Category Archives: Hardware

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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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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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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Largest shared VR installation ever?

Posted on March 1, 2016 by Ron

I’m currently pretty busy building out and managing the development of what may be the largest shared VR installation ever. It’s designed to surround up to about 25-30 people and they will be sharing a virtual experience, so while one … Continue reading →

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20% of Android devices are OpenGL-ES 3.0 capable

Posted on August 15, 2014 by Ron

OpenGL-ES 3.0 adoption is continuing at a high pace. We’re still on track for 1/3rd of all Android devices to be OpenGL-ES 3.0 capable by years end, and we haven’t even seen the newest hardware due out in a few … Continue reading →

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OpenGL-ES 3.0 surpasses 16% of Android market and is accelerating

Posted on June 10, 2014 by Ron

The Android dashboard continues to show that OpenGL-ES 3.0 adoption is marching on. In fact it seems like the trend over the last few months as been one of accelerated adoptions. We’re on track for 1/3rd of all Android devices … Continue reading →

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Sony to announce VR HMD at GDC?

Posted on March 1, 2014 by Ron

The rumor is that Sony might announce its Oculus competitor at GDC – speculation fueled by two of the presenters (Marks and Mikhailov) who have some experience with new technology and might signal the announcement of a commercial implementation of … Continue reading →

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