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Digital Trends
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
What happens when you add head-tracking to the already immersive audio experience of Dolby Atmos Music? Apple Home Theater Music AirPods Max Apple Music Dolby Atmos Music head tracking spatial audio
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JUNE 27, 2016
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Digital Trends
JULY 5, 2021
Apple delivers an immersive movie experience through a set of wireless headphones, putting the Apple TV 4K ahead of Roku, Amazon Fire TV, and Google Chromecast. Apple Home Theater
GizModo VR
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
However, with iOS 15's public release , Apple’s also added Dynamic Head Tracking—and for that, you’re… Read more. Back in June, Apple introduced both lossless audio and Dolby Atmos-powered spatial audio to Apple Music.
Digital Trends
JANUARY 5, 2022
Apple's automatic audio switching and head-tracking spatial audio are its coolest headphone technologies. Home Theater News Audio Sharing CES 2022 Google head-tracking spatial audio spatial audio
Digital Trends
AUGUST 24, 2021
Apple's $549 AirPods Max have new competition: Yamaha's $500 YH-L700A offer ANC, transparency, and built-in head-tracking sensors, just like Apple's cans. Home Theater News AirPods Max head tracking noise-canceling headphones spatial audio Yamaha
Digital Trends
JUNE 14, 2021
Home Theater Apple Music dolby atmos head tracking Headphones spatial audioApple's spatial audio support for Apple Music works with all types of headphones, but when it comes to video, it's a decidedly different story. Here's why.
Road to VR
JANUARY 12, 2017
Lots of companies have made this claim actually, but Eonite specifically says they have the “world’s most accurate, lowest latency, lowest power consuming software to democratize inside-out positional tracking for VR and AR.” ” Inside-out positional tracking—the ability to precisely determine where an object is in space using only sensors mounted on the device itself—has been an obvious need but an elusive challenge for the VR and AR industries.
VR Game Critic
JUNE 1, 2016
uSens has raised $20 million to develop natural hand and head tracking for augmented reality and virtual reality applications. The company is built around the idea that once you immerse yourself in virtual reality, the next thing you want to do is interact with it using your hands and have it track your head movements accurately
VRGames
OCTOBER 2, 2021
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Doc-Ok
NOVEMBER 16, 2017
I’ve recently written a loose series of articles trying to explain certain technical aspects of virtual reality, such as what the lenses in VR headsets do , or why there is some blurriness , but I haven’t — or at least haven’t in a few years — tackled the big question: How do all the technical components of VR headsets, e.g., screens, lenses, tracking, etc., Most attempts to answer it fall back on technical aspects, such as stereoscopy, head tracking, etc.,
Doc-Ok
JANUARY 17, 2017
the position of the screen(s) is fixed and precisely measured during installation, and the viewer’s eye positions are provided via real-time head tracking. To extract eye positions, HoloLamp uses an additional set of cameras looking upwards to identify and track the viewer’s face, probably using off-the-shelf face tracking algorithms such as the Viola-Jones filter. VR Hardware 3d displays augmented reality Head tracking HMD hologram projection mapping
Doc-Ok
MAY 25, 2016
This is great news: it will allow me to port Vrui and all Vrui applications to the Vive headset and its tracked controllers in one fell swoop. But before diving into developing a Lighthouse tracking driver plug-in for Vrui’s input device abstraction layer, I decided to cobble together a small testing utility to get a feel for OpenVR’s internal driver interface, and for the Lighthouse tracking system’s overall tracking quality.
Doc-Ok
MARCH 5, 2016
I’ve been involved in some arguments about the inner workings of the Oculus Rift’s and HTC/Valve Vive’s tracking systems recently, and while I don’t want to get into any of that right now, I just did a little experiment. The tracking update rate of the Oculus Rift DK2, meaning the rate at which Oculus’ tracking driver sends different position/orientation estimates to VR applications, is 1000 Hz. VR Hardware 3D tracking Head tracking Oculus Rift
Digital Trends
AUGUST 7, 2022
LG's Tone Free T90Q bring head-tracking spatial audio to both iOS and Android users alike, breaking Apple's monopoly on the immersive listening feature.
Slashgear
MARCH 18, 2021
In a patent application made public today, Valve showed drawings and descriptions of a new sort of VR headset.
Road to VR
MARCH 29, 2021
If this is a proper AR headset (with head-tracking and a reasonably wide field of view) we’re almost certainly looking at some sort of waveguide display, as the kind of bird-bath optics we see in devices like Nreal’s headset would be much bulkier.
VRScout
OCTOBER 24, 2021
Based on videos provided by BrianMp16, the VR mod appears to support 6DoF head-tracking and at least some degree of motion controls. A new mod brings the classic Nintendo 64 action-adventure game to PC VR headsets for the first time.
Road to VR
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
The AR2 platform supports up to nine concurrent cameras for a bevy of head-tracking, environment-sensing, and user-tracking tasks. Qualcomm today announced Snapdragon AR2, its “purpose-built headworn augmented reality platform.”
VRScout
JANUARY 4, 2022
Powered by a Snapdragon® XR1 processor, the headset supports 6DoF inside-out tracking and is compatible with the SteamVR platform, allowing users access to a massive catalog of games and apps. 2022 is quickly shaping up to be the year of VR glasses.
Next Reality AR
DECEMBER 26, 2018
Similar to the Lenses for people and cats, the Lens for dogs recognizes when dogs appear in the camera view and affixes AR effects to their heads, tracking the dogs. First, there was SnapCat. Now, we have DogChat! Or SnapBark? In October, Snapchat took social media by storm with its Lenses for cats. But the latest addition to the camera app has given dog lovers an augmented reality Christmas gift they won't want to return.
Road to VR
JULY 9, 2021
While the app doesn’t add core VR functionality like hand-tracking, for many games it adds head-tracking, stereoscopy, and other tweaks that make non-VR games playable inside the headset. VorpX is a tool which adapts many non-VR games to be played with VR headsets.
VRScout
OCTOBER 8, 2021
In a video posted to Reddit this week, user classified39 shows off a custom mod that allows them to view a 360 virtual image complete with head tracking inside of Minecraft using Immersive Portals and Computercraft.
Road to VR
JANUARY 4, 2022
Panasonic subsidiary Shiftall , the makers of SteamVR-compatible body tracking system HaritoraX, announced it’s releasing a lightweight consumer VR headset this year that includes OLED microdisplays and the ability to play SteamVR content.
The Ghost Howls
OCTOBER 26, 2022
In 2021, always at CES, Panasonic showcased an improved design , with integrated tracking cameras and speakers. Promotional image of the HaritoraX tracking system. He said that inside-out will be devoted to the B2B market, while for B2C MeganeX will rely mostly on SteamVR tracking.
Road to VR
JULY 14, 2020
Both headsets only offer 3DOF head tracking, and include a single 3DOF controller. Oculus Go’s days are numbered , however Pico Interactive seems undeterred by Facebook’s move to retire the 3DOF VR headset.
Road to VR
AUGUST 3, 2021
As for the headset’s optical tracking skills, Lang thought room-scale head-tracking was just as solid as other WMR headsets; some software-induced stutter exists when transitioning between apps or loading screens. Tracking.
ARPost
AUGUST 25, 2022
Inputs include a touchpad, head-tracking, and full voice control. Following the success of the Blade AR glasses, Vuzix has announced the second generation of the glasses.
Road to VR
JUNE 6, 2022
When it comes to digital spatial audio, there’s a limit to how accurate the sense of ‘position’ or ‘3D’ the audio can be without taking into account the unique shape of the user’s head and ears.
ARPost
JULY 3, 2020
See Also: Best VR Hand Tracking Games for Oculus Quest in 2020. Other useful features of the app: Using head movements to select content; On-screen menu activation by looking at the exit doors; Re-centering viewport for optimal comfort; Drag and drop playlist creation.
ARPost
AUGUST 3, 2022
The biggest benefits to the VR version are related to tracking. VR controllers enable hand tracking. Although, because AltspaceVR avatars don’t have arms, sometimes hand tracking makes things a little more awkward. A headset also enables head tracking.
Road to VR
JUNE 15, 2020
It packs in a number of features not present in the original 2015-era HoloLens, the most prominent of which is eye-tracking. Head tracking : 4 visible light cameras. Eye tracking : 2 IR cameras. Hand tracking : Two-handed fully articulated model, direct manipulation.
Road to VR
OCTOBER 14, 2021
Tracking & Input. The headset supports 6DOF head-tracking and users can pair an Android phone to be used as a 3DOF controller (head-based pointing can be used as a fallback). Hand-tracking won’t be supported at launch, though it may come in a future update.
VRScout
OCTOBER 14, 2016
That means no Motion controller support, no head-tracking and a slightly-noticeable drop in picture quality. The latest VR headset on the market can connect to major consoles via HDMI. Yes, you heard correctly. According to early reports by consumers, Sony’s PlayStation VR headset is capable of running on current major consoles such as Microsoft’s Xbox One and Nintendo’s Wii U.
Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 26, 2018
The headset is high-end standalone, meaning it doesn’t rely on a PC, but still manages to include the positional head and hand tracking that makes high-end headsets so immersive. First introduced back in 2016 as Project Santa Cruz, the Quest brings full head and hand tracking to world of standalone headsets, something not yet available in similar offerings like the Lenovo Mirage Solo or Vive Focus (which both offer positional head tracking but not positional hand tracking).
Road to VR
DECEMBER 12, 2017
The studio also added support for Tobii and TrackIR head-tracking cameras, letting gamers with traditional monitors use head gestures to look around the battlefield in what promises to inch somewhat closer the benefits of actual VR headsets. CCP says the feature allows non-VR players to take advantage of the head-tracked ‘look-to-lock’ weapon functionality present in the VR experience of the game.
The Ghost Howls
APRIL 19, 2022
Who else remembers Moon VR Player? It was a video player for virtual reality headsets, able to play both 2D videos, 360 videos, and 360 VR videos which was quite popular back in the Gear VR days. But after a while, it kinda disappeared from my radars, without any explanations.
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