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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VRScout

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Varjo’s professional-grade headset features retina-grade resolution and eye-tracking functionality. Combined with the headsets integrated eye-tracking functionality, users can supposedly expect lifelike virtual content featuring levels of detail not currently offered by other major providers. FOV: 87 Degrees.

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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. Brain-computer interface systems like Neurable’s VR game Awakening uses an electrode-laden headband, connected to an HTC Vive HMD, to track brain activity.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Over the years, technology has become smaller, lighter, more comfortable, and with faster processing, breathing life into the virtual world. Also, unlike augmented reality (AR), which people can access via smartphones and smart glasses, VR relies on larger headsets and controllers to interact with fully-immersive virtual worlds.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Flagship products such as the Meta Quest Pro, Pico 4 and Pico 4 Enterprise, and HTC VIVE Focus 3 and Flow devices have recently hit shelves, sparking interest in the emerging technology. Virtual Reality Guides: Case Studies. VR has largely driven news of the Metaverse , namely as cutting-edge headsets have debuted in markets.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The new technology converts the entire M2 vehicle as a controller for the MR system, using cutting-edge immersive solutions from Helsinki’s Varjo Technologies to merge the real and virtual worlds. The vehicle will merge with the physical and virtual world of the users.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 27, 2023

This means you’ll pay about the same as you would for the HTC VIVE Pro 2. You also get a handy IPD slider and can adjust interpupillary distance manually or automatically (with eye tracking). When you put the headset on, it uses eye-tracking tools to ensure you get the best possible visual experience.

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Road to VR

MARCH 28, 2018

Saccadic suppression occurs during these movements, essentially rendering us blind for a brief moment until the eye reaches its new point of fixation. A VR backpack allows a user at GTC 2018 to move through the saccadic redirected walking demo without a tether. Photo by Road to VR.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

You largely have to imagine the expressions of people as they interact with a virtual world. Using a collection of techniques, including a modified HTC Vive with SMI eye tracking , Google digitally recreates your face in place of the VR headset that is blocking it.

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Cats and VR

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Next, we use an HTC Vive, modified by SMI to include eye-tracking, to capture the person’s eye-gaze from inside the headset. Finally, we composite the person into the virtual world, which requires calibrating between the Vive tracking system and the external camera.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 26, 2017

What I mean to say is that this is a popular anime and manga series set in the year 2022 in which the titular MMORPG traps players inside its virtual worlds. Fans can rejoice, then; an official Sword Art Online VR experience is coming, but not on Luckey’s Rift, nor HTC’s Vive or PlayStation VR. But it might be soon.

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2017

This week we learned that there was indeed something to all that hiring, as Google has announced new ‘standalone’ headsets coming to the Daydream platform , fully self-contained VR devices, the first of which will come from HTC and Lenovo. Core to the discussion was the new ‘standalone’ VR headsets coming to Daydream.

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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. This sounds like black magic and it is really fascinating: using eye tracking and other hints, the system may understand what is that you want to hear, and filter out all the rest.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2019

HTC 5G streaming. HTC was at MWC showcasing its new headset Vive Focus Plus together with a 5G network. There was a real 5G network created by HTC where on one side there were some special computers that mocked a rendering farm and on the other side there was a user wearing a Vive Focus Plus. Read the review here.

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 17, 2017

It’s quite possible the team has another game on the way under that partnership, though it could just as easily be working on a PlayStation VR exclusive if not on the HTC Vive as one of the new Vive Studios teams. The new hardware hint is also enticing.

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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

MAY 23, 2022

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. Thanks to the leak reported by around ten insiders, the online magazine has been able to cast a light on some unknown details about the headset.

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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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NVidia VR

JUNE 18, 2020

The Windows desktop application can run on NVIDIA RTX GPUs, providing teams with the best graphics performance for virtual worlds. VIVE Sync enables colleagues and partners across the world to interact in a shared virtual space, increasing productivity, collaboration and team chemistry.”. Learn more about Autodesk VRED.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 29, 2018

However, following the release of consumer equipment like the HTC Vive , Oculus Rift , Sony PSVR and the various mobile VR headsets , we now have a different situation with a much larger group of people (the general population) using virtual reality on a regular basis, for longer periods of time.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

Eight year ago, when I first launched Hypergrid Business , virtual worlds offered a unique set of compelling features. There was presence, and immersion, and the ability to create your own virtual environments. At that time, virtual worlds were the only visible path to an interconnected metaverse of virtual environments.

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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. A new metaverse.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

Mister President launching the Vive Focus (Image by HTC). That’s why the other companies, like HTC and Pico, have decided to aim at the enterprise market. In my opinion (but this is pure speculation), HTC will tease a new Vive Focus this year , so that to answer to the Quest. Mobile headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

HP and Microsoft have a long track in offering enterprise hardware, so this headset may battle HTC on his own land (B2B). The Neo 2 may not be sexy as the Quest, but it is more powerful (thanks to the Snapdragon 845), has a crisper resolution , and in the “Eye” version, it also features embedded eye tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

A lot of startups have started working on the so-called “ARCloud”, that is a persistent and shared virtual world that is coherent with the real one. This means that it is possible to create AR experiences that are persistent in whatever place of the world and that are shared among all people of the world.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In the future, users will access the Metaverse, a unified space integrating multiple virtual worlds on an interoperable platform. Regarding technologies, the Metaverse will incorporate artificial intelligence (AI), virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR), the internet of things (IoT), and hand and eye tracking tools.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2023

HTC Vive XR Elite HTC Vive XR Elite (Image by HTC Vive) The star of the event has for sure been the Vive XR Elite, HTC’s latest flagship headset. One is the high cost: HTC markets it as a consumer device, but at that price, not many consumers are going to buy it, so it will be a prosumer one.

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Road to VR

MARCH 13, 2018

Among three keynotes to be held during SID DisplayWeek 2018 , Douglas Lanman, director of computational imaging at Oculus Research, will present his session titled Reactive Displays: Unlocking Next-Generation VR/AR Visuals with Eye Tracking on Tuesday, May 22nd. An eye-tracking addon for the HTC Vive.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 30, 2023

On the UX side, other interesting things are being rumored: the headset would ship with no controller, and rely only on eye tracking and hands tracking for interactions. But I think it’s not a good move for Meta, for the following reasons: It shows that it is “afraid” of HTC. This doesn’t sound to me very “Apple”.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2019

But this time, Valve has made it without the collaboration of HTC. Maybe with eye tracking and some more screen resolution, it may have been. The specs list is very similar to the one of the HTC Vive Pro. This great innovation, according to Valve, will let you have +20° FOV on your perceived virtual world.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Also, while converging the physical and virtual worlds is inevitable, it won’t be through massive ski goggles on your face. Apple’s approach was not to get everyone into virtual worlds right away, but it was a great way to meet audiences halfway. Apple has missed that this is possible today, not tomorrow.

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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. Rec Room is one of the most popular virtual worlds, and it is growing very fast.

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Road to VR

MARCH 24, 2017

Today’s most immersive virtual reality systems, like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, rely on a bothersome tether to send power and high fidelity imagery to the headset at low latency. Ridding our headsets of the cable would mean deeper immersion and physical freedom within the virtual world.

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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. from PC) to join its virtual worlds , too, so that to increment the user base. Disney is working on glasses-free virtual installations.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

PSVR 1 required an array of cables connected to a breakout box and a PlayStation Camera, while PSVR 2 connects via a single USB-C cable and has onboard cameras for inside-out tracking. Positional Tracking Camera Bar Required Built-In Inside-Out Passthrough ? Black & White Eye Tracking ? Headset Rumble ?

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VRScout

MARCH 6, 2017

First Windows mixed reality dev headset ships, dive into the virtual world via Xbox, high-end VR gets more affordable, Rogue One used VR to direct scenes, the investment & funding wrapup, and much more… FIRST WINDOWS MIXED REALITY HEADSET SHIPS LATER THIS MONTH. FOX SPORTS USES VIRTUAL REALITY ART FOR SUPER BOWL COMMERCIALS.

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