XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 31, 2023

Extended reality (XR) motion sickness is an affliction that affects the inner ear when the body experiences repeated motions or movements. Although commonplace in XR, users and hardware manufacturers can take steps that ensure motion sickness does not occur. Meta VRCs monitor numerous aspects that reduce motion sickness.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Augmented reality for maintenance and repair 4. Top 10 Movies that Got Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Righ Edit-time ?—?when Field of View (FoV): Field of View represents the visual area in which users can see virtual content in an augmented reality headset. Environmental understanding ?—?understanding

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Road to VR

MARCH 8, 2017

The popular forms of mobile VR headsets, such as the Samsung Gear VR and Google Daydream View and Cardboard, are currently limited to rotational head tracking, meaning that you can look around comfortably from a single vantage point, but movements of the head through 3D space (like leaning forward or backward) cannot be tracking.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Controller and head tracking is solid on the device — as it was on Quest 1 — while hand tracking will only get better. As above, Facebook has positioned Quest 2 to gain capability and appeal over time with hand tracking, expanding libraries and features unlocked through software. Virtual Reality Oasis.

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Doc-Ok

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

actually come together to create realistic-looking virtual environments? Most attempts to answer it fall back on technical aspects, such as stereoscopy, head tracking, etc., 4:36 — Handling user movement, or: why head tracking is necessary. 5:45 — Embedded (real) video showing head tracking in action.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

Like any new technology hitting the consumer market for the first time, virtual reality is currently a pretty expensive form of entertainment. The real financial investment however is in the beefy PC hardware required to even turn these headsets on. Still exciting nonetheless.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Controller and head tracking is solid on the device — as it was on Quest 1 — while hand tracking will only get better. As above, Facebook has positioned Quest 2 to gain capability and appeal over time with hand tracking, expanding libraries and features unlocked through software. Virtual Reality Oasis.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Last year Qualcomm Technologies revealed its new Snapdragon XR2 platform design with 5G and the next generation of augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) devices in mind. ” So 2020 could see some exciting standalone hardware arrive by the end of the year with the help of 5G.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The chipset is the central unit of the headset, it is like its brain , the hardware computing the images that you see, that gives hw acceleration for video encoding, computer vision, AI, etc… The more powerful the chipset, the bigger the brain of your headset, that so can have more features and offer more realism.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

By the time Howard Rheingold’s “Virtual Reality” was published in 1991, the Sensorama was already a “slowly deteriorating” relic stashed away in a cabana next the pool at its inventor’s West Los Angeles home. NASA promotion shot of VIEW (Virtual Interactive Environment Workstation). Helig died in 1997 at age 70.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2022

At AWE 2022 I had the opportunity of having a very short hands-on with the Shiftall MeganeX glasses, one of the most awaited pieces of hardware in the XR community. And even better, I have also had the pleasure of speaking with the CEO of the company! Let me tell you in this post everything I learned… Shiftall MeganeX.

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Road to VR

JUNE 2, 2016

Usens is one of the early developers of hand and head tracking tech; according to the announcement from the company this investment will help launch new and improved non-controller hand and head tracking tools. A render of a camera-based tracking module like those used by uSens.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 7, 2016

Funding Roundup: Merge VR Raises $10M & uSens Raises $20M Merge Labs funding came from a whole community of investors in gaming, software, hardware and retail sectors across the nation. With the 26DOF mobile hand tracking, this solution replaces the need for peripheral devices such as game controllers or gloves. Read more here.

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AllThingsVR

MAY 19, 2016

Start Developing For Google Daydream VR Right Now if You Have a Google Nexus 6P Yesterday, at Google I/O, the company unveiled the first details of its new virtual reality platform, Google Daydream. Setting up a Daydream Developer Kit appears relatively simple, as the software and hardware are designed to remain open and accessible.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Jaunt is a Palo Alto-based company that is currently one of the leading providers of 360-degree virtual reality content. The only notable exception to Jaunt’s availability on the various hardware platforms was Sony’s PlayStation VR headset. As of today, however, that exception no longer applies.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2016

VLC 360 was created through a partnership between VideoLan and the hardware company Giroptic. The platform has a stated interest in moving deeper into arenas such as virtual reality in 2017. VLC will also get 3D audio playback, including head tracking headphones. We’ll keep you posted.”

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

We’re working to take virtual reality from an early adopter concept to a revolution for all of computing. Modern Virtual Reality Systems. Instead, the head tracking data are routed to a GPU stage that appears after rendering is complete. Another key enabling idea for modern VR hardware is Lens Distortion.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Find out this week on Developer Labs with a retro art experiment and how hardware hacking can change the world. To take control of your own hardware integrations, check out Cylon.js to hack an Arduino. Let us know your hardware hacking dreams @LeapMotionDev with the hashtag #WWYL. How Hardware Hacking Can Change the World.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 30, 2017

Sensic, a long-time player in virtual reality and co-founder of OSVR , finally released their VR headset destined to make its way to public venues such as theme parks and arcades. pre-production model, image courtesy Sensics. .”

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

I have been able to speak for almost one hour with Jeremy Bailenson , which is the professor at Stanford that is a legend in the VR field for his studies on interactions, psychology, and training in Virtual Reality. There was a lot of hardware work. His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus.

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Road to VR

APRIL 17, 2018

But for some of us, it was also an unlikely hero—the Hydra was the first big key to unlocking presence in virtual reality, thanks to its positional tracking. Without positional tracking of the head or hands, player movement in VR projects was either bound to the analogue sticks or omitted entirely.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2021

There’s actually a blog post that you published in 2018 about the importance of ergonomics in virtual reality that I really agree with. When you go off to construct your own AR/VR headset, especially for the first time, you tend to think in the standard hardware spectrum of things including display resolution, processor speed, etc. .

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

The professional-grade mixed reality solution available from the company today is the Varjo XR-3. The solution turns tracking inside out to reduce setup time, and loosens the hardware restrictions of other devices. However, the technology is also capable of supporting mixed reality experience with passthrough capabilities.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 23, 2023

Varjo Exploring both software and hardware-based solutions for the extended reality world, Varjo is assisting businesses in numerous industries in the discovery of immersive opportunities. The professional-grade mixed reality solution available from the company today is the Varjo XR-3.

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VRWorld

DECEMBER 28, 2017

The Hardlight suit is essentially a suit that can be worn over your torso and arms to provide full haptic feedback in accordance with the games you’re playing, as well as detailed arm tracking. Unlike, say, a VR treadmil l, you can’t really “hack” a solution to use the hardware in unsupported games, either.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Today, Google finally pulled the curtain back on its mysterious virtual reality headset: Daydream View. However, much like a certain wonderful wizard that once also hid behind a curtain, View, in its reality, has potential but falls somewhat short of expectations.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

But does this survival horror release from CM Games hold up on standalone VR hardware? It forces you to keep track of a lot of little details that most other games would gloss over or ignore, but that only helps to bring you further into its bizarre, slow-burn apocalypse of a world. Read on for our full Into the Radius Quest 2 review.

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VRWorld

DECEMBER 28, 2017

It was an Android gaming-centric VR headset that bundled all of its hardware into a small, SNES-esque gamepad, and decent tech specs. The new Pico Neo comes with the same Snapdragon 835 chipset, but now has full head tracking and is compatible with Vive Wave, like the upcoming HTC Vive Focus.

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Road to VR

APRIL 23, 2017

While a lot of attention has been focused on predictive tracking in virtual reality applications, it is also very important in augmented reality, especially because the viewer has the instantaneous movement of the real world to compare against the augmented reality overlay. Data smoothing. Transmission delays.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 26, 2016

. “This means shifting from being a HoloLens-focused mixed reality company to a Windows Holographic focused mixed reality and virtual reality company. HoloLens will continue to be at the core of what we do, but Windows Holographic is the larger and more diverse ecosystem that HoloLens exists within.”

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JANUARY 10, 2017

The scrappy startup was announcing its CES 2017 lineup and this year that included an 8K (4K per-eye) resolution, 200 degree field of view virtual reality headset. The first is a complete lack of positional tracking. Several weeks ago, we published a story about a company called Pimax. The second problem is brightness.

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Doc-Ok

JANUARY 17, 2017

The point of HoloLamp is to project images of virtual 3D objects onto arbitrary surfaces, to achieve effects like the Millenium Falcon’s holographic chess board in Star Wars: A New Hope. There are no details on resolution, frame rate, brightness or other image specs, and any mention of head tracking is suspiciously absent.

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Road to VR

JUNE 6, 2016

You can either strike at the ancient beasts from behind with your pickaxe or blast away with your shotgun using the head tracking of the Oculus Rift to aim. We partnered with AVA Direct to create the Exemplar Ultimate , our high-end VR hardware reference point against which we perform our tests and reviews.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Virtual Reality is quickly moving beyond novelty experiences and showing its potential for enabling new types of social interaction. It looks and feels much like a Virtual Reality version of Second Life, but that “VRSL” vibe is no coincidence, as High Fidelity the brainchild of its founder Philip Rosedale. “We

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Doc-Ok

OCTOBER 6, 2015

As it turns out, HoloLens has something to do with holograms, but not in the way that someone would initially assume: the virtual three-dimensional objects that HoloLens so cleverly inserts into a viewer’s real environments are not, in fact, real capital-H Holograms.

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VRWorld

JANUARY 30, 2017

This should overall improve head tracking problems we had on Pimax 4K. The new Pimax 8K VR headset comes with a neat feature that should helps you run games and movies on an non-enthusiast class hardware. This looks as a big improvement too, since the last Pimax headset was relying only on built in sensors.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

In fact, one of the primary benefits of VR theaters is that they make VR accessible to “everybody,” eliminating the need for consumers to purchase expensive hardware, notes Samhoud. While “head-mounted displays are demanding very high frame rates, frame rates aren’t an issue in immersive theaters because head tracking isn’t required.”

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