XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 2, 2022

Unity VisualLive. Created by a market-leading provider of XR development software, Unity VisualLive allows professionals in a host of environments to visualise designs and collaborate more effectively in a real-time space. The question is, which XR collaboration solutions are most worthy of your attention in 2022?

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

One instance where I realized I was over-scoping was with my plans to support hand-tracking in the initial release of the game. The reality was that hand-tracking at the time still had limitations, and the quality of people’s experience with it varied highly depending on their lighting conditions and their expectations of the feature.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Honor to all the other countries, some of them probably deserved more than us, but I think Italy won because we were a true team, a group of people that supported each other for a goal they craved to reach. It doesn’t have controllers (you just use your hands), but you can buy external controllers by Finch to use with it.

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

Although, an emerging presence in the development space is hand and eye tracking. AR/VR/MR headsets are increasingly equipped with hand and eye tracking technology. Previously, commercial XR devices like the Meta Quest had experimented with hand-tracking features which improved as the device matured.

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ARPost

MAY 14, 2020

Unity – a cross-platform AR tool that probably needs no more introduction. Exozet – a company providing remote VR training for groups like Siemens. Bublar Group – makers of a tool, VR Fire Trainer, that uses VR to safely and effectively train firefighters.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

Although, an emerging presence in the development space is hand and eye tracking. AR/VR/MR headsets are increasingly equipped with hand and eye tracking technology. Previously, commercial XR devices like the Meta Quest had experimented with hand-tracking features which improved as the device matured.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JUNE 7, 2023

Moreover, the Vision Pro has a trove of hardware features, including a 4096 x 5464 pixels micro-OLED resolution, eye/hand tracking, voice recognition, spatial audio, high-dynamic range (HDR), wide colour gamut (WCG), 2-hour battery life, iPhone/iPad/Mac synchronization, a light seal, a LiDAR scanner, and a TrueDepth camera.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2023

More info Quest Pro can now track your tongue In version 60 of its SDKs for Unity and native code, Meta has added the functionality of detecting how much you are pulling out your tongue. This can be used only on devices that can track your face, like the Quest Pro. Last week, people said January.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 17, 2020

So, coming back to your question, I am an associate professor of the Computer and Control Engineering department at the Politecnico di Torino , where I am heading the Computer Graphics and Vision research group. The other main activities of our group are related to machine learning and computer vision. This point is quite funny.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Herdina previously worked at Clay AIR, a hand-tracking and spatial mapping technology firm Qualcomm acquired in 2021. According to Herdina, Qualcomm is heavily investing in XR’s foundational technologies such as passthrough, hand-tracking, and 3D reconstruction. Investing in XR. What’s Next?

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 27, 2023

The solution also supports hand tracking through Ultraleap Gemini and Positional tracking via SteamVR. This product was designed in cooperation with an international group of air force experts.

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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. The purpose of the group is of course the one of fighting the duopoly of Apple Maps/Google Maps. First of all, the Web3 VR platform has announced version 3.0

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The startup is pretty new, in fact, and its owner group is Megadodo, another unknown company that is working on an MMO game about which is difficult to find any information. Facebook has showcased how thanks to the use of hand-tracking gloves, it has been able to let people touch-type in VR.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Image by Khronos Group). Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. These may be upcoming features or possible features Oculus is experimenting with a selected group of beta testers.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 23, 2021

What I’ve not enjoyed is that SideQuest has removed The Unity Cube from its listing, stating that there were too many cubes there. People can talk, gesticulate (hands tracking is supported), and enjoy a full sense of presence. ???! These days are pretty hot here, but this doesn’t stop me from enjoying virtual reality.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The tech industry responded by rallying as a community and a group. We’re now bringing that directly to developers, who can download the software development kit (SDK) for Unity or Unreal Engine. Developers can gain access to its deep AR, perception, hand-tracking, 3D reconstruction, and other technologies.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 1, 2024

The solution also supports hand tracking through Ultraleap Gemini and Positional tracking via SteamVR. This product was designed in cooperation with an international group of air force experts.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

During all these months, I had the occasion of reading on Linkedin about all his cool prototypes and enterprise solutions that he and his colleagues have developed inside the company, ranging from 360 videos to hand-tracked training solutions with the Quest, not to mention XR entertainment solutions for airplane passengers.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Each team had two HTC Vive Pro Eye’s to play with – the company’s latest enterprise-focused headset – meaning eye-tracking needed to feature in some way. Starting late Friday evening the teams had until 1pm on Sunday to make a working prototype of their idea which could then be shown to the judges.

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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).

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

JULY 26, 2023

Doing so will also provide greater interoperability with additional platforms such as Unity and Xcode, among others. Despite this, Latta praised the headset’s features like its field of view (FoV), controller-less hand tracking, eye and gaze tracking, and 3D video recording capabilities.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

A little fact: due to their combined shape, the unit+the controller form a group called “Oreo” Controller. Every time that you want to interact with the augmentations, especially the 3D ones that you put on planes, the controller doesn’t follow your hands, and this makes the interactions really clunky.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 21, 2017

It handles enabling and disabling objects as needed, as well as sending parameter changes to the group via events. In the Unity scene hierarchy, each sculpture object needs to have a collection of components. In the Unity scene hierarchy, each sculpture object needs to have a collection of components.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 9, 2023

Luckily, a few days ago, I found a post on Upload VR telling that the team behind the Nova UI plugin for Unity created a demo in this sense to promote its package on the Unity Asset Store. It was much more comfortable than naive hands tracking a la HoloLens 2 and much better than using controllers to activate menus.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2020

So, yeah, with this belief, we started off in 2015 from a robotics group at the University of Delft -- Technical University of Delft -- here in the Netherlands. We pivoted from a research group that was searching for a quest where their technology could be used in VR, to a company called SenseGlove. And that was kind of the start.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2020

So, yeah, with this belief, we started off in 2015 from a robotics group at the University of Delft -- Technical University of Delft -- here in the Netherlands. We pivoted from a research group that was searching for a quest where their technology could be used in VR, to a company called SenseGlove. And that was kind of the start.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2020

So, yeah, with this belief, we started off in 2015 from a robotics group at the University of Delft -- Technical University of Delft -- here in the Netherlands. We pivoted from a research group that was searching for a quest where their technology could be used in VR, to a company called SenseGlove. And that was kind of the start.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Tech startup XpertVR is perhaps one of a handful of companies pushing the boundaries in this field, providing businesses with unique immersive solutions. They met through entrepreneurship programs at Goodman Group Venture Development. For example, they made an immersive environment in Unity to test custom furniture models.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

In May of 2017, Unity CEO John Riccitiello forecasted two things : That harsh times with people saying that VR is a fad would have come. I hope that we will start seeing some of the results of the work of the Khronos group. OpenXR standardization project (Image by Khronos group). It’s 2019. Standardization.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

Image from Khronos Group). Unity details its MARS solution. In a blog post, Unity has detailed its MARS solution, that lets you create easily augmented reality experiences , even with little coding knowledge. Two new interesting demos for Quest hands tracking. Other relevant news. SteamVR now supports OpenXR.

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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. Ending contact.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Mixed with hand tracking, it could be a perfect mix to let people interact with Oculus Menus without the need of controllers. The tool, dubbed MLTK (cough cough so similar to the name of HoloLens’s MRTK cough cough), will offer to Unity developers ready-to-be-used prefabs to handle controller interactions and other basic stuff.

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 27, 2016

I chose to work with optical hand tracking using the Leap Motion Controller in order to perform gestures that were natural to our culture. Taking cues from the interior design concept of ‘vignettes,’ I grouped my environmental objects around each animal as a picture frame. Interacting with Leap Motion.

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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

MAY 4, 2020

This makes us think that PSVR 2 controllers will feature full hands tracking, and will so be very similar to the Valve Knuckles. More info (Preview facilities in Unity) More info (Dynamic FFR). Anyway, this is not a piece of official news, just a healthy speculation. We’ll see the actual controllers only in 2021. Funny link.

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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. Global teams are now intricately connected with remote engineers and experts, leading to a streamlined, agile workforce.

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