Road to VR

MAY 18, 2017

Lots of caveats were given: ‘the displays are more than two years old, the latency still needs to be optimized, you might see some dropped frames due to the old hardware and software’, I was told. And yet I was still very impressed with what I saw. It isn’t clear yet if this is a design or technical limitation.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 10, 2022

The system creates everything in the user’s environment, which may be exhibited inside a blank room via head-mounted displays (HMDs) or other equipment that helps users feel they are physically inside the virtual world. Users may utilize visual, sound, and haptic (touch) stimuli to create an immersive manufactured world.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 30, 2023

Eye and Hand Tracking Deepens Immersion As noted above, one of the biggest benefits of eye and hand tracking technology in XR is greater immersion. Spatial computing concepts allow us to interact with computers and virtual worlds using our natural actions, from raising a hand to looking at a certain point on a screen.

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2018

Half Dome introduces a much larger 140 degree field of view (to the Rift’s ~100 degree) along with a varifocal display and eye-tracking. The larger field of view will make the virtual world feel much more encompassing and immersive. . | Image courtesy Facebook.

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 7, 2023

The immersive mixed-reality interface minimizes latency and transforms interactions, allowing users to control apps using their hands, eyes, and voice. Apple says the operating system will free apps from the boundaries of a display, linking digital content to the real world in a genuinely immersive format.

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Road to VR

MARCH 29, 2017

Simply put, foveated rendering in VR aims to render the highest quality imagery only at the center of your vision where your eye can detect sharp detail, while rendering low quality imagery in the periphery of your vision where your eye is not tuned to pick up high resolution details.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 20, 2023

The solution also includes a simple and robust system architecture which doesn’t rely on eye-tracking technologies. Poplar Studio Focusing on the era of virtual commerce, Poplar Studio is a specialist agency committed to developing unique experiences through visualization technologies.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2019

I have also to say that there is still a long road to go before going there: the magazines that have tried the solution of HTC found it very interesting, but at the same time highlighted how the latency was still high and sometimes if you moved too fast, you lose the tracking. Read the review here.

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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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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

The M2 delivers unparalleled standalone processing performance, while the new R1 chip is specialized to process input from the cameras, sensors, and microphones to enable what looked like high fidelity, low latency passthrough for a real-time sense of presence. Apple has missed that this is possible today, not tomorrow.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

With this new headset, users won’t just be able to explore more advanced virtual worlds. Both solutions feature hand-tracking capabilities for hands-free functionality. However, it’s worth noting the Quest 3 doesn’t offer eye tracking.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

When you want a more all-encompassing experience, you can simply switch the headset to VR mode and you’re instantly in a massively multiplayer virtual world. Now AR/VR headsets have near perfect eye-tracking, on-board AI that does object recognition and convincingly speaks to you like a personal assistant.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We saw a world go into lockdown. And we're not going back to the old world, the way it was. So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. So front facing cameras, IR cameras, eye tracking cameras, facial tracking cameras, all of these things.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We saw a world go into lockdown. And we're not going back to the old world, the way it was. So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. So front facing cameras, IR cameras, eye tracking cameras, facial tracking cameras, all of these things.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Charlie Fink is a Forbes columnist and an author of two AR-enabled books – Charlie Fink’s Metaverse: A Guide to VR and AR, and Convergence: How the World Will Be Painted with Data. Charlie was EVP and COO of VR Pioneer Virtual World Entertainment. But you need ubiquitous, zero-latency wearable computing to do it.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Charlie Fink is a Forbes columnist and an author of two AR-enabled books – Charlie Fink’s Metaverse: A Guide to VR and AR, and Convergence: How the World Will Be Painted with Data. Charlie was EVP and COO of VR Pioneer Virtual World Entertainment. But you need ubiquitous, zero-latency wearable computing to do it.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

We wanted to bridge the gap between the real and virtual world while helping with customer service and product knowledge” Additionally, the enterprise aims to “be a place where brands and different companies can get involved.”

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

GB: Is it a tradeoff against what you’d call latency, maybe? With hand tracking and eye tracking built into the headset, I can be playing with my friends across the world. Because you’re sitting over there, I know you can’t see parts of my virtual world. Then we come back and resume with no problem.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We saw a world go into lockdown. And we're not going back to the old world, the way it was. So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. So front facing cameras, IR cameras, eye tracking cameras, facial tracking cameras, all of these things.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 31, 2016

What we saw with Oculus at Connect is they sort of hinted at this holy grail prototype of untethered, optimized computer power, low latency, real time, 6 degree of freedom tracking. SEE ALSO Ximmerse Adds Motion Tracking to PC and Mobile VR Using Stereo Camera Tech. You have to remember that it’s still very early days.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In addition to its integrated eye-tracking, which was previously made available in both VR-2 and VR-2 Pro variants, Varjo has now included in its XR-1 two fixed-focus 12 megapixel cameras, which have a 90 Hz refresh and a 94-degree circular viewing angle. Image courtesy Varjo Technologies.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2024

The headset (that you see in the above picture) is quite slick and features pancake lenses, eye tracking by Tobii, integrated audio, and Wi-Fi 6/6E/7. It is not totally bad, and iVRy uncovered that its latency is lower than the one of Quest 3 plus Air Bridge, for instance, but still, people were expecting a much more polished product.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

North Star provides you the AR magic by showing content on two displays that are installed at the sides of your eyes, whose content is reflected onto the semi-transparent lenses that are in front of the eyes. With this easy trick, on the lenses you are able to see both the real and the virtual world.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Anyway, all the analysis for tracking happens on the device and not on the cloud (obviously, latency would be enormous otherwise!). It turns on when the tracking cameras get activated (Image by Road To VR). 4k x 4k per eye displays (eye tracking useful for this). 140 degree FOV (eye tracking useful).

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