The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

Road To VR reported about Manus VR’s new Quantum Metagloves with very precise hand tracking for enterprise use (cost: $9000). It can train a model 6–7x faster than the previous data center GPU. Magic Leap 2 bridges AR and VR. The interest in Magic Leap 2 is growing. News worth a mention.

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APRIL 13, 2020

In this instance, ‘real-time’ means immediate data consumption and interactivity to bring these experiences to life,” Unity Montreal’s Studio Head and Vice President of Features Andre Gauthier said in an email interview. “I The new platform uses Unity’s existing AR Foundation but gives extra affordances for testing and app data.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The next step will be continuing to refine UX and inputs, like its new hand tracking. And with each step, we are getting to a more immersive and natural experience… Hand tracking is great, it doesn’t require controllers. Like Magic Leap’s Magicverse , this is Facebook’s version of an AR cloud.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

This week, Microsoft announced that MRTK will migrate to an independent GitHub account and that the project will be supported by a consortium including Microsoft, Magic Leap, and Qualcomm. Since MRTK was used especially for AR applications, it is natural that these three giants of augmented reality are interested in keeping it alive.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

This comes together with the data by SuperData, that show how the Quest has probably sold around half a million units until now , a result that is not that bad, but that is far away from mainstream adoption. For sure, VR seniors like me remember that Oculus already added a simple vocal interface in Oculus Home menu some years ago.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

These are all great news for the ecosystem, but someone in the communities pointed out that we should beware of companies claiming vague data about sales without absolute numbers (for instance, it may also be that previous headsets sold worse than we thought). Cubism is a great case study for hand tracking UX.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 9, 2023

Hand tracking. Eye tracking. Therefore, the AnjaXR device keeps a user’s or business’ data secure and private while also facilitating easy log-ins that increase employee accessibility and improves onboarding sessions. The device contains the following specifications: A 2880 × 2880 display resolution.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

It’s interesting to read that the displays also support a foveated-rendering mode, which cuts down the transmitted data bandwidth to 60%. Magic Leap managed to stimulate a lot of hype for its headset, which should have revolutionized XR and instead turned out to be just a HoloLens clone. This seems a great result to me.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

All these data together make me a bit skeptical about the capabilities of this company: developing such kind of a high-quality headset requires a lot of expertise, while the company is very small and features no known expert in the field. Some years ago, she performed in The Life, a Mixed Reality art piece inside the Magic Leap One.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2019

The Vive Focus Plus so worked only as a dull display showing the frames rendered by the PCs and sending back to them the data on the pose of the head and the hands of the user. The computers rendered the SuperHot VR game and sent the streaming of the game via 5G to the user playing it with the Vive Focus Plus.

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

One of the biggest names in the VR data glove field is Manus VR, and VRFocus recently got to test its new flagship product, Manus Prime Haptic. In reality that has taken longer than expected yet hand-tracking has now caught up with VR headsets. Prior to the demo, the prospect of testing these gloves was an exciting one.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

For sure, Facebook will repeat a bazillion times that they care about privacy and I think that in the beginning, this will be mostly true: we have seen with Oculus how Facebook takes its time and boils its users slowly like the famous frog, adding over time features to get more data for targeted ads. Magic Leap will meet its fate.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2023

Since this is a concept, we have no data about the price and expected release date. It is also the most interesting because it introduces features like eye tracking, hand tracking, and especially a 2280×2280 per-eye resolution display that makes it compelling for professional use.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

“He has one million cars collecting data of the world. They are collecting data of the world surrounding them and Tesla is building amazing maps out of that. Why can’t it be Facebook, or Magic Leap ? Once AR will start taking foot in some years, i t will be inevitable to wear AR glasses. PRNewsfoto/BadVR).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Data decoding: Spatial computing solutions need to understand our actions and decode the instructions we give through gestures, speech, and more. Some organizations focus heavily on hand tracking. For instance, Ultraleap offers state-of-the-art hand-tracking tools to monitor even minute movements at your fingertips.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

More info (Ready At Dawn shuts down Echo VR) More info (Meta CTO on Echo VR shutdown decision) More info (John Carmack comments the news) More info (An editorial from a Echo VR community manager) Meta’s financials are improving, but at what cost… Meta has released its financial data for its past quarters and the situation is slowly getting better.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2020

Nreal wins first round against Magic Leap in the IP theft trial. Another bad news arrives for Magic Leap: the judge that was examining the case of IP theft from Nreal has found no evidence that a theft has actually happened , and so has closed the case. Hands tracking on Quest gets always more interest.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

Also because you have to consider that with 170M users using this camera-based app, it won’t be that difficult for Snap to gather data to build the AR Cloud. Two new interesting demos for Quest hands tracking. This week two interesting demos employing Oculus Quest hands tracking have emerged. Cannes XR goes VR.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

When I tried the Looxid Labs add-on for the Vive I’ve found it interesting, but its data were pretty noisy, and some community members defined it as “another random numbers generator”. After stepping down from the role of CEO of Magic Leap, Rony Abovitz has started a new venture called Sun And Thunder about digital beings.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

At Tilt Five, we designed a really clever system that only works on tabletop experiences but it has features that are just leaps and bounds above what the big Magic Leap or HoloLens type AR systems are. We can track wands… this [shows a device in front of the camera] is our six degrees of freedom wand that comes with it.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 29, 2021

If we exclude the major tech companies (Facebook, Valve, etc…) and the meteor Magic Leap, this is the first VR company to reach this status, and this is another sign of the health of the virtual reality ecosystem. This could be interesting for all VR applications needing this data, especially the ones about psychology.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

GB: Magic Leap is a big presence in the AR discussion. Outside of the sort of people in this room and in the games press, I don’t think most people know what Magic Leap is. When you talk about investment, certainly Magic Leap has garnered the most, but ODG just closed a big round. VR is inherently isolating.

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OCTOBER 26, 2022

HoloLens 2, Magic Leap 2, iPhone Pro, and iPad Pro automatically scan your room and create a 3D mesh, which apps leverage for collision and occlusion between virtual and real objects. Pro Controllers & Hand Tracking. Quest Pro also supports controller-free hand tracking. Face Tracking.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Varag: So Clay is a software company, we're specializing in hand tracking and gesture recognition, mostly in the AR and VR space. We did a project just using Google's hand tracking library. And hand tracking needs to be there. But let's get back to hand tracking, because this is a vital part.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Varag: So Clay is a software company, we're specializing in hand tracking and gesture recognition, mostly in the AR and VR space. We did a project just using Google's hand tracking library. And hand tracking needs to be there. But let's get back to hand tracking, because this is a vital part.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

There is no point if you have face tracking and it doesn’t work well… and the positional tracking alone is very difficult to provide well even for established companies (only Oculus’s one is very fluid) In the video they say confusing things like “R&D is cheap now” (really?

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Varag: So Clay is a software company, we're specializing in hand tracking and gesture recognition, mostly in the AR and VR space. We did a project just using Google's hand tracking library. And hand tracking needs to be there. But let's get back to hand tracking, because this is a vital part.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

And in fact, Neon reminds me a bit too much Magic Leap’s Mica project. Seeing the troubles Magic Leap is in, I wonder how Neon will go… Learn more on: The Verge Engadget. It also features eye tracking and hands tracking (via Ultraleap), and is so very compelling for the enterprise market.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

And so we have our Magic Leap build coming out very soon. And obviously the Magic Leap 1 is a tremendous device and we’re excited about Magic Leap as they continue to push the space. You’re gonna need some headsets, whether it’s Hololens 1 or 2, or Magic Leap 1, to have the experience.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

And so we have our Magic Leap build coming out very soon. And obviously the Magic Leap 1 is a tremendous device and we’re excited about Magic Leap as they continue to push the space. You’re gonna need some headsets, whether it’s Hololens 1 or 2, or Magic Leap 1, to have the experience.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

These are like the Microsoft Hololens, Magic Leaps. This is the fiber, fiber-fiber of connectivity that devices need in order to access big data streamed to them. And that’s why the telco companies are really looking at 5G as an enabler to take data moved through devices, to those new smart glasses that we talked about.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

And so we have our Magic Leap build coming out very soon. And obviously the Magic Leap 1 is a tremendous device and we're excited about Magic Leap as they continue to push the space. You're gonna need some headsets, whether it's Hololens 1 or 2, or Magic Leap 1, to have the experience.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

These are like the Microsoft Hololens, Magic Leaps. This is the fiber, fiber-fiber of connectivity that devices need in order to access big data streamed to them. And that's why the telco companies are really looking at 5G as an enabler to take data moved through devices, to those new smart glasses that we talked about.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

These are like the Microsoft Hololens, Magic Leaps. This is the fiber, fiber-fiber of connectivity that devices need in order to access big data streamed to them. And that’s why the telco companies are really looking at 5G as an enabler to take data moved through devices, to those new smart glasses that we talked about.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2019

It is an augmented reality glass that is being developed in China by a former Magic Leap engineer. All the processing power is in a separate little box called the Oreo; A CNET journalist wearing the Nreal glasses and holding in hand the Oreo and the controller (Image by Sarah Tew/CNET). Why is it so disruptive?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

This is done by extracting some features from the four camera streams of the environment, mixing these data together and creating a sparse point cloud of the space around the device. The four cameras performing the tracking (Image by Techcrunch). But at this point your hand is not tracked at all… so how to do that?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

In the future I expect to see a lot more information visualization, data visualization, finding completely new ways to analyze data, symbolically and spatially. But I think we can stay on the cartoonish side of things as long as we hope things like eye tracking and hand tracking. It really– it feels right.

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