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The XR Week Peek (2023.06.04): Apple to launch its headset, Meta unveils Quest 3 and many games, and more!

The Ghost Howls

I need to rush out this newsletter episode because otherwise tomorrow Apple launches its headset and no one will read my articles: everyone will be too busy reading “The top 5 features of the Apple headset” or “The 7 reasons why the Apple headset can revolutionize peeling potatoes”. How is Apple going to sell this headset?

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Most Innovative XR Hand and Eye Tracking Vendors to Watch in 2022

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Hand and eye tracking tools, capable of sensing the movements, gestures, and gaze of a user, can take XR experiences to a new level. Innovators in the world of Mixed Reality, Microsoft relies heavily on concepts like hand and eye tracking to help users combine the physical and digital worlds.

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My predictions for augmented reality in 2019

The Ghost Howls

Leap Motion. You may ask why I’m adding Leap Motion here. Well, during 2018, Leap Motion has announced the North Star reference design : a cheap augmented reality connected to PC, that is able to detect your hands very well thanks to Leap Motion’s sensor. Apple glasses.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.07.15): Apple kills its AR glasses, Oculus full-steam ahead on 2nd gen VR and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Apple has killed its AR glasses project… maybe. A piece of unexpected news has shaken the XR communities this week: according to a report on Digitimes Taiwan, Apple has abandoned its AR/VR glasses project and all the members of the team have been re-allocated in other teams. AR is still alive, Apple will still release its AR glasses.

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All you need to know about the leaked Valve VR headset: is Half-Life 3/2 coming?

The Ghost Howls

If it has to be cheap to compete with Oculus, I guess that audio will be normal… Eye Tracking. There are no signs of eye tracking in this headset. But someone spotted a patent by Valve where eye tracking sensors were hidden inside the lens tubes themselves and so are not visible.

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How to fix Vive controllers not working inside SteamVR games

The Ghost Howls

I bought my Vive to experiment with 7Invensun eye tracking and I was really enthusiast about trying eye-tracked UX. Leap Motion driver and runtime. Older Apple Cinema displays with devices attached through USB. So, choose your poison wisely. Some of them are: Kinect driver and runtime. ASUS HyStream.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.10.31): Facebook becomes Meta, Pimax teases Reality headset, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Reading the specs of Pimax Reality, every VR enthusiast can only go in awe: there are integrated all the features we have always wanted in a VR headset: amazing visuals, comfort, eye tracking, full-body tracking, hybrid functioning mode, etc… It just needs an integrated coffee maker machine to be perfect. Learn more.