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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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 - Virtual Reality

JUNE 8, 2023

Even before the firm’s monumental and, in some ways, controversial device announcement, which saw audiences amazed at a high price point and technology promise, the XR industry was on each of their seats with predictions on Apple’s immersive debut. You will be able to play it with hand tracking.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Designed for use by a wide rand of industry professionals, from pilots and engineers to surgeons and researchers, these professional-grade headsets feature a variety of enterprise-focused tools. In terms of tracking, the XR-3 features both eye as well as hand-tracking powered by integrated Ultraleap technology.

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Road to VR

MAY 7, 2020

With many of us a stuck at home with some extra time on our hands from not traveling (or getting dressed) it may be an opportune time to learn new skills. The company says the class is open to beginners; Unity experience and an Oculus Quest are both recommended but not required. How to optimize your Unity app for Oculus Quest.

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Road to VR

JUNE 12, 2023

Cloudhead Games is one of the most successful and senior VR studios in the industry. Unity engine support is promised but with no plans for motion control support, Apple has cut out any possibility of porting most of the existing or future VR catalog to its platform.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

A new cycle of XR The Apple Vision Pro launch has been a disruptive moment for our industry (Image by Apple) As I said in a popular post a few months ago , I think we have entered a new cycle for immersive realities. Especially Apple and Google, which are the dominant players in the smartphone industry, are both launching headsets this year.

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Road to VR

JUNE 21, 2023

Guest Article by Sterling Crispin Sterling Crispin is an artist and software engineer with a decade of experience in the spatial computing industry. However, if your goal is to create a fully immersive VR experience for Vision Pro that also works on other headsets like Meta’s Quest or PlayStation VR, you have to use Unity.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Clients can leverage the G1 device for enterprises and industrial use cases such as training, remote guidance, and collaboration. The G1 device comes with a rich software development kit (SDK), enabling clients to integrate the HaptX brand of realistic feedback into custom immersive applications using Unreal Engine and Unity.

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ARPost

JUNE 8, 2023

Developers with early access include JigSpace , and the headset’s software is compatible with Unity. The headset arguably looks more like what industry insiders call an “AR viewer” – that is, rather than providing spatial content, it provides a spatial interface for 2D content.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 31, 2023

Last Thursday, leading hand-tracking firm SpectreXR announced a strategic collaboration with XR headset vendor HTC VIVE via its Linkedin account to drive innovation, immersion, and realistic interaction on the latter’s product portfolio. via Untiy’s Asset Store.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

More info (Eye+hand interface) More info (My doubts on Apple Vision Pro’s UX) Still talking about UX, but on the development side, I loved reading the article where Realities.io They also talk about the current difficulties of using Unity to develop for the Vision Pro. describes how they ported Puzzling Places to the Vision Pro.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Interhaptics is a Haptics software company specializing in tools for haptic design and rendering, and hand tracking interactions for digital platforms as Mobile, XR, and consoles. It supports an extensive list of XR controllers, hand tracking systems, and haptic devices. All are already included in Unity.

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ARPost

MARCH 26, 2020

Connecting with the developer community, sharing our technical insights and learning what is next for the industry is always a highlight for our team,” the VIVE team said in their Tuesday announcement. “ On April 7, Senior Developer Evangelist Dario Laverde will present “Build for Tomorrow: VIVE Hand Tracking SDK.”

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Although its well-known applications lie in gaming and entertainment , its potential isn’t limited to these industries. Tech startup XpertVR is perhaps one of a handful of companies pushing the boundaries in this field, providing businesses with unique immersive solutions. They immediately learned how outdated the industry was.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Increasingly, business leaders from across virtually every industry are discovering the value of XR for training, collaboration, ideation, and development. Companies can use engines from companies like Unity to recreate digital “twins” of products, buildings, and other items, combined with information from various data sources.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Top 5 XR Communities To Join & Stay Updated With The Latest XR Trends in 2021 Overview Staying updated with the latest trends and updates in the XR industry can be challenging. If there is any new feature released in SDKs or libraries in Unity, you are most likely to find the first tutorial video about it on his YouTube channel.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 12, 2021

The Achille’s heel of positional tracking is the light: if the room is completely dark, it doesn’t work anymore. Hands Tracking. HoloLens 2 has no controllers, but it lets you interact with the mixed reality elements through hand tracking, eye tracking, and voice commands.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 2, 2022

Here are a selection of some of our most popular reviews from the industry, to help you decide. 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.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 3, 2023

According to reports, Apple’s overseas manufacturing partner Luxshare Precision Industry Co is reducing its initial product assembly to 400,000 units, down from Apple’s 1 million unit forecast. Apple is also partnering with Unity to distribute developer tools and resources to promote content creation on the platform.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

More info (Meta Quest+ gaming service) More info (Cross-buy available for Meta Quest+ games) Unity announces AI tools when Valve stops AI games This week has been an emotional rollercoaster for games (VR and not) made with the support of artificial intelligence. Muse looks a lot like ChatGPT integrated inside Unity.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 28, 2022

With tracking technologies, companies can build more immersive experiences for XR users. Eye tracking helps users to navigate a space more effectively, while improving software performance and minimising discomfort. Hand tracking, on the other hand, ensures individuals can interact more effectively with virtual content.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The Brighton, UK-based firm will also allow immersive content creators to analyse their projects across gaming engines, devices, and content, the company explained, adding its Unity-based plugin had launched with further support for Unreal Engine and 8th Wall over the next few months. XR Study on Key Analytics.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The company teases great stuff: “ Get ready for innovations in optics, hardware and ergonomics that will open amazing opportunities in all industries ”. Unity now supports Vulkan for Oculus Quest. Unity has finally implemented Vulkan support for the Oculus Quest, in Unity 2019.3. Vuforia won’t drop Unity support.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 15, 2023

I t has a rugged industrial and enterprise construction, and it is designed to work hands-free with voice and gaze recognition. Unity adds OpenXR hand integration package. DigiLens unveils its headset. DigiLens has unveiled its first AR headset. Dubbed “Argo”, the device is meant for professional usage.

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ARVR

AUGUST 31, 2021

Founded by members of Unity, Interhaptics , Senseglove , and Nanoport. An event every other week with speakers from various industries and academia. How Augmented Reality (AR) is Reshaping the Food Service Industry 3. How has hand-tracking changed the creation of an immersive VR experience? ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Notably, Apple is working to expand its Apple Vision Pro developer labs to provide more support for the XR developer talent pool – another industry hurdle. The labs also guide using Apple Vision Pro’s new features and frameworks, like spatial audio, hand tracking, and face capture.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

The device also exploits Leap Motion hands tracking and offers a completely natural interface all based on hands interactions. Or because he’s been the first person attaching a Leap Motion to an Oculus DK1 with some duct tape, envisioning how hand tracking could be vital for virtual reality. Hands-on review.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

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. The NRSDK is Nreal’s SDK that lets you develop applications using the popular Unity game engine.

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ARVR

JULY 19, 2021

On Thursday, May 27th, key players from the haptics, hand tracking, and VR training industries gathered to discuss the scaling of haptics in VR training applications. The development of high-fidelity hand tracking interactions and haptic feedback can take a very long time and be complicated. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Offering a way to blend computing systems with the physical world in a more natural, interactive way, spatial computing could impact virtually every industry. billion by 2032, it’s safe to say the spatial computing industry is growing. Companies like Unity also create tools to make eye and gaze tracking more accurate.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The Immerse Global Summit 2022 Miami concluded on Wednesday, where some of the biggest players in the tech industry gathered to explore the future of Web3 technologies. Brian Vogelsang : My biggest takeaway has been the excitement across the industry. The tech industry responded by rallying as a community and a group.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

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. With HoloLens v1 there were absurd limitations regarding the maximum allowed polygons in a Unity scene (like 20K polygons), so almost every produced program run sloppy.

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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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ARPost

JUNE 23, 2021

and PlayCanvas , as well as a Unity SDK coming to the next generation of ZapBox. Still, they gave Zappar claim to the cheapest six-degree-of-freedom dual-hand-tracking rig on the market. It also has seriously industrious-looking re-imagined controllers modeled after the Quest controllers. ZapBox Goes to Pre-Order.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Offering a way to blend computing systems with the physical world in a more natural, interactive way, spatial computing could impact virtually every industry. billion by 2032, it’s safe to say the spatial computing industry is growing. Companies like Unity also create tools to make eye and gaze tracking more accurate.

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ARVR

JUNE 22, 2021

This article was extracted from the Recommended Practices for Haptics in Enterprise VR published by the Haptics Industry Forum. Hand tracking and natural interactions coupled with well-designed haptic feedback can meet or exceed user expectations of interactive content. Application maturity. User experience. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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