The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

This is because the sales have not been enormous, and the content for it is not exploiting completely its new features (there are some cool uses of eye tracking, but that’s it). The Unity Beta to develop for the Vision Pro is still not available, so many devs like me can’t even play with the emulator.

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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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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Alice Bonasio (@alicebonasio) February 2, 2019. Although they haven’t deployed on Magic Leap yet, they’re hopeful that because every platform out there is investing in enabling Unity compatibility which enables them to develop cross-platform more easily. UploadVR (@UploadVR) February 20, 2019. pic.twitter.com/UMhQbxgH1g.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

The super-interesting eye tracking device Droolon F1 by 7Invensun is now in preorder on Taobao , with Amazon listing coming soon. I can’t wait to use this device, that for only $150 can give eye tracking functionalities to all Vive headsets (including Focus). Oculus and Unity partner for a course on VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

Lone Echo 2 has been the “Duke Nukem Forever” of VR, and it has been constantly delayed from the expected 2019 release period. Sentences like “With eye-tracking (ET) and a few well-placed sensors, they’ll learn our unconscious reactions to anything we see. Holoride is going to release its Elastic SDK.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The devices that will be based on this reference design will have amazing specifications like: 2K x 2K display resolution per each eye ; Have up to 7 cameras used simultaneously, including the ones for tracking, mixed reality and eye-tracking; High-quality passthrough augmented reality with high resolution and framerate.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2020

Me, a developer, launching the game HitMotion: Reloaded from us New Technology Walkers at VEC 2019. So if as a developer, you want to keep developing experiences for your customers on new hardware, and you don’t want to stay in 2019 forever, you must use the new account system. The rules for the developers.

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Road to VR

APRIL 17, 2024

release in 2019, this week’s release of OpenXR 1.1 Stereo with Foveated Rendering: provides a Primary View Configuration to realize eye-tracked foveated rendering or fixed foveated rendering for XR headsets across multiple graphics rendering APIs. Image courtesy Khronos Group Following the OpenXR 1.0

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

This year, I’m not going to make an exception, also because my predictions for 2019 performed pretty well. 2019, after a false start, has been a very good year for VR , and we had the arrival on the market of very interesting VR devices that have driven adoption. Every year, I cast some predictions for the new year in AR and VR.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2019

The Valve Index is for sure the big surprise for virtual reality in this 2019. Maybe with eye tracking and some more screen resolution, it may have been. The Valve Index is already available for pre-order since May, 1st 2019 only on Valve’s website. Shipping of the first batch happens on June, 28th 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

It got the attention of all the press at CES 2019 revealing an AR glass that is light, fashionable, and affordable. The NRSDK is Nreal’s SDK that lets you develop applications using the popular Unity game engine. At the time of writing it doesn’t work with Unity 2019, but only with Unity 2018.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Speaking with Road to VR , Lynx founder Stan Larroque said that his company has raised $2 million as of 2019, and is presently in talks with investors for the company’s next funding round. Lenses: LYNX Founder Details Headset’s Unique Optics. Lynx Funding. Image courtesy Lynx. million on Kickstarter back in 2012. Image courtesy Lnyx.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

High-precision 6DOF tracking, eye tracking, gesture inputs, with dedicated input controllers The SDK will support Unity , with Unreal coming Soon. eye-tracking analysis to see if you have fallen asleep while driving). The entrance to the big WCVRI VR exhibition in Nanchang China, in 2019.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

When you first put it on you’re told to hold the top button, and you feel (and see a visualization of) the lenses moving horizontally to align with your eyes. The eye tracking cameras sense the positions of your pupils and tiny piezoelectric actuators move the lenses into place. And I mean fully. This basic idea isn’t new.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

I think that this CES is the emblem of the whole 2020, that probably won’t show big disruptions in the XR field, but will make AR and VR grow linearly, exploiting the successes of VR in 2019 (when Quest and Valve Index went sold-out). It may also feature eye tracking, that can be very important for some training applications.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

From time to time, I like to look at the adoption graph of XR shown by John Riccitiello (the CEO of Unity) in 2017 , where you can see that the real acceleration of immersive technologies should start around 2022-2023. I also imagine them trying to add enterprise-oriented features like eye-tracking in all their devices.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

If these Facebook features proved to be popular, more developers would use them, and finally, Facebook could have more power on the VR development tools , after the failed acquisition of Unity. The report also highlights that one of the regions where VR may grow more in 2019–2023 is Western Europe.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

The advantage of using 72 Hz is that everything appears smoother, plus the display becomes brighter and the colors warmer ; Fixed foveating : we all know what foveated rendering is and we all know that to be implemented it requires eye tracking. But we also know that when in VR, most people just look forward with their eyes.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

The third major change came from Unity which recently announced that it will now be serving AR ads on mobile. Unity has one of the world’s largest mobile ad serving businesses and at the end of last year they partnered with Fossil to pilot this new ad format in mobile games. The Evolution of Out of Home and Product Placement.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Last week at a dedicated Vive X event, Chinese company 7Invensun has presented one of the most interesting eye tracking accessories to date. 7Invensun is one of the worldwide leaders for what concerns eye tracking. The two parts of the Droolon F1 eye tracking device (Image by 7Invensun).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

My favorite ones have been: Sony Interactive Entertainment has revealed that the next PSVR headset will be called PSVR 2 and will feature 2K x 2K per eye, up to 120 Hz framerate, and 110° FOV. It will be the first consumer headset with eye-tracking and foveated rendering, and also the first one to feature haptics directly on the headset.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The OpenXR standard, that aims at standardizing virtual reality hardware and runtime is keeping improving, and in its latest release, it has added new features like experimental overlays and hand tracking extensions. More info (New features of OpenXR) More info (OpenXR in Unity) More info (OpenXR in Microsoft products).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2018

To me the situation seems similar to the one of the store: Vive Wave is an interesting project, because it plans to become the SteamVR of standalone headsets (at least all the Chinese ones), but it is still unripe (at the time of writing, it doesn’t even appear in the list of Unity VR SDKs). Half a point for Oculus. Availability.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 12, 2021

It has been launched in 2019, but because of its very high price and the pandemic that prevented me to travel, in these two years, I have never had the opportunity to try it. The Achille’s heel of positional tracking is the light: if the room is completely dark, it doesn’t work anymore. Hands Tracking. Eye Tracking.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And then, as of 2019 — by the end of this year — they’ll kind of cross. If companies raise money now — the end of 2019/2020 — I think it’s the perfect time, because we’re only just starting to see these real ROI-driven things come out. Alan: The VIVE Pro Eye. Dean: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And then, as of 2019 — by the end of this year — they’ll kind of cross. If companies raise money now — the end of 2019/2020 — I think it’s the perfect time, because we’re only just starting to see these real ROI-driven things come out. Alan: The VIVE Pro Eye. Dean: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And then, as of 2019 -- by the end of this year -- they'll kind of cross. If companies raise money now -- the end of 2019/2020 -- I think it's the perfect time, because we're only just starting to see these real ROI-driven things come out. you know, they did an eye-tracking version of the HTC Vive here. Dean: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And then, as of 2019 — by the end of this year — they’ll kind of cross. If companies raise money now — the end of 2019/2020 — I think it’s the perfect time, because we’re only just starting to see these real ROI-driven things come out. Alan: The VIVE Pro Eye. Dean: Yeah.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

edge detection); Eye-tracking sensors (accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer); A battery system ; A 5Ghz radio communication antenna to make the lens communicate with an external unit; An ARM0 processor , that acts as a “traffic cop” for the data. Unity talked about PlayStation VR 2 at GDC. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

HoloLens vNext will be launched on February, 24th 2019 in Barcelona, Spain, at the Mobile World Congress. And at CES 2019 , we have seen a Chinese startup called nReal has been able to produce an AR glass that looks more or less like standard glasses. I expect with this one to switch to at least 100K polygons in every Unity AR game.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

AugmentedReality #xr #vr #wearable #unity #spatialcomputing pic.twitter.com/h2KAkgXWQq — Noah Zerkin (@noazark) February 15, 2019. link] — Noah Zerkin (@noazark) July 24, 2019. Back to it [link] — Noah Zerkin (@noazark) July 24, 2019. Back to it [link] — Noah Zerkin (@noazark) July 24, 2019.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

” Alan: In my last interview, we were talking about 2019 as that year where it goes from, “you’re doing VR — you’re ahead of the game, you’re a future company,” to, “you’re not using VR? Unity is always my top one. Amazon Sumerian. Michael: It would depend on your use case.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

” Alan: In my last interview, we were talking about 2019 as that year where it goes from, “you’re doing VR — you’re ahead of the game, you’re a future company,” to, “you’re not using VR? Unity is always my top one. Amazon Sumerian. Michael: It would depend on your use case.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Alan: In my last interview, we were talking about 2019 as that year where it goes from, "you're doing VR -- you're ahead of the game, you're a future company," to, "you're not using VR? Michael: And this is why I've been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building -- there's VRTK for Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

For instance, in Unity, the Oculus Utilities plugin is the same for PC, Go and GearVR. Furthermore, being the controllers of the Rift and the Quest almost identical, every game made for Rift can be ported with Quest with just few clicks (on Unity it is only a matter of switching Build platform). Price and release date.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Oculus Link will be available in beta in November 2019. "Lil' Lenovo" #OculusRiftS #OculusQuest #OC6 pic.twitter.com/4kUliZChNR — Damo9000 (@Damo90001) September 26, 2019. Later this year, we’ll expand our Vulkan support on Quest to include Unity and Vulkan validation layers for easier debugging.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

This is a trend that started in 2019 (with the Quest, Vive Focus, and Lenovo Mirage Solo… yes, the Lenovo Mirage Solo, who else remembers about it?) was already in passthrough AR in 2019 on the Vive Focus Plus , so that to guarantee the safety of the users that could play our fitness game by being aware of their surroundings.

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