Road to VR

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Tis the season of 5G, the next-gen mobile data technology which promises to boost bandwidth and reduce latency. You can Google “5G” along with any other hot technology in the same query and you can find someone telling you that somehow and at some point 5G is going to revolutionize that thing. I’m not even joking.

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ARVR

JULY 9, 2020

Google launched Google Glass , and Microsoft launched HoloLens , a head-mounted display (Krevelen, 2010)(Jaimini, 2016). 2010s : Companies are investing in the potential of this area like Google with ARCore and Apple with ARKit (Papagiannis, 2017). A survey of augmented reality. Here is the link. O’Reilly Media, Inc.,

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Some use cases that are presented, like realtime streaming of VR games, are still far away : streaming of desktop games has not proven yet to be a successful business, so streaming of VR games, that is even more difficult because of the low latency requirement, is something not so close in the future. Google Chrome adds supports for WebXR.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 17, 2016

The service also records historical data, and it can be used to figured out whether latency problems are due to the user’s connection, or is on the grid’s end. There’s no centralized way to find OpenSim grids, so if you don’t tell us about it, and Google doesn’t alert us, we won’t know about it. Including polls and surveys.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

There’s a whole range of services, and GPS is getting better now that it’s being married to computer vision, so you can get highly-localized Google directions – really accurate, down to a couple of feet. Is this a job for Google Glass? Charlie: Yeah it’s Google Glass. Google put in 500 million dollars.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

There’s a whole range of services, and GPS is getting better now that it’s being married to computer vision, so you can get highly-localized Google directions – really accurate, down to a couple of feet. Is this a job for Google Glass? Charlie: Yeah it’s Google Glass. Google put in 500 million dollars.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 6, 2019

An optimized passthrough for the Quest, with better resolution, latency and depth perception. The new Steam hardware survey is out and from it it is clear that Oculus is performing always better. It works incredibly well; Passthrough+. Oculus controls more than 50% of the PC VR market.

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