VRScout

MARCH 10, 2020

Using a combination of optical inertial tracking modules and fully-scalable infrared floormats equipped with infrared sensors, the companies custom tracking system allows for immersive full-body tracking which, when combined with a VR headset, can power immersive multi-user location-based experiences. Image Credit: Antilatency).

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MAY 12, 2022

Project Cambria has a depth sensor and cameras with 3 times the resolution of Quest 2’s. It will be sold alongside Quest 2 with a price tag “significantly” higher than $800 , aimed at remote workers and mixed reality enthusiasts.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The X2 Glasses are unlike anything else on the market right now–between the affordable price tag, powerful technology, and beautiful form–wear giving workers all across the enterprise the opportunity to really elevate their level of work. Image Credit: ThirdEye.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 19, 2024

While the Meta Quest Pro offered a big step up to the Quest 2 when launched in October 2022, the arrival of the Quest 3, with features that outshine the Pro in certain areas and a lower price tag, has left business leaders wondering whether the premium headset is worthwhile. Here’s everything you need to know about the Meta Quest Pro.

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JULY 7, 2022

It will be sold alongside Quest 2 with a price tag “significantly” higher than $800 , aimed at remote workers and mixed reality early adopters. It has higher resolution cameras with color and a depth sensor for mixed reality, as well as built-in face and eye tracking to drive avatars in social experiences like Workrooms.

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AR Insider

MAY 4, 2021

Among other outcomes, AR glasses’ cultural barriers could be lessened by conditioning consumers to wearing sensors on their bodies. Its Windows Mobile OS licensing model lost share to Android’s more compelling price tag (free) last decade. Meanwhile, tech giants are motivated toward wearables. Vertically Integrated.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Meta Quest 3 features a new four-camera array in two vertical stacks on the front face, with an infrared emitter in the center. Two cameras are for spatial tracking, while the other two allow you to view your environment in full color during mixed reality settings.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

For those concerned about the hefty price tag , there’s also a chance a cheaper alternative may be on the horizon. We know the product will contain 12 cameras, six microphones, and five hand, eye, and voice tracking sensors. There’s a brand-new R1 chip for sensor input and display performance and an M2 chip for heavy lifting.

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AUGUST 25, 2022

Announced at Connect 2021 as launching this year, Cambria is the public codename for a “high end” headset that will be sold alongside Quest 2 with a price tag “significantly” higher than $800 , aimed at remote workers and mixed reality early adopters – though it will also run existing Quest games.

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JUNE 1, 2022

It will be sold alongside Quest 2 with a price tag “significantly” higher than $800 , aimed at remote workers and mixed reality early adopters. It has higher resolution cameras with color and a depth sensor for mixed reality, as well as built-in face and eye tracking to drive avatars in social experiences like Workrooms.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Varjo’s newest headset (available in various styles) sincludes multifocal passthrough cameras, controllers co-developed by Razer, and even integration with the powerful NVIDIA Omniverse. The XR-4 Focal edition enhances the passthrough experience with incredible autofocus cameras. What is the Varjo XR-4 Series?

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

As with the other Windows VR headsets, the Asus HC102 has a pair of cameras on the front which are used for inside-out tracking, which conveniently don’t rely on external sensors. The Asus HC102 Windows VR headset falls into that same category, thus offering familiar core specs: Resolution: 1,440 × 1,440 per eye.

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ARPost

JUNE 8, 2023

The headset’s 12 cameras, five sensors, and six mics enable controller-free tracking, voice interactions, and impressive audio. That also made up the bulk of Apple’s demonstrations of the headset – and their justification for its massive price tag. “If So, after all of the wait, what can the headset actually do? 

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

You can have a group chat with your friends and tag Meta AI so it will answer to all the group. Quest 3 is going to improve a lot the appearance of VR games (Image taken during a Meta event) Passthrough has very high quality, and the depth sensor lets the Quest scan your room , so the Guardian will be set automatically.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 3, 2017

Hubblo is launching a new 360-degree camera to enable personal virtual reality broadcasting. Hong Kong-based Hubblo is announcing the Hubblo VR camera — a 3D livestreaming device that can stream at 4K — at CES 2017, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas this week. The all-in-one camera will shoot 4K video and debut for $1,000.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 7, 2023

The hefty price tag for the headset, combined with the youth of the MR industry, is prompting a lot of behind-the-scenes chatter. On the outside, the headset features five sensors, six microphones, and 12 cameras, allowing for hand, eye, and voice tracking. Already, it’s earning praise from XR leaders.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 27, 2017

More recently, Kreylos has been digging into the Oculus Rift Sensor and its ability to function as a basic webcam. The above featured image of was pulled by Kreylos from one of his Oculus Sensors. In an email written to UploadVR, he explains:: Oculus decided to hide the fact that the Rift ‘sensor’ is a bog-standard webcam.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The cameras alone have the functionality of a separate device that could cost hundreds of dollars and can even replace the work of (or serve as the tool of) a professional photographer in the right hands. Before getting to the Canvas application, you must understand Occipital’s 3D camera accessory the Structure Sensor.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 3, 2017

Daydream is the VR ecosystem released by Google in October of 2016, whereas Tango is the AR platform that uses an array of cameras and sensors to portray items in the real world on the phone’s screen. Tagged with: asus , CES , Daydream , mobile , snapdragon , tango , zenphone. Featured image credit: Evan Blass.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 9, 2023

Controller-tracking on Vive XR Elite also feels solid, and with cameras on each side pointed almost entirely to your left and right, coverage ought to be good (potentially surpassing Vive Focus 3). Importantly, the tracking feels better than Vive Flow, which in my experience has too much latency for long-term comfort.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 3, 2017

There are a couple things the Oculus team recommends you keep in mind if you want to take advantage: You’ll need a way to mount the Touch controller for dynamic camera tracking. Tagged with: mixed reality Facebook Twitter Reddit More.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Company founder and CEO Rony Abovitz says in a Forbes interview that ML2 will be targeting enterprise and early prosumers, calling it “a major new platform packed with sensors, and advanced optics.” SEE ALSO Snapdragon XR2 Chip to Enable Standalone Headsets with 3K×3K Resolution & 7 Cameras.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 25, 2017

The headset and two compatible controllers appear to have lights on them, which look to be tracked using an external sensor, similar to what can be seen with Sony’s PlayStation VR. The camera and controllers are bundled in the box. Tagged with: HTC Link Facebook Twitter Reddit More. Specs state the device has two 3.6

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

With a hefty price tag of around $3,500, the Vision Pro is under much pressure to revolutionize extended reality. Plus, flicker and ambient light sensors. Plus, the R1 chip gives an extra boost to processing input from your camera, sensors, and microphones. The question is, does it live up to expectations?

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Oculus Quest uses four wide-angle cameras to not only track the Touch controllers, but also to track the environment around the user in order to understand where the headset is located in space. As such, Oculus says that the headset can support “arena-scale” tracking.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 1, 2019

For now, most AR apps use a phone’s screen and camera, but the technology industry is pushing toward lightweight AR glasses. A product page shows a $179.99 “introductory” price tag. What we see is many more sensors required to bring a full rich experience, bringing in sensors beyond voice and audio, because it’s so limited,” he said.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

MB: Back in 2011, my co-founder Dave [Gausebeck] and I were very interested in the idea of creating the 3D equivalent of the camera. We very quickly exported some of the 3D models that our camera was already creating so that you could walk around them in VR. What was it like building your first prototype camera?

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DECEMBER 18, 2016

Stand-alone 360-degree cameras and mobile phone accessories are steadily entering the market, raising the bar every step of the way. In April we reported on the new Orah 4i , an impressively compact all-in-one 360-degree live streaming camera, and now you can pre-order the camera for yourself. Pre-order the Orah 4i here.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The cutting-edge device also comprises sensors, cameras, projection lenses, and 3D audio speakers. These include a 64 GB memory capacity, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 850 system on a chip (SoC) processor, and improved noise-cancelling audio and cameras. MP camera on the HoloLens 1 and its basic HD video capabilities.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 16, 2017

The developer specifically noted, however, that this does not mean Wilson’s Heart is getting room scale support; you’ll still need to be rooted to the spot to actually play the game, otherwise the camera blurs. 360 degree setups on Rift ideally use three sensors. Tagged with: wilson's heart Facebook Twitter Reddit More.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 4, 2023

Most consumers know it best as a camera manufacturer, but the company has a long, deep and illustrious history in medical, office equipment, and other imaging applications. A rag-tag bunch of Canon veterans took on the challenge and created Kokomo, a VR meeting software package that, in essence, makes real-time 3D video calling a reality.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 15, 2023

The cutting-edge device also comprises sensors, cameras, projection lenses, and 3D audio speakers. These include a 64 GB memory capacity, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 850 system on a chip (SoC) processor, and improved noise-cancelling audio and cameras. MP camera on the HoloLens 1 and its basic HD video capabilities.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 11, 2023

Of course, this price tag still makes the impending Quest 3 a far more affordable choice than other emerging MR devices, like the Apple Vision Pro. Additionally, the device appears to have a trio of sensors on the front and a more flexible head strap for ergonomic comfort.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

This means that they require some sort of outside camera, sensor or other location sensing aid in order to determine their location in 3D space. According to Stereo Labs, “Through high definition stereo cameras, the headset blends the virtual and real worlds together in an immersive and photorealistic way.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Many smartphones can do this with the RGB camera, as noted. After rumors about a potential Quest “lite” or Quest “pro”, we ended up getting the best of both: a pro-level device at with a lite ($100 less) price tag. Lidar is a more capable and purpose-built technology that could catapult user-friendly AR.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Tango is a unique system of cameras, depth sensors and software that is being built into more and more smartphones. Tagged with: 8i , holo , hologram , investment , million , raised , smartphone. ” Part of the technology that enables Holo’s dynamic AR imaging is Google’s Project Tango.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 29, 2017

Samsung’s Gear 360 camera was the company’s first real stab and a consumer-grade panoramic camera, revealed a few years ago, but it’s already back with an update. megapixel image sensors that can also capture 15MP images. Tagged with: Gear 360 , gear vr , samsung Facebook Twitter Reddit More.

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