The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

The main one regards the 4 devices we were waiting for this year , which in our opinion should have changed everything: Quest 3, Apple Vision Pro, Google-Samsung Headset, and PSVR 2. Google and Samsung Prototype of the Samsung XR headset. I have this impression for a few reasons. Long story short: things are not good.

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Road to VR

JUNE 18, 2021

Bloomberg has a decent track record regarding the accuracy of its VR sources. As the Bloomberg report notes, the majority of modern VR headsets have moved to LCD displays, but the next-gen PSVR may use a Samsung-made OLED display, just like the first-gen PSVR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2024

This Face Tracking add-on magnetically attaches to the facial interface of the device, and it adds to it both eye tracking and face tracking. It features two 120Hz eye-tracking cameras and one 60Hz lower face-tracking camera. The device costs $200 and it is available starting today.

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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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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MARCH 4, 2024

Major Firms Enter the XR Market During a launch event at MWC 2024, Samsung showcased a new XR headset developed in collaboration with Google and Qualcomm. At the event, Samsung also unveiled other innovative tech products, such as an immersive device, a smart ring, and an assistive mobility robotics device.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Half Dome, Facebook’s high field of view (FOV) varifocal prototype headset, fits in a Rift-like size format, and contains a veritable wish list of features including eye-tracking, varifocal display, and a 140 degree FOV. Image courtesy Facebook.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 4, 2024

The chipset also helps boost consumer and enterprise-grade XR use cases on headsets and smartglasses by leveraging partnerships with Samsung, Google, Tobii, and Goertek to provide visual clarity for gaming and productivity applications. Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2: What’s New?

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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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Road to VR

MAY 11, 2018

Currently the market leaders in pixel density are Samsung Odyssey and HTC Vive Pro, both with the same Samsung-built panel at ~615 ppi. For comparison, both the Vive and Rift use a pair of 1080 × 1200 displays with a ppi of ~456.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 27, 2023

HP also recently introduced its own XR device management platform to help companies keep track of their immersive devices. HTC VIVE With tools for augmented, extended, and virtual reality , HTC VIVE has a strong presence in the immersive technologies landscape.

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Road to VR

MAY 25, 2018

.” Standalone headsets have largely made use of SoCs originally designed for smartphones, including the Snapdragon 835 chipset, which services a number of the latest and penultimate-gen flagship smartphones including Samsung’s Galaxy S8, Google Pixel 2, and HTC U11. image courtesy Qualcomm.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 5, 2024

The timing of this new reference design with Goertek reflects the demand for natural interaction that we are seeing all across the XR industry, which will enable OEMs to reduce time-to-market for their next-generation VR headset with brilliant hand tracking interactions.

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Road to VR

MARCH 12, 2018

If correct, it has a clear advantage over even the highest resolution panels seen in current headsets such as the Samsung Odyssey or the upcoming HTC Vive Pro, both of which pack dual 1440 × 1600 resolution, 3.5 .” Such a display, OLED-Info postulates, could land somewhere around a resolution of 5500 × 3000. inch AMOLEDs at 90Hz.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2024

The headset has some wholly unique capabilities not seen on other consumer VR headsets, like eye-tracking, head-haptics, and adaptive triggers. However, Vive XR Elite’s $1,100 price-point put it more in line with Meta’s Quest Pro which was initially priced at $1,500 before Meta undercut HTC by dropping it to $1,000.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

In the case of VR, we all remember the competition between HTC and Oculus in 2016, with HTC clearly winning the market until Oculus used Facebook’s money to slash the price of the Rift around 2017. To these, you have to add the companies that are already competing, like for instance HTC or HP. No one can compete now.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2018

HTC has maybe been the virtual reality company that has shown the most interesting things at this MWC. From the talk, it is clear that HTC is betting a lot on these new technologies and envisions a future where all of us will wear these devices every day. Samsung S9. The beautiful Samsung Galaxy S9, in all its colors.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

He has been a believer in VR since the DK1 days but became sold on the current iteration of VR with the HTC Vive prototype. While Samsung’s Gear VR headset has been leading the way in mobile VR, it’s based on a smartphone inside of an HMD which has limited capability and cannot be implemented by anyone other than Samsung.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

OMG, it’s almost 3 years that I write these roundups… the first week peek was exclusive for my blog subscribers and it featured as best news the release of Google Blocks and in the other news something about Samsung Gear VR… how much time has passed since then! Participate in a VR eye-tracking apps contest!

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 5, 2024

This week saw Microsoft, Google, Samsung, Qualcomm, Meta, and Sony move to optimize their product offerings and business operations. Shahram Izadi, Vice President of AR at Google , notes how Android ecosystem support will enable developers to collaborate with Samsung and Qualcomm to drive the future of immersive and spatial XR.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 5, 2017

Many of the biggest companies on the planet, from Samsung and HTC, to Facebook, Amazon, and Google, and even all the way to Ford, Mercedez, and countless startups, all gather in the desert at the start of the year to unveil the latest and greatest advancements in consumer electronics.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 5, 2024

Alongside the announcement of the new Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 chip, Qualcomm also revealed its latest reference headset, a mixed reality device that’s likely the foundation of Samsung’s upcoming headset. Samsung announced last year that it’s working with both Google and Qualcomm on an XR device.

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Road to VR

JULY 4, 2017

Not to be left out of the reference design fun (with Intel, Qualcomm, and more already offering headset blueprints for others to build upon), Samsung has revealed its VR headset reference design. Visual Camp , a Korean firm focusing on eye-tracking technology, announced that its tech would be built into the headset.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Meta’s MR product looks to compete with other MR products from firms such as Apple, Varjo, HTC Vive, Nreal, Samsung, and Google.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Feature-wise, it is more or less as we expected it to be, with four cameras for inside-out tracking, haptic feedback, IPD adjustment , eye-tracking, HDR display. HTC released a trailer about his vision for the metaverse. HTC has released a trailer video with his vision of the metaverse.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

Mister President launching the Vive Focus (Image by HTC). Samsung has also teased to be interested in releasing a new AR/VR standalone device. That’s why the other companies, like HTC and Pico, have decided to aim at the enterprise market. The Odyssey has anyway the problem of the non-optimal tracking of controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

All the other major companies (Samsung, Huawei, etc…) are working on AR and Apple for sure can’t stop experimenting with if it doesn’t want to miss the next communication platform as Microsoft did with Windows Phone. A new job listing points out to the fact that Oculus is planning to integrate eye tracking in its next devices.

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VRScout

JULY 19, 2016

HTC has sold an estimated 100k Vives. Samsung Gear VR expected 3.5 Fove has created an eye-tracking headset, which other headset manufacturers may seek to include in future iterations. Gen Z is the the most passionate segment in VR. Average time spent in headset is 25 minutes. VR Consumption, 2016. million units in 2016.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Meta’s MR product looks to compete with other MR products from firms such as Apple, Varjo, HTC Vive, Nreal, Samsung, and Google.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

HTC Vive Wrist Tracker. HTC Vive Wrist Tracker (Image by HTC). HTC has made an announcement at this CES and it has been a pretty cool one. The company has just revealed the Vive Wrist Tracker, which is an external 6DOF tracking unit that can be put on the wrist of the user or also on external props.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 15, 2016

The HTC Vive is arguably the best out there, but having to buy a souped-up laptop just to run it, paying full price for brief games that feel more like demos, and trailing a huge cable off your head and fumbling to mount trackers on your ceiling…it’s not ideal. Eye tracking: Fove: Eyefluence: SMI: Bladerunner (film).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

So, this may be what Oculus will make people try: Rift 2 : eye tracking , varifocal display, 140° FOV. I think the time has come… it is not possible that HTC is the only company offering something like that, and that is really loved by its custome r s. It will also feature new controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

The new HoloLens is expected to be lighter (my sources say that it is much smaller than the current one ), with a field of view that is the double of the current one , full hands tracking, eye tracking and integration with AI thanks to a dedicated chip (this could add object detection and other fancy features to the device).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

What made the VR 820 so compelling was that it had 6-DoF tracking as well as integrated compute (Snapdragon 820) which was on par with all the latest flagship phones. It even had support for eye tracking, which we now know was through a partnership with none other than SMI.

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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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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

On stage at Vive Developer Conference in Beijing, HTC today unveiled their upcoming standalone VR headset, Vive Focus. Image courtesy HTC. HTC says the Vive Wave VR SDK offers an open interface enabling interoperability between numerous mobile VR headsets and accessories.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

Truly next-gen VR (featuring a fantastic display and very wide FOV, varifocal resolution, eye tracking, haptics controllers, etc…) will take many years to realize. If you think about it, in the last period, the great years that we remember for headsets are 2016 (Rift CV1, HTC Vive) and 2019 (Oculus Quest, Valve Index).

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 29, 2016

2015’s CES was the first for Samsung’s ‘Oculus powered’ mobile VR headset ‘Gear VR’ having been unveiled and impressing a few months earlier at IFA Berlin. The HTC Vive (DK1), SteamVR Controllers and Laser Basestations. The Oculus Rift Crescent Bay Prototype. The final Oculus Rift consumer edition.

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