XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 1, 2025

In the premium headset space, Apple is revolutionizing sectors with spatial computing systems like the Vision Pro, while Varjo offers some of the worlds best VR and MR solutions for training, design, visualization, and simulation. However, these headsets still arent quite as advanced as the Apple Vision Pro.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Last week’s Unite 2023 event saw a massive amount of updates from Unity, the world’s largest real-time 3D (RT3D) gaming engine company. The Unite 2023 event, a meeting of minds for Unity developers, solution providers, and executives, explored the latest updates on the leading platform.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

We were all waiting for an Apple announcement, hoping that it could bring back some enthusiasm into the field, and it seems that the Vision Pro is having some beneficial effects , indeed. Apple showed investors that XR is not a fad, and even if it is still in its early stages, it is going to stay. appeared first on The Ghost Howls.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Many people are analyzing the Apple Vision Pro… including the ones at Meta Here you are with the usual huge roundup of news about the Apple Vision Pro (a roundup in a roundup). This week both Zuck, the CEO of Meta, and Boz, the CTO of Meta, expressed their opinions on the Apple Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Amazon promises “single-digit latency” XR streaming. Amazon has announced some weeks ago “Wavelength”, a new offering of its AWS services, that should provide “single-digit latency” over 5G networks. To have such a low latency, the company needs very fast 5G networks and edge servers very close to the client. Image by Oculus).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Regarding the glasses, I have not big hopes for true AR glasses, but I think that thanks to Facebook and Apple, finally we’ll have some important smartglasses entering the market , making the mainstream think about wearing something on their face to enjoy notifications from the phone. Phone AR will be always more popular.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The new DRIVE Thor superchip aimed at autonomous vehicles, which companies will be able to use from 2025 Omniverse Cloud , which lets companies use Omniverse completely via cloud rendering even on non-powerful machines A connector to let you use Omniverse with Unity. Rec Room announces Rec Room Studio. Some news on the metaverse.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Meanwhile, eye tracking is a core part of its pinch selection interface in Apple Vision Pro. The bright low latency passthrough was nice in both open periphery and a small magnetic light shield that did a nice job sealing off the scene. At Meta, Zuckerberg sees wristband interfaces surpassing keyboards just a few years after.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 30, 2023

This week, Apple dropped VisionOS, a set of XR design tools to entice immersive content creators to start designing for its upcoming headset before its release. On the other hand, Unity is introducing tools that leverage AI to simplify XR content creation processes. ” Apple Launches Vision Pro SDK, but What Do Audiences Think?

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ARPost

DECEMBER 10, 2022

We are now at the level that we are super happy with the latency and deployments.”. As this article was being written, Varjo further expanded its cloud with Unreal and Unity engine integrations. While almost all non-Apple mobile devices run Android, it is also the backbone of many XR headsets.). CloudXR From NVIDIA.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

He adds that one of the main causes of motion sickness in VR experiences is poor latency. When a delay in latency occurs, your real and virtual movements no longer match, knocking the equilibrium out of balance and causing ‘cybersickness.’

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

But I would wait to rejoice from it: VR requires a very short motion-to-photon latency, and as of today no cloud rendering service can offer such low latency in every possible location of the user. Apple may unveil RealityOS at WWDC. At the upcoming WWDC, Apple may unveil its operating system for XR glasses, dubbed RealityOS.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2024

’ According to insiders, the La Jolla prototype, initially planned for release in the coming years, used similar display technology to the Apple Vision Pro to offer an alternative to the breakout device. However, Meta cancelled La Jolla due to the cost of the competitive OLED display technology.

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Upload VR

MAY 13, 2024

Immersed for Apple Vision Pro gives you virtual extra Mac, Windows, or Linux monitors. 0:00 / 0:20 1× Vision Pro's built-in Mac Virtual Display feature has remarkably high quality and low latency , thanks to Apple creating a direct device-to-device Wi-Fi connection.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Apple Vision Pro is a very impressive fusion of hardware and software, but it's by no means perfect. Apple Vision Pro Specs, Features & Details Apple officially revealed the full Vision Pro specs when opening preorders today. And Apple did not send UploadVR a review unit, we bought our own. But does it deliver?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The problem is not the headset, but the controllers, that maybe to spare battery are emitting very low IR light, that can’t be detected very well outside, where the Sun emits too many IR rays; A Redditor has published a super cool guide on how to obtain the most from your router to have very low latency on Virtual Desktop. Learn more.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 6, 2025

However, its worth noting that since then, weve seen a lot of development in the MR space, with the likes of the Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest 3. You do get color passthrough which means the passthrough experience is closer to that of the Quest 3 than the Quest 3 but there is a bit of latency.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

If you are wondering why we should listen to the words of Avi Bar-Zeev, well… he helped in shaping the HoloLens, recently worked on XR glasses prototypes at Apple… and also Facebook wanted to hire him to lead its AR program. He’s someone that knows well what XR is. These are all problems to be figured out. Fracked is the game of the moment.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

They could build together something that could seriously compete with Facebook and Apple: let’s keep an eye on them. latency can be high), and so these apps are not allowed. All of this running thanks to the power of the Azure cloud. This makes me estimate sales in the 200–250K order of magnitude.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 14, 2020

This week Facebook has announced a new feature for Oculus Quest headsets called Phase Sync, which shortens the latency between when a frame is computed and when it is shown on the screen , for an improved experience for the user. And while Unreal Engine already supports OpenXR, Unity is a bit lagging, but support is coming in 2021.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The incumbents have an advantage with existing mapping such as Google Maps, Earth, Street View, Apple Maps and the Indoor Maps Program, and Bing Maps but there are also significant geographic data players such as Foursquare and OpenStreetMap. In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

In the end, I still believe in the old predictions of Unity CEO John Riccitiello: Look at this graph shown by Mr. Riccitiello in 2017: the purple line is the one of the analysts, while the white one is the one forecasted by him. And anyway, 5G can give us more bandwidth and less latency and nothing more. 5G is not a magic bullet.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

JULY 26, 2023

The Apple Vision Pro has made sensational headlines across global media outlets, leading to renewed interest in virtual, augmented, mixed, and extended reality (VR/AR/MR/XR) technologies. Doing so will also provide greater interoperability with additional platforms such as Unity and Xcode, among others.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The Apple Vision Pro alone includes 23 different sensors. Many vendors , from Meta, to Microsoft, and Unity, offer these solutions. They not only reduce latency and the need for computing power, but minimize the distance data needs to travel to reach devices and computers, narrowing attack surfaces.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Apple’s Vision Pro triggered new discourse on the future of virutal, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR). Revealed at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), the Apple Vision Pro has sparked both praise and criticism from the global XR community. Apple is adept at proposing something you didn’t think you needed.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

The XR visual processing pipeline is both compute intensive and latency sensitive. It takes plenty of time, trial and working on game engines such as Unity & Unreal to get close to the fidelity that consumers have come to demand from even the most rudimentary smartphone apps. What about Apple Glass?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 28, 2023

With the Varjo XR-4 series, the tech leader aims to offer a more affordable and diverse alternative to upcoming headsets like the Apple Vision Pro. This aligns it with the prices for competing solutions like the Apple Vision Pro and Microsoft HoloLens 2. However, they are more affordable than you might think.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2023

This conveniently allows access to applications with low-latency, industry-grade GPU acceleration and streaming capabilities for multimodal use. CloudXR Client Extensions will also offer a key plugin for Unity Editor, providing developers with bespoke CloudXR applications.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

A series of announcements from Amazon, Crytek, Epic Games and Unity Technologies showcase an evolution among their respective game engines into VR world creation toolsets. For example, Lumberyard from Amazon is released for creating games and VR experiences, while both Unity and Epic reveal in-VR tools to speed up the development process.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

It’s like yep yep, it’s got six milliseconds latency. required on the host system) Supports applications running up to 60 fps Stereo speakers Microphone 85 grams total weight of glasses Bluetooth Low Energy for low latency connectivity. gen 2 connectivity (USB 3.0 And here is the link to buy them.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Motion-to-Photon latency is touted at 15ms whilst the refresh rate is either 90hz or 120hz. Skarredghost later told me this was sort of 4K per eye, take that Apple At this point, my PCVR rig with its 3080Ti spun its cooling fans up to a maximum, starting to struggle with the ridiculous rendering workload.

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Building the Metaverse

JANUARY 18, 2023

For people who couldn’t realize their creativity in a sandbox or walled-garden — platforms like Unreal and Unity enable the creation of real-time, immersive worlds that simulate reality. Technical note: in all these comps I blur single vs. double precision & matrix vs. vector ops, so it isn’t apples-to-apple.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Together with connection reliability, the Client updates included much improved inside-out tracking, local dimming, lighthouse mode, audio latency adjustment, bug fixes, and other important features. Highest resolution in consumer VR headsets, on par with Apple Vision. Glass aspheric lenses.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

XR devices are all over the headlines this month; the release of the Apple Vision Pro has brought spatial computing/mixed reality wearables to the forefront of emerging workplace and consumer-based digital solutions. Its higher bandwidth and lower latency significantly enhance network support for AR applications on glasses.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Speaking on Midwam’s industry and global partnerships, he explained that real-time 3D (RT3D) platforms such as Unity Technologies and Epic Games’ Unreal Engine had collaborated “for many years” and were “reliable companies.” Currently, ExplodedView is iOS exclusive. .”

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

And the importance of the general technical work I do in terms of creating low-latency experiences, and how they can be used to combine together to create better human safety conditions. Apple, when it comes out with its product, will create another silo. The big question mark is Apple, and what they’re going to do.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

And the importance of the general technical work I do in terms of creating low-latency experiences, and how they can be used to combine together to create better human safety conditions. Apple, when it comes out with its product, will create another silo. The big question mark is Apple, and what they’re going to do.

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