Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Facebook officially unveiled Quest 2 today along with third-party hardware accessories offered direct from Oculus.com , which includes two new headphones from Logitech and replacement facial interfaces from VR Cover. Description: Oculus Ready G333 VR is the official in-ear audio solution for Oculus Quest 2. Price : $29.

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JULY 25, 2017

Earlier this year Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg teased a new form of input being developed over at Oculus: hand tracking gloves. An unlisted Oculus video posted last week, unearthed by Reddit , shows the gloves in action. We only saw them through a picture at first, but now a video has surfaced online showing them in action.

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VRScout

JANUARY 26, 2021

Before hopping into the virtual world, attendees select their name and choose a personal photo (preferably the one you used for your badge) to serve as the head of their avatar. Lining the virtual walls of the Gallery are images of every project in attendance as well as instructions on how to access them. FILM PARTY.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Embark on an epic pint-sized quest September 23rd on On Oculus, SteamVR, and Viveport. After five grueling years of development, critically-acclaimed filmmaker Jon Favreau ( Iron Man, The Mandalorian ) is finally set to launch his long-awaited dream-like VR adventure Gnomes & Goblins later this month on Oculus, SteamVR, and Viveport.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Leaks in advance of Facebook Connect, particularly around the time that VIVE Flow was announced , had many anticipating new devices from Oculus. There were announcements, mainly involving hardware and new titles and game updates in the coming year, and a new headset was announced though it won’t be here until next year at the earliest.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 18, 2022

Like with Meta (formerly Facebook), plans to create its version of the metaverse have remained fairly nebulous—par for the course since the concept of ‘the metaverse’ was co-opted to mean any virtual world, a summation of virtual worlds, or a monolithic virtual platform (metaverse with a capital ‘M’).

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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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VRScout

APRIL 17, 2018

How close are we to walking around a Ready Player One world? In Ready Player One’ s opening act, Steven Spielberg sets the stage for the capabilities of 2045’s VR hardware. The omnidirectional treadmill is one of a handful of locomotion methods shown in Ready Player One’s future world, but are any of these actually possible?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

I tried it with the Leap Motion controller, the one that most of us have bought years ago to experiment with the OG Vive or the Oculus Rift DK2/CV1… but actually, UltraLeap (the previous Leap Motion) has created a second-generation camera sensor. We can see the tape as the universal mount of the UltraLeap 2 for all headsets!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2021

One of the first accessories for AR/VR I had the opportunity to work on is the Leap Motion hands tracking controller : I made some cool experiments and prototypes with it and the Oculus Rift DK2. I’ve tested it with my Leap Motion Controller, the Oculus Quest, and a lot of scotch tape and I was very satisfied by the results.

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MARCH 13, 2017

Valve dropped some interesting VR user data onto its community pages during GDC, providing an easily missed but important update about how people are using the Steam platform for virtual reality in the wake of Oculus Touch. percent of VR headsets connected to Steam at the time of the hardware survey last month were still the DK2. .

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Facebook originally launched Oculus Quest 2 with a default 72Hz refresh rate and ‘experimental’ support for 90Hz, which has since become the new default. A faster refresh rate makes the virtual world inside the headset smoother, more comfortable, and more immersive. 120Hz Refresh Rate Likely Coming to Quest 2.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2021

Finally, Facebook has released passthrough APIs for Quest 2, so you can create AR/MR apps for the Oculus standalone headset. In an article I missed two weeks ago, Mark Zuckerberg states that he plans to make money on the metaverse selling ads, but especially with an internal market of virtual goods. AR/VR developers, rejoice!

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VRScout

DECEMBER 27, 2022

. “You can play with friends in the same physical room or productivity experiences that combine huge virtual monitors with physical tools, and it’s a step toward our longer-term vision for augmented reality.”

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ARPost

APRIL 11, 2023

Better AR Hardware Options Better AR hardware options, caused by innovations in mobile technology, such as LiDAR and ToF (depth sensing hardware). Hands-On Review Unlike AR, VR is entirely simulated and disconnected from the physical world. For example, it’s popular among furniture stores like EQ3.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The latest update for Oculus Quest, v35, is rolling out to headsets starting today and brings with it mixed reality casting, global cloud saves, and Facebook Messenger calls in VR. This feature allows you to cast the VR experience to a smartphone while seeing your real body right inside of the virtual world.

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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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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2022

In Ready Player One, all the population of the world is inside the Oasis. The Oasis is a fully digital world where everyone can meet and interact with everyone else, in one vs one or many vs many experiences. In the current virtual worlds, though, this is not possible because the networking architectures are not able to support that.

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VRScout

JANUARY 7, 2019

Fresh hardware, a bold new social platform, and Vive Pro eye-tracking are on the way. In actuality HTC was teasing the latest addition their VR hardware lineup, the HTC Vive Cosmos, a PC-based 6DoF VR headset featuring inside-out tracking and a flip-up visor.

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VRScout

APRIL 1, 2020

Technology can augment the world around us, it can enhance the human experience, our capabilities, and also extend our reality to digital and virtual worlds. It was an optimistic estimate as consumers and hardware alike have required a transition and adoption phase. Just how far away is full-dive VR? Eye-Tracking .

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VRScout

AUGUST 29, 2021

What’s exciting about HeadOffice.Space is that it is interoperable, flexible, and accessible across multiple platforms, with Mac, iOS, Android, Oculus Rift, Google Cardboard, and Oculus Quest support currently in development. It’s literally who you are in the virtual world and is thus very important.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 18, 2018

It’s also said to emulate button presses from standard 6DOF controllers such as Oculus Touch and Vive motion controllers, letting you play seated, standing, and walking in-place while leaving your hands free for other tasks. SEE ALSO Hands-on: 3DHaptics Achieves Compelling Directional Haptics with Simple Hardware.

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Road to VR

JUNE 14, 2017

In many ways, the out-of-home VR industry has done a much better job of fulfilling the early potential and expectations of what virtual reality as a technology can offer, than home systems. Anvio VR is a new, motion captured virtual reality platform developed by Vortex LLC in Moscow.

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Road to VR

JULY 13, 2017

Citing “people familiar with its development,” the report reveals the Oculus-branded headset, code named ‘Pacific’, will ship sometime next year. SEE ALSO Oculus: ‘Multiple VR titles have made more than $1M in the Oculus store alone’. Oculus Rift, image courtesy Oculus.

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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. Over the years, technology has become smaller, lighter, more comfortable, and with faster processing, breathing life into the virtual world. billion USD in 2021 to $84.09

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 7, 2019

The CES is going to start tomorrow, but today HTC has already made its great announcements, showing to the world the upcoming new hardware Vive Pro Eye, Vive Cosmos and software solutions Viveport Infinity and Vive Reality system. We all thought about a new Vive Focus with embedded 6 DOF controllers , ready to fight the Oculus Quest.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

One half of the office had desks where the software was tested, the other half of the room was full of hardware. I imagined this must have been like when Oculus just started out. I’ve tried the Lynx R-1 in VR mode too which employs the ‘immersive cover’ and shows you a purely virtual world instead of passthrough AR.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2022

The reason why I think that this news is super-important is two-sided: On one side, it means that a platform with 50M of daily users is coming into virtual reality. Some months ago, the company behind it teased it was going to launch a virtual world, dubbed Oasis, that should have become “The Linkedin of the M-word”.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 17, 2022

Meta is well-known for having performed some key acquisitions related to hardware, but also to software (e.g. It is becoming always more difficult for a new company entering the field: the key hardware suppliers of displays and other components are all being bought by Meta, Apple, Snap, Google, and other big players. Beat Games).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

VR improves the immersion by providing better awareness due to allowing to naturally observe the environment by moving your head thus simulating the real-world actions. Navy as well as Apache helicopters using real-world cockpits with “out of the window” virtual world rendering. These were very well received.

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ARPost

MARCH 31, 2023

The hardware consisted of blue HTC Vive Pros connected to the gaming PCs above. VEX Arena (front) and VEX Adventure (back) Both setups used haptic vests but otherwise, the hardware differed significantly. From a hardware perspective, Moviemex3D used a Pico Neo 3 headset streaming from a PCVR computer. When it works, it works.

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VRScout

JUNE 4, 2020

It’s an important part of how modern VR hardware immerses you in experiences by allowing you to “feel” the virtual world around you.

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Road to VR

MAY 14, 2018

It’s hard to believe it’s already been five years since the first Oculus Rift dev kits shipped to Kickstarter backers, many of them developers looking to create for the future of VR consumer hardware. It also includes audio commentary by the developer, and works with Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and flatscreen monitors.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2022

I would bet on modified North Focals, because they fit very well with the provided description of the prototype hardware. These filings are public, so it is possible to read some data about these pieces of hardware in them. Let me quote Upload VR: The executives say the average number of Oculus friends per account was 0.5

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The award went to Geometry Ogilvy Japan for the Shibuya Virtual Halloween experience, which was also a nominee in the Social Impact category. VR display technology, as well as rendering software and connectivity hardware, have all advanced by leaps and bounds – even in the last year. VR Hardware of the Year.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The Ambiotherm brings a whole new level of immersion to virtual reality with realistic weather simulations. Dubbed The Ambiotherm, the unique device sits comfortably on top of preexisting VR headsets and uses a custom mobile application to generate artificial temperature and weather.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 12, 2021

I asked HTC about the lack of 5G support, and an executive told me that 5G has not been added because it would have added complexity to the hardware, and especially an additional high cost (and these new headsets are already expensive enough). According to her backstory, Vee is a virtual space traveler who comes from the future VIVE Reality.

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