Virtual reality (VR) is an immersive experience that involves placing a user into a simulated environment using a head-mounted display that is placed directly in front of the user’s eyes. Compared to traditional gaming, it allows the user to be dropped…
As discussed in our virtual reality (VR) intro blog, whilst the VR industry is moving from strength to strength, there are still a few key issues which often stand in the way of developing a truly successful VR experience. For the purposes of this blog…
This blog was written by Kapileshwar Syamasundar during his summer placement at ARM in the ARM Mali Graphics demo team. Kapil did some great work at ARM porting the Ice Cave demo to VR using Unity, we hope you can benefit from this too.
As you may have seen, Virtual Reality (VR) is getting increasingly popular. From its modern origins on desktop, it has quickly spread to other platforms, mobile being the most popular. Every time a new mobile VR demo comes out I am stunned…
Hi, there are no plans to release it currently but you can check it out at the upcoming ARM Game Developer Days in London & Chengdu next month, and we'll be talking a lot more about VR in the coming months so keep an eye out if you want to see more. Thanks…
I would love to check this out in my S6. Will this demo be made public? If not, would you be willing to build it and pass the apk back if I give you my OSIG file?
Hi, glad it was helpful! Sure, It’s “ahead” in the sense that the GPU writes to the buffer just before the display reads it so it can account for last minute changes. Does that make more sense?
Part 4 of the VR series is coming soon,…
Welcome back to the third post in my Virtual Reality (VR) blog series. We’ve already discussed the reasoning behind our interest in VR as a major driving force for graphics development, but even in the time between posts, VR uptake has grown tangibly…
In this blog series we’ll be looking at the current status of Virtual Reality with a special focus on mobile VR, where it’s heading in the future and what ARM® can do to help us get there. We’ll be covering the common challenges and pitfalls and how…
In the previous part of this series, we discussed the advantages of the multiview extension and how it could help you tackle problems encountered while making an application for mobile virtual reality. Now chances are your application is…