Meta AR products will soon be available through Dell resellers. At CES 2018 in Las Vegas, Dell announced a slew of new VR/AR tools and peripherals. This includes the company’s first serious foray into VR with the Dell Visor VR headset, partnering with HTC to offer the HTC Vive and HTC Vive Business Edition VR headsets to its customers, as … Read more
VR & AR with realistic images coming soon People have described ray tracing as the holy grail of computer imaging. RT generates (if done properly) a physically accurate representation of an imagined or reconstructed scene. The number of variables are bewildering, from location and number of light sources combined with the style of each individual light (point source, diffused, flickering … Read more
Effort put into freedom from tether and screen door Once again CES saw a lot of VR announcements combined with what is being referred to as mixed reality, a term that seems to have become established without definition. On the resolution front there were HMDs claiming 4K and even 8K. That is, again, subject to definition. Pimax claims 8K resolution. … Read more
At CES 2018, HTC announced latest version of its Vive VR headset. The Vive Pro boasts dual-OLED displays with a resolution of 2880 × 1600, integrated audio, and 78% increase in pixel count. HTC also announced a wireless adaptor that uses Intel's WiGig technology and operates on the interference-free 60 GHz band. Pricing and availability for the products are not … Read more
LG showed a prototype integrated display, tethered PC-based HMD at GDC 2017. It featured two 3.64-in OLED displays with a resolution of 1440 × 1280 pixels (540 ppi) a wide 110-degree field of view, and a refresh rate of 90 Hz, which was a higher quality display at the time. The prototype also featured pass-through holes that could be used … Read more
Tinkerers and game enthusiasts love VR. The only genuine consumer VR system in the market today is Sony’s PS4 VR, everything else is a patchwork of items bought from various suppliers and bolted together by the user. And that’s perfectly OK unless you’re Mark Zuckenbeger who is being asked by his shareholders, “you spent $2 billion dollars on a WHAT, … Read more
The PlayStation Move controller we have become accustomed to has kept its original design since its inception in 2010 as a PlayStation 3 hardware accessory paired with the PlayStation Eye. In the last year, the Move controller has become a necessary piece of hardware alongside its newer companion, PlayStation VR—a virtual reality headset for the PlayStation 4. In just a … Read more
At Facebook’s recent Oculus Connect 4 Keynote VR conference, Facebook announced a variety of new products and features. The most notable product announcement is the $199 Oculus Go, an entry-level VR product that Facebook believes will be adopted by the masses. Facebook is keeping their fingers crossed that Oculus Go, with its big price difference from the $399 Oculus Rift, … Read more
New NNA steps up to compete in ML Citing the burgeoning intelligent vision market, Imagination Technologies announced on September 21st that it has joined the ever-growing list of companies with hardware acceleration for deep learning. Up to now, they have relied on their PowerVR GPUs running in GPU compute mode to provide an ad hoc solution for inferencing but with … Read more
