Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Having seen how far the technology has come though, it raises a question: why hasn’t Nintendo made a VR headset yet? There was no head tracking, motion controllers, or even games that wouldn’t have played equally as well on a standard Gameboy.

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VRScout

APRIL 27, 2017

The latest Within original blows away Tribeca audiences with exciting new light-field technology. Key components such as room-scale VR, parallax effects and head-tracking add to the realism of virtual experiences by making movement seem much more natural. They’re simple to access, easy to watch and plentiful.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 14, 2019

According to the demo video (linked below), the unnamed “R&D prototype” looks to include both 6DOF head-tracking as well as hand-tracking, and appear to be a standalone unit similar to Microsoft HoloLens. And yes, they’re shooting proton energy from their hands.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 8, 2024

In this industry, developers are experimenting with ever-more intuitive screens, lenses, and accompanying XR technologies, to create solution for a range of industries. The smart glasses available from Goertek use the latest in lens development technologies and ergonomic designs for comfort. billion by 2030.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The Rokid Max AR glasses, released this year, promise consumers a unique insight into the evolving world of smart glasses technology. While major technology brands have been discussing the potential benefits of smart glasses for a while now, the market is still quite limited. What are the Rokid Max AR Glasses?

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AR Insider

AUGUST 24, 2021

Going deeper on Boeing’s AR deployment, it let technicians move through multiple instruction prompts using voice commands, Google Glass gestural taps and a head-tracking interface. Wearable technology is helping us amplify the power of our workforce.”. Cognitive Load. More from AR Insider….

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ARPost

MAY 19, 2023

See Also: VR Mindfulness: Is Immersive Technology The Next 'Big Thing' in Workplace Well-Being? The thumbsticks can be used for snap turns, but there’s no movement and head-tracking is sufficient. Further, the initial app download is small but individual modules within the app come as independent downloads.

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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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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Last year Qualcomm Technologies revealed its new Snapdragon XR2 platform design with 5G and the next generation of augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) devices in mind. The designs cover all three technologies from a sleek looking, matt black VR headset to an MR device similar to Microsoft’s HoloLens.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The group aims to build technologies into an AR headset that will supercharge your hearing by making it easy to isolate the sound of your conversation in a noisy environment, and to be able to reproduce virtual sounds that seem like they’re coming from the real world around you. That’s the promise of the technology we’re developing.”.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 31, 2023

VRCs avoid sickness by reviewing refresh rates, head-tracked graphics, render scaling, headset positional tracking, multiple locomotion styles, and head-tracked user interfaces (UI). Final Thoughts on VR Motion Sickness While VR motion sickness is an undesirable knock-on effect from using immersive technologies.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 9, 2017

It’s a natural fit to give players a weapon and ask them to explore a world in first-person since that’s the most intuitive application of head tracking and letting a screen surround you as a portal to another world. “I’m intrigued by technology, especially musical technology,” explained Meier.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

Like any new technology hitting the consumer market for the first time, virtual reality is currently a pretty expensive form of entertainment. The answer is in a new technology called “asynchronous spacewarp.” That kind of frame rate, head tracking, processing power, requires a powerful system to run everything simultaneously.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 4, 2023

In this industry, developers are experimenting with ever-more intuitive screens, lenses, and accompanying XR technologies, to create solution for a range of industries. The smart glasses available from Goertek use the latest in lens development technologies and ergonomic designs for comfort. billion by 2030.

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Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2018

DigiLens , a developer of transparent waveguide display technology, is creating a reference headset aimed at wide FOV AR with hand-tracking, dubbed AR HUD. The company showed the first glimpse of the headset at AWE USA 2018. DigiLens says its in the process of demoing the AR HUD reference headset to potential partners.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 29, 2018

This week at XRDC in San Francisco, the company spoke more about the dev kit and noted that between the Vive Focus and other Vive Wave powered headsets, consumers are likely to see a number of different 6DOF controller tracking technologies accompanying different headsets.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 14, 2016

That means no Motion controller support, no head-tracking and a slightly-noticeable drop in picture quality. So while we don’t anticipate a massive surge in PS VR purchases by Xbone or Wii U owners, it’ll be extremely interesting to see how this technology progresses in the future.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Oculus wants your AR/VR experience to not only be a 360 immersive visual experience that includes real time head tracking and full immersive audio during your VR experience, but would also include real time hand tracking as part of the virtual and augmented experience.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 3, 2017

According to the blog post spotted by Engadget : “The ZenFone AR with Snapdragon 821 is built for VR with high-resolution display, ultra-smooth graphics and high-fidelity sensors for precise head tracking.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 17, 2023

However, many immersive technology firms are deeply involved today in promoting MR content for enterprises and beyond. Recently, the firm optimized each device’s MR and hand-tracking abilities – two critical aspects behind many upcoming MR headsets. PICO appears to be ahead of the pack, and with its OS version 5.7

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Hand and eye tracking are crucial, integral tools to create the most authentic extended reality (XR) experiences. Market leaders have relied on the technologies to build interactive, secure human-computer interfaces (HCIs) capable of offering multiple benefits. Social interaction.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

In this industry, developers are experimenting with ever-more intuitive screens, lenses, and accompanying XR technologies to create solutions for a range of industries. The smart glasses available from Goertek use the latest in lens development technologies and ergonomic designs for comfort. billion by 2030.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 19, 2024

Hand tracking and head tracking. Six degrees of tracking with spatial anchors and depth mesh. These glasses mainly offer advanced screen mirroring capabilities with more tracking technologies. Screen mirroring with USB-C and HDMI video output. TUV certification for flicker-free, low blue light eye comfort.

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ARVR

AUGUST 27, 2021

Cognitive Load Going deeper on Boeing’s AR deployment, it let technicians move through multiple instruction prompts using voice commands, Google Glass gestural taps and a head-tracking interface. Wearable technology is helping us amplify the power of our workforce.”

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

February 2nd, 2024 is set to go down in history - it’s yet to be seen whether that will be for an earth-shattering paradigm shift in how we think about computing technology, or for one of the most expensive flopped products of all time. I share similar goals in my own explorations with technology and it is why I started my company, ReBokeh.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 4, 2017

The phone is reportedly “built to see like your eyes do” with its trademarked ASUS TriCam System that enables detailed area learning, motion tracking, and depth sensing technologies. The phone features a large 5.7 inch Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 2560×1440.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 4, 2023

In this industry, developers are experimenting with ever-more intuitive screens, lenses, and accompanying XR technologies, to create solution for a range of industries. The smart glasses available from Goertek use the latest in lens development technologies and ergonomic designs for comfort. billion by 2030.

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Road to VR

JULY 10, 2017

The place illusion is largely enabled by the objective details of the VR technology with features such as 1:1 head tracking, low latency, and large field of view.

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Road to VR

JULY 25, 2016

The concept of using head-mounted cameras to track facial movement has been in development since the early ’90s, and although it later found practical application in the film and video game industries, giving animated characters a more human touch , it seems virtual reality is poised to bring technology to the consumer market in a big way.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

“Does Not Exist drops you into the center of Reeps One’s first virtual reality Beatbox performance – exploring the latest technology for VR and head-tracked 3D spatial audio.” Reeps One: Does not Exist.

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Road to VR

APRIL 2, 2018

Ultrasonic tracking is not new by any means; we’ve seen VR trackers based on the technology in recent years , and the tech was employed for similar purposes long before the modern era of VR. Image courtesy Qualcomm.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

In recent years, companies from virtually every industry have begun to discover just how beneficial immersive technology can be when it comes to improving collaboration and productivity. The HP Windows Mixed Reality headset is a streamlined device with integrated motion tracking, and a 2-in-1 cable for pairing USB 3 and HDMI connections.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 23, 2023

In recent years, companies from virtually every industry have begun to discover just how beneficial immersive technology can be when it comes to improving collaboration and productivity. Plus, users can unlock depth awareness capabilities powered by LiDAR and Inside-out tracking capabilities for more immersive experiences.

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Road to VR

JULY 5, 2016

The title has roots in an experimental project for which the developers integrated a hacked-up pair of stereoscopic glasses with rudimentary Wii-mote inspired head tracking.

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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

OCTOBER 17, 2016

There are a lot of similarities between the Wii and the PS VR in terms of technological power , which is, overall, a bit unfortunate. As a result, some developers see the head tracking and motion controls of the PS VR as an opportunity to seemingly shovel old Wii concepts onto a new platform.

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