The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

French startup Lynx announced some months ago a quite interesting headset featuring pass-through augmented reality , hands tracking, eye tracking, and an innovative lens design. The standalone headset still features passthrough AR/MR, XR2 chipset, dual 1600×1600 LCD panels running at 90Hz, Ultraleap hands tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

Unreal Engine 5 may change the rules of game development. Out of nowhere, Epic Games has teased the next version of Unreal Engine, Unreal Engine 5, due to be released in 2021. It means that you can take whatever model, even with billions of polygons, and put it in your Unreal Engine project. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

This weekend I’ve also organized together with SIDI a big VR workshop on new technologies (XR, AI, neural links, etc…). Developers are coming up with creative uses of Oculus Quest hands tracking. Oculus Quest hands tracking is being a success among developers. It is amazing to be seen.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

The company is still heavily involved with VR development however, and are expected to present some new technology with Google at Display Week 2018 in May. Magic Leap has launched the SDK for the device’s Lumin OS , with support for Unity and Unreal engines. Magic Leap announcements. image courtesy Magic Leap. Nvidia RTX.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

Ben Lang has written a very interesting editorial on the topic, and for instance, he imagines that this may mean that all Sony-owned game studios will all start using Unreal Engine as their game engine , unifying the production processes among them all. Unreal Engine can now use your iPhone to record facial animations.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

While Oculus is getting all the glory for the Quest, its competitors are not sleeping. This year, I’m just watching the conference from home The conference has been interesting, and it has been the usual mix of technology and politics. Notwithstanding all this hate, the Oculus Quest 2 is selling very well.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Quest’s ‘Body Tracking’ API isn’t what it looks and sounds like. Body Tracking API was released on Thursday as part of Movement SDK, which also includes Eye Tracking API and Face Tracking API for Quest Pro. It’s not actual tracking, and it doesn’t include your legs.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2021

I’m super-late with this newsletter because we of New Technology Walkers are working on some cool stuff for our game HitMotion: Reloaded! It has a retro look that makes it very nerdy, and it should be able to offer passthrough AR and hands tracking via Ultraleap. I hope for this project to become a reality. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

The price tag seems a bit too steep given the current situation of the company unless behind the curtains they have some secret technology and some Carmack-style talents. Valve Index and Oculus Quest were on sale again. This week the Valve Index and the Oculus Quest have been put back in stock. Image by Oculus).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

Image by Oculus). Facebook is working on a new version of the Oculus Quest. According to a report by Bloomberg, Oculus is working on a new Oculus Quest model, and it has already done prototypes that are lighter and more powerful than the current device. Top news of the week. Mechanical IPD is confirmed.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 24, 2020

Ever since virtual reality (VR) remerged as a viable consumer product the quest has been to make the technology as immersive and interactive as possible. That’s lead to motion controllers, eye tracking and hand tracking but full-body tracking has stopped and started due to the complexities of this process.

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Peter Graham

JULY 15, 2019

The most popular tend to be videogame engines such as Unity and Unreal Engine which have been fine-tuned over many years. New augmented and virtual reality developers have little out-of-the-box support for this historically difficult technology,” adds Dan Duggan, a software engineer at Charles River.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

He stresses that he wants his metaverse not to be like these ones… but I also have to remember you that currently, Oculus is the most closed VR platform. Oculus Quest 2 goes 128GB and MR. The Oculus Quest 2’s update pace is always impressive: every month we have new features to play with. Image by Facebook).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Image by Kura Technologies). In an interview with the fantastic blog The Ghost Howls (I don’t know if you have ever heard of it), Kura Technologies’s CEO/CTO Kelly Peng has revealed some interesting info about their upcoming AR glasses. Oculus is selling refurbished Quest for $199. More info (Both videos in this Twitter thread).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

Last Oculus Quest update shows hints of an Oculus MR ecosystem. Facebook is continuously updating the Oculus Quest , its most successful device, and this week it has rolled out the runtime v16. I think that this update, together with the last ones, marks the beginning of a mixed reality ecosystem that is being built by Oculus.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Now they’re pivoting the technology to suit more training-based use cases, and CEO Brandon Naids is on the show to explain how. And gaming technologies, so couldn't have picked a better spot. And the number one feature request was hand tracking and interacting with your instruments. Today's guest is Brandon Naids.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Now they’re pivoting the technology to suit more training-based use cases, and CEO Brandon Naids is on the show to explain how. And gaming technologies, so couldn't have picked a better spot. And the number one feature request was hand tracking and interacting with your instruments. Today's guest is Brandon Naids.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

We had at the same time the Game Developer Conference (the GDC) and the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) by NVIDIA, so we had lots of announcements about 3D technology in general and also about XR. And notwithstanding this new technology, it manages to also be smaller than the traditional Tracker.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Now they’re pivoting the technology to suit more training-based use cases, and CEO Brandon Naids is on the show to explain how. And gaming technologies, so couldn't have picked a better spot. And the number one feature request was hand tracking and interacting with your instruments. Today's guest is Brandon Naids.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 17, 2015

Hand tracking and virtual reality are both emerging technologies, and combining the two into a fluid and seamless experience can be a real challenge. Engines like Unity and Unreal are constantly getting better at representing sound effects in 3D space, which is absolutely essential to creating a sense of presence.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

VR has the power to transform our lives and connect us in new ways, while hand tracking lets you reach beyond the digital divide and take control. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Build Chinese. Leap Commander.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

There are no controllers, but Ultraleap hands tracking (you can use it with FinchShift controllers, though). $500 for this device is a steal. Apple has announced the event with an AR easter egg in the invite to the event, and it shows how it cares about AR, a technology in which Tim Cook believes a lot.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2021

The pandemic has hit also one of the most important technological expo of the year, the CES, that this year was held digitally. It is impressive how they’ve been able to miniaturize their technology (Image by CREAL from Road To VR). The evolution of CREAL glasses. and I am myself impressed by this performance.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2022

Its first VR concert tour springs from years of R&D that resulted in proprietary 9K cameras and software that can automate complex unreal engine-based VR concert visual effects (VFX) modules and run more than 100 headsets at a time. So gaze-to-aim and hand-to-shoot. VR can finally blow all 2D experience out of the water.

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Road to VR

MARCH 1, 2017

If you own an Oculus Rift, it’s being brought to you absolutely free of charge. Publisher: Oculus. Available On: Oculus Rift (Oculus Touch Required). It has crisp, sharp visuals and stable frame rates that come from people who intimately understand the technology they’re working with. Developers: Epic Games.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 27, 2019

This year we had the launch of two amazing 6 DOF all-in-one Virtual Reality headsets : the Oculus Quest and the HTC Vive Focus Plus. The official boxes of the Oculus Quest (above) and Vive Focus Plus (below). Oculus Quest and controllers (Image by Oculus). The Quest has more tracking cameras and more audio jacks.

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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.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This week has been the week of the Oculus Connect 6 , the biggest yearly event by Oculus where the VR company announces all its most important news, both on hardware and software sides. Oculus Link. You can even access to Oculus Home and Dash. Oculus Link will be available in beta in November 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

It is a big showcase demo for its Unreal Engine 5, and I have to say it is pretty impressive. During the Sony Technology Day showcase, Sony has shown a prototype of a headset with two 4K micro OLED displays. The new update also brings hand tracking support in the Oculus OpenXR plugin. News worth a mention.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

And you really go deep into the technology of it, the listeners of this podcast are more maybe in the business, maybe they’re not really into VR. And I think the computer technology is gonna become better and better at being able to detect what we are intending, what we’re saying. Anybody can do this, not just developers.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

And you really go deep into the technology of it, the listeners of this podcast are more maybe in the business, maybe they're not really into VR. And I think the computer technology is gonna become better and better at being able to detect what we are intending, what we're saying. Anybody can do this, not just developers.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

And you really go deep into the technology of it, the listeners of this podcast are more maybe in the business, maybe they’re not really into VR. And I think the computer technology is gonna become better and better at being able to detect what we are intending, what we’re saying. Anybody can do this, not just developers.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Spaces offers functionalities in: Image tracking Object tracking Hand tracking Spatial mapping Environment understanding and meshing Plane detection Real/virtual world occlusion …and more. Universal mapping of gestures to handle input across devices including controllers and hand tracking. Responsive Scale?

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Zuck’s announcement has been reported everywhere, and this has been a very powerful endorsement for immersive technologies. Oculus brands disappears. And most importantly, the Oculus brand will disappear and will just become Meta : Oculus Quest will be the Meta Quest (yes, it sounds terribly, I know). And so it happened.

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