In this period, I’m so lucky that I have on my desk two great 6 DOF standalone headsets that have been lent to me: the Lenovo Mirage Solo and the Vive Focus. Both headsets are able to track your position in space, to offer you a virtual reality where you can move potentially wherever you […]
Since the first time we’ve heard about SteamVR tracking 2.0, we all want to play a bit with it, since it offers a lot of interesting improvements over its 1.0 counterpart, like: Reduced price of the tracking solution; Improved robustness against interferences; Possibility to use more than 2 base stations, so it is possible to […]
I was sharing yesterday post on Hacker News, when I gave a look to the latest post on that social network. Its title was “Microsoft Kinect is dead” and I had quite a shock. I went through the 5 stages of grief, quickly negating the fact that that one could be the truth: “It is […]
I found sometimes myself discussing with other VR enthusiasts about if inside-out positional tracking is better or worse than outside-in one. Here are my considerations about this topic. Just to make a little recap about these technologies, I’m talking about solutions to offer positional tracking for virtual reality, the so-called “room-scale”. Since the DK2 times […]
Yesterday I’ve published my post announcing some big news about Leap Motion. The most important of them is that Leap Motion is now completely focused in being embedded into standalone virtual reality headsets (particularly the ones implementing the Snapdragon 835 reference design) and no more in selling controllers. This will mean that its new and […]
Yesterday everyone was excited in talking about Apple entrance in the AR/VR world, while I was actually excited by another news: the upgrade of Lighthouse tracking of SteamVR. After having leaked various previews in the last months, Valve has officially announced the upgrade with a community post. Let’s see together what this announcement is and […]
Some days ago I read a super interesting article on RoadToVR: it was about a new kind of sensors that could reduce the overall cost of Lighthouse technology of the HTC Vive. You can find it here. I published the article on reddit, where it gained a lot of interest… 466 karma points! W00t! A […]
Today I went on reddit, to find the front page full of news about this new marvelous piece of tech: Intel Alloy.
