XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 1, 2024

Here are some of the VR vendors making waves in the industry as of 2024: RealWear Meta Apple Goertek Pimax Pico HP HTC Vive Samsung Varjo Lenovo Valve Index Vrgineers RealWear Exploring various aspects of the immersive technology landscape, RealWear produces sensors, apps, and hardware for the XR space.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 24, 2020

That’s lead to motion controllers, eye tracking and hand tracking but full-body tracking has stopped and started due to the complexities of this process. Another key part of Manus Polygon is the networked object tracking feature. Manus VR isn’t the only company exploring the full-body tracking space.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

But maybe the system performs sensor fusion between all the three cameras to create a colored stereo passthrough Two 480p 120FPS eye-tracking cameras Two 400p 120FPS face-tracking cameras. HTC ecosystem conference brings news in eye-tracking and positional tracking solutions.

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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. An eye-tracking accessory built for Vive should work with Rift as well, and so on. Top news of the week. Image by Khronos Group).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The PS5 is a big step forward for console gaming , and being paired with a next-gen controller like the DualSense, that provides realistic haptic sensations, it can give its players countless hours of fun. HTC Vive celebrates the holidays giving 100% rev share to developers. But the same sense of amazement doesn’t hold for VR.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This is the same confusion that created issues for HTC in the past with the Vive Pro, for instance. The eye and face tracking can also work via Quest Link (but maybe only for developers). There are new complaints about Meta’s privacy policy on eye tracking , as my friend Avi Bar-Zeev points out.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

HTC has finally revealed the price of the Vive Pro : it will cost $799 just to have the headset (no controller and no base stations, so you must already have a Vive 1 kit) and will be available for pre-orders since April, 5th. But, as Road To VR has stated, maybe HTC should have clarified that in all its marketing material.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

Although, an emerging presence in the development space is hand and eye tracking. AR/VR/MR headsets are increasingly equipped with hand and eye tracking technology. Previously, commercial XR devices like the Meta Quest had experimented with hand-tracking features which improved as the device matured.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

Although, an emerging presence in the development space is hand and eye tracking. AR/VR/MR headsets are increasingly equipped with hand and eye tracking technology. Previously, commercial XR devices like the Meta Quest had experimented with hand-tracking features which improved as the device matured.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

Before leaving you to the best news of the week, I would like to highlight two notable things about my work: My crazy trolling game “The Unity Cube” has been featured in a video by Upload VR! Image by HTC Vive). HTC Vive Air is a design concept for a fitness-focused VR headset. Unity developers will get this joke Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

From time to time, I like to look at the adoption graph of XR shown by John Riccitiello (the CEO of Unity) in 2017 , where you can see that the real acceleration of immersive technologies should start around 2022-2023. Companies like Pico, HP, Valve, and HTC are already performing very well in this sector. The rise of enterprise.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

In the end, I still believe in the old predictions of Unity CEO John Riccitiello: Look at this graph shown by Mr. Riccitiello in 2017: the purple line is the one of the analysts, while the white one is the one forecasted by him. HTC will focus more on the enterprise market.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

Last year we had nReal showing us that AR can be trendy, and HTC making us dream with the Vive Cosmos. Yes, the biggest companies were not there with a booth (Oculus will probably target the OC6, HTC the VEC, etc…), but it is the first time that I read the XR news from CES and I dont’ remain surprised.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

It will be the first consumer headset with eye-tracking and foveated rendering, and also the first one to feature haptics directly on the headset. The Unity Cube ?? (PS Respect for the devs of Cooking Simulator, it is actually a good game. It seems like a great tethered headset for the PS5. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

Mirror Lake includes holographic lenses, reverse passthrough (people can see your eyes when you wear it), varifocal, and eye-tracking in a single very lightweight device. Image by HTC Vive). HTC launches Vive Flow Business Edition. For the first time I can see a real footage of the Teslasuit haptic gloves.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

More info News worth a mention Information leaks on Vive’s inside-out Tracker There is a new leak about the inside-out tracked Vive Tracker that HTC teased a few months ago. It is also possible to create your custom spaces to use in Mesh either with a no-code editor or by using Unity to create more personalized and complex scenes.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Eye-tracking startup Eyefluence, which raises $14 million this month, is acquired about a year later by Google. Oculus and HTC had been holding details surrounding Rift and Vive launch windows close to the chest, probably because they had delays to announce and need to nail down new plans. December 2015. January 2016.

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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 for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: I’ve tried some haptics gloves. I mean, it sort of makes more sense to me that, as long as the prices for the headsets are lingering up pretty high — like the Cosmos from HTC, the brand new one, it’ll be an $800 purchase. Alan: The VIVE Pro Eye. Alan: HTC’s got their enterprise division.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: I’ve tried some haptics gloves. I mean, it sort of makes more sense to me that, as long as the prices for the headsets are lingering up pretty high — like the Cosmos from HTC, the brand new one, it’ll be an $800 purchase. Alan: The VIVE Pro Eye. Alan: HTC’s got their enterprise division.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: I've tried some haptics gloves. I mean, it sort of makes more sense to me that, as long as the prices for the headsets are lingering up pretty high -- like the Cosmos from HTC, the brand new one, it'll be an $800 purchase. Dean: And I think more critical are these more foundational companies, like Facebook and Valve and HTC.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: I’ve tried some haptics gloves. I mean, it sort of makes more sense to me that, as long as the prices for the headsets are lingering up pretty high — like the Cosmos from HTC, the brand new one, it’ll be an $800 purchase. Alan: The VIVE Pro Eye. Alan: HTC’s got their enterprise division.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

Alan: Actually, I would say all of them are based on Unity or Unreal. Alan: I've tried a bunch of haptic gloves so far. Have you had any really good experiences with haptic gloves? The HTC Vive Pro has eye tracking-- or the new one has eye tracking. Martin: That's what I've found, too.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

Alan: Actually, I would say all of them are based on Unity or Unreal. Alan: I've tried a bunch of haptic gloves so far. Have you had any really good experiences with haptic gloves? The HTC Vive Pro has eye tracking-- or the new one has eye tracking. Martin: That's what I've found, too.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

Alan: Actually, I would say all of them are based on Unity or Unreal. Alan: I've tried a bunch of haptic gloves so far. Have you had any really good experiences with haptic gloves? The HTC Vive Pro has eye tracking-- or the new one has eye tracking. Martin: That's what I've found, too.

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VRScout

MARCH 23, 2017

Bye will be delivering a keynote at SVVR, as will Nonny de la Peña, CEO of Emblematic Group, Tony Parisi, Head of VR and AR at Unity Technologies, and Rikard Steiber, SVP of VR at HTC. Unlike many trade shows, SVVR emphasizes building a space where attendees actually have time and space to try out demos and engage with each other.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

I’m sure that after April, 20th, the Meta Quest ecosystem will appear even richer than it is now , creating a wider gap with other companies that may think about competing with the Quest, that is Pico, HTC, and even Apple. Unity talked about PlayStation VR 2 at GDC. Unity had a talk about developing for PlayStation VR 2 at GDC 2022.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

This got some press, because HTC VIVE released a press release with Bell, saying that their latest helicopter was created 10 times faster using VR, and you guys were the company doing that. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. Who owns the eye tracking data? I mean, I was making notes, here.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

This got some press, because HTC VIVE released a press release with Bell, saying that their latest helicopter was created 10 times faster using VR, and you guys were the company doing that. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. Who owns the eye tracking data? I mean, I was making notes, here.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 4, 2023

It should run on top of an M2 chipset, which is much more powerful than the processing unit of the Quest 2, 4K displays per eye with strong HDR (a rumor talks about a 5000-nits display, about which many are lost in the optical path), a quite nice FOV. But the big question is the “how”. How is Apple going to sell this headset?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

This got some press, because HTC VIVE released a press release with Bell, saying that their latest helicopter was created 10 times faster using VR, and you guys were the company doing that. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. Who owns the eye tracking data? I mean, I was making notes, here.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

This got some press, because HTC VIVE released a press release with Bell, saying that their latest helicopter was created 10 times faster using VR, and you guys were the company doing that. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. Who owns the eye tracking data? I mean, I was making notes, here.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Michael: And this is why I’ve been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building — there’s VRTK for Unity… there’s just all these tools. And the next generation of headsets that will come out in the next 24 months will all have eye tracking and head tracking.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Michael: And this is why I’ve been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building — there’s VRTK for Unity… there’s just all these tools. And the next generation of headsets that will come out in the next 24 months will all have eye tracking and head tracking.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Michael: And this is why I've been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building -- there's VRTK for Unity. And the next generation of headsets that will come out in the next 24 months will all have eye tracking and head tracking. Unity is always my top one. Amazon Sumerian.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

HTC has actually released that for the Vive Focus Plus … Well, according to the god John Carmack , it is something about which the company has discussed a lot and has also experimented a lot. But notwithstanding all these pro sides, Oculus has clearly stated that hands tracking won’t replace Quest controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

Eye tracking. Eye tracking inserts around the lenses of the Pico Neo 3 Eye (Image by Pico). PSVR 2 will be the first consumer to implement eye-tracking and foveated rendering. Project Cambria should come with eye tracking too. HTC Vive Wrist Tracker (Image by HTC).

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