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The Benefits of Virtual Reality in Banking

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High-resolution imagery and low-latency head-tracking brought people into a virtual environment. Additionally, a leap motion 3D controller enabled them to interact with it. VR is a young, emerging technology. Oculus Rift powered the virtual experience. Source: Widiba. Investing in Virtual Reality.

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Toward Truly Glasses-sized AR: First Look at DigiLens’ AR HUD Reference Headset

Road to VR

DigiLens , a developer of transparent waveguide display technology, is creating a reference headset aimed at wide FOV AR with hand-tracking, dubbed AR HUD. The company showed the first glimpse of the headset at AWE USA 2018. DigiLens says its in the process of demoing the AR HUD reference headset to potential partners.

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Triton Project is an affordable DIY AR headset

The Ghost Howls

Triton works with Leap Motion (now Ultra Leap) hands tracking. Originally I was going to make a standalone device which hooked everything up to a Nvidia Jetson Nano that could be worn on your belt (think Magic Leap One). Or even take it 1 step further and use the Intel Realsense to get 6DoF slam tracking working.

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All you need to know on HoloLens 2

The Ghost Howls

The new HoloLens features: Eye tracking Full hands tracking (a la Leap Motion) Voice commands understanding. That’s impressive and that’s what we need: a new technology that is so real that doesn’t need explanations. For what regards the user experience, instead, there are great innovations.

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Newsletter 51 – #WWYL? How Hardware Hacks can Change the World

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Leap Motion at PennApps. We’ll be sharing more about our experiences soon, including some very cool Leap Motion API hacks. Compare Metrics + Leap Motion Hackathon. Watch how sensrec is using Leap Motion technology to teach SCARA and Stäubli robots how to perform tasks. Read more ».

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Microsoft May Leapfrog Facebook and Google in VR With HoloLens Tracking

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Head tracking is an essential part of all mixed reality technology, both VR and AR, and the so-called inside-out variety in a VR headset makes set up dramatically easier. HoloLens will continue to be at the core of what we do, but Windows Holographic is the larger and more diverse ecosystem that HoloLens exists within.”

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OSVR Co-founder on the Future of Open Source Virtual Reality

Road to VR

Acer, NVIDIA, Valve, Ubisoft, Leap Motion and many others joined the ecosystem. This allows applications to work without regards to the particular device or technology choice. For example, head tracking can come from optical trackers or inertial ones. He frequently shares his views and knowledge on his blog.