Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

For a while now we’ve been waiting for the industry to coalesce around a standard VR hardware platform. Now Qualcomm , a leading semiconductor company which regularly releases smartphone ‘reference’ platforms from which companies build their products, aims to fill that gap in the mobile VR space.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Product designer Eugene Nadyrshin says the ostensibly hardware agnostic controller will use custom hand-tracking models together with IMUs for sensor fusion, and include a Linear Resonant Actuators (LRA) at the back of the hand which give vibro-tactile feedback. Here’s why: Hardware is very hard, but it’s also a moat. Not happening.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2024

Together with the new chipset, Qualcomm prepared also a reference design (as usual), which gives us a glimpse of how future headsets employing this chip may look like. Qualcomm has officially said that this is the chipset that the upcoming Samsung headset is going to employ. appeared first on The Ghost Howls.

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Road to VR

JULY 9, 2018

Samsung filed an interesting trademark with the European Union Intellectual Property Office recently which suggests the company is working on a new AMOLED display for VR that specifically addresses the screen door effect (SDE). SEE ALSO Here's a Look Inside Both Samsung & JDI's High Pixel Density VR Panels.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Citing people familiar with the situation, the report maintains that TikTok parent ByteDance is canceling Pico’s next VR headset, or what is being referred to as ‘Pico 5’ It’s said this was in direct response to middling sales of Pico 4, the standalone released in Asia and Europe to compete with Meta Quest 2.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Last week images of the Samsung Odyssey Windows VR headset leaked online, and although they seemed plenty legit, a new leak from Microsoft’s own website confirms the existence of the device and offers new details of this premium headset. The other Windows VR headsets lack a hardware IPD adjustment. Next is the field of view.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 5, 2017

Samsung confirms 5+ million Gear VR headsets are now in use worldwide, announced at their CES 2017 keynote. In his opening speech at CES 2017 this week, Samsung Electronics America president Tim Baxter announced that the company now has “more than 5 million” Gear VR virtual reality headsets in use.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

Image by Samsung, taken from Upload VR). Samsung may launch a next-gen Samsung Odyssey. A recent filing at the Chinese IP offices makes us speculate on a new PC VR headset in the works by Samsung. But this opens another debate: if it uses 4 cameras, does it mean that it won’t be based on WMR reference design anymore ?

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Since Microsoft provided its list of OEMs the same reference design, all of the available headsets except Samsung Odyssey follow the basic specs below. Samsung HMD Odyssey. Samsung HMD Odyssey Pre-order. The post 5 Windows VR Headsets Now Available for Pre-Order Including Samsung Odyssey appeared first on Road to VR.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 10, 2021

The system is powered by a combination of the company’s proprietary WaveTracer hardware and software. These displays project what the company refers to as SolidLight Objects, which move, reflect, and refract realistically in physical space. billion pixels to each 3D object.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 5, 2024

This week, VR and MR device vendor Goertek partnered with hand-tracking experts Ultraleap to announce a VR/MR headset reference design that follows from Qualcomm’s XR2+ Gen 2 chipset revealment yesterday – where Qualcomm also revealed the new reference design.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

Further references. Further references. Further references. Further references. Unlink VR hardware (Image by Unlink VR). Further references. Futher references. There are also some rumors about Half-Life: Alyx coming for PSVR 2, but nothing has been officially announced in this sense.

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Road to VR

JUNE 4, 2017

Display specialists Kopin in partnership with Chinese company GoerTek have announced a new reference VR headset design that it claims is the smallest of its kind integrating the firm’s ‘Lightning’ OLED micro display panels sporting a substantial 2k x 2k resolution. Kopin claim are tackling this with a two-pronged approach.

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Upload VR

APRIL 22, 2024

Quest will remain only as the hardware brand for Meta's first-party headsets. It's unclear whether any of these refer to the ASUS or Lenovo headsets, or just future potential avenues companies could take. As with Quest headsets, using them will require a Meta account. The Meta Quest Store will also be rebranded to Meta Horizon Store.

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Road to VR

JULY 2, 2018

The monthly Steam hardware survey is out again, and while June hasn’t revealed any major upsets in the balances of usership between HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, the survey shows that Windows “Mixed Reality” VR headsets are making slow, but steady headway on the platform. Participation in the survey is optional.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Samsung, in partnership with Microsoft, today announced the Samsung HMD Odyssey —a Windows VR headset expected to have some impressive specs. According to Samsung, the Odyssey VR headset rocks dual 3.5-inch The Samsung Odyssey is unlike typical headsets, you don’t need to install any extra motions sensors.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 5, 2021

It is like if the film was able to record the image created by the sum of the two types or rays that get cast onto it: the reference one, and the object one. And if I send the reference beam B1 on the pattern D on the film, I’m able to re-obtain the object beam B2. For my eyes, it is like if the object was really there.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 15, 2024

Because Korean doesn't explicitly distinguish between singular and plural in the context of the quote, it's actually unclear whether Cho referred to one "device" or multiple "devices". The company's CEO Cho Joo-wan confirmed the plan to a reporter from South Korean news website The Guru.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The company also convinced a handful of its major PC partners—Dell, Lenovo, Acer, HP, Samsung, and Asus—to launch VR headsets attached to the platform. Only two of the initial five Windows VR headset makers followed up their initial headsets with new consumer-facing devices (Samsung’s Odyssey+ and HP’s Reverb).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 4, 2024

The chipset also helps boost consumer and enterprise-grade XR use cases on headsets and smartglasses by leveraging partnerships with Samsung, Google, Tobii, and Goertek to provide visual clarity for gaming and productivity applications. A leading selling point of the Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 chipset is the hardware’s ability to unlock 4.3K

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Road to VR

JULY 2, 2018

A report from Tom’s Hardware states that NVIDIA’s next-generation GeForce GPUs, tentatively being referred to as the GTX 11-series, will include a new connector with enough bandwidth to support future VR headsets much higher resolutions and greater refresh rates.

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MAY 25, 2018

.” Standalone headsets have largely made use of SoCs originally designed for smartphones, including the Snapdragon 835 chipset, which services a number of the latest and penultimate-gen flagship smartphones including Samsung’s Galaxy S8, Google Pixel 2, and HTC U11. image courtesy Qualcomm.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

Anyway, with the end of the life of Quest 2, this cycle finished and a new one started with Quest 3, Apple Vision Pro, Google and Samsung announcing their own headset, and other companies chasing them (e.g. with Xiaomi, Oppo, Samsung, etc…) to convince hardware manufacturers to create headsets powered by Android XR.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 6, 2023

What is most impressive are the capabilities of the display and in particular the pixel density: 58 pixels per degree, which is close to retina vision (for reference, Meta Quest Pro has a PPD of 22, while Varjo XR-3 has 70). But on the other side, while the Xbox is considered mainstream hardware, the Quest is not, yet.

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Upload VR

JULY 10, 2023

The recent leadership change may refer to the departure of Clay Bavor earlier this year amid the mass layoffs at Google. Google Reportedly Killed Its AR Glasses Project Google reportedly killed AR glasses project, will instead provide Android XR platform for manufacturers like Samsung.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

While the company may be pitching its latest headset for businesses, it seems VR hardware is starting to reach a pretty solid consensus on what’s next. It turns out that beams of light have an ‘orientation’ which is referred to as polarization. But how the hell do you do that with light? Polarization is the key.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

This week however, the company was granted two patents that establish basic hardware and software solutions not only pointing towards a prospective Apple AR device, but marking out some fundamental territory in the process. Samsung, Apple v. Apple AR patent detailing methods for computing 3D coordinates, image courtesy USPTO.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

To that end, he suspects that Samsung and Google—which are collaborating on an upcoming XR headset—”must be in panic mode” after seeing what Apple produced. While this make some things difficult internally, he maintains that no other company could ship a product quite like Vision Pro.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

Windows VR headsets have only been out a few months, and come from a variety of manufacturers including Acer, Dell, HP, Lenovo and Samsung. All the headsets but one, Samsung’s Odyssey headset, are based on the same reference design provided by Microsoft, so they’re more or less the same outside of the obvious styling differences.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 25, 2017

VR is one of Acer’s key focus areas, as we continue to make huge strides across hardware, software and content development to unlock its potential,” says Acer Chairman and CEO Jason Chen. R&D and reference design for the StarVR headset will also be carried out by Starbreeze and Acer going forward.

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VRScout

JANUARY 25, 2018

Less hardware. In addition to inside-out tracking, these same devices are also referred to as “standalone” headsets. A staff member must be trained on launching the software, debugging possible issues with software or hardware issues. Less hassle. HoloLens inside-out tracking.

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Road to VR

APRIL 30, 2018

The main appeal of standalone VR is the self-contained hardware design. This compelling price point is the result of some key hardware decisions, most notably the omission of positional (6DOF) tracking. Want to know more? Check out Everything We Know About Oculus Go (so far). Lenovo Mirage Solo – Premium Daydream VR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 5, 2024

This week saw Microsoft, Google, Samsung, Qualcomm, Meta, and Sony move to optimize their product offerings and business operations. Qualcomm is positioning the XR2+ Gen 2 as a tipping point in XR hardware design and innovation due to its breakthrough features and specs combined with its launch partners.

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VRScout

JUNE 21, 2017

Mario Kart comes to VR, E3’s VR news, Intel’s new VR eSports league AND wireless VR solution, Samsung buys their way into social, the investment & funding wrapup, and more…. SAMSUNG BUYS A SOCIAL VR CARD. Based in New York, a startup called VRB (pronounced “verb”) has been acquired by Samsung.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

The industry has been experiencing a boom in recent years with hundreds of startups and heavy investment from tech giants including Google, Apple, Samsung, and Facebook. Despite all the activity, AR/VR hardware remains relatively crude. The technique is substantially gentler on our eyes, and on the hardware.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 10, 2019

Northern Digital is a Waterloo, Canada-based manufacturer of 3D measurement devices, and while the company has mainly focused on creating for various industries such as medicine and aeronautics throughout their 35 years of existence, they’ve recently unveiled a reference design for a magnetic tracking system for VR headsets and controllers.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 13, 2017

We got a chance to test that new focus by going hands on with Qualcomm’s latest reference hardware and find impressive inside-out tracking using just the phone’s onboard sensors. At CES 2017, the company showed off a mobile VR experience powered by reference hardware sporting their latest Snapdragon 835 platform.

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