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BMW’s magical gesture control finally makes sense as touchscreens take over cars

TechCrunch VR

BMW has been equipping its cars with in-air gesture control for several years and I never paid attention to it. I didn’t know the 850i used gesture control, because, frankly, I had forgotten BMW had this technology; I stumbled upon it. In-air gesture control could improve the user experience with touchscreens.

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AR and MR Headsets and Glasses 2019 and 2020 Overview

ARPost

2019 was a big year for XR headsets, applications, and technology. Here, we’ll be taking a look at the AR and MR headsets and glasses that caught our attention in 2019 and that we’ll be keeping an eye on going into 2020. If VR is more your speed, don’t worry, we’ll have a separate article covering VR headsets.

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Rokid Announces Vision 2 Mobile MR Glasses, Apps, Software Updates

ARPost

The Rokid Vision 2 MR glasses announced at Rokid Open Day are binocular MR glasses with a 40-degree field-of-view, dual-direction speakers, and microphones for hands-free voice controls, according to a release shared with ARPost. All of these hardware specifications are in keeping with the original Rokid Vision , which launched in 2019.

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Valve Psychologist to Explore Brain-Computer Interface Research at GDC

Road to VR

At GDC 2019 later this month, Valve’s Principal Experimental Psychologist, Mike Ambinder will present the latest research pertaining to brain-computer interfaces—using signals from the brain as computer input.

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The Future Of The Royal Navy’s Combat Systems Is AR

VRScout

As a matter of fact, other forms of technology outside of AR and AI are actively being explored in the hopes of enhancing military activity within the Royal Navy, such as VR, touch control, gesture control, and voice activation. Image Credit: BAESystems.

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Microsoft Reveals HoloLens 2 with More than 2x Field of View & 47 Pixels per-Degree

Road to VR

Microsoft today revealed HoloLens 2 at MWC 2019 in Barcelona. HoloLens 2 also brings hand-tracking which goes much further than the coarse gesture control in the original headset. The headset features a laser-scanning display which brings a field of view that’s more than 2x the original HoloLens and 47 pixels per degree.

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Google Releases Real-time Mobile Hand Tracking to R&D Community

Road to VR

” First unveiled at CVPR 2019 back in June, Google’s on-device, real-time hand tracking method is now available for developers to explore—implemented in MediaPipe , an open source cross-platform framework for developers looking to build processing pipelines to handle perceptual data, like video and audio.