Road to VR

JANUARY 9, 2024

Unlike its more recent Air 2 and Air 2 Pro, Air 2 Ultra are ‘true’ AR glasses in that they include cameras mounted on the face of the device. Read more about what separates AR and smartglasses here. Xreal Air 2 Ultra isn’t an all-in-one standalone package however. mm, Width: 48 mm, Height: 161.5

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OCTOBER 14, 2019

Ginza Sony Park, the Japanese tech giant’s Tokyo-based hub for Sony brand promotion, is now playing host to a new Ghostbusters -themed multiplayer experience using a newly revealed Sony AR headset prototype. A few pieces of equipment are also shown, including a curious wrist-mounted affair that may very well be a haptic device.

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Road to VR

MAY 25, 2021

Waveguide optics are increasingly looking like the best near-term solution for creating AR glasses that are truly glasses-sized. Brightness is hugely important in AR glasses because many use-cases are imagined to happen on-the-go, which includes outdoors during sunny days. Effective Resolution. Brightness.

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Road to VR

MARCH 29, 2021

While many will assume an outright AR headset, the device could merely be smartglasses as well. However, these could also be simple smartglasses focused on HUD-like functions, with a very small field of view used for basic data display, and without head-tracking.

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Road to VR

MAY 10, 2017

While virtual reality surely has high performance requirements to maintain a comfortable experience, immersive AR may ultimately require a greater level of performance if we’re to achieve the theoretical ideal. SEE ALSO Researchers Demonstrate 100° Dynamic Focus AR Display With Membrane Mirrors.

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Road to VR

JUNE 3, 2023

At AWE 2023 I got to check out the company’s latest tech and saw first hand what light-fields mean for immersion in AR headsets. At AWE 2023 this week, I got to check out the company’s latest light-field display tech, and came away with an added sense of immersion that I haven’t felt in any other AR headset to date.

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Road to VR

APRIL 25, 2017

Outside of a few demonstrations at tradeshows, Meta has only give glimpses of the content on its impressive AR headset dev kit in short clips. That is to say, it will likely be three more years until we see the ‘Rifts’ and ‘Vives’ of the AR world shipping to consumers. Photo by Road to VR.

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ARPost

AUGUST 25, 2022

Following the success of the Blade AR glasses, Vuzix has announced the second generation of the glasses. The glasses are designed “primarily for commercial use” and cost some $500 more than the initial model, but technology has come a long way and we look forward to seeing what this edition is capable of. Under the Hood of the Blade 2.

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2023

Stealth startup Sightful today revealed Spacetop , an “augmented reality laptop” that turns a pair of AR goggles into a large virtual desktop computing environment. Spacetop has a sort of dock in which to stow the glasses, and a ‘lid’, allowing the entire unit to be portable.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Based on our experience reviewing some of the industry’s most impressive AR and AI specs, here are our top picks for the glasses you should be considering in 2025. Viture Pro XR Glasses: Best Mixed Reality Specs If youre looking for cutting-edge immersion, the Viture Pro XR glasses are truly incredible.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The group aims to build technologies into an AR headset that will supercharge your hearing by making it easy to isolate the sound of your conversation in a noisy environment, and to be able to reproduce virtual sounds that seem like they’re coming from the real world around you. Spatial Audio.

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Road to VR

JUNE 15, 2020

We first went hands-on with HoloLens 2 at Mobile World Congress (MWC) last year, and it proved to be a capable AR headset that, despite some misgivings on how the field of view was initial misrepresented at its reveal at the Barcelona-based trade show, showed some real material improvements over its predecessor. Eye tracking : 2 IR cameras.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 1, 2020

This list is a compilation of AR/VR terminologies from all over the web. measures acceleration; for ARCore-capable smartphones, it helps enable motion tracking. user-defined points of interest upon which AR objects are placed. user-defined points of interest upon which AR objects are placed. Accelerometer?—?

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ARPost

MARCH 18, 2021

Their peers are just as engaged in that space. See Also: Snap’s Lens Studio Gets Update for Full-Body Social AR Effects. They could get the same utility out of AR versions of the kicks wearable on their favorite social or gaming platform. The ability to publically augment your person in AR is relatively new.

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MAY 9, 2017

The AR market is currently populated by companies that offer nice results at very high costs. Dreamworld Vision has 10 employees say raised only $2 million in funding — a pittance when compared to the cash that the big name AR companies like Magic Leap, Microsoft and Meta have. What is it?

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2018

Today Magic Leap has launched the Lumin SDK, the toolkit which allows developers to build AR experiences for Lumin OS, the operating system that powers the Magic Leap One headset. Eye tracking. Gesture and hand tracking. 6DOF hand controller (Totem) tracking. Room scanning and meshing. Spatialized audio. Microphone input.

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JANUARY 4, 2017

Update: During its press conference today, ASUS officially unveiled the ZenFone AR, which is poised to officially be the first Tango-enabled smartphone that also supports Google’s Daydream VR platform. The ZenFone AR will be the first smartphone to launch with 8GB of RAM and features ASUS’s specially designed Vapor Cooling system.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 9, 2023

Inside-out head-tracking feels pretty good and is surely ‘good enough’, though the instantaneous rotational latency doesn’t feel as tight as Meta’s bar-setting inside-out solution. As the name implies, the HTC is pushing the XR Elite as a headset that does passthrough AR in addition to VR.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

LYNX is a startup building a standalone MR headset that’s primarily focused on passthrough AR scenarios for enterprise applications. The Qualcomm XR SDK includes core functionality like inside-out head tracking and the ability to run applications on a headset without writing a new application framework from scratch.

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ARVR

AUGUST 27, 2021

Though we spend ample time examining consumer-based AR endpoints, greater near-term impact is seen today in the enterprise. But the greatest area of enterprise AR impact today is in industrial settings. This includes AR visualization to support assembly and maintenance. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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JANUARY 3, 2017

Following today’s news about the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 mobile processor , we learned about more mobile VR and AR developments. 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.

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Next Reality AR

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Don't Miss: Snapchat Virtually Restores London's Big Ben with Holiday-Themed, Location-Based AR Lens Snapchat let users open this AR Lens present early on Christmas Eve. Similar to the Lenses for people and cats, the Lens for dogs recognizes when dogs appear in the camera view and affixes AR effects to their heads, tracking the dogs.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 9, 2024

You’ve probably noticed that Augmented Reality (AR) specs are having a moment in 2024. Not only have we seen various new and upcoming releases from well-known vendors like Viture and Rokid this year, but companies like Meta are also getting involved. These prices might be reduced when Rokid introduces its AR Lite kit.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

It doesn’t have controllers, and only features 3DOF head tracking; what it does have is a decidedly more approachable opera glasses-style design that lets you hold the headset with one hand so you can press it to your face without needing a headstrap, which could otherwise ward off some users.

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VR Game Critic

JUNE 1, 2016

uSens has raised $20 million to develop natural hand and head tracking for augmented reality and virtual reality applications. The company is built around the idea that once you immerse yourself in virtual reality, the next thing you want to do is interact with it using your hands and have it track your head movements accurately.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Aria Gen 2 adds head tracking, eye tracking, hand tracking, and audio to Meta's research glasses, and it's already being tested to help vision impaired people navigate indoors. Meta's Aria glasses are not products, nor are they prototypes of future products.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The Rokid Max AR glasses, released this year, promise consumers a unique insight into the evolving world of smart glasses technology. We’ve seen plenty of updates to the VR/AR and mixed reality space, with new innovations from Meta and even Apple, but smart glasses technology has lagged. What are the Rokid Max AR Glasses?

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Road to VR

JANUARY 6, 2020

Tracking – Inside-out 6DOF Head tracking and Guardian System?. Eye Tracking (Neo 2 Eye) – Gaze data output frequency (binocular), 90Hz refresh. Check back soon for all things AR/VR to come from one of the world’s largest consumer electronics shows. Resolution – 3,840 × 2,160@75Hz, PPI: 818?,

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Controller and head tracking is solid on the device — as it was on Quest 1 — while hand tracking will only get better. As above, Facebook has positioned Quest 2 to gain capability and appeal over time with hand tracking, expanding libraries and features unlocked through software.

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ARPost

JUNE 3, 2022

AWE day two started off with back-to-back keynotes from mixed reality display maker Magic Leap and AR commerce solution Avataar. Magic Leap’s Head of Product Management, Jade Meskill, presented “Magic Leap 2 and the Augmented Enterprise.” This allows not just trial of individual items, but entire AR floorplans.

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JUNE 25, 2016

The latest release of Dolphin VR, an impressive Nintendo Gamecube emulator that ads VR functionality to games, adds support for Oculus’ consumer headset the CV1 so now you can play Metroid Prime in VR, with head tracking and have it look better than ever. Version 5.0 of Dolphin VR has now been released and it adds Oculus SDK 1.3

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Vuzix, one of the pioneers in the AR landscape, recently introduced the updated version of its flagship smart glasses solution, the Vuzix Blade. Vuzix Blade 2 Review: The Verdict The Vuzix Blade 2 smart glasses build on the previous successes of the Blade devices created by the brand, to offer a more intelligent and powerful AR experience.

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AUGUST 1, 2018

“Pico will keep focusing on all-in-one VR and will also increase its investment in 3D sensing (TOF) and AR technologies in the near future,” Pico CEO Henry Zhou said. “In the future, Pico hopes to become a portal-level AI vision company through the layout of VR+AR+TOF technology and products.”

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Road to VR

JANUARY 20, 2017

Holograms are so bamboozling that the term often gets used colloquially to mean ‘fancy-looking 3D image’, but holograms are actually a very specific and interesting method for capturing light field scenes which have some real advantages over other methods of displaying 3D imagery.

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Next Reality AR

JUNE 14, 2017

Marshmallow.Running on a dual-core Intel Atom processor, the Android-based smartglasses are equipped with Bluetooth 4.0, Much like Google Glass, the M300 allows its users hands-free data access and capture.The Vuzix M300 Smart Glasses run on an Intel Atom processor and Android 6.0

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

So, which vendors are currently making waves in the XR smart glasses space? Let’s explore some of the top vendors in the industry today. Epson Another company branching into the AR landscape from the computing space, the Epson team, produces smart glasses and accompanying accessories for different use cases.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Microsoft today announced that its latest AR headset, HoloLens 2, is finally shipping. Head tracking. Eye tracking. The headset can be purchased directly for $3,500 or rented for $125 per month. Microsoft announced HoloLens 2 back in February and has started selling the headset today. Resolution. 2k 3:2 light engines.

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