2023: A big year ahead for AR/VR headsets
New products to hit the market, pushing global shipments of AR/VR devices next year and making up for the dip in 2022.
Keep the faith on the metaverse
So says a VR developer who, despite Meta’s challenges, believes the metaverse’s time will come.
Sony is rejoining the VR royale with the PS VR2
The VR headset market is ready for a shake-up, and Sony is among those expected to enter the ring with its new offering early next year.
An open-source VR headset?
A trio of companies have teamed up to achieve just that.
HTC and Imversed to innovate new VR technology
Vive to extend its reach into XR following a joint venture with Imversed.
A holographic display you can wear
Holographic Glasses for virtual reality. (Source: YouTube, Jonghyun Kim) A team of researchers headed by Jonghyun Kim along with colleagues at Nvidia and collaborators at Stanford University are developing a holographic display in a glasses-like form factor. A recent article by the team on this topic was titled “Holographic Glasses for Virtual Reality.” It was published in the Special Interest … Read more
HP ExtendXR enables VR All-in-One devices management
HP offers an XR end-to-end solution
How to Test and Fix Chromatic Aberration on WMR VR Headsets
HP Reverb G2 (Version 2) I’ve been running a video series called Neil’s Messy Basement with a strong focus on home entertainment and immersion. I’m very enthusiastic about the latest generations of surround sound, big screen projection, gaming, and kicking back and enjoying the digital age. I’ve recently taken a renewed personal interest in virtual reality by testing the … Read more
How to Test and Fix Chromatic Aberration on WMR VR Headsets
No More rainbows
Varjo streams VR from AWS
The idea of virtual presence in a mission-critical design review or development process sounds like science fiction. It was. It was until Helsinki-based Varjo brought cloud streaming to its Reality Cloud platform and moved the company toward its vision of real-life collaboration into the metaverse. “Being able to achieve the same quality experience through Varjo Reality Cloud with less powerful … Read more
Dassault shows of its digital health tools at CES
Dassault is not exactly a common brand in the halls of CES though the giant company has always put effort into establishing its brand throughout the world. Aficionados of the company will remember their wonderful, totally crazy, expensive TV ads about solving drought problems by rounding up a stray iceberg from the ocean and helicoptering it over to the desert, … Read more
Done with ’21, what’s new for ’22
2021 was an uneventful year for GPUs and AIBs. Neither AMD nor Nvidia introduced a new GPU architecture, and only released AIBs based on derivatives of their 2020 GPUs. It will be mid-February before we get the final results, but we estimate the desktop PCs will hit 117 million, notebooks 297 million, workstations 3.5 million, and tablets 170 million units … Read more