Road to VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

HoloLens visionary Alex Kipman took to the stage in Barcelona to introduce HoloLens 2 which addresses many of the key criticisms of the original headset: field of view, comfort, and hand-tracking. HoloLens 2 also brings hand-tracking which goes much further than the coarse gesture control in the original headset.

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Road to VR

MARCH 22, 2018

Schwab continues, introducing a technically ‘wearable’, albeit very uncomfortable looking prototype from 2015 (below), “This thing is called Cheese Head. ” The WD3 from 2015 is pictured below. Magic Leap Specs and ‘Lumin’ SDK details that are known thus far: Head tracking. Eye tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The headset has a very nice design and features these specifications: Standalone 6DOF headset 1600×1600 resolution per eye 90Hz refresh rate 90° FOV RGB AR passthrough Innovative lenses that make the headset more compact Integrated audio Controller-free hand-tracking Eye-tracking 6GB of RAM 128GB of storage WiFi 6 (802.11ax), Bluetooth 5.0,

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Upload VR

JUNE 19, 2022

When it comes to hand tracking games on Quest, nothing really comes close to Unplugged. Developed by Anotherway and published by Vertigo Games in late 2021, Unplugged is an air guitar game, inspired by Guitar Hero and many others, that lets you shred in VR with a virtual guitar and your real hands. Controllers are great.’

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 8, 2015

It’s been five months since we launched the VR tracking beta, and since then we’ve made massive strides. In 2015, we’re building on this momentum with new resources for developers, while advancing support for several key VR platforms. In this post, I’d like to reflect on the year that we just left behind, and what’s coming in 2015.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Eiche joined Owlchemy in late 2015 as a producer before the 2016 launch of Job Simulator, one of VR’s most well-known and highest selling titles. “A s CEO, my mission is to keep Owlchemy Labs on our proven path of success and to continue to push the boundaries of what’s possible with VR,” Eiche said in a prepared statement.

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Road to VR

JULY 15, 2017

This ‘new generation’ KUKA Coaster was revealed at the end of 2015, but KUKA has been active in the entertainment sector for well over a decade; their ‘robocoaster’ arms have been in service at Legoland parks since 2003. Holovis is keen to point out that this is more than repurposing an existing ride. image courtesy Holovis.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 9, 2017

Dreadhalls works with hand-tracked motion controls and this release represents the first time Vive owners can try it out officially. The game made its official debut on Gear VR in 2015 and rolled out on Rift last year. It generates new maps each time you play so you’ll never experience the exact same game twice.

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Road to VR

APRIL 5, 2024

Luckily it was as simple as opening the Apple TV app before my flight where I downloaded Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)— at 4K resolution with surround sound, HDR, and in 3D —for offline viewing on my headset. But none of this would matter if it wasn’t easy to find and transfer high quality video content onto the headset.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2019

In 2015 he launched the first VR escape game in the world. Since 2015 there are 200 000 customers played these games. . Seated VR: hand tracking games, movies and simulators. Hand tracking VR allows players to interact with objects in VR with their hands. But none of them will be exclusive.

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Upload VR

APRIL 3, 2023

Instead of interacting with tracked controllers, I used Meta’s latest Hand Tracking 2.1 I came out of my demo and asked Andrew Eiche, the new CEO of Owlchemy Labs , if he thinks they’ve achieved the full interaction experience of Job Simulator with only hand tracking. ” Eiche asks.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2022

Thanks to the leak reported by around ten insiders, the online magazine has been able to cast a light on some unknown details about the headset.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 10, 2016

Here’s a video of the Presence Experiment that Anthony conducted on the Gear VR, and where he found that tapping on your body during the music without having your hands tracked had a negative impact on embodiment. — KentBye Voices of VR (@kentbye) March 23, 2015. Support Voices of VR. Subscribe on iTunes.

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Road to VR

MARCH 12, 2017

It’s also possible that the new device might not be an all-in-one VR headset, but could be closer to a smartphone shell except with more substantial on-board hardware, like additional sensors that could add things like hand-tracking and positional tracking, while the snap-in smartphone would continue to be the brains of the operation.

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Road to VR

JUNE 2, 2016

million Series Seed investment back in 2015. So called ‘inside-out’ tracking—where tracking is derived from sensors on the user, rather than sitting static somewhere nearby—would be a huge boon to the VR and AR landscape, but it’s proven a difficult nut to crack. It’s clear that ARVR is an explosive market.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 14, 2023

According to the now-deleted article from Gyro Technology, the upcoming headset will leverage four tracking cameras, a pancake lens, two RGB outward-facing cameras, a depth sensor, eye-tracking, hand-tracking, OLED microdisplays, and Samsung’s Exynos 2200 chipset.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Once the device was on and comfy, I was prompted with a quick eye-tracking calibration scene that displayed a number of pinkish-purple gems that popped in and out of the scene when I looked at them, then I was set and ready to start HoloLensing. Hand-tracking & Interactions. Image courtesy Microsoft.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2021

It has a retro look that makes it very nerdy, and it should be able to offer passthrough AR and hands tracking via Ultraleap. For instance, reviewers were given the 3DOF unit, and many complained about the poor performances of Nolo tracking (Nolo sounds so much 2015 to me). I hope for this project to become a reality.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

Its XR headset will be the first major product launch since 2015, and Apple surely wants to launch it in the best way possible, with a cheering audience, on-site demos to journalists, and a well-orchestrated performance. Cubism is a great case study for hand tracking UX. I really hope that this is going to happen.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

During all these months, I had the occasion of reading on Linkedin about all his cool prototypes and enterprise solutions that he and his colleagues have developed inside the company, ranging from 360 videos to hand-tracked training solutions with the Quest, not to mention XR entertainment solutions for airplane passengers.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

units since its release at the end of 2015– not bad for a headset that is only compatible with six of the most recent Samsung phones. QUALCOMM’S REFERENCE VR HEADSET ADDS HAND TRACKING AND MORE. The popular Gear VR has moved 5.5M The eMacula system is currently pending the FDA review process. …and more.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 4, 2024

Guest Article by Brett Jackson Brett Jackson has been developing VR projects since 2015 and is the director of the new UK-based company X82 Ltd. It has a hands-first philosophy and provides out-of-the-box hand tracking support as well as controller support.

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Road to VR

JUNE 15, 2020

We first went hands-on with HoloLens 2 at Mobile World Congress (MWC) last year, and it proved to be a capable AR headset that, despite some misgivings on how the field of view was initial misrepresented at its reveal at the Barcelona-based trade show, showed some real material improvements over its predecessor. Audio and speech.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 23, 2016

In June 2015 our experiments of the “variable force feedback” design along with some other force feedback attempt was proven to be working. For example we tried to use the tracking coordinates that Hololens API provided, and that doesn’t even require the setup of lighthouse. In Oct 2014 we launched and then canceled the KS project.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2020

So, yeah, with this belief, we started off in 2015 from a robotics group at the University of Delft -- Technical University of Delft -- here in the Netherlands. And you are already seeing it with Facebook's hand tracking, and it's all coming. And then you can really interact in VR, as you would do in a normal situation.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2020

So, yeah, with this belief, we started off in 2015 from a robotics group at the University of Delft -- Technical University of Delft -- here in the Netherlands. And you are already seeing it with Facebook's hand tracking, and it's all coming. And then you can really interact in VR, as you would do in a normal situation.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2020

So, yeah, with this belief, we started off in 2015 from a robotics group at the University of Delft -- Technical University of Delft -- here in the Netherlands. And you are already seeing it with Facebook's hand tracking, and it's all coming. And then you can really interact in VR, as you would do in a normal situation.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

So we're actually at the beginning stages of more concrete studies that will validate that training in virtual reality with motion based system as a haptic device, along with a new feature that we're implementing, which are haptic hand tracking gloves that now allows you to interact with your objects. Brandon: They are.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

So we're actually at the beginning stages of more concrete studies that will validate that training in virtual reality with motion based system as a haptic device, along with a new feature that we're implementing, which are haptic hand tracking gloves that now allows you to interact with your objects. Brandon: They are.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 20, 2015

And while these devices don’t have the processing power to run our core tracking software, there are many ways to bridge hand tracking input on your computer with robots, drones, and more. Tweet us @LeapMotion #hackingEDU and share your projects.

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Then, at 2015 I/O meeting, Google announced the 2nd generation of Cardboard, as well as details of its parameters and production skills, making it possible for the general public to DIY their own VR device. In June 2015, Oculus revealed that a successor to the Rift is likely to be released in around 2–3 years from the Rift release.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

So we're actually at the beginning stages of more concrete studies that will validate that training in virtual reality with motion based system as a haptic device, along with a new feature that we're implementing, which are haptic hand tracking gloves that now allows you to interact with your objects. Brandon: They are.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2022

Everything worked with Quest hand tracking: there were objects appearing in front of me, and I had to aim at them with my head and then perform a gesture with my hand to trigger the shooting action. So gaze-to-aim and hand-to-shoot. Oh wow… 2015 has called and said that it wants its user experience back.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

My friends at Circuit Stream have a Black Friday deal they want to tell you about: Circuit Stream has been a certified AR/VR and Unity educator since 2015. The article details all the work done until now to create haptic gloves, an ongoing research that may need 10–15 years to produce something that could appeal to the mass market.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Ended up at Vuzix in 2015 and had a great run with those guys. But the interactions with your hands are going to be very close to being naturally part of reaching out, reaching and grabbing a hologram. Alan: The Quest hand tracking is coming in January and the Hololens 2. And it’s gonna be very exciting.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Ended up at Vuzix in 2015 and had a great run with those guys. But the interactions with your hands are going to be very close to being naturally part of reaching out, reaching and grabbing a hologram. Alan: The Quest hand tracking is coming in January and the Hololens 2. And it’s gonna be very exciting.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Ended up at Vuzix in 2015 and had a great run with those guys. But the interactions with your hands are going to be very close to being naturally part of reaching out, reaching and grabbing a hologram. Alan: The Quest hand tracking is coming in January and the Hololens 2. And it's gonna be very exciting.

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