Road to VR

OCTOBER 29, 2018

This week at XRDC in San Francisco, the company spoke more about the dev kit and noted that between the Vive Focus and other Vive Wave powered headsets, consumers are likely to see a number of different 6DOF controller tracking technologies accompanying different headsets.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 26, 2016

The system is already used on the $3,000 HoloLens, an advanced augmented reality system, but with it employed on a low-cost VR headset Microsoft may have leapfrogged efforts by both Facebook and Google, powered by Windows. Low end VR on Xbox and these new headsets, all the way through high end mixed reality on HoloLens.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Image by Google). Google completely opensources Cardboard. With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard. Google affirms that Cardboard has been a huge success to introduce people into VR, and more than 15 million headsets have been distributed.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 1, 2017

Announcements today include innovations in entertainment, gaming and cinema, smart wearables, sensing toys, robotics and consumer electronics, cloud, enterprise and business technologies, human-computer interaction solutions, automotive, and high-performance APIs. www.massless.io www.deepoptics.com. Ride a bike like a fighter pilot!

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VRGuy

AUGUST 1, 2016

This allows applications to work without regards to the particular device or technology choice. For example, head tracking can come from optical trackers or inertial ones. Eye tracking software converts eye images into gaze direction. Hand tracking software converts hand position into gestures.

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