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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Road to VR

JANUARY 6, 2020

SEE ALSO Oculus Quest Sells Out at Major Retailers, Availability Slips into Late February. Nolo VR Tracking. Check back soon for all things AR/VR to come from one of the world’s biggest consumer electronics shows. Pimax “4K” with integrated audio, Image courtesy Pimax.

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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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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Dr. Morgan McGuire is a scientist on the new experiences in AR and VR research team at NVIDIA. They’ll switch between AR/VR/MR modes instantly. But first, to put them and our vision for future AR/VR systems in context, let’s examine how current film, game, and modern VR systems work. Guest Article by Dr. Morgan McGuire.

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ARPost

MARCH 31, 2023

I saw almost every kind of headset this year, from the oldest Oculus Rift CV1s, through Vive Pro, Windows Mixed Reality, Quest 2, Pico 4 , and Vive Focus 3, running standalone, streaming, and wired. I have strong VR legs, but still felt queasy. This makes it hard for VR arcades and arenas to keep up.

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AR Insider

JULY 30, 2019

Our sister report on mobile AR had similar findings, but its adoption barriers are lower due to “zero cost hardware” (existing smartphone) and less bulk. The category is represented best by the $199 Oculus Go and the more recently-launched Quest. Oculus CTO John Carmack advocates this optimization strategy. Start Small.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Regarding what components have been opensourced, Google states that “The open source project provides APIs for head tracking, lens distortion rendering, and input handling. Is Apple partnering with Valve on AR? A report by DigiTimes claims that Apple is partnering with Valve for the production of its AR glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

In my opinion, this is one of the greatest innovations that it has introduced in the AR ecosystem. The two other triggers are confusing as well because they seem to be there without a clear logic. The Oculus Quest touch controllers: this is how I want manual interface in XR. Appearance and design. Magic Leap One is cool to wear.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 12, 2017

Lots of companies have made this claim actually, but Eonite specifically says they have the “world’s most accurate, lowest latency, lowest power consuming software to democratize inside-out positional tracking for VR and AR.” That’s potentially revolutionary for the VR and AR industry if true.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

But immersive head-mounted AR for consumers has had one major hurdle that Microsoft may have just solved. See Also: Former Oculus VP of Engineering Demonstrates Long Range VR Tracking System. See Also: Oculus CTO Affirms Positional Tracking Priority for Gear VR. So things are looking good for robustness.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Microsoft’s ‘Windows Mixed Reality’ platform has finally landed and the first batch of supported VR headsets are hitting the streets. I toured around the new Windows Fall Creators Update—which builds AR and VR support deep into the OS—with the Acer Mixed Reality Headset.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

The annual presentation at Oculus Connect by Michael Abrash, Chief Scientist at Oculus, is always a highlight of the company’s annual developer event, projecting a forward-thinking and ever inspirational look at the future of virtual reality. He clarified that augmented VR would be very different to AR glasses (e.g.

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Road to VR

JUNE 2, 2016

Usens is one of the early developers of hand and head tracking tech; according to the announcement from the company this investment will help launch new and improved non-controller hand and head tracking tools. Tracking is critical to ARVR experiences,” said Anli He, CEO and co-founder of uSens.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Last year Qualcomm Technologies revealed its new Snapdragon XR2 platform design with 5G and the next generation of augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) devices in mind. As Oculus Quest has proven customers want easy to use, wireless devices and 5G is expected to take that to the next stage.

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Hypergrid Business

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Oculus Quest 2. The Oculus Quest 2 standalone virtual reality headset is the best in all categories given its room-scale VR capability, a large library of games, fast performance, and good resolution, especially for its price point. Tracking: Inside-out tracking and hand tracking. In a Thanksgiving mode this week?

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Cats and VR

JUNE 1, 2017

AWE (Augmented World Expo), the largest and longest running conference and expo dedicated to augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), officially opened its exhibition doors today to kick off the biggest event in the event’s 8-year history. The expansion takes AWE from the U.S., www.ciear.ca. www.massless.io www.deepoptics.com.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 26, 2016

” Head tracking is an essential part of all mixed reality technology, both VR and AR, and the so-called inside-out variety in a VR headset makes set up dramatically easier. The Santa Cruz inside-out tracking prototype from Oculus. An example of the Windows Holographic user interface.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 30, 2020

The headset came out last year , starts at $800, and is hands-down the best VR headset I’ve used to so far, and that includes various incarnations of the Oculus Rift, the Microsoft Hololens, the original HTC Vive, Oculus Go, and dozens of different smartphone-based headsets. VIVE Focus Plus. Image courtesy HTC Vive.).

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Doc-Ok

JANUARY 17, 2017

At its core, HoloLamp is a projection mapping system somewhat similar to the AR Sandbox , i.e., a combination of a set of cameras scanning a projection surface and a viewer’s face, and a projector drawing a perspective-correct image, from the viewer’s point of view, onto said projection surface. In CAVEs et al.,

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Was the best virtual reality or a AR experience is what is the best thing that you have done? There’s a lot of talent here, and I have heard from other people that even places like Kansas City actually have quite a bit of VR happening — and I say VR, I mean XR, AR; all of it. The tools are here. Amazon Sumerian.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Was the best virtual reality or a AR experience is what is the best thing that you have done? There’s a lot of talent here, and I have heard from other people that even places like Kansas City actually have quite a bit of VR happening — and I say VR, I mean XR, AR; all of it. The tools are here. Amazon Sumerian.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Was the best virtual reality or a AR experience is what is the best thing that you have done? And as much as I'm very happy that the coasts are innovating as much as they are, I think there's a huge opportunity here in the Midwest. You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Force Field, an AR and VR company restructured from Vanguard Games, is the team behind Landfall and we had the chance to go hands-on with it at this year’s Oculus Connect conference. They teased the game back in July and are now ready to pull the curtain back and reveal it to the world.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

The system featured a head-mounted display with head tracking that could be used to explore virtual environments or real remote images from a camera — foreshadowing future breakthroughs in teleoperation. Palmer Luckey, co-founder of Oculus VR Inc., That was fueled, in part, by early funding in excess of $1 billion.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

This is a piece of very important news for the future of AR and VR, so let me explain to you everything about it. Some months ago, Qualcomm had announced its XR2 chipset, which should be the beating heart of all the upcoming AR and VR headsets based on Qualcomm technology. Qualcomm XR2 reference design. Reference design features.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

I mean, that’s where the money has to be made, both for end users and the AR/VR companies themselves. AR/VR happens to offer a solution to a lot of their pain points. Alan: We’re seeing– starting to see some some new technologies, like VR and AR, that are starting to bridge that gap. Pretty impressive.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

I mean, that’s where the money has to be made, both for end users and the AR/VR companies themselves. AR/VR happens to offer a solution to a lot of their pain points. Alan: We’re seeing– starting to see some some new technologies, like VR and AR, that are starting to bridge that gap. Pretty impressive.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

I mean, that's where the money has to be made, both for end users and the AR/VR companies themselves. AR/VR happens to offer a solution to a lot of their pain points. Alan: We're seeing-- starting to see some some new technologies, like VR and AR, that are starting to bridge that gap. And we listen to their pain points.

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