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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.
Modbox is currently in Early Access on Steam , supporting HTC Vive and Oculus Rift , although that may change in the near future. So while AR headsets still have a ways to go, seeing these early stabs at solving the question of content gives us an exciting look into what could be the near future of AR head-mounteddisplays.
It’s a belief that started at least as far back as when he advised and invested in Oculus prior to the company’s 2014 acquisition by Facebook. The price point is gonna have to come down. […] CPU, GPU, headmounteddisplay—the whole kit—I believe has got to be significantly under $1,000 for the consumer.
Microsoft HoloLens Loses $22 Billion Life Line to Oculus Founder Microsofts HoloLens has taken another major hit , potentially signalling the end of the mixed-reality headset in the future. This effort aims to create next-generation head-mounteddisplays and “intelligent glasses.”
Secretive augmented-reality start-up MagicLeap is partnering with online comic book publisher Madefire to deliver mixed reality comics to MagicLeap’s devices when they launch. The MagicLeap version will apparently feature spatial sound and comics will appear much crisper and more readable on it.
Examples of head measurements (Image by Rob Cole). Other examples are scuba diving masks or full-face motorcycle helmets, although neither of these have the added complication of housing a head-mounteddisplay that relies on a good fit for the correct optical presentation of the display to the eyes.
Or we can put on device on our head (a head-mounteddisplay or HMD) that completely occludes us from the real world allowing us to enter a completely simulated environment which we can walk around and interact in because the computer is sensing our physical actions: this is Virtual Reality or VR.
The same day, iOS developer Steve Troughton-Smith found the StarBoard framework in the official “golden master” of iOS 13; he also pointed out references to “HME,” which many speculated stood for “head-mounted experience.” ” (HMD, or head-mounteddisplay, is a common term for a VR/AR headset.).
Meta is working on an AR headset, which puts them in the same league as Microsoft and MagicLeap. Consider two distinct gamers: one who creates magic and casts spells using her mind, and another who performs the same actions using analog buttons on a handheld controller.
Right now we’re stuck thinking in terms of head-mounteddisplays (HMDs), like the Vive or the Oculus. Future solutions will get rid of clunky wired headsets and move onto glasses that can project a high-definition image onto the eye, a la MagicLeap, and eventually contact lenses that contain tiny screens.
Facebook has talked about its long-term potential to launch smartglasses, but in 2020, its primary presence in the AR market is as a mobile AR platform (note: Facebook is also a VR market leader with Oculus ). Although there are other ways to define them, mobile AR platforms can be thought of as three broad types: messaging-based (e.g.
The other new holo-thing is an announcement by RealView about turning their previous desktop holographic display into an augmented reality headset, pointed out to me by Road To VR ‘s Ben Lang. Fortunately, in head-mounteddisplays that screen is bolted to the viewer’s head, solving the problem.
The system featured a head-mounteddisplay with head tracking that could be used to explore virtual environments or real remote images from a camera — foreshadowing future breakthroughs in teleoperation. Palmer Luckey, co-founder of Oculus VR Inc., The feedback we were getting from them was that.
The Apple Privacy Wall/Strategy Analysis of How Apple will Come at Oculus Next Year. Irena and I are hearing that one of the devices, er, AR/VR head-mounteddisplays, Apple is considering launching next year could go directly after Oculus Quest and the rest of the VR space. Apple is clearly going after Facebook.
Remember MagicLeap? This week, I spent an hour or so playing around with the unreleased next-generation MagicLeap headset, all while discussing the augmented reality company’s wild ride with MagicLeap CEO Peggy Johnson and other members of their executive team. So, let’s talk about it.
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