Road to VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

ARM Holdings and Sensormotoric Instruments (SMI) are teaming up at GDC to showcase the potential of powerful mobile GPUs, eye-tracking and foveated rendering technologies in a new made-for-VR demo that will debut at GDC next week. SEE ALSO Hands On: SMI's Gear VR Eye Tracking is Accurate, Fast and Lightweight.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 31, 2018

One of the best of them is when in Beijing I visited the company 7Invensun , a worldwide excellence in eye tracking. For sure you remember the name 7Invensun: I have already interviewed them when they announced that their eye tracking module aGlass DK II was able to provide eye tracking not only for the Vive, but even for the Vive Pro.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

With its eye-tracking solution already on the market, Tobii could be a big player in VR going forward. This money will help the company keep up with the rate at which eye-tracking is expected to advance in the coming years. Today, the company announced investment plans that it hopes will make that happen.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2018

Eye tracking is, in my opinion, a technology that will disrupt completely the VR ecosystem , exactly as room-scale did with the first HTC Vive. All VR interfaces will change with the introduction of eye tracking, becoming more intuitive. Let’s talk a bit about eye tracking. Hello 7Invensun! Hello Tony!

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Originally labeled just FOVE , the FOVE 0 (yeah now we’re talking) has been making waves in the virtual reality community due in large part to its unique built-in eye-tracking technology. FOVE 0 is at the Tokyo Game Show right now flaunting three of its new titles: Judgement, Functions and Project Falcon.

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VRScout

MARCH 8, 2021

“One of the things that I’m really excited about for future versions is getting eye tracking and face tracking in.” When I think about where you’re at with VR today, you go into the experience — there are some pretty good games and different experiences,” said Zuckerberg while speaking to The Information.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2023

We sat down with Polyarc to discuss bringing the Moss franchise to PlayStation VR2 at launch and how the games take advantage of the system’s unique features, such as headset rumble and the PSVR 2 Sense controllers. A few months later, the game came to PC VR and then it was available at launch for the original Oculus Quest in 2019.

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Road to VR

JUNE 17, 2021

Facebook has made no secret of the fact that ads are coming to its Oculus VR platform in some capacity. As a part of its v29 software update for Oculus Quest last month, the company said it would begin testing ads for content within the Oculus App, although it wasn’t clear to what extent it would touch games.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2019

I’m here to attend the WCVRI , a very big event about Virtual Reality in China, where I am exhibiting HitMotion: Reloaded , the mixed reality fitness game of my agency New Technology Walkers ( contact us if you need some VR development!). It has very sharp visuals, and with eye tracking, it is super-powerful.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Oculus Link / Air Link has for years allowed any Quest headset to connect to a PC to play PC VR content, but it requires users to install and use the long-outdated Oculus PC software. Using Steam Link , the app makes it dead simple to connect Quest directly to SteamVR without the Oculus PC software as a middle layer.

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Road to VR

MARCH 1, 2017

Eye tracking experts SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI) have collaborated with Valve to bring their technology to OpenVR. Eye tracking-enabled HTC Vive units are being shown at GDC 2017, as part of an R&D effort to integrate eye-tracking support into Valve’s OpenVR API.

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VRScout

JANUARY 26, 2022

Sony’s next VR device is shaping up to be a game-changer. According to a report by Ross Young, CEO of Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC), the PlayStation 2 will feature a display density of 800 PPI (pixels per inch) per eye. The post The PlayStation VR2 Might Feature A Game-Changing Display appeared first on VRScout.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

FOVE has announced that their first eye-tracking VR headset, the FOVE 0, will open for pre-orders on November 2nd, and has also released the final specifications of the device. Much like Oculus, FOVE began as a successful Kickstarter which raised $480,000 , nearly twice its goal, back in mid-2015. Tracking: Head Tracking.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 4, 2021

The next-gen PSVR is said to include: 4.1MP (2,000 × 2,040) per-eye resolution OLED. Eye-tracking capable of foveated rendering. Inside-out tracking. This, along with the following information, was supposedly released yesterday at a virtual summit for prospective game developers. IPD adjustment dial.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 10, 2022

They had no new hardware for me to review, but they let me have a test with a Neo 3 Pro Eye ( Pico Neo 3 with Tobii eye-tracking incorporated) and showed me a few demos while they explained to me me the importance of eye-tracking. With eye tracking, the avatar felt of course more natural.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2020

These days we have had various leaks about a new upcoming Oculus Quest , with also renders and photos shared by the famous leaker Walking Cat. Oculus is going to release a new Oculus Quest. Various rumors and leaks in the past weeks hinted to an upcoming release of a new Oculus Quest headset. The comfort enigma.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2016

When the UK-based VR studio, Rewind, asked me if I wanted to come and see a demo of its eye-tracking tech demo for the upcoming FOVE 0 headset, I was intrigued. Project Falcon , as this new demo is called, is an on-rails first-person shooter that uses eye-tracking as an aiming system for noisy machine guns and explosive rockets.

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Road to VR

JUNE 23, 2016

The StarVR prototype I tried at E3 2016 was tracked using Sixense STEM, but Marquez tells me that the company is working on its own roomscale tracking system for StarVR which is based on different tech than Oculus’ ‘Constellation’ or Valve’s ‘Lighthouse’ systems. While the StarVR 1.4

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2024

The latest version of the Unity game engine—which is the basis for the vast majority of XR games made today—is now available to developers as a preview. Unity’s Foveated Rendering API also supports eye-tracked foveated rendering for headsets like Quest Pro and PSVR 2. Unity 6 Preview (formerly known as 2023.3

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Meta has games and Apple has its ecosystem. While the Korean tech giant hasn’t created its own consumer XR platform before, in addition to being a leading display manufacturer Samsung has produced its own PC VR headsets and the smartphone-based Gear VR platform, the latter of which laid the foundation for Oculus Go and Meta Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. That is if every company implemented OpenXR, a program built for the Oculus should work with SteamVR as well. Image by Oculus).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 12, 2024

The service offered users the possibility of playing PCVR games on their Quest via cloud streaming, paying a price between $1 and $3 per hour. According to the first reviewers, the experience with it may have varied, but it was in general a pretty good one, having similar performances to a local streamed game with Virtual Desktop.

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AllThingsVR

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

29-Year-Old Gamer Leaves Sony Behind to Bring Eye-Tracking to Virtual Reality Kojima, 29, is convinced the technology will become commonplace in VR devices. That also explains why others are getting into the game, from Eyefluence, backed by LeapPad founder Jim Marggraff, to Eye Tribe, which makes a desktop eye-tracker for $200.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Although Facebook Spaces was shut down in October, making way for the company’s next social VR platform, Horizon , Facebook is rolling out some big social changes that promise to make meeting, talking, and playing together on the Oculus platform a lot easier. Privacy Changes to Oculus. Image captured by Road to VR.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

Image by Oculus). Oculus Quest becomes 1 year old, and Facebook makes many announcements. The Oculus Quest is now one year old. But the greatest feature is that finally Oculus is accepting hands-tracked applications in the Oculus Store from the 28th of this month! Happy birthday, Oculus Quest!

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JUNE 4, 2024

It comes as Luckey's new company ModRetro just announced and opened preorders for Chromatic , a $200 handheld that can play Game Boy and Game Boy Color cartridges on a display with the same resolution and colors as the original consoles for a pixel-perfect and color-accurate experience.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

The Oculus Connect 6 is approaching. Next week, on 25th and 26th, Oculus will hold its main yearly event , and as always, it will talk about the milestones reached by the company and then it will show future hardware and software. What will Oculus announce? This is the homepage of Oculus website (Image by Oculus).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Every year I make this prediction game about what Facebook is going to announce at Oculus/Facebook connect, and this year won’t be an exception! Oculus Rift 3. Oculus Quest 2 Pro / Oculus Quest 3. Facebook is going to announce the Oculus Quest 2 Pro. This is never going to happen. New Facebook Name.

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APRIL 3, 2023

OpenXR Toolkit added eye-tracked foveated rendering support for Meta Quest Pro. Additionally, you can use OpenComposite to translate OpenVR (SteamVR) games to OpenXR, enabling support for games like American Truck Simulator, Assetto Corsa Competizione, Dirt Rally 2, Elite Dangerous, F1 2022, Pavlov, and Subnautica.

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VRScout

AUGUST 5, 2020

Enterprise-level Tobii eye-tracking and foveated rendering at an affordable price. The newly launched Neo 2 & Neo 2 Eye headsets from Pico Interactive are lightweight, untethered, deliver 4K, and look most like a beefed-up Oculus Quest. compatibility.

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VRScout

APRIL 1, 2020

As people flock online during quarantine we now find ourselves experimenting with new platforms, pushing immersive technologies to the limits, and collaborating in new ways; from eye-tracking technology and facial tracking to biometrics and brain-control interfaces. Eye-Tracking . Brain-Computer Interfaces.

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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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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

There was (and still is) quite a good hype for these headsets, exactly as there was hype for what was Oculus Santa Cruz, the codename of the Oculus Quest. This information shows us that Apple is playing a long-term game. Games in AR/MR, being them on mobile or headset, never got very successful. Let me tell you why.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Updated – November 20th, 2023 The Best Meta Quest 3 Black Friday & Cyber Monday 2023 Sales Image courtesy Meta Meta Quest 3 (128GB) The best Meta Quest 3 (128GB) Black Friday & Cyber Monday 2023 sale so far is $500 bundled with $15 store credit for Quest games, from Newegg. Be sure to check back.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 27, 2022

Meta Platforms has begun raising prices $100 on its Meta Quest 2 headsets, media reported on Tuesday, citing an announcement from the Oculus blog. And for a limited time, every new headset purchase will include an offer to download the popular VR rhythm game Beat Saber at no additional cost. USD and $499.99 USD and $499.99

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 9, 2022

Meta’s App Lab will host the First Hand demo for developers to create their own games and creative content, inspired by Oculus First Contact’s six degrees of freedom (6DoF) Touch controller features.

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Road to VR

APRIL 3, 2019

Oculus is today launching their ‘Expressive Avatars’ update on Rift and mobile VR; it’s a significant step up in realism thanks to a few additions including cleverly simulated eye models, lipsync, and even microexpressions. Oculus previously used eye wear to avoid off-putting stares, Image courtesy Oculus.

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