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Leap Motion’s well-publicized struggles are a decent barometer here. “This is for an audience that wants an upgraded experience,” Shen Ye, the company’s senior director, global head of Product said in an interview with TechCrunch, “gamers and just people who want a good headset that is comfortable.”Īt this point in the evolutionary process, it might be unfair to put the bar for success at an XR headset in every home.

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At $1,099, it’s a few hundred dollars less expensive than Meta’s Quest Pro but still way too expensive to see it as some kind of breakthrough for the industry at large. It means being okay with remaining a relative niche - a far cry from the Taiwanese manufacturer’s high-flying days as a phone maker - while chipping away at those big granite boulders standing between it and the general public.įor HTC, the Vive XR Elite was the star of the show. In the meantime, that means focusing on a core audience. It’s the recognition that - in spite of years of hearing otherwise - true mainstream adoption is still some ways off. Both of these factors are moving in the right direction, certainly, but there’s a big, open question around whether they’re doing so at a fast enough clip to hit a critical mass in this iteration of the perennial hype cycle. Good VR is still prohibitively expensive. I believe that most of the people who try these technologies in this context get it, but there are currently far too many barriers to getting these products on most people’s faces. Strap on a headset and feel the show floor slip away for a minute or two. There’s something about the technology that feels warm and welcoming, after a long day on your feet, glad handing your way across Las Vegas venues. I was dazzled by a few demos but ultimately left wondering what form a true mainstreaming of AR/VR might ultimately take - if it ever actually takes such a form at all. Strong presences from Meta, Magic Leap, Sony and HTC led the way at this year’s CES, with hundreds of startups picking up the rear. But then, they all seem to be, these days. You’ll now have the largest VR content library right at your fingertips.It was the year of XR. Just select the new “Cardboard” option from the watch page menu, drop your phone into your viewer, and you’re done.

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And that’s the fact that you can now watch any video using Google Cardboard, and experience a kind of virtual movie theater. Our second bit of news is for the universe of existing YouTube content. To give it a try just find a VR video on YouTube, drop your phone into your Cardboard viewer, and you’re off! If you’re a creator, you can also check out technologies like Jump to capture and share your own VR videos. So if you were excited about 360° videos, this is pretty freakin’ cool. Near things look near, far things look far. Using the same tricks that we humans use to see the world, VR video gives you a sense of depth as you look around in every direction. All you need is your current phone, and a Google Cardboard viewer.įirst, YouTube now supports VR video-a brand new kind of video that makes you feel like you’re actually there.

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Virtual reality (VR) makes the experience of being there even more awesome and immersive, so today we’re bringing two new VR features to YouTube’s Android app.

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