Category Archives: Augmented Reality

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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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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Case Study: Can XR provide any benefits in learning tasks?

Posted on June 16, 2018 by Ron

I was taken with the results of a study that was co-run by Siemens and Daqri that was brought to my attention by Colin Couper from Daqri in a talk at AWE 2018. I was going to post about it … Continue reading →

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A 20Megapixel VR display and Foveated rendering

Posted on January 5, 2018 by Ron

tl,dr: Some companies (including Google) have announced soon-to-be available (2018) very-high resolution VR/AR displays. To deliver on these, two problems need to be overcome – not enough memory bandwidth or GPU compute available)(to be solved with foveated rendering techniques) which … Continue reading →

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First view of the Magic Leap HMD drops, let’s guess the FOV

Posted on December 20, 2017 by Ron

So Magic leap just announced its HMD, the “Lightwear” (plus accessories) .  I was really hoping for something a bit more wraparound and less cyberpunk. Immersion is really helped by a good field of view (FOV), but immersion might not … Continue reading →

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