The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2022

First of all, he got some CAD files about it, and from those, it is possible to see that the device includes two front tracking cameras, one RGB camera to colorize the passthrough of the tracking cameras and a depth sensor that may help with scene understanding and hands tracking.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

Today, we’re looking at some of the top MR headset manufacturers in the industry, to help business leaders track down the right endpoints for their technology stack. The solution turns tracking inside out to reduce setup time, and loosens the hardware restrictions of other devices.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

HP and Microsoft have a long track in offering enterprise hardware, so this headset may battle HTC on his own land (B2B). Rony Abovitz steps down from Magic Leap CEO. This was a very good thing and attracted many people to Magic Leap. I hope that Magic Leap will benefit from it and will recover pretty soon.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 23, 2023

Magic Leap Currently focusing its attention on the enterprise landscape, Magic Leap produces AR and MR headsets designed to address the needs of various industries. The Varjo headset includes Ultraleap hand-tracking to monitor natural hand movements and true-to-life MR passthrough with 12-megapixel video.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

They may be AR glasses or smartglasses, but what is sure is that Niantic is working to support AR hardware within its platform. And I’m not only talking about the hardware, but also the software. Cubism is a great case study for hand tracking UX. Mathew Olson from The Information (subscribe to his awesome newsletter !)

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

He said that Facebook still believes in the tech and will continue investing a lot in it, and this delay may even be an advantage for FB : since Facebook was not a hardware company, the fact that VR will take longer than expected means that the company will have more time to learn about hardware manufacturing.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

And the price of the wireless add-on is even more suspicious: speaking with a hardware manufacturer, they told me that ONLY THE ANTENNAS of a Wi-Gig connection for VR streaming (like the one of the Vive Pro) costs around $100… so how can the whole wireless streaming device cost just $50?? Simple WebXR” aims at bringing WebXR to 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. This ranged from user interfaces (UIs), filming, controls, and hardware optimisation. In a recent Big News episode, five professionals from the XR industry shared their insights on the implications of such content.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Google can count on the acquisition of North, the experience he has matured by producing Google Glass and investing in Magic Leap, and the fact that it owns the most-used mobile operating system. 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

JANUARY 9, 2021

Triton works with Leap Motion (now Ultra Leap) hands tracking. With Pumori.io , I had created 6 Unity apps that demo UI/UX concepts on the Project North Star headset. With Pumori.io , I had created 6 Unity apps that demo UI/UX concepts on the Project North Star headset. Yes, Three.js The amount of Three.js

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

Glasses : Weight : 88g Connectivity : USB-C compatible Optics : Combined Lightguide FOV : 52° Maximum resolution: 1080p Environmental Understanding : SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping), 6DoF tracking, Plane detection, Image tracking Cameras : two tracking cameras + one RGB. All bugs that were taunting me vanished away.

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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. Why can’t it be Facebook, or Magic Leap ? Suzanne Borders, CEO and founder of BadVR, at the company’s office in Marina Del Rey, with a Magic Leap One on.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Step 3: Know your Hardware and Software Needs As mentioned, spatial computing solutions aren’t just a single app or device. Some organizations focus heavily on hand tracking. For instance, Ultraleap offers state-of-the-art hand-tracking tools to monitor even minute movements at your fingertips.

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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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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

It avoided adding an external box that the user has to wear on this pants , but included all the required hardware into the HoloLens headset. I think that in industrial environments, where the HoloLens is having great success, the less the cables and the worn hardware, the better for the workers. Design and comfort. Image by Reddit).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 12, 2021

Magic Leap One ), your brain kind of accept that you see augmentations only through the lens of the glasses and not in the peripheral vision, and so the limited FOV becomes more acceptable. The Achille’s heel of positional tracking is the light: if the room is completely dark, it doesn’t work anymore. Hands Tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

The Pimax 8K X in all its majesty (Image by Tom’s Hardware). Learn more on: Road To VR (Artisan) Upload VR (Artisan) Upload VR (Pimax 5K SUPER) Road To VR (All Pimax devices) Tom’s Hardware (Pimax 8K X hands-on). And in fact, Neon reminds me a bit too much Magic Leap’s Mica project.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

The idea of Leap Motion is going against the current trend of augmented reality glasses, that is mostly based on expensive devices that have closed ecosystems (e.g. HoloLens or Magic Leap One ), but to create a headset that is: Affordable; Completely open, both from a software and hardware standpoint.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

Google is also hiring high-profile people for it, like Bernard Kress, principal optical architect on Microsoft’s HoloLens team, and Paul Greco, the previous CTO of Magic Leap. Among the many features of this piece of hardware, there is the one that it is able to perform ray tracing. Meta releases runtime v37 for Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Magic Leap rebrands and kills the whale.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

But I think we can stay on the cartoonish side of things as long as we hope things like eye tracking and hand tracking. Both the Hololens 2 and the Magic Leap are shipping with eye tracking. And I think that the Vive, there’s gonna be an enterprise version that has eye tracking as well.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

The tracking system of Oculus Quest is called Insights and it is an inside-out tracking technology , that is it doesn’t need any kind of external hardware or setup to work. It is standalone (as HoloLens and Magic Leap ) and has cameras through which it sees the environment.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

But I think we can stay on the cartoonish side of things as long as we hope things like eye tracking and hand tracking. Both the Hololens 2 and the Magic Leap are shipping with eye tracking. And I think that the Vive, there's gonna be an enterprise version that has eye tracking as well. It's amazing.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

But I think we can stay on the cartoonish side of things as long as we hope things like eye tracking and hand tracking. Both the Hololens 2 and the Magic Leap are shipping with eye tracking. And I think that the Vive, there’s gonna be an enterprise version that has eye tracking as well.

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VRGuy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Acer, NVIDIA, Valve, Ubisoft, Leap Motion and many others joined the ecosystem. The OSVR goggle – called the Hacker Development Kit – has seen several major hardware improvements. VR arcades, for instance, might use custom hardware or professional tracking systems. We saw exponential growth in participation in OSVR.

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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. Thanks to all these hardware, Aria can see and hear the surroundings, but can also see and hear the user. You’re part of the product being sold. Accessories. Privacy in AR.

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