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Ramping up for CES 2017 in LasVegas, Lenovo has revealed their newest entry into the world of VR, a yet unnamed headset sporting an impressive dual 1440 × 1440 OLED displays, a PlayStation VR-style halo strap system, and dual cameras that allow for room-scale positional tracking.
Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. That is if every company implemented OpenXR, a program built for the Oculus should work with SteamVR as well. Image by Oculus).
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This hilarious tweet thread by Nima Zeighami shows you all the worst uses that have been of the M-word on the LasVegas showroom. I’ve seen what companies are doing nowadays to use tracked props on the Oculus Quest: they have to add bulky mounts to install the even bulkier Touch controllers on them. Further references.
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Microsoft’s Windows Holographic VR headsets are going to run the gamut of specs like input, field of view, and resolution. The Chinese company revealed its first VR headset shortly ahead of CES 2017 in LasVegas this week. Tagged with: CES , lenovo , microsoft , VR , Windows Holographic.
In LasVegas last week Jeri Ellsworth carried the consumer packaging for Tilt Five’s AR glasses. ” Sometime I wonder what the path to consumer VR would have looked like if Palmer Luckey & Brendan Iribe hadn’t sold Oculus to Facebook. What if Oculus hadn’t hired researchers like Abrash from Valve? ” Yup.
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When I worked at Microsoft I got in trouble with the lawyers over patents so they made me sleep with a lawyer (true story, that was my punishment). I also am invested in Apple competitors, Qualcomm, Snap, Microsoft, Amazon, and about 50 other companies in a diverse portfolio. Why am I so confident? Disclaimer.
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The recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in LasVegas made it clear: virtual reality is taking on serious forms ! Even Microsoft decided to join the club. 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!
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Between the $299 Oculus Quest, the death of the movie theater, and the COVID stigma on shared headsets, you’d think we wouldn’t be hearing much about this right now. We are waiting and hoping and praying a white knight swoops in to rescue Poly like Microsoft rescued AltspaceVR in the VR winter of 2018. Not a good sign.
And subscribe to my newsletter to not miss my upcoming CES roundup, which will contain all the news I’ve read about XR from LasVegas! More info (Apple XR headset to feature three displays) More info (Quest 3 and Project Cambria leaks) More info (Social Oculus Home is coming) More info (Meta to unify its social VR experiences).
If you had 10,000$ to spend and you asked me how to spend them, I would probably give you two options: one is going to LasVegas with me and have a crazy night of fun, and the other one is buying a Varjo XR-1, with the latter being the preferred choice. Oculus products have gone pretty well during the Black Weekend.
Additionally, founding the Upload Academy, a VR/AR developer training program, which graduated its first class in August with a number of success stories including Found – a gorgeous Miyazaki-esque narrative experience created by four of our students which was recently recognized on stage during the Oculus Connect Keynote. January 2016.
There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. It's a fully-interactive, virtual reality motion-based flight simulator, where you fly right down the LasVegas strip.
There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. It's a fully-interactive, virtual reality motion-based flight simulator, where you fly right down the LasVegas strip.
There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. It's a fully-interactive, virtual reality motion-based flight simulator, where you fly right down the LasVegas strip.
There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. It's a fully-interactive, virtual reality motion-based flight simulator, where you fly right down the LasVegas strip.
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