XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Companies can use engines from companies like Unity to recreate digital “twins” of products, buildings, and other items, combined with information from various data sources. Using a combination of sensors and receivers, eye and hand tracking solutions allow for the creation of a powerful human-personal computer interface for XR.

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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. So it’s really good from an educational standpoint, as well as instruction based interactions,” he says. The open-sourced Watson Unity SDK can be found on GitHub.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 12, 2023

But with Apple taking an incredibly active approach to educating employees on the headset, the firm could promote XR education that helps potential buyers adopt the hardware. The labs also guide using Apple Vision Pro’s new features and frameworks, like spatial audio, hand tracking, and face capture.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 28, 2022

With tracking technologies, companies can build more immersive experiences for XR users. Eye tracking helps users to navigate a space more effectively, while improving software performance and minimising discomfort. Hand tracking, on the other hand, ensures individuals can interact more effectively with virtual content.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2022

Pico will exploit the content of its B2B store, which will be re-adapted for consumers where feasible, so that to offer experiences also in the medical, productivity, educational, and many more fields. At Laval Virtual, Ultraleap has just announced a hand tracking accessory for Pico Neo 3 (Image by Ultraleap). Open Ecosystem.

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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

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. Learn more.

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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

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. Watch the video. Some XR fun.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

I leave in the links here below also two great articles about the available online platforms and how it is hard to organize a VR event (an amazing post written by the Educators in VR summit organizer), so that if you want to organize one, you have some hints on how to start. Google MediaPipe can now track 3D objects.

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ARPost

JUNE 1, 2020

Patrick O’Shaughnessy presented the Auggie for Best Developer Tool to Unity , a cross-platform tool that hosts many XR experiences. Emily Olman presented the Auggie Award for Best Indie Creator to Greg Madison for his work on hand tracking on flat surfaces – Tangible UI. Best Developer Tool. Best Enterprise Solution.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 17, 2020

Then it enhances this educational setting by including a realistic emergency scenario through holographic interactive contents. Then, of course, we started fighting with issues related to the field view and hand-tracking capabilities. I also found limitations in the anchoring system. This point is quite funny.

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Peter Graham

JULY 15, 2019

The most popular tend to be videogame engines such as Unity and Unreal Engine which have been fine-tuned over many years. The Virtuoso toolkit has been in development for several years, initially aimed towards military medical training and education by advancing medical simulation systems.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Whether you’re giving people the power to grab a skeleton , reaching into a human heart , or teaching anyone how to program , hands are powerful. With HackingEDU just around the corner, Leap Motion is sponsoring the world’s largest education hackathon with over 100 Leap Motion Controllers for attendees to use. Building a Web App.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

With ARKit you can also track your face, and some developers have started also using it as an animation tool. Both systems also track images, and so you can use ARKit and ARCore as you used Vuforia before. Feature comparison between ARCore, ARKit and the Unity Handheld AR SDK (Image by Unity). Hybrid headsets.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 14, 2018

VR, AR and hand tracking are often considered to be futuristic technologies, but they also have the potential to be the easiest to use. But it also serves as a proof of concept for intuitive interaction in training, education, visualisation and entertainment. On the surface it’s a fun, slightly twisted tech demo.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. Alan: Oh, "Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation [and] Education Conference." And the number one feature request was hand tracking and interacting with your instruments.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. Alan: Oh, "Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation [and] Education Conference." And the number one feature request was hand tracking and interacting with your instruments.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. Alan: Oh, "Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation [and] Education Conference." And the number one feature request was hand tracking and interacting with your instruments.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Unity renderer implementation of foveated rendering, on the other hand is much rougher, and in multiple Unity apps I saw very obvious and harsh artifacts, particularly on text. Given this only happens in Unity Full Space apps, I suspect this can be solved in future software. The main form is hand and arm occlusion.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Mark Zuckerberg, but also Unity CEO John Riccitiello) that should mark the beginning of the serious adoption of new technology. My friends at Circuit Stream have a Black Friday deal they want to tell you about: Circuit Stream has been a certified AR/VR and Unity educator since 2015.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Oculus Touch are very ergonomic controllers and let the user have a rough emulation of using his/her own hands in VR. Vive is very strong in the enterprise sector and bets a lot in education because this is a strong interest of the Chinese government. The Focus has a gesture tracking in beta , close to release.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

As John Riccitiello (CEO of Unity) said some years ago , the VR market won’t be interesting enough until it will reach the 10 million users mark. Talking about our JMJ concert, Robert said “It felt like Coachella, but without leaving your room”; Education : like Nanome. 2022 could be the key year for XR.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 12, 2021

The Achille’s heel of positional tracking is the light: if the room is completely dark, it doesn’t work anymore. Hands Tracking. HoloLens 2 has no controllers, but it lets you interact with the mixed reality elements through hand tracking, eye tracking, and voice commands.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

I can’t think about an AR-app that is actually popular : many have tried to make AR games, AR educational experiences, AR sports… but they all ended up being tech demos or gimmicks. All will feature tracking cameras for 6dof, hand tracking, speakers, microphone, and an additional camera to shoot photos and videos.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

But this time, Google has understood the educational potential of this framework, so instead of abandoning it, it is gifting it to the community, that can so carry it on. HoloLens 2 is an amazing device, with a decent FOV, eye tracking, and hands tracking, that for sure will make many companies happy.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Numerous innovations continue to enhance the smart glasses industry for enterprise workers, including developments in hand tracking, device management, software platforms, and interoperability. This can be useful for events, remote education, and telemedicine, among others.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 12, 2015

Hand tracking and virtual reality are both emerging technologies, and combining the two into a fluid and seamless experience can be a real challenge. Note that some assets (like Image Hands and Widgets) are not currently available for the Orion Unity Core Assets. Choosing Your Hands. Hand Position.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 24, 2021

The last two applications are the best that you can try: HyperDash is a fun multiplayer shooting game, and Mona Lisa: Beyond The Glass is a wonderful educational experience. The Wave SDK has grown a lot in the last years , and it has also added features like Foveated Rendering and Hands Tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2020

If with AR/VR you can offer remote education, assistance, training, and telepresence of any kind , then companies may be interested in your services. For instance, I received some requests for remote education now that schools are all closed; Remote showcases. Then share your results on social media. Invest your time on yourself.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

But the different ways that we have virtual embodiment, and what does it mean to take on different characters and different bodies, and financial like virtual economies, as well as communication and education, and connecting to home and family. It really– it feels right. But once the WebXR 2.0

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

But the different ways that we have virtual embodiment, and what does it mean to take on different characters and different bodies, and financial like virtual economies, as well as communication and education, and connecting to home and family. It really-- it feels right. We have little conversations in the hallway before or after the event.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

But the different ways that we have virtual embodiment, and what does it mean to take on different characters and different bodies, and financial like virtual economies, as well as communication and education, and connecting to home and family. It really– it feels right. But once the WebXR 2.0

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

We still need a lot of time and effort to educate people on what really is the metaverse and why it is a beautiful thing. Unity has built this nice demo using the Presence Platform. For this reason , it has established a new $150 million USD initiative to “train the next generation of creators building immersive educational content”.

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