XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MARCH 4, 2024

Major Firms Enter the XR Market During a launch event at MWC 2024, Samsung showcased a new XR headset developed in collaboration with Google and Qualcomm. Additionally, as Samsung and Google have partnered with Qualcomm, it is reasonable to assume that the device will use the Qualcomm XR2+ Gen 2 Platform, which supports AI-ready wearables.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

A good example of this in virtual reality can be seen in a recent campaign by The Coca-Cola Company on the Advrty platform. While not swapping anything out, Google is attempting to make the world an ad through its visual search app–Google Lens. Check out the example below of Mica , Magic Leap’s intelligent agent.

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Upload VR

MAY 29, 2023

Gurman also reports that the headset was able to automatically identify walls, "so, for example, you can play a game where you shoot objects off a wall or cover your environment in a digital skin." He claims they lack tracking rings, like Touch Pro controllers , but also don't have cameras for self-tracking.

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AR Insider

JULY 15, 2021

See “HotTub Twitch” or “furries” for examples of how some people may choose to express themselves. See modern Nazis for better examples of universally offensive and hateful self-expression. FWIW, Google had also partnered with Luxottica but never shipped a more fashionable version of Glass.]. 2023+: Eye Tracking and beyond.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

Just to make an example, I was there when there was the Netscape vs Internet Explorer war, but now the leading web browser is Google Chrome. Google Chrome, for instance, has been helped a lot by the fact that it is the pre-installed browser on all Android phones. Google Glass v2. AR glasses. What will happen?

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Upload VR

MAY 11, 2023

That was the case for the speech recognition and synthesis models used in Google Assistant and Siri, for example. They will also get support for Quest Pro’s eye tracking and face tracking later this month so your gaze, blinking, and facial expressions are mapped to your avatar in real-time.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The main scope of this position is to prototype, ship, and support consumer gaming products leveraging visual-inertial tracking (HMD and controllers), camera passthrough, environment understanding, eye tracking, and hand tracking. More info (Example usage) More info (Twitter feed of Luma Labs where to see many scans).

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 29, 2024

Qualcomm is working in a partnership with Samsung and Google to develop an XR headset. In recent developments, LG has partnered with Meta, while Qualcomm is collaborating with Samsung and Google, as many firms are forming groups to manage the challenges of investing in XR technology.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Additionally, the VR820 has four cameras both inside and outside of the headset that allow it to both do foveated rendering with eye-tracking as well as ‘inside-out’ tracking to allow for positional movement without need for external sensors.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 15, 2024

Augmented reality kits seem to be everywhere, from well-known options like Apple’s ARKit and Google ARCore to Apple’s new collection of AR development tools. Apple’s RealityKit and ARKit tools are probably the best-known examples. For example, Nissan’s AR app recognizes Nissan cars, and overlays information on top of those objects.

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CraneMorley

JUNE 27, 2023

Apple and Google are rumored to be building headsets of their own to rival their competitors. One notable example was the “Virtual Fixtures” system developed by Louis Rosenberg at the US Air Force Armstrong Labs, which allowed users to manipulate virtual objects in a real-world environment. Spatial sound.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 14, 2023

According to the now-deleted article from Gyro Technology, the upcoming headset will leverage four tracking cameras, a pancake lens, two RGB outward-facing cameras, a depth sensor, eye-tracking, hand-tracking, OLED microdisplays, and Samsung’s Exynos 2200 chipset.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 10, 2022

The user must their adjust the lenses with eye-tracking technologies, depending on the unique movement of each eye. They offer superior visuals and performance but are somewhat expensive, and can include the Oculus Rift or Quest , the Vive , and the PlayStation VR, to name a few notable examples.

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Road to VR

MARCH 12, 2018

These decentralized systems are a counter balance to the aggregated power of centralized companies like Google & Facebook, who are currently dominating the the online advertising market.

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ARVR

JANUARY 21, 2022

For example, location anchors could display a three dimensional icon or text in space next to an iconic building. This past year, Google introduced a few new features for ARCore such as recording and playback APIs. Location anchors enable enhanced AR-based navigation solutions. However, AR in retail doesn’t stop at navigation in 2022.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 9, 2022

The Digital Markets Act is a law that the European Parliament and Commission are discussing since 2020 and has the purpose of limiting the excessive power of the major tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta. And the same holds for Google, which is applying similar restrictions.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

When you first put it on you’re told to hold the top button, and you feel (and see a visualization of) the lenses moving horizontally to align with your eyes. The eye tracking cameras sense the positions of your pupils and tiny piezoelectric actuators move the lenses into place. And I mean fully. This basic idea isn’t new.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 27, 2022

For example, devices with global positioning systems (GPS) can place navigational directions in your field of view (FoV), either with smart glasses or smart windshields. Google, Apple, and other map programmes offer this functionality to users. Google also revealed the world’s first smart glasses, Google Glass, in 2013.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

Austin McCasland is a UX prototyper working with Google, and he and Alan chat about the finer points of UX design for AR. He's designed and developed Paint Space AR, named by Apple as one of the best apps of 2017 and currently works full time at Google as an AR Interaction designer. Alan: Let's give an example.

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ARVR

JUNE 9, 2021

They say Apple will finally release a Mixed Reality headset in 2022 and that it will be endowed with eye tracking capabilities, an 8K display and a 5 nanometers CPU. There are even presumed renders of such a project, but they haven’t been confirmed in any way.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 20, 2021

This is much more than what Oculus promised to track some years ago (“only the height of the user is sent to Facebook, for statistical purposes”), and the amount of tracking info is going to slowly increase. On the web, Google has similar behaviors. The tech world domination.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

These have appeared across Google’s ARCore, Niantic’s Lightship AR developer kit (ARDK), Snap Lens, Meta’s Reality system, and Apple’s ARKit platforms, namely for smartphones. For example, Lenovo’s A3 and Magic Leap 2’s smart glasses are designed for prolonged use, low latency, and industrial environments.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

If the rumor is true, probably this is the Del Mar headset , and the Jedi controllers may be like the Oculus Touch but more comfortable and maybe with full finger tracking. Or eye tracking?). For example, an activity that normally takes 8 hours could be completed in 45 minutes”. More info.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 25, 2023

This allows digital objects to interact with users via planing, light detection and ranging (LiDAR), and hand and eye tracking. Meta’s Spark, Google’s ARCore, and Apple’s ARKit platforms are some of the best platforms for this. AR smart glasses – Users can also view AR content with smart glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 15, 2019

He got quite bored by the related solutions of the moment, since as he states, companies were just “copying-and-pasting Google Analytics into virtual reality” , while he thought that virtual reality had much more potential for the analytics sector. AR and VR are actually great technologies to study the behavior of the users.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2018

7invensun for eye tracking addons). The document is divided into nine parts: I will report them here, as a small summary of mine, together with the full text translated with Google Translate (so, RIP English), if you want to read it. There is a long list of examples of things that should be improved. Introduction.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The Ford Motor Company and PepsiCo are examples of companies using XR to improve their design processes. Users can start customizing the virtual office to suit specific tasks; for example, a VR meeting can be set up on a virtual whiteboard so everyone can brainstorm ideas.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

References found in the Oculus Quest 2 firmware by users Reggy04 and Basti564 highlight how the Quest 2 Pro should have: Eyes tracking Facial expressions tracking Eye relief knob Granular IPD adjustment External charging station. References found in Quest 2 firmware hint to Quest Pro features.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 7, 2023

The GPS in a car, a virtual home assistant with speech recognition capabilities, and QR code scanners are all examples of spatial technology. Initially, some of the first examples of spatial computing were relatively simple. Google: Google and its parent company, Alphabet, are highly invested in spatial computing.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2022

There is only one big problem: the form factor is terrible , they look super-dork, even worse than Google Glasses. And, interestingly, the runtime is also being prepared to add authorizations for face tracking and eye tracking, as a leaked screenshot proves. So more or less they are delivering what they promised.

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EnterpriseWear

MARCH 4, 2019

In a recent mailer campaign to convey the importance of professional alarm monitoring services, ADT sent out Google Cardboard-like VR headsets that put recipients into a simulated life-threatening situation. VR can even bring products to life, for example by enabling shoppers to virtually visit the vineyard that produces Walmart wine.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 30, 2020

If Microsoft will improve the WMR ecosystem with at least 4 tracking cameras, this can be an headset to look at with much attention. GTC digital is online, NVIDIA shows cheap eye tracking. This is intriguing because a system made by only LEDs is very very cheap, and could help the widespread of eye tracking in XR headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

It’s good news by the way that there is continuous IPD adjustment (and with a wider range than before) and that thanks to eye tracking sensors, the headset can tell you if you have positioned it well on your head. There is also an eye-relief dial, so you can put the lenses very close to your eyes, for added field of view.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

A smart glasses user, for example, could access a movie streaming application like Netflix via an AR RT3D button and watch media on a large immersive screen that a user can place in their real-world environment. For example, the two firms teamed up to present an immersive broadcast of the Tour de France in 2022.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

For example, ongoing research proposes that people with cerebral palsy may be able to use an EMG-enabled interface to recreate neuromuscular control and coordinate movements in the virtual world. Thalmic Labs has rebranded as North since then, and Google acquired the firm in June 2020. There are many applications of EMG in AR and VR.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Facebook has not done well in the past in guaranteeing user privacy and I’m afraid of what it can do with my data, especially when in the future there will be eye tracking, emotion tracking and such. Google ARCore now adds depth detection. More info (Firefox Realities update) More info (Google Chrome 79).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

Some examples of this category of glasses: Intel Vaunt (project abandoned); North Focals; Vuzix Blade; Snap Spectacles v2 (they are just cameras to share videos); Bose AR glasses (these are not for visual, but for audio augmented reality). Google Maps in AR). Of course, it will exploit the already awesome Microsoft platform.

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