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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VRScout

JUNE 13, 2016

When Ashley Pinnick of LA-based virtual reality creative studio, California Rex, set out to develop an adventure game for the new medium, little did she know how much her childhood growing up in a rural town in the Sonoran Desert would influence her creation. Developing the Absurd.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 26, 2016

. “This means shifting from being a HoloLens-focused mixed reality company to a Windows Holographic focused mixed reality and virtual reality company. Low end VR on Xbox and these new headsets, all the way through high end mixed reality on HoloLens. The Santa Cruz inside-out tracking prototype from Oculus.

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Road to VR

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

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

For many people, the end-all be-all of virtual reality is being able to get up and move around inside of a digital space with roomscale. 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.

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ARPost

MARCH 31, 2023

It’s clear that there’s an appetite for virtual reality and that the VR industry as a whole has no intention of slowing down. The hardware consisted of blue HTC Vive Pros connected to the gaming PCs above. Virtual reality is becoming more and more normalized. I have strong VR legs, but still felt queasy.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2022

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. After graduating from the University of Southern California in Computer Sciences, he joined Oculus VR out of his passion for virtual reality.

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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.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

By the time Howard Rheingold’s “Virtual Reality” was published in 1991, the Sensorama was already a “slowly deteriorating” relic stashed away in a cabana next the pool at its inventor’s West Los Angeles home. NASA promotion shot of VIEW (Virtual Interactive Environment Workstation). Helig died in 1997 at age 70.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 24, 2016

But if desktop productivity in VR is your main objective, you’ll want a virtual reality desktop that’s built around that task. Virtual Desktop. BigScreen’s avatars are now customisable, the heads correspond to head-tracked motions, and the mouths animate when you speak.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

When it comes to public spaces like shops and museums, self-service virtual reality isn’t really a thing yet; first-timers generally need to be told how to put on the headset, how to hold the controllers, and where to stand.

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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. 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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Road to VR

MARCH 8, 2017

The popular forms of mobile VR headsets, such as the Samsung Gear VR and Google Daydream View and Cardboard, are currently limited to rotational head tracking, meaning that you can look around comfortably from a single vantage point, but movements of the head through 3D space (like leaning forward or backward) cannot be tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Regarding what components have been opensourced, Google states that “The open source project provides APIs for head tracking, lens distortion rendering, and input handling. There will be also an associated Oculus Quest game, but it won’t be actually revealed until 2020. Oculus Link is coming soon. The hype is rising….

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

We’re working to take virtual reality from an early adopter concept to a revolution for all of computing. Modern Virtual Reality Systems. 450 Mpix/second on an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive today is almost a seven times increase in the number of pixels per second compared to 1080p gaming at 30 FPS.

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VRWorld

JANUARY 30, 2017

This should overall improve head tracking problems we had on Pimax 4K. This is now a price competitor to HTC Vive, which sells at the same price (not in all markets). Just like Oculus, Pimax now has ‘Brain-warp’ technique. It features 200 degree ultra wide angle and 53mm lenses.

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Doc-Ok

JUNE 8, 2016

Virtual Reality, especially its head-mounted implementation, is quite good at overriding its users’ sense of place and space. At its core, Chaperone is a combination user interface / software / API system that brings relevant parts of users’ physical environments into their virtual environments.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

What is your vision for virtual augmented reality? Was the best virtual reality or a AR experience is what is the best thing that you have done? You are the voice of virtual reality in the Midwest. You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go. Amazon Sumerian.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

What is your vision for virtual augmented reality? Was the best virtual reality or a AR experience is what is the best thing that you have done? You are the voice of virtual reality in the Midwest. You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go. Amazon Sumerian.

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Tips Training Augmented Reality Exercises 78

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

What is your vision for virtual augmented reality? Was the best virtual reality or a AR experience is what is the best thing that you have done? You are the voice of virtual reality in the Midwest. You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go. Amazon Sumerian.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

There’s a couple of companies making some really interesting headway in virtual reality training, and I’ve tried a few of them. It helps that a lot of the big companies, HTC, Oculus, Lenovo, they’re pivoting to enterprise. We have sub-millimeter accuracy head tracking and eye tracking.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

There’s a couple of companies making some really interesting headway in virtual reality training, and I’ve tried a few of them. It helps that a lot of the big companies, HTC, Oculus, Lenovo, they’re pivoting to enterprise. We have sub-millimeter accuracy head tracking and eye tracking.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

There's a couple of companies making some really interesting headway in virtual reality training, and I've tried a few of them. It helps that a lot of the big companies, HTC, Oculus, Lenovo, they're pivoting to enterprise. It may have been in virtual reality and physically haven't really tiled a wall.

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