Lanny Smoot, a Disney Research Fellow, unveils HoloTile, an omni-directional treadmill AR / VR applications. While you may have seen similar devices before, this one claims to support multiple users simultaneously.
Tim Cook has just released a video showing how the Apple Vision Pro spatial computer is made, and the process includes the use of several robots. As you can see, just about everything is fully automated, although we imagine the more sensitive parts, like the display as well as logic board, are hand assembled.
We’re just 2-days away from the start of the Apple Vision Pro pre-order, and developers are already able to publish and release apps. Some of the most interesting apps will be the entertainment options that make use of the headset’s ultra-high-resolution micro-OLED displays that pack a combined 23 million pixels.
It’s official, Apple Vision Pro is arriving in US stores on February 2, priced at $3,499 USD. This spatial computing device is powered by Apple’s all-new visionOS, which features a brand-new three-dimensional user interface and input system controlled entirely by a user’s eyes, hands, as well as voice.
When you pair Praydog’s UEVR inejector with haptic gloves and the JumpMod backpack, playing Unreal Engine games in virtual reality will never be the same again. The public beta has just been released and it works with over 10,000 Unreal Engine titles so far, although just a few hundred can be played right out of the box without any additional code.
Virtual reality goggles for mice just might be the strangest VR gadget yet, but researchers at Northwestern University have found that they could be quite useful in the right setting. When placed on a mouse and given a choice to either run on a treadmill or be given a treat reward, they often choose the former.
At $3,990 USD, the Varjo XR-4 headset takes mixed reality to the next level, thanks to inside-out-tracking and gaze-driven mixed reality autofocus cameras. It’s powered by NVIDIA GPUs and integrated into NVIDIA Omniverse, enabling developers as well as industrial users to render photorealistic scenes while unlocking ray tracing in mixed reality.
The Meta Quest 2 128GB Holiday Bundle is being offered with a $50 Amazon credit on Cyber Monday for just $249 shipped after clicking ‘Redeem’, originally $349.99. Its 3D positional audio, hand tracking and haptic feedback ensure that you’re fully immersed. Product page.
The Apple TV port of Super Mario 64 is fun, but what would a Meta Quest 3 version be like? Llbsidezll couldn’t wait for an official version, so they programmed their own by utilizing Virtual Desktop’s passthrough feature, which basically displays the user’s computer monitor in a three-dimensional virtual space, along with Blender’s built-in VR support.