Road to VR

JANUARY 29, 2018

The Xiaomi Mi VR Standalone headset is identical hardware to the forthcoming Oculus Go, the $200 standalone headset that Oculus announced late last year. Both headsets support the Oculus Mobile SDK, the software which currently allows developers to build apps for Samsung’s Gear VR headset (which runs Oculus’ software and store).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 29, 2024

The XR space has a lot to offer, and as more firms enter the industry as software or hardware solution providers, the use cases for XR will expand. This follows similar news from Samsung, who have noted that smartphone sales are decreasing and, in response, they are investing more in XR devices.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A Facebook operating system, pervasive of all devices (Portal, Quest, Smartwatch, etc…) could give Facebook the same power as Apple: having full control of hardware and software , with also complete interoperability. The most viral news of the week has for sure been the one about MetaHuman Creator, a new software for Unreal Engine.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The Oculus Rift and Touch, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR (PSVR), Google Daydream, Samsung Gear VR, and so many other headsets are all available for purchase. On the hardware side, we don’t expect much news. We’re still waiting for an Unreal Tournament or Gears of War-caliber game from Tim Sweeney and company.

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2016

As the publisher of Unreal Engine 4, Epic Games is at the forefront of developers creating new worlds in VR, and we recently sat down with the man driving their VR efforts: Nick Whiting, Epic’s Technical Director of VR/AR. If we send you one, would you noodle about with it after hours and see if you can get Unreal Engine running in it”?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

And the price of the wireless add-on is even more suspicious: speaking with a hardware manufacturer, they told me that ONLY THE ANTENNAS of a Wi-Gig connection for VR streaming (like the one of the Vive Pro) costs around $100… so how can the whole wireless streaming device cost just $50?? HTC launches Vive XR Suite.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

In my opinion , the true error is with the Vive 1 , that will get a price that is higher than the one of all the competitors… and that will cost as much as a Samsung Odyssey, notwithstanding its far lower features. Oculus announces Hardware Reports. This is Oculus’s answer to Steam Hardware & Software Survey.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Additional collaboration with major telecoms like Vodafone would also help facilitate 5G connectivity to alleviate motion sickness, create more realistic immersive experiences, improve hardware performance and form factors, and boost opportunities for gaming to grow across the sector.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2023

These are the most important points he said, IMHO: Immersed, like Bigscreen, is entering the hardware field because there is no ideal headset for the productivity use case, and the major XR manufacturers are not caring enough to produce a device for it, because they have other priorities.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 13, 2020

When it comes to developing virtual reality (VR) videogames there are two primary engines studios use, either Epic Games’ Unreal Engine or Unity by Unity Technologies. will end support for Samsung Gear VR and Google VR, while OpenVR compatibility will be phased out. As the company previously announced Unity 2019.3

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Wedged somewhat inconsiderately at the very start of every year (it’s OK CES organisers, no one in the tech industry have families they want to spend time with), the annual Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas is still the biggest event for hardware in the world. The Oculus Rift Crescent Bay Prototype.

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VRWorld

JUNE 8, 2016

Most importantly, the SDK comes with support for Unity Engine and Unreal Engine – you can build and test your own application almost immediately. Seebright supports both Apple iOS and Google’s Android, with the Seebright SDK featuring an emulator that works on both platforms.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

Unreal Engine is not exactly the most friendly game engine when it comes to Android development, and that’s why Oculus has just released some facilities to help UE4 developers in iterating Oculus Quest applications faster. According to Samsung, it should come in 2028. Not a great evolution from Microsoft. 6G is coming to 2028–2030.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

After raising $480,000 in funds through Kickstarter and an undisclosed amount from Samsung Ventures, FOVE later participated in the River accelerator program early last year alongside a number of other “frontier technology” startups. Minimum Hardware Requirements. Weight: 520g. Connections: HDMI 1.4 / USB 3.0 / USB 2.0.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 7, 2018

Speaking with Alvin and an Unreal developer (that has used the Pro since various days) after my quick tests, they told me that probably I haven’t been excited by it because I just used it some minutes and because I haven’t tried demos that highlight all the pro-features that I’ve discussed above.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And so he created the hardware and wrote the software to make 360 truly a consumer product. Samsung, Nokia entered with their OZO, Jaunt — which recently just got sold to Verizon — they had their Jaunt One camera. Well, yeah, we hardware’s useless with software. Because this is key to VR. ” OK.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And so he created the hardware and wrote the software to make 360 truly a consumer product. Samsung, Nokia entered with their OZO, Jaunt — which recently just got sold to Verizon — they had their Jaunt One camera. Well, yeah, we hardware’s useless with software. Because this is key to VR. ” OK.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2024

Qualcomm has officially said that this is the chipset that the upcoming Samsung headset is going to employ. But there is not only Samsung: XR2 Gen 2 is going to be integrated also by Immersed’s Visor, a new HTC Vive headset, a YVR headset in China, and a headset that is still undisclosed. appeared first on The Ghost Howls.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And so he created the hardware and wrote the software to make 360 truly a consumer product. Samsung, Nokia entered with their OZO, Jaunt -- which recently just got sold to Verizon -- they had their Jaunt One camera. And I don't know if they just understand that or whatever, but they just "We build hardware."

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

He’s built AR system prototypes for Samsung, and had long executive and technical careers in mobile software infrastructure before jumping into AR back in 2009. No special hardware needed; just wave your phone around, and it builds that 3D model. Aside from the improvements of the actual hardware itself. Matt: Totally.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

He’s built AR system prototypes for Samsung, and had long executive and technical careers in mobile software infrastructure before jumping into AR back in 2009. No special hardware needed; just wave your phone around, and it builds that 3D model. Aside from the improvements of the actual hardware itself. Matt: Totally.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

He’s built AR system prototypes for Samsung, and had long executive and technical careers in mobile software infrastructure before jumping into AR back in 2009. No special hardware needed; just wave your phone around, and it builds that 3D model. Aside from the improvements of the actual hardware itself. Matt: Totally.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

The shutdown of its main XR hardware project makes us all think that Google will try to do in XR what it is already doing with smartphones: become the software platform that many hardware OEMs use. Let’s see: Google is still working with Qualcomm and Samsung on a mixed-reality headset.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

Image by Samsung). Anyway, officially, both Samsung and Oculus have continued at least to support it. But at the presentation of the latest Samsung Note 10, for the first time after the Note 4, Samsung has dropped support for Gear VR in its latest flagship device. And Samsung is not abandoning XR for sure.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

VR First , the global initiative to seed academic institutions with VR/AR hardware and software, today announced that it’s nearly doubling the number of its VR labs in universities and science parks across the globe by the end of 2017. image courtesy VR First.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Microsoft and Samsung may be partnering for an AR device. According to Korean media, Samsung Electronics is working with Microsoft on a new augmented/mixed reality project “involving HoloLens”. Samsung is one of the most famous suppliers of components for electronic devices (e.g. Samsung Odyssey+).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 27, 2019

Both headsets can accommodate glasses, both have IPD adjustable via hardware and both of them are very fast to be worn and removed. According to some reviewers, the display may also be the same one made by Samsung. On Unreal Engine, the Wave SDK for the Vive Focus has lots of issues. Quest and Focus+ controllers side by side.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This week has been the week of the Oculus Connect 6 , the biggest yearly event by Oculus where the VR company announces all its most important news, both on hardware and software sides. It is much better than ALVR and other similar solutions (of course, because Oculus can operate at a deeper level on its hardware and runtime).

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

China-India & the other Asian Nations have some really interesting #augmentedreality #virtualreality #mixedreality #startups Innovating across Hardware, Software & Content. Before his entrepreneurial work, Mahajan was an engineer at Epic Games on the Unreal Engine and Gears of War. 14- Kai Liang. 34- Nick Cherukuri.

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