Road to VR

Oculus Launches ASW 2.0 with Positional Timewarp to Reduce Latency, Improve Performance

Oculus today released ASW 2.0, an upgrade to the company’s ‘Asynchronous Spacewarp’ technology which is designed to smooth out the visuals inside the headset to compensate for performance fluctuations ...
Digital Journal

Facebook’s Oculus unveils way to make virtual reality affordable

Oculus made the announcement at its Connect developers event this week. Over 3,000 people attended the conference, the biggest in Oculus’ history. During the keynote, Oculus introduced a new ...
Road to VR

SteamVR Gets Motion Smoothing, an ASW-like Feature to Help VR Apps Run Better

Valve today introduced Motion Smoothing to SteamVR in beta. Similar to Oculus’ Asynchronous Spacewarp (ASW), the feature uses previous frames to synthesize new frames on the fly, allowing VR ...
Inverse

Oculus Rift S: Pre-Order, Price, and Release Date for the Upgraded VR Rig

Facebook’s F8 developer conference began Tuesday and the social media giant kicked things off with a flurry of virtual reality tech announcements. Its its $399 PC VR headset, the Oculus Rift S, is ...
PC Magazine

Oculus's Asynchronous Spacewarp Brings VR to Cheap PCs

Asynchronous spacewarp: is it reality, or something that Captain Kirk yells as the USS Enterprise is about to engage its warp drive? Actuality, it's virtual reality—a new processing technique that ...