Author Archives: Ron

In the future where VR/AR/MR technology is highly advanced, would we spend our time more in reality or inside the virtual world?

Posted on May 10, 2020 by Ron

This is a long-winded answer to a Quora question, reproduced here. TLDR: They will blend together into an always-on digital overlay that you will live in 24/7. And you’ll love it. It’s actually much closer than you think. Very soon … Continue reading →

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The Limit: VR Review

Posted on January 11, 2019 by Ron

TLDR: Ugh – pass. Low budget, breaks a lot of VR film-making rules. Filmmaker Robert Rodriguez has a debut VR film called The Limit –  a 20-minute action short starring Michelle Rodriguez and Norman Reedus. I’m not going to cover … Continue reading →

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The Great C: VR Review

Posted on January 11, 2019 by Ron

TLDR: it’s great! – buy it for one of the best passive VR experiences you can get today. When I reviewed Google’s 360° action flick  Help – it became the standout example of horrible 360° filmmaking – basically trying to … Continue reading →

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Eye Tracking – what it means for XR Developers and Designers

Posted on October 23, 2018 by Ron

Technical Overview: Eye Tracking Eye tracking means that the direction of the eye gaze for each eye, plus detection of eye-lid closure (i.e.blinks), are available. With a little mathematics it’s possible to turn this into a view direction in the … Continue reading →

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Ray Tracing is here! (and why it won’t matter for a while)

Posted on August 21, 2018 by Ron

Nvidia brings first Ray-Tracing capable video card to market. Nvidia announced their Turing-based video cards, including the Professional Quadro RTX 8000, RTX 6000 and RTX 5000 GPUs at Siggraph and their consumer level cards the GeForce RTX 2070, RTX 2080 … Continue reading →

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HTC demos 16 simultaneous Vive Lighthouse Play Areas

Posted on August 5, 2018 by Ron

If you’ve had the pleasure of setting up Oculus and Vive VR rigs, then  you’re aware that the Vive is a dream to set up compared to the Oculus – Oculus is incredibly, annoyingly finicky, while HTC Vive usually just … Continue reading →

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Magic Leap hidden documentation tells FOV values

Posted on July 31, 2018 by Ron

Magic Leap published its Creators guidelines and had a section marked FOV – which contained just the text “Coming soon on launch day!” If you looked at the source however it included the actual  text of the document (since removed) … Continue reading →

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Latest Magic Leap reveal – more underwhelming than anything else.

Posted on July 13, 2018 by Ron

Another Magic Leap video , and a few crumbs of information emerge. The “Magic Leap One Creators Edition” in now know to be: Powered by an NVidia Tegra X2 Runs a custom Linux x64 OS called LumenOS … and that’s … Continue reading →

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