VRScout

MAY 22, 2017

The VR experience is enhanced by Positron’s Voyager platform, featuring guided 360-degree motion control, head-tracked 3D audio and haptic integration—allowing you to experience the world of The Mummy in an entirely new way.

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Road to VR

APRIL 2, 2018

Consumer headsets like the Oculus Go, Lenovo Mirage Solo, and HTC Vive Focus are all based on earlier versions of the Snapdragon VRDK, but none of them offer 6DOF controller tracking. Image courtesy Qualcomm.

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Road to VR

MAY 4, 2018

Right on the heels of the Oculus Go launch, the Lenovo Mirage Solo is here. The headset promises to bring one of the top features of high-end VR headsets—positional tracking—to Google’s casual Daydream VR ecosystem. SEE ALSO Oculus Go Review: Standalone VR Priced for the Masses. Tis the season of standalones, it seems.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

While the $600 standalone headset has since made its way westward, shifting away from consumers and emphasizing its use in the enterprise market, the controller remained a sticking point for users and developers who found its 6DOF optical head tracking and 3DOF controller tracking to be pretty strange bedfellows.

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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. The company’s technology is being demonstrated this week at the Augmented World Expo (AWE).

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

For those, decades of production expertise and stable technology have already realized the potential of graphics on 2D screens. Our innovation on virtual experiences includes technologies that you’ve probably heard a bit about already, such as foveated rendering, varifocal optics, holography, and light fields.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 18, 2017

Facebook, too, is working hard on inside-out technology and showed its Santa Cruz prototype last year using this more convenient approach to VR headset design. I covered both the outward facing cameras and Google’s tracking technology continued to track my head movements in every direction accurately for about one second.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

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. Iteration and Innovation .

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 19, 2017

The confusion comes from Microsoft using ‘Mixed Reality’ as an umbrella term to describe a spectrum of AR and VR technology. Setup is truly a breeze with native support under Windows 10 and no external sensors required for tracking. Captured by Road to VR.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 1, 2017

Announcements today include innovations in entertainment, gaming and cinema, smart wearables, sensing toys, robotics and consumer electronics, cloud, enterprise and business technologies, human-computer interaction solutions, automotive, and high-performance APIs. www.ciear.ca. www.massless.io www.deepoptics.com. www.massless.io

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 15, 2017

A big part of that has to do with the technological limitations of the platform. Regardless of game mode though, Farpoint really excels best when it makes you forget you’re holding a controller in your hand and you really feel immersed in the world around you. It feels silly and awkward. Final Score: 7.5/10 10 – Very Good.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus. An iconic image of Jeremy Bailenson wearing an Oculus Rift DK2 (Image taken from Medium). I am always fascinated when I speak with someone that is here before the Oculus Kickstarter campaign. I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

But immersive head-mounted AR for consumers has had one major hurdle that Microsoft may have just solved. 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.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

XR is no different, and VRdōjō founder Michael Eichenseer runs Alan through a few of the cardiovascular benefits to the technology. Everybody’s getting this interest in, “what can this technology do for my business? I worked at their technology headquarters, and we did technology training for the employees.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

founder Michael Eichenseer runs Alan through a few of the cardiovascular benefits to the technology. Everybody’s getting this interest in, “what can this technology do for my business? Personally, I think there’s no facet of human communication that we won’t be touched by these technologies. Michael: Yep.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

With our FrontRow technology we’re able to accommodate any number of participants simultaneously, and this has led to record-setting events. Great content and experiences will drive adoption; ultimately VR needs to cut cords and be mobile, but right now mobile VR is not ready for immersive social VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

founder Michael Eichenseer runs Alan through a few of the cardiovascular benefits to the technology. Everybody's getting this interest in, "what can this technology do for my business? Personally, I think there's no facet of human communication that we won't be touched by these technologies. XR is no different, and VRd?j?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Emily Friedman is a New York based enterprise immersive, wearable and emerging technology advocate, journalist and facilitator. She’s Head of Content and the lead writer at BrainXchange, lead journalist and senior editor at Enterprisewear Blog, and head of marketing and communications for Augmented World Expo USA and AWE EU.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Emily Friedman is a New York based enterprise immersive, wearable and emerging technology advocate, journalist and facilitator. She’s Head of Content and the lead writer at BrainXchange, lead journalist and senior editor at Enterprisewear Blog, and head of marketing and communications for Augmented World Expo USA and AWE EU.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Emily Friedman is a New York based enterprise immersive, wearable and emerging technology advocate, journalist and facilitator. She's Head of Content and the lead writer at BrainXchange, lead journalist and senior editor at Enterprisewear Blog, and head of marketing and communications for Augmented World Expo USA and AWE EU.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 12, 2015

Hand tracking and virtual reality are both emerging technologies, and combining the two into a fluid and seamless experience can be a real challenge. Oculus’ best practices guide covers this issue in great detail. Sound is an essential aspect of truly immersive VR. inner ear, visual field, and bodily position).

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