Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2018

The release of the Lumin SDK confirms that the Magic Leap One will include eye-tracking, as Unreal points out among the various headset capabilities supported by the engine: Head tracking. Eye tracking. Gesture and hand tracking. 6DOF hand controller (Totem) tracking. Room scanning and meshing.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2022

There are also many software/game developers who are creating experiences for the manufacturers mentioned above. Some of the big techs are also developing their software and games. There are not many independent teams on the software side of things like us. In the end, some will fail, and some will thrive. .

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Road to VR

MAY 12, 2017

The software also accommodates those with limited arm movement. This footage shows how the work of two motion controllers can be operated with just one, by simulating a virtual second controller that can be synchronised with head tracking.

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2023

Image courtesy Sightful The company is hoping its all-in-one product—which essentially consists of the bottom half of a laptop, a pair of tethered AR goggles, and a custom software environment—will make for a streamlined virtual desktop experience that’s easy to use.

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Road to VR

MAY 17, 2017

Taking the stage at I/O, Clay Bavor, the head of Google’s VR team, announced that Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus phones will finally be receiving Daydream support via a software update this summer. This is the first mention of a specific Samsung device supporting the Daydream VR platform.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Tracking Features, Software, and Connectivity As mentioned above, the MeganeX Superlight 8K is a pure “virtual reality” headset, there are no built-in cameras to enable mixed and augmented reality experiences. From a software and connectivity perspective, the headset is pretty versatile.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 14, 2018

AMD today launched an updated version of their AMD Radeon Software suite which now includes the ability to stream SteamVR games to standalone and smartphone-based headsets, assuming you have a compatible AMD GPU. But until mobile headsets support the full head/hand 6DOF input that PC VR apps expect, it’s potential is quite niche.

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Road to VR

APRIL 2, 2018

Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 845 VRDK , a VR headset reference design for hardware and software developers, is now offering 6DOF controller input with ultrasonic tracking.

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Road to VR

MARCH 26, 2019

The company additionally announced a ‘multi-mode’ capability which allows Vive Focus Plus to connect wirelessly with PCs to steam PCVR content via Rift Cat’s VRidge software , the ability to stream content from game consoles to a virtual screen, live 360 camera streaming, as well as upcoming Cloud VR services. a/b/g/n/ac.

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ARPost

MARCH 31, 2023

WARPOINT: Meta Quest 2s equipped with power banks are waiting their turn All the Meta Quests operate in standalone mode using software developed by WARPOINT themselves. You could even forgo buying brand-new headsets and instead opt for second-hand ones to lower the costs even further. I have strong VR legs, but still felt queasy.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Aria Gen 2 adds head tracking, eye tracking, hand tracking, and audio to Meta's research glasses, and it's already being tested to help vision impaired people navigate indoors. Meta's Aria glasses are not products, nor are they prototypes of future products. It also offers a free phone app that does the same.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Like the Quest 3, the Quest 3S still supports hand and head tracking, ensuring you can interact with content without using controllers. In terms of software and app options, Meta’s Horizon store still offers a lot more variety than the Apple store. With the Vision Pro, it feels almost like you’re not wearing a headset.

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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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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

And they’ll be powered by new GPUs and graphics software that will be almost unrecognizably different from today’s technology. All of this innovation points to a new way of interacting with computers, and this will require not just a new devices or software but an entirely new system for VR.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Controller and head tracking is solid on the device — as it was on Quest 1 — while hand tracking will only get better. As above, Facebook has positioned Quest 2 to gain capability and appeal over time with hand tracking, expanding libraries and features unlocked through software.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Immersed says Visor features the XR2+ Gen 2 chipset , 4K micro-OLED displays, color passthrough, as well as eye tracking and hand tracking for a Vision Pro style gaze-and-pinch input system. 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.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

"We are now starting demos, but due to an issue they will be hardware only, not software". What exactly is hardware without software? We saw a series of images and videos displayed across both panels, as if they were a connected monitor, with no head tracking of any sort. But I was unable to try any of this.

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Road to VR

APRIL 30, 2018

This compelling price point is the result of some key hardware decisions, most notably the omission of positional (6DOF) tracking. For owners of a compatible Samsung smartphone, the Gear VR shell remains the best value proposition, but for everyone else, the Go will be the cheapest way to access Gear VR content.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 19, 2016

Racket: NX is a VR game powered by Waves NX’s spatial audio software. I’d be in VR and turn my head away from an audio source, the sound would cut out completely from one of my ears ignoring how real acoustics operated. This is why they created the Waves NX head tracker. It disturbed me. It was weird. I kind of liked it.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Oculus wants your AR/VR experience to not only be a 360 immersive visual experience that includes real time head tracking and full immersive audio during your VR experience, but would also include real time hand tracking as part of the virtual and augmented experience.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Although coverage is increased, there’s still some tracking deadzones above and below the headset which can sometimes be annoying but never significantly impacted gameplay.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Controller and head tracking is solid on the device — as it was on Quest 1 — while hand tracking will only get better. As above, Facebook has positioned Quest 2 to gain capability and appeal over time with hand tracking, expanding libraries and features unlocked through software.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

There was no head tracking, motion controllers, or even games that wouldn’t have played equally as well on a standard Gameboy. – – — – – What is certain is Nintendo isn’t in any rush, as both hardware and software sales of traditional games still far outweigh VR games.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2025

0:00 / 1:35 1 Once it was all set up I strapped on the included head tracking puck completing a full 360-degree turn was fluid and the chair is responsive to rapid direction changes. Whats In the Box Roto VR Explorer Chair Head Tracker AC Adapter Basic Cable Magazine Specifications: Height: 88.5

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

In addition to offering $100 in Oculus Store credit for every new Rift purchase from Best Buy, Amazon, and Microsoft (US), GAME (UK), Saturn (Germany), and FNAC (France), Oculus have provided some significant software discounts on the store, highlighted below: Dirt Rally – $40 (33% off) – a superb rally sim from Codemasters.

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OCTOBER 21, 2016

The game is created by Guild Software and it’s actually been around for a while. Using the Gear VR’s head tracking, you can move your head around inside the cockpit and there is a variety of choices for controlling your ship.

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AR Insider

JULY 30, 2019

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. For VR developers, the above statement has important implications.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 8, 2016

OSVR is an open source software platform and VR headset. Yuval and his team designed the OSVR software platform and built key parts of the OSVR offering. The founding team and many other contributors have expanded the functionality of the OSVR software. Without software, these new devices are almost useless.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 4, 2024

We also know it will take advantage of Siemen’s unique “XCelerator engineering software”, thanks to the partnership between Sony and Siemens. Unlike other mixed reality headsets, which include buttons and software to help you switch between virtual reality and seeing the world around you, Sony’s facial interface flips up and down.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 4, 2023

The Air headset, introduced at CES , offers 3 degrees of head tracking, and echo cancellation technology, while the Light glasses provide 6DoF head, hand, image, and plane tracking. The MR glasses come with free software developer support, and a resolution of 1280 x720 px.

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AllThingsVR

MAY 19, 2016

Setting up a Daydream Developer Kit appears relatively simple, as the software and hardware are designed to remain open and accessible. The final piece of necessary hardware is a headset device, such as a Google Cardboard, preferably one with a head strap. First and foremost, you need a Nexus 6P phone.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

What really made my cry has been the use of head tracking: when you select an app in the initial menu with your controller, then the system shows you a 3D gizmo of the app that you have to position in your room USING YOUR HEAD. This will let also give the time to Magic Leap to fix all the software flaws of its device.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 7, 2016

Funding Roundup: Merge VR Raises $10M & uSens Raises $20M Merge Labs funding came from a whole community of investors in gaming, software, hardware and retail sectors across the nation. With the 26DOF mobile hand tracking, this solution replaces the need for peripheral devices such as game controllers or gloves.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 12, 2017

Lots of companies have made this claim actually, but Eonite specifically says they have the “world’s most accurate, lowest latency, lowest power consuming software to democratize inside-out positional tracking for VR and AR.” The software doesn’t have much to do with the camera.”

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The technology has since been updated to form the Glass 2 device, which features safety frames, a lightweight form factor, and instant access to software for collaboration capabilities. The Google Glass 2 smart glasses run on an Android open-source project operating system, with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth support.

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JANUARY 10, 2017

The first is a complete lack of positional tracking. The Pimax representatives on site assured me that positional tracking would be added in by this spring, but for now you’re limited to head tracking only which is a far cry below what it will take to unseat the current kings of the VR hill.

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JANUARY 9, 2017

Now, I had imagined this to look and run a little something like vorpX , the third-party software that lets you play games like Skyrim inside your VR headset in full 3D and decoupling head movement from the HUD. Despite being on Vive with two base stations facing me, positional tracking was completely disabled in this mode.

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