Head Tracking
Eonite Claims to Have Solved Inside-out Positional Tracking for VR and AR
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."
Inside-out positional tracking—the ability to precisely determine...
HoloLens Inside-out Tracking Is Game Changing for AR & VR, and No One Is Talking about...
Augmented reality, while growing in buzz, has been around in some form or another for more than two decades. But immersive head-mounted AR for consumers has had one major hurdle that Microsoft may have just solved.
Despite copious concept videos showing...
New 360 Video Trailer Teleports You to Japan, Courtesy of the Oculus Rift
Polygon Window Productions are a company specialising in the capture of immersive movies. Their latest project leverages the power of the Oculus Rift to deliver a 360 video in which you can look around at will. We take a...
CastAR Interview and Hands-On: Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson Speak to Road to VR
Road to VR's Paul James sits down to talk with the founders of Technical Illusions, Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson and we get our hands on the new HD Prototype.
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Jeri and Rick don't really want to be doing yet...
CES 2014: Oculus Confirms New Hardware Will Be Shown. We Roundup Recent Speculation.
A tweet sent my Oculus VR Software Engineer Tom Forsythe seems to finally confirm that a new Oculus Rift prototype will be shown at CES 2014. Here's a roundup the credible speculation on the next generation Oculus Rift.
Confirmation at...
CastAR HMD Made by Former Valve Employees Offers AR and VR in One Compelling Package. Kickstarter...
Rising like a prototypical phoenix from the ashes of a discarded Valve project comes CastAR. The worlds first projected AR and VR system has arrived at Kickstarter and is nearly fully funded after just two days.CastARs Dramatic JourneyMany of...
New Sixense Video Demonstrates Positional Head Tracking with STEM and the Oculus Rift
A short but exciting new video just released by Sixense demonstrates not only the much anticipated STEM wireless module system in action but also a glimpse at some new prototype hardware.
Sixense, the company behind the Razer Hydra positional tracking...
Cymatic Bruce Plays Portal 2 on Oculus Rift with Vireio Perception
Greetings Road To VR Readership!
In partnership with Road To VR, I present Cymatic Bruce's Video Breakdowns! For those that do not know me, I am a VR Vlogger that has been producing Oculus Rift gameplay videos and VR Development...
How to Add Positional Tracking to the Oculus Tuscany Demo with the Razer Hydra
Tony Bowren recently shared his rather ingenious solution to the problem of the Oculus Rift Development Kit's lack of positional tracking using the Razer Hydra on YouTube. He talks to us about this project, a little of himself, and...
‘PosiTTron’ DIY Oculus Rift Positional Tracking Addon Prototype
This guest article is written by Jordi Batallé, who has been hard at work over the last few months developing a DIY positional tracking solution for head mounted displays (HMDs / VR headsets). Batallé is a virtual reality enthusiast who holds...
An Introduction to Positional Tracking and Degrees of Freedom (DOF)
The Oculus Rift developer kit is set to reach devs next month. It is widely expected to have significant impact in the future of gaming. While we're quite excited for the Oculus Rift, there's an issue that plagues virtual...
Former Apple Talent Developing Oculus Rift Headtracker, “9 DOF” and 760Hz Gyro Sampling
Palmer Luckey, the creator of the Oculus Rift, has confirmed that Oculus LLC is dropping the Hillcrest tracker that was originally being used as the Oculus Rift headtracker. Now it seems the Rift will use the Adjacent Reality tracker, developed...
Google Announces Project Glass, Wants to Bring Augmented Reality and Wearable Computing to the Masses [video]
Augmented reality just got a huge boost today thanks to Google who announced an experimental project that they're calling 'Glass'. Project Glass has apparently been in the works at Google (Google's experimental project group) for some time now. The...
Sony HMZ-T1 HMD + TrackIR 5 Camera = Headtracking Gameplay in World of Warcraft and Skyrim
It's a shame that neither Sony's HMZ-T1 or Silicon Micro Display's ST1080 have integrated head tracking technology. HMD's are great and all, but building in the ability to tack the movements of the user's head opens up far more...
Why Isn’t Nintendo Harnessing the Virtual Reality Capabilities of the Wii?!
Why Nintendo hasn't embraced this is completely beyond me. Johnny Chung Lee, a human-computer interaction researcher, developed an ingenious head tracking system that works with the Wii -- a system which has an install base of more than 80...
