ARVR

DECEMBER 1, 2020

A form of non-verbal communication through the body (typically the hands or head) that, when tracked by a motion sensing device, can be interpreted as movement and mirrored in virtual reality. Google Poly ?—?a measures orientation and angular velocity; for ARCore-capable smartphones, it helps enable motion tracking.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 18, 2017

Before my demo at Google I/O, Google’s head of VR Clay Bavor outlined a series of caveats and expectations for what I was about to experience. The demo, according to Google, would reset after each journalist so the hardware would see the room fresh each time after each person donned the headset. WorldSense.

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Google HTC Hardware Microsoft 216

Doc-Ok

DECEMBER 26, 2018

There is one other issue for which I do not have a full article, but it’s quite important for new users: VR sickness (aka motion sickness, simulator sickness, …). Today’s VR headsets, at least the ones doing full head tracking (that means Rift/Vive et al.,

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Hardware Head Tracking Latency HTC 45

Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

15 for a Google Cardboard viewer. At the same time, it uses your phone’s internal gyros to provide the head tracking. This transforms your phone into a VR headset screen, simulating devices like the HTC Vive. Additional latency. You will “feel” the latency in ways that you wouldn’t on a full setup.

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Leap Motion Latency Unity Software 28