The Ghost Howls

MARCH 31, 2021

For developers and prosumers, Tundra has released a number of SteamVR specific products ; two of the products are reviewed here today, Tundra Labs 12VDC Power Kit for Head-Mounted Displays and SteamVR HDK. The just-launched Tundra Tracker (Image by Tundra Labs). Tundra Labs HQ (Image by Tundra Labs provided by Rob Cole).

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The San Diego, California-based firm has become synonymous with delivering XR solutions capable of untethering head-mounted displays (HMDs) from PC. We wanted to help facilitate lightweight, wearable glasses with comfortable form factors, allowing people to use them for longer periods of time.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Immersive wearables firm RealWear announced on Wednesday that the North Tees and Hartlepool National Health Services (NHS) Foundation Trust had deployed the company’s head-mounted solutions. However, RealWear’s Navigator 500 head-mounted display (HMD) ‘removed the barrier.’

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

Or we can put on device on our head (a head-mounted display 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.

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ARVR

JULY 9, 2020

Google launched Google Glass , and Microsoft launched HoloLens , a head-mounted display (Krevelen, 2010)(Jaimini, 2016). Offloading Guidelines for Augmented Reality Applications on Wearable Devices. 2000s : First outdoor mobile AR game ARQuake. Understanding Augmented Reality: Concepts and Applications.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Patent number 9,560,273 , entitled Wearable information system having at least one camera, details a wearable device with a “display attached to his head in front of his eyes” that can use either an onboard SoC or in a wirelessly connected smartphone. Microsoft, Apple v. Samsung, Apple v.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 18, 2023

This makes sense when we consider the number of leading AR tech companies in the US space, from Google to Microsoft. While Europe is also poised for significant growth in the years ahead, the APAC region is expected to deliver the most potential for the AR industry, according to most industry reports. of the market during 2021.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 3, 2019

With all the phone and watch and TV and game and chip and other chip news coming out of Apple’s big event, it was easy to forget the company’s longest-running background process: an augmented-reality wearable. ” (HMD, or head-mounted display, is a common term for a VR/AR headset.).

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MARCH 4, 2024

Additionally, as Samsung and Google have partnered with Qualcomm, it is reasonable to assume that the device will use the Qualcomm XR2+ Gen 2 Platform, which supports AI-ready wearables. This system uses holographic AI avatars displayed on a large-scale kiosk. AWS is also continuing its forward momentum in the XR space.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

In fact, Apple’s patents in this field tell us that the company has been thinking about immersive wearables for a long time; patents filed at least as far back as 2007 show a device that looks much like the VR headsets we see today. If AR and VR catch on, the products with those features are the ones that customers will choose.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

From Rift to Apple Watch to Snap Spectacles, the trend is toward wearable computing. Meta is working on an AR headset, which puts them in the same league as Microsoft and Magic Leap. While BCIs are already commonly used in medical devices, it is now, with the advent of wearable computing, that their potential could be fully realized.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Nreal-Microsoft Collaboration For example, global consumer smart glass manufacturers Nreal teamed up with Microsoft to develop an experimental device aimed at improving social interactions for blind children. This comes amid a series of collaborations between manufacturers and big tech firms.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 1, 2017

Announcements today include innovations in entertainment, gaming and cinema, smart wearables, sensing toys, robotics and consumer electronics, cloud, enterprise and business technologies, human-computer interaction solutions, automotive, and high-performance APIs. www.massless.io www.deepoptics.com. www.kodakpixpro.com.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 6, 2023

Unveiled at the Mobile World Congress 2023 , the new device includes a trove of innovative features such as a “retina-level” electrochromic adaptive display, lighting adjustment, Snapdragon Spaces tethering, and hand tracking, among others.

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VRWorld

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

In just a few days time, Microsoft will host WinHEC , its annual hardware / platform conference. Intel has 600 people here working on hardware form factors, while the similar story is with Microsoft and a few other known global players. Microsoft is not playing such tricks. 4 GB of RAM. A graphics card with DirectX 12 support.

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XROM

MAY 5, 2024

Heilig's Sensorama in the 1950s and Sutherland's groundbreaking work on head-mounted displays in the 1960s marked the early experiments in creating immersive experiences. The concept of Virtual Reality gained momentum in the 1980s and '90s with the development of advanced computer graphics and simulations.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 19, 2021

There’s no lack of speculation around Apple’s rumored AR headset, but the latest is the most sci-fi of them all. According to reliable Apple analyst Ming-chi Kuo, it’s possible the headset will eschew handheld controllers in favor of eye tracking and iris recognition. Read more.

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Digitalnauts

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Users put on a VR headset or head-mounted display to get a 360-degree view of a space their brain believes to be real, thanks through a psychological mechanism called presence. The most famous example being Microsoft Hololens. . Source: Microsoft “What is Mixed Reality” [link]. VR (VIRTUAL REALITY).

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VRWorld

JUNE 8, 2016

Case in point is Microsoft’s HoloLens, where a development kit will set you back for $3000. Unlike the VR, where you can purchase an Open Source VR Hacker 1.4 headset (OSVR) for just $299.99 – AR headsets can set you back for thousands of dollars. Osterhaut Design Group sells their R-7 glasses for $2799.99.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

And as I got into the book and editing the work of my collaborators, it was clear everyone was talking about the same thing, which is this world of ubiquitous, wearable computing. But I think the companies that Microsoft included in the survey were those large companies that have innovation offices. Alan: That’s very important.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

And as I got into the book and editing the work of my collaborators, it was clear everyone was talking about the same thing, which is this world of ubiquitous, wearable computing. But I think the companies that Microsoft included in the survey were those large companies that have innovation offices. Alan: That’s very important.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 18, 2023

News of the resurgence comes after the tech giant reportedly ceased work on the massive project in June this year, indefinitely shuttering its head-mounted display (HMD) ambitions. Meta Makes Moves towards AR Smart Glasses at Connect 2023 Furthermore, both Meta and Microsoft shuttered their AR smart glass ventures.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

The system featured a head-mounted display with head tracking that could be used to explore virtual environments or real remote images from a camera — foreshadowing future breakthroughs in teleoperation. Much of that work was built atop decades of military research into heads-up display (HUD) units for aircraft.

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TechCrunch VR

MARCH 13, 2022

When it finally launched its first product after years of delays, secrecy and hype, tech watchers balked at a device which failed to deliver on many of the claims made by the startup’s eccentric founder Rony Abovitz and instead made largely incremental gains over the competing Microsoft HoloLens which was unveiled years earlier.

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