Cats and VR

JULY 20, 2016

Creating a social VR experience poses new challenges like head tracking on a massive scale, and networked physics so people can realistically interact in a persistent shared space. "We are creating something magical with Improbable,” says Dedric Reid, founder and CEO, HelloVR. To sign up for early access, please visit [link].

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

The UK-based developer this month confirmed that Tethered is on its way to both the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive on PC. A full release date hasn’t been confirmed, but the new versions of the game will support the Oculus Touch and Vive wand controllers respectively. Tagged with: Secret Sorcery , Tethered.

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Hypergrid Business

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Oculus Quest 2. The Oculus Quest 2 standalone virtual reality headset is the best in all categories given its room-scale VR capability, a large library of games, fast performance, and good resolution, especially for its price point. Tracking: Inside-out tracking and hand tracking. HTC Vive Pro 2.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

However, despite the clever approximations of avatar mouth movement and hand gestures captured with Oculus Touch motion controllers, the dead eyes of the participants digital doppelgangers left something to be desired. The post Watch: Tobii Tease Unnervingly Effective Vive Eye-Tracked VR Demo Ahead of GDC appeared first on Road to VR.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

In readiness for the imminent launch of Oculus’ ‘Touch’ motion controllers, the company have rolled out the new ‘Guardian’ feature, their version of SteamVR’s Chaperone VR boundary system for room-scale VR. SEE ALSO Oculus Touch Will Support 360 and Room-scale Tracking With Extra Cameras.

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MAY 10, 2017

The footage shows people playing on an HTC Vive, but it seems reasonable to assume support for the Oculus Rift and Touch will be included as well. From the gameplay footage shown above, it’s clear this isn’t just a head tracking port but is instead fully articulated VR game.

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Road to VR

JUNE 13, 2016

We ported the support from DX9 into our new DX11 engine which was a large rewrite, but we also had to rewrite other large portions of it to work with the latest Oculus SDK. The sense of scale is immediate, due to the seamless head tracking and excellent stereoscopic 3D. See Also: Top 5 Racing Sims for the Oculus Rift.

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APRIL 2, 2018

Options like hand-tracking and eye-tracking have made their way into the offering, and now ultrasonic tracking for 6DOF controller input is available, as noted in a press release by Goertek , the manufurating partner of the Snapdragon 845 VRDK.

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

Today, Jaunt has applications on just about every consumer VR platform including the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Samsung Gear VR and Google Daydream. The only notable exception to Jaunt’s availability on the various hardware platforms was Sony’s PlayStation VR headset.

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MAY 12, 2017

This footage shows how the work of two motion controllers can be operated with just one, by simulating a virtual second controller that can be synchronised with head tracking. The software also accommodates those with limited arm movement.

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AUGUST 30, 2017

As for resolution, the company maintains the screen door effect (SDE) is diminished with the headset’s dual 1440×1600@90 Hz LCD displays, a 70 percent increase in pixels over consumer devices like Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. image courtesy Sensics. image courtesy Sensics. image courtesy Sensics. image courtesy Sensics. .”

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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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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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SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

FOVE has announced that their first eye-tracking VR headset, the FOVE 0, will open for pre-orders on November 2nd, and has also released the final specifications of the device. Much like Oculus, FOVE began as a successful Kickstarter which raised $480,000 , nearly twice its goal, back in mid-2015. Tracking: Head Tracking.

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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.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2021

When travelling – pre pandemic, one of the more relaxing experiences was sitting back, watching Netflix premieres on my own portable Imax – The Oculus Quest. With newer Immersive eye-wear such as the HTC Vive Flow due out this month, OTT platforms are missing out.

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DECEMBER 21, 2016

Mojang’s Minecraft has evolved in a lot of different ways over the last five years, but adding support for the Oculus Touch controllers should have been its most dramatic departure from the original survival formula yet. Sadly, that’s not quite the case.

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JULY 20, 2016

At least in terms of on-paper display specs, the new display puts the HDK 2 on par with both the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. Ergonomically designed enclosure and customized adjustable orange and black OSVR head straps. HMD module with gyroscope, accelerometer and compass for accurate head tracking, as well as USB 3.0

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OCTOBER 26, 2016

” Head tracking is an essential part of all mixed reality technology, both VR and AR, and the so-called inside-out variety in a VR headset makes set up dramatically easier. The Santa Cruz inside-out tracking prototype from Oculus. An example of the Windows Holographic user interface.

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JULY 20, 2016

At least in terms of on-paper display specs, the new display puts the HDK 2 on par with both the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. Ergonomically designed enclosure and customized adjustable orange and black OSVR head straps. HMD module with gyroscope, accelerometer and compass for accurate head tracking, as well as USB 3.0

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JUNE 20, 2017

Using the Oculus Touch controllers you move your character through the world by tilting the analog stick on the left Touch controller to traverse the environment one square at a time. The Mage’s Tale is available starting today, June 20th, exclusively for the Oculus Rift with Touch on Oculus Home for $39.99.

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VRScout

JUNE 13, 2016

Dead Bug Creek is the latest VR adventure game created with her partner in crime Antonio Chang at Creative Rex, and is set to launch on Playstation VR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive later this year.

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MAY 2, 2017

He’s already taken the Rfactor 2 beta for a spin in VR with the Rift and the results he captured look nothing short of intense; you can see him in action in the video heading this article. Photo courtesy Studio 397.

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JANUARY 9, 2017

This strange little feature, included as part of the company’s upcoming Entertainment Hub storefront, takes AAA games and ‘upscales’ them to run inside the HTC Vive. Despite being on Vive with two base stations facing me, positional tracking was completely disabled in this mode.

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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, …). Want to Know More?

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FEBRUARY 6, 2017

With the HTC Vive, you set up lighthouse base stations in opposite corners of your play space and the system tracks your movement in 3D space around your entire room. With the Oculus Rift, you can accomplish something very similar with extra sensors and the Oculus Touch motion controllers.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2016

Available On: Steam (Oculus Rift & HTC Vive). Reviewed On: HTC Vive & Oculus Rift. Although technically not finished, this VR experience for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive offers a lot more than you might expect and leaves a lasting impression of its strange, alien world. Publisher: Teotl Studios.

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MAY 2, 2018

While the Windows VR headsets are often criticized for the precision of their hand-tracking, I was surprised to find how well they hold up in practice even with a fast paced, highly active game like Beat Saber (2018). The same cameras are also used to look for glowing LEDs on the Windows VR motion controllers to determine their position.

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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. See Also: Oculus CTO Affirms Positional Tracking Priority for Gear VR.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2019

HTC today announced its planning to release a new version of Vive Focus targeted at enterprise users, this time including integrated hardware support for two ultrasonically-tracked 6DOF controllers. Image courtesy HTC. HTC hasn’t released pricing info yet, although we hope to learn more in the coming weeks.

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APRIL 30, 2018

In this article we compare three standalone VR devices which will be available worldwide this year: the Oculus Go, Lenovo Mirage Solo, and HTC Vive Focus. Oculus Go – Value Oriented. Image courtesy Oculus. At $200, the Oculus Go is set to be the most affordable device of the three by a significant margin.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 14, 2017

Click To Tweet To bring Leap Motion tracking into a VR experience, you’ll need a virtual controller within the scene attached to your VR headset. Our Unity Core Assets and the Leap Motion Unreal Engine 4 plugin both handle position and scale out-of-the-box for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Depth Cues. Body frame of reference.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

HTC’s latest VR headset, Vive Cosmos, is just around the corner. In a meeting at HTC’s Vive office in San Francisco this week, I got to go hands-on with the Vive Cosmos headset. However, HTC is thoughtfully not abandoning external tracking altogether like Oculus chose to do when moving to inside-out tracking with the Rift S.

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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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APRIL 19, 2022

After graduating from the University of Southern California in Computer Sciences, he joined Oculus VR out of his passion for virtual reality. He was part of the team behind the GearVR app store and developed some of Oculus’ first native apps, e.g., Oculus Video and Oculus Social.

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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. The experience within the headset will be at least a couple of frames behind what you would experience on the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive.

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 6, 2016

The judges will award points based on your head and hand dancing performance, awarding between 1 and 10 points. Hand tracking (via Leap Motion) and positional head tracking (via the Oculus Rift DK2/CV1 or HTC Vive) is required. How does the competition work?

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