Road to VR

MARCH 13, 2018

The synopsis of the presentation reveals that Lanman will focus on eye-tracking technology and its potential for pushing VR and AR displays to the next level: As personal viewing devices, head-mounted displays offer a unique means to rapidly deliver richer visual experiences than past direct-view displays occupying a shared environment.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

This article describes comprehensive new systems optimized for virtual experiences we’re inventing at NVIDIA. Guest Article by Dr. Morgan McGuire. This article details our recent work on those, but most importantly reveals our vision for how they’ll work together to transform every interaction with computing and reality.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 4, 2023

I need to rush out this newsletter episode because otherwise tomorrow Apple launches its headset and no one will read my articles: everyone will be too busy reading “The top 5 features of the Apple headset” or “The 7 reasons why the Apple headset can revolutionize peeling potatoes”. But the big question is the “how”. For what purpose?

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VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2016

Yesterday Intel announced its entry into the virtual reality space with the Project Alloy all-in-one head mounted display. This article was written by Rob “RoblemVR” Crasco @ roblemVR. Named #5 VR influencer by Onalytica.com Brand/Influencer Connector. For more info check about.me/roblemvr.

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VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2016

Yesterday Intel announced its entry into the virtual reality space with the Project Alloy all-in-one head mounted display. This article was written by Rob “RoblemVR” Crasco. Named #5 VR influencer by Onalytica.com Brand/Influencer Connector. For more info check about.me/roblemvr.

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Upload VR

JUNE 16, 2022

It still has best-in-class tracking and audio quality but its 1600×1440 resolution has been surpassed on both the low end with Quest 2 and the high end with headsets like HTC’s Vive Pro 2 and Varjo Aero. Valve Index , the company’s $999 tethered PC VR kit, has now been on the market for almost three years.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Today I host another great article by Rob Cole , who writes again about his experience with the Pimax Crystal headset. Here are my findings since the first article was published, starting with a subject close to my heart. If you want to read his previous post, you can find it here. It felt very cool to be detached from the tether.

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

When it comes to the HTC Vive Cosmos, HTC Vive has been very peace meal regarding the information being released, with the last official details coming in June. Get ready to liftoff and head for the cosmos. — HTC VIVE (@htcvive) September 10, 2019. The #HTCVIVECOSMOS pre-order starts September 12th.

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Doc-Ok

DECEMBER 19, 2018

It’s been more than two years since the last time I posted set-up instructions for Vrui and HTC Vive , and a lot has changed in the meantime. OpenVR SDK and SteamVR run-time exist on host system; support for HTC Vive enabled. OpenVR SDK or SteamVR run-time do not exist on host system; support for HTC Vive disabled.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 2, 2017

This article originally appeared in Forbes. This article will focus exclusively on the applications of VR—fully replacing the world with a realistic digital simulation of patient-specific anatomy and pathology. University of California, San Franciso, medical school is using Organon for the HTC Vive. Visualization. Psychology.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 31, 2023

HTC Vive has been doing it for a while” He later quotes D an O’Brien, President, Americas, HTC , stating use case data from the Taoyuan-based firm. Biting into the Apple Demond Cureton, Senior Journalist, XR Today , analysing the commentary from HTC’s chief on the Apple Vision Pro.

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

In January during the CES 2019 technology event in Las Vegas, HTC Vive announced its next virtual reality (VR) head-mounted display (HMD), the Vive Cosmos. While the HTC Vive Pro is designed more towards enterprise use cases, the Vive Cosmos is the company’s new high-end headset for consumers.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 29, 2018

Examples of head measurements (Image by Rob Cole). Other examples are scuba diving masks or full-face motorcycle helmets, although neither of these have the added complication of housing a head-mounted display that relies on a good fit for the correct optical presentation of the display to the eyes.

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 10, 2019

In comparison to rival headsets like Oculus Rift/Quest, HTC Vive or Valve Index, for example, the PlayStation VR falls way behind when it comes to tracking the device. There’s another function for the headset mounted cameras and that’s seeing the world around you.

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VRWorld

JULY 19, 2017

Beijing-based research organization recently released a study named “Experiment Report on the Impact of Long-Term Use of Virtual Reality (VR) Head-Mounted Displays on the Vision of Pre-teen Users” (PDF download). Remember the recent article PlayStation VR use “might lead” to disastrous health problems ?

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 15, 2019

There are several virtual reality (VR) headsets competing in the higher end enterprise sector such as the HTC Vive Pro Eye, VRgineers’ XTAL and Varjo’s VR-1. “One of the main goals of SteamVR is to support a diverse ecosystem of hardware and software.

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VR Lens Blog

MARCH 7, 2016

This is the first in a series of articles about the role of vision and optics in VR. So, we humans have difficulty looking at virtual reality head mounted displays (VR HMDs) that are 3 to 7 cm in front of our eyes. Want to get the next article straight to your inbox? Enter Your Email for Updates & More.

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Doc-Ok

JUNE 8, 2016

Just the other day, I jumped on the wayback machine and posted an article about our work in immersive tele-collaboration , featuring research ( and a video ) from about four years ago. The method of claim 1, wherein said location of said user is determined by continually monitoring the location of a portion of said head-mounted display.

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Peter Graham

JUNE 28, 2019

I previously wrote a fairly detailed hands-on article for the headset so after spending more time with the device when possible, it was time to write a candid assessment of the Valve Index. It might not be OLED like HTC Vive but that hasn’t stopped Valve Index producing a feast for the eyes. And let us not forget the screen quality.

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Doc-Ok

APRIL 1, 2016

With the first commercial version of the Oculus Rift (Rift CV1) now trickling out of warehouses, and Rift DK2, HTC Vive DK1, and Vive Pre already being in developers’ hands, it’s time for a more detailed comparison between these head-mounted displays (HMDs). Figure 10: Glare test, HTC Vive DK1.

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Doc-Ok

JANUARY 10, 2019

For example, my post title “ The Display Resolution of Head-mounted Displays ” becomes “The Show Decision of Head-mounted Shows,” and “ How Does VR Create the Illusion of Reality ” becomes “How Does VR Create the Phantasm of Actuality.”

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 23, 2019

There’s an issue here in our industry that we have a concern about putting head-mounted displays and glasses on people’s heads if you’re dealing with thousands of guests. Do you want to have a head-mounted display, or would you rather have the images projected onto the surface you can interact with?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 23, 2019

There’s an issue here in our industry that we have a concern about putting head-mounted displays and glasses on people’s heads if you’re dealing with thousands of guests. Do you want to have a head-mounted display, or would you rather have the images projected onto the surface you can interact with?

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 21, 2019

However, there are companies that require way more than these headsets can provide, turning to manufacturers like VRgineers and its XTAL head-mounted display (HMD) for that quality and feature set a consumer device just can’t match. But what do you get when spending £5,000 GBP on a VR headset? Plus XTAL supports SteamVR!

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Doc-Ok

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Interestingly, the virtual image of the screen (see Head-mounted Displays and Lenses ) becomes larger as eye relief increases from 0mm to 10mm, and then becomes smaller again as more parts of the screen become occluded by the rim of the lens. Figure 7: View through PSVR’s right lens at 30mm eye relief.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 23, 2019

There's an issue here in our industry that we have a concern about putting head-mounted displays and glasses on people's heads if you're dealing with thousands of guests. Do you want to have a head-mounted display, or would you rather have the images projected onto the surface you can interact with?

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RealVision VR

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

The other image is an Imax®-in-your-pocket like offering; A VR head mounted display. One image of the composite, is of a new method aimed at getting immersion into conventional Cinemas and Cinema multiplexes. That first image in the composite is of a movie presentation format: Barco Escape. What is Barco Escape?

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RealVision VR

JULY 14, 2016

The current generation of VR head mounted displays are already beginning to show what’s possible with room scale VR. The HTC Vive headset is in the lead. We’ll revisit points 2 and 3 later again in this article. 2: Build for Room-sized Virtual Reality. 3: In VR, Scale is absolutely relative.

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