ARPost

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Oculus sells battery packs and prescription lenses for the Quest. Sony makes some of the coolest VR accessories of any company out there. Many industry analysts and experts agree that large-scale adoption will take place when Apple releases head-mounted displays. The Future Comes in Pieces.

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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. Armed to the teeth with tethered Vives, backpack VR and 3D printed controllers.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

As a side note, I’m so glad we collectively stuck with calling it head-mounted displays, and not something like “VR Helmet”, “VR Glasses”, or any of the other many attempts to call it something else. And then the Oculus Kickstarter happened. non-literal quote from head professor). Don’t have one yet? VR was here.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Sony is about to bring the third weapon to the high-end VR fight, and it could have a major impact on the market. 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. VR for Everyone.

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Now it’s the turn of Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) with possible new designs for PlayStation VR which include possible improved tracking and wireless options. In comparison to rival headsets like Oculus Rift/Quest, HTC Vive or Valve Index, for example, the PlayStation VR falls way behind when it comes to tracking the device.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

With decades of experience in hardware design and manufacturing, and having created many non-VR head-mounted displays in the past, it’s no surprise that Sony’s VR headset is competitive with the other high-end VR headsets on the market, and arguably surpasses the high-end PC headsets in some areas of ergonomics and image quality.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Final specs show that PlayStation VR is the heaviest headset among the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, but its smart design will have you wondering how much weight can actually tell you about comfort. Sony somehow managed to nail this right out of the gate. Sony’s approach is very different. A Different Way to Wear.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 29, 2018

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-mounted display that relies on a good fit for the correct optical presentation of the display to the eyes.

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AllThingsVR

JULY 5, 2017

It was founded by Dave Ranyard, the former head of Sony London Studio. 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. 2) Mother , a creative agency, backs Dream Reality Interactive (dRi). Read more here. Read more here.

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Doc-Ok

DECEMBER 2, 2015

release of the Vrui VR toolkit (it looks like I will have full support for Oculus Rift DK2 just before it is obsoleted by the commercial version, haha), and needed a short break. That was some serious Oculus face. Even with those caveats, the experience was worlds removed from the torture of trying to watch a movie in my Sony HMZ-T1.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 4, 2016

The idea is that, as soon as we identified VR was coming — this was before the Oculus acquisition by Facebook — it was clear that one part of VR would be computer-generated experiences, games being the major example. Ozo’s output is one single cable going into either your storage or a head-mounted display.

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VR Playhouse

JUNE 15, 2017

One day, we will all regularly consume media through head mounted displays, just as we all watch television today. And to explain at least a small portion of this sudden success, I’m going to look at another piece of technology at the time, Sony’s Playstation 2. VR, of course, is a different beast, or so I tell myself.

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VeeR VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

It was a device that the user sat in-front of while their head was encased on four sides by a screen and they watched any one of five films, which all engaged sight, sound, smell and touch. In 1968, Ivan Sutherland and Bob Sproull created the first head-mounted display (HMD) system for immersive simulation applications.

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VRWorld

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Currently, the champion of minimum specifications is Oculus with its Rift, with some pre-build computers going as low as $500. Naturally, public announcement is one thing, availability is another – still to this date, neither Oculus, AMD nor CyberPowerPC came good on their word and shipped such as system. In meantime.

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Oculus Connect 5 is taking place in a few days in San Jose, California on September 26-27th at the McEnery Convention Center. Last year, Oculus Go, a $199 standalone VR headset, has blown people’s minds. It is rumored that the Oculus team will spend a considerable amount of time discussing Project Santa Cruz at the event in California.

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Doc-Ok

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Interestingly, the virtual image of the screen (see Head-mounted Displays and Lenses ) becomes larger as eye relief increases from 0mm to 10mm, and then becomes smaller again as more parts of the screen become occluded by the rim of the lens. Figure 7: View through PSVR’s right lens at 30mm eye relief. Vive et al.

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