XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

With eye-tracking solutions, software can be designed to effectively render the content users are viewing according to their specific needs, reducing bandwidth use and improving clarity. With hand-tracking capabilities, innovators can remove the need for teams to utilize external controllers and devices when interacting with digital content.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The article Dejan has written is a big collection of tutorials, suggestions, and tips about developing applications that use hand tracking. It starts with how you can install Unity and get started with hand tracking development and then proceeds with some suggestions about hands tracking UX.

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VRScout

JANUARY 18, 2020

Oculus Quest hand-tracking turns one apartment into an XR playground. Remember that scene in Minority Report where Tom Cruise’s character cycles through a bunch of important police data by swiping his hands across a massive holographic display? 02 Transform any surface into a giant touch screen.

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ARPost

APRIL 13, 2020

We didn’t have to shake the tree very hard to find someone that we were excited to talk to but we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to talk with the good folks at Unity. What Is Unity? The name “ Unity ” probably sounds familiar to you. Unity is the platform that makes this world a reality. More Buzz Around Unity.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

The MRTK is a set of components with plugins, samples, and documentation designed to help the development of MR applications using gaming engines from either Unreal Engine or Unity, providing two versions of the solution – MRTK-Unity and MRTK for Unreal. Understanding the MRTK-Unity Toolkit for MR Developers.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

After the latest Unite event, Unity has released in Open Beta the tools to develop applications for the Apple Vision Pro. The development packages are usable only by people having Unity Pro or Enterprise, but the documentation is publicly available for everyone to see. PC), it can be built and deployed on all other platforms (e.g.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

XR data analytics firm CORTEXR has launched its platform on Tuesday to standardise virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) technologies as well as the Metaverse. Eye, gaze, and hand-tracking were also key to learning user behaviours and interactions with immersive content, the survey continued.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

These are the improvements it applied: Changes in prices will start with the next Unity 2023 LTS, so existing applications will not be affected, at least while the use previous Unity versions Unity Personal will still be free (now up to 200K of revenues) and applications made with it will be subject to no fee at all.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The emulation tool can take these files, and spawn several rooms next to each other directly in the Unity editor. A custom tool built in Unity spawns several rooms side by side in an orthographic view, showing how a certain level in Laser Dance would look in different room layouts. Do You Need to Build Custom Tools?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

But things on the consumers’ side may not be going as well: according to some data scrapped from Amazon, the Quest 2 outsold the Quest 3 by a factor of 3:1 in the last 30 days. More info A Universal Unity VR injector may be in the works, or maybe not Raicuparta has just added an old simple Universal Unity VR Mod tool to its Rai Pal tool.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

The new Virtual Desktop update also adds the option to forward any hand tracking, eye tracking, face tracking, and body tracking from the headset to the PC via OpenXR when using the VDXR runtime instead of SteamVR. Previously Virtual Desktop only forwarded face and eye tracking to VRChat specifically.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

Experiments around MR and natural interactions We are in the middle of a paradigm shift: before the focus was on VR, while now is on MR. Before the focus was on controllers-driven interactions, while now natural interactions (like hand tracking) are getting always more important. Photoshop is doing the same.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

However, to reproduce immersive images and experience in these headsets and devices, XR solutions also need to be able to rapidly access and process huge amounts of data. Cloud and edge computing makes it easier to transmit large packets of data to XR devices in a short space of time.

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Upload VR

MAY 4, 2024

For everything else, here are our top five VR news stories we previously missed: VRChat Reworks Hand Tracking For Cross-Platform Support In the latest developer update , VRChat announced its reworked hand tracking support. Unity, the leading engine for VR game development, appointed Matthew Bromberg as its new CEO.

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ARPost

MARCH 26, 2020

The first talk, “A Step Ahead of the Curve: Using Data Trends to Build a Successful VR Experience,” is already open for registration. On April 7, Senior Developer Evangelist Dario Laverde will present “Build for Tomorrow: VIVE Hand Tracking SDK.” The talk will cover how and why to roll out hand tracking affordances with Unity.

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Road to VR

MARCH 25, 2020

Check out the schedule below: Tuesday, March 31 – A Step Ahead of the Curve: Using Data Trends to Build a Successful VR Experience. Tuesday, April 7 – Build for Tomorrow: VIVE Hand Tracking SDK. 31 – A Step Ahead of the Curve: Using Data Trends to Build a Successful VR Experience . Tuesday, March?31 Laverde, Sr.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

In many ways it has, but in many ways we’re still separated from the vast worlds of data trapped behind glass screens. It’s part hardware, part software, built from the ground up to tackle the unique challenges of hand tracking for VR. Orion software represents a radical shift in how we do hand tracking.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The last big breakthrough we saw in ease-of-use interactivity was the launch of hand tracking and gesture recognition on enterprise and consumer VAR devices. It’s a very different way for people to interact with technology and data. The open-sourced Watson Unity SDK can be found on GitHub.

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Road to VR

JUNE 22, 2018

With Valve’s new input system, dubbed SteamVR Skeletal Input, the company is essentially giving app developers a ready-made set of lifelike skeleton-based hand animations that support a number of existent controllers: Vive controllers, Oculus Touch, and the new Knuckles EV2 design.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2022

Last Thursday, Microsoft debuted version three of its Mixed Reality (MR) toolkit (MRTK3) for use in Unity Technologies’ real-time 3D (RT3D) animation engine. MRTK3 supports additional Unity engine tools, including its Canvas and 3D user interface (UI) development suites that enable developers to create spatial navigational spaces.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2022

At Laval Virtual, Ultraleap has just announced a hand tracking accessory for Pico Neo 3 (Image by Ultraleap). Regarding porting your content, as a developer, there is good news: Pico has recently become compatible with Unity.XR, so it’s much easier to port your content (if you are a Unity developer). Open Ecosystem.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Meta already has these features on Quest, but it will improve them and market them more so that Zuck can sell the device as “like the Vision Pro, but much cheaper” Also, I forecast much more attention to hand tracking. Damn European Union, it doesn’t understand that Zuck wants our data just to care for them!

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Companies also need to think about their privacy and security strategies in an environment powered by a constant flow of data. With VR tools, you may need to think about how much data is stored locally in your device. For instance, Varjo allows users to determine access controls, and choose where data is stored from a VR headset.

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Upload VR

AUGUST 21, 2022

VRChat worlds are premade in Unity on desktop, with most lighting “baked in” by a powerful PC – and the most impressive worlds aren’t accessible to Quest users at all. Because these platforms support user created worlds and run on mobile chips, the graphical fidelity achievable is limited.

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ARVR

JULY 19, 2021

On Thursday, May 27th, key players from the haptics, hand tracking, and VR training industries gathered to discuss the scaling of haptics in VR training applications. The development of high-fidelity hand tracking interactions and haptic feedback can take a very long time and be complicated.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

There will be a new launcher, improved graphics, improved in-game camera, production-ready Unity SDK for the creators, improved full-body VR, and much more. I wonder if this data could be useful also for building the AR Cloud. If John Carmack complained about the efficiency of Meta, I think he had good reasons.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 11, 2016

Unity Widgets are back – with a new name and massively streamlined functionality! Just released for our Unity Core Assets , the UI Input Module provides a simplified interface for physically interacting with World Space Canvases within Unity’s UI System. What’s Inside? The UI Input Module aims to do just that. Quick Setup Guide.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The latest version of the Oculus Integration for Unity, v23, adds experimental OpenXR support for Quest and Quest 2 application development. OpenXR Support for Oculus Unity Integration. Today Oculus released new development tools which add experimental OpenXR support for Quest and Quest 2 applications built with Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

French startup Lynx announced some months ago a quite interesting headset featuring pass-through augmented reality , hands tracking, eye tracking, and an innovative lens design. The standalone headset still features passthrough AR/MR, XR2 chipset, dual 1600×1600 LCD panels running at 90Hz, Ultraleap hands tracking.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 31, 2023

It also has the industry’s highest resolution (over 70 ppd), and the widest currently available field of view at 115 degrees. What Makes the Focal Edition Different? While many of the features of the Varjo XR-3 Focal Edition overlap with the standard XR-3, there are some bonus extras.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

Developers continue to have fun with Oculus Quest hands tracking! A new week, a new sheer of demos exploiting Oculus Quest hands tracking! A demo made by the creator of Holoception, that mixes portals and hands tracking. This is one of the weirdest rag-doll experiments in Unity. Image by Microsoft).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

So many developers could find themselves with the conundrum of what to offer and to which device : if the Quest 3 Lite will sell a lot of units, maybe developers will prefer to develop content that is compatible with hand tracking, shifting the current attention to games to something else.

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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. Simple WebXR” aims at bringing WebXR to Unity.

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ARPost

JUNE 3, 2022

Meskill also discussed Magic Leap’s plan for their AR cloud generated by both the sensors on the headset itself as well as using data collected from other connected devices. You can do it with your hands behind your back. “We want to make it extremely easy for you to build and port experiences to Magic Leap 2.”. Jade Meskill.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 24, 2020

That’s lead to motion controllers, eye tracking and hand tracking but full-body tracking has stopped and started due to the complexities of this process. Manus VR , the company which makes enterprise-grade data gloves, is almost ready to release its solution to this challenge, Manus Polygon.

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ARPost

MAY 14, 2020

Unity – a cross-platform AR tool that probably needs no more introduction. Figmin – a platform for creating, editing, and sharing holograms by the group “Figmin XR” Greg Madison , for Tangible UI – an exploration of hand tracking on flat surfaces.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Then, there are the data about sales numbers. Upload has gone hands-on with the relaxing Shores Of Loci. Maestro , the VR game that makes you impersonate a conductor, makes great use of hands tracking, and some videos on Reddit show that. Mindport helps you in building your Unity VR experiences.

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