Road to VR

MARCH 13, 2018

Oculus Research’s director of computational imaging, Douglas Lanman, is scheduled to give a keynote presentation at SID DisplayWeek in May which will explore the concept of “reactive displays” and their role in unlocking “next-generation” visuals in AR and VR headsets.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 16, 2020

Of the many granted, here’s a few of the most interesting AR/VR patents we’ve found: Beamsplitter assembly for eye tracking in head-mounted displays. Depth mapping with a head mounted display using stereo cameras and structured light. Head mounted display including pancake lens block.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 19, 2017

New SteamVR optical technologies now available to VR hardware manufacturers includes the use of both LCD and OLED custom panels. Valve recently announced the availability of new core VR technology components for device manufacturers, namely displays, optics, and calibration tools. ” image courtesy Valve.

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Tech Trends VR

JULY 31, 2019

Back in 2012, a starry-eyed young entrepreneur called Palmer Luckey announced a new and improved head-mounted display that would be better than pretty much everything on the market at the time, and affordable for gamers to boot. billion, while enterprise VR hardware and software have generated sales of around $800 million.

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DECEMBER 28, 2016

Oculus has acquired an eye-tracking startup known as The Eye Tribe , a company spokesman confirmed to UploadVR this morning. ” The latter half of that mission statement is likely rendered moot now that The Eye Tribe has been acquired by Oculus. .” Before the Oculus acquisition, The Eye Tribe had managed to raise around $5.3

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Varjo calls their prototype “20|20”, saying that it’s specifically designed for professional users and with resolutions more than 70 times beyond any currently shipping or announced head-mounted display. Varjo’s prototype hiding inside of an Oculus Rift, image courtesy Ubergizmo.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Oculus sells battery packs and prescription lenses for the Quest. Of course, the biggest downsides are that these VR accessories aren’t exactly meant to be compatible with other hardware offerings and PlayStation itself hardly leads the industry in terms of consumer content. The Future Comes in Pieces.

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MARCH 15, 2017

A new tool from NVIDIA for benchmarking VR hardware and experiences should make it easier for buyers to figure out how systems perform in real world scenarios. Head-mounted displays like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive put heavy demands on the PCs required to power these headsets. Tagged with: FCAT VR.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 31, 2024

” Woosung added: HMDs (Head-Mounted Displays) 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.

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Doc-Ok

MAY 7, 2018

I wrote an article earlier this year in which I looked closely at the physical display resolution of VR headsets, measured in pixels/degree, and how that resolution changes across the field of view of a headset due to non-linear effects from tangent-space rendering and lens distortion. Oculus Rift. higher than the Vive’s.

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2017

But, the industry is still in its infancy and still seeking a firm footing that will truly form an ecosystem: a self-sustaining web of hardware builders, software developers, and consumer demand. There’s early hardware out now which has allowed what Riccitiello calls a “developer focused industry” to begin slowly growing.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Anduril is the defence company Luckey founded after being fired from Oculus, currently valued at $28 billion. That initial announcement didn't come with any specific details on the hardware or capabilities of Anduril's IVAS solution. It is a bigger jump from what exists today than the jump that I made when I started Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Oculus Quest gets hand tracking. Last week, the runtime v12 of Oculus Quest has been rolled out , and this took with it lots of interesting updates. To start, now the Oculus Link is more stable and it is compatible with some AMD GPUs. Oculus Quests have started getting vocal commands in the menu. Top news of the week.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 21, 2020

More importantly, this aligns with the timeframe that followed its 2014 Oculus acquisition. billion for a representative baseline of pre-Oculus spending. Where it gets more interesting is panning back to a longer time period in which R&D efforts had time to gear up, including Oculus Reality Labs in Seattle, led by Michael Abrash.

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VRScout

MAY 2, 2017

In the video Nintendrew (damn that’s an awesome handle) demonstrates how he was able to view an HD 3D video of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D with an aftermarket head mounted display and some simple tinkering with the Switch.

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VRScout

MAY 2, 2017

In the video Nintendrew (damn that’s an awesome handle) demonstrates how he was able to view an HD 3D video of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D with an aftermarket head mounted display and some simple tinkering with the Switch.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Developers and hardware solution providers have been working together over the past few decades to build VR headsets capable of hosting immersive experiences. Form factors have improved dramatically since then, and most people are familiar with the first commercially-available VR headset, then-Facebook’s Oculus Rift. VR, Defined.

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VRScout

AUGUST 1, 2016

From all-in-one mobile VR headsets to tethered head-mounted displays (HMDs) with hand-controllers that looked eerily similar to brands we already report on, one thing’s for sure, there was no shortage of VR and AR hardware on the show floor. million units and hardware revenues approaching $2.3

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Upload VR

MARCH 24, 2025

In 2012, Jonathan Coon backed the original Oculus kickstarter project and has a signed Rift DK1 to show for it. What's happening in that structure on the hill is so ambitious no single hardware provider has been able to make everything work that it needs to do. And yet, it does work.

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XROM

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

AR Hardware : Encompassing devices such as AR headsets and glasses that facilitate augmented experiences. VR Hardware : Comprises tethered and standalone head-mounted displays (HMDs) used for immersive experiences. VR Advertising : Focuses on in-game advertising and promotional content within VR environments.

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VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2016

Yesterday Intel announced its entry into the virtual reality space with the Project Alloy all-in-one head mounted display. While there are no specifics available about the contents of the hardware, let alone price or release date, this sets a new mark for the high end of virtual reality and mixed reality in the future.

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VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2016

Yesterday Intel announced its entry into the virtual reality space with the Project Alloy all-in-one head mounted display. While there are no specifics available about the contents of the hardware, let alone price or release date, this sets a new mark for the high end of virtual reality and mixed reality in the future.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

450 Mpix/second on an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive today is almost a seven times increase in the number of pixels per second compared to 1080p gaming at 30 FPS. Another key enabling idea for modern VR hardware is Lens Distortion. This is why many head-mounted displays use a single inexpensive plastic lens per eye.

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Upload VR

APRIL 5, 2023

Carmack formally left Meta in December to focus on developing Artificial General Intelligence after a decade-long run helping shape the direction of VR development at Oculus and advising executives at Facebook. If you had to pick one vector to push on for future VR hardware, what would it be?”

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ARVR

MAY 28, 2021

He has been working in VR development since 2012, prior to the release of the first modern VR consumer headset, the Oculus Rift. They wanted to hack together a head mounted display using off the shelf parts and planned to create a coop pirate ship VR game to run on this contraption.

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Hypergrid Business

JULY 7, 2017

VizMove is the world’s only complete multi-user hardware and software solution that allows users to build and experience virtual reality environments. “I like the concept of integrating WorldViz’s virtual reality-specific hardware support with bells and whistles of a AAA game engine like Unity or Unreal.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

A hardware launch wouldn’t be complete without an iFixit teardown, and the most recent VR device on their operating table is Sony’s PlayStation VR. We also get to see the OLED display up close for the first time, and interestingly, the single 1080p display panel has a hexagonal pattern on the surface.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Here are a few of the strangest virtual reality head-mounted displays we could find. The 3D Head announced itself in 2015 as not only the ‘largest VR headset,’ but as the ‘Oculus-killer’ as well. Next up is this big beauty.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 10, 2022

The system creates everything in the user’s environment, which may be exhibited inside a blank room via head-mounted displays (HMDs) or other equipment that helps users feel they are physically inside the virtual world. AR and VR use different types of hardware.

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2016

To help do that, I coordinate engineering efforts internal to Epic as well as well as manage relationships with other companies like Oculus, Valve and Samsung to make sure that UE4 lets people maximize the potential of the engine to the fullest and that it’s easy to use. We don’t really have any software to show on it.

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Originally revealed at CES 2019 in January, at present, no one outside of HTC has seen or tried the device when it comes to media coverage, a stark contrast to Oculus’ approach with headsets like Quest which saw massive build-up and press interaction before launch.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Silicon Valley’s advent calendar clearly marks September as the traditional time for Apple to talk finished hardware, not secretive projects. But those secretive projects have a weird habit of poking their heads into the light. those that output to separate displays, like those found in AR/VR headsets—in Apple material.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Today’s MR hardware seems a bit like a 1970’s IBM. In the 1970’s scientists at the University of California popularized the term “brain-computer interface” or BCI , referring to a hardware and software system that uses brainwaves to control devices. Brainwaves were first discovered in humans in 1924.

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OCTOBER 13, 2016

The combination of content, pricing, and simplicity may mean that Sony could take a dominant position in the market over competition like HTC and Oculus. While the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift debuted earlier this year, their market share has grown slowly. VR for Everyone.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 16, 2017

And gamers will be a big part of that revenue, with projections of spending $100 billion on VR hardware by 2018. Insomniac’s Oculus Touch spellcasting game, The Unspoken , made its second straight tour stop in Katowice (following its debut at IEM Oakland), alongside Ready at Dawn’s Lone Echo and Croteam’s Serious Sam.

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AllThingsVR

JULY 5, 2017

The startup is building what it calls a “new type of portable hardware device that might be considered a hybrid between a powerful smartphone and a gaming console.” Vaqso is a Japanese invention consisting of a small device that clips to the bottom of your Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, or PlayStation VR (PSVR). Read more here.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 15, 2016

The first hardware generation attempting to solve the body feedback problem will likely use full bodysuits with haptic responses aligned to the VR experience. Right now we’re stuck thinking in terms of head-mounted displays (HMDs), like the Vive or the Oculus. Running through Hyrule field in Legend of Zelda VR?

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