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According to The Verge , Google is currently in development of its own AR device capable of blending virtual graphics over the real world, citing “two people familiar with the project.” The original Google Glass / Image Credit: Robert Couto Photography. Image Credit: Google Inc.
First, Google will play a role in developing the device through the Android XR operating system. Google Invests $250 Million into HTC VIVE Following last months announcement of AndroidXR and this weeks teasers for Samsung’s Moohan, Google made a significant parallel move.
According to independent tech analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple has delayed the cheaper version of Vision Pro “beyond 2027” Kuo, who is a respected figure in Apple supply chain leaks, claims in an X post that “Apple’s only new head-mounteddisplay device in 2025 will be the Vision Pro with an upgraded M5 processor.”
Google announced at last year’s Society for Information Display (SID) Display Week that the company was actively working on a VR-optimized OLED panel capable of packing in pixels at a density heretofore never seen outside of microdisplays – all at a supposedly ‘wide’ field of view (FOV).
It was first theorized that the name Vive Focus was intended for the upcoming standalone Vive headset confirmed at Google I/O 2017 developer conference. It came to light via the Dutch publication Lets Go Digital that HTC has also applied for a trademark for the name ‘Vive Eclipse’ in New Zealand.
Synaptics, a developer of input and display components for computers, smartphones, and other devices, recently introduced a new version of its ClearView display driver chip which has been optimized for head-mounteddisplays with high density displays, including a specialized feature for foveated rendering.
However, now, Kuo maintains Apple is “reviewing and adjusting its head-mounteddisplay (HMD) product roadmap, so there may be no new Vision Pro model in 2025.” Meanwhile we’re still waiting to see what Samsung has in store after partnering with Google to make its own ‘Pro’ level MR headset.
Composed of the Nolo N2 mobile VR headset, a Google Cardboard-style head-mounteddisplay, and the Nolo CV1 Pro motion tracking kit, the platform utilizes smartphone technology and high-speed in-home broadband to stream cloud VR content over a 5G or WLAN connection.
But AR/VR solutions are not limited to Google Glass, mobile apps for trying on shoes or accessories, and AR-based games. At the same time, personal voice assistants developed by tech giants — Alexa from Amazon, Siri from Apple, and Google Assistant — are standing at the forefront of the audio augmented reality market.
With middling smartphone sales and a loss of a major portion of its smartphone IP and engineering team to Google last year, HTC appears to be full steam ahead with VR headsets as of late. Now, a trademark filing has surfaced that throws the name ‘Vive Cosmos’ into the mix, possibly pointing to the company’s next VR headset.
Lian Jie Su, Principal Analyst at Omdia , explains where AR glasses provider need to focus their attention in order to optimise sales: “Major technology vendors such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, Meta and Qualcomm are looking to bring spatial computing to a range of edge devices, including smartphones, head-mounteddisplays, AR glasses and robots. “To
Labeled the HTC Link , the head-mounted-display will allow users to move freely within a VR space utilizing an undisclosed form of ‘inside-out tracking’ capable of supporting six degrees-of-freedom, a level of tracking previously unheard of in the world of mobile VR. Headmountdisplay weight. mm (depth).
.” Included with the glasses is a dedicated wireless charging case capable of holding up to four charges and folding flat when not in use, a standard USB-C charging cable, as well as a head-mounteddisplay for viewing 3D content. Image Credit: Snap Inc. ” As previously stated, Snap Inc.’s
” The popularity of Google Cardboard , and the upcoming commercial releases of the Oculus Rift , HTC Vive , and other modern head-mounteddisplays (HMDs) have raised interest in virtual reality and VR devices in parts of the population who have never been exposed to, or had reason to care about, VR before.
The tetherless XR streaming experience is available for both head-mounteddisplays and Android phones that support Google ARCore. Compatible End Devices for NVIDIA CloudXR.
Googles AndroidXR Provides Developer Passthrough Access Recent news from the AndroidXR camp highlights a significant development advantage that some believe positions the new operating system ahead of the veteran firm Meta. This effort aims to create next-generation head-mounteddisplays and “intelligent glasses.”
They have also successfully crowdfunded a Google Cardboard-inspired $30 Mixed Reality solution called ZapBox. With this round our established institutional and trade investors lend further credence to this future as we continue towards AR delivering a digital discovery channel through mobile devices and head-mounteddisplays.”
Google subsidiary Owlchemy Labs has cooked up an experimental ARCore mobile app that enables smartphone users to follow along with their VR friends as they play games in a head-mounteddisplay. Called Mobile Spectator, the app uses ARCore to track the smartphone's position in physical space.
Apple Intelligence on the Vision Pro would be a big deal, and especially it would let Apple compete better with Google , which made the integration with Gemini one of the best features of its Android XR operating system.
The leading producers of VR headsets like Sony, Oculus, Google, HTC, and Samsung, mainly focus on creating cost-effective devices. The VR head-mounteddisplays were initially created focusing on games mainly. If things go the right way as predicted, then by 2025 the revenue can go beyond $45 billion. VR In Gaming.
Today a blog was posted on the Eyefluence site stating the company has joined Google. I have yet to see an official announcement from Google or any other press on this. Today, we are excited to announce that the Eyefluence team is joining Google! We look forward to the life-changing innovations we’ll create together!
” Woosung added: HMDs (Head-MountedDisplays) come with various specifications and operating systems. However, it could be argued that this has always been the case for industry veterans and enthusiasts—from Google Glass to Samsung VR and the original Oculus models.
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. Recently, Google acquired a company called Eyefluence. The former piece, however, holds a major clue as to why the Facebook-owned VR company made this purchase.
Data from IDC suggest that AR/VR device sales in China will expand four-fold through 2017 after surging by 325% last year, led by screen-less head-mounteddisplays that typically use a mobile phone, such as the Mira Prism. This gives the Chinese pioneers of AR—such as Baidu, the “Google” of China—a huge market for AR content.
Now, price can mean a couple of different things, but ultimately when you’re spending $1,500 or $2,000 to put a brand new tower PC under your desk and you’re tethering it to the back of your head through a headmounteddisplay […] that’s a lot of money. He’s not creating Google VR.
The Hammersmith, London-based company has also partnered with some of the world’s biggest tech and media firms, including Apple, National Geographic, Google, Sony, Meta Platforms, Sky, IMAX, Intel, and many others.
We’ve generally stated “tens of billions” for the collective investment scale of the big five — Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple. Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Snap and Qualcomm are all making significant investments. But our standards of precision are higher, and you deserve better.
Or we can put on device on our head (a head-mounteddisplay 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.
The mind-bending interdimensional experience is viewable on virtually (hah) any head-mounteddisplay. Google DayDream : Download the official YouTube app. Google Cardboard (IOS or Android) : Download the YouTube app while in Cardboard mode. Bada bing, bada boom. Also bada bing, bada boom.
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). Work on them with others in your organization in real-time, like with a Google Doc. Engage your audience to the max.
UploadVR David Heaney Last week, Qualcomm revealed the XR2+ Gen 2 chipset with headset manufacturing partners announced as Samsung (working with Google) as well as HTC Vive, Immersed's Visor, and a YVR headset in China. Image provide by Sony depicting pointing controller This news is breaking. Updates to come.
Rent or own it : YouTube | iTunes | Vudu | Google Play | Amazon Prime Video 2. Nearly 30 years ago, They Live introduced optical head-mounteddisplay (OHMD) in the form of special sunglasses that show you the underlying messages being advertised to you (and aliens… lots of aliens). That is correct! Try not to get caught!
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Lenovo is clearly hungry to make its mark in VR and AR; the company’s just announced a new AR headset, making it the fourth head-mounteddisplay we’ve seen from it so far this year. daystAR, as the device is called, was revealed at the TechWorld conference this week, though it’s only a concept right now.
Yesterday Intel announced its entry into the virtual reality space with the Project Alloy all-in-one headmounteddisplay. All the computing power, cameras and sensors used by Project Alloy are completely self-contained.
Yesterday Intel announced its entry into the virtual reality space with the Project Alloy all-in-one headmounteddisplay. All the computing power, cameras and sensors used by Project Alloy are completely self-contained.
Lian Jie Su, Principal Analyst at Omdia , explains where AR glasses providers need to focus their attention to optimise sales: Major technology vendors such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, Meta and Qualcomm are looking to bring spatial computing to a range of edge devices, including smartphones, head-mounteddisplays, AR glasses and robots.
Now that Google’s big virtual reality announcement regarding a new head-mounteddisplay has come and gone, developers are starting to reveal the projects they’re working on for the headset. OtherSide Entertainment has announced that its Google Daydream project is called Underworld Overlord.
The keynote for Google’s I/O conference has now drawn to a close and with it came the announcement for a brand new head-mounteddisplay called Google Daydream. One of the first videogame developers to reveal its work on the headset is Solitaire Jester creator Resolution Games.
A form of non-verbal communication through the body (typically the hands or head) that, when tracked by a motion sensing device, can be interpreted as movement and mirrored in virtual reality. Google Poly ?—?a As demonstrated in the video below, three of the degrees refer to the motion of the user’s head?
What the company is doing is a cool idea — offering a wide range of content to a single head-mounteddisplay — but it is also going to be very difficult to pull off. With the SteamVR headset slated for 2018, Mason certainly has a schedule in mind that would provide time to work on it.
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Zenka feels the same way about VR and AR headsets as we start to see more patents like Sony’s smart eye contacts or Google’s cyborg eye implants. Technology has been progressing so quickly that looking back at cell phones from 10-20 years ago starts to feel like ancient history. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST.
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