Road to VR

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Today at Oculus Connect 4, the company’s annual developer conference, Oculus revealed the Project Santa Cruz ‘Prototype 2’ standalone VR headset, including 6DOF motion controllers. Image courtesy Oculus. Oculus told me that tracking on the P2 had been a major focus since the P1 was shown last year.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 19, 2017

So when it comes to specs and tracking performance, you can expect the headsets from Acer, Dell, Asus, HP, and Lenovo to be very similar. The one major exception is Samsung’s Odyssey Windows VR headset which appears to have taken a more custom approach with unique lenses, displays, and integrated audio.

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Road to VR

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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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

I mean, on the Oculus Touch you have a middle finger trigger, that is used to grab stuff by closing your hand and the index finger that is used to trigger actions: when you use a VR gun, everything is more or less like in the real world. The Oculus Quest touch controllers: this is how I want manual interface in XR. Should you buy it?

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Road to VR

MARCH 8, 2017

Mobile VR solutions like Samsung’s Gear VR currently employ rotational tracking only. Positional tracking adds not only comfort but also immersion to virtual reality, and is a feature of all major tethered VR headsets. However, achieving the same on mobile VR has proved challenging.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 6, 2020

SEE ALSO Oculus Quest Sells Out at Major Retailers, Availability Slips into Late February. Nolo VR Tracking. Pimax “4K” with integrated audio, Image courtesy Pimax.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 14, 2018

The feature is baked into the latest release of the increasingly wordy AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition , and is backed up by a Radeon ReLive for VR app available currently on Vive Focus and Daydream devices, though eventually coming to Oculus Go and Samsung Gear too, according to an AMD spokesperson.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2017

The head-tracking based interface of the Gear VR is completely intuitive. Toy Clash is now available on the Samsung Gear VR through Oculus Home for $2.99. Tagged with: gear vr , oculus , strategy , tactics , toy clash. Even still though, Toy Clash is charming enough to be fun for the most part.

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OCTOBER 4, 2016

Since its announcement at Google I/O earlier in the year, Daydream has been positioned as a potential usurper to the mobile VR throne currently occupied by Samsung and Oculus with Gear VR. Head tracking, app selection, and overall performance inside View were all top notch. The Remote.

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Headjack

JANUARY 12, 2015

All the big names in tech are working on their own devices, including Apple, Sony, Samsung, and Google. This is a massive overkill, since the latest Oculus Rift Crescent Bay edition contains a 1440p display. However, Oculus does aim for content shown at 80fps! Do you know why so many Oculus Rift DK2’s can be found on eBay?

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