Wanted pages

New products

• Meta Aria Gen 2 - https://www.projectaria.com/

• Android XR - Samsung's Android XR Headset

• HoloKit - AR headset for iPhone - https://holokit.io/intro_holokit/

• EyeSight - feature from Apple Vision Pro
• Persona - feature from Apple Vision Pro

• Meta Horizon OS
• VR Chat - Avatar Marketplace - Boothplorer - https://www.roadtovr.com/vrchat-avatar-marketplace-release-digital-economy/
• BCI in AVP - https://www.uploadvr.com/apple-vision-pro-getting-bci-brain-computer-interface-support/

2025

• Webspatial - https://github.com/webspatial/webspatial-sdk

2023

• HoloKit - AR headset for iPhone - https://holokit.io/intro_holokit/
• Apple AR/VR Headset - Reality One / Reality Pro / Reality Processor - visionOS and XR
• New Meta Headset releasing later this year

Guides

Oculus Rift 360 Degrees and Room-scale Setup with 3 Sensors - official pdf, comparison, source 3 source 4, source 5

Update

TPCAST - ref 1

Oculus Rift DK2 Open Source - ref 1

Concepts

Technical Concepts

• Phone-Powered AR
• Standalone AR
• Console-Powered VR
• PC-Powered AR
• Quest Insight tracking
• Pose
• VR UI/UX design - reference 1
• Near-eye light field (NE-LF)
• Point cloud
• Mura correction - improves image sharpness, first employed in HTC Vive Pre

Myriad 2 / Vision processing unit - reference 1, reference 2, reference 3, reference 4

Lens Matched Shading - avoid rendering pixels that end up being discarded after the distortion process.

simulating weight in VR

Hardware

Pimax 5K - ref 1

Daydream View (2017) - ref 1, ref 2 -

Google Pixel 2 / Google Pixel 2 XL - ref 1 - AR-ready and Daydream-ready

Oculus For Business - ref 1, ref 2

Oculus Santa Cruz 2 - Santa Cruz Controllers - ref 1 - High-end standalone HMD with 6DOF controllers. Controllers are tracked by sensors on HMD!

Mindride Airflow - ref - harness that simulates flying in VR

New Base Stations - reference 1, ref 2 - New Vive Base Stations

Sync Blinker - IR beacon within Base Stations for Lighthouse

FOCUS - 360 Camera by Link VR

Camera Array News

Qualcomm VRDK using Snapdragon 385 - reference 1, ref 2, ref 3 - VR Dev kit by Qualcomm with inside-out6, DOF tracking and eye tracking

Glass with Augmedix - ref 1 - Healthcare with Google Glass

Strider VR - ref 1 - new approach to omnidirectional treadmill

Eye-Sync - portable concussion diagnosis tool.

Samsung Odyssey - ref 1 - VR HMD part of the Windows Mixed Reality series.

Updated PlayStation VR and PlayStation Move controllers - ref 1, ref 2 - not released

Software

Snapchat AR Lenses

OpenXR - ref 1 - open standard for VR and AR apps and devices.

CloverVR - ref 1 - VR Editing Interface for Adobe Premiere Pro

NVDIA Holodeck - ref 1 - Photorealistic Collaborative Design in VR or Design lab of the future

Chrome VR - VR web browser by Google that supports WebVR

Oculus Avatars - Universal avatars for the Oculus (Platform)

Facebook 360 Capture SDK - integrate into VR apps so that you can capture and share your VR experiences through 360 photos and videos.

V (Dashboard) - reference 1 - a dashboard that pipes websites and mobile apps directly into any VR games or experiences.

Google VR - Google's VR platform. Consist of Cardboard for low-end and Daydream for high-end.

Destinations - Valve's free tool that allows anyone to create realistic VR worlds with Photogrammetry.

Camera Effects Platform - AR Studio - Frame Studio - Facebook's AR platform for camera

Vuforia - Qualcomm's AR SDK

VRidge - allows the user to play Rift and Vive games with Cardboard

The Lab Renderer - reference 1

Ansel - NVIDIA's screenshot tool that allows users to take 360 degrees, 3D images inside games.

VRWorks - update the page with information from source 1, add VRWorks Audio

IC.IDO - VR CAD Simulation by ESI Group

Vizor - easily create and publish VR content on the web

VLC - popular video player that supports 360 videos and VR HMDs.

The View - source - create VR Tours easily.

Phantom - AR OS

Decentraland - ref 1 - Peer-to-peer, blockchain-based metaverse

SteamVR Home - ref 1

Pixvana's SPIN Play SDK - enables playback and streaming of 360 degree / VR content, powers Steam's 360 Video Player

OpenVR Recorder - ref 1 - record OpenVR tracking data from headsets, motion controllers and Vive Trackers.

Apps

Games

Doom VFR - VR game for the latest Doom game

Fallout 4 VR - VR version of Fallout 4, Native VR support for Fallout 4 with motion tracked controllers

Fragments - AR detective game for the HoloLens.

Arktika.1 - Sci-fi FPS game using Touch made by Studio that made Metro series. Touch exclusive

Robo Recall - Robo FPS game by Epic Games

SUPERHYPERCUBE - VR Tetris game

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard - VR mode is exclusive to PSVR

EVE: Valkyrie - multiplayer spaceship dogfighting game for Oculus Rift and PSVR

Kingspray Graffiti - Graffiti simulator in VR

The Unspoken - magic-casting PVP VR game built for Rift with Touch by Insomniac Games

Dead & Buried - gunslinging multiplayer FPS game by Oculus Studios for the Touch

Minecraft (HoloLens)

Scorched Battalion - turn-based artillery game (Oculus' Mobile VR Jam 2015 Silver Prize)

Dreams - PSVR game made by Media Molecule, creators of Little Big Planet.

Budget Cuts - refrence 1 - VR game for HTC Vive with stealth and portal elements

Cloudlands - reference 1 - VR minigolf

Lucky's Tale - reference 1 - VR platforming game that comes with every Rift

The Gallery: Call of the Starseed - adventure game for HTC Vive

Mars 2030 - reference 1 - Realistic Mars exploration game based by NASA

Eagle Flight - reference 1 - Flying VR game by Ubisoft

VR Sports Challenge - Play football, basketball, baseball and hockey in VR.

Edge of Nowhere - 3rd person action-adventure game by Insomniac Games.

I Expect You To Die

CasinoVR - gambling in VR

Golem - first-person adventure game for PSVR

Neos Core - multi-user, multi-device VR interaction and collaboration tool

holos - by turingVR - VR portal

Vive Home - HTC's VR portal

Loci - HoloLens mind mapping

SketchAR - Trace over AR images

Plevr - brings streaming service plex to VR with 3D and 360 video.

Pearl (2016) - first 360 Video to be nominated for Oscar.

Companies and Organizations

Anduril

Dreamscape Immersive - ref 1, ref 2 - VR theme park / arcade similar to The Void

Surreal - ref 1 - Immersive VR Studio

Neuralink - ref 1 - Elon Musk's company to develop implantable brain–computer interface

Reality Caucus - ref 1 - United States Congressional Caucus on Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality Technologies

GVRA - site - Global Virtual Reality Association

VREAL - reference 1 - VR streaming technology company.

IrisVR - VR for architecture

Envelop VR - Data visualization

Two Bit Circus - VR + Circus

Body Labs - 3D body modeling

Echopixel - creator of True 3D, medical visualization software

EEVO - platform for VR films

Virtualitics - visualize big data in VR

Media

Books

Rainbows End

Otherland

Shows

Black Mirror

Events

Kaleidoscope World Tour 2016 - Kaleidoscope VR Film Festival that showcases VR experiences to 10 cities in 9 countries.

VRLA

Leap Motion 3D Jam 2015 - contest

VR World Congress 2016 - April 12th 2016 at the Marriott City Centre Hotel in Bristol, U.K.

SEA VR - based in Seattle, largest VR convention in northwest

VR FEST - takes place in Las Vegas, same time as CES.

VRS Conference - Virtual Reality Strategy Conference by Greenlight Insights