Road to VR

JULY 14, 2020

Both headsets only offer 3DOF head tracking, and include a single 3DOF controller. The company says the new camera was included after continuous discussions with the team at NuEyes , a company using immersive headsets to help the visually impaired. Pico G2 “4K” Enterprise | Image courtesy Pico Interactive.

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ARPost

AUGUST 3, 2022

ARPost has covered plenty of events in AltspaceVR before, from Burning Man being held virtually in the platform, to the XR Safety Week using it to make talks on immersive technology more… immersive. Although, because AltspaceVR avatars don’t have arms, sometimes hand tracking makes things a little more awkward.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Immersed claims Visor is the future of remote work. Immersed covered the cost of my flights from the UK to its event in Texas, which made it possible for me to attend. Who Is Immersed? The Immersed app supports Windows, Mac, and Linux. Critics claim it's a scam. What Is Visor?

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Immersed shared a through-the-lens clip showing Visor's passthrough and hand tracking working. Who Is Immersed? The Immersed app supports Windows, Mac, and Linux. To allay claims that Visor's software wasn't real, a few days ago Immersed shared three clips of the headset working for the first time. What Is Visor?

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Image courtesy Meta While the glasses are said to handle core capabilities like head-tracking, the compute puck takes on the work of rendering the content. With a 70 degree field-of-view, immersive content isn’t the focus.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Practically untouched from its original head-tracked input scheme, the game marks a soft reset in XR game development as developers assess how to approach Vision Pro’s lack of controllers. Proton Pulse , originally created for the Oculus Rift DK1 development kit in 2013, has been re-released on Apple Vision Pro this week.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 4, 2022

Tracking system : 6DOF, camera based inside-out head tracking. Its IMU-based body tracking system, HaritoraX , has been on the Japanese market for some time now though, which better positioned the company to dive deeper into the world of XR hardware development. Weight : Approx. 250g (8.8oz) – Without cable.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 11, 2024

That means you’re not going to get the same highly immersive experience. Plus, while the Apple Vision Pro can automatically adjust IPD for you, using built-in eye tracking, this isn’t something offered by the Quest 3S. To reduce costs, however, Meta replaced these lenses with a set of simpler Fresnel lenses in the Quest 3S.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

With 4K Micro OLED screens for each eye, and state-of-the-art pancake lenses, it promises an exceptionally immersive experience. The XR startup has actually experimented with a few other headsets (and accessories) in the past, such as its initial MeganeX headset, and a series of body tracking devices.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The headset is high-end standalone, meaning it doesn’t rely on a PC, but still manages to include the positional head and hand tracking that makes high-end headsets so immersive. Revealed today by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Quest took a premier spot in today’s Oculus Connect keynote.

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VRScout

APRIL 27, 2017

As entertaining as they can be however, most examples of the still-budding medium lack many of the features that add the extra level of immersion shown by more advanced VR experiences. Key components such as room-scale VR, parallax effects and head-tracking add to the realism of virtual experiences by making movement seem much more natural.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 23, 2023

AntVR’s 120° field-of-view prototype | Photo by Road to VR Naturally, the most visually immersive among them (the 120° FoV) was the most interesting to me, and it also stands apart from the other two because it uses two displays per-eye (or you might call it two halves of a display, per-eye).

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Road to VR

MAY 2, 2017

He’s already taken the Rfactor 2 beta for a spin in VR with the Rift and the results he captured look nothing short of intense; you can see him in action in the video heading this article. Photo courtesy Studio 397.

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Road to VR

MARCH 8, 2017

The popular forms of mobile VR headsets, such as the Samsung Gear VR and Google Daydream View and Cardboard, are currently limited to rotational head tracking, meaning that you can look around comfortably from a single vantage point, but movements of the head through 3D space (like leaning forward or backward) cannot be tracking.

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ARPost

MARCH 18, 2021

This is especially noticeable in younger generations whose tech literacy and immersion in social platforms dwarf some of us old folk. Here we will explore how this will only get more far out with the explosion of augmented reality and immersive media. Background Examples. Image provided courtesy of QReal.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2022

Entertainment, gaming, and workplaces will be the first to widely adopt XR solutions, as the benefits of immersive experiences are more visible for these sectors. We see that most people got their first immersive “VR” experience with a simple combination of Cardboard and Youtube VR.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

It doesn’t have controllers, and only features 3DOF head tracking; what it does have is a decidedly more approachable opera glasses-style design that lets you hold the headset with one hand so you can press it to your face without needing a headstrap, which could otherwise ward off some users.

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Road to VR

MAY 10, 2017

While virtual reality surely has high performance requirements to maintain a comfortable experience, immersive AR may ultimately require a greater level of performance if we’re to achieve the theoretical ideal.

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Road to VR

JULY 10, 2017

Presence researcher Richard Skarbez thinks of these two components as “immersion” and “coherence,” and we previously discussed his presence research where he found that both illusions are vital for a deep sense of presence.

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VRScout

MAY 22, 2017

The VR experience is enhanced by Positron’s Voyager platform, featuring guided 360-degree motion control, head-tracked 3D audio and haptic integration—allowing you to experience the world of The Mummy in an entirely new way.

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Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2018

While the company is focused on automotive and wearable HUD devices in the near term, it’s also focusing on longer term on enabling AR headsets with more immersive fields of view. Image courtesy DigiLens. DigiLens says its in the process of demoing the AR HUD reference headset to potential partners. Image courtesy DigiLens.

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VR Game Critic

JUNE 1, 2016

uSens has raised $20 million to develop natural hand and head tracking for augmented reality and virtual reality applications. The company is built around the idea that once you immerse yourself in virtual reality, the next thing you want to do is interact with it using your hands and have it track your head movements accurately.

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Road to VR

APRIL 2, 2018

Consumer headsets like the Oculus Go, Lenovo Mirage Solo, and HTC Vive Focus are all based on earlier versions of the Snapdragon VRDK, but none of them offer 6DOF controller tracking.

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Road to VR

JUNE 25, 2016

The latest release of Dolphin VR, an impressive Nintendo Gamecube emulator that ads VR functionality to games, adds support for Oculus’ consumer headset the CV1 so now you can play Metroid Prime in VR, with head tracking and have it look better than ever. Version 5.0 of Dolphin VR has now been released and it adds Oculus SDK 1.3

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JANUARY 3, 2017

According to the blog post spotted by Engadget : “The ZenFone AR with Snapdragon 821 is built for VR with high-resolution display, ultra-smooth graphics and high-fidelity sensors for precise head tracking.

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Road to VR

MAY 25, 2021

In theory, that means if you were holding an augmented reality book in front of you at a normal distance, you’d easily be able to make out the letters on the page (assuming the image processing pipeline applied during head tracking doesn’t sacrifice any clarity).

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

While the $600 standalone headset has since made its way westward, shifting away from consumers and emphasizing its use in the enterprise market, the controller remained a sticking point for users and developers who found its 6DOF optical head tracking and 3DOF controller tracking to be pretty strange bedfellows.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 27, 2016

The gameplay is tight, the head-tracking is responsive, and the multiplayer is impressively stable. “We The immersiveness of VR and the knowledge that you are actually wrecking another person with a VR headset makes it so much more fun.”.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 19, 2016

Many spatial audio solutions ignore real world physics, and end up producing unrealistic audio experiences that throws you out of immersion (especially if you are an audiophile). This is why they created the Waves NX head tracker. If you want to try it yourself, Waves has a web demo which uses your webcam for head tracking audio.

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Road to VR

JULY 1, 2024

I didn’t get to try it but Sony has shown the headset with a soft peripheral blocker add-on for when you’d rather have less reflections and more immersion. That made the experience quite choppy—probably not running at a steady 90 FPS as it should—which made the head-tracking feel sub-par.

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Road to VR

APRIL 28, 2018

The first standalone VR headsets offering inside-out positional head tracking are soon to hit the market: the Lenovo Mirage Solo (part of Google’s Daydream ecosystem), and HTC Vive Focus. But both headsets have controllers which track rotation only, meaning that hand input is limited to more abstract and less immersive movements.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Now that that’s out of the way… With the launch of a range of VR headsets and the deployment of the Fall Creators Update, Microsoft has orchestrated an impressive initial take on immersive computing and VR-enabled Windows. Setup is truly a breeze with native support under Windows 10 and no external sensors required for tracking.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Facebook Reality Labs (FRL) is the newly adopted name of team at Facebook which is building immersive technologies (including Oculus headsets). To do this, Facebook researchers built prototype earbuds and prototype glasses with several microphones, head tracking, and eye-tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2021

Additionally, I would highly recommend buying this head padding kit from Knox Labs as it will dramatically increase comfort as you wear the headset, especially for longer periods of time as you will be immersed within the Triton. Or even take it 1 step further and use the Intel Realsense to get 6DoF slam tracking working. .

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Into the Radius, when it’s firing on all cylinders, is an incredibly immersive survival/horror game with some of the creepiest sequences in the genre today. You can turn with snap movement, controllers, head tracking or a hybrid thereof, with snap, smooth or teleport movement directed by the left thumbstick.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 22, 2016

“We’re thrilled to introduce our dynamic list of immersive VR experiences to users on a platform that is quickly evolving to be more than a gaming console,” Kliavkoff.

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JULY 6, 2024

One such VRC, for example, governs features allowed in apps like Virtual Desktop and Plutosphere , requiring apps "that stream stereoscopic, head-tracked or immersive content may only do so from a local PC that the customer has physical access to, unless expressly approved by Meta."

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