The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

Image by Oculus). The other bombshell news is that Resident Evil 4 is coming to the Oculus Quest 2. On April, 21st, Oculus will host its first Gaming Showcase , with news on ‘Lone Echo II’, ‘Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge’, and many other titles. Google is hiring waveguide developers for AR. Top news of the week.

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Road to VR

JUNE 28, 2021

Rendering immersive XR experiences in the cloud, compressing the video and audio streams, and serving that up to VR and AR devices for interactive experiences over 5G and WiFi networks—all at a low enough latency to make it feel like you’re tethered to powerful PC—is no small feat. That’s XR cloud streaming in a nutshell.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 20, 2017

The headset, which holds the user’s smartphone, is little more than a plastic shell with lenses which undoubtedly hooks into the massive, but decidedly low-ish quality Google Cardboard content store. SEE ALSO Oculus Go is Facebook's Affordable Standalone Headset Priced at $200, Shipping Early 2018.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 27, 2021

It let you essentially fly around a city, sort of like Google Earth but in three dimensions. In fairness, Google Earth offers 3D features. In fairness, Google Earth offers 3D features. And Google Earth VR , lets users fly around cities in strikingly immersive ways. Geospatially Sound.

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2016

Announced today at Google I/O 2016, VR team lead Clay Bavor revealed on stage that the company will be partnering with manufacturers to build Google-approved VR headsets based on an internally generated reference design. To boot, Google is also providing their new VR ecosystem with a handy Wiimote-style motion controller.

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Road to VR

JUNE 28, 2017

When developing the first prototype standalone Daydream headsets, Google based their work on the Qualcomm VRDK, and, subsequently, both HTC and Lenovo’s standalone Daydream headsets will be built on the same foundation. OmniVision specifically positions the OV9282 image sensor as ideal for VR headsets thanks to the low latency.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2022

It is a bit like GIT (or Google Doc, if you find it easier to imagine), but for artists and designers. Because there are people in the communities that think that it is (and will be) impossible that wherever we are, there is always a server close-enough to do the rendering with minimal latency. Video courtesy NVIDIA).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 28, 2023

There is not only the problem of the timezone but also the unknown of the internet connection and the inability of reaching Western websites like Google. VPN (Image from Know Your Meme) In China, most of the Western websites we use the most, like Google and Facebook, are blocked behind the Great Firewall.

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VRScout

AUGUST 13, 2017

Oculus – Rift. Google – Daydream View. Oculus – Touch. Zero Latency. Google – Tilt Brush. Google – Google Earth VR. Google – Tabel. Zero Latency – Zero Latency. HTC – Vive. Razer – OSVR. Sony – Playstation VR.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

It is simple: imagine that you have little money and can’t afford to buy a full VR rig, but you can only afford to buy a Samsung Gear VR or an Oculus Go , for instance. Look at this video of me while drawing elements using Google Blocks running on my PC. This way, you can use your mobile headset as a tethered one.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 6, 2017

KwikVR, a wireless add-on kit for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, is going to beat TPCAST’s solution to market, but, if you’re desperate for untethered VR, you might want to hold on for the latter’s launch instead of jumping the gun early. I’m also concerned about the products compatibility with the Oculus Rift.

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Road to VR

MARCH 4, 2019

Nvidia has GeForce Now, Sony has PlayStation Now, and both Google & Microsoft have their own future cloud gaming projects in the work too. and Intel, was delivering a total latency between 4 – 6 ms through their mock-up 5G network. Cloud gaming isn’t a new concept, at least in the world of traditional flatscreen games.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 4, 2024

It inherits all the advantages of the base XR2 Gen 2 architecture, including the hardware acceleration for camera passthrough that is said to reduce end-to-end latency to around 12 milliseconds. It's a more premium option for higher-priced headsets, including those designed to take on Apple Vision Pro. Details here: UploadVR David Heaney

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 18, 2017

Before my demo at Google I/O, Google’s head of VR Clay Bavor outlined a series of caveats and expectations for what I was about to experience. The demo, according to Google, would reset after each journalist so the hardware would see the room fresh each time after each person donned the headset. WorldSense.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

As a long-time AR enthusiast, and one of the first to have tried Google Glass in Italy, I have to admit that I will consider AR mainstream only when it will be on glasses that we will wear all day , when we’ll live in a completely shared mixed reality world (the AR Cloud). Or is it just a talk about glasses?

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 8, 2018

SEE ALSO Oculus Quest Supports "Arena-scale" Tracking and Multi-room Guardian. The smartphone itself also has its work cut out for it, as it must simultaneously run ARCore and decode video, which all adds noticeable latency.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 25, 2017

VR headsets are designed to block out light and envelop our field of view as completely as possible with high quality, low latency visuals. We mentioned Microsoft already above but Google, Snap, Inc., Google has its Project Tango — a team that has done more to integrate AR technology into existing smartphones than any other.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Both controllers offer what you might call ‘casual-level’ input—neither match the precision of what we’ve come to expect from the current bar set by Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Further speculation: both Google and HTC are likely developing full 6DOF standalone headsets. Image captured by Road to VR.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Just in time for the holiday season, cinematic VR pioneer, Jaunt, has launched its custom Jaunt VR App for PlayStation VR, adding it to their existing integrations in iOS, Android, Gear VR, Google Daydream, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and major desktop browsers.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

I have to say that this “leak” comes in a very timely fashion , by chance exactly at the moment when Facebook was building the hype for Oculus Quest 2 Pro , convincing so some people to wait for Valve’s moves before buying the new Oculus headset. Facebook hires the first Oculus Ambassadors. Apple Maps are going AR.

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Road to VR

MARCH 6, 2019

Like Google Cardboard before it, the Labo VR Kit for Switch is effectively a drop-in holder for the console, with lenses which each see one half of the screen for a stereoscopic view. The April launch timing for the Switch Labo VR Kit is quite interesting considering Oculus’ upcoming Quest headset is also set to launch this Spring.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2020

It will be a great time for us, as when there was the Oculus Share, and every experiment could have big visibility easily. For sure they’ll tease something (Facebook could do that at F8… and by the way, I think that its AR glasses won’t have the “Oculus” brand ), but a launch will require many years.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

HTC and Valve do this with their Vive controllers that are super low latency and extremely accurate and Oculus does this with their touch controllers and their extremely natural ergonomics. I do not hold any equity positions with any companies cited in this column.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: In this week’s VRScout Report, we discuss Oculus Story Studio’s Henry Emmy win, NASA training astronauts with virtual reality gloves, Snapchat flirting with augmented reality, HTC Vive trying to go wireless, and iPhone laying potential plans for VR/AR.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Part of that focus has been on optimizing for latency, Vechey said, in order to make the person to person communication feel as natural as possible. The voice chat portion of Pluto is of decent quality, and also positional, and through I don’t have any hard numbers, the back and forth nature of conversation did feel very tight.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

There is not even an assembly kit like with Google Cardboards. If you have already heard his name, it is probably because he is the author of this famous photo of Sergey Brin wearing Google Glass in the metro. So to have it, you have to buy the pieces and assemble it yourself. You must buy yourself the various components.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

It let you essentially fly around a city, sort of like Google Earth but in three dimensions. In fairness, Google Earth offers 3D features. In fairness, Google Earth offers 3D features. And Google Earth VR , lets users fly around cities in strikingly immersive ways.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 9, 2017

It’s available now on Google Play, with an average review of 3.8 The system doesn’t use Bluetooth or WiFi for that task, because variable latency could lag one frame of video or the other. The company is working on making the video compatible with Oculus and Vive headsets. out of 5 stars.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2018

I expected a lot of AR/VR news from there, like the announcement of the price of the Vive Pro or the release of the Oculus Go by Xiaomi and Facebook… but actually I’ve been disappointed by everyone. This new technology standard reduces a lot the latency of communication and increments a lot of its speed.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Facebook said that this growth has been mostly due to the sales of Oculus Quest. Admitting that Oculus Quest is the only responsible for this big growth from last year (just an assumption, I want to be clear), we obtain that the sales of Quest for Q3 account for $81M. Oculus Quest may have an assistant soon.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Today, Jaunt has applications on just about every consumer VR platform including the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Samsung Gear VR and Google Daydream. The only notable exception to Jaunt’s availability on the various hardware platforms was Sony’s PlayStation VR headset. As of today, however, that exception no longer applies.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Adam Marblestone, a research scientist at Google DeepMind and PhD in biophysics from Harvard, isn’t so starry-eyed about the initial launch of Neuralink’s N1 tech though. SEE ALSO Oculus Chief Scientist Dives Deep Into the Near Future of AR & VR.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

This system makes the headset dependent on static hardware, however, and so top engineers at Oculus , HTC and Google are all racing to crack the inside-out code first. This take on AR is what Oculus’ chief scientist, Michael Abrash called “ Augmented Virtual Reality. Additional reporting by Az Balabanian. .

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2016

The VR spotlight might be on Oculus right now after last week’s developer conference, but we haven’t forgotten about Google’s Daydream ecosystem. Here are five things we learned from Google’s VR figurehead last week. Google has done some really interesting work with social VR already.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

That’s a bit disappointing and considering that in some months Oculus will release the Quest , that has full 6 DOF support, HTC had necessarily to do something. I hope you are excited as me for the future of virtual reality , with HTC and Oculus always proposing something new. Header image by HTC).

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Road to VR

JULY 25, 2016

See Also: Oculus Research Collaborator Talks Tracking Facial Expressions While Wearing a VR Headset. There are also some definite drawbacks to any headset that uses your smartphone’s own inertial-measurement unit (IMU) for head tracking like all current Google Cardboard-enabled devices, and Veeso is apparently no exception.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The World Map in this world therefore isn’t a 2D street map like we have with Google Maps or Open Street Map, nor is it a 3D map with terrain and building volumes. Both Azure Spatial Anchors and Google Cloud Anchors are leveraging existing strengths in mapping towards the AR Cloud. Insane, yet companies are mapping it already.

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