ARPost

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Oculus sells battery packs and prescription lenses for the Quest. One of the reasons that HTC VIVE is an ARPost perennial favorite headset manufacturer is because the company doesn’t turn out a headset every day. For example, HP sells gaskets and meter cables for their Reverb headset. The Future Comes in Pieces.

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

When it comes to the HTC Vive Cosmos, HTC Vive has been very peace meal regarding the information being released, with the last official details coming in June. Get ready to liftoff and head for the cosmos. — HTC VIVE (@htcvive) September 10, 2019. The #HTCVIVECOSMOS pre-order starts September 12th.

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VRScout

MAY 2, 2017

In the video Nintendrew (damn that’s an awesome handle) demonstrates how he was able to view an HD 3D video of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D with an aftermarket head mounted display and some simple tinkering with the Switch.

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VRScout

MAY 2, 2017

In the video Nintendrew (damn that’s an awesome handle) demonstrates how he was able to view an HD 3D video of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D with an aftermarket head mounted display and some simple tinkering with the Switch.

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VRScout

AUGUST 1, 2016

From all-in-one mobile VR headsets to tethered head-mounted displays (HMDs) with hand-controllers that looked eerily similar to brands we already report on, one thing’s for sure, there was no shortage of VR and AR hardware on the show floor. million units and hardware revenues approaching $2.3

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Varjo calls their prototype “20|20”, saying that it’s specifically designed for professional users and with resolutions more than 70 times beyond any currently shipping or announced head-mounted display. Varjo’s prototype hiding inside of an Oculus Rift, image courtesy Ubergizmo.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 12, 2017

With any type of head-mounted display, prescription lens garbed users are typically left out in the cold (or profoundly uncomfortable in some of the major HMDs) until a special solution is crafted. USD) for the standard frame shaped for HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Google Daydream, Samsung Gear VR, and PlayStation VR.

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VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2016

Yesterday Intel announced its entry into the virtual reality space with the Project Alloy all-in-one head mounted display. While there are no specifics available about the contents of the hardware, let alone price or release date, this sets a new mark for the high end of virtual reality and mixed reality in the future.

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VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2016

Yesterday Intel announced its entry into the virtual reality space with the Project Alloy all-in-one head mounted display. While there are no specifics available about the contents of the hardware, let alone price or release date, this sets a new mark for the high end of virtual reality and mixed reality in the future.

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 1, 2019

NVIDIA regularly releases Game Ready Drivers for its graphics cards when new software and hardware are due to arrive and today is no exception. To ensure GeForce gamers are fully up to date, support has been added for the HTC Vive Cosmos head-mounted display (HMD) and the Sanzaru Games’ title Asgard’s Wrath. .

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

According to a report, this semiconductor giant has shut down Project Alloy virtual reality headset initiative , in which third-party companies were to build VR headsets based on Intel’s hardware blueprints. The post Intel Abandons Project Alloy VR as it Canceled Its Mobile Processors appeared first on VR World.

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EON Reality

AUGUST 29, 2019

This internship will provide students with application ideation, incubation, and development across a plethora of hardware systems. These systems run the gamut from mobile devices and Head Mounted Displays (HMDs) such as Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and others, to research-specific spaces likes Cave Automatic Virtual Environments (CAVEs).

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AllThingsVR

JULY 5, 2017

The startup is building what it calls a “new type of portable hardware device that might be considered a hybrid between a powerful smartphone and a gaming console.” Vaqso is a Japanese invention consisting of a small device that clips to the bottom of your Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, or PlayStation VR (PSVR). Read more here.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2016

The combination of content, pricing, and simplicity may mean that Sony could take a dominant position in the market over competition like HTC and Oculus. While the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift debuted earlier this year, their market share has grown slowly. VR for Everyone.

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VRPlayin

AUGUST 6, 2019

You may have heard of a little company called Oculus. in the last year or two or their new headset called the Oculus Quest. Oculus began as a small studio with the idea of bringing head-mounted displays to the mainstream market (keep in mind they were to be the first to do this). Enter the Oculus Quest.

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HaptX

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

These are so integral to the world of RPO that every time we see a character wear a head-mounted display (HMD), he or she also wears a pair of VR gloves. With Oculus Go arriving in early 2018 and HTC Vive an official partner of RPO, headset-makers see a huge upside, regardless of whether the movie is commercially successful.

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Digitalnauts

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Users put on a VR headset or head-mounted display to get a 360-degree view of a space their brain believes to be real, thanks through a psychological mechanism called presence. Some examples include the Oculus Quest and Vive Focus platforms. They have some great capabilities in terms of hardware.

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2016

To help do that, I coordinate engineering efforts internal to Epic as well as well as manage relationships with other companies like Oculus, Valve and Samsung to make sure that UE4 lets people maximize the potential of the engine to the fullest and that it’s easy to use. We don’t really have any software to show on it.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 15, 2016

The HTC Vive is arguably the best out there, but having to buy a souped-up laptop just to run it, paying full price for brief games that feel more like demos, and trailing a huge cable off your head and fumbling to mount trackers on your ceiling…it’s not ideal. The visual input is the most important piece of the VR setup.

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Doc-Ok

APRIL 1, 2016

With the first commercial version of the Oculus Rift (Rift CV1) now trickling out of warehouses, and Rift DK2, HTC Vive DK1, and Vive Pre already being in developers’ hands, it’s time for a more detailed comparison between these head-mounted displays (HMDs). Figure 10: Glare test, HTC Vive DK1.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 16, 2017

And gamers will be a big part of that revenue, with projections of spending $100 billion on VR hardware by 2018. Insomniac’s Oculus Touch spellcasting game, The Unspoken , made its second straight tour stop in Katowice (following its debut at IEM Oakland), alongside Ready at Dawn’s Lone Echo and Croteam’s Serious Sam.

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VeeR VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

It was a device that the user sat in-front of while their head was encased on four sides by a screen and they watched any one of five films, which all engaged sight, sound, smell and touch. In 1968, Ivan Sutherland and Bob Sproull created the first head-mounted display (HMD) system for immersive simulation applications.

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Doc-Ok

MAY 7, 2018

Unfortunately, back then I only did the analysis for the HTC Vive. In the meantime I got access to an Oculus Rift, and was able to extract the necessary raw data from it — after spending some significant effort, more on that later. Figure 5: Visualization of HTC Vive’s lens distortion correction. Oculus Rift.

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RealVision VR

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

The other image is an Imax®-in-your-pocket like offering; A VR head mounted display. And, now that China is getting into the VR (hardware and software) game, costs will come down. One image of the composite, is of a new method aimed at getting immersion into conventional Cinemas and Cinema multiplexes.

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VRWorld

JUNE 8, 2016

Thus, AR manufacturers sell their development products by passing the cost onto the end user, while VR development is subsidized by all – Oculus shipped ‘devkits’ for $349.99, HTC Vive PRE program shipped over 10,000 units for free, OSVR is very cheap, and makers like Deepoon go for as low as $249.99.

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Road to VR

MARCH 13, 2018

Oculus Research’s director of computational imaging, Douglas Lanman, is scheduled to give a keynote presentation at SID DisplayWeek in May which will explore the concept of “reactive displays” and their role in unlocking “next-generation” visuals in AR and VR headsets.

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Doc-Ok

OCTOBER 15, 2016

The main issue was that I had been chasing evolving hardware, from the Oculus Rift DK1 to the Oculus Rift DK2, and now to HTC’s Vive. During that long stretch of time, I was never happy with the state of support of any of these devices. That’s finally changed.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

The system featured a head-mounted display with head tracking that could be used to explore virtual environments or real remote images from a camera — foreshadowing future breakthroughs in teleoperation. Palmer Luckey, co-founder of Oculus VR Inc.,

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

A hardware launch wouldn’t be complete without an iFixit teardown, and the most recent VR device on their operating table is Sony’s PlayStation VR. We also get to see the OLED display up close for the first time, and interestingly, the single 1080p display panel has a hexagonal pattern on the surface.

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Peter Graham

JUNE 28, 2019

The head-mounted display (HMD) hasn’t been designed to attract more consumers to the market with cheap pricing, it has been designed for high fidelity and all the VR enthusiasts out there. It might not be OLED like HTC Vive but that hasn’t stopped Valve Index producing a feast for the eyes.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

450 Mpix/second on an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive today is almost a seven times increase in the number of pixels per second compared to 1080p gaming at 30 FPS. Another key enabling idea for modern VR hardware is Lens Distortion. This is why many head-mounted displays use a single inexpensive plastic lens per eye.

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Doc-Ok

JUNE 8, 2016

To prevent this kind of thing from happening — at least in most cases — Valve implemented a system called “Chaperone” into the SteamVR run-time framework that runs their and HTC’s Vive VR headset (and potentially other headsets, through Valve’s OpenVR layer). Video filmed on August 14th, 2013.

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Doc-Ok

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Interestingly, the virtual image of the screen (see Head-mounted Displays and Lenses ) becomes larger as eye relief increases from 0mm to 10mm, and then becomes smaller again as more parts of the screen become occluded by the rim of the lens. Figure 7: View through PSVR’s right lens at 30mm eye relief.

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