The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2023

This research work is disruptive because it can detect whatever kind of objects, even the ones it has never seen during training. Glasses could also highlight the objects the user has in front of him/her during a training experience or while he/she is following a certain recipe. Let’s see if this will bring real benefits to WebXR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 5, 2024

This week, VR and MR device vendor Goertek partnered with hand-tracking experts Ultraleap to announce a VR/MR headset reference design that follows from Qualcomm’s XR2+ Gen 2 chipset revealment yesterday – where Qualcomm also revealed the new reference design. It’s an unbeatable combination.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

For example, when somebody coughs, their adam's apple moves up. The most important elements of interaction right now are precise hand tracking, object tracking, and tactile feedback. HAND TRACKING BY ON-HEADSET CAMERAS is a resource-intensive process, and it’s not yet nearly as effective.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

This tracker can be worn on the wrist, for a more accurate hand-tracking experience, or be installed on external props (e.g. New rumors on Apple and Meta devices. I know it may sound weird to you, but we have new rumors on Apple headsets and also about the future Meta Project Cambria and Quest 3. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The headset has a very nice design and features these specifications: Standalone 6DOF headset 1600×1600 resolution per eye 90Hz refresh rate 90° FOV RGB AR passthrough Innovative lenses that make the headset more compact Integrated audio Controller-free hand-tracking Eye-tracking 6GB of RAM 128GB of storage WiFi 6 (802.11ax), Bluetooth 5.0,

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

OMG, it’s almost 3 years that I write these roundups… the first week peek was exclusive for my blog subscribers and it featured as best news the release of Google Blocks and in the other news something about Samsung Gear VR… how much time has passed since then! Apple Glasses may release in 2021 for $499. This is the 150th Week Peek!

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Full Dive Gaming

MARCH 8, 2023

GET IT HERE: [link] 0:00 VR Podcast Dev Spotlight 0:43 Film Industry Expert 1:44 Working with Oculus 2:56 Hand Tracked FIGHTING Game??? 12:58 Training Prevents Danger 13:46 De-escalation? 14:59 Hand Tracking for Practical Teaching?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

As a long-time AR enthusiast, and one of the first to have tried Google Glass in Italy, I have to admit that I will consider AR mainstream only when it will be on glasses that we will wear all day , when we’ll live in a completely shared mixed reality world (the AR Cloud). Facebook and Apple will jumpstart the smartglasses ecosystem.

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Upload VR

APRIL 13, 2024

The Quest v64 system software update introduced improved passthrough quality, external microphone support and more, Google is promising AR announcements at I/O next month, Apple Vision Pro now has Spatial Personas , while our analysis suggests PC VR usage on Steam has grown. You can find our full coverage here.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Training VR can also mitigate risk in training by simulating difficult and dangerous scenarios accurately and safely. This can help train people in high-risk industries like healthcare, manufacturing, and construction. Additionally, VR training environments can reduce the need for consumable training materials, reducing waste.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 25, 2024

According to recent reports, the upcoming Samsung headset will have a microOLED display, eight tracking cameras, a ToF sensor, voice commands, eye tracking, and hand tracking features. Amy also added: But as good as the Apple Vision Pro is, this is still a 1.0 But that’s a good thing,” Peck remarked.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Image by Google). Google completely opensources Cardboard. With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard. Google affirms that Cardboard has been a huge success to introduce people into VR, and more than 15 million headsets have been distributed.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2021

We were all expecting this since AR and VR are a bit in a transitional moment and the biggest brands (like Facebook and Apple) have their events through which they’ll announce their new devices, but for me, this lack of news was worse than the expected. Google AR Cloud Streaming. The evolution of CREAL glasses.

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Since then, Facebook has continued to roll out new features such as native hand tracking and Oculus Link , which allows users to experience PC VR HMD quality on the standalone headset. Google Ends the Daydream. Training for Just About Anything. In fact, the device sold out at retailers such as Amazon, Walmart and Newegg.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

Vive Tracker has been one of the best products ever launched by HTC and it has been used in many applications, either for leisure (think about full-body tracking in VRChat) or for professional usage (training with physical objects). I think that this tracker can be very useful. Further references. Shiftall MeganeX. Further references.

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InstaVR

OCTOBER 17, 2019

First off, some of the early major players like Google, Apple, and Samsung seem to be taking a step back. Google is discontinuing Daydream (more on that below), Apple seems to be focusing most of its efforts on AR, and Samsung is doing very little promotion of Gear VR despite launching a new phone line.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 16, 2022

Users can tap the game’s hand-tracking features to feed dinosaurs in real-time and take photos with the virtual creatures via Apple Core machine learning (ML) in iOS and Google’s MediaPipe on Android.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2016

They’ve envisioned it as the latest method of psychoanalysis, human enhancement, law enforcement training and so much more. Haptic gloves: Similar to the gloves attached to the cabinet, the at home version exoskeleton design brings hand tracking and touch to VR. Brainscan (1994). Virtuosity (1995).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

And its ads business is under a crossfire attack: on one front, Apple with its new data policy is limiting how much data the Facebook app can collect about its users, and on the other one, the EU is trying to enforce its regulation about European people’s data not allowed to be sent to Facebook’s US servers. Image by Apple).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Considering that Quest supports multitasking for 2D apps, this is great to use the Quest as a tool to work: you could have Slack in one Window, and Google Doc in another, and work on a document together with your team. For instance, the virtual hands will be able to grasp objects in a natural way. Spark AR updates.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

If we sum these features to the other ones added in the past, like hands tracking, Passthrough Shortcut, or the multiple windows in Oculus Browser , we start seeing the first signs of a mixed reality operating system, with which you can interact with the controllers or with the hands in a natural way.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 19, 2017

Above: David Holz, founder of Leap Motion, shows off hand-tracking in VR. And so we agreed that VR still needs patient investors, brand advocates, and passionate platform owners — Oculus and Facebook, Intel, Qualcomm, Apple, Google, and Microsoft — to sustain the investment in VR. Image Credit: Dean Takahashi.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

For sure the announcement at FC and the release date in 2021 have been studied to put some pressure on Apple , which seems to be the only rival to Facebook for what concerns the AR future. Imagine the people wearing Aria like the guys wearing Google Maps backpacks inside museums of campuses: they go around and collect data to build some maps.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

And now, due to some of the new partnerships that we have that we brought to the table with Google for them, we’re enabling some of their content through Google AR Search. I mean, tomorrow is the Apple event, right? You could just run straight Google Analytics and say if they used AR, what was conversion?

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

And now, due to some of the new partnerships that we have that we brought to the table with Google for them, we’re enabling some of their content through Google AR Search. I mean, tomorrow is the Apple event, right? You could just run straight Google Analytics and say if they used AR, what was conversion?

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

And so we're using a lot of the technologies that Google and Apple have been working on -- the ARKit and ARCore and things like that -- of being able to measure the room around you, and then be able to engage with it and start to interact with it and start to answer those what-if questions without having to order--. Alan: Amazing.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

And now, due to some of the new partnerships that we have that we brought to the table with Google for them, we’re enabling some of their content through Google AR Search. I mean, tomorrow is the Apple event, right? You could just run straight Google Analytics and say if they used AR, what was conversion?

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

2010, we had wearable technologies like the Fitbits, the Apple Watch, so forth and so on. When you walk into a Best Buy’s or you walk into any retailer, they’re selling you the Amazon Echo and they’re selling you the Google Home, where you ask a question, it plays a video. And in the 90s we had the laptops.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

2010, we had wearable technologies like the Fitbits, the Apple Watch, so forth and so on. When you walk into a Best Buy's or you walk into any retailer, they're selling you the Amazon Echo and they're selling you the Google Home, where you ask a question, it plays a video. Alan: The Quest is now doing hand tracking.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

2010, we had wearable technologies like the Fitbits, the Apple Watch, so forth and so on. When you walk into a Best Buy’s or you walk into any retailer, they’re selling you the Amazon Echo and they’re selling you the Google Home, where you ask a question, it plays a video. And in the 90s we had the laptops.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Anand Agarawala sold his previous startup, BumpTop — a 3D physics multi-touch desktop — to Google, and also demoed this in a TED Talk. ” After he gave his TED Talk on it, there’s interest from Apple, and Google ended up buying his company. Alan: Yeah, Google Drive. Jacob: Exactly.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Anand Agarawala sold his previous startup, BumpTop — a 3D physics multi-touch desktop — to Google, and also demoed this in a TED Talk. ” After he gave his TED Talk on it, there’s interest from Apple, and Google ended up buying his company. Alan: Yeah, Google Drive. Jacob: Exactly.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Anand Agarawala sold his previous startup, BumpTop -- a 3D physics multi-touch desktop -- to Google, and also demoed this in a TED Talk. After he gave his TED Talk on it, there's interest from Apple, and Google ended up buying his company. Alan: Yeah, Google Drive. Google Drive on a mobile.

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