Road to VR

MARCH 24, 2017

Today’s most immersive virtual reality systems, like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, rely on a bothersome tether to send power and high fidelity imagery to the headset at low latency. Ridding our headsets of the cable would mean deeper immersion and physical freedom within the virtual world.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Virtual reality focuses on introducing a virtual world with which people can interact. Virtual reality uses software to create realistic images, sounds, and other senses that replicate a real environment and mimic a user’s physical presence within this environment, controlled or experienced by body movement.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Oculus may be be closing out 2016 with a bang with the launch of its Touch controllers, but HTC is going to kick off 2017 with something special: a peripheral that makes its Vive headset wireless. The latter category is quickly gaining interest, with major players like Oculus recently showcasing their own solutions.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

This process introduces ‘latency’, which is the time it takes to update frames with new user input taken into account. For an action title to feel responsive, latency needs to be under 150ms in a traditional video game, so keeping it reasonably low is a challenge. Let’s look at latency first.

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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. That’s what I’m doing here.”.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2022

Omniverse is a powerful tool for creating 3D virtual worlds that is made of different modules. Because there are people in the communities that think that it is (and will be) impossible that wherever we are, there is always a server close-enough to do the rendering with minimal latency. Video courtesy NVIDIA).

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VRScout

JANUARY 26, 2021

HaptX also employs the use of magnetic motion tracking, a proprietary motion capture system featuring sub-millimeter precision, 30 DoF (degrees of freedom) per hand, and no latency or occlusion. Together this creates an individualized, physically-accurate VR hand model and renders a full-body avatar for enhanced immersion.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 6, 2022

It’s like Oculus or Meta currently. They have the metaverse virtual audience space. If you go [in the virtual world] over there then it switches to that camera. What’s the latency from our camera to their back end? Nikk: From our system, we go with just 2-second latency to their back end.

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2018

Oculus Half Dome Prototype. Prior to launch the first consumer Rift headset, Oculus had a long history of showing prototypes and development kits. Following the launch of the Rift, Oculus kept their R&D efforts on future PC headsets mostly secretive. Oculus Santa Cruz. image courtesy Oculus. Oculus Santa Cruz.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 8, 2018

SEE ALSO Oculus Quest Supports "Arena-scale" Tracking and Multi-room Guardian. The smartphone itself also has its work cut out for it, as it must simultaneously run ARCore and decode video, which all adds noticeable latency.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

It is simple: imagine that you have little money and can’t afford to buy a full VR rig, but you can only afford to buy a Samsung Gear VR or an Oculus Go , for instance. Of course, you can use Riftcat VRidge also with 3 DOF headsets like the Oculus Go. This way, you can use your mobile headset as a tethered one. VRidge controller.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

I have been able to speak for almost one hour with Jeremy Bailenson , which is the professor at Stanford that is a legend in the VR field for his studies on interactions, psychology, and training in Virtual Reality. His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus. How different was it from today?

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

I imagined this must have been like when Oculus just started out. The headset is designed to be used this way without any cover on the sides so that you can see as much of the real world as possible (there is a magnetic cover for using the headset in VR mode). I loved seeing this. Office Vibes. Image courtesy Cas & Chary.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

He adds that one of the main causes of motion sickness in VR experiences is poor latency. When a delay in latency occurs, your real and virtual movements no longer match, knocking the equilibrium out of balance and causing ‘cybersickness.’ ” He expects Meta to continue pushing the narrative for VR.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Regarding the photon-to-photon latency of the passthrough, Optofidelity confirmed with a test that it is below 12 ms, as Apple claims. According to Mozilla, “demand has moved away from 3D virtual worlds” so the project has been shut down and the source code left to the community to handle.

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ARPost

MARCH 31, 2023

The HTC Vive Pros were tethered, so there was no latency but the game did have a peculiar dense, dreamlike aspect to it, which often stems from lower refresh rates. Have fun and keep on rocking in the virtual world! On their website, Meta4 claims their games run at a 90hz refresh rate , but it felt like less.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 22, 2019

Also known as “AI Austin” in-world, Tate runs the Openvue and AiLand OpenSim grids. It requires that people have SteamVR and an Oculus Rift or a compatible headset. ” She said that she uses VorpX, an Oculus DK2 or Oculus Rift S headset, and a standard distribution of Firestorm. Kitely looking forward to VR. .

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Instead of functioning as a standalone VR chatroom like many social VR apps, Pluto brings the fabric of social VR to any SteamVR application, allowing friends’ avatars to join you for a chat inside of whatever virtual world your inhabiting.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 30, 2017

Currently the Oculus Rift is the only headset to support the former, while the HTC Vive and OSVR both support DX11. VRScore is primarily concerned with finding the framerate and latency you’ll experience when using a VR headset. The video below guides you through setting it up.

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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.” That’s potentially revolutionary for the VR and AR industry if true.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

When you want a more all-encompassing experience, you can simply switch the headset to VR mode and you’re instantly in a massively multiplayer virtual world. SEE ALSO Oculus Chief Scientist Dives Deep Into the Near Future of AR & VR. Going back to a headsets from a decade earlier is pretty unthinkable by now.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 10, 2022

The system creates everything in the user’s environment, which may be exhibited inside a blank room via head-mounted displays (HMDs) or other equipment that helps users feel they are physically inside the virtual world. AR applications need at least 100 Mbps and latency of no more than 1 millisecond.

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Road to VR

JUNE 28, 2019

The Valve Index headset is more expensive and less user-friendly than its nearest competitor, the Oculus Rift S, but the experience it offers is the clear choice for VR enthusiasts who want to maximize immersion. Read on for our full Valve Index review to learn if this headset is for you. Valve Index In-depth Review.

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Road to VR

JUNE 15, 2016

Gloveone uses a pinch motion allowing you to grab objects in the virtual world, but instead of the usual optical or gestural detection, the glove smartly uses capacitive sensors to detect the pinch, which is much more robust than other methods. The latency of the input was also quite impressive.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

Or because he’s been the first person attaching a Leap Motion to an Oculus DK1 with some duct tape, envisioning how hand tracking could be vital for virtual reality. With this easy trick, on the lenses you are able to see both the real and the virtual world. On the downtown 3 train.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Today, we are taking the spatial computing industry to yet another level as we announce the availability of the full 6DoF developer kit for the Vive Wave open ecosystem, and a host of new 6DoF content and technologies to more easily bring users into fully immersive virtual worlds. Header image by HTC).

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Much like Oculus, FOVE began as a successful Kickstarter which raised $480,000 , nearly twice its goal, back in mid-2015. FOVE hopes to be the first VR headset on the market with eye-tracking, and we expect other major headsets like the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and PlayStation VR to add eye-tracking in future product iterations.

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Road to VR

MARCH 29, 2017

SEE ALSO NVIDIA Demonstrates Experimental "Zero Latency" Display Running at 1,700Hz. Here’s a number of others that have caught our eye so far from NASA, Oculus, Pixvana, OTOY, NVIDIA and Stanford’s Computational Imaging Lab. Insights From the First Year of VR – Jason Holtman, Oculus. Register for GTC 2017.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 5, 2016

PSVR’s 1920×1080 OLED panel resolution might be lower on paper than the headset’s two major competitors, but with its RGB pixel structure, it’s perfectly capable of creating powerfully immersive experiences and beautiful virtual worlds, despite a few display flaws.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

OCTOBER 10, 2023

With the Touch Plus controllers, there are no tracking rings, common among 6DoF consumer controllers since the introduction of the Oculus Rift. They’re premium, adjustable straps designed to fit most hand sizes comfortably and give you more stability while you navigate virtual worlds. These headphones cost around $149.99

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

An Apple AR headset has been a mainstay of the rumor mills for several years, and we expect Facebook to be creating an AR Oculus device. How do we interact, will we standardize gestures or specific affordances, will there be regularly used icons or representations, what will be the social conventions, in both the real and virtual worlds?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 19, 2017

Just a few years ago I found the Oculus meeting room hidden in a corner of the show floor where they were showing the HD prototype of the Rift featuring improved resolution. TwinCam is an omni-directional stereoscopic live-viewing camera that reduces motion blur and latency during head rotation in a head-mounted display. Mission: ISS.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 17, 2016

For those who are new readers, OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. It allows people with no technical skills to quickly and cheaply create virtual worlds, and then teleport to other virtual worlds. Virtual Worlds Grid : 1,066 regions.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 4, 2020

Now, NAVIX AIR is a platform that allows residents to transform into the surgeons eyes and follow their steps simultaneously in the virtual world, without disturbing the surgeon. Let's say you have a half a second delay right now, which we are trying to reduce it to like almost near zero latency. Aravind: Yeah, absolutely.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 4, 2020

Now, NAVIX AIR is a platform that allows residents to transform into the surgeons eyes and follow their steps simultaneously in the virtual world, without disturbing the surgeon. Let's say you have a half a second delay right now, which we are trying to reduce it to like almost near zero latency. Aravind: Yeah, absolutely.

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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. OC5 celebrates the last 5 years of virtual reality breakthroughs and gives us a glimpse of what’s to come in the next five years. Last year, Oculus Go, a $199 standalone VR headset, has blown people’s minds.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 4, 2020

Now, NAVIX AIR is a platform that allows residents to transform into the surgeons eyes and follow their steps simultaneously in the virtual world, without disturbing the surgeon. Let's say you have a half a second delay right now, which we are trying to reduce it to like almost near zero latency. Aravind: Yeah, absolutely.

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