Qualcomm Technologies has announced the new Qualcomm Snapdragon Smart Viewer Reference Design, which is a VR form factor built together with Goertek on the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR1 Platform. The Reference Design, launched at the Augmented World Expo 2019 in California, helps in decreasing the time taken in product development of both AR and VR smart viewers.
Hugo Swart, head of XR at Qualcomm, said: “The Snapdragon...
A new study from Picture Virtual Reality (PXVR.com) argues that the vast majority of VR headset users would buy a device if it came with a price tag of $199.
13% of the survey respondents said they would buy a VR headset if it is sold for $99 in order for the technology to hit what it called ‘critical mass’. Hundreds of studies have said shown that VR-related sales are continuously growing over the past two years....
The Oculus Rift S is set to be a considerable upgrade on what has come before and aims to give gamers and enthusiasts ‘the most immersive content that VR has to offer’ when it launches later this year.
One enthusiast who probably won’t be shelling out, however, is Palmer Luckey. The Oculus co-founder has argued in a...
HTC VIVE has announced that its latest Focus Plus headset will be available for sale from April 15.
The product can be ordered from Vive's website and will cost $799. Vive Focus Plus features the latest fresnel lenses that offers a sharper visual to reduce any screen door effect meeting the needs of enterprise customers. The newly added dual 6DoF controllers help users to blur the lines between reality and VR in addition...
MWC19 Microsoft has announced the launch of HoloLens 2 at MWC Barcelona, with the augmented reality (AR) headset being described by the company as an 'important milestone.'
The headset, which will be available later this year at a price of $3500, has been launched with focus on three specific areas of improvement; immersion, comfort, and time-to-value. HoloLens 2 has a more than doubled field of view combined with holographic density of 47 pixels per degree of sight, alongside eye-tracking sensors and...
Facebook has won a patent for a head-mounted display (HMD) device combining a small high-resolution display with a large lower-resolution screen.
This headset incorporates eye tracking-driven foveated rendering, a process that involves rendering most of the view into a virtual world at lower resolution apart from the area directly in front of where the user’s eye is pointed.
The area in front of the eye, where a human eye perceives the greatest detail, is rendered at a higher resolution.
Unlike in...
Google has submitted patent documents for ‘augmented and/or virtual reality footwear’ – in a potential attempt to solve a key problem with VR around locomotion.
When does a VR world become truly virtual? Of course, put a headset on and you are in a virtual world, but you cannot walk about in it – at least not very far until reality kicks in. Google’s patent aims to enable what they describe as...
HTC is making its enterprise-flavoured Vive Focus virtual reality (VR) set available in Western markets, promising a variety of new applications in the process.
The launch ‘reinforces Vive’s increased commitment to bringing best-in-class design and software expertise – paired with the world’s best VR hardware – to businesses of all sizes’, in the company’s words.
Say hello to the Oculus Quest. Launched at Oculus Connect earlier this week, the headset is billed as the company’s first all-in-one VR gaming system – with a starting price of $399.
“We’re excited to usher in the next era of VR gaming with the introduction of Oculus Quest,” the team wrote in a...
Shipments of VR headsets went down 33% year on year, according to IDC – but the analyst firm expects this to be merely a blip as the market finds its footing.
The figures, which appear in the company’s latest Worldwide Quarterly Augmented and Virtual Reality Headset Tracker, found declines in each of the primary markets.
Screenless viewers went down from 1 million headsets...
