Road to VR

JULY 6, 2016

The patent is described as a “Peripheral Treatment of Head-mounted Displays” and details a form of AR display that seems to utilise technology similar to optical waveguide, a way to bounce light from a source to a destination with minimal loss of signal.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 21, 2017

Just ahead of Microsoft’s E3 conference last week the company filed a trademark for Direct Reality. Speaking to Giant Bomb during last week’s event, Head of Xbox Phil Spencer clearly outlined exactly what this trademark pertained to. Sadly that wasn’t the case, but do now know what Direct Reality really is.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Microsoft has recently been awarded a patent to install hot-swappable battery functionality into a future pair of augmented reality (AR) smart glasses, reports revealed. According to MSPowerUser, Microsoft published the patents on 5 October, revealing a potentially strong competitor to current smart glass providers with its modular design.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 19, 2022

To date, Microsoft HoloLens 2 continues to receive rave reviews for its stunning performance and versatility. It comprised a head-mounted display (HMD) and a front-facing visor. Microsoft later announced the HoloLens 2 at the 2019 Mobile World Congress (MWC) with several upgrades. Inside Microsoft HoloLens 2.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 11, 2023

Microsoft has developed its mixed reality (MR) solutions with fresh updates on its Dynamics 365 Guides platform, the company announced in early April. The new tools will support deskless and frontline workers worldwide and follow numerous steps Microsoft has taken to promote its Mesh platform for MR experiences.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 28, 2017

One of Microsoft’s newest leaders in mixed reality, Mark Bolas, took the stage for a few minutes at Acer’s press conference this week and put into human terms the company’s goals with the technology. Now he is helping define the company’s strategy and vision moving forward into the new medium.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 15, 2023

To date, Microsoft HoloLens 2 continues to receive rave reviews for its stunning performance and versatility. It comprised a head-mounted display (HMD) and a front-facing visor. Microsoft later announced the HoloLens 2 at the 2019 Mobile World Congress (MWC) with several upgrades.

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Road to VR

MARCH 12, 2020

Control the objects with your gestures and place them freely in your space. Collaborate on the data together in one room with two HoloLenses, or bring in more people from all over the world, wearing a Microsoft Mixed Reality Head-Mounted-Display (HMD). True 3D telepresence and remote virtual analysis.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Next year, Apple will debut the Vision Pro following years of hype, and Microsoft will also start rolling out its industrial Metaverse services. One of the significant changes is the removal of Android and iOS notifications, which effectively separates Meta’s head-mounted displays (HMDs) from messages on smartphones and other devices.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 13, 2023

The United States Army and Microsoft are set to roll out an updated version of its Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) headset in 2025, reports show. The head-mounted display (HMD) will also host a separate controller aimed at boosting computing power. Windows Central reported that version 1.2

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GizModo VR

MARCH 19, 2021

According to reliable Apple analyst Ming-chi Kuo, it’s possible the headset will eschew handheld controllers in favor of eye tracking and iris recognition. There’s no lack of speculation around Apple’s rumored AR headset, but the latest is the most sci-fi of them all. Read more.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Later during testing, I received the SteamVR “lighthouse” faceplate , letting me enjoy the precision of sub-mm room-scale tracking, whilst enabling the use of Valve Index, HTC Vive, and Pimax Sword controllers, as well as Vive and Tundra trackers. Within minutes, I was happily drawing squiggles. My three 2.0

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

Or we can put on device on our head (a head-mounted display or HMD) that completely occludes us from the real world allowing us to enter a completely simulated environment which we can walk around and interact in because the computer is sensing our physical actions: this is Virtual Reality or VR.

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VRScout

MAY 7, 2017

The Facebook team articulated a distinction between lightweight AR, requiring only your smartphone and available today, and ‘full AR,’ requiring a head mounted display, such as AR glasses. The Santa Cruz standalone VR unit that Oculus is working on was briefly mentioned but no new version of the prototype was shown.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 24, 2023

The partnership aims to integrate the Cupertino-based firm’s Apple TV+ product lineup on the new head-mounted displays (HMDs). It read that Apple designed the device jointly with Sony Group Corp, which will feature high-resolution displays and augmented reality (AR) full-colour passthrough.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Doing that will disable the controllers, and you will be able to navigate in the menus just using your hands. Some developers have anyway already stated they plan to implement a controller-free interface in the next version of their applications. But, most importantly, now the Quest features hands tracking.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 6, 2023

Unveiled at the Mobile World Congress 2023 , the new device includes a trove of innovative features such as a “retina-level” electrochromic adaptive display, lighting adjustment, Snapdragon Spaces tethering, and hand tracking, among others.

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 10, 2019

VRFocus has seen recent patents appear for a virtual reality (VR) floor mat by Microsoft and a new headset design for Nintendo Switch. The single point PlayStation Camera system SIE uses means the headset can’t offer true roomscale experiences as it would lose the controllers when a player turns around.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MARCH 4, 2024

.” The Vision Pro headset is unique because it does not require a controller and relies on tracking technology to record inputs. However, HTC VIVE still believes that controllers hold value. While tracking technology is innovative, controllers are still preferable for specific use cases as they offer greater accuracy.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Meta is working on an AR headset, which puts them in the same league as Microsoft and Magic Leap. In the 1970’s scientists at the University of California popularized the term “brain-computer interface” or BCI , referring to a hardware and software system that uses brainwaves to control devices. Current Limits.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The same day, iOS developer Steve Troughton-Smith found the StarBoard framework in the official “golden master” of iOS 13; he also pointed out references to “HME,” which many speculated stood for “head-mounted experience.” ” (HMD, or head-mounted display, is a common term for a VR/AR headset.).

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Cats and VR

JUNE 1, 2017

Digibit is showcasing the world’s first wearable gaming system that transforms your body into a mobile gaming controller. link] HDBT is showcasing HDBaseT, a one-cable solution for Virtual Reality, supporting high-def audio, video, USB, controls, Ethernet and power over a single cable. www.massless.io www.deepoptics.com.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2023

Following a decades-long career with the photography giant, he developed the world’s first VR head-mounted display (HMD) firm, Forte Technologies. This allowed Special Forces to control and monitor situations remotely using robots and Oakley-styled headsets.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 27, 2022

Under the hood of any quality virtual, augmented, or mixed reality head-mounted display (HMD) is a hand and eye tracking platform designed to run a human-computer interface (HCI) capable of seamlessly joining man with machine and delivering seamless immersive experiences.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 19, 2017

The last few years, VR has been about putting on a head-mounted display and looking around,” Edwards said. “It It was cool that I didn’t have to use a touch controller. As soon as we get touch controls, we want finger detection. It’s not just visual and sound. It’s a bit unfortunate. Then it kind of hit me.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Or maybe a section of the floor itself serves as the treadmill, raised up as a platform that controls pitch, yaw, roll, and speed. For those who want to push immersion further, optional climate controls mirror environmental conditions (within a safe temperature range). Control options.

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Digitalnauts

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Users put on a VR headset or head-mounted display to get a 360-degree view of a space their brain believes to be real, thanks through a psychological mechanism called presence. Usually accompanied by one or two controllers, standalone VR is a monolithic headset with built-in screen processor and battery.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

So originally when North was founded, it was actually called Thalmic Labs, and the product was a gesture control armband. You could make motions with your hand and it would detect your muscle movements and you could control computers, music, do presentation control. The ring that controls your interface.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

So originally when North was founded, it was actually called Thalmic Labs, and the product was a gesture control armband. You could make motions with your hand and it would detect your muscle movements and you could control computers, music, do presentation control. The ring that controls your interface.

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Robert Scoble

JULY 23, 2020

Now that joke isn’t so funny anymore and it has deep implications on how we view privacy, new products soon to come, and, even how we should regulate big tech companies that soon will have deep access to, and control over literally everything about human life. That life is about to become very integrated with technology.

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VeeR VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

It was a device that the user sat in-front of while their head was encased on four sides by a screen and they watched any one of five films, which all engaged sight, sound, smell and touch. In 1968, Ivan Sutherland and Bob Sproull created the first head-mounted display (HMD) system for immersive simulation applications.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

So originally when North was founded, it was actually called Thalmic Labs, and the product was a gesture control armband. You could make motions with your hand and it would detect your muscle movements and you could control computers, music, do presentation control. The ring that controls your interface.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 28, 2020

And—better late than never—the RX 6000-series cards include a USB-C port to “power head-mounted displays with just one cable for a modern VR experience.” With a release date in November and prices starting at $580, AMD is aiming to compete directly with NVIDIA’s latest 30-series GPUs. RX 6800 XT.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The counselor or commission can gradually, in a controlled manner, expose a patient to what they are afraid of, and teach them the skills to manage those fears and to habituate sometimes what’s a learned fear response. And it was so expensive, and a head-mounted display could cost $70,000.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 4, 2023

Its controllers have no ring and no onboard cameras. That’s why Quest Touch Pro controllers are better. Quest 3 will be compatible with Touch Pro controllers for the ones that need better accuracy. I expect the tracking of Quest Plus to improve over time thanks to software updates, though. This is the dystopia we should avoid.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The counselor or commission can gradually, in a controlled manner, expose a patient to what they are afraid of, and teach them the skills to manage those fears and to habituate sometimes what's a learned fear response. And it was so expensive, and a head-mounted display could cost $70,000.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The counselor or commission can gradually, in a controlled manner, expose a patient to what they are afraid of, and teach them the skills to manage those fears and to habituate sometimes what’s a learned fear response. And it was so expensive, and a head-mounted display could cost $70,000.

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