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AR and VR Content Creation Platform Fectar Integrates Ultraleap Hand Tracking

ARPost

Launched in 2020, Fectar is “the multi-sided platform that makes the metaverse accessible for everyone, everywhere.” Focused on creating AR and VR spaces for education, training, onboarding, events, and more, and aimed at non-technical users, the company provides a cross-platform, no-code AR/VR building tool.

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Report: Apple to Announce ARKit Updates at WWDC 2019 Including OS Support for AR Headsets

Road to VR

Apple has been continuously iterating on ARKit , its augmented reality development tool that lets creators make smartphone-based AR experiences. SEE ALSO Report: Apple Nearly Acquired Leap Motion but the Deal Fell Through. The company unveiled ARKit at its World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) in 2017, and the 2.0

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My predictions for augmented reality in 2019

The Ghost Howls

Leap Motion. You may ask why I’m adding Leap Motion here. Well, during 2018, Leap Motion has announced the North Star reference design : a cheap augmented reality connected to PC, that is able to detect your hands very well thanks to Leap Motion’s sensor. Surprises.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.31): Oculus becomes Facebook Reality Labs, Horizon gets revealed and more!

The Ghost Howls

Thanks to all this online material, we now know this info about it: It seems a lot Rec Room for now; It is deeply built on the Facebook framework , but you can still use your Oculus username and friends; The graphics are cartoonish and pretty simple; Everyone in Horizon can build worlds easily by using some internal creation tools in VR.

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How to get started with Oculus Quest hands tracking SDK in Unity

The Ghost Howls

Welcome to 2020! If you’re following this tutorial, I assume you already know: How to install Unity and all the Android Tools; How to put your Quest in developer mode; How to develop a basic Unity application for the Quest. the ones from Leap Motion). Prerequisites.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.10.31): Facebook becomes Meta, Pimax teases Reality headset, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The game has been released in January 2020, and this means that in only two years, it has amassed an astonishing amount of money. Ultraleap (formerly Leap Motion) has just released the fifth version of its hands-tracking engine. 1 hour of a standing ovation for having highlighted this.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.02.01): Facebook is very confident in Quest 2 sales, Valve is working on Neural Interfaces, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Mozilla was developing many WebXR projects, but after the layoffs happened in 2020, the roadmap for all of them became uncertain. UltraLeap (formerly known as Leap Motion) has just launched the 5th iteration of its hands-tracking runtime, called Gemini. Apart from the update per se, the great news is that Hubs is still alive.