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JULY 17, 2017

VR and AR headsets are heading to market from Microsoft, Google, Facebook and others that have a wide range of capabilities. Just last week we learned about Facebook’s plan for a $200 headset that occupies the low end of the market while Google continues work on a six degrees of freedom standalone headset.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Today it’s a great day for virtual reality: at WCVRI conference, HTC has just announced a kit to provide 6 DOF controllers for Vive Focus and has showcased a hands-tracking technology for the Vive Pro ! The event hosts people from very important companies like NVIDIA, VR Chat, The Khronos Group, Alibaba (there is Jack Ma!),

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

Leap Motion. You may ask why I’m adding Leap Motion here. Well, during 2018, Leap Motion has announced the North Star reference design : a cheap augmented reality connected to PC, that is able to detect your hands very well thanks to Leap Motion’s sensor. Google Maps in AR).

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

As mainstream VR/AR input continues to evolve – from the early days of gaze-only input to wand-style controllers and fully articulated hand tracking – so too are the virtual user interfaces we interact with. When we bring our hands into a virtual space, we also bring a lifetime’s worth of physical biases with us.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 31, 2020

All the people that were working on AR/VR inside Facebook now have a new group they belong to: “Facebook Reality Labs”. Ultraleap (previously known also as Leap Motion) has struck a great deal with Qualcomm. Thanks to it, the XR2 Reference Design will feature as official hands tracking the one created by UltraLeap.

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VRGuy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Acer, NVIDIA, Valve, Ubisoft, Leap Motion and many others joined the ecosystem. This is a community effort, not handed down from some elder council in an imperial palace. I would love to see working groups formed to address areas of common interest. Eye tracking software converts eye images into gaze direction.

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