The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Traditionally, leading tech vendors have invested in distributed network infrastructure, but many of them (such as Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft) are adapting to a new paradigm to support localized, persistent, collaborative, shared, multiuser interactions. Security — establishing hierarchies for data capture and protection.

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Augmented Reality AR Technology Latency 367

AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The incumbents have an advantage with existing mapping such as Google Maps, Earth, Street View, Apple Maps and the Indoor Maps Program, and Bing Maps but there are also significant geographic data players such as Foursquare and OpenStreetMap. Location is at the heart of the AR Cloud.

Magic Leap 158

Magic Leap AR Microsoft Apple 158

The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2018

Someone says that due to recent Facebook problems with the data privacy scandal, they preferred to delay the launch of new products to a future event (maybe OC5?), Under 70 days to go until our biggest F8 to date — where we'll share the biggest AR/VR news from Facebook to date. — Boz (@boztank) February 21, 2018.

AR 156

AR Oculus Hand tracking Video 156

The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Then there are the problems that are inherent to all hands-tracking solutions like Leap Motion : no haptic feedback, virtual hands that trespass objects they are interacting with, and such. We are also improving RenderDoc to report more performance data. That means it will run more smoothly on Quest.

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Oculus Hand tracking Video AR 324

The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

The technology behind it is pretty cool: you have some cameras (I guess RGB + depth) that scan yourself live in 3D , compress the data with a special Google algorithm, send it to the other peer, where it gets decompressed and reconstructed in real-time on a light field display. Quest 2 recalled from Amazon EU for skin irritation issue.

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AR Google Machine Learning Haptic 230