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. See Also: NVIDIA Says New Foveated Rendering Technique is More Efficient, Virtually Unnoticeable. Tracking: Head Tracking. Eye Tracking.

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ARPost

JANUARY 6, 2021

An avatar is the 3D representation of the user in the virtual world. Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE). This is a virtual reality environment, delimited by 3 to 6 walls. To create the VR environment, projectors display the elements of the world on the walls. Eye Tracking. Field of View (FOV).

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Road to VR

APRIL 9, 2020

StarVR One, the ultra-wide field of view (FOV) VR headset, has traveled a long and winding path on its way to launch since it was first announced in late 2018 that developers and enterprise would be able to apply for hardware. Eye-tracking – Fully integrated Tobii eye-tracking, including Dynamic Foveated Rendering.

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VRScout

JANUARY 7, 2019

Fresh hardware, a bold new social platform, and Vive Pro eye-tracking are on the way. In actuality HTC was teasing the latest addition their VR hardware lineup, the HTC Vive Cosmos, a PC-based 6DoF VR headset featuring inside-out tracking and a flip-up visor. VIVE PRO EYE. Image Credit: HTC Vive.

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VRScout

APRIL 1, 2020

Technology can augment the world around us, it can enhance the human experience, our capabilities, and also extend our reality to digital and virtual worlds. It was an optimistic estimate as consumers and hardware alike have required a transition and adoption phase. Eye-Tracking .

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Developers and hardware solution providers have been working together over the past few decades to build VR headsets capable of hosting immersive experiences. Over the years, technology has become smaller, lighter, more comfortable, and with faster processing, breathing life into the virtual world. billion USD in 2021 to $84.09

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Varjo’s professional-grade headset features retina-grade resolution and eye-tracking functionality. Industry-caliber VR/XR specialists Varjo today announced their latest hardware release, the Varjo VR-1. To design in virtual reality, we need the high resolution of the Varjo device. Image Credit: Varjo VR-1 headset.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 12, 2024

It is always a matter of money and I think this case makes no exception, especially because Meta subsidizes hardware costs with the Store sales. Tiny emitters emit sound waves towards the eyes, and some receptors read how the waves bounce back. I send a big hug to all the people from Plutosphere.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 7, 2019

The CES is going to start tomorrow, but today HTC has already made its great announcements, showing to the world the upcoming new hardware Vive Pro Eye, Vive Cosmos and software solutions Viveport Infinity and Vive Reality system. Do you want to know what I am talking about? Well, let’s analyze them one by one.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2022

This week, Xiaomi actual unveiled the real hardware that should make that vision become real: dubbed Mijia AR Glasses , these glasses have a nice set of features. Nowadays in social VR worlds like VRChat you can have a maximum of 50–100 people together in the same room. An internal 1,020mAh battery. Some articles on the metaverse.

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Upload VR

APRIL 20, 2023

But unlike those devices and almost every other current VR headset, Pico G3 lacks any form of positional tracking. Your head's rotation is tracked so you can look left, right, up, down, or tilt your head. G3 is the successor to 2019's G2 4K , which also lacked positional tracking.

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Upload VR

AUGUST 11, 2023

The Half-Dome prototype presented a solution: track which virtual object your eyes are looking at and rapidly mechanically move the display panels backward or forward to dynamically adjust focus to its distance. Butterscotch Varifocal includes the same eye tracking and mechanical actuators.

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Road to VR

JUNE 2, 2017

Since optical, computer-vision based face-tracking is made more challenging in VR due to the headset blocking a significant portion of the face, Mask instead employs low-cost electrodes around the periphery of the headset’s foam padding to sense the electrical signals generated when you move muscles in your face.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 29, 2024

Meta Quest for Business service allows companies to use a framework of XR hardware, software, and management tools to help enterprise end-users get started with the firm’s immersive portfolio. million from app revenue, which could become a valuable source of income and services for Meta’s XR hardware ecosystem.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 13, 2017

Just like any other VR headset, Sony’s PlayStation VR (PSVR) leaves plenty of room for improvement, and the company’s R&D division has a few ideas on where to take it on both a software and hardware level. Building on that, the company’s also interested in affecting the virtual world around you with gaze tracking.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 31, 2023

Virtual reality (VR) headsets are on a constant uphill trajectory which sees the hardware’s landscape evolve rapidly with new components, integrated software, and use cases. MR-integrated immersive wearables allow a user to combine their surrounding real and virtual worlds.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2021

Even though it’s easy for the person in the headset to see people outside of the headset, it isn’t clear to people outside of the headset when the person in the headset is actually looking at them (rather than looking at an entirely different virtual world.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 23, 2024

Said Bakadir Mixed Reality blends the virtual world into the real world by integrating virtual objects into your reality, bringing the best of both augmented reality and virtual reality together. These technologies help with safety and peace of mind while a user is engaging with an MR activity.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Smart glasses remain a luxury product, like virtual reality headsets (VR), but a lack of system-selling software slightly stuns the growth of AR hardware. Although, demand for AR hardware and software is making immersive firms scramble to create a relevant service. Let’s say that you want to exercise in a virtual world.

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2017

Over the last 12 months or so we’ve been keeping an eye on Google’s aggressive hiring for its AR/VR team which, among other things, suggested that the company was working on new “mass production” hardware that would go beyond the simple smartphone snap-in Daydream headsets.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 8, 2024

Hardware for Immersive Experiences Evolves The hardware employees use to navigate and explore immersive spaces has become increasingly advanced in recent years. Spatial computing solutions for things like hand and eye tracking deepen the level of immersion users feel in a virtual environment by removing the need for controllers.

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CraneMorley

JUNE 27, 2023

” Published in 1994 the article details MR “as a particular subset of Virtual Reality (VR) related technologies that involve the merging of real and virtual worlds somewhere along the “virtuality continuum” which connects completely real environments to completely virtual ones.” Spatial sound.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Using your hands to directly interact with the virtual world and speaking naturally to both your friends and NPCs will be a big game changer within the space." Owlchemy Demo Reaches For Mass Market VR Hand Tracking Owlchemy’s hand tracking tech demo at GDC 2023 pointed to the future of mass market VR.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 17, 2017

He also teased that “some may be suited to new hardware coming out.” The new hardware hint is also enticing. Currently the only prominent new VR hardware on the horizon we can think of is Vive’s new tracker , which can be stuck to objects to bring them into the virtual world.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 8, 2024

These, more versatile devices could help to enhance adoption of mixed reality in the enterprise, by ensuring companies don’t have to invest in separate hardware for each immersive experience. With hand-tracking, eye-tracking, and body movement-tracking tools, users can interact with content using natural gestures.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 10, 2022

The system creates everything in the user’s environment, which may be exhibited inside a blank room via head-mounted displays (HMDs) or other equipment that helps users feel they are physically inside the virtual world. Users may utilize visual, sound, and haptic (touch) stimuli to create an immersive manufactured world.

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Bernard Marr

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The bottom line, as more people spend time in realistic virtual worlds, we need our legal systems to catch up fast. Privacy Will Be A Key Concern The metaverse also brings new privacy challenges because all this immersive technology will be even better at tracking our actions and intentions.

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2018

While there’s certainly a range of exciting games and other VR software coming soon to first-generation hardware, it feels like the market is steadily turning its attention toward next-generation technologies, and fostering a renewed sense of excitement and momentum. Image courtesy Facebook.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 21, 2022

These professionals use new devices to merge the physical and virtual worlds with creative, engaging immersive content. XR blends the physical and virtual worlds with digital overlays that interact in real-time with real-life objects. According to Precedence Research, the global XR market reached $35.14 Defining XR.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2022

Since the hardware is almost ready, the company is now ramping up the development of the actual rOS (Reality OS) operating system, for the launch that may happen in 2023. The company is not trying to build a virtual world, though, but a full cloud platform that can be used by other companies to build social VR experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

But before talking about it, let me invite you once more to visit the Venice VR Expanded virtual worlds that we did in VRChat for the Venice Film Festival. These new pieces of hardware are based on the new Ampere architecture , which offers a big boost in performance compared with the previous Turing one. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

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. No new VR hardware announcement. So, I expect no actual hardware announcements from this event. The Oculus Connect 6 is approaching.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

If SteamVR apps can’t detect your Vive controllers or you see your Vive/Oculus controllers fixed on a point on the ground in the virtual world without any possibility to move them, go on reading! I bought my Vive to experiment with 7Invensun eye tracking and I was really enthusiast about trying eye-tracked UX.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

French startup Lynx announced some months ago a quite interesting headset featuring pass-through augmented reality , hands tracking, eye tracking, and an innovative lens design. It is a very useful collection of articles for people that are new to this world and want to understand all the facets of the topic very fast.

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VRScout

AUGUST 23, 2022

That said, the company has shared a list of specs for the device, revealing a handful of exciting features like eye-tracking, passthrough view, and headset haptics. 4 embedded cameras for headset and controller tracking? IR camera for eye tracking per eye Feedback? Credit: Sony. Image Credit: Sony.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 20, 2023

The solution also includes a simple and robust system architecture which doesn’t rely on eye-tracking technologies. Poplar Studio Focusing on the era of virtual commerce, Poplar Studio is a specialist agency committed to developing unique experiences through visualization technologies.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The headset takes inspiration from the Varjo VR-3 premium VR headset and removes its famous retina-resolution display and also hands tracking via Ultraleap, making it become a VR headset more similar to the other ones in the market. Aero still features an impressive resolution and pixel density, and also integrated eye-tracking.

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