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MAY 10, 2017

While virtual reality can get away with comfortable and immersive performance at latency under 20ms, augmented reality has the backdrop of the instantaneous-latency real life view against which the digital information is compared, increasing the need for high frequency output to keep the real and digital world in very close sync.

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JANUARY 4, 2017

And if 2016 was the year VR had its coming out party, 2017 is looking to be the year we see VR content ecosystem really grow and hardware accessories take shape. In addition to their latest hardware announcements at CES today, Vive also announced that it expects commercial wireless VR adapters to ship in 2017.

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JUNE 14, 2017

Initially revealed back in January during the 2017 Consumer Electronics Showcase, aka CES, Intel’s new wireless solution for the HTC Vive has finally emerged from the shadows and was being shown at the 2017 Electronic Entertainment Expo, currently taking place at the Los Angeles Convention Center. There was no perceived latency.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

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.” ” There’s no word if the service can provide what’s largely considered the minimum acceptable latency at 20ms motion-to-photon.

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Road to VR

JUNE 15, 2017

At E3 2017, DisplayLink is touting their ‘XR’ wireless solution to eliminate the tether on VR headsets. Our hands-on with their reference device revealed a robust solution with impressive quality and unnoticeable latency. Here at E3 2017 I got to try the solution for myself.

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Road to VR

JUNE 15, 2017

At Computex 2017, Intel’s Gregory Bryant demonstrated the company’s wireless VR solution on stage. Ben Lang went hand’s on with DisplayLink’s own reference design , which is very similar to Intel’s solution, using the same DisplayLink technology, and came away impressed by its quality and unnoticeable latency.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Launching in early 2017 with pre-orders starting Friday, HTC claims the device will eliminate the direct connection to the PC without any noticeable difference in latency or gameplay. The release date for the TPCAST device is said to start in Q1 2017.

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Road to VR

JUNE 12, 2018

At the DisplayLink booth the company is showing off the Vive Pro with the Vive Wireless Adapter, and a custom-built gatling gun controller made to show Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope (2017) at the booth.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Edge computing is an important part of the cloud-based gaming of the near future: ideally apps should be rendered as close to the person as physically possible to minimize latency across the board, including user input over the realistically assumed 100 Mbps 5G data transfer speed and near instant delivery of the compressed image to the headset.

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Road to VR

MARCH 24, 2017

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. This translates to zero perceived latency by the player, preserving user comfort due to the elimination of motion sickness that latency causes in VR play.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

30th, 2017.” Only a few short months later, HTC announced at CES earlier this year that the device would go on sale worldwide in Q2 2017 for $249. Our friends over at UploadVR got a hands-on, stating that visual fidelity of TPCast was “very high” and there was no noticeable latency when they tried it back in June.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

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. Let’s look at latency first.

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JULY 1, 2017

Because VR demands high-powered graphics and extremely low latency, specially tuning the rendering pipeline between the GPU and the headset is crucial to maintaining a comfortable and performant VR experience. On stage at WWDC 2017, Valve’s Nat Brown overviews the inner workings of SteamVR rendering on MacOS | Photo courtesy Apple.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 2, 2017

One of the more intriguing is Nolo, an add-on which promises to add both positional ‘room scale’ head and motion controllers to your Android powered virtual reality headset with latency quoted at less than 20ms. If you’re at CES and have something VR related to show us, ping us on tips@roadtovr.com.

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MAY 25, 2018

” Henry was the first VR short film released by Oculus Story Studio, the company’s in-house narrative studio which ended up closing in 2017. Vsync locked frame release + low latency fast-path Audio 360 spatialization. Image courtesy Oculus. John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) May 25, 2018.

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MARCH 11, 2019

It would also need to do this at the lowest possible latency, something that is much less important in a task like streaming content via AirPlay to Apple TV. An iPhone built from the ground-up with AR rendering and low latency wireless transmission in mind could make for a unique product offering to say the least.

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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 kit is said to ship starting in Q1 2017. We’re told the standard battery can deliver around one and a half hours of power.

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JUNE 10, 2017

Tom’s Guide got an exclusive sneak peek at a prototype iteration of the technology recently and according to them, when coupled with an HTC Vive, which sports dual 1080×1200 resolution OLED panels running at 90Hz, the new system delivers “razor-sharp”, low latency wireless image quality. ” Sounds impressive.

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AUGUST 1, 2017

Today at SIGGRAPH 2017 OptiTrack is showing a new clip-on face plate for Oculus Rift CV1 headsets that let them interface directly with their system. Go beyond room scale with superior, low latency, artifact free tracking.” Upload (@UploadVR) August 1, 2017. It] carries a factory installed Active Tag with 8 LEDs.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Launching at an odd time (well before any full 6DOF mobile headsets are available to consumers) is AMD’s Radeon ReLive for VR feature which promises to stream SteamVR games from your PC to mobile headsets with high quality and low latency. When testing at 100 Mbps he found the resultant image sharp but too choppy for play.

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OCTOBER 12, 2024

The store page description reads "Download to test out the latest cloud streamed titles on Avalanche", and its images include screenshots of Lone Echo , a blockbuster Oculus Rift game from 2017 that hasn't been ported to Quest, as well as Beat Saber and the Unreal Engine's City Sample.

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MARCH 4, 2019

To wit, some of these companies publicly showed off VR cloud gaming actually working for the first time—one of the most difficult problems due to the inherent need to keep VR games chugging at or below the 20ms latency threshold, which is considered the bare minimum before users notice anything. Image courtesy Ericsson. Image courtesy HTC.

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JUNE 9, 2017

We cover the underlying technology in the phone, world locking & latency comparisons to HoloLens, virtual positioning system, privacy, future features of occlusions, object segmentation, & mapping drift tolerance , and the future of spatially-aware computing. . — Kent Bye VoicesOfVR (@kentbye) May 17, 2017.

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JANUARY 3, 2017

At CES 2017, the company are set to announce their latest product, the Snapdragon 835. ” Perhaps as interesting though are Qualcomm’s claims that the new SoC can deliver a reduction in motion to photon latency processing 6 DoF motion tracking. We’ll be watching the rest of CES 2017 unfold for news on this.

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Road to VR

MAY 31, 2017

Latency is claimed at 16-17ms. We’ve actually gone hands-on with a prototype version of the Neon tracking system, back at CES 2017 in January. The system offered latency and accuracy that felt at least as good as that of PlayStation VR. Photo by Road to VR.

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JANUARY 7, 2017

Myriad VR hardware continues to be announced at CES 2017 as the space still remains one of the technology industry’s hot topics. On top of that, the display boasts low power consumption, low heat dissipation, and a low refresh latency of 10 microseconds.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Inside the headset the image showed clear signs of compression, and the latency left a good bit to be desired, but on the whole the system did its job well as a proof of concept, allowing me to play through The Lab just as I’d expect to do so on the Vive. Photo by Road to VR.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 8, 2020

Korea-based TEGway , developers of a haptic accessory which generates hot and cold temperatures with impressively low latency, plans to launch a wearable VR thermal haptic dev kit aim in March. The ‘cold’ effect was the fastest in terms of latency and impressively quick at that. Photo by Road to VR.

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APRIL 21, 2018

Apparently the team uses a critical latency-reducing process with rendering all happening within the HMD, this means Alien: Descent doesn’t require a PC backpack. Alien: Descent isn’t the first movie franchise to get the fully immersive treatment.

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Road to VR

JULY 10, 2017

The place illusion is largely enabled by the objective details of the VR technology with features such as 1:1 head tracking, low latency, and large field of view. But all of the different dimensions of what makes an experience plausible are still widely unknown, not very well researched, and also difficult to isolate and determine.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

There’s no tier pricing yet, but the first 8K/5K headsets are said to roll out to backers starting December 2017, with normal tiers delivering in February 2018. Pimax 8K prototype showing wide FOV fresnel lenses. image courtesy Pimax. e.g. hand motion, inside-out tracking, wireless, eye tracking, etc,” the company says.

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MARCH 29, 2017

Held from May 8-11th in Silicon Valley at the San Jose Convention Center, NVIDIA’s GTC 2017 session schedule is chock full of deep tech talks that we’re looking forward to. SEE ALSO NVIDIA Demonstrates Experimental "Zero Latency" Display Running at 1,700Hz. Register for GTC 2017.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2018

million raised when the campaign concluded in November 2017. Motion to Photon latency : <15ms. Motion to Photon latency : <15ms. It’s primary claims to fame were its impressively wide FOV, high-resolution panels, and incorporation of SteamVR tracking. Pimax “8K” V5 prototype | Photo by Road to VR.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

HTC and Valve do this with their Vive controllers that are super low latency and extremely accurate and Oculus does this with their touch controllers and their extremely natural ergonomics. Tagged with: GDC , GDC 2017 , HMD , leap motion , MWC , MWC 2017 , odm , OEM , qualcomm , snapdragon , Snapdragon 835 , VRDK.

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JANUARY 1, 2017

KwikVR from 3D cloud solutions company Scalable Graphics is set to debut at CES 2017 in Las Vegas next week as the latest device to try and remove the troublesome wire that connects your headset to the PC running what’s showing inside. The trailer above only shows it being played on the HTC Vive, however.

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JULY 5, 2017

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

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NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Graylin, China Regional President of Vive at HTC, told UploadVR that the kit had completely sold out of its initial stock, set to ship in Q1 2017, in 18 minutes. A translation of TPCAST’s website notes that the kit has a “lowest latency” of 15ms, however. Clearly, a lot of you wanted one.

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