Road to VR

MAY 6, 2021

Arcturus, a company building tools for editing and distributing volumetric video, today announced it has raised a $5 million seed investment. Distinct from stereoscopic video, volumetric video is fully three-dimensional and can be viewed from all angles, which makes it potentially well suited for use in augmented and virtual reality.

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ARPost

AUGUST 11, 2020

Recently announced Lenovo hardware, software updates, and industry partnerships provide both. We developed the VR Classroom for a situation where you could set up remote learning,” Lenovo’s Director of Global Education Solutions, Rich Henderson said in a video interview with ARPost. Enter the VR Classroom. Provider Partnerships.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Sony released a first look at the PlayStation VR2 internal components, tearing down the headset and Sense controllers across two new videos. The first video is hosted by Takamasa Araki from the Mechanical Design team, who previously designed the original PSVR headset. You can watch that in full below.

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ARPost

JUNE 3, 2022

” Even more was revealed by Jared Ficklin, Chief Creative Technologist at argodesign , who helped develop the Magic Leap 2 hardware. The idea is that it’s a garment, not a piece of hardware. You can’t just have hardware, you can’t just have software, it’s the whole ecosystem that’s necessary,” said Kling.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Luckily, YouTube channel TougeVR is sharing the secrets to great mixed reality streaming and capture in a video series called Mixed Reality Masterclass. Between hardware, software, framing, and lighting, there’s a lot to learn to make it work, let alone make it work well. Luckily, help has arrived. Image courtesy TougeVR.

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VRScout

MARCH 24, 2022

So this award is particularly meaningful,” adding, “I’m grateful to SXSW and very proud of my team – I want to give a special shoutout to Proto CTO Edward Ginis, Head of Operations Noah Rothstein, Head of Hardware Innovation Raffi Kryszek and Head of Sales Sean Storin who made this futuristic dream into a reality.”. Image Credit: Proto.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 11, 2024

This week, reports revealed that Google is laying off a significant portion of its 1P AR hardware team, casting doubts upon its in-house XR product portfolio. In a statement, Google announced: A few hundred roles are being eliminated in DSPA, with the majority of impacts on the 1P AR Hardware team. In addition to the 4.3K

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And an apparent unboxing video has leaked too, which gives us a good look at the company’s next VR headset and controllers. We saw the exterior box of Meta Quest Pro pop up on Reddit over the weekend, but a new video seems to have completely blown the cover off Meta’s next VR headset.

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Road to VR

MAY 21, 2020

Did you know you can create your own mixed reality video on Oculus Quest and show off all your VR exploits to your adoring public? Also, if you’re not into written instructions, check out Oculus’ own MRC video setup guide and OBS setup guide to get started. Video editing software of your choice. Oculus Quest.

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Road to VR

APRIL 11, 2019

Optimization is no easy task, especially with the limited resources of mobile hardware like the Snapdragon 835 processor in the Oculus Quest. In nine minutes, this crash course offers up an indie-dev focused overview of optimizing VR games built in Unity for mobile hardware like Oculus Quest. Use static lightning [ video guide ].

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 28, 2019

At Sandbox Immersive Festival , I have been able to try some interesting hardware solutions. I have already detailed in another post my impressions on the Pico Neo and the HP Reverb … in this one, I will talk about other hardware manufacturers. Me while trying the VR video chair. Veer Chair. It was a quite good experience.

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Road to VR

MAY 20, 2021

This week Google revealed Project Starline, a booth-sized experimental system for immersive video chatting, purportedly using a bevy of sensors, a light-field display, spatial audio, and novel compression to make the whole experience possible over the web. Suddenly you’re looking at a 2D version of your video chat partner again […].”

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 30, 2023

To help Stwart highlight the benefits of Meta’s integration of Qualcomm’s XR/AR chipsets was the Head of Hardware Partnerships at Meta, Jenniffer Hom – a figure who helped bring Meta/Qualcomm devices to market. Meta takes the Snapdragon Summit 2023 Stage. Hom said: Connect was a huge success for us [Meta].

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Ryan Schultz

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Horizon Workrooms get savaged in a highly critical review video by The Verge, a sign of the growing antipathy toward’s Meta virtual reality hardware and software strategy. Alex Heath, The Verge (transcribed audio excerpt from the video below). This is worth negative ten billion dollars.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 19, 2019

More than that, it enables you to link hidden videos to those photos. Use the Prynt app to record a 6-second video. The app uploads the video to the cloud and links it to your photo. When you hold your phone over a Prynt photo, the video starts playing on top of the picture.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 4, 2023

Canon has a long and deep history of being a hardware manufacturer. At CES 2023, the company showed off its vision for the future — a vision that seems a lot less hardware-y than you would expect from the 85-year-old company that has traditionally made all of its money from making things with buttons. Image Credit : Canon.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Daydream VR, Google’s high-end VR platform for select Android smartphones, may be seeing its time in the spotlight at the company’s hardware-focused event today. Note: Live stream video is embedded at the top of the page and will start at 9am PST / 5pm GMT. image courtesy of Google.

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The AR Show

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Bobak Tavangar is the co-founder and CEO of Brilliant Labs, a company creating an open-source AR glasses hardware platform and pairing that with powerful generative AI models to help you engage with the real world. Bobak studied at George Washington and Georgetown universities before completing a graduate degree at Cambridge University.

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VRScout

JANUARY 29, 2018

Typical VR videos are displayed in full 360 degrees, but rendering all of that footage can be overly taxing on the hardware creating the experience (especially for smartphones). Soon after the live stream he and his team released a full 360° video to promote his farewell tour as well. It’s the end of an era people.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 8, 2018

Positional tracking is the dream for immersive video content, but it is a complex hardware and software challenge. While the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive surprisingly still lack support, the company has further plans to support new hardware this year, “including affordable and powerful all-in-one mobile headsets.”.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 5, 2019

To help promote the unveiling of the high-end custom headset, Snap teamed up with accomplished filmmaker Harmony Korine, best known for her work on Spring Breakers, Beach Bum, and Kids , to produce a short video filmed entirely on the Spectacles x Gucci glasses.

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Upload VR

JUNE 16, 2023

Introducing Apple Vision Pro' is now the most watched public video on Apple's YouTube channel. At the time of writing, the video has just under 51 million views, surpassing the previous most watched video 'Introducing Apple Watch Series 8' which has just under 50 million. The era of spatial computing is here."

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VRScout

APRIL 20, 2023

Acclaimed video game developer, publisher, and digital distribution company Valve are currently in the development of new VR hardware, according to a recent report. Image Credit: Valve When asked about the rumors of new VR hardware, Coomer stated, “I can tell you for sure that we’ve been working on a VR headset lately.

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Mashable VR

MAY 14, 2022

TL;DR: As of May 14, you can take $10 off the Deeper Connect Nano Decentralized VPN Cybersecurity Hardware and get it for $289.99 The Deeper Connect Nano offers actual hardware that protects you on the web for life, doing away with monthly or annual subscription fees. Deeper Connect Nano Decentralized VPN Cybersecurity Hardware.

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Next Reality AR

JANUARY 10, 2019

The release of Avatar Chat for Magic Leap One and Spatial for HoloLens during the fourth quarter of 2018 appeared to revolutionize video calling via augmented reality. The technology, which debuted at the Orange Show Hello event last month, is made possible by Intel RealSense depth cameras, Magic Leap One headsets, and high bandwidth, low.

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Road to VR

MAY 24, 2019

Google posted an updated Jump FAQ recently regarding the shutdown of the VR video service, outlining that Jump will officially go offline on June 28th, 2019. The ability to upload video will be suspended on June 26th; the 27th is the cutoff date to back up whatever files you may have uploaded via the service.

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Road to VR

JULY 3, 2017

A short video (heading this article) was released to their YouTube channel, presented by Cloudhead’s CEO and Creative Director Denny Unger, showing the simple package and intuitive hardware design. The post Developer Videos Show Valve’s Knuckles Controllers in Action appeared first on Road to VR.

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Anand Tech

JUNE 29, 2020

Following last week’s release of NVIDIA’s first Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling-enabled video card driver, AMD this week has stepped up to the plate to do the same. As a quick refresher, hardware acceleration for GPU scheduling was added to the Windows display driver stack with WDDM 2.7 shipping in Win10 2004).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 25, 2017

We only saw them through a picture at first, but now a video has surfaced online showing them in action. An unlisted Oculus video posted last week, unearthed by Reddit , shows the gloves in action. Given the timing of the video, we wonder if Oculus will be showcasing these gloves at SIGGRAPH when it gets underway next week.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This week, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta , uploaded a notable video on his Instagram, giving potential insight into the future of the firm’s XR vision. The video could provide a core insight into Meta’s upcoming MR vision. We had a race, and [Andrew Bosworth] clocked in at almost 120 words per minute.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Sony is gearing up for the 2018 Christmas season with a new PSVR hardware bundle that’s delivering five high-profile games to Europe-based PS4 owners. The post PSVR ‘Mega Pack’ Hardware Bundle for Europe to Arrive with 5 Top Games appeared first on Road to VR.

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Anand Tech

JUNE 24, 2020

As well, this driver also enables support for hardware accelerated GPU scheduling. In the case of NVIDIA’s recent video cards, the underlying Turing architecture has supported these features since the very beginning. ray tracing and tier 2 variable rate shading. Raster Order Views. Tiled Resources. Bindless Resources.

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Anand Tech

AUGUST 16, 2021

After several months of various teasers, Intel is finally starting to put the band together for their first high-performance discrete GPUs and video cards. This morning the company is kicking its pre-launch marketing game into high gear by announcing a new brand name that these video cards will sold under: Arc.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Valve unveiled its Steam Deck OLED late last week, offering up a hardware refresh for the first time since the company launched the handheld gaming device last year. But also from just establishing relationships with part suppliers, hardware partners, and that kind of stuff.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Here’s a video tour of Google’s eagerly awaited Daydream VR headset ‘View’, revealed today for the first time. Google’s latest announcements, made today at a special hardware-focussed event, add the final missing pieces to its forthcoming assault on the mobile VR space.

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Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2017

Facebook’s VR headset subsidiary Oculus is finally integrating a native tool that will let you capture and share your Rift experiences through 360 photos and videos—one that developers can integrate into Unity and Unreal Engines, and across NVIDIA and AMD GPUs— and it’s available today on GitHub.

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The AR Show

MARCH 14, 2023

The Lynx R1 offers a unique VR device with good video-passthrough of the real world to create mixed reality experiences. As he finished his university education, he embarked on the journey to establish the leading European mixed reality hardware technology company.

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