Road to VR

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The following year at CES 2014, Oculus had to share the immersive technology limelight with a slew of new startups who had appeared in the wake of Oculus’ success. Built atop an open source set of APIs, the platform was a refreshing take on how to deliver immersive technology. Oculus’ Pre-DK1 Prototype, shown at CES 2013.

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DECEMBER 28, 2016

There is something of an arms race developing between the major VR hardware companies (Facebook, Google, HTC, Sony) to add more intuitive controls for VR. Eye controls are the future for immersive tech, but there are other use cases for eye tracking too. The solution seems to lie in one place: our eyes.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Being able to snap high-tech pieces onto an already decidedly ‘next gen’ package, which has been shown to deliver a highly immersive 200 degree FOV and a massive uptick in resolution over current consumer headsets, is a genuinely interesting prospect to say the least.

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Road to VR

MARCH 17, 2017

He works at FOVE which is making a VR headset with eye-tracking, but wanted to speak to me on his own behalf about some of the deeper philosophical questions and conceptual frameworks around the types of intimate data that will become available to VR headsets.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Haptics aren’t something HoloLens 2 can do; there isn’t a controller, or included haptic glove, so immersion is driven entirely by the headset’s visuals and positional audio. Image courtesy Microsoft.

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OCTOBER 15, 2016

The HTC Vive is arguably the best out there, but having to buy a souped-up laptop just to run it, paying full price for brief games that feel more like demos, and trailing a huge cable off your head and fumbling to mount trackers on your ceiling…it’s not ideal. Body movement. Let’s start from the ground up.

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Delight XR

MAY 14, 2019

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