The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

More info (Huawei VR glasses WeChat article) More info (Huawei VR glasses launch trailer) More info (Article on Huawei VR glasses) More info (Article on Huawei VR glasses). Amazon announces Echo Frames smartglasses. I recommend you watching the photos of the article linked below to see what I’m talking about!

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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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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2024

Instead a ‘look-and-tap’ system relying on eye and hand-tracking is the core input method, and by all accounts ( including mine ) it works very well. Signals from Amazon suggest Quest 2 may have outsold Quest 3 nearly 3:1, if not more. 10 years later, Apple is finally about to launch its first headset.

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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. exits beta stage.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2021

As usual, I have also created a video version of this article, and in it, I describe to you all the main features of this headset , from the visuals to the comfort, not to mention the headset and controllers’ tracking. I have found no way to use hand tracking or passthrough AR in the SDK documentation.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Finally Pico OS 5 will support hands tracking, so you can interact with the runtime and the games with your bare hands. Let’s start addressing something you expected to read in this article, but haven’t read yet. This was a much awaited feature. Pico Neo 3 Link. All the accessories (Fitness Tracker, etc.)

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 28, 2022

For the latest you can check out our regular UploadVR Showcase streams , our weekly VR Download livestream discussions or podcast , and our daily articles with new trailers, interviews, tours, gameplay, and details about new virtual worlds. You can watch Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, Twitch, and YouTube with others using Bigscreen.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2022

If you want to read all his insights, you can buy his book on Amazon, which has very positive reviews. One article about the metaverse. The article is in Italian, so use Google Translate to read it. Brad Lynch has just published its final leak article on Cambria. Minecraft bans NFTs. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more.

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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

JULY 24, 2023

The most interesting ones for me are related to hand tacking. Meta Quest will receive Hand Tracking 2.2, which makes the hand tracking more responsive to fast movements of hands : the system can so track the hands also when the user is playing fitness games like FitXR (or HitMotion: Reloaded).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Amazon promises “single-digit latency” XR streaming. Amazon has announced some weeks ago “Wavelength”, a new offering of its AWS services, that should provide “single-digit latency” over 5G networks. Devs are doing very interesting things with hands tracking for Quest. So, let me clarify it once for all: f rom Unity 2019.3,

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

It works connected to a phone, and while it doesn’t have any kind of tracking embedded, for tasks like watching Netflix it can be very useful (Thanks David for the tip); Amazon has announced the Echo Frames, its smart glasses that let you speak with Alexa. She has also been very kind in mentioning me, so read her article!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Of course, Microsoft and Amazon are observing the situation: in my opinion, Microsoft will wait a bit , considering its focus on AR enterprise with HoloLens, while Amazon could improve its already existing offering of glasses connected with Alexa. Some will also feature tracked controllers. Nu Eyes AR glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2024

In my article about the craziest XR devices out there , I mentioned Ekto VR , the shoes that let you walk in real life to walk in virtual reality. After that article, Brad Factor, the CEO of EktoVR, contacted me to tell me that there have been a lot of updates in the device since the last time I tried them.

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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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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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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! HoloLens 2 is an amazing device, with a decent FOV, eye tracking, and hands tracking, that for sure will make many companies happy.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

We’re all talking to our Echos and our Amazon and all this kind of stuff, for good or bad. Alan: The Quest hand tracking is coming in January and the Hololens 2. Even though there was an article today saying that’s shipping. That article was misleading, it said we are taking your orders now.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

We’re all talking to our Echos and our Amazon and all this kind of stuff, for good or bad. Alan: The Quest hand tracking is coming in January and the Hololens 2. Even though there was an article today saying that’s shipping. That article was misleading, it said we are taking your orders now.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

We're all talking to our Echos and our Amazon and all this kind of stuff, for good or bad. Alan: The Quest hand tracking is coming in January and the Hololens 2. Even though there was an article today saying that's shipping. That article was misleading, it said we are taking your orders now. We have to look back.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2024

The headset (that you see in the above picture) is quite slick and features pancake lenses, eye tracking by Tobii, integrated audio, and Wi-Fi 6/6E/7. More info (Quest 3 on Steam Survey) More info (Me wondering why the Quest 2 is losing shares) Will hand-tracking substitute controllers?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

And as any year, Oculus has really amazed us: for sure you have already read my short recap published after the first keynote of OC6 where I told you about amazing stuff like Oculus Link, Facebook Horizon and Hands Tracking. But now, in this article, it is time to go deeper. Hand tracking on Quest. Oculus Link.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 18, 2023

The service also allows users to generate content such as stories and articles. In December, Ammaar Reshi created and sold a children’s book that he wrote using Chat GPT and physically published via Amazon Kindle Publishing in an exceedingly short time period. Examples, such as Reshi’s project and the surge of DALL.E

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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

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. Create something new with VR, for instance using Quest’s hand tracking , or Vive Pro’s SRWorks MR framework, or whatever else that is new and innovative.

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Tech Trends VR

OCTOBER 30, 2018

You don a Vive Pro headset, equipped with leap-motion sensors for hand tracking, and are also able to communicate with your partner via voice. This article was originally published on VRScout. The Apple is a Chinese, Japanese and Korean co-production which won Best Multi-Person Experience award at Raindance.

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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

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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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. Learn more. Learn more.

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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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