The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Microsoft Flight Simulator releases VR patch. Microsoft Flight Simulator is now compatible with VR headsets : not only the HP Reverb G2 as initially teased but all the headsets that are compatible with OpenXR , so basically all the most famous devices. Header image by Microsoft). Top news of the week. Image by HP).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The headset has a very nice design and features these specifications: Standalone 6DOF headset 1600×1600 resolution per eye 90Hz refresh rate 90° FOV RGB AR passthrough Innovative lenses that make the headset more compact Integrated audio Controller-free hand-tracking Eye-tracking 6GB of RAM 128GB of storage WiFi 6 (802.11ax), Bluetooth 5.0,

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

This week, Microsoft announced that MRTK will migrate to an independent GitHub account and that the project will be supported by a consortium including Microsoft, Magic Leap, and Qualcomm. Since MRTK was used especially for AR applications, it is natural that these three giants of augmented reality are interested in keeping it alive.

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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. Image by Microsoft). My favorite from this week? News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 1, 2023

According to the CMA: “Microsoft already enjoys a powerful position and head start over other competitors in cloud gaming and this deal would strengthen that advantage giving it the ability to undermine new and innovative competitors.” So I wonder if this suspension could also change Microsoft’s future plans concerning the M-word.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

The Mixed Reality Toolkit (MRTK) by Microsoft is an open-source toolkit that has been around since the HoloLens was first released in 2016. Microsoft-driven MRTK-Unity is a suite of components and capabilities used to speed the creation of cross-platform MR applications in Unity. Understanding the MRTK-Unity Toolkit for MR Developers.

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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.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The project is carried on by Microsoft which was given the monster contract of $22B to create this device by modifying its HoloLens glasses. The next step is about trying to integrate the glasses with cloud services, something about which Microsoft is a worldwide leader thanks to Azure.

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ARPost

APRIL 13, 2020

He and panelists Vinay Narayan of VIVE and Larry Persaud of Microsoft will be discussing existing XR technology for enterprise, how to choose the right solution, and considerations like ROIs. See Also: VR Technology and Hand Tracking in VIVE’s Second Developer Talk. panel discussion on the morning of day one.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 27, 2020

Think about it for one moment: someone has made a Beat Saber clone in one day, without knowing how to code. I appreciate that Lynx is trying to propose something different, and I can’t wait to test it to see how good it is! In just more than one day, a creator has released a clone of Beat Saber developed entirely on Dreams.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Besides that, it is also hiring key figures to make this AR dream a reality : the operating system project will be supervised by Mark Lucovsky, a former Microsoft engineer who co-developed Windows NT. Oculus releases hands tracking SDK, official Link cable for Quest and more. I hate this.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

Microsoft signs a $22B deal with the US Army. We all know that Microsoft is building AR glasses for the US Army : a modified version of HoloLens 2 called IVAS, that is ruggedized, with a wider field of view (80° x 40°), and feature additional sensors (for instance to provide thermal vision). Well played, Microsoft.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2023

Anyway, his book has not to be taken as a manual of how to build the metaverse… it is just a book. I didn’t have to mess around with floating AR menus and hands tracking, but I just selected what kind of recipe I wanted to see on the phone app with my fingers, and then those instructions appeared in front of my eyesin AR.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

But the greatest feature is that finally Oculus is accepting hands-tracked applications in the Oculus Store from the 28th of this month! A leak by the famous leaker WalkingCat shows some pictures of the HP Reverb G2, which is the result of a collaboration between HP, Microsoft, and Valve. Image by Microsoft).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

My impression is that in the best case, this Deca is the new Pimax, a company with great ambitions, a good spirit, but no idea on how to execute, and this will lead to delays, confusion in the logistics, higher prices than expected, etc… And this is just the best case. Facebook and Microsoft publish two interesting research projects for VR.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 19, 2024

Once you put on the device and adjust it to your needs, you can simply switch the headset on and receive easy-to-follow instructions on how to get started. However, the company has announced its plans to update the hand-tracking and eye-tracking capabilities in the Pro going forward. Meta ultimately scrapped this feature.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

And if you need some pieces of advice regarding how to professionally survive this quarantine, I have written a blog post on the topic you can read. From the image, it seems like a clone of the HoloLens 2, probably a bit less performant than the Microsoft headset, but also cheaper. Google MediaPipe can now track 3D objects.

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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). Mova will be a 6DOF headset with 2 tracking cameras, working natively only with hands tracking (there is a controller for fallback, though). There will also be 5G connectivity. Cool, isn’t it?

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

JULY 26, 2023

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. We’ll see how it plays out, but they’ve got to deliver what it is,” he added. .” I think it’s a smart move.”

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ARVR

JULY 7, 2020

Types of user interactions that have been tested so far include gaze , hand gestures/hand tracking , touch controllers or voice commands , or any combination of these. How to use subtle AR filters to survive your Zoom meetings? Trending AR VR Articles: 1. The First No-Headset Virtual Monitor 3.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Other devices from Magic Leap and Microsoft’s HoloLens headsets offer deeper levels of immersion. With the AR2, we wanted to determine how to make truly wireless devices and enable broader adoption of immersive technologies for enterprises and consumers. This allowed smart glasses and smartphones to synchronise seamlessly.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

For the most part, your digital identity on channels like Microsoft Teams and Zoom is likely to consist of a face and a set of shoulders. However, some companies have implemented hand-tracking to convey arm movements in digital landscapes, too. Right now, the options are a little limited. Are Full Body Avatars the Future?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

This is a simpler mechanism than the waveguides employed by Microsoft HoloLens 2 or by Magic Leap, and while it may provide a bit less immersive holograms, it is the only way to provide affordable wide-FOV glasses at the moment. The Realmax Qian unboxing experience was good. RealMax experience at CES 2020.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 19, 2022

When asked by XR Today about Lenovo’s inspiration for creating the ThinkReality VRX, McGuigan explained how Lenovo’s longstanding history of working with immersive technologies led to several early devices. 6 degrees of freedom (DoF) tracking with 4 cameras and hand-tracking controllers. mm headphone jack.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

This lets you experience scenes that are a bit more complex than the ones that you can live on Microsoft’s device; The field of view is 40° Horizontal and 30° Vertical. During the experience, I never got how to use them at a first glance. The Oculus Quest touch controllers: this is how I want manual interface in XR.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

At VRROOM , we have a Unity Enterprise subscription, so I’ll be able to get my hands dirty on the SDK pretty soon. hoping to make for you my classic tutorial on how to develop an application with a cube for this new platform. This is the case with the XR Hands package, which provides cross-platform hand tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

They teased a lot of interesting features and services of the device, and left the remaining technical details to some technical sheets on Microsoft website. But Microsoft, thanks to innovative 2K displays, has managed to keep the same high-quality pixel density of the HoloLens 1, that is 47 PPD (pixels per degree). Resolution.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 4, 2024

At the same time, XR’s enthusiasts were well aware of other players in the headset space, like Microsoft, Varjo, HTC VIVE, and others. As headsets become more sophisticated, the devices record increasing user data, from hand tracking, eye tracking, environment scanning and more. But the race is on.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

Of course, the object must be in the FOV of the cameras of the headset to be tracked, even if HTC says that the tracking can somewhat continue also when this condition is not true (i guess using just IMU data). Qualcomm and Microsoft partnership. I think that this tracker can be very useful. Further references. Shiftall MeganeX.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

A report from Insider states that Microsoft may have canceled its plans for HoloLens 3. There is instead a rumored partnership with Samsung , where Samsung would actually build a new XR device and Microsoft offer the platform on top of which the headset may run. Some updates on Meta products. Record VR games in VR format.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Specifically, generative AI may be interesting to help Snap content creators create AR content without requiring them to know how to model 3D assets. Learn more Hand tracking is now available also in three.js Don’t miss them!

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

Furthermore, Microsoft 365 apps such as Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint, will be connected with Omniverse Project Mellon has been unveiled. It is a lightweight Python package capable of harnessing the heavyweight power of speech AI (NVIDIA Riva) and large language models (LLMs) to simplify user interactions in immersive environments.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2020

Content is the king, and Facebook knows it needs great content of its own to fight Microsoft, Sony, and the other big brands for the domination of the VR sector. Hands tracking on Quest gets always more interest. You can now buy HoloLens 2 directly from Microsoft. How to debug your VR code. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

Late to the party after Oculus and Microsoft already released prototypical implementations, but finally Valve has implemented OpenXR into its runtime SteamVR. More info (Post on Road To VR) More info (Post on Upload VR explaining how to enable OpenXR). More info (OpenHMD project) More info (How to donate for OpenHMD).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Facebook has deep expertise on AR and VR (I think we all know it), while Luxottica, that is the worldwide leader in glasses manufacturing (it is the brand behind Rayban, for instance), for sure knows how to create glasses that consumers want to wear. And then there will be Michael Abrash and John Carmack! HTC has a new CEO: Yves Maitre.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

On the vertical side, it feels more limited , and sometimes it may be immersion-breaking, but after you learn how to position the glasses on your nose, you get used to it. And since there is not hands tracking yet (it is coming soon, the company told me), interactions with the Nreal Light devkit feel very limited.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Instagram has a very popular creation tool called SparkAR , which can be easily used by all creators without knowing how to code, and has seen a spike in usage in 2020. The only big name surviving in this field is Pokemon Go, but just because it has changed how the game works and it has already a very large and passionate userbase.

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