Road to VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

It’s been a long road for FOVE , the creators of the eye-tracking VR headset that hit Kickstarter last summer, but today the company launches pre-orders for their first commercially available product, the FOVE 0. ” Check out the video below to get a better idea how simulated field-of-depth and foveated rendering work.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The new MR device offers stellar true-colour passthrough, a Snapdragon XR2 processor, and advanced hand and eye tracking solutions, among many other features. Designers include US-based Lebanese-Palestinian artist Samia Khalaf, Ireland-based Romanian artist Ruxandra Popescu, and Swiss artist Zoe Röllin.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

A piece of very interesting news about this headset, which has been reported by few people, is that the Chinese company 7Invensun has already developed an eye-tracking module for it, making Vive Flow even more interesting for enterprise uses. Facebook is working on a big dataset of POV videos. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The HoloLens 2 Development Edition will become available in 10 additional countries by the end of the year: Canada, Germany, France, UK, Ireland, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, and Italy. More info (Unboxing video on Upload VR). Two interesting videos on the Quest 2.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

This boils down to better eye-tracking – where you can trigger an action merely by directing your gaze at a specific spot, and better gesture recognition (in the demo, the device also scanned Julia’s hands, adjusting to their particular shape and size), rather than relying on the very specific “pinch” action which the original HoloLens relied upon.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

The device will be available for $3500 in United States, Japan, China, Germany, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Australia, and New Zealand, the same countries where it was previously available for pre-order. The game has also strong Half-Life vibes , and in the gameplay video that has just been released, they are clearly visible.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2016

There is no other medium – a phone call, a Skype call, even video chat – that gives you anywhere near the amount of feeling you get when you’re in a VR room with somebody else, and you see their neck and head movements and you hear their voice,” argues Florenzano. . For now, virtual offices remain a niche pursuit for VR enthusiasts.

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