The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2019

Frontal view of the device (Image by Microsoft). The biggest news of the MWC for what concerns XR has been for sure the announcement of the HoloLens 2 by Microsoft. Image by Microsoft). Together with the HoloLens 2, Microsoft has also announced a new version of the Kinect, called Kinect Azure. HoloLens 2. Azure Kinect.

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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. Facebook and Microsoft publish two interesting research projects for VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). 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.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

He has a very interesting working story, having worked for great companies like Microsoft and Fast Company. We all know that this thought has not aged well, and that Microsoft has failed completely entering the phone market, with billions of loss because of that. “He has one million cars collecting data of the world.

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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

Content is the king, and Facebook knows it needs great content of its own to fight Microsoft, Sony, and the other big brands for the domination of the VR sector. Nreal wins first round against Magic Leap in the IP theft trial. But Magic Leap has 30 days to appeal, and we are all sure that this is going to happen.

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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. Tools like the Apple Vision Pro, combined with a collaboration tool like Microsoft Teams, link the real world to digital content. Some organizations focus heavily on hand tracking.

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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

JUNE 15, 2020

Late to the party after Oculus and Microsoft already released prototypical implementations, but finally Valve has implemented OpenXR into its runtime SteamVR. 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. Cannes XR goes VR.

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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

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? AMD releases its new RX6 graphics cards.

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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. Image Credit: Microsoft.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Microsoft chose this approach for HoloLens 2, which Quest Pro actually bears a striking resemblance to. 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.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. Jinha had worked at Microsoft Research and he had offers to go back to Microsoft Research and Google and all these other companies and do serious hefty work for them on AR.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. Jinha had worked at Microsoft Research and he had offers to go back to Microsoft Research and Google and all these other companies and do serious hefty work for them on AR.

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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

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. Jinha had worked at Microsoft Research and he had offers to go back to Microsoft Research and Google and all these other companies and do serious hefty work for them on AR.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

These are like the Microsoft Hololens, Magic Leaps. So Metastage uses Microsoft’s volumetric Hcap, holographic capture. Fraunhofer, there’s several handfuls of volumetric studios that create– Alan: There’s 55 of them globally. Michael: Yeah. Intel has it. Michael: Well, yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

These are like the Microsoft Hololens, Magic Leaps. So Metastage uses Microsoft's volumetric Hcap, holographic capture. Fraunhofer, there's several handfuls of volumetric studios that create--. This is the fiber, fiber-fiber of connectivity that devices need in order to access big data streamed to them.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

These are like the Microsoft Hololens, Magic Leaps. So Metastage uses Microsoft’s volumetric Hcap, holographic capture. Fraunhofer, there’s several handfuls of volumetric studios that create– Alan: There’s 55 of them globally. Michael: Yeah. Intel has it. Michael: Well, yeah.

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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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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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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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VRGuy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Turning Data into Information Trends A stream of XYZ hand coordinates is useful. Smart software can turn data into higher-level information. Eye tracking software converts eye images into gaze direction. Hand tracking software converts hand position into gestures. Magic Leap is not commercial yet.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

It is the console business model: selling the hardware undercost so that subsidize it with exclusive software, and your data in this case. You’re paying only $299 because you are not paying only with your money, but also with the data that Facebook will harvest from you to propose to you better ads. Accessories.

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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. Bumpy Road For Magic Leap. In fact, the device sold out at retailers such as Amazon, Walmart and Newegg.

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