Road to VR

APRIL 17, 2018

Modbox is currently in Early Access on Steam , supporting HTC Vive and Oculus Rift , although that may change in the near future. So while AR headsets still have a ways to go, seeing these early stabs at solving the question of content gives us an exciting look into what could be the near future of AR head-mounted displays.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Oculus sells battery packs and prescription lenses for the Quest. Their wand-style hand-tracking controllers “Playstation Move” and gun-adapting “aim controller” make game play more natural and more immersive, while the PlayStation Camera aims to reinvent the ways in which we experience movement in VR.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Oculus Quest gets hand tracking. Last week, the runtime v12 of Oculus Quest has been rolled out , and this took with it lots of interesting updates. To start, now the Oculus Link is more stable and it is compatible with some AMD GPUs. Oculus Quests have started getting vocal commands in the menu. Top news of the week.

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Road to VR

JULY 6, 2016

Originally filed back in June 2012, months before the Oculus was to make waves with its Rift DK1 Kickstarter campaign , this “continuation”, published by the US Patent and Trademark Office , extends an even older application, originally filed back in 2006.

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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). Hence we developed different possibilities of shared experiences.

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JUNE 21, 2017

“I think it’s important as the Windows platform company that we don’t start getting people tied into “Well you bought this [head-mounted display], sorry it’s not going to work with these other things,”” Spencer told Jeff Gerstmann. We may also soon have VR on Xbox One X as well as PCs.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Anduril is the defence company Luckey founded after being fired from Oculus, currently valued at $28 billion. It is a bigger jump from what exists today than the jump that I made when I started Oculus. I can see where the people controlling them are. It is a jump that I think cannot be overstated." Really, really powerful stuff."

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VRScout

AUGUST 1, 2016

From all-in-one mobile VR headsets to tethered head-mounted displays (HMDs) with hand-controllers that looked eerily similar to brands we already report on, one thing’s for sure, there was no shortage of VR and AR hardware on the show floor. Wait, is Freddie Prinze Jr. a fan of VR now!?

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VRScout

AUGUST 24, 2016

One of the biggest questions is how will we handle the controller aspect of virtual reality? We currently have several impressive options from the HTC Vive controllers, to the upcoming Oculus Touch pads for the Rift or the PSVR “pickles.” Unfortunately the device is still in development, which means no set price or release date.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Also, unlike augmented reality (AR), which people can access via smartphones and smart glasses, VR relies on larger headsets and controllers to interact with fully-immersive virtual worlds. Over the years, technology has become smaller, lighter, more comfortable, and with faster processing, breathing life into the virtual world.

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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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MARCH 24, 2025

In 2012, Jonathan Coon backed the original Oculus kickstarter project and has a signed Rift DK1 to show for it. Act 3: Walk The Future View The 5,000 square foot open space of the holodeck is housed inside a tent with a metal rail around the interior and a series of cameras mounted to it from OptiTrack.

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ARVR

MAY 28, 2021

He has been working in VR development since 2012, prior to the release of the first modern VR consumer headset, the Oculus Rift. His primary focus has been player facing systems, such as motion controller mechanics, VR avatar embodiment and user interface. Alex Silkin Alex Silkin is the Co-Founder and CTO at Survios.

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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

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

After registering over at Cyberia Film Festival in VR (100% free), users will be instructed on how to access this weekend’s screening of 38 short films collected from across the globe using a VR headset such as the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive or Samsung Gear VR. 7:30 PM – Birds with Human heads. 6:00 PM – Quenottes (Pearlies).

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VRScout

JUNE 8, 2016

But after VR head-mounted displays came on the scene, the idea of the fourth wall got an interesting twist. For example, In Lucky’s Tale for Oculus Rift, the player controls a funny little fox, and is present in the game world as an invisible observer who follows the game’s main character.

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APRIL 5, 2023

Carmack formally left Meta in December to focus on developing Artificial General Intelligence after a decade-long run helping shape the direction of VR development at Oculus and advising executives at Facebook. If you had to wait for your controllers to wake up before you could start doing inputs there?

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 10, 2022

The system creates everything in the user’s environment, which may be exhibited inside a blank room via head-mounted displays (HMDs) or other equipment that helps users feel they are physically inside the virtual world. The second sort of VR headset contains uses your phone and utilizes its display as its own.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 29, 2018

The * just made my head hurt, and I found the controllers too small (I have large hands), but the * fitted great and the controllers were way more comfortable. So what can be done to ensure headsets (and hand controllers , which we have not even mentioned) are comfortable? The headset that had the “wow!”

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MARCH 16, 2017

It’s a more bleak and grotesque way of displaying VR than simply sliding a head-mounted display over your face like the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, but it’s funneling towards a similar idea of a digital landscape where anything is possible. Let me instead step inside the body of Neo using a VR headset.

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APRIL 28, 2017

Microsoft still has a lot to prove in this emerging industry, with input and controls being the biggest blind spot for the company. The HTC Vive and Oculus Rift both offer controllers that bring your natural finger, hand and arm movements into a virtual world for a range of intuitive games and experiences.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 8, 2016

But after VR head-mounted displays came on the scene, the idea of the fourth wall got an interesting twist. For example, In Lucky’s Tale for Oculus Rift, the player controls a funny little fox, and is present in the game world as an invisible observer who follows the game’s main character. Read more here.

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DECEMBER 2, 2016

According to at least one objective analysis , the Samsung and Oculus-developed device is projected to sell upward of 2 million units by the end of this year. Positional tracking, face mapping and eye tracking are all highlighted in this single patent titled “Image Processing for Head Mounted Display Devices.”

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2016

To help do that, I coordinate engineering efforts internal to Epic as well as well as manage relationships with other companies like Oculus, Valve and Samsung to make sure that UE4 lets people maximize the potential of the engine to the fullest and that it’s easy to use. We don’t really have any software to show on it.

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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. 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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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Originally revealed at CES 2019 in January, at present, no one outside of HTC has seen or tried the device when it comes to media coverage, a stark contrast to Oculus’ approach with headsets like Quest which saw massive build-up and press interaction before launch.

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

launched its combat experience Swords of Gargantua for PC VR headsets as well as Oculus Quest. Swords of Gargantua – Oculus Quest screenshot. ” Vive Cosmos will be released on 3rd October, the new high-end head-mounted display (HMD) from HTC Vive, retailing for £699 GBP/$699 USD.

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MARCH 16, 2017

Insomniac’s Oculus Touch spellcasting game, The Unspoken , made its second straight tour stop in Katowice (following its debut at IEM Oakland), alongside Ready at Dawn’s Lone Echo and Croteam’s Serious Sam. Intel showed off its Project Alloy wireless VR head-mounted display to eSports fans.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2017

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. How will a soldier quickly navigate an AR display while carrying equipment and speaking on a radio? Current Limits.

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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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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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AllThingsVR

JULY 5, 2017

Vaqso is a Japanese invention consisting of a small device that clips to the bottom of your Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, or PlayStation VR (PSVR). Read more here. 4) Vaqso raises $600,000 to help you smell inside VR from Japanese venture capital firm Weru Investment. Read more here.

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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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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 1, 2019

To ensure GeForce gamers are fully up to date, support has been added for the HTC Vive Cosmos head-mounted display (HMD) and the Sanzaru Games’ title Asgard’s Wrath. . GB download, mainly because of the textures notes executive producer at Oculus Studios, Mike Doran, on Reddit.

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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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JULY 19, 2017

Just a few years ago I found the Oculus meeting room hidden in a corner of the show floor where they were showing the HD prototype of the Rift featuring improved resolution. TwinCam is an omni-directional stereoscopic live-viewing camera that reduces motion blur and latency during head rotation in a head-mounted display.

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Peter Graham

JUNE 28, 2019

The head-mounted display (HMD) hasn’t been designed to attract more consumers to the market with cheap pricing, it has been designed for high fidelity and all the VR enthusiasts out there. The Valve Index Controllers have the fabric strap for the back of the hand which has two points where it can be altered.

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