XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 2, 2022

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. The question is, which XR collaboration solutions are most worthy of your attention in 2022?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

It’s interesting that someone has already started modifying this application, and a guy already obtained a version that works just with hand tracking and no controllers. More info A Universal Unity VR injector may be in the works, or maybe not Raicuparta has just added an old simple Universal Unity VR Mod tool to its Rai Pal tool.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The Lynx R-1 headset houses six cameras: two B&W cameras for 6DoF positional tracking, two IR cameras for hand-tracking, and two RGB visible light cameras for the color passthrough AR mode. Hand-tracking, controllers. AR + Hand-tracking. Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax), Bluetooth 5.0. Connectors. USB Type-C.

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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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Upload VR

JUNE 21, 2023

The company says that starting next month developers who've been building 3D apps with Unity can port their work to the headset. The SDK release and accompanying human interface guidelines released today offer a deeper look at Apple's upcoming platform. Apple has even released Reality Composer Pro, essentially its own engine editor.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2022

Someone in the communities argued with me that HoloLens 2 has still some advantages over Magic Leap 2: it is well integrated with Azure, it is standalone so it doesn’t need a potentially dangerous cable connecting the headset to the computational unit, and it doesn’t need controllers (it uses hands tracking). News worth a mention.

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Road to VR

MAY 25, 2020

With growing usage of social virtual worlds and spaces like VRChat and Mozilla Hubs , you might be looking for a way to make your own avatar to represent yourself in VR. Here are two user-friendly avatar character creator apps for that purpose which won’t require the use of developer-level tools like Unity, Blender, etc.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The last big breakthrough we saw in ease-of-use interactivity was the launch of hand tracking and gesture recognition on enterprise and consumer VAR devices. As such, socialization in virtual worlds is rapidly increasing our comfort with audio-based conversations in immersive environments, but this is still a niche experience.

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Road to VR

MARCH 25, 2020

Tuesday, April 7 – Build for Tomorrow: VIVE Hand Tracking SDK. Build for Tomorrow: VIVE Hand Tracking SDK . Learn how to add hand tracking support to the VIVE, VIVE Pro, VIVE Cosmos and VIVE Focus with a hands-on coding session using Unity. Tuesday, April 14 – Working Remotely in VR using?Vive?Sync.

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ARPost

JUNE 3, 2022

If you’re not amazed because many XR applications have built-in hand tracking, remember that your hands need to be in view of the headset’s cameras for hand tracking to work. You can do it with your hands behind your back. Not so with StretchSense. StretchSense. You can do this in a pocket.

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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

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. This is one of the weirdest rag-doll experiments in Unity. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

Mova will be a 6DOF headset with 2 tracking cameras, working natively only with hands tracking (there is a controller for fallback, though). Controllers are fundamental for interactions in most VR experiences and hands tracking is only good for watching videos, go on social XR worlds, and play simple games.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 31, 2016

Leap Motion has announced it’s to early access to the beta of its Interaction Engine , a set of systems designed to help developers implement compelling, realistic and hopefully frustration-free input with just their hands.

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ARPost

JUNE 1, 2020

Patrick O’Shaughnessy presented the Auggie for Best Developer Tool to Unity , a cross-platform tool that hosts many XR experiences. Emily Olman presented the Auggie Award for Best Indie Creator to Greg Madison for his work on hand tracking on flat surfaces – Tangible UI. Best Developer Tool. Best Enterprise Solution.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2021

One of the first accessories for AR/VR I had the opportunity to work on is the Leap Motion hands tracking controller : I made some cool experiments and prototypes with it and the Oculus Rift DK2. I’ve made my usual video review of the new UltraLeap Gemini runtime , with some cool in-action shots of me using hands-tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

This week they have added two new amazing features to their XR-1 mixed-reality headset: chroma-keying and marker tracking. Google MediaPipe can now track 3D objects. The system can detect and track specific objects like chairs and feet all just using your phone camera. Unity’s HDRP is now VR-compatible.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Orion: next-generation hand tracking for VR. Interacting with digital content on a physical level starts with the human hand. Click To Tweet This is why we created the Orion software, which is built from the ground up to tackle the unique challenges of hand tracking for VR. Redesigning our Unity Core Assets.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

With ARKit you can also track your face, and some developers have started also using it as an animation tool. Both systems also track images, and so you can use ARKit and ARCore as you used Vuforia before. Feature comparison between ARCore, ARKit and the Unity Handheld AR SDK (Image by Unity).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

Being the lens transparent, you can see through it both the real and virtual world. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

The most interesting ones for me are related to hand tacking. Meta Quest will receive Hand Tracking 2.2, which makes the hand tracking more responsive to fast movements of hands : the system can so track the hands also when the user is playing fitness games like FitXR (or HitMotion: Reloaded).

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

As mainstream VR/AR input continues to evolve – from the early days of gaze-only input to wand-style controllers and fully articulated hand tracking – so too are the virtual user interfaces we interact with. When we bring our hands into a virtual space, we also bring a lifetime’s worth of physical biases with us.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

Some other points: China is betting hard on VR; Social VR applications are getting more popularity and VR Chat is still the most popular of them; We have seen the release of a lot of new accessories for VR: threadmills , scent emitters, gloves, exoskeletons, etc… Predictions for Virtual Reality in 2019. It’s 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

This tracker can be worn on the wrist, for a more accurate hand-tracking experience, or be installed on external props (e.g. from PC) to join its virtual worlds , too, so that to increment the user base. Disney is working on glasses-free virtual installations. I’m just speculating, but it may have sense.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2020

So somebody built a link between Unity and the Airpods, so they can turn their head, and it turns the 3D model in the screen. And the cost savings are just astronomical, when you start to realize what can be done in virtual worlds, especially on things that are dangerous and expensive. So let me ask you a question.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2020

So somebody built a link between Unity and the Airpods, so they can turn their head, and it turns the 3D model in the screen. And the cost savings are just astronomical, when you start to realize what can be done in virtual worlds, especially on things that are dangerous and expensive. So let me ask you a question.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2020

So somebody built a link between Unity and the Airpods, so they can turn their head, and it turns the 3D model in the screen. And the cost savings are just astronomical, when you start to realize what can be done in virtual worlds, especially on things that are dangerous and expensive. So let me ask you a question.

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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. But with the lines between the real and virtual worlds now blurrier than ever, could we cut it even further? 3DUI: Three Dimensional User Interfaces. CAD & OBJ Viewer.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

HoloLens 2 is an amazing device, with a decent FOV, eye tracking, and hands tracking, that for sure will make many companies happy. This comes after the news that Sansar will now pivot more towards hosting events in Virtual Reality. If you will be in Italy, please come visiting me!

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Numerous innovations continue to enhance the smart glasses industry for enterprise workers, including developments in hand tracking, device management, software platforms, and interoperability. These are growing an entire ecosystem of solutions and use cases capable of delivering real-world return on investment (ROI) for firms.

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Leapmotion

MAY 1, 2015

From the mouse and touchscreen, to hand tracking platforms like the Leap Motion Controller, the design of UI elements like the humble button is shaped by the hardware and how we use it. Here’s a quick guide to designing buttons and other UI elements for VR, based on our Unity Widgets. Everything Should Be Reactive.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

Unity talked about PlayStation VR 2 at GDC. Unity had a talk about developing for PlayStation VR 2 at GDC 2022. This proves the value of eye-tracking and its implementation inside PSVR 2. More info (Foveated Tracking boost inside PSVR 2) More info (Full Unity talk at GDC). News worth a mention. Other news.

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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

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. Meta releases runtime v37 for Quest. A little tool that can help many VR devs that use Mac.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 12, 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. Note that some assets (like Image Hands and Widgets) are not currently available for the Orion Unity Core Assets. Choosing Your Hands. Hand Position.

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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.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Another person with an iPad in hand was able to follow the gameplay of all the players, maybe thanks to some ARCore magic. For instance, in Unity, the Oculus Utilities plugin is the same for PC, Go and GearVR. Very very cool, but nothing that we had not already seen other times. So we don’t know if it will be added.

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