The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

I mean, we have not even agreed if it is “the” metaverse or “a” metaverse (I believe in the former, btw)… how can we produce and how can we bring to success something that we don’t even know what it is? No one has an idea on how to build it. Eye tracking. This meme says it all.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 10, 2021

Dubbed Pico Neo 3 Pro, the headset is going to cost $699, and its Pico Neo 3 Pro Eye variant, featuring eye-tracking by Tobii, is going to cost $899. The modding community has also started to evaluate how to create its own content without waiting for official releases. Demeo is the VR game of the moment.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

PlayStation VR 2 Logo (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). The first one is from Panasonic : the windshield features an eye-tracking system, and can so detect where are the eyes of the driver. Click to read the thread on Twitter… it is worth it. Now let’s dig into the best news! Further references.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Then, as usual, John Carmack made his amazing unscripted talk where he detailed how building the “metaverse” is not a matter of doing some kind of high-level dream, but it is a very practical problem of understanding how to actually implement the building blocks of it by optimizing and overcoming the limitations of current technology.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Pico 4 Pro should feature next-gen functionalities like RGB passthrough, eye tracking, face tracking, and automatic IPD adjustment. Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). I honestly don’t know what to think about this news: regulations could be good or bad depending on how they are made. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

As for the partnerships, the most intriguing one is the one with my friends at 7Invensun , one of the worldwide leading companies in eye-tracking technologies. I guess nReal will experiment with eye-tracking for a new version of the headset, maybe targeted at the enterprise market. Samsung AR glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Image by Sony). Sony believes in VR, and we definitely believe at some point in the future, VR will represent a meaningful component of interactive entertainment. So, PSVR2 probably won’t launch before 2022 : Sony can afford that also because it has no competition in the console VR space , so there is no need to rush.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 6, 2020

Together with this, Facebook also employs holographic optics, which is a bit more difficult to explain, but basically, it is lik e a tiny plastic film that has saved inside the information on how to bend laser light rays in a particular way. Sony Dreams adds PSVR support. NextMind devkit is now available for preorder. Learn more.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Horizon Call of the Mountain Developer: Guerrilla Games & Firesprite Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainment Available On: PSVR 2 (exclusive) Release Date: February 22nd, 2023 Horizon Call of the Mountain is the first major first-party IP that Sony offered up as a VR game. Want to read more about Horizon Call of the Mountain

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Built atop an open source set of APIs, the platform was a refreshing take on how to deliver immersive technology. Sony however, having debuted it’s PlayStation 4 powered ‘Morpheus’ (later. This was a headset designed to be pulled apart redesigned and put back together then shared with the community.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The headset has a very nice design and features these specifications: Standalone 6DOF headset 1600×1600 resolution per eye 90Hz refresh rate 90° FOV RGB AR passthrough Innovative lenses that make the headset more compact Integrated audio Controller-free hand-tracking Eye-tracking 6GB of RAM 128GB of storage WiFi 6 (802.11ax), Bluetooth 5.0,

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TechCrunch VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Well-specced, easy to set up and reasonably light and comfortable, Sony’s latest still can’t shake the fundamental issues that have prevented VR from going mainstream: a lack of compelling content and despite a brand new 4K OLED display, distracting image fidelity. But I actually want VR to be good. Keep climbing!

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ARPost

JANUARY 15, 2020

Due largely to the next-level software, including eye-tracking, the Plus eclipsed its colleague and VIVE discontinued the standard Focus. How about human-eye resolution, 20-20 eye tracking, and a heart-stopping refresh rate? See Also: How to Start Your Own Career in Virtual Reality. VIVE Focus Plus.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

The headset had astonishing specifications, like: Display resolution: 1,830 × 1,464 per lens resolution, total 16 million sub-pixels Display type: AMOLED Refresh rate: 90Hz Field of view: 210-degree horizontal FOV, 130-degree vertical FOV Eye-tracking: Fully integrated Tobii eye-tracking, including Dynamic Foveated Rendering.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 5, 2020

Some surprises may arrive from Sony (I hope so, but I don’t believe so), but for the rest, I’ve mostly heard about news from secondary operators. The eye-tracked model costs only $900. The guide explains all the basic concepts of virtual reality and provides a guide on how to use VR headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 21, 2019

Oculus wants to trade exclusive games with Sony. The bombshell comes directly from Jason Rubin, that interviewed from Kotaku, has clearly said that he wants to trade exclusive games with Sony. Further studies will tell us how to mix all the senses in a believable way. (Image by Capcom). This is mind-blowing.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Further, we’ve done best-in-class eye tracker ourselves that allows devices almost mind-read you during test scenarios and adjust you accordingly. Say, you are trying to learn how to start a plane. Integrated 100Hz stereo eye-tracking. for eye-tracking, VR suits, gloves, etc…).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

I truly hope this can be useful for all of you in the XR community… How to read this post. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

Mozilla has also released Firefox Reality for HoloLens , and it features hands tracking in WebXR experiences. I honestly don’t even know how to report this piece of news: Magic Leap has raised other money, to be exact $350M, and it seems that a healthcare company is involved. Participate in a VR eye-tracking apps contest!

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 21, 2022

This, combined with cutting-edge hand and eye tracking, combine real-time 3D (RT3D) content with a person’s field of view (FoV). Sony’s PlayStation VR (PSVR) and upcoming PSVR 2 are examples of such designs. Defining XR. Most recently, companies have begun unlocking potential use cases for XR. Marketing and Sales.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The devices that will be based on this reference design will have amazing specifications like: 2K x 2K display resolution per each eye ; Have up to 7 cameras used simultaneously, including the ones for tracking, mixed reality and eye-tracking; High-quality passthrough augmented reality with high resolution and framerate.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

So you can look at a broken vase and ask the glasses how to fix it. The Pimax Crystal-Sim (Crystal-Sim Flight or Crystal-Sim Racing) is perfect for simmers, with a resolution of 2880×2880 resolution per eye, glass aspheric lenses with minimal to no distortion, and Tobii-powered eye-tracking for Dynamic Foveated Rendering.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

My favorite ones have been: Sony Interactive Entertainment has revealed that the next PSVR headset will be called PSVR 2 and will feature 2K x 2K per eye, up to 120 Hz framerate, and 110° FOV. I have to admit that I thought this CES wouldn’t have brought great news about XR, but actually, we had some nice announcements.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In two days there will be the Facebook Connect, an Apple event and a Sony event about PS5! If you remember well, this platform is based on a modified version of the Snapdragon 865 (3 generations after the 835 of the Oculus Quest) and supports features like eye tracking, high-quality passthrough AR, and 5G. Top news of the week.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Red Matter - October 5 (PSVR 2) Following May's release of Red Matter 2 on PSVR 2 , Vertical Robot is now bringing the original sci-fi VR puzzle adventure to Sony's latest headset. On PSVR 2, it utilizes eye tracking, headset haptic feedback, Sense Controller haptics and adaptive trigger support.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

It will keep the DeepFace face-detection AI engine, that was trained with millions of faces; and is investigating how to use face-detection on the device, without data being transmitted to the cloud, for possible future XR experiences of the m**averse. Sony patents a new kind of foveated rendering.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

In v1 it was only possible to enhance the central part of the frame, while in this new version, VRSS integrates dynamic gaze tracking, and will be able to move its high-quality region so that to make it stay where the user is looking. NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise edition has been announced. Epic Games is paving the road towards the Metaverse.

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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. Facebook always speaks with a very positive attitude (Image by Facebook).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 9, 2017

2016 provided hints of where Facebook, HTC, Sony, Google, and more will take their headsets in the near future, but where does the industry’s best and brightest think we’ll end up this time next year? We’re still figuring out what we can do with VR and how to design for it. So we have a ways to go still.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2022

A pair of “Sony type NP-BX1” compatible Li-Ion batteries and a USB charging cradle cost less than £20. These are a common “Sony type” called BXP-01 used in many digital cameras. Pimax 8K Kickstarter campaign (Image by Pimax on Kickstarter, provided by Rob Cole). Specifications of Pimax Sword (Image by Pimax, provided by Rob Cole).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

It is also a defensive, move that makes it avoid the loss of its partners, as it has happened with Insomniac Studio that has just been acquired by Sony. In a recent video, it is possible to see an avatar that represents a person wearing an eye-tracked headset (Vive Pro Eye), many Vive Trackers and Valve Knuckles controllers.

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