Blandade VR-nyheter

Kan lika gärna vara att du bor där det är billigt men kan jobba på distans som om du är i storstan (gäller såklart kontorsjobb), men din variant tros vara förklaringen till att Oculus Go sålde så bra i Japan.

Facebook Researchers Found A Way To Essentially Give Oculus Quest More GPU Power

Facebook Researchers seem to have figured out a way to use machine learning to essentially give Oculus Quest apps 67% more GPU power to work with. However, Facebook informs us this is “purely research” (for now).

https://uploadvr.com/facebook-ai-quest-superres/

Det står lite mer i artikeln, t ex:

It’s interesting to note that the paper is not actually primarily about either the super resolution algorithm or freeing up GPU resources by using that. The researchers’ direct goal was to figure a “framework” for running machine learning algorithms in real time within the current rendering pipeline (with low latency), which they achieved. Super resolution upscaling is essentially just the first example of what this enables.

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Another benefit for machine learning based reconstruction is the latency mitigation and late latching in eye-tracked foveated rendering system. With the proposed architecture, the rendering system does not need to know where the eye is looking at and render at a uniform low resolution. After rendering, the fovea region, determined by eye tracking system, gets reconstructed with machine learning models and blend with periphery regions in the compositor. In this way, the eye motion to photon latency can be reduced by roughly one frame duration, minus a minor portion of ML reconstruction time. This latency saving can be crucial to some eye tracking systems avoid latency artifacts with saccade. “

https://uploadvr.com/antilatency-full-body-tracking-system/

A new video from Antilatency shows a system that uses full-body tracking in VR on 10 users simultaneously, allowing them to interact with virtual representations of each other. The system positionally tracks each person’s feet, head and hands.

The system uses Antilatency’s ‘Bracer’ and ‘Tag’ tracking devices, which are small radio sockets that can be added onto existing HMDs to provide additional tracking capability. At CES 2019, these devices were used to turn the Oculus Go, a 3DoF headset, into a 6DoF headset with increased tracking capabilities and multi-user support.

1:58 in framgår att dom nu har 20 titlar som vardera har passerat 1 miljon dollar i intäkter till Quest.

Oculus verkar ha något nytt på gång (när är oklart dock): https://uploadvr.com/oculus-del-mar-quest-2

Facebook Leaks Codename For ‘Del Mar’ Standalone Headset With ‘Jedi Controller’

The documentation for the mobile input API indicates (at present time of writing) that ‘Del Mar’ is in fact a mobile (likely standalone) VR headset, with a new controller codenamed ‘Jedi’

Lite mer info här: https://uploadvr.com/hp-reverb-g2-teased/

Analysis: Monthly-connected VR Headsets on Steam Reach Record High of 1.7 Million

https://www.roadtovr.com/steam-survey-vr-headset-growth-march...

Matigt om efterföljare till Touchkontrollerna: Oculus Firmware Reveals New Touch Controllers, Referencing Improvements To Tracking, Finger Sensing, Haptics

https://uploadvr.com/oculus-jedi-controller-driver-found/

VR Ears Kickstarter Blasts Past Funding Goal for Enhanced Audio on Quest, Rift S, PSVR & More

https://www.roadtovr.com/vr-ears-kickstarter-rebuff-reality-v...

’Half-Life: Alyx’ Was Among the Best Selling Steam Games Released in March

https://www.roadtovr.com/half-life-alyx-best-selling-steam-ma...

Lite VR-relaterat från Facebooks kvartalsrapport för Q1 (https://edge.media-server.com/mmc/p/fx4dahch)

https://www.roadtovr.com/facebooks-non-advertising-revenue-pr...

Quest säljer över förväntan, som många märkt.

Dags för Alyx-effekten:

Analysis: ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Adds Nearly 1 Million VR Users to Steam in Record Gain

To put this into perspective, Steam users with connected VR headsets are now about twice as common as those using Linux

https://www.roadtovr.com/steam-survey-vr-headset-growth-april...

Priset är definitivt viktigt, men för vissa är gratis inte billigt nog.

Facebook’s Oculus Is Developing a New Quest VR Headset

Facebook Inc.’s Oculus division is building a new version of its Quest standalone virtual reality headset, but the device is facing potential delays due to the impact of Covid-19 on product development and the global supply chain

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-05/facebook-s...

Oculus Link Now Works with USB 2.0 Cables, Including the One that Ships With Quest

https://www.roadtovr.com/oculus-link-usb-2-0-tether-quest-cha...

https://www.roadtovr.com/half-life-alyx-modding-tools-downloa...

Valve today launched new Half-Life: Alyx modding tools which will allow developers and tinkerers to make and publish mods and user-generated content via the Steam Workshop system. Valve says the tools will allow for the creation of new levels, models, textures, and animations for the game.

Diverse info i samband med att Rift S och Quest firar ett år: https://www.oculus.com/blog/celebrating-the-one-year-annivers...

T ex: hand tracking går ur beta och stöds i några spel, distansarbetesapplikationer, 1-årsrea i butiken etc.