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MAY 18, 2017

First, he said, I was going to use a generation older hardware from internal prototypes that likely would be improved upon in practically every way before its release as a reference design to developers and eventually to consumers (Google hopes at least HTC can achieve consumer release in 2017 with its first standalone headset).

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Road to VR

JUNE 2, 2016

Usens is one of the early developers of hand and head tracking tech; according to the announcement from the company this investment will help launch new and improved non-controller hand and head tracking tools. Tracking is critical to ARVR experiences,” said Anli He, CEO and co-founder of uSens. “As

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Head Tracking Hand tracking Machine Learning Latency 100

Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

FOVE hopes to be the first VR headset on the market with eye-tracking, and we expect other major headsets like the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and PlayStation VR to add eye-tracking in future product iterations. Tracking: Head Tracking. Eye Tracking. Accessories: Positional tracking camera, face cushion.

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Doc-Ok

DECEMBER 26, 2018

These questions/answers are not hardware-specific, meaning they apply to any current-generation VR system (Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, all the Windows Mixed Reality headsets, PlayStation VR, …), and go beyond basic tech questions such as “how do I plug this in, install drivers, …). How does VR actually work?

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Hardware Head Tracking Latency HTC 45

Doc-Ok

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Now that Vrui is working on the HTC Vive (at least until the next SteamVR update breaks ABI again), I can finally go back and give Vrui-based applications some tender loving care. Figure 1: Analyzing a CAT scan with 3D Visualizer on the HTC Vive. Figure 1: Analyzing a CAT scan with 3D Visualizer on the HTC Vive. Cat included.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At the same time, it uses your phone’s internal gyros to provide the head tracking. This transforms your phone into a VR headset screen, simulating devices like the HTC Vive. Additional latency. You will “feel” the latency in ways that you wouldn’t on a full setup. Higher odds of sim sickness.

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Leap Motion Latency Unity Software 28

Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

When accuracy and latency isn’t low enough, the augmented objects swing around with your head and your brain doesn’t consider them part of the world. See Also: Former Oculus VP of Engineering Demonstrates Long Range VR Tracking System.

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ARPost

MARCH 31, 2023

The hardware consisted of blue HTC Vive Pros connected to the gaming PCs above. The HTC Vive Pros were tethered, so there was no latency but the game did have a peculiar dense, dreamlike aspect to it, which often stems from lower refresh rates. Perhaps more like 60fps or 45fps with reprojection to 90hz?

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

This process introduces ‘latency’, which is the time it takes to update frames with new user input taken into account. For an action title to feel responsive, latency needs to be under 150ms in a traditional video game, so keeping it reasonably low is a challenge. Let’s look at latency first.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

While the Vive Focus initially launched with a single 3DOF controller, HTC recently announced a dev kit add-on which brings a pair of 6DOF controllers to the standalone headset. We got our first chance to try out the system today at an HTC press event in San Francisco.

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Doc-Ok

MAY 25, 2016

That driver object in turn offers several callbacks, such as one receiving button events, and, most importantly, one receiving tracking data updates as the tracking code calculates them from raw device sensor measurements. So, let’s have a close look at Lighthouse tracking. Update rate and Latency.

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