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The XR Week Peek (2020.09.21): Quest 2 released, NVIDIA acquires ARM, Leap Motion 2 on sale, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

What an exciting week for technology, with the Facebook Connect, PS5 price announcement, Apple event and the release of RTX30 graphics cards! Even Apple uses modified ARM chips. The time for us XR developers to buy a Leap Motion 2 has finally come. What a time to be alive! Pico Releases Neo 2 Lite consumer device.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.05.15): Google confirms headset with Samsung, Ultraleap teases a new device, and more!

The Ghost Howls

This is impressive Photorealistic 3D Tiles and Aerial View API instead lets you put inside your game (3D or VR) the 3D maps of the cities of the world, that is the 3D reconstruction of Google Earth. More info (Ultraleap teasing a new device) More info (Maybe a new sensor is coming) Has Palmer Luckey tried the Apple headset?

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VR Fitness Startup YUR Secures $1.1M Investment, Releases Calorie-counting Software for Quest

Road to VR

The plug-in tracks calories burned while in any VR game or app while using Quest, and also extends to a mobile app that syncs to Apple Health and Google Fit. SEE ALSO Ultrahaptics Relaunches as 'Ultraleap' After Leap Motion Acquisition. “We Image courtesy YUR. The post VR Fitness Startup YUR Secures $1.1M

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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. Apple glasses.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.07.15): Apple kills its AR glasses, Oculus full-steam ahead on 2nd gen VR and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Apple has killed its AR glasses project… maybe. A piece of unexpected news has shaken the XR communities this week: according to a report on Digitimes Taiwan, Apple has abandoned its AR/VR glasses project and all the members of the team have been re-allocated in other teams. AR is still alive, Apple will still release its AR glasses.

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Kluge Exploring Synth Riders Hand Tracking Support

Upload VR

In a snippet from an upcoming interview we'll publish soon, we asked whether Kluge's future plans include supporting Apple Vision Pro. On Quest, we're playing with the Presence SDK and everything that has, seeing how much of that we can bring to the game," Perez tells us, who was joined by Creative Director Abraham Aguero.

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An FUI designer, VR community leader and VR healthcare.

AllThingsVR

Just before tuning in to the Apple WWDC2017 Keynote on Monday, I had a meeting with Jayse Hansen , master of the Fictional User Interface (FUI), Hologram and HUD design for film franchises like Star Wars, Iron Man, and The Hunger Games, and Alex Colgan , Leap Motion ’s digital content and community lead.