XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 15, 2024

They can automatically scale performance to different devices and wearables, giving you room to grow. Google ARCore Google’s ARCore is the augmented reality SDK that combines various cross-platform APIs developers can use to build immersive experiences for Android, iOS, the web, and Unity.

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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). Learn more. Learn more.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Advancements in Hardware and Wearables Spatial computing solutions rely on a combination of intuitive hardware and powerful software. This includes the development of more comfortable, lightweight, and powerful wearable headsets, like the impeding Apple Vision Pro. It’s not just wearable hardware that’s evolving, either.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Advancements in Hardware and Wearables Spatial computing solutions rely on a combination of intuitive hardware and powerful software. This includes the development of more comfortable, lightweight, and powerful wearable headsets, like the impeding Apple Vision Pro. It’s not just wearable hardware that’s evolving, either.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Sensors use IoT technology and can be built into everything from standalone systems to wearable headsets and smartphones. Some organizations focus heavily on hand tracking. For instance, Ultraleap offers state-of-the-art hand-tracking tools to monitor even minute movements at your fingertips.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 26, 2022

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. The HaptX SDK contains tools to control G1’s feedback and input while a user is within an immersive application.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 27, 2023

Today, there are numerous brands producing lightweight, ergonomic, and infinitely powerful wearable solutions for VR users. So, where should business buyers start their search for the ultimate headset? The solution also supports hand tracking through Ultraleap Gemini and Positional tracking via SteamVR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 17, 2022

This Tuesday, Nreal unveiled a hand-tracking update to its augmented reality (AR) software development kit (SDK) for the Chinese company’s lineup of smart glasses, including new controller support and eye tracking options. AI+AR = our new Hand Tracking API. Hand menus (user interface – UI).

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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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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2022

To achieve their mission of delivering highly immersive, productive, and engaging experiences, Meta invests heavily in tracking technologies. Tools like the Oculus already come with hand tracking functionality, to help users interact with some software on a hands-free basis. Unity and Magic Leap.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

We wanted to help facilitate lightweight, wearable glasses with comfortable form factors, allowing people to use them for longer periods of time. The AR market has been primarily focused on assisted reality, or devices with monocular displays and sometimes cameras, but are wearable computers for tasks such as remote guidance.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The labs also guide using Apple Vision Pro’s new features and frameworks, like spatial audio, hand tracking, and face capture. It will also have a ring of LED lights to improve eye-tracking performance and hand-tracking sensors, allowing users to interact with their spatial computing environment without controllers.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

The most recent headset produced by the company is the Magic Leap 2 , a lightweight and ergonomic wearable device, with built-in dynamic dimming technology, and built-in technologies for running custom enterprise solutions at scale. This headset delivers human-eye resolution, with custom-made aspheric lenses and a 115 degree field of view.

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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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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

So many developers could find themselves with the conundrum of what to offer and to which device : if the Quest 3 Lite will sell a lot of units, maybe developers will prefer to develop content that is compatible with hand tracking, shifting the current attention to games to something else.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 23, 2023

The most recent headset produced by the company is the Magic Leap 2 , a lightweight and ergonomic wearable device with built-in dynamic dimming technology and built-in technologies for running custom enterprise solutions at scale. IrisVision Technology vendor IrisVision produces low-profile, wearable hardware solutions for the XR space.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 3, 2023

Already, Apple is allowing developers to create new or port pre-existing applications onto its VisionOS platform, which only supports hand-tracking native XR applications. Apple is also partnering with Unity to distribute developer tools and resources to promote content creation on the platform.

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ARVR

JUNE 22, 2021

Hand tracking and natural interactions coupled with well-designed haptic feedback can meet or exceed user expectations of interactive content. The hand-tracked interaction is transparent and natural, whereas the controller interaction is mediated by a metaphor delivered by the system. ? Wearability.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 1, 2024

Today, there are numerous brands producing lightweight, ergonomic, and infinitely powerful wearable solutions for VR users. So, where should business buyers start their search for the ultimate headset? The solution also supports hand tracking through Ultraleap Gemini and Positional tracking via SteamVR.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JUNE 7, 2023

Moreover, the Vision Pro has a trove of hardware features, including a 4096 x 5464 pixels micro-OLED resolution, eye/hand tracking, voice recognition, spatial audio, high-dynamic range (HDR), wide colour gamut (WCG), 2-hour battery life, iPhone/iPad/Mac synchronization, a light seal, a LiDAR scanner, and a TrueDepth camera.

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ARPost

MAY 14, 2020

Unity – a cross-platform AR tool that probably needs no more introduction. Figmin – a platform for creating, editing, and sharing holograms by the group “Figmin XR” Greg Madison , for Tangible UI – an exploration of hand tracking on flat surfaces.

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

For instance, if you’re using eye and hand-tracking tools within your XR strategy, how will you ensure the data collected about individual users remains safe? Right now, you may simply want to ensure the information collected by your eye and hand tracking tools remains firmly within your control.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 7, 2017

This starts with tracking hands and fingers with such speed and precision that the barrier between the digital and physical worlds begins to blur. But hand tracking alone isn’t enough to capture human intention. Widgets and Wearable Interfaces. In the digital world there are no physical constraints.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

Cubism is a great case study for hand tracking UX. It can work both with the hands and the controllers, and since its hand interface works really well , Road To VR asked its developer Thomas Van Bouwel to write an article about it. I really hope that this is going to happen. Learn more. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

As John Riccitiello (CEO of Unity) said some years ago , the VR market won’t be interesting enough until it will reach the 10 million users mark. Next year, the new Quest will help in getting there, but it will be Apple that will really disrupt the market, because it will come up with cool wearable glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

What is the only wearable that people is keeping on their face all day? I mean, all UE developers, we Unity developers felt like being in a party where everyone is making out and you’re just there sipping a coke. Apple is really good at selling stuff. Yes, Airpods. So, never underestimate Apple. It is fantastic, and you MUST see it!

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Users can access over 100 third-party applications and engines, including Unreal Engine and Unity. User experience: Inside-out tracking and intuitive controllers create an exceptional user experience. Tracking options: Users can configure their headset for SteamVR tracking, as well as ART and Optitrack via API.

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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. Talking about AR glasses and smart startups producing them, another cool company to talk about is Lynx.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

This won’t be the year of AR : exactly as I said for virtual reality, let’s not hype the technology and think that this is the year when mainstream adoption of wearable AR glasses is going to happen. Some will also feature tracked controllers. Nu Eyes AR glasses. WebAR will start to exploit its potential.

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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. Ending contact.

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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. Global teams are now intricately connected with remote engineers and experts, leading to a streamlined, agile workforce.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2020

And we tried to get-- to make a wearable that is, well, doing exactly this -- so touch in VR -- but was also affordable for every professional use case. 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. So let me ask you a question.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2020

And we tried to get-- to make a wearable that is, well, doing exactly this -- so touch in VR -- but was also affordable for every professional use case. 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. So let me ask you a question.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2020

And we tried to get-- to make a wearable that is, well, doing exactly this -- so touch in VR -- but was also affordable for every professional use case. 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. So let me ask you a question.

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