XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 31, 2024

.” Lessons Learnt: Developing Across Devices During its tenure, Skonec has developed XR applications for many years across various headset/end devices such as Samsung Gear VR, console VR, and PCVR. We’ve accumulated substantial UX expertise, ensuring an optimized experience for virtual environments.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

They need business-class solutions for the new realities of working in hybrid scenarios and virtual environments” said Vishal Shah, GM of XR and Metaverse, Lenovo. “We “Our customers are looking for reliable, flexible and scalable gateways into the growing Enterprise Metaverse.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Now Google is going beyond what’s already available, announcing further partnerships with manufacturers to enable their upcoming devices this year, including Samsung, Huawei, LGE, Motorola, ASUS, Xiaomi, HMD/Nokia, ZTE, Sony Mobile, and Vivo. Even China will have more access to AR. New Immersive Content. The post Google Announces ARCore 1.0

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VRScout

APRIL 17, 2018

It wasn’t long ago that the best method of moving around games and virtual worlds were two joysticks or a set of keyboard keys and a mouse. With the advent of consumer VR that allows for room scale mobility within virtual environments — the game has changed completely. Say you’re in VR and want to look to your left?

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Road to VR

JUNE 12, 2023

There is a comfort in understanding the topological landscape of a controller and a physical touchpoint within the virtual environments themselves. Buttons pushed, triggers pulled, vibrational feedback experienced, objects held, thrown or touched, alternative movement schemes supported.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 21, 2017

They told me that they expect to be able to double the brightness by the time they begin shipping displays, but it isn’t clear if they’ll have enough brightness to enable low-persistence, a key technique for reducing blur as users turn their heads in the virtual environment.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 22, 2024

The international media conglomerate is in the headlines this week with its Holotile breakthrough, a prototype device that acts as a VR input treadmill, allowing various users to walk around a shared virtual environment without requiring a controller.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

The industry has been experiencing a boom in recent years with hundreds of startups and heavy investment from tech giants including Google, Apple, Samsung, and Facebook. AR and VR are gearing up for a giant leap forward thanks to advancements in eye-tracking technology. Despite all the activity, AR/VR hardware remains relatively crude.

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VRScout

AUGUST 20, 2016

Weekend Downloads is part of our weekly update to bring you the latest additions to the Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Rift. Engage with local characters and virtual environments, solve puzzles and use your powers of observation to propel the storyline forward. There’s a little something for everyone to check out this week!

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ARPost

OCTOBER 27, 2021

These portals open up new virtual worlds for users to walk through or otherwise interact with. Once a portal has been opened, the user needs only to walk through it to enter a 360-degree virtual environment. The company does work with other big-name brands including AT&T, Samsung, Chase, USAA, Pepsi, and Coke.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Bigscreen , the social VR app which lets users connect in a virtual environment while retaining the ability to use (and share) their own PC desktop content, now supports Microsoft’s ‘Windows Mixed Reality’ VR headsets.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The stylus can work in virtual environments including room-scale virtual spaces. They’ve also worked with companies like Dell, Alienware, Google, HP, and Samsung. Logitech’s VR Inc Pilot Edition. The $750 VR Ink Pilot Edition is a beta product available through an application process.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 23, 2024

It's possible YouTube will launch a visionOS app at a later date, or Google may be holding out for the Samsung headset it's developing the system software for. Watching traditional media on a giant virtual screen is a key focus of Apple's marketing for Vision Pro so far. 0:00 / 0:17 1× Media watching on Apple Vision Pro.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 18, 2024

Netflix does have a VR app on Meta Quest , with a cosy cabin environment, but it's capped at 480p and hasn't been updated in years. It was partially developed by John Carmack in 2015 for the Oculus-powered Samsung Gear VR. Watching traditional media on a giant virtual screen is a key focus of Apple's marketing for Vision Pro so far.

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Tech Trends VR

AUGUST 20, 2018

AltspaceVR brings out new tools to make it easy for anybody to make and share their own personalized virtual environments. Recently unveiled updates to Microsoft’s social VR platform will allow anyone to build customizable VR spaces.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 27, 2023

Samsung created a virtual world in Decentraland, where it hosts events like the #RecycleUp Fashion show. While metaverse real estate is still a relatively new concept, it’s already captured the attention of a huge selection of businesses and brands.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 26, 2024

Netflix does have a VR app on Meta Quest , with a cosy cabin environment, but it's capped at 480p and hasn't been updated in years. It was developed partially by John Carmack in 2015 for the Oculus-powered Samsung Gear VR. Watching traditional media on a giant virtual screen is a key focus of Apple's marketing for Vision Pro so far.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

Chinese manufacturers BOE and SeeYA may provide cheaper displays in higher quantities than Sony is doing now, while Samsung may be supplying the DRAM components. In case you are in need of a solid team able to build a high-quality XR virtual environment, please let me know.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Inside AltspaceVR, you assume the form of one of several basic avatars and move around many virtual environments while interacting with other digital avatars to play games, watch videos or just shoot the electronic breeze. Watts is becoming something of an unofficial spokesmen for the app and for virtual reality in general.

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VRScout

MAY 7, 2017

It allows users to create a life-like avatar and hang out with up to three friends in a virtual environment, no matter where they are geographically. The recently launched new Samsung Gear VR with controller was also briefly mentioned as an affordable alternative to the more cost-intensive Rift set-up. Impact on Consumers.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Zuck and another Meta employee entered an empty virtual world, and Zuck started saying what he wanted to see in it and the AI answered by crafting exactly what he wanted. “I In Decentraland we had the first (to my knowledge) protest in the metaverse, with some people protesting during an event organized by Samsung.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 29, 2024

Some apps offer passthrough as an optional background instead of a virtual environment, but few developers offer full mixed reality content that truly integrates with the geometry of your real environment. Meta even markets Quest 3 as "the first mainstream mixed reality headset".

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VRScout

OCTOBER 24, 2017

To build truly believable virtual environments, we need to believe our ears as much as our eyes. It took me a second to pinpoint the strangely familiar noise coming from the corner of the room, but then I saw the red plush toy perched on top of a lamp, and realized the Angry Bird call was coming from it—except that it wasn’t.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

You can imagine the potential of such a tool when combined with a mixed reality headset (you could change some furniture in your house, or re-create a virtual environment that has the same shape as your room).

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

While Guided Meditation VR is rendered in real-time on tethered headsets which are backed by a PC with plenty of processing power, the mobile Oculus Go version of the app , relies on 360 video captures of the virtual environments instead.

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Peter Graham

AUGUST 13, 2019

Bringing it to Bigscreen Beta , on the other hand, opens the tournament up to even more viewers thanks to the apps support of multiple platforms such as HTC Vive, Valve Index, Windows Mixed Reality, Oculus Rift/Rift S, Oculus Go, Oculus Quest, and Samsung GearVR. 20th – 24th August – Main Event.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2018

I also started speculating with my mind how this can be useful not only to track Vive headsets, but also every headset onto which have been installed SteamVR Tracking v2 sensors (the ones of Triad Semiconductor), or Vive Trackers … so even a Samsung Gear VR with a Vive Tracker on could be tracked across a whole house.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 25, 2017

To do this, he was using an inexpensive bluetooth cadence monitor paired with his exercise bike and Samsung’s Gear VR, running his own app named CycleVR. Now, Puzey says he has actually done it. Floating cubes lined the path he needed to follow.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

It allows users to walk around in a shared virtual environment without requiring a controller. XR technology is expanding greatly from the confines of headsets to create varied display-based use cases, from 3D monitors virtual film productions, and smartphones. Samsung was demoing 3 models. Yep, it’s a monitor.

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Peter Graham

JULY 31, 2019

This can come in several forms from 360-degree video to interactive virtual environments such as those being developed by RedPill VR at its Social Virtual Reality (SVR) platform or TheWaveVR. If VRJam hits the funding goal the money will be used towards building interactive virtual environments for artists and fans.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

All of them have the same problem — they are limited in terms of how you interact with a virtual experience and by the quality of the phone’s hardware. The Gear VR was the first high quality mobile virtual reality viewer, with Daydream following the lead of Samsung and Oculus.

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Immersive Authority

JUNE 30, 2016

Everyone probably has a good idea of what Virtual Reality is all about. It’s the immersion of a user into a fully virtual environment, by means of a VR headset. Unless you’ve been studying immersive technologies very closely, you may not have seen the rising use of the term Mixed Reality.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Oculus Gear VR: A mobile VR solution, it allows a Samsung Galaxy smartphone to be used as a VR device. Download VeeR VR in your Oculus , Samsung Gear VR , HTC Vive , Windows Mixed Reality , Google Daydream , Steam VR and Lenovo Mirage Solo to experience the premium 360/VR contents.

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NVidia VR

MARCH 2, 2022

To bring these virtual worlds to life in a sustainable way, award-winning studio Factory 42 combined captivating storytelling with cutting-edge technology. Using NVIDIA RTX and CloudXR , the creative team elevated the AR experience and delivered high-fidelity, photorealistic virtual environments over a 5G network.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

However, in virtual reality, this is not possible, or it is much more difficult. The viewer is placed within the experience, and whichever way they turn or wherever they look, they are still in the virtual environment. The sound surrounds them and their attention is wholly captive to the story.

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Bernard Marr

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

At the moment, we don't have clear laws on what's acceptable and unacceptable in virtual environments or even which jurisdictions they come under. If I’m physically at home in England, but I’m exploring a virtual metaverse environment hosted by a Chinese provider, will I be subject to English laws or Chinese?

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InstaVR

AUGUST 13, 2019

The Oculus Quest, in particular, is good for when you’re creating a “virtual environment” for the training to be conducted in. Besides costing less than a Samsung phone, the Oculus Quest is more stable, has longer battery life, and overheats less than the Gear VR phones).

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