SEE ALSO How Google's Latest VR Moves Are a Major Blow to Oculus' Mobile Strategy.

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VRScout

APRIL 26, 2021

. “The performers are dealing with all of the challenges that our entire VR industry as well as our tech industry faces daily — instability, growth, unpredictability, latency, bugs….the “Definitely a sense of curiosity as well as a willingness to fail. the list goes on.

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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. Oculus has sold an estimated 250k Rifts. As they say, content is king, and in virtual reality this is definitely an area seeing growing pains.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

SPACES hardware consists of an Oculus Rift, HP Omen VR backpack, Hardlight haptic vest, StrikerVR guns, and hand & foot trackers, all tracked with OptiTrack. SEE ALSO Zero Latency's Next Title is Tackling the Challenges of Location-based PVP. Photo by Road to VR.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 1, 2019

During Oculus Connect 6 in San Jose, CA, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled that the Oculus Quest would allow for hand and finger tracking without the need of any hand controllers, and of course, I couldn’t wait to try it. It’s not perfect, but it is definitely a step in the right direction. ” Image Credit: Facebook.

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Road to VR

JULY 25, 2016

See Also: Oculus Research Collaborator Talks Tracking Facial Expressions While Wearing a VR Headset. There are also some definite drawbacks to any headset that uses your smartphone’s own inertial-measurement unit (IMU) for head tracking like all current Google Cardboard-enabled devices, and Veeso is apparently no exception.

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AllThingsVR

JANUARY 10, 2017

The 5 Most Important Announcements from CES 2017 on VR & AR 1) Intel’s ‘Merged Reality’ Demo Brings Actual Hands Into VR on Oculus Rift Intel demoed 2 things at CES: 1) they demoed Intel’s technology to bring your hands into VR, no controller required, with Intel’s Merged Reality RealSense. 2) They demoed Project Alloy.

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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. All future users of HoloLens should need is a collaborative suite (perhaps Microsoft’s own HoloOffice?).

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 30, 2020

” He also pointed out the development over at Amazon, where last month the company announced AWS Wavelength for ultra-low latency 5G computing at the edge, something that will have a direct impact on using and building the next generation of AR and VR headgear. “The industry is firing up 5G and that will also be a big push.”

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

The legendary developer, who for several years held the role of Oculus CTO but now maintains a less formal “consulting CTO” arrangement, says that his keynote presentation at last year’s Facebook Connect conference foreshadowed some of the announcements that can be expected at the event next week. Image courtesy Oculus.

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JANUARY 30, 2024

As well as using it to cook, finding that placing virtual timers above food was useful and unique to spatial computing, she even briefly wore it while skiing to verify just how low the latency is - just 12 milliseconds from the camera exposure to hitting your eyes. However, it'll likely be the most influential since the Oculus Rift.

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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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OCTOBER 11, 2016

The VR spotlight might be on Oculus right now after last week’s developer conference, but we haven’t forgotten about Google’s Daydream ecosystem. From what we’ve seen, the Daydream controller has more in common with a Wii Remote than it does an Oculus Touch or a Vive wand. Let’s make this a thing.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2022

Because there are people in the communities that think that it is (and will be) impossible that wherever we are, there is always a server close-enough to do the rendering with minimal latency. And this would be much cheaper than making something that always answers with 10ms latency. Also, AR has far looser requirements than VR.

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Fit Reality certainly wants to enter the VR market with a bang and Viro Move is definitely going to do that. All the individual components work perfectly well, there didn’t seem to be any issues with latency, and it was nice to have some scenic outdoor locations to play in – rather than all the neon-landscapes so often used.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2023

Oculus Connect. Started by Oculus in 2014, Connect was where the earliest of early adopters could meet and learn how to make their games and apps happen for the first consumer VR headsets. That’s a serious technical challenge and Horizon definitely can’t handle it now, but it’s not an insurmountable one.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 23, 2016

It is very easy to integrate the lighthouse tracking system into Dexmo, and we will definitely look into that. Gu: Nothing is definite though but I can give you an idea: Dexmo weighs slightly more than an iPhone 6 Plus [circa 172g], and can be made even lighter. So what’s the next step for VR? People get it.

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OCTOBER 15, 2016

Right now we’re stuck thinking in terms of head-mounted displays (HMDs), like the Vive or the Oculus. Future solutions will get rid of clunky wired headsets and move onto glasses that can project a high-definition image onto the eye, a la Magic Leap, and eventually contact lenses that contain tiny screens.

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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. Amazon promises “single-digit latency” XR streaming.

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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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InstaVR

AUGUST 9, 2019

The Oculus Quest has been a success since launching in May. Some of our InstaVR Pro clients currently using the Oculus Go — or new InstaVR users not currently using a headset –are very interested in the possibilities of the Oculus Quest. The Oculus Go hand controller is pretty nice.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

They mostly mimic Oculus Touch in design, with the same general handle shape and same set of buttons, sticks, and triggers. Overall precision and latency for controller-tracking is acceptable but not exceptional, showing more latency and jitter than we see with Oculus or SteamVR tracking. I definitely did.

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Road to VR

JUNE 7, 2019

It’s hard to explain exactly how a higher refresh rate makes the view through Index look more immersive and ‘there’, but it definitely does. It probably also helps that a 144Hz refresh rate means lower latency too. Index displays on a test bed | Image courtesy Valve. Fire away in the comments!

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