{"id":25248,"date":"2018-05-03T01:26:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T01:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/?p=314761"},"modified":"2018-05-06T22:27:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T22:27:11","slug":"round-up-new-high-resolution-virtual-reality-and-augmented-reality-headsets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2018\/05\/03\/round-up-new-high-resolution-virtual-reality-and-augmented-reality-headsets\/","title":{"rendered":"round-up | New high-resolution virtual-reality and augmented-reality headsets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_314767\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 572px;  border: 1px solid #dddddd; background-color: #f3f3f3; padding-top: 4px; margin: 10px; text-align:center; display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/high-resolution-virtual-reality-and-augmented-reality-headsets-announced\/oculus-go-headset\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-314767\"><img class=\" wp-image-314767\" title=\"Oculus Go headset\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/images\/Oculus-Go-headset.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"562\" height=\"510\" \/><\/a><p style=' padding: 0 4px 5px; margin: 0;'  class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oculus Go (credit: Oculus)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Oculus\u00a0 announced Monday (April 30) that its much-anticipated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oculus.com\/go\">Oculus Go<\/a> virtual-reality headset is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oculus.com\/blog\/oculus-go-available-now-our-best-vr-optics-in-our-first-standalone-vr-headset\/\">now available<\/a>, priced at $199 (32GB storage version).<\/p>\n<p><iframe frameborder=\"0\" height=\"318\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yufoCTBbVic\" width=\"565\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Oculus Go is a standalone headset (no need for a tethered PC, as with Oculus Rift, or for inserting a phone, as with Gear VR and other consumer VR devices). It features a high-resolution 2560 x 1440 pixels (538 ppi) display, hand controller, and built-in surround sound and microphone. (<em>Ars Technica<\/em> has an excellent <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2018\/05\/oculus-go-review-the-wireless-vr-future-begins-today-for-only-199\/\">review<\/a>, including technical details.)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_314764\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 571px;  border: 1px solid #dddddd; background-color: #f3f3f3; padding-top: 4px; margin: 10px; text-align:center; display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/high-resolution-virtual-reality-and-augmented-reality-headsets-announced\/anshar-online\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-314764\"><img class=\" wp-image-314764\" title=\"Anshar Online\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/images\/Anshar-Online.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"561\" height=\"452\" \/><\/a><p style=' padding: 0 4px 5px; margin: 0;'  class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anshar Online (credit: OZWE Games\/Ars Technica)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>More than 1,000 games and experiences for the Oculus Go are already available. Notable: futuristic<em> Ready Player One<\/em>-style <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oculus.com\/experiences\/go\/1483105368478205\/\">Anshar Online<\/a> <\/em>multiplayer space shooter and<strong> <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uploadvr.com\/oculus-rooms-major-update-go\/\">Oculus Rooms<\/a>, a social lounge where friends (as avatars) can watch TV or movies together on a 180-inch virtual screen\u00a0and play Hasbro board games &#8212; redefining the solitary VR experience.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_314766\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 570px;  border: 1px solid #dddddd; background-color: #f3f3f3; padding-top: 4px; margin: 10px; text-align:center; display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/high-resolution-virtual-reality-and-augmented-reality-headsets-announced\/oculus-rooms\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-314766\"><img class=\"wp-image-314766 \" title=\"Oculus Rooms\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/images\/Oculus-Rooms.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"256\" \/><\/a><p style=' padding: 0 4px 5px; margin: 0;'  class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oculus Rooms (credit: Oculus)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Next-gen Oculus VR headsets<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today (May 2) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.f8.com\/\" >F8<\/a>,\u00a0Facebook&#8217;s developer conference, the company revealed a prototype Oculus VR headset called\u00a0\u201cHalf Dome.\u201d It goes beyond Oculus Go\u2019s 100 degrees to 140 degrees to see more of the visual world in your periphery.\u00a0Its variable-focus displays move up and down depending on what you&#8217;re focusing on, and make objects that are close to the wearer&#8217;s eyes appear much sharper and crisper, <em>Engadget<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/05\/02\/oculus-prototype-headset-half-dome\/\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_314797\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 568px;  border: 1px solid #dddddd; background-color: #f3f3f3; padding-top: 4px; margin: 10px; text-align:center; display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/high-resolution-virtual-reality-and-augmented-reality-headsets-announced\/half-dome\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-314797\"><img class=\" wp-image-314797\" title=\"Half Dome\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/images\/Half-Dome.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"419\" \/><\/a><p style=' padding: 0 4px 5px; margin: 0;'  class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prototype Half Dome VR headset (credit: Facebook)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Apple\u2019s super-high-resolution wireless VR-AR headset<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Apple is working on a powerful wireless headset for AR and VR, for 2020 release, <em>CNET<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/apple-is-working-on-an-ar-augmented-reality-vr-virtual-reality-headset-powered-by-a-wireless-wigig-hub\/\">reported<\/a> Friday, based on sources (Apple has not commented).* Code-named<strong> <\/strong>T288, the headset will feature two super-high-resolution 8K** (four times higher resolution than today\u2019s 4K TVs) displays (for each eye), making the VR and AR images look highly lifelike &#8212; way beyond any devices currently available on the market.<\/p>\n<p>To handle that extremely high resolution (and associated data rate) while connecting to an external processor box, T288 will use high-speed, short-range 60GHz\u00a0wireless technology called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wireless_Gigabit_Alliance\">WiGig<\/a>, capable of data transfer rates up to 7\u00a0Gbit\/s. The headset would also use a smaller, faster, more-power-efficient 5-nanometer-node processor, to be designed by Apple.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A patent application for <\/strong><strong>VR\/AR experiences in vehicles<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_314783\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 570px;  border: 1px solid #dddddd; background-color: #f3f3f3; padding-top: 4px; margin: 10px; text-align:center; display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/high-resolution-virtual-reality-and-augmented-reality-headsets-announced\/vr-ar-vehicle-systems\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-314783\"><img class=\" wp-image-314783\" title=\"VR-AR vehicle systems\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/images\/VR-AR-vehicle-systems.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"251\" \/><\/a><p style=' padding: 0 4px 5px; margin: 0;'  class=\"wp-caption-text\">(credit: Apple\/USPTO)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In related news, Apple has applied for a <a href=\"http:\/\/appft.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&amp;Sect2=HITOFF&amp;u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&amp;r=1&amp;p=1&amp;f=G&amp;l=50&amp;d=PG01&amp;S1=((apple.AS.+AND+kurz.IN.)+AND+20180329.PD.)&amp;OS=an\/apple+and+in\/kurz+and+pd\/20180329&amp;RS=((AN\/apple+AND+IN\/kurz)+AND+PD\/20180329)\">patent<\/a> for a system using virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) to help alleviate both motion sickness and boredom in a moving vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The patent application covers three cases: experiences and environments using VR, AR, and mixed reality (VR + AR + the real world). Apple claims that the design will reduce nausea from vehicle movement (or from perceived movement in a virtual-reality experience).<\/p>\n<p>It also claims to provide (as entertainment) motion or acceleration effects via a vehicle seat, vehicle movement, or vehicle on-board systems (such as audio effects and using a heating\/cooling fan to blow \u201cwind\u201d or moving\/shaking the seat).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_314773\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 569px;  border: 1px solid #dddddd; background-color: #f3f3f3; padding-top: 4px; margin: 10px; text-align:center; display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/high-resolution-virtual-reality-and-augmented-reality-headsets-announced\/jurassic-world-blue\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-314773\"><img class=\" wp-image-314773\" title=\"Jurassic World Blue\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/images\/Jurassic-World-Blue.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"440\" \/><\/a><p style=' padding: 0 4px 5px; margin: 0;'  class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jurassic World: Blue (credit: Universal, Felix &amp; Paul)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For example, imagine riding in a car on a road that morphs into a prehistoric theme park (such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oculus.com\/experiences\/go\/1599089200204462\/\">Jurassic World: Blue<\/a> VR experience from Universal Pictures\u00a0and\u00a0Felix &amp; Paul Studios, which was announced Monday to coincide with the release of\u00a0Oculus Go).<\/p>\n<p><em>* At its 2017 June Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), Apple\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/apple-jumps-into-augmented-reality-with-arkit\/\" data-s-object-id=\"articleBody\">unveiled ARKit<\/a>\u00a0to enable developers to create augmented-reality apps for Apple products. Apple will hold its 29th WWDC on June 4&#8211;8 in San Jose.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>** \u201c<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/8K_resolution\">8K\u00a0resolution<\/a> (8K\u00a0UHD), is the current highest ultra high definition television (UHD TV) resolution in digital television and digital cinematography,\u201d according to Wikipedia. \u201c8K refers to the horizontal resolution, 7,680 pixels, forming the total image dimensions (7680\u00d74320), otherwise known as 4320p. \u2026 It has four times as many pixels [as 4K], or 16 times as many pixels as\u00a0<a title=\"1080p\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1080p\">Full HD<\/a>. \u2026 8K is speculated to become a mainstream consumer display resolution around 2023.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oculus&nbsp; announced Monday (April 30) that its much-anticipated Oculus Go virtual-reality headset is now available, priced at $199 (32GB storage version). Oculus Go is a standalone headset (no need for a tethered PC, as with Oculus Rift, or for inserting a phone, as with Gear VR and other consumer VR devices). 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