Road to VR
MARCH 18, 2017
The root of the HMD Accelerator Program is the Snapdragon 835-based VRDK reference headset, an all-in-one mobile VR headset with inside-out 6DOF tracking, a 90Hz 2560×1440 AMOLED display, 100 degree field of view, 4GB of RAM, eye-tracking, and hand-tracking ( via Leap Motion’s new mobile sensor ).
The Ghost Howls
FEBRUARY 6, 2019
To get there, I had to ask for information to people that was not able to speak English… it has been funny. I must give a special mention to the Leap Motion v2 sensor. It features two wide-baseline IR cameras and two IR emitters for the tracking. Me, super excited in front of the VRgineers’s office.
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Road to VR
AUGUST 17, 2018
There’s a lot that can be said about the Magic Leap One. It’s trying to do a ton—eye-tracking, hand-tracking, 6DoF controllers, real-time meshing and a number of other features that haven’t been seen in a mobile MR device before. The Magic Leap One consists of three elements: a light-pack, a headset and a controller?—?all
The Ghost Howls
DECEMBER 9, 2019
Well, with this new chip, headsets will: Have a resolution of 3K per eye ; Have up to 7 cameras used simultaneously (12 in total for the device). He made various experiments and hacked a Vive Pro with Leap Motion to make interactions more realistic. It’s a very interesting story, that I suggest you all to read.
The Ghost Howls
MARCH 4, 2021
PS Before starting, would you mind joining my Patreon so that to support my hard work in informing the XR communities with detailed reviews like this one?]. Think about it as an eye-tracking device that instead of looking into your eyes, reads inside your skull. NextMind vs Eye Tracking.
The Ghost Howls
JUNE 1, 2020
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. And all of this is cheaper than the $1000 enterprise Oculus Quest : the Neo 2 costs $700 and the Neo 2 Eye costs $900.
The Ghost Howls
JUNE 4, 2023
It should run on top of an M2 chipset, which is much more powerful than the processing unit of the Quest 2, 4K displays per eye with strong HDR (a rumor talks about a 5000-nits display, about which many are lost in the optical path), a quite nice FOV. It is compatible with Windows, Mac, and Android, and costs $140.
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