Road to VR

APRIL 20, 2018

Keiichi Matsuda went from being a dystopian filmmaker to becoming the Vice President of Design at hand-tracking company Leap Motion. Leap Motion recently announced their open source AR HMD reference design called Project North Star , which has a 95° wide by 70° high field of view with 65% stereo overlap & 1,600 × 1,440 per eye.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2019

In the American sin city of Las Vegas, there has been an enormous showcase of every kind of innovative technologies and of course, AR and VR have been part of the show. New Qualcomm reference design. Qualcomm reference design headset plugged into a Snapdragon 855 phone (Image by Road To VR). The launch price is $250.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Another week, another roundup of amazing AR/VR news! but I have found some time anyway to read all the news I found about AR and VR and create this summary just for you! , but I have found some time anyway to read all the news I found about AR and VR and create this summary just for you! Not reading it would be a pity, so go on….

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 25, 2023

It is called Digilens Argo and it is a pair of augmented reality glasses. I was surprised to discover that it was not a reference design, but a product. The second was a small AR experience made with Vuforia : I could frame a marker and see some 3D objects on it. That’s it for today!

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2019

And as I promised you, I’m sharing with you all my impressions , so you will feel as if you were here with me… Today I will talk with you about the WCVRI event, the RealMax AR glasses and the Droolon F1 eye tracking accessory! Around the event venue, instead, there are many writings about VR, and many references around the tech.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

Welcome to my weekly appointment with the best AR VR news! There I am going to talk about some use cases for AR and VR! In the end, it has not been Apple or Facebook, but Snap to make its first move in the AR glasses space. I know that last time we had some technical issues, but this time will be much better, I promise!

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 29, 2019

At WCVRI , I have tried some cool AR/VR hardware. North Star AR headset. Project North Star is an opensource reference design for a wide-FOV augmented reality headset that Leap Motion (now Ultraleap ) has given to the community. Me trying the new version of the North Star AR headset.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 6, 2018

At Leap Motion, we envision a future where the physical and virtual worlds blend together into a single magical experience. At the heart of this experience is hand tracking, which unlocks interactions uniquely suited to virtual and augmented reality. As a result, we used our next-generation ultra-wide tracking module.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 31, 2020

It will be the conference through which Facebook will talk about its most innovative products and research about immersive realities and beyond. All the people that were working on AR/VR inside Facebook now have a new group they belong to: “Facebook Reality Labs”. Other relevant news. Image by Facebook).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2018

There it has presented a lot of news regarding all Facebook companies (Messenger, Instagram, Facebook, etc…) and of course, among these pieces of news, we had some AR and VR ones. Under 70 days to go until our biggest F8 to date — where we'll share the biggest AR/VR news from Facebook to date.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

Some days ago, in the Oculus Developer portal, have appeared some surprise banners warning developers about the documentation also regarding an “Oculus Del Mar” headset, for which there are “early developers”. The possibilities are three: Del Mar is the codename of a headset that is a new version of Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Let’s start this week with a bunch of cool news about the past week in AR and VR! The best news of the week has not been the release of a new fantastic VR headset or AR glass, but of a technology that will make a new generation of XR headsets possible: I’m talking about the XR2 chipset by Qualcomm. Goood Monday everyone!

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

In particular, it envisions: XR headsets (especially AR ones) being tethered to the smartphone now; XR headsets wirelessly connected to the smartphone (via Wi-fi or similar technologies) in 1–4 years; Fully standalone lightweight XR headsets, connected via 5G, in 5–10 years. This was a very good thing and attracted many people to Magic Leap.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 31, 2019

With new community-created headsets appearing in Tokyo and New York , Project North Star is a compelling glimpse into the future of AR interaction. As you can imagine, this requires a high degree of calibration and alignment, especially in AR. Any one of these factors alone can hamper the illusion of augmented reality.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2020

The summary will be split in two parts: today I’ll tell you about Stereopsia and some nice companies I met there, while tomorrow I’ll describe more the artistic/storytelling side of the event (and I will also talk about the Lenovo AR headset!). How is Stereopsia? Like every event, it has pros and cons. via Gfycat. VR Pianist.

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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. Each life stage is represented by distinctive styles of movement that are a metaphor for the human journey from beginning to end.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

In these 2 days (October, 19-20th), in Nanchang, China, it is held the first edition of the World Conference on VR Industry (WCVRI) , a very important event to talk about virtual and augmented reality. The city is full of references to Virtual Reality, and so it is like a paradise for us VR enthusiasts.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 15, 2016

I’m an early-stage VC focused on virtual and augmented reality, so I pieced this together based on the forward-thinking pitches and demos I’ve been lucky enough to see through my work, plus a lifetime of burning through sci-fi and video games. Check out the bottom of this post for a list of VR inspiration. Body movement.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Please try a new text input interface using Leap Motion!” Leap Motion enables new ways of using our devices but we still unconsciously use the mouse and keyboard as a model, missing potentially intuitive solutions,” the team told us. What is virtual reality’s version of “Hello World”?

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

I know you guys are working on some cutting edge stuff, so why don't I not ruin it, and just let you tell us what is Clay AIR? Varag: So Clay is a software company, we're specializing in hand tracking and gesture recognition, mostly in the AR and VR space. Alan: So I'm going to be able to look at watches on my wrist in AR, right?

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

I know you guys are working on some cutting edge stuff, so why don't I not ruin it, and just let you tell us what is Clay AIR? Varag: So Clay is a software company, we're specializing in hand tracking and gesture recognition, mostly in the AR and VR space. Alan: So I'm going to be able to look at watches on my wrist in AR, right?

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

I know you guys are working on some cutting edge stuff, so why don't I not ruin it, and just let you tell us what is Clay AIR? Varag: So Clay is a software company, we're specializing in hand tracking and gesture recognition, mostly in the AR and VR space. Alan: So I'm going to be able to look at watches on my wrist in AR, right?

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VRGuy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Acer, NVIDIA, Valve, Ubisoft, Leap Motion and many others joined the ecosystem. For those that want to design their own hardware, the OSVR goggle is a good reference design. Augmented reality tools detect objects in video feeds. Magic Leap is not commercial yet. It turns out that others share this vision.

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