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What F8 2017 Means for Mass Market Adoption of Immersive Technologies

VRScout

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. Google I/O : May 17-19, 2017. Apple WWDC : June 5-9, 2017.

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Apple Teases Reality Pro Specs, Disney Partnership

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

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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Pimax Crystal hands-on part two : A very versatile headset

The Ghost Howls

Eye Tracking Apart from sessions a few years ago using the HTC Vive Pro Eye and Microsoft Hololens, I didn’t have any experience with eye tracking. 72Hz should also present a smooth, natural result when viewing movies or filmed media, as it’s a round multiple of 24 fps which avoids frame insertion.

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The hey I got food poisoning and could not make it to Augmented World Expo today. Here is a list of the fun things going on.

Cats and VR

Highlights of today’s remarkable announcements include: CieAR is unveiling its new AR film platform which enables a unique and immersive film experience in real space and time with life-sized 3D virtual characters. www.ciear.ca. www.massless.io www.deepoptics.com. www.kodakpixpro.com.

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The High-end VR Room of the Future Looks Like This

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Right now we’re stuck thinking in terms of head-mounted displays (HMDs), like the Vive or the Oculus. Hand and finger tracking, gesture interfaces, and grip simulation: Leap Motion: Manus VR: Neurodigital: Gestigon: Handpose: Usens: Dexta Robotics: Minority Report (film). Neural plugins: The Matrix (film).

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A Brief History of VR

VeeR VR

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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Making AR Focals Functional and Fashionable, with North’s Stefan Alexander

XR for Business Podcast

And about a year before it came out, they hired me and they said, "Stefan, we think that the control of smart glasses and the control of head mounted displays is really important. Would it be-- is it a film or is it a--? Stefan: It's a special film called a holographic film.

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