The most common concerns are about possible latency issues. A wired Vive offers low latency head-tracking and position-tracked controls to ensure a comfortable and immersive experience. An older web page had listed latency of at least 15ms. MORE

Zero Latency’s newest free-roam VR adventure, Outbreak Origins , integrates what Co-Founder and CEO Tim Ruse explains as their “special sauce.”. ” According to Ruse, Zero Latency has seen more than 200,000 plays, with more than 22,000 new plays each month. MORE

Much like Samsung Gear VR, Mi VR features a built-in dedicated motion sensor for low latency head-tracking and only works with a select number of the company’s phones. The post Xiaomi Unveils Low-Cost, Low-Latency VR Headset with Controller appeared first on Road to VR. MORE

Davis told me that either the game or the room’s lighting may have been impacting the latency at the CES demo, and he didn’t believe that the adapter was part of the issue. MORE

Microsoft has undoubtedly been working on the next version of HoloLens, the company’s AR headset, but now we know a little more about what’s going into the next iteration: a Microsoft-built custom AI chip designed to carry out low-latency computer vision tasks. MORE

Wired VR headsets have barely noticeable motion-to-photon latency. Introducing wireless add-on kits for these devices threatens to risk increasing these latency times, however. We haven’t gone hands on with the kit ourselves just yet, but there should be less than seven milliseconds of latency “in any environment” HTC said as much in a blog post that followed a showing of the solution at the Computex event in Taipei this week. MORE

High bandwidth, low latency from 5G promise virtual reality experiences via @techgoondu [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 5, 2017. virtual reality augmented reality vr ar MORE

The company claims their improved system can ‘easily adapt’ to VR headsets as high as 8K resolution, while reducing the latency to 1ms. employs a “new generation ultra-low latency codec technology and an upgraded TPCast ??real-time MORE

Previously, a translation of the Chinese group’s site suggested that its solution for tetherless PC-based VR offered at best 15ms of latency, which caused concern for some. The mystery behind Vive X company TPCAST’s wireless upgrade kit for the HTC Vive continues to deepen. MORE

Therefore, it was inevitable that once virtual reality reached the consumer phase, the company would take an active part in VRs renaissance, in fact with immersive gaming came lofty initial hardware requirements and a necessary obsession with low latency visuals and minimum frame rates of 90FPS. MORE

” The final hurdle JDI hopes to overcome through this new project is system latency. VR system latency is the time in-between “the moment the motion sensor recognizes the start of the user’s movement and the moment the image is displayed on the VR-HMD.” ” If this latency is overly significant it can lead to immediate motion sickness inside of a VR experience. Tagged with: industry , japan , JDI , latency , resolution , screens. MORE

The basketball court sized multiplayer VR arena is called Zero Latency and Sega is bringing it to Tokyo. The real-life zombie apocalypse experience has only been open for close to 10 months now and has already seen 10,000 participants walk through the Zero Latency warehouse doors. MORE

Collaborating with one of the largest providers of free-roam multiplayer VR, Zero Latency, soon-to-be kick ass husband Alex invited his girlfriend Kelly to the advanced VR arena for an afternoon of what she thought would be some virtual zombie murdering. I’m not crying! You’re crying! MORE

But now, we’ve got a new development as Zero Latency expands from Melbourne, Australia to Orlando, Florida and brings the US their very first warehouse-scale free roam virtual reality facility. For more information, visit the Zero Latency official website. MORE

NGCodec , a cloud video processing company creating low latency codecs for video and interactive VR, announced the closure of an $8 million Series A funding round, bringing their total funds to $15.9 MORE

I spent this past weekend in Australia working with Sensics customer Zero Latency towards their upcoming VR deployment at SEGA's Joypolis park in Tokyo. Zero Latency has been running this experience for quite some time and have had nearly 10,000 paying customers do it. MORE

17:29 — Effects of high display (“motion-to-photon”) latency. VR Hardware VR Methods 3d displays accommodation Calibration Display Latency Eye strain Head tracking HMD Lag Motion Sickness Stereo MORE

For good reason, VR hardware developers are adamant about low motion-to-photon latency, or the amount of time between an input movement like a head turn, and when the screen updates to reflect that movement. High latency between what the user does and what they see can cause nausea. MORE

Below, I describe my personal perspective on the road ahead for the OSVR software along several paths: interfaces and devices, game engines, low-latency rendering, operating systems, utilities, and high-level processing. game engine latency open source operation systems OSVR roadmap MORE

Zero Latency’s new installation at the MGM Grand’s massive Level Up gaming lounge marks another positive milestone for the Melbourne-based company and out-of-home VR technology. The post Zero Latency’s ‘Warehouse Scale’ VR Arena Comes to MGM Grand in Vegas appeared first on Road to VR. MORE

As if Octane Raceway wasn’t cool enough, the famous high speed go kart facility has teamed up with Australian location-based VR company Zero Latency to add yet another attraction to it’s facility in the form of an advanced multiplayer virtual reality arena. MORE

Android N, the next version of Google’s mobile operating system, will feature a special mode for VR apps. This new mode gives VR apps exclusive access to the device’s processor cores when they are in the foreground MORE

That means that the researchers have been able to achieve this ultra-low latency interpolation without requiring that the source input achieve 16,000FPS to match the 16,000Hz display, which would be computationally impractical for real world scenarios. MORE

The Potato 9000 headset immediately shown its most important features: – Cheap LCD display; – Motion to photon latency that was super-high; – No integrated audio. Hello everyone from Qingdao, China! MORE

Free-roam VR Zero Latency unveil world’s first 8-player game via @Blooloop [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 3, 2017. virtual reality augmented reality vr ar MORE

Sega Live Creation , the amusement arm of parent company Sega-Sammy , is bringing the Zero Latency VR experience to the Joypolis amusement center in Tokyo, the chain’s flagship branch. MORE

But 5G’s secret weapon will actually be ultra-low latency, a concept that’s easily understood but hard to market. Verizon , Vodafone , and Huawei have spent the past month demonstrating how low latency will radically improve wireless video, video games, and VR, focusing on just a few of the industries 5G will transform over the next few years. Latency means responsiveness — think of it as the time gap between a request and a response. MORE

Since the toy’s AR function is accomplished through a single pass-through camera (another point of latency), and not two, it also can’t provide a correct stereoscopic view, making it even less appealing to long-term usability. MORE

Latency. The flip side of the impressive image quality is noticeable latency. It may be subtle enough that some users wouldn’t notice it outright, but they may end up feeling it, since higher latency can cause accumulating discomfort. MORE

Melbourne-based firm Zero Latency has raised $7 million in venture funding. The technology was recently brought to Tokyo, Madrid and Orlando , and uses Alienware backpack PCs designed in collaboration with Zero Latency. MORE

Over the past three years, Melbourne, Australia-based startup Zero Latency has been refining its multiplayer virtual reality arcade platform, which currently has three playable games for up to six players with plans to add eight-player support by the end of this year. Arcades Zero Latency MORE

Zero Latency and Sega Live Creation have announced that they are teaming to bring the first free-roaming multi-player VR game to Japan. The Zero Latency experience is launching in celebration of the Tokyo Joypolis 20th Anniversary. MORE

The WiGig solution offers a premium VR wireless experience that operates in the interference-free 60Ghz band, which means lower latency and better performance. Announced today at CES 2018, HTC will be releasing a wireless solution for their HTC Vive VR Headset (Regular and Pro versions.). The Vive Wireless Adaptor features Intel’s WiGig technology that offers high-speed data connections over short distances. MORE

The book walks that fine line very well by focusing primarily on the human experience, so that whether or not you know what terms like latency, rendering, tracking or lag mean, you should come away with a better understanding of what Virtual Reality actually does. MORE

Melbourne, Australia-based VR company Zero Latency has partnered with the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino to launch its latest eight-player virtual reality gaming location in the U.S. And it’s one of 20 Zero Latency arenas in operation around the globe, including locations in Orlando, Boston, Philadelphia, Wisconsin and the Poconos. Zero Latency is building its brand in the location-based VR arcade business through this new partnership with the established MGM brand. MORE

One common use of predictive tracking is to reduce the apparent ‘motion-to-photon’ latency, meaning the time between movement and when that movement is reflected on the display. Sources of Latency. Latency can come from multiple sources, such as: Sensing delays. MORE

HTC Vive China Regional President Alvin Wang Graylin admits however some latency is to be expected, saying it would be “ok for most non-twitch apps.” Yes, some minimal added latency, but ok for most non-twitch apps. MORE

Australian virtual reality startup Zero Latency has received rave reviews, including from Mashable, so it seemed only a matter of time before it went global. MORE

Today’s most immersive virtual reality systems, like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, rely on a bothersome tether to send power and high fidelity imagery to the headset at low latency. We believe that our latency overhead is close to optimal, but only the customers will be the judges. MORE

Nitero is somewhat unique as the company has been designing its own chips that are specially made to enable high bandwidth, low latency wireless AR and VR solutions. MORE

Or in other words, total motion-to-photon latency for the entire screen is now down to around 1ms. VR Hardware VR Software Latency Oculus Rift Oculus Rift DK2 VruiI finally managed to get the Oculus Rift DK2 fully supported in my Vrui VR toolkit , and while there are still some serious issues, such as getting the lens distortion formulas and internal HMD geometry exactly right, I’ve already noticed something really neat. MORE

This process introduces ‘latency’, which is the time it takes to update frames with new user input taken into account. For an action title to feel responsive, latency needs to be under 150ms in a traditional video game, so keeping it reasonably low is a challenge. MORE

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 first tetherless multi-user VR experience hits North American market, but is it everything we were promised? MORE