Upload VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Google’s Most Experienced VR Studio Changes Leadership Andrew Eiche is taking over Job Simulator studio Owlchemy Labs. In August 2022, Owlchemy announced work on a new hand tracking-focused multiplayer VR game. In 2017, Google acquired Owlchemy Labs.

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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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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2022

Nowadays in social VR worlds like VRChat you can have a maximum of 50–100 people together in the same room. If we want to create virtual worlds scenarios like a concert in a stadium with 50,000 people inside singing altogether, we need to have a new networking stack. I can’t wait to have my stadium experience in VR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 30, 2022

Hand tracking can provide insights into where employees might be making mistakes in their performance, even when learning how to do complex things, like operate heavy machinery. Eye tracking, on the other hand, can record eye positions and movements to provide insights into the human mind. Improved Interactions in XR.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 13, 2017

Building on that, the company’s also interested in affecting the virtual world around you with gaze tracking. Mallinson spoke about using the direction the player was looking to change the virtual world around them. Mallinson isn’t ruling out hardware upgrades though.

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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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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 10, 2022

Augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) are technologies that overlay or replace physical environments with virtual content. While AR enhances surroundings by incorporating digital components into live view, VR is an experience that replaces the actual world with a computer-generated simulation. percent up to 2028.

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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.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 25, 2021

the simulator fans that want a headset with super-high resolution), no competitor could survive against a headset that is comfortable, affordable, has a great library of content, and has full body tracking and full RGB passthrough. Aero still features an impressive resolution and pixel density, and also integrated eye-tracking.

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Bernard Marr

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The bottom line, as more people spend time in realistic virtual worlds, we need our legal systems to catch up fast. Privacy Will Be A Key Concern The metaverse also brings new privacy challenges because all this immersive technology will be even better at tracking our actions and intentions. There is hope on the horizon.

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Hand and eye tracking technologies make it easier to monitor these components of our bodies and translate them into digital behaviours. Without new sensors or haptic feedback tools, tracking things like torsos and legs is complex. It allows users to bring avatars from “ Ready Player Me ” to their virtual worlds.

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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. Bring Distance Learning and Events to a Virtual World. VRED also offers NVIDIA VRS for eye tracking with the VIVE Pro Eye , allowing teams to maximize quality in VR designs.

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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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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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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

CPR Simulator. CPR Simulator is an application available on App Lab meant to teach CPR (CardioPulmonary Resuscitation) through VR in an easy and user-friendly way. We are not supporting eye tracking or biometrics for this closed beta. Virtual worlds then and now Funny link. News from partners (and friends).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

My favorite ones have been: Sony Interactive Entertainment has revealed that the next PSVR headset will be called PSVR 2 and will feature 2K x 2K per eye, up to 120 Hz framerate, and 110° FOV. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

References found in the Oculus Quest 2 firmware by users Reggy04 and Basti564 highlight how the Quest 2 Pro should have: Eyes tracking Facial expressions tracking Eye relief knob Granular IPD adjustment External charging station. References found in Quest 2 firmware hint to Quest Pro features. It has 4.5DOF.

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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. Picture 2).

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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. This shows the greater attention that companies are having towards full body avateering and embodiment in virtual worlds in general.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2022

There is a Pico 4 Pro version which includes eye tracking ; It has some interesting lenses , which look very different from the Fresnel lenses used by Pico until now; It features pancake lenses and a sleek design. She lists some interesting stats about Gen Z and how is their attitude towards virtual worlds. Other news.

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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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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

This, the company hopes, could one day give users the ability to bypass our senses to virtually simulate vision, touch, taste, and effectively our entire perception. 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.

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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. Rec Room is one of the most popular virtual worlds, and it is growing very fast. More info (SideQuest from the Quest?—?Reddit Reddit Post).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2019

Maybe with eye tracking and some more screen resolution, it may have been. This great innovation, according to Valve, will let you have +20° FOV on your perceived virtual world. Eye relief (or FOV) Knob. But this time, Valve has made it without the collaboration of HTC. We can say that it is an improved Vive Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 31, 2022

The headset won’t come in two sizes, but in a single one, because the eye box of the lenses is big enough to accommodate for different positions of the eyes in the users. To be exact, the eye box is twice as large as the one in Magic Leap One. News worth a mention. Image by Unity).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

For simulators, design experiences and other kinds of similar usages, it is a blast. But the controllers are a big pain point: the ergonomics are not perfect and tracking is subpar if compared to Oculus Insight or Valve’s Steam VR. This is the first device that integrates EEG, EMG, EDA, PPG, and eye-tracking into a single headset.”

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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. Charlie: VR has a lot of fantastic applications in training and simulation.

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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. Charlie: VR has a lot of fantastic applications in training and simulation.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

The Enterprise Edition features a more balanced design and eye-tracking ; Finch and Nreal have developed a new controller that consists of a ring on your finger plus a bracelet around your arm. Anything World makes you create virtual worlds with your voice. Learn more.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

I mean, if you think about it, let’s say you have a firefighter squad that wants to train together, and, you know, they have a giant field that they can simulate a real fire in a building. And one of the things that you guys announced at VEC – I keep going back to this – but, you know eye tracking and lip tracking.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

I mean, if you think about it, let’s say you have a firefighter squad that wants to train together, and, you know, they have a giant field that they can simulate a real fire in a building. And one of the things that you guys announced at VEC – I keep going back to this – but, you know eye tracking and lip tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

edge detection); Eye-tracking sensors (accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer); A battery system ; A 5Ghz radio communication antenna to make the lens communicate with an external unit; An ARM0 processor , that acts as a “traffic cop” for the data. This proves the value of eye-tracking and its implementation inside PSVR 2.

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NVidia VR

AUGUST 20, 2018

These optical calculations replicate the way light behaves to create stunningly realistic imagery, and allow VR developers to better simulate real-world environments. Turing’s RT Cores can also simulate sound, using the NVIDIA VRWorks Audio SDK. Today’s VR experiences provide audio quality that’s accurate in terms of location.

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NVidia VR

AUGUST 20, 2018

These optical calculations replicate the way light behaves to create stunningly realistic imagery, and allow VR developers to better simulate real-world environments. Turing’s RT Cores can also simulate sound, using the NVIDIA VRWorks Audio SDK. Today’s VR experiences provide audio quality that’s accurate in terms of location.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 14, 2019

So, putting some of the physical world together with a lot of the virtual world is a really wise idea. So, I think the most meaningful experience I had was around putting together the physical world and the virtual world about the time when I would say, I had my new eyes, and I could see in stereo.

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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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