The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Meet Apple Vision Pro’s natural interface The Vision Pro needs no controllers As you already know, Apple Vision Pro completely relies on eye and hand tracking. Eye and hand tracking must be more reliable Eye and hand tracking are cool, but the technology behind it is not fully ripe.

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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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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

Anyway, with the end of the life of Quest 2, this cycle finished and a new one started with Quest 3, Apple Vision Pro, Google and Samsung announcing their own headset, and other companies chasing them (e.g. with Xiaomi, Oppo, Samsung, etc…) to convince hardware manufacturers to create headsets powered by Android XR.

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Road to VR

MAY 26, 2020

Mova is a standalone VR headset that does away with motion controllers, instead offering optical hand tracking which users will use to navigate UI and interact with others online. Like Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Go, the headset only includes a single remote, which appears to have a touchpad and button array for basic input.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2023

You can access it at this link: [link] ) Top news of the week (Image by Microsoft) Microsoft kills Windows Mixed Reality Microsoft has decided to pull the plug on the Windows Mixed Reality platform , the one of the WMR headsets by Acer, Asus, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung which were the first to introduce inside-out tracking in the VR ecosystem.

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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). The second one I selected is from Samsung , and in this case to show what I wouldn’t like to have in an AR windshield.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Oculus releases hands tracking SDK, official Link cable for Quest and more. First of all, Oculus has finally released the hands tracking SDK for Oculus Quest , letting all developers create hands-tracked application for this popular standalone headset. I hate this.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

And as any year, Oculus has really amazed us: for sure you have already read my short recap published after the first keynote of OC6 where I told you about amazing stuff like Oculus Link, Facebook Horizon and Hands Tracking. Hand tracking on Quest. Hands tracking will guarantee 25 tracked points for each hand.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

OMG, it’s almost 3 years that I write these roundups… the first week peek was exclusive for my blog subscribers and it featured as best news the release of Google Blocks and in the other news something about Samsung Gear VR… how much time has passed since then! So many memories… who was there already in VR with me? It’s all very cool.

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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. Sony has answered this question in the weekend.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

On one side, many of these games have a huge multiplayer component and acquiring Activision Blizzard, Microsoft gains a lot of expertise in how to manage virtual worlds that host many thousands (if not millions) of players at the same time. Samsung Exynos 2200 introduces ray tracing on mobile. Meta releases runtime v37 for Quest.

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InstaVR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

We’re also going to help you strategize how to approach your Oculus app building going forward given these changes. OCULUS QUEST HAND TRACKING As Quest users know, the Oculus Touch Hand Controllers are a significant step forward. The newly announced Hand Tracking for Quest is a huge step forward!

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Samsung Odyssey+ is now at $230. Samsung has just discounted its best PC VR headset, the Odyssey+, at the incredibly low price of $230. Devs are doing very interesting things with hands tracking for Quest. Devs are doing very interesting things with hands tracking for Quest. News from partners (and friends).

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 19, 2024

Announced specs include: Spatial computing via a Samsung processors, and an XReal custom computing unit. Hand tracking and head tracking. Six degrees of tracking with spatial anchors and depth mesh. Fortunately, XReal might have finally discovered how to address this problem. 52-degree field of view.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

According to the report, there is internal confusion at Microsoft about how to work in the XR sector : some are favorable to building hardware, while others (including the CEO Nadella) are more interested in building platforms and services (like Azure, or Microsoft Mesh). HoloLens 3 may have been canceled. Record VR games in VR format.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

And that means that every time you go to use Vision Pro you have to consciously think about how to best position this 353 gram anchor, around double the weight of a typical smartphone, and how to keep the cable out of the way of your left arm. Apple Vision Pro on the other hand has occlusion in two distinct forms.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

Valve is also releasing all the sources of the maps of the game as references for the devs to understand how to create their levels. That genius that answers the name of Daniel Beauchamp has used Quest Hands Tracking to make a miniature version of Beat Saber that you can play using your fingers. All of this in less than 1 year.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Oculus knows how to delight the eyes of its customers and it has made a very well crafted headset, that looks incredibly elegant. According to some reviewers, the display may also be the same one made by Samsung. Oculus Touch are very ergonomic controllers and let the user have a rough emulation of using his/her own hands in VR.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The price is $599, but to work the glasses should be tethered to a smartphone from Samsung or OnePlus, so the overall price of the whole system is well beyond $1000. The mission of the event is to talk about what is the metaverse and how to build it in a responsible way, putting “humanity” as the first design principle for it.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2018

Have you seen how many new features? Let’s start with something easy: do you remember my article on how to stream the content of the Focus on an external screen? Furthermore, the accuracy has to be evaluated … hand tracking is damn hard and we don’t want our virtual controller to jitter.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

Learn more on: Babel Tech Reviews (What is VRSS + hands-on) Upload VR (What is VRSS + Supported games) Upload VR (How to activate VRSS). Samsung AR glasses. Probably the true surprise of the whole show has been Samsung, that during its press conference has teased some AR glasses. Ok Samsung, you have our attention.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 9, 2017

Valve’s SteamVR Tracking could have a huge impact on the mixed reality industry this year and next. 5 million Gear VRs sold is a major milestone for Facebook and Samsung, as is $3 million in sales for Job Simulator , a best-selling room-scale game. Attach it to a camera for six hours of mixed reality footage. The Missing Pieces.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 27, 2019

According to some reviewers, the display may also be the same one made by Samsung. Once the configuration is done, you learn how to use the controllers with little games that let you throw paper planes, shoot at things or dance with a robot (that personally, I hate, but I see that many people consider him cute. Colors are very bright.

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Dominic Brennan from Road to VR estimates that Santa Cruz is using the same 1,440 × 1,600 displays that are also found in the Samsung Odyssey and Vive Pro headsets. For those of you that will not be able to attend in San Jose, California you can watch the event live streamed in virtual reality on your Oculus Go or Samsung Gear VR!

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

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. There are hands tracking and eye tracking , but they are almost never exploited. That’s really bad. Other considerations. Final impressions. I am not impressed.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

We are at the same level of Vive Focus or Vive Pro… probably the display is the same made by Samsung. This is the same chip of the Samsung S8 and it is not the latest available for VR: Qualcomm has already released the 845 VR reference design. But at this point your hand is not tracked at all… so how to do that?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2019

When Daydream launched as an alternative to Gear VR, it seemed destined to kill Samsung’s ecosystem. Furthermore, if you have already developed for the Daydream platform, you already know how to that and if you have developed for Cardboard, you have already some concepts that turn out to be useful. Apps ecosystem.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 28, 2020

Much later (early 2020) physical evidence of the “L” development face gasket emerged after Steam Support mistakenly sent one to a Redditor, who then posted a picture on Reddit asking how to attach the gasket, as it did not have magnets (production gasket) but clip-in tabs (pre-production). Image by Immersive Computing).

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. Our guest today, Jacob, has also been a partner at Samsung NEXT. And when Jinha finished up at Samsung, AR had sort of started catching on in earnest. Jacob, welcome to the show.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. Our guest today, Jacob, has also been a partner at Samsung NEXT. And when Jinha finished up at Samsung, AR had sort of started catching on in earnest. Jacob, welcome to the show.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. Our guest today, Jacob, has also been a partner at Samsung NEXT. And when Jinha finished up at Samsung, AR had sort of started catching on in earnest. Jacob, welcome to the show.

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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. This trend will continue in 2021 : the new LiDAR sensor, which is rumored to be installed in all future iPhones, will for sure be copied also by Android phones (Samsung?)

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 8, 2018

I’m very interested in this device, that’s why I dedicated various articles to it, like the tutorial on how to get started with Go on Unity , how to stream the headset content to an external screen and my comparison with the Vive Focus. I found the UI very neat and I immediately learned how to use it. The headset.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

We were tasked with exploring how to bring new gamers into the Steam platform. Ellsworth: Again, it’s difficult to know how to handle all these different interactions. When you break it down, it’s really the work of very talented people figuring out how to do something that otherwise would be impossible.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Go and do that, and maybe you have to create an account, and then you have to go find the product again, and figure out how to get to the link.” Alan: Yeah, the new Samsung 10 does it. Alan: If you sell, maybe you sell 10 products and creating them into 3D is not that difficult if you know how this phone device.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Go and do that, and maybe you have to create an account, and then you have to go find the product again, and figure out how to get to the link.” Alan: Yeah, the new Samsung 10 does it. Alan: If you sell, maybe you sell 10 products and creating them into 3D is not that difficult if you know how this phone device.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Go and do that, and maybe you have to create an account, and then you have to go find the product again, and figure out how to get to the link." Alan: Yeah, the new Samsung 10 does it. Alan: If you sell, maybe you sell 10 products and creating them into 3D is not that difficult if you know how this phone device. OK, that's fine.

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