Peter Graham

MARCH 3, 2020

Compatible with a range of headsets and videogames, towards the end of 2019 3dRudder added compatibility for Oculus Quest via Oculus Link. The 3dRudder Pro Wireless has been designed to offer a control option for both Oculus Quest and Android-based standalone headsets. EUR/$199.00

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. That is if every company implemented OpenXR, a program built for the Oculus should work with SteamVR as well. Image by Oculus).

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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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Road to VR

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The latest version of the Oculus Integration for Unity, v23, adds experimental OpenXR support for Quest and Quest 2 application development. OpenXR Support for Oculus Unity Integration. OpenXR Support for Oculus Unity Integration. Phase Sync Latency Reduction in Unity and Unreal Engine.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Developers are coming up with creative uses of Oculus Quest hands tracking. Oculus Quest hands tracking is being a success among developers. One in which you take one hand of yours, y ou throw it to the other side of the room, and then remotely move your hand to perform some tasks.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

Magic Leap has launched the SDK for the device’s Lumin OS , with support for Unity and Unreal engines. Epic Games have detailed Unreal Engine’s support for the Magic Leap One Creator Edition on their blog, which confirms some significant hardware features of the device, including eye tracking, hand tracking, and room scanning.

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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. Huawei has upgraded its sleek VR glasses and now they support 6DOF movement and 6DOF controllers that are very similar to the Oculus Touch. Notwithstanding all this hate, the Oculus Quest 2 is selling very well. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

Valve Index and Oculus Quest were on sale again. This week the Valve Index and the Oculus Quest have been put back in stock. Oculus and Valve have probably taken out all the devices they had in the warehouses so that to ship them before Half-Life: Alyx and the sale has been a big success. Image by Oculus). Who knows….

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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. These equations power all full-body VR avatars in apps today.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 24, 2020

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. Compatible with HTC Vive and other SteamVR headsets, Manus Polygon will be compatible with Unity when it officially launches in June 2020.

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 11, 2015

Let’s take a light-speed look at VR development with Leap Motion in Unity and JavaScript. Why Hands in VR? We believe that if virtual reality is to be anything like actual reality, then fast, accurate, and robust hand tracking will be absolutely essential. and Oculus 0.5 Escaping from Flatland. for your project.

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Road to VR

MAY 29, 2019

There have been attempts with voice input, virtual keyboards, and even real tracked keyboards ( something Logitech itself explored ), but none have proven to be effective solutions, typically due to slow input speeds (or a lack of sufficient hand tracking). A VR stylus that’s good enough for handwriting could be the key.

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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.

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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

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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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The French startup headed by Stan Larroque is developing passthrough AR glasses with eye-tracking and hands tracking that can offer a new paradigm to augmented reality. Last week I told you about MetaHumans creator, the tool to create realistic humanoid avatars in Unreal Engine. Image by Epic Games, from The SportsRush).

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

A quick note: VR/AR is a rapidly emerging ecosystem, and many of the engine tools and features that we use to build our Unity and Unreal assets are constantly shifting. In this section, we’ll cover our community’s three most popular environments for deskop and VR/AR: Unity, Unreal, and JavaScript.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. And we also just got awarded a Unreal-- or an Epic MegaGrant to develop in Unreal, basically in collaboration with BeBop Sensors who makes these haptic hand tracking gloves.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. And we also just got awarded a Unreal-- or an Epic MegaGrant to develop in Unreal, basically in collaboration with BeBop Sensors who makes these haptic hand tracking gloves.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. And we also just got awarded a Unreal-- or an Epic MegaGrant to develop in Unreal, basically in collaboration with BeBop Sensors who makes these haptic hand tracking gloves.

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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. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

Epic also announced a few interesting things, like a tool to record facial animations for MetaHumans that run on an iPhone; and Fab, the Unreal version of the Unity Asset Store, where the developers can find many tools and multimedia elements put on sale. It is a tabletop tower defense inspired by classic Plants vs Zombies.

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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

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

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. Top news of the week. Meta updates the SDK for Quest.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

I mean, I will say that with Oculus Quest that’s changing for me. Kent: The focus of Oculus has been much more on gaming rather than productivity applications, but they still have a number different productivity applications that are coming out. [laughs] Kent: Yeah, there’s all sorts of thresholds. But once the WebXR 2.0

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

I mean, I will say that with Oculus Quest that's changing for me. Kent: The focus of Oculus has been much more on gaming rather than productivity applications, but they still have a number different productivity applications that are coming out. Kent: Yeah, there's all sorts of thresholds. I've had early access to the Quest.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

I mean, I will say that with Oculus Quest that’s changing for me. Kent: The focus of Oculus has been much more on gaming rather than productivity applications, but they still have a number different productivity applications that are coming out. Kent: Yeah, there’s all sorts of thresholds. Alan: Oh, I can’t wait.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

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). He says that “We all have a strong attachment to the Oculus brand, and this was a very difficult decision to make”, but I don’t believe him at all.

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