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. That’s what I’m doing here.”.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Immersive Sporting and Events Sporting events now meet gaming in the world of immersive experiences. With immersive reality, people can enjoy sports and events in virtual meetings that go far beyond ordinary video conferencing. Meanwhile, Oculus will benefit from the social media giant’s strong user base of 1 billion.

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VRScout

AUGUST 31, 2020

For devices lacking Bluetooth support, each pair comes with a low latency cable compatible with most standard 3.5mm headphone jacks. Although initially envisioned to recreate the energy of live music, adding this immersion layer to gaming, movies and VR is next level.” There’s also mic support.

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Road to VR

APRIL 12, 2021

The hope of XR streaming is to remove the high-end hardware barrier by rendering immersive visuals in the cloud and streaming them to a host device which itself doesn’t need particularly beefy or expensive hardware; the host device could be a PC, smartphone, or standalone headset. Image courtesy NVIDIA.

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Road to VR

JUNE 24, 2021

LIV develops software for mixed reality video capture, and over the years it’s become the de facto method for streamers showing themselves immersed in VR from a third-person perspective. The team says it’s working on bringing it to the Oculus Store in the future, and also to Android by the end of the year.

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Road to VR

MAY 25, 2018

John Carmack, Oculus’ CTO, has revealed work on a new VR video playback technology which he says is coming to Oculus Go and newer Gear VR phones. To show it off, the company is planning a re-release of the animated short Henry, which Carmack says will “set a new bar for immersive video quality.”

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VRScout

JUNE 18, 2019

VR hardware is front and center at this year’s festivities following the release of Oculus Quest and HP Reverb. VR Hardware of the Year: Oculus – Quest. Oculus – Rift S. VR Experience of the Year: ILMxLAB & Oculus Studios – Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series – Episode I. Zero Latency – Sol Raiders.

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ARPost

APRIL 22, 2020

The immersive nature of virtual reality makes the often dull world of finance more compelling for people. Immersive learning environments provide visual and tactile stimuli. Oculus Rift powered the virtual experience. High-resolution imagery and low-latency head-tracking brought people into a virtual environment.

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2018

Nearly seven months after its announcement back in October 2017, Oculus Go, the company’s first standalone VR headset, is finally here. Oculus Go Review Summary. Launching today in 23 countries, Oculus Go is the company’s new take on mobile VR. Both have very little latency. Read on to find out.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Although gaming is certainly a great use case and example of what immersive VR experiences can deliver, the possibilities are endless,” said Vindevogel. He adds that one of the main causes of motion sickness in VR experiences is poor latency. That’s because VR is capable of creating such immersive, interactive, and social experiences.

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Road to VR

JULY 23, 2021

Though Quest 2’s AR view is still fairly low resolution and black & white, it’s expected that future headsets from Facebook will focus on improving the passthrough AR view.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2018

Henry has been one of the first content that I’ve tried on my Oculus Rift CV1. A great work by Oculus Story Studio, for sure. That’s why when I heard that Oculus was going to publish a new version of Henry for Oculus Go , I could do nothing but try it. The answer is: it is not possible.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 1, 2017

Tracking VR headsets across large areas is complex and complicated, especially when trying to use the existing tracking frameworks from either HTC’s Vive or Oculus’ Rift. This week we even covered a new tracking puck , that looks similar to the Vive Tracker , OptiTrack is using for affordable full-body immersion.

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Road to VR

JUNE 28, 2021

Rendering immersive XR experiences in the cloud, compressing the video and audio streams, and serving that up to VR and AR devices for interactive experiences over 5G and WiFi networks—all at a low enough latency to make it feel like you’re tethered to powerful PC—is no small feat.

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VRScout

JULY 3, 2018

Developed as part of Y Combinator’s most recent class of start-ups, Plexus Immersive Corp’s haptic gloves are an intuitive new solution to VR & AR control that utilize a generous selection of compatible baseplates to work cooperatively with most major VR controllers. Wireless: 2.4GHz Custom Low Latency Protocol.

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VRScout

APRIL 1, 2018

First announced last year , TPCast’s Business Edition adapter made the promise of delivering low latency, multi user VR experiences to businesses across the U.S. The adapter will also support just the HTC Vive headsets at launch with Oculus-compatibility planned for Q3 of 2018.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Lynx R-1 features the same Qualcomm XR2 chipset as Oculus Quest 2 and HTC Vive Focus 3, and like those two it’s also based on a heavily modified version of Android. All versions are also coming with a 1m USB-C cable, USB-C Charger, VR facial interface for a more immersive experience, and fabric headstrap for added comfort.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Edge computing is an evolving paradigm in cloud computing optimisation, where the typical latency problems associated with the cloud can be mitigated. According to the press release provided to Road to VR , GridRaster leverages this technology “to re-define the network and compute stack at multiple layers – device, network and edge cloud.”.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 21, 2019

Original image from Oculus). Oculus Rift and Gear VR have sold 10M units. At the beginning of the week, Jack McCauley, one of the founders of the Oculus startup, had claimed in an interview with CNBC that Facebook VR will never succeed. Of course, he was not only talking about Oculus but about VR in general.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 4, 2024

It inherits all the advantages of the base XR2 Gen 2 architecture, including the hardware acceleration for camera passthrough that is said to reduce end-to-end latency to around 12 milliseconds. It's a more premium option for higher-priced headsets, including those designed to take on Apple Vision Pro.

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ARPost

JULY 3, 2020

See Also: Best VR Hand Tracking Games for Oculus Quest in 2020. This touchless interaction is extremely comfortable for users who want to experience a truly immersive movie theater. When it comes to VR media players, things are not very different. VaR’s VR Video Player. Supported OS: Android.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 5, 2021

Since its launch in 2019 Oculus Quest has represented a major shift in Facebook’s VR strategy by moving away from the PC. While there’s a handful of hand-tracking games available on the headset, the entire Quest menu, including the Oculus browser, can be controlled completely by your hands. Oculus Link & Air Link.

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Road to VR

JULY 3, 2018

Plexus Immersive Corp, a San Francisco-based startup, announced a pair of VR gloves that integrate haptic feedback and interface with multiple tracking standards, including SteamVR, Oculus Rift, and Windows “Mixed Reality” VR. ” Image courtesy Plexus Immersive. Image courtesy Plexus Immersive.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Long a point of contention, Oculus last week announced a welcome new stance: the Rift will be officially supporting 360 degree tracking and room-scale as part of the forthcoming Touch launch. Prior to the announcement last week, Oculus had only officially committed to the first two configurations.

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VRScout

JANUARY 26, 2021

HaptX also employs the use of magnetic motion tracking, a proprietary motion capture system featuring sub-millimeter precision, 30 DoF (degrees of freedom) per hand, and no latency or occlusion. Together this creates an individualized, physically-accurate VR hand model and renders a full-body avatar for enhanced immersion.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The industry is giant and immersive solutions can help to enhance the busy sector. Immersive applications enable users to gain benefits from gestures, body language, and facial expressions that a worker gets from a face-to-face meeting. However, merging immersive applications is attempting to solve digital culture concerns. .

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Tech Trends VR

MARCH 31, 2019

In spite of all the investment from companies such as Oculus, the PSVR is the only hardware that has come even close to tapping that elusive jackpot of mass consumer adoption. Fast-paced, graphics-rich longer games require fast GPU and no lag, otherwise you’ll just get a lot of queasy and frustrated gamers.

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2018

Oculus Half Dome Prototype. Prior to launch the first consumer Rift headset, Oculus had a long history of showing prototypes and development kits. Following the launch of the Rift, Oculus kept their R&D efforts on future PC headsets mostly secretive. Oculus Santa Cruz. image courtesy Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

These numbers are a great piece of news because they show how VR adoption is growing and that the Oculus Quest 2 launch is contributing to this growth. Oculus delays shipments of the Elite Strap due to breakage reports. Oculus Test Users let you use the Quest 2 without a real Facebook account (for sideloading).

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VRScout

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Just in time for the holiday season, cinematic VR pioneer, Jaunt, has launched its custom Jaunt VR App for PlayStation VR, adding it to their existing integrations in iOS, Android, Gear VR, Google Daydream, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and major desktop browsers.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 30, 2021

After the free September 9th update, the VR game will expand to allow 2 players wearing Oculus Quest 2 VR Headsets to freely roam in 100 square feet of shared playspace. Free roam VR is the only truly immersive VR because users walk through mixed reality environments using their natural locomotion and touch.

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VRScout

JANUARY 8, 2018

You could immediately see the bump in resolution and a significant reduction in the screen door effect, enhancing immersion, and making reading text and graphics overall sharper. The resolution increase puts the Vive Pro ahead of the Oculus Rift and Windows “Mixed Reality” headsets.

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VRScout

AUGUST 13, 2017

I spoke with VR Bound co-founder, Daniel Colaianni about what he hopes the VR Awards would achieve for VR technology and he says, “The VR Awards exists to promote growth and achievement throughout the immersive industry by reinvesting in promoting strategic partnerships.” Oculus – Rift. Oculus – Touch. Zero Latency.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 12, 2020

Of course, he also talks about immersive realities. Oculus Link official cable now available worldwide (but Quest is still soldout). Good news for all the Quest fans: the official Oculus Link cable is now available worldwide in 22 countries. We believe that with you, Marky Z…. HTC reduces the Vive Pro price by $200.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Oculus may be be closing out 2016 with a bang with the launch of its Touch controllers, but HTC is going to kick off 2017 with something special: a peripheral that makes its Vive headset wireless. The latter category is quickly gaining interest, with major players like Oculus recently showcasing their own solutions.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 12, 2016

This is especially acute when attempting to become immersed in room-scale VR as championed by SteamVR’s first flagship VR system the HTC Vive. There are a number of other companies racing to see who can produce wireless video streaming which can carry enough data at a low enough latency to delivery a nausea free, clear VR image too.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Three basic features of a metaverse will be: Immersiveness. Metaverses are in line with the tech trend Oculus Quest reported sales growth, which indicates higher accessibility of VR equipment for the general audience. There are lots of people expecting virtual reality to respond as immersively as 3D gaming interfaces.

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