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Zero Latency Upgrades VR Attraction Platform With Hardware From Microsoft & HP

Road to VR

Zero Latency, creator of a leading VR attraction platform, is now deploying their ‘gen 2’ VR hardware. Zero Latency ‘Gen 1’ hardware | Image courtesy Zero Latency. While functional, this older hardware didn’t offer the low-latency tracking or sharper visuals available in more modern VR headsets.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.03.13): AltspaceVR shuts down, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Hello everyone from Austin, Texas, where I am attending the SXSW! Microsoft has killed it (after having basically abandoned it) because it had to perform a spending review given the bad economic conditions. I’m having fun, listening to interesting talks, meeting new people… basically everything I always do at these events!

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Houston’s ITC Expo to Showcase Business-focused VR/AR Solutions, November 6th–7th

Road to VR

Houston, Texas, a hub for industries ranging from Medicine to Oil & Gas to Aerospace, has been ground-zero for many of the conversations reimagining the scope of what VR and AR can accomplish. The Immersive Technology Conference runs from November 6th-7th at the University of Houston, in Houston, Texas. That’s how ITC was born.”.

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Google Releases AR Geospatial Creator for Unity

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Now our customers will be able to represent high-fidelity cities and terrain, and unlock use cases like line of sight and digital twins” The comments come a year after Epic Games debuted a series of partnerships with NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Cesium. This will lead to developing ecosystems of products and use cases for potential clients.

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Creating Immersive Learning Experiences

Tech Trends VR

The benefits of using immersive technologies as teaching tools have been widely documented and extensively discussed, specially in recent years with the rapid development of Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed reality hardware and applications. And that, in fact, is the ultimate goal of any transformative technology.

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Beloved former Nintendo prez craps all over Facebook and the metaverse

Mashable VR

At this year's South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, Fils-Aimé took the opportunity to completely unload on Mark Zuckerberg's social media conglomerate, now known as Meta, while speaking with Emily Chang of Bloomberg. ” It doesn't end there. He also says Facebook Portal , Meta's video calling device, "wasn't a big idea."

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A first look at the Tundra Labs HDK

The Ghost Howls

Some weeks ago, he has bought a Tundra HDK , which is basically a Hardware Development Kit to create your objects that can be tracked by a SteamVR system and has played around with it for a while. TL448K6D-GP-HDK is a General Purpose Hardware Development Kit (HDK) for prototyping SteamVR Tracked Devices. Image by Triad Semiconductor).

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