Bigscreen is one of the most famous VR games companies and an industry leader in terms of the tech launches and feature updates it keeps churning out year after year. The company had a humble beginning, but today it is one of the biggest entities in VR-based Social media segment.
Today’s article is based on of such topics, the Remote Desktop feature of Bigsreen. This comes as a bit of a shock, since we all know that there hasn’t been much noise from the company in terms of announcements on social media. This week, let us have a look at the biggest launch till date: the Desktop version, Streaming Update on Meta Quest, Valve Index, HTC Vive and Windows Mixed Reality. All of this might lead to a greater quality of streaming, something that not many companies aim to solve.
This coming at a time when the entire world is jumping into Metaverse and VR. The basic mottos of this launch are: Great streaming quality, amazing audio and video quality, greater bandwidth requirements but less buffering and data consumption. This feature enables a minimum of 15 people coming together and interacting with each other.
The streaming update also had certain add-ons, it has less latency than existing ones and stream videos at 60 fps over the LAN. This will allow you to invite friends and hang with them over amazing videos and news.
These updates are just equivalent of laying a strong foundation for the upcoming set of feature updates namely:
A new friend system.
Input streaming for Remote Desktop that includes support for Bluetooth gamepads and keyboards.
A built-in YouTube app that will let you browse and watch YouTube with your friends.
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I guess, oh wait, not guess. I am certain that you are hearing Metaverse and VR for the umpteenth time. They have been all over in the news for a little over 2 months, ever since Mark Zuckerberg announced the re-branding of Facebook as Metaverse. Well, forgive us if we are being repetitive but VR depicts a world just like our where we can meet people, speak to them, albeit not face to face, but in a virtual avatar.
While most people would tend to think that Meta and AR or VR will make life more sedentary, which is true to an extent, here comes a VR-based game that will make you sweat, just like any physical activity. Let’s delve deep into this topic for today and understand as to how exactly this stuff will work and the impact it will have.
Here are a few games that will give you a run for your money (literally, the one which you bought the VR set obviously!) try to get a smart watch and then play the game to get the exact count of calories burnt and other such data after the new-age workout gets completed. Are you ready to know what all games provide this facility? Okay, set your VR headsets tight over the forehead, keep few bottles of water handy, some napkins and towels on the couch below and then yes, you are good to go!
Arms – 1 hour: Beat Saber –This is a rhythm based game that focuses more on your posture and moves more than timing and aggression that modern games demand. You might have to jump here and there, roll over and perform gymnastics. A pro tip: Make sure you keep all your precious accessories away from you while you play this game. This is a good game to get your adrenaline flowing and test your stamina levels after a couple of sedentary years due to pandemic.
Here are a few tips: The key is big swings. Stay grounded and rooted and focus with all your might; focus less on your wrists and more on moving your arms. I find that the best way to have fun while putting in effort is to try to swing at each block with as much force as I can while still managing to reach the next block in time. The key is to smoothly move your swings from one block to the next; this makes a fun challenge where you need to strategize your movements to consider how to most efficiently move from one swing to the next even while making big, hard swings. When you really get into the zone you should feel that satisfying flow state that will carry you through.
2. 30 mins: Pistol Whip
This is a paid game available for 30 bucks in Oculus based Headsets, Steam. It’s based on shooting and will bring your body rhythms into focus. Blow away your enemies and destroy their plans as they come to harm you while you move forward in the game. This might prove to a good workout for your legs since you are constantly on the move and try to dodge your opponents shots at you.
Again these are the tips from our end to succeed in this game:
The key for a good Pistol Whip workout is to keep your feet planted as often as possible. From here you’ll need to move your upper body around to dodge incoming fire as you return fire to kill enemies. Moving in this way will make great use of your legs. Don’t be afraid to get down real low to dodge—not only is it an effective technique for dodging, it’s also going to get those leg muscles flexing.
3. Until you Fall: 30 mins
A USD 25 game available on Oculus Headsets and PVR sets. Its again a game that will provide a nice exercise to your limbs. Like all other adventurous games out there, you gotta fight it out and earn your stripes with which you will be able to buy new weapons and upgrade your existing arms and skill sets.
To be crowned as a successful knight, you’d need tons of time and energy and more importantly practice. It will be a great challenge to your grey cells and muscles.
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Snapchat has brought about huge amounts of data with its feature called as Snapchat Lens Studio. An amazing opportunity for amateur photographers and tech enthusiasts. What is more interesting to note is that these numbers just continue to grow each day. To celebrate such humongous amount of participation from people and as a token of gift, Snapchat initiated a Lens fest.
What this fest does is basically have people from the computer and software engineering world come together have some of the most beautiful brainstorming sessions on various topics. It has sessions, one to one talks, workshops on business building, branding, creativity and tech in general. The most awaited part being on how AR and VR are changing the dynamics of the world we live in.
So during the Lens fest, Snapchat presented few awards as an acknowledgment to the progress made and achievement milestones garnered. These were awards for VR and AR excellence in domains like fashion & beauty, environment & social good, gaming, utility, and more.
Sallia Goldstein partnered with Los Angeles-based artist Ruben Ochoa as part of our Monumental Perspectives initiative in partnership with LACMA. Together, they created an augmented reality monument that pays homage to the shared history of street vendors in L.A.
Best in Creativity — Rock Hand (2020CV’s Hart Woolery)
Hart, a serial entrepreneur and programmer since the age of 12 was inspired by the different ways that people pair art and music. To bring this magic to life through AR, he developed Rock Hand. This Lens nods to nostalgic games such as Rock Band, Guitar Hero and DDR, and reimagines that type of interactive experience in AR paired to modern day tunes.
Ditch the poly juice potion, Denis Rossiev’s SKIN THIEF Lens brings shape-shifting magic to life through AR! SKIN THIEF leverages body tracking technology to scan, capture and overlay your look onto someone else, allowing Snapchatters to (temporarily) pose as their friends.
JigSpace, an Australia-based AR studio, is on a mission to make education more accessible in 3D. Using Snap’s AR technology, JigSpace introduced their Jig Kitchen How-To Lens to help Snapchatters around the world solve every day at-home problems. Sink clogs are gone!
With Food Menu, Brielle Garcia provides a proof of concept for the menus of tomorrow. Inspired by the recent emergence and ubiquitous use of QR codes at restaurants, Brielle’s Lens demonstrates how augmented reality can further enhance the ordering experience allowing viewers to see a dish in 3D before placing an order. With Food Menu, the days of craning over for a look at what the next table ordered are numbered . . .
Best in Environmental & Social Good — Bleached Seas (Helena Papageorgiou)
Australia native, Helena Papageorgiou is using AR to start a discourse about a local problem with global implications: coral bleaching. As temperatures rise due to increased Co2 in the atmosphere, coral reefs are suffering. Through Bleached Seas, Helena is teaching audiences about the real-world implications of climate change through interactive AR.
Best in Fashion & Beauty — OG MetaJacket (RTFKT STUDIOS)
RTFKT Studios, best known for their NFT collabs and Elon Musk’s iconic cybershoes, dropped a new virtual look for Snapchatters around the world. With their OG MetaJacket, Snapchatters can up their virtual fashion game and see first hand how augmented reality unlocks endless possibilities when it comes to virtual fashion design.
Leighton McDonald’s Blacksoul Gallery celebrates and showcases artistic works from Black emerging artists including Bria Thomas, Juliet Nneka and Dillon ATM, and allows Snapchatters to experience the work out in the world wherever they are, beyond the closed walls of a museum.
From Aidan Wolf, the founder of the first-ever AR Creator House, Ponk offers an interactive game for friends to play together. Through this game, which draws inspiration from the principles of ping pong and brick breaker, Aidan is excited to deliver an experience that quickly connects people together.
So, if you are a VR and AR geek, you should definitely consider following our blog. We are Twin Reality Technologies, an Indian startup building virtual reality Web and App development services. We would be glad to get in touch with you! Until the next blog post, have an amazing day!
Till date, of there was one player who had serious design and investments into making VR headsets, it was Oculus. Slowly, yet steadily Sony is making serious inroads into building headsets.
This article focuses on the same. Let us have a deep dive into what Sony has built and launched recently. In its virtual event called, Sony Technology Day, the company showed the world its low-latency VR Headsets. Going further down the specs, it has an OLED display, 4K resolution, and amazing sound systems in place. The high definition system makes you feel stuff in 3D.
What makes us wonder, is the display systems. If you are someone with a decent interest in material Science and hardware, don’t miss this part. They have made use of CMOS Image sensors, Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLED), microelectronics and advanced micro circuit technology to the fore.
The X-factor for these headsets, will definitely be low latency. let us understand what latency is, for you to appreciate this feature. Latency is the delay you experience between your physical action and for that action to be displayed on the screen. If the screen is far from you, there wont be any effect, but the closer you are, the more will be motion sickness. This is where, these headsets score big.
You could get a chance to experience the tech, as Sony plans to launch its VR-based PlayStation during the 2022 holiday season.
With Facebook launching its own Meta version for Virtual Reality, it has created a huge buzz around the Virtual reality domain. So, a lot of people and companies are planning or will be delving into this domain in the coming days so if you too are a tech enthusiast, then you should try to implement something in Virtual Reality or Mixed Reality. For that to happen you must know a few PC specifications and compatibilities to work on your laptops.
Let us delve a bit deep into them. The first and foremost thing is the display, naturally without a doubt since that is the main attention seeker. So that brings us to the display and other hardware specifications that your Personal Computer will need for you to enjoy the rendering process.
Your PC should have a GPU that runs on no less than 90+ FPS rate.
Since these days, there a lot of VR headsets available in the market, one should be very sure of which hardware will suit the PC and not have unnecessary complications happening while working.
There are a few standard recommendations for each of the headsets, that now will be looking into at a bit more depth.
Oculus Rift S Recommended VR Specifications:
Video Card: NVIDIA GTX 1060 / AMD Radeon RX 480 or greater
CPU: Intel i5-4590 / AMD Ryzen 5 1500X or greater
Memory: 8GB RAM or greater
Video Output: DisplayPort
USB Ports: 1x USB 3.0 port
OS: Windows 10
Oculus Rift CV1 Recommended VR Specifications:
Video Card: NVIDIA GTX 1060 / AMD Radeon RX 480 or greater
CPU: Intel i5-4590 / AMD Ryzen 5 1500X or greater
Memory: 8GB RAM or greater
Video Output: Compatible HDMI 1.3 video output
USB Ports: 3x USB 3.0 ports plus 1x USB 2.0 port
OS: Windows 10 (Windows 7/8.1 no longer recommended)
Valve Index Recommended VR Specifications:
Video Card: NVIDIA GTX 1070 / AMD equivalent or greater
CPU: Quad Core+
Memory: 8GB RAM
Video Output: DisplayPort 1.2
USB Ports: 1x USB 2.0 port (USB 3.0 required for camera passthrough), 1x DisplayPort v1.2
OS: Windows 10, SteamOS, Linux
Vive Cosmos Recommended VR Specifications
Video Card: NVIDIA GTX 1070 / AMD Radeon Vega 56 or greater
CPU: Intel Core i5-4590/AMD FX 8350 equivalent or greater
Memory: 8GB RAM
Video Output: DisplayPort 1.2
USB Ports: 1x USB 3.0 port
OS: Windows 10
Vive Cosmos Elite Recommended VR Specifications
Video Card: NVIDIA GTX 1070 / AMD Radeon Vega 56 or greater
CPU: Intel Core i5-4590/AMD FX 8350 equivalent or greater
Memory: 8GB RAM
Video Output: DisplayPort 1.2
USB Ports: 1x USB 3.0 port
OS: Windows 10
Vive Pro 2 Recommended VR Specifications
Video Card: NVIDIA GTX 1060 / Quadro P5000 / AMD Radeon Vega 56 or greater
CPU: Intel Core i5-4590 / AMD FX 8350 equivalent or greater
Memory: 8GB RAM
Video Output: DisplayPort 1.2 or newer
USB Ports: 1x USB 3.0 port or newer
OS: Windows 10
Vive Focus 3 Minimum VR Specifications
Video Card:NVIDIAGTX 1060 / AMDRadeon RX 480 or greater
CPU: Intel Core i5-4590 / AMD FX 8350 or greater
Memory: 8GB RAM or more
Video Output: HDMI 1.4 / DisplayPort 1.2
USB Ports: 1x USB 2.0 port
Wired Streaming: 1x USB Type-C 3.0 cable (5 Gbps)
Wireless Streaming (routers): Wi-Fi 802.11ac or Wi-Fi 802.11ax (5GHz)
OS: Windows 10
General Windows Mixed Reality Recommended VR Specifications
Video Card: NVIDIA GTX 1060 / AMD RX 470/570 or greater
Video Output: HDMI 2.0 or DisplayPort 1.2 (may vary based on specific headset)
USB Port: 1x USB 3.0
OS: Windows 10 (Note: Not supported on N versions or Windows 10 Pro in S Mode)
Bluetooth Some headsets require Bluetooth 4.0 for controller connectivity
HP Reverb G1 and G2 Windows Mixed Reality Recommended VR Specifications
Video Card: NVIDIA GTX 1080 / AMD RX 5700 or greater
CPU: Intel Core i5, i7 / AMD Ryzen 5 or greater
Memory: 8GB
Video Output: DisplayPort 1.3
USB Port: 1x USB 3.0
OS: Windows 10 (may require latest updates)
Pimax 8K X Recommended VR Specifications
Video Card
Upscale Mode: NVIDIA RTX 2060
Native Mode: NVIDIA RTX 2080
CPU: Intel Core i5-9400 equivalent or greater
Memory: 8GB
Video Output: DisplayPort 1.2
USB Port: USB 2.0 or greater
OS: Windows 10
Pimax 8K Plus Recommended VR Specifications
Video Card: NVIDIA RTX 2060
CPU: Intel Core i5-9400 equivalent or greater
Memory: 8GB
Video Output: DisplayPort 1.2
USB Port: USB 2.0 or greater
OS: Windows 10
Pimax 5K Super Recommended VR Specifications
Video Card: NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti
CPU: Intel Core i5-9400 equivalent or greater
Memory: 8GB
Video Output: DisplayPort 1.2
USB Port: USB 2.0 or greater
OS: Windows 10
Pimax 5K Plus Recommended VR Specifications
Video Card: NVIDIA GTX 1070
CPU: Intel Core i5-9400 equivalent or greater
Memory: 8GB
Video Output: DisplayPort 1.4
USB Port: USB 2.0 or greater
OS: Windows 10, Windows 8.1
Pimax Artisan Recommended VR Specifications
Video Card: NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti
CPU: Intel Core i5-9400 equivalent or greater
Memory: 8GB
Video Output: DisplayPort 1.4
USB Port: USB 2.0 or greater
OS: Windows 10, Windows 8.1
All of these are the standard recommendations that are expected to be in place before you start working with Virtual and Augmented Reality projects. Since these are one of the hot trending technologies, whatever your interest is, we recommend to at least have a couple of projects under your belt to be able to have a complete and competent skillset.
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