Road to VR

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Practically untouched from its original head-tracked input scheme, the game marks a soft reset in XR game development as developers assess how to approach Vision Pro’s lack of controllers. Proton Pulse , originally created for the Oculus Rift DK1 development kit in 2013, has been re-released on Apple Vision Pro this week.

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Road to VR

MARCH 22, 2018

SEE ALSO Magic Leap Launches Developer SDK, Confirms Eye-tracking, Room-scanning, and More. Magic Leap Specs and ‘Lumin’ SDK details that are known thus far: Head tracking. Eye tracking. Gesture and hand tracking. 6DOF hand controller (Totem) tracking. Photo: Road to VR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 31, 2023

VRCs avoid sickness by reviewing refresh rates, head-tracked graphics, render scaling, headset positional tracking, multiple locomotion styles, and head-tracked user interfaces (UI). Meta Platforms ensures that each of its officially distributed Quest experiences passes a series of virtual reality checks (VRC).

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The platform can support up to 7 seven cameras, two internal, one for each eye for eye-tracking and four external cameras, two RGB cameras for MR experiences and two for head tracking. It supports 3D audio, voice commands and 2Kx2K per eye dual panel LCD.

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Doc-Ok

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Most attempts to answer it fall back on technical aspects, such as stereoscopy, head tracking, etc., 4:36 — Handling user movement, or: why head tracking is necessary. 5:45 — Embedded (real) video showing head tracking in action. 6:25 — How head-mounted VR simulates real-world vision.

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Road to VR

APRIL 2, 2018

Options like hand-tracking and eye-tracking have made their way into the offering, and now ultrasonic tracking for 6DOF controller input is available, as noted in a press release by Goertek , the manufurating partner of the Snapdragon 845 VRDK.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The calibration will help you not only adjust the headset to the ideal IPD (distance between the lenses), but also tell you if the headset is sitting too high, low, or crooked on your head. Having the best fit will also increase the accuracy of the headset’s eye-tracking function. Let us know in the comments below!

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Optic ID Iris-based biometric authentication OS VisionOS Audio Spatial audio with dynamic head tracking, a 6-mic array with directional beamforming Battery 2 hours of general use or 2.5 and Wi-Fi 6 Input Hands, eyes, voice, keyboards, trackpads, and game controllers IPD 51-75mm Weight 21.2-22.9

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VRScout

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Basic hand-tracking and head-tracking enable guests to wave to fellow adventures with visible directional gaze. Implementing eye-tracking and AI would build another layer of emotional connection to virtual characters. In this case, dragon movements were all synchronized to happen in line with the story.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

To do this, Facebook researchers built prototype earbuds and prototype glasses with several microphones, head tracking, and eye-tracking. The glasses monitor the sounds around the user as well as where they’re looking.

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Anand Tech

JANUARY 4, 2022

The basis behind Privacy View is that by using eye tracking and head tracking, AMD’s drivers will be able to determine what the user is looking at – and in the process deter shoulder surfers from being able to easily see a user’s screen.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 8, 2024

The Air headset, introduced at CES , offers 3 degrees of head tracking, and echo cancellation technology, while the Light glasses provide 6DoF head, hand, image, and plane tracking. The HoloLens 2 features 4 visible light cameras for head tracking, 2 IR cameras for eye tracking, and a 5 channel microphone array.

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Road to VR

JULY 25, 2016

According to Veeso, “both the [facial] tracking technology and the avatar interpretation are still not perfect, and further work will be needed in order to have the technology be able to adapt to every typology of face; but we are having encouraging results, and with your support we will achieve the desired goal.”

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 4, 2023

The Air headset, introduced at CES , offers 3 degrees of head tracking, and echo cancellation technology, while the Light glasses provide 6DoF head, hand, image, and plane tracking. The HoloLens 2 features 4 visible light cameras for head tracking, 2 IR cameras for eye tracking, and a 5 channel microphone array.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

One part of my vision impairment is a condition called “nystagmus”, which is characterized by rapid, involuntary eye movements. My nystagmus isn’t too pronounced, so I was determined to make the device work for me out of the box - and to my shock, it did - at least, mostly.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The HoloLens 2 features four visible light cameras for head tracking, 2 IR cameras for eye tracking, and a five-channel microphone array. The Air headset, introd uced at CES , offers 3 degrees of head tracking and echo cancellation technology, while the Light glasses provide 6DoF head, hand, image, and plane tracking.

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Road to VR

JUNE 15, 2020

It packs in a number of features not present in the original 2015-era HoloLens, the most prominent of which is eye-tracking. Eye-tracking not only lets users select UI elements simply by looking at them, but also allows developers to know where a user is looking to better optimize AR apps by better understanding user behavior.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 4, 2023

The Air headset, introduced at CES , offers 3 degrees of head tracking, and echo cancellation technology, while the Light glasses provide 6DoF head, hand, image, and plane tracking. The HoloLens 2 features 4 visible light cameras for head tracking, 2 IR cameras for eye tracking, and a 5 channel microphone array.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Estimating the position of the fovea requires “virtually perfect” eye tracking, which Abrash describes as “not a solved problem at all” due to the variability of pupils, eyelids, and the complexities of building a system that works across the full range of eye motion for a broad userbase.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

The product includes a resolution of 2880 x 1440, as well as a 95-degree field of view and a 90Hz refresh rate. With this device, users can also take advantage of built-in head tracking to keep them immersed within the digital experience as they’re moving around.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 23, 2023

With this device, users can also take advantage of built-in head tracking to immerse them in the digital experience as they move around. The product includes two fast-switching 4K LCD displays, as well as eye tracking and positional tracking tools, plus hand tracking enabled by an Ultraleap sensor.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

The new HoloLens uses its integrated eye tracking to perform user authentication via iris recognition. The new HoloLens features: Eye tracking Full hands tracking (a la Leap Motion) Voice commands understanding. radiants (light points per radian) Eye-based rendering Display optimization for 3D eye position.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

What really made my cry has been the use of head tracking: when you select an app in the initial menu with your controller, then the system shows you a 3D gizmo of the app that you have to position in your room USING YOUR HEAD. There are hands tracking and eye tracking , but they are almost never exploited.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The Qualcomm XR SDK includes core functionality like inside-out head tracking and the ability to run applications on a headset without writing a new application framework from scratch. Larroque tells us that Lynx R-1 will run Android 10 and the company will supply an SDK that’s built on top of the Qualcomm XR SDK.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JUNE 7, 2023

display with a resolution of 2560×1440 pixels, 90Hz refresh rate, Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 chip, 8GB of RAM, 128GB/256GB of storage, eye-tracking, hand-tracking, passthrough cameras, spatial audio, and 2 hours of battery. On the other hand, the Pico 4 contains completive specs, including a single 1.5K

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Eye-based rendering. Display optimization for 3D eye position. Head tracking. Eye tracking. Hand tracking. Eye tracking. Real-time tracking. 6DoF tracking. Resolution. 2k 3:2 light engines. Holographic density. radiants (light points per radian). 4 visible light cameras.

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Road to VR

APRIL 23, 2017

If you have additional information about the behavior of the tracked body, this can also improve prediction accuracy. For instance, when doing head-tracking, understand how fast the human head can possibly rotate and the common rotation speeds are, can improve the tracking model. Sources of Latency.

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Upload VR

AUGUST 30, 2023

Firewall Ultra - Comfort & Control Options All of Firewall Ultra’s menus, including weapon wheels, are navigated using eye tracking.

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VRGuy

MAY 8, 2016

If you have additional information about the behavior of the tracked body, this can also improve prediction accuracy. For instance, when doing head tracking, understand how fast the head can possibly rotate and what are common rotation speeds, can improve the tracking model.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Regarding what components have been opensourced, Google states that “The open source project provides APIs for head tracking, lens distortion rendering, and input handling. HoloLens 2 is an amazing device, with a decent FOV, eye tracking, and hands tracking, that for sure will make many companies happy.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

It features two internal cameras, one for each eye to support eye tracking. It also includes four external cameras, two RGB cameras for MR experiences and two for head tracking which can also be used to generate accurate depth maps. “The reference design supports up to seven cameras.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

I think there’s an inherent risk of collecting eye tracking data, and positional head tracking data, and more data about individuals. I think that’s one thing that is just really pervasive in this industry, is that everybody understands the risks of it as well.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

I think there’s an inherent risk of collecting eye tracking data, and positional head tracking data, and more data about individuals. I think that’s one thing that is just really pervasive in this industry, is that everybody understands the risks of it as well.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

And the next generation of headsets that will come out in the next 24 months will all have eye tracking and head tracking. So, you know where people are looking; you can really get an incredible amount of data back from the headsets, as well as deliver the content to the viewer.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

And the next generation of headsets that will come out in the next 24 months will all have eye tracking and head tracking. So, you know where people are looking; you can really get an incredible amount of data back from the headsets, as well as deliver the content to the viewer.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

And the next generation of headsets that will come out in the next 24 months will all have eye tracking and head tracking. I think just something so simple as a 360 video -- which is very easy to capture now, the cameras are under $5,000, and that's for 8k cameras -- and then being able to overlay the data that you need.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 15, 2020

When you start to have eye tracking, head tracking, gait analysis, gesture analysis, hand tracking, pose analysis, speech analysis, biometrics. So being able to to transcend space and time using this technology is something we’ve never had the ability to do in any education learning format.

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