Road to VR

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

At NVIDIA, we’re inventing that system with cutting-edge tools, sensors, physics, AI, processors, algorithms, data structures, and displays. 450 Mpix/second on an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive today is almost a seven times increase in the number of pixels per second compared to 1080p gaming at 30 FPS. Understanding the Pipeline.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus. An iconic image of Jeremy Bailenson wearing an Oculus Rift DK2 (Image taken from Medium). We were using VR not as a thing to study in and of itself, but we were using it as a tool to run more rigorous social psych studies.

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AR Insider

JULY 30, 2019

The category is represented best by the $199 Oculus Go and the more recently-launched Quest. Though Oculus Go has a more basic user interface and less sophisticated positional tracking (rotational head tracking versus full-6D spatial movement), it will be a strategic point of entry to a large addressable market.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Regarding what components have been opensourced, Google states that “The open source project provides APIs for head tracking, lens distortion rendering, and input handling. Adobe releases AR authoring tool Aero. Adobe has finally released its Adobe Aero tool. Oculus Link is coming soon. We have to be patient.

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Road to VR

JUNE 2, 2016

Usens is one of the early developers of hand and head tracking tech; according to the announcement from the company this investment will help launch new and improved non-controller hand and head tracking tools. Tracking is critical to ARVR experiences,” said Anli He, CEO and co-founder of uSens. “As

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

I mean, on the Oculus Touch you have a middle finger trigger, that is used to grab stuff by closing your hand and the index finger that is used to trigger actions: when you use a VR gun, everything is more or less like in the real world. The Oculus Quest touch controllers: this is how I want manual interface in XR. Should you buy it?

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Road to VR

JANUARY 20, 2017

He has been developing virtual reality as a tool for scientific discovery since 1998, and is the creator of the open-source Vrui VR toolkit. There are no details on resolution, frame rate, brightness or other image specs, and any mention of head tracking is suspiciously absent. Oliver Kreylos.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 1, 2017

[link] Augmania is announcing the launch of its latest release, an out of the box DIY augmented reality authoring tool and its innovative web AR viewer. Arvizio is demonstrating its Mixed Reality Studio Suite, a mixed reality platform that extends HoloLens capabilities as a full-fledged collaboration and conferencing tool.

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Upload VR

JUNE 17, 2024

The first VR headset to ship after Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus in 2014 was the Samsung Gear VR Innovator Edition, using the Note 4 smartphone as its display, processing center, and battery. enjoy a simple head-tracked game like Proton Pulse inside a literal cardboard box – just as you can today on a $3500 Apple Vision Pro.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 30, 2020

Introducing VIVE Sync Open Beta, a VR collaboration tool that allows businesses to hold virtual meetings/presentations in real-time from the comfort of home. Unlike earlier Vive headsets, or the Oculus Rift or the Hololens, you can walk around, spin around, move your arms, without worrying about getting tangled in the wires.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 17, 2016

Available On: Steam (Oculus Rift & HTC Vive). Reviewed On: HTC Vive & Oculus Rift. Although technically not finished, this VR experience for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive offers a lot more than you might expect and leaves a lasting impression of its strange, alien world. The Solus Project Details: Official Site.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Michael: And this is why I’ve been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building — there’s VRTK for Unity… there’s just all these tools. You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go. The tools are here.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Michael: And this is why I’ve been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building — there’s VRTK for Unity… there’s just all these tools. You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go. The tools are here.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 14, 2017

Creating a sense of space is one of the most powerful tools in a VR developer’s arsenal. Space and perspective are among the most powerful tools in a VR developer's arsenal. Click To Tweet To bring Leap Motion tracking into a VR experience, you’ll need a virtual controller within the scene attached to your VR headset.

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Headjack

JANUARY 12, 2015

This is a massive overkill, since the latest Oculus Rift Crescent Bay edition contains a 1440p display. However, Oculus does aim for content shown at 80fps! Do you know why so many Oculus Rift DK2’s can be found on eBay? Oculus uses high frame rates and renders the entire scene twice, once for each eye.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Michael: And this is why I've been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building -- there's VRTK for Unity. there's just all these tools. You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go. I think that the tools that they have are incredible.

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Road to VR

JULY 9, 2021

VorpX is a tool which adapts many non-VR games to be played with VR headsets. While the app doesn’t add core VR functionality like hand-tracking, for many games it adds head-tracking, stereoscopy, and other tweaks that make non-VR games playable inside the headset. It supports all Oculus, SteamVR, and WMR headsets.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 12, 2015

Well-designed tools afford their intended operation and negatively afford improper use. Oculus’ best practices guide covers this issue in great detail. Just as accurate head tracking can place you inside a virtual world, hand tracking can reinforce the sense that you’ve actually traveled to another place.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

VR as a Communication Tool. VRChat sees their product integrating into social media platforms rather than competing directly with them, and is looking into ways of plugging into features such as Oculus Avatars, Touch and Audio SDK. An extended suite of creative tools for building and making in the MetaWorld will follow next year.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Think the fact that Qualcomm powers almost all the most famous AR VR headsets on the market , like Oculus Quest , Vive Focus Plus , and HoloLens 2. It features two internal cameras, one for each eye to support eye tracking. I’m curious to see if Oculus will really want to abandon its amazing Insight in favor of this kind of tech.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

And so to see some of these become large rollouts, thousands of devices — in Wal-Mart’s case, hundreds of thousands of devices — or standard work tools like they are at DHL, that’s just standard. It helps that a lot of the big companies, HTC, Oculus, Lenovo, they’re pivoting to enterprise. Boeing as well.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

And so to see some of these become large rollouts, thousands of devices — in Wal-Mart’s case, hundreds of thousands of devices — or standard work tools like they are at DHL, that’s just standard. It helps that a lot of the big companies, HTC, Oculus, Lenovo, they’re pivoting to enterprise. Boeing as well.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

And so to see some of these become large rollouts, thousands of devices -- in Wal-Mart's case, hundreds of thousands of devices -- or standard work tools like they are at DHL, that's just standard. It helps that a lot of the big companies, HTC, Oculus, Lenovo, they're pivoting to enterprise. Alan: What a powerful tool.

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