The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

Developers continue to have fun with Oculus Quest hands tracking! A new week, a new sheer of demos exploiting Oculus Quest hands tracking! A demo made by the creator of Holoception, that mixes portals and hands tracking. And this time, you will finally be able to download one of them. More info Buy it now!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

It is not on sale on US HP Store and will be on Amazon US next month. More info (Road To VR article) More info (Disassembly album). More info (Upload VR article) More info (Kickstarter campaign). My review of Google Hand tracking library. HP has also been good in apologyzing for all this mess.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

As a long-time AR enthusiast, and one of the first to have tried Google Glass in Italy, I have to admit that I will consider AR mainstream only when it will be on glasses that we will wear all day , when we’ll live in a completely shared mixed reality world (the AR Cloud). Some will also feature tracked controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

Luckily there is AR that is still strong, and we can hope to wear Google AR glasses soon… ah no, they are dead too. The most interesting ones for me are related to hand tacking. Meta Quest will receive Hand Tracking 2.2, Ah no, not even that because also Twitter is dead. Long story short, this week has been a cemetery.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2022

More than an article, with its 10,000+ words, this is a short book on the Pimax Sword, featuring everything you may need to know about them (what is Pimax, what are the Sword controllers, how do they work… even an interview with the COO of the company!). Image provided by Rob Cole). How would they work with current VR software?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Vive Flow is a 6DOF headset that works with your Android phone as a 3DOF controller (hands tracking is coming in the future). Previous ML CEO Rony Abovitz has answered his article saying that Karl always strives for perfection and so criticizes every headset currently on the market. Amazon Glow is a video projector for kids.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

It’s Chinese Single Day and I wish the best to all the single people that are reading this article: I hope you are all on Taobao or Aliexpress buying super-discounted items! Image by Google). Google completely opensources Cardboard. Google has already abandoned all its VR projects (e.g. Top news of the week.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

While I often discuss the long-term potential of AR & VR, in this article I'm reviewing Apple Vision Pro as it stands as a real product today. Apple Vision Pro on the other hand has occlusion in two distinct forms. The main form is hand and arm occlusion. Unintentional inputs are also a very real problem with hand tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

This is a framework that introduces many facilities for applications employing hands tracking: for instance, it makes sure that the hands of the user adapt dynamically to the shape of the object they are holding. Two articles on the M-word. It gives you an overview of the current status of AR, VR, and the M-word.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Alan: I’m going to Google it here. Hand gesture control, hand using hand gestures. Google Pixel came out. I was in my friend’s BMW the other day, and he was just swinging his hand around, changing the radio station, using gesture control. Wouldn’t that be amazing? Voice is everywhere.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Alan: I’m going to Google it here. Hand gesture control, hand using hand gestures. Google Pixel came out. I was in my friend’s BMW the other day, and he was just swinging his hand around, changing the radio station, using gesture control. Wouldn’t that be amazing? Voice is everywhere.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Alan: I'm going to Google it here. Hand gesture control, hand using hand gestures. Google Pixel came out. I was in my friend's BMW the other day, and he was just swinging his hand around, changing the radio station, using gesture control. Alan: The Quest hand tracking is coming in January and the Hololens 2.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2020

Worldwide cases of COVID-19, at the time I’m writing this article. If you don’t have enough of this stuff, Amazon is your friend. Exploration experiences : since I miss traveling, having a tour inside Google Earth VR makes me go virtually to other cool places in this world. Then share your results on social media.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 25, 2022

Today is a bit of a special day for this newsletter because this article you are reading is the 250th roundup about XR news I’ve written! Meta releases hands tracking 2.0 Meta has just released the v2 of its hand tracking system for Quest. Image by Amazon). Amazon may be working on an XR device.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. But I guess there were some legal reasons for that.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

You can read some of my hands-on articles on my blog (e.g. Spaces offers functionalities in: Image tracking Object tracking Hand tracking Spatial mapping Environment understanding and meshing Plane detection Real/virtual world occlusion …and more. Interaction Mapping ?—?Universal Environment Mapping? —?Instant

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2020

If this was not enough to prevent people from buying the game, the first review articles I have read about the game are not enthusiastic: IGN and Road To VR highlight many bugs and a not-so-smart AI for the enemies, while Upload says that the multiplayer mode feels a bit shallow because it has no ranking system. Google shuts down Google Poly.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2020

And if you’re in a hurry, jump directly to my final impressions and my pieces of advice on if you should buy it or not at the end of the article. Hands tracking : with the Quest 2, exactly like with the Quest 1, you have the possibility of interacting with the headset by just using your hands. Specifications.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Getting started in AR marketing and virtual try-ons can be tricky for enterprise, especially if — like Walmart or Amazon — you’ve got hundreds of thousands of products to model and host. You don’t have to download the Amazon app, or the IKEA app, or whatever. Alan: Amazon’s got 1.4 billion products.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Getting started in AR marketing and virtual try-ons can be tricky for enterprise, especially if — like Walmart or Amazon — you’ve got hundreds of thousands of products to model and host. You don’t have to download the Amazon app, or the IKEA app, or whatever. Alan: Amazon’s got 1.4 billion products.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Getting started in AR marketing and virtual try-ons can be tricky for enterprise, especially if -- like Walmart or Amazon -- you've got hundreds of thousands of products to model and host. You don't have to download the Amazon app, or the IKEA app, or whatever. Alan: Amazon's got 1.4 Is that what I'm--? billion products.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Getting started in AR marketing and virtual try-ons can be tricky for enterprise, especially if — like Walmart or Amazon — you’ve got hundreds of thousands of products to model and host. You don’t have to download the Amazon app, or the IKEA app, or whatever. Alan: Amazon’s got 1.4 billion products.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Well, your favorite ghost has just done it for you in this article! Facebook is aware that new rules have to be studied now that VR and social accounts are unified and there are still not exactly guidelines to follow for account violations (more on this in this article on Road To VR ). Oculus Link. And what about the ongoing training?

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