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A Virtual Tour photographer can easily load a 360 Tour into his phone, pop it into the cardboard, and experience the Virtual Tour Photography in VR. Inserting a smartphone into a cardboard container and then strapping it to your head may sound like a spoof, but it actually works and it could become a low-cost way to experience virtual reality. Google announced its Cardboard Virtual Reality headset at I/O 2014 and unveiled version 2 at the 2015 conference. There’s no word on a release date, and it’s unlikely to be a reality until 2016.

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There’s also no connection to a PC – a full Windows 10 system is built into the headset and runs off a battery.

Using Kinect-style tech to recognise gestures and voice commands, the headset has a 120 degree field of vision on both axis, and is capable of ‘high definition’ visuals.

This Virtual Reality device merges real world elements with virtual ‘holographic’ images, meaning you can look at your game world on your kitchen table, or walk around the surface of a planet in your living room. Microsoft HoloLens is half virtual and half augmented reality. It’s already added a host of games and a whole marketplace of VR video content called Milk VR, which is available in the US. 360 Tours and Virtual Tour Photography can easily be streamed through the system. Samsung’s first VR headset is an awesome peek into the future of Virtual Reality for the rest of us and we’re betting on Samsung to make good on its promise to get enough movies, games and VR experiences onto the Gear VR as soon as possible. The Galaxy handset simply slots in front of the lenses, into a Micro USB dock, and uses its Super AMOLED display as your screen. The Gear VR is an Oculus Rift powered device that uses a Samsung Galaxy smartphone (Note 4 or Galaxy S6 depending on the version you choose) as its processor and display. Samsung’s entry into VR has delivered one of the best all-round and consumer friendly headsets on the market. The reported latency issues of Morpheus Mk1 have been addressed, with a new 18ms reading, and tracking accuracy has been tweaked with a total of nine LEDs now aiding the positional awareness of the headset. The display’s refresh rate has been ramped up to 120hz, making 120fps gaming a real possibility. The PlayStation 4 powered VR headset formerly known as Morpheus finally has a launch time for first half of 2016.Ī new version was announced at GDC 2015 and gone is the 5-inch LCD display of the original prototype in its place a 5.7-inch OLED one that will improve motion blur and enable low persistence. The Vive expected release for commercial use is in April. Vive has a tracking system that uses lasers to keep an eye on your location within a space as large as 15 by 15 feet, making it possible to roam around while using the headset. According to HTC CEO Cher Wang, that is due to a “very, very big technological breakthrough.” HTC and Valve’s VR headset Vive, recently went from possibly being one of the early VR headsets to be available, to another 2016 release.

The consumer edition is set to ship in Quarter 1 2016, with two wireless Oculus Touch controllers to allow hand tracking, and Xbox One control pad compatibility. You can even plug in today Virtual Tours in the device and get a true walk through of a property. Developed by 21-year-old engineer Palmer Luckey, funded via Kickstarter and snapped up by Facebook for $2 billion, the Rift plugs into your computer’s DVI and USB ports and tracks your head movements to provide 3D imagery to its stereo screens. Oculus Rift is the virtual reality headset that started the current frenzy.

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