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What is MRTK-Unity? – Mixed Reality ToolKit

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The Mixed Reality Toolkit (MRTK) by Microsoft is an open-source toolkit that has been around since the HoloLens was first released in 2016. Understanding the MRTK-Unity Toolkit for MR Developers. Microsoft-driven MRTK-Unity is a suite of components and capabilities used to speed the creation of cross-platform MR applications in Unity.

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Leap Motion Releases Major Tracking Update and New Demos to Show It Off

Road to VR

Leap Motion builds the leading markerless hand-tracking technology, and today the company revealed a update which they claim brings major improvements “across the board.” ” The upgraded tracking and improved developer tools are available in beta today on Windows , alongside three new demos to try it out for yourself.

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Cas & Chary Present: Hands-on with the Lynx R-1 Mixed Reality Headset

Road to VR

Cas and Chary VR is a YouTube channel hosted by Netherland-based duo Casandra Vuong and Chary Keijzer who have been documenting their VR journeys since 2016. Hand-tracking, controllers. AR + Hand-tracking. I tried an AR color passthrough demo that showed off the hand tracking. Cas & Chary Present.

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From Orion to Mobile VR: Leap Motion in 2016

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2016 was a landmark year for virtual reality, but 2017 will be nothing short of surreal. Here are the top 10 stories from our blog in 2016. Orion: next-generation hand tracking for VR. Interacting with digital content on a physical level starts with the human hand. Redesigning our Unity Core Assets.

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GDC 2018 ‘Day 1’ Roundup – Vive Pro Pricing, Magic Leap SDK, Nvidia RTX, and More

Road to VR

Magic Leap has launched the SDK for the device’s Lumin OS , with support for Unity and Unreal engines. Epic Games have detailed Unreal Engine’s support for the Magic Leap One Creator Edition on their blog, which confirms some significant hardware features of the device, including eye tracking, hand tracking, and room scanning.

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My predictions for augmented reality in 2019

The Ghost Howls

With ARKit you can also track your face, and some developers have started also using it as an animation tool. Both systems also track images, and so you can use ARKit and ARCore as you used Vuforia before. Feature comparison between ARCore, ARKit and the Unity Handheld AR SDK (Image by Unity).

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Dexta Shows Off Latest Exoskeleton Gloves That Let You Touch VR

Road to VR

In Feb 2016 our force feedback unit was successfully batch manufactured and then assembled into Dexmo. In June 2016, we finished multiple Unity Demos to demonstrate what Dexmo is capable of. For example we tried to use the tracking coordinates that Hololens API provided, and that doesn’t even require the setup of lighthouse.