Road to VR

MAY 4, 2021

Epic Games, the creators of Unreal Engine, said it would consider building a launch title for Sony’s “next VR platform” during negotiations about Fortnite cross-play on PlayStation in 2018. With no motion controls or positional tracking—and VR locomotion hardly worked out at the time—this was primarily a visual demo.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Facebook already had full control of my Oculus and Facebook accounts, so it had already my XR data. That’s why Avi Bar-Zeev in a tweet on this topic talked about “the illusion of control” of our data : actually, Facebook already had it all. Zuckerberg wrote in a letter some years ago that he wants full control of the XR platform.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

They teased a lot of interesting features and services of the device, and left the remaining technical details to some technical sheets on Microsoft website. But Microsoft, thanks to innovative 2K displays, has managed to keep the same high-quality pixel density of the HoloLens 1, that is 47 PPD (pixels per degree). Resolution.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

This isn’t counting the cameras on the new Touch Pro controllers. For instance, earlier this year Microsoft announced a partnership to utilize the AR2 Gen 1 chip for future products beyond the HoloLens 2. Hand-tracking Works with Snapdragon Spaces (Unity/Unreal) 2.5X

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This also open the door for Epic and their Unreal Engine to shine and capture the entire XR development market. Recently, Microsoft has showcased how clients Nexco-East and Sanofi use the firm’s XR product portfolio. Recently, Microsoft has showcased how clients Nexco-East and Sanofi use the firm’s XR product portfolio.

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2021

Major VR stakeholders—including Oculus, Valve, HTC, Microsoft, Unity, and Unreal Engine—now offer full or partial support for the standard. Sony’s next-gen VR controllers | Image courtesy Sony. After years of development, the OpenXR 1.0 specification has taken major strides toward real industry adoption.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Today, ARWall, a virtual production product and services merchant, updated its augmented reality effects (ARFX) Pro Unreal Engine Plugin to streamline workflows for end-users incorporating immersive backdrops for media productions. New graphic options give a production team more control over the quality of a backdrop. New Features.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

The Mixed Reality Toolkit (MRTK) by Microsoft is an open-source toolkit that has been around since the HoloLens was first released in 2016. Microsoft-driven MRTK-Unity is a suite of components and capabilities used to speed the creation of cross-platform MR applications in Unity. UI controls. Oculus (Unity 2019.3

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ARPost

DECEMBER 10, 2022

As this article was being written, Varjo further expanded its cloud with Unreal and Unity engine integrations. The solution allows IT specialists to “easily control and manage their entire RealWear device fleet from one easy-to-use interface.” CloudXR From NVIDIA. XR streaming is already a reality on other cloud platforms.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

But the thing that surprised me the most in Gurman’s description is the controllers. Controllers do have not the tracking ring like the ones of Quest 2 and have not onboard cameras like the ones of Quest Pro (I guess they would have been too expensive). In the meanwhile, Microsoft is working on a 1.1

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The article talked about a headset shipping without controllers and aiming at the sweet price point of $200. Mark Gurman reiterated a similar rumor: he didn’t say that Meta will ship it without controllers, but just that it is evaluating also that option. The second is about interactions.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 30, 2024

Layout allows Quest users to measure the size, height, and width of objects like kitchen surfaces or stools using the device and its controllers, turning those measurements into spatial data points. Meta designed the layout application, following similar immersive customer experience innovations from groups like Ikea.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Combining 360-degree capture with solutions for spatial sound and integrations with tools like Unity, Unreal, and other engines, VR cameras are highly flexible. Innovative VR Controllers Probably one of the most obvious options for companies investing in virtual reality accessories is the advanced controller.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 17, 2019

Experience in game engines like Unity and Unreal Engine is also a must. SEE ALSO Report: Microsoft Holding a HoloLens 2 Press Event Next Month. The $2,300 AR headset is intended primarily for developers, and comes with a tethered compute unit, and a single dedicated controller.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 26, 2023

There’s also an Object Capture API available, whish supports brands in creating unique 3D objects for their promotional campaigns. The company works with leading companies around the world to develop unique experiences for customers in the metaverse.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 4, 2017

Game-streaming service OnLive has come and gone, and Microsoft over-hyped the effect its Azure platform would have on Xbox One games, but that’s not stopping one company from using the cloud to unlock the power of its tools. Gaming and the fabled power of the cloud has had a checkered history.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash of 1992, the internet has been superseded by the Metaverse, a multi-person shared virtual reality with both human-controlled avatars and system “daemons”. In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2022

In my opinion, Magic Leap 2 is a superior device to HoloLens 2 (see my hands-on here ), so I think that with these prices, it can have good success in the enterprise market, starting to gain shares with regard to Microsoft. Cambria is going to launch with controllers. Nano-tech wants to be the Nanite of Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Rob is a big fan of PCVR (he even tried to design a new SteamVR controller , do you remember?) This would be my second test of hardware from Pimax, following last year’s Sword controllers. Today I host another fantastic guest post written by VR ergonomics expert (and friend of mine) Rob Cole.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

But you have hands and feet controllers to move in the virtual world, so according to the manufacturers, you have 1.5DOF more (whatever it means). But you have hands and feet controllers to move in the virtual world, so according to the manufacturers, you have 1.5DOF more (whatever it means). Yes, you’ve read everything well.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Thanks to the vaccines and the pandemic that seemed more or less under control, this seemed a possible scenario, and in-person successful events like AWE 2021 confirmed this hypothesis. CES 2022 is going to be less cool than expected. Some months ago, it was announced that CES 2022 would have had a physical edition again.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

The new VR headset enhances everything from resolution and field of view to tracking and input ; It will connect to PS5 with a single cord to simplify setup and improve ease-of-use while enabling a high-fidelity visual experience; It will feature controllers carefully studied for VR. This is news that will have massive consequences.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

If we sum these features to the other ones added in the past, like hands tracking, Passthrough Shortcut, or the multiple windows in Oculus Browser , we start seeing the first signs of a mixed reality operating system, with which you can interact with the controllers or with the hands in a natural way.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 8, 2019

nReal has been sued by Epic Games for the name too similar to Unreal and by Magic Leap that claims that nReal CEO Chi Xu has stolen the technology of the American company while working there. Microsoft has surely spent lots of money to make sure that HoloLens’s holograms look absolutely fixed in space. Controller.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Varjo’s newest headset (available in various styles) sincludes multifocal passthrough cameras, controllers co-developed by Razer, and even integration with the powerful NVIDIA Omniverse. Inside-out tracking: Intelligent inside-out tracking and built-in Varjo controllers created with Razer. What is the Varjo XR-4 Series?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Davis recently served as general manager for the Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4. He was also a chief technology officer at Microsoft on the HoloLens project, and he was the lead programmer on Gears of War and Gears of War 2. Scott spent 15 years as an art director in Triple-A games at places such as id Software and Microsoft Game Studios.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Some of its features are: 2,160 × 2,160 resolution per eye 90Hz framerate 4-cameras inside-out tracking (like the Quest) Touch-like controllers with Knuckles-like finger-sensing Face tracking Hips tracking (for better orientation in games) Integration with SteamVR games Wireless add-on. So this is a market we should all keep an eye on.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

New info on Microsoft abandoning the Hololens 3. Last week we all heard the news about Microsoft abandoning the HoloLens 3, and the denial of it by Alex Kipman and Microsoft itself. A 3D-based experience with six degrees of freedom built in Unity or Unreal Access to source code, with ability to implement a 2MB SDK.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

And while this is anyway a good result for a startup (developing an AR headsets means spending billions in R&D), targeting the consumer market has been a suicide move , that let Microsoft get full control of the profitable enterprise market. Who knows…. More info (nReal teases new headset) More info (nReal changes name).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

The Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications (FIT) together with various partners from industry including Apple, Ericsson, Huawei, Intel, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and Son y has confirmed the release and official adoption of H.266/Versatile Not a great evolution from Microsoft. H266 video standard can pave the way to 8K video streaming.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

Also, new more ergonomic controllers, that solve the flaws of the current design, will be part of the package. These controllers should be compatible with the current Quest. Unreal Engine 4.25 update, Unreal Engine has added many features that may be useful in crafting XR experiences. Mechanical IPD is confirmed.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

The Metaverse Standards Forum has already gathered many important players of the XR sector like Unity, Unreal Engine, Meta, Microsoft, Lamina 1, NVIDIA, and even other relevant companies like IKEA and Adobe. For this Business Edition the company will also supply a 3DOF controller to use with the device.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MAY 24, 2022

As a result, users have the option to leverage the futuristic headset alongside an equally next-gen haptics-based full-body controller for an ultra-immersive experience. Microsoft Windows Operating System compatibility. Key Features of the XTAL Virtual Reality Headset. Multiple connectivity options such as VirtualLink (5m / 16.40

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We know they are working on brand new base stations , shown in the image above, as well as experimental controllers they teased at Steam Dev Days last year. What to Expect from Microsoft. Also, we know Microsoft is partnering with several manufacturers on VR headsets of its own, so we may learn more about some of those as well.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Manus VR is a company developing virtual reality gloves – so instead of using controllers as data input, we use what comes naturally: our hands. Using the Unreal Engine 4, NASA has created an extremely detailed and realistic VR model of the interior of the ISS, and astronauts use the Manus gloves in the model for training simulations.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2018

In the entertainment area of Gamescom, NVIDIA has put some RTX graphics cards on the desks of some booth of partner companies , like ASUS and Microsoft. While at Microsoft booth there was a premium RTX 2080 Ti , that I’ve been able to take in my hands so to make a video where you can see it from all angles.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

For frontline workers, it’s important that they have technology at their disposal that is entirely voice-controlled and, therefore, hands-free. In addition to comfort, AR glasses should have intuitive controls and user-friendly interfaces. This aids in creating accurate and innovative designs.

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