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JUNE 19, 2017

Now that it’s all said and done it’s easy to see that E3 2017 just wasn’t a huge showing for VR hardware. Microsoft didn’t even mention VR at all during the reveal of the Xbox One X even though executives have suggested the system will still support it. Best VR Hardware of E3 2017: DisplayLink Wireless Vive.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Cloud-based gaming has been seen by the industry at large as a way to make games more widely accessible by making them playable on less powerful hardware. It’s critical for us to start with latency-tolerant games so we can deliver a good experience for players across a variety of devices.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 28, 2017

Microsoft is planning to divvy up so-called ‘Mixed Reality PCs’ into two categories, standard and Ultra. Microsoft is planning a badging program to help consumers understand which PCs meet the requirements for the forthcoming Windows VR headsets, due to launch in consumer form from several Microsoft hardware partners this holiday.

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Road to VR

JUNE 28, 2021

NVIDIA’s CloudXR technology is designed to provide real-time XR cloud streaming, which aims to remove the need for local high-end PC rendering hardware. It has an SDK for the service and has also brought CloudXR to the three leading cloud computing platforms : AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 10, 2022

XR hardware is on the move. So, more and more XR providers are providing cloud services in addition to their hardware and platform offerings. For Varjo clients, a lot of the management and IT solutions that make up cloud services for other developers are handled through software subscriptions bundled with almost all Varjo hardware.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 27, 2021

I n 2006, I attended a launch event in San Francisco for Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D. But that’s a non-starter for anyone outside of the few million people that own VR hardware (much less the compatible HTC and Oculus hardware). The product’s main feature was 3D graphical renderings of U.S. Force Multiplier.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Looking for the top Microsoft XR implementation tips to help you get the most value out of solutions like Microsoft Mesh, Azure Mixed Reality services, and immersive applications? So, how do you make sure youre getting the best return on your investment in Microsoft XR solutions? Heres your guide to implementation success.

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Road to VR

MARCH 24, 2017

Today’s most immersive virtual reality systems, like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, rely on a bothersome tether to send power and high fidelity imagery to the headset at low latency. IMR has developed an algorithm and hardware that enables wireless transmission and streaming of VR video over the leading wireless standards.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 17, 2023

How can the right combination of hardware and software instantly transport us into a new world? Using a combination of hardware and software, VR solutions replace our real-world view with a computer-generated alternative. Now, innovators have transformed virtual reality experiences with low-latency software and upgraded hardware.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 24, 2017

According to the company, the seed investment comes from the Europe-based IIDF venture capital fund and will be used to accelerate the release of its “anti-latency tracker” which goes by the name ALT. A startup named Antilatency with a positional tracking solution that recently impressed us has raised $2.1

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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. Quite simply: 5G promises greater bandwidth and lower latency than current mobile data connections offer. As for latency, 35ms for mobile and 5-15ms for home connections are common. What Does 5G Mean For You.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 20, 2018

Based on the company’s ‘Turing’ GPU architecture, NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX cards include hardware support for the new VirtualLink connector, a standard designed for next-gen VR headsets. Today NVIDIA revealed their brand new 20-series GeForce RTX cards , and further said that all include hardware support for VirtualLink.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2019

Frontal view of the device (Image by Microsoft). The biggest news of the MWC for what concerns XR has been for sure the announcement of the HoloLens 2 by Microsoft. Image by Microsoft). Together with the HoloLens 2, Microsoft has also announced a new version of the Kinect, called Kinect Azure. HoloLens 2. Azure Kinect.

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ARPost

MARCH 31, 2023

So, in the past few weeks we have seen big tech, including Meta and Microsoft, announce massive layoffs , mostly to their XR division and at the same time, pivoting towards artificial intelligence and generative content. The hardware consisted of blue HTC Vive Pros connected to the gaming PCs above. When it works, it works.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 18, 2017

TPCast maintains their solution can transmit up 5 meters away at 2k (2160×1200) with a latency of less than 2ms. The cable, housing within it an HDMI and data/power-transmitting USB cord, is probably one of the greatest limiting factors to making the room-scale experience truly immersive. image courtesy TPCAST.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

He adds that one of the main causes of motion sickness in VR experiences is poor latency. When a delay in latency occurs, your real and virtual movements no longer match, knocking the equilibrium out of balance and causing ‘cybersickness.’ These collaborations are also a result of the need to create an open and interoperable metaverse.

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ARPost

APRIL 29, 2021

AR remote collaboration with IoT devices as well as low-latency calling in less-than-ideal locations and conditions are only likely to improve as the company is one of the most active groups in exploring 5G. The experiences announced earlier this year pair Varjo’s unbeatable mixed reality hardware with Laerdal’s medical expertise.

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Road to VR

JUNE 9, 2017

Augmented Reality has played a huge role at the developer conferences for Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Google, which is a great sign that the industry is moving towards spatially-aware computing. Microsoft is the only company to start with head-mounted AR with the HoloLens while the other three companies are starting with phone-based AR.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 12, 2024

I went hands-on with an early headset developer kit showcasing Google's software and Samsung's hardware. The bright low latency passthrough was nice in both open periphery and a small magnetic light shield that did a nice job sealing off the scene. Beyond this, Samsung isn't yet sharing specifications.

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Anand Tech

JUNE 12, 2023

Microsoft on Sunday announced plans to bring select PC Game Pass games to NVIDIA's GeForce Now cloud streaming service later in 2023. Meanwhile, Microsoft's PC Game Pass subscription ($9.99 Microsoft has only confirmed that a "selected range" of Game Pass PC games will be compatible with GeForce Now.

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Anand Tech

JUNE 24, 2020

As well, this driver also enables support for hardware accelerated GPU scheduling. Perhaps the more interesting aspect of this driver release, though only tangential to DirectX 12 Ultimate support, is that NVIDIA is enabling support for hardware accelerated GPU scheduling. ray tracing and tier 2 variable rate shading.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 18, 2017

First, he said, I was going to use a generation older hardware from internal prototypes that likely would be improved upon in practically every way before its release as a reference design to developers and eventually to consumers (Google hopes at least HTC can achieve consumer release in 2017 with its first standalone headset). WorldSense.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Mobile World Congress (MWC) is gearing up next week in Barcelona to play host to the latest and greatest in mobile technology, including the presumed Microsoft HoloLens 2. Today AT&T, Ericsson, Intel and Warner Bros. SEE ALSO WiGig Chip Company Peraso Technologies Closes $42M Financing Round. “At Warner Bros.,

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). Of course, Microsoft and Amazon are observing the situation: in my opinion, Microsoft will wait a bit , considering its focus on AR enterprise with HoloLens, while Amazon could improve its already existing offering of glasses connected with Alexa. Sounded good.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

They also had a disassembled Vive headset, Vive controller and Vive base station on display, giving me a rare glimpse into the inner workings of this new SteamVR hardware. In June 2019, Valve entered the hardware market themselves with their Index PCVR system, sold direct to consumers through Steam. So what is a Vive Tracker?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2020

A worker wearing HoloLens 2 (Image by Microsoft). So, I envision the main companies in the field, like Microsoft and Magic Leap, to put their efforts into improving their platform to offer better services to their enterprise customers. These will come both by hardware providers and external companies (e.g.

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ARPost

APRIL 21, 2021

They were also named Microsoft Partners of the Year in 2020 and received funding through Magic Leap’s Independent Creator Program in 2019. This is closely linked to XR because XR applications require greater computing power than 2D media and therefore are more impacted by latency when run on slow networks.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 20, 2021

He also reports a very smooth and low-latency tracking ; The tracking of the controllers is good but it could be better. We all wonder who can be the Facebook competitor, and we often talk about Microsoft, Apple, Samsung, but we usually forgot about Huawei. You can move your head fast in all directions, and it keeps tracking you.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 13, 2023

The United States Army and Microsoft are set to roll out an updated version of its Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) headset in 2025, reports show. To reduce nausea and vertigo due to latency and alignment issues, the US Army has tasked a team of experts working with Microsoft Visual Sciences to resolve the concern.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

The Vive Focus Plus seems almost identical to a Vive Focus, but I can tell you that I can spot some little differences, due to the fact that now there is additional hardware onboard (Image by HTC). If this gets fixed, I can say that the tracking will become as the one by Microsoft. The latency is really a lot less perceivable.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The new Oculus device was by the way another piece of hardware that was by chance “leaked” in a timely way so that to excite everyone for Facebook Connect 2. We are in the middle of a cheap shortage, and now Valve hardware product lines are devoted to the SteamDeck, so it’s improbable that a new production line is starting immediately.

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Anand Tech

MAY 27, 2021

The Bravera SC5 controllers still include a mix of Arm cores (Cortex-R8, Cortex-M7 and a Cortex-M3), but now includes much more fixed-function hardware to handle the basic tasks of the controller with high throughput and consistently low latency. In addition to being the first available PCIe 5.0

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Hardware. #2 While we will see advanced hardware hit the shelves, what may be missing are clear use cases to convince consumers to purchase and wear the device. The combination of these ingredients are solving for some of the biggest challenges video passthrough faces such as latency. Source: Samsung. Source: Trimble.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 29, 2024

Therefore, these demographics are used to seeing interfaces, latency, and frame rates and are more accepting of the technology benefits. When an end-user selects a vendor, a firm wants that vendor around for years, as most significant software and hardware suppliers have also been around for years.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Analysis of this evolving market shows companies are rapidly becoming more focused on Edge Computing as a way of keeping IoT devices connected, improving network security, and reducing latency in digital content streams. However, generating these experiences requires XR hardware to utilise large amounts of data in a small space of time.

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Road to VR

JULY 17, 2018

A consortium representing many of VR’s most prominent players—NVIDIA, AMD, Valve, Oculus, and Microsoft—have backed a new connector standard called VirtualLink which the companies say was “developed to meet the connectivity requirements of current and next-generation virtual reality (VR) headsets.”

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

JANUARY 4, 2023

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2023 is just around the corner, and many major XR firms are ready at the wings with new XR hardware. Moreover, the firm’s products allow employees to leverage low-latency remote collaboration tools accessible from anywhere in the world—the firm leverages unicast, multicast, and omnicast broadcasting.

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