ARVR

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Augmented reality for maintenance and repair 4. Top 10 Movies that Got Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Righ Edit-time ?—?when Field of View (FoV): Field of View represents the visual area in which users can see virtual content in an augmented reality headset. Environmental understanding ?—?understanding

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Featured 360° is an ongoing series to highlight some of our favorite videos from creators and brands for you to enjoy during the week. “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.”

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Doc-Ok

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

actually come together to create realistic-looking virtual environments? Specifically, why do virtual environment in VR look more “real” compared to when viewed via other media, for example panoramic video? Most attempts to answer it fall back on technical aspects, such as stereoscopy, head tracking, etc.,

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Road to VR

MAY 10, 2017

While virtual reality surely has high performance requirements to maintain a comfortable experience, immersive AR may ultimately require a greater level of performance if we’re to achieve the theoretical ideal. The video headlining this article details the rig used to achieve these results.

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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. Today, the company has taken that process by unveiling the first reference design.

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Road to VR

MAY 19, 2016

Epic Games have been a constant in VR technology adoption since the Oculus Rift Kickstarter, with the company’s Unreal Engine 4 consistently one of the first to deliver integration for a myriad virtual reality technologies. This video is also the most that has been seen publicly of the Daydream controller in action.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 23, 2017

Altair Digital have announced that they are to bring the wonder of the solar system as historically experienced via your local Planetarium to virtual reality with Fulldome Cinema. Using this, Altair then take existing Fulldome projection experiences from the real world and project those into the VR planetarium.

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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. Technicians can also stream how-to videos directly in their field of view without looking away.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Jaunt is a Palo Alto-based company that is currently one of the leading providers of 360-degree virtual reality content. The PS VR is compatible only with Sony’s PlayStation 4 video game console. The PS4 has been selling phenomenally for years and recently surpassed 50 million total units worldwide.

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Road to VR

JUNE 4, 2017

That said, Futurlab ‘s virtual reality slot racing title Tiny Trax is still an unexpected title to find in the upcoming release roster for Sony’s PlayStation VR headset. Not only for the sense of presence that virtual reality brings, but also for the natural control head tracking offers.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

At the moment, a fully immersive VR experience is the best option to get full audio spatialization, but a yet-to-be determined, standard format for object-oriented or spatialized audio could be used with head-tracked headphones like Ossic X as well as with future versions of SubPac devices that have directional bass incorporated.

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Road to VR

JULY 25, 2016

Veeso , a recently launched Kickstarter project, is aiming to be the first to market with a mobile VR headset that tracks your face’s movement; a system that uses head-mounted infrared cameras to track both your eyes and mouth for a greater sense of presence in virtual reality. Photo courtesy Veeso.

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Road to VR

JUNE 4, 2017

That said, Futurlab ‘s virtual reality slot racing title Tiny Trax is still an unexpected title to find in the upcoming release roster for Sony’s PlayStation VR headset. Not only for the sense of presence that virtual reality brings, but also for the natural control head tracking offers.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 20, 2017

He has been developing virtual reality as a tool for scientific discovery since 1998, and is the creator of the open-source Vrui VR toolkit. As a starting point, here is a demo video, allegedly shot through the display and without any special effects: I say allegedly, but I do believe this to be true. And speculate I will.

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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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AllThingsVR

AUGUST 11, 2016

Jaunt VR and Facebook Are Tracking Your Head Movements For Better 360-Degree Videos Well-funded 360-degree video startup Jaunt VR recently debuted a publishing platform to rival YouTube as it continues to dabble in all aspects of reality capture. Facebook, in fact, just announced similar tools. Read more here.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Whether it be the 90’s or even the 21st century, these virtual reality monstrosities are the definition of ridiculous. Virtual reality is all too familiar with this phenomenon. Here are a few of the strangest virtual reality head-mounted displays we could find.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 30, 2020

On the downside, except for situations where people need to interact spacially with one another or with 3D models, the marginal improvements over video calls aren’t worth the inconvenience and expense of wearing a headset. The head tracking and the hand-held controllers both feel real. Look ma, no vomit. Awesome avatars.

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Road to VR

MARCH 27, 2017

Now that virtual reality is coming to a wider audience, it seems the medium is mature enough to open the conversation about funding games with ads, something HTC is letting developers enable in a big way with their newly announced VR Ad Service—and VR ads are different. A full list is available on the Vive developer site.

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ARPost

JUNE 3, 2022

Leia Inc makes a “lightfield experience platform” – a 2D device that displays 3D content through head tracking. Demos on the AWE floor included more intimate recordings and video calls with loved ones, as well as a game built for 2D but ported in through a Unity SDK. It needs to be forgettable.”.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Augmented reality, while growing in buzz, has been around in some form or another for more than two decades. But immersive head-mounted AR for consumers has had one major hurdle that Microsoft may have just solved. It’s what mobile VR headsets like Gear VR (which lacks positional tracking) have been eagerly waiting for.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

There’s also a 3-point precision fit headband for extra comfort. The Varjo headset includes Ultraleap hand-tracking to monitor natural hand movements, and true-to-life MR passthrough with 12 megapixel video. The solution turns tracking inside out to reduce setup time, and loosens the hardware restrictions of other devices.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 23, 2023

The Varjo headset includes Ultraleap hand-tracking to monitor natural hand movements and true-to-life MR passthrough with 12-megapixel video. Plus, users can unlock depth awareness capabilities powered by LiDAR and Inside-out tracking capabilities for more immersive experiences.

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VRGames

OCTOBER 2, 2021

In this online video, you may discover a lot more about digital truth and augmented truth.

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Doc-Ok

OCTOBER 6, 2015

As it turns out, HoloLens has something to do with holograms, but not in the way that someone would initially assume: the virtual three-dimensional objects that HoloLens so cleverly inserts into a viewer’s real environments are not, in fact, real capital-H Holograms.

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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. HoloLens will continue to be at the core of what we do, but Windows Holographic is the larger and more diverse ecosystem that HoloLens exists within.”

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 14, 2015

Why do you think dystopian narratives lend themselves so well to virtual reality? At this blossoming stage of virtual reality, I think our expectations are heavily shaped by the science fiction which conceived it. Wearing a futuristic head-mounted display and being in a futuristic world is consistent thematically.

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Road to VR

JUNE 6, 2016

You can either strike at the ancient beasts from behind with your pickaxe or blast away with your shotgun using the head tracking of the Oculus Rift to aim. The controls for are as comfortable as any console game, and the buttons are mapped in a way that will be familiar for anyone who has played video games on consoles.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

While “head-mounted displays are demanding very high frame rates, frame rates aren’t an issue in immersive theaters because head tracking isn’t required.” VR movie theaters offer ideal opportunities for consumers to sample VR experiences without paying for high-cost consumer head-mounted displays.

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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. BigScreen’s avatars are now customisable, the heads correspond to head-tracked motions, and the mouths animate when you speak.

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Doc-Ok

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

3D Visualizer also offers non-interactive visualization algorithms, such as the volume renderer shown at the beginning of the video in Figure 1. Users can talk to each other via 3D spatial audio, and can see each other interacting with the data via pseudo-holographic 3D video avatars (see Figure 4).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

If you follow me since a while, you should recall that I had a startup focused on full body virtual reality called Immotionar : we mixed VR headsets and Kinects to let you use your full body in VR. Let me answer both questions: Forget about whales and elephants: the virtual elements do not seem real at all. Other resources.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

The annual presentation at Oculus Connect by Michael Abrash, Chief Scientist at Oculus, is always a highlight of the company’s annual developer event, projecting a forward-thinking and ever inspirational look at the future of virtual reality. Firstly, the visuals, as this is the most critical area for near-term improvement.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

XR Talks is a series that features the best presentations and educational videos from the XR universe. It includes embedded video, narrative analysis and top takeaways. Controller and head tracking is solid on the device — as it was on Quest 1 — while hand tracking will only get better.

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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

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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AR Insider

OCTOBER 13, 2020

To commemorate the device reaching consumers’ hands and heads, we’re reprising our recent review roundup (say that three times fast). Check it out below in embedded videos and narrative takeaways. Virtual Reality Oasis. He also reiterates the utility that Quest could gain over time through hand tracking.

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