The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

Sony unveils the new controllers of the PSVR2. One month after the reveal of a “next-gen VR headset for the Playstation” (whose name is not known, but I guess it will be PSVR2), Sony has revealed one important detail of its new VR system: the controllers. The controllers will be given to selected developers very soon.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Futurologists had predicted and filmmakers embodied on the screen that mankind would forget any third-party apps and devices alien to human physiology even before the first concepts of AR and VR appeared. Let’s build a web-cam in a vanity dresser and add a remote controller to take a snap, and instantly post it on Instagram.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 1, 2019

During Oculus Connect 6 in San Jose, CA, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled that the Oculus Quest would allow for hand and finger tracking without the need of any hand controllers, and of course, I couldn’t wait to try it. The moment you put on the Quest headset, your hands are instantly in front of you. The Overall.

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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. HTC Vive Cosmos and its controllers, just announced at CES (Image by HTC). It will be something similar to the new Oculus Home. Take a breath and start reading!

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

On his Linkedin profile , you can see that he has strong competencies in marketing, SEO, growth hacking, but also a great passion for AR/VR, and this is the reason why I got to know him a long time ago. If you’re looking to learn more about AR/VR design or development , check our free XR workshops and courses at Circuit Stream.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

Here you are my recap of the most interesting XR news of the week! Apple has killed its AR glasses project… maybe. If the report were true, this would mean that Apple doesn’t believe in AR anymore and this would be terrible news for all the immersive realities ecosystem. Oculus is working on 2nd gen VR. So, don’t panic.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 31, 2020

Facebook Connect is coming September, 16th Oculus de facto rebranded as Facebook Reality Labs. Oculus is de facto no more. This week, Facebook has finally announced the date of the Oculus Connect 7, which is September, 16th. But it won’t be called Oculus Connect 7, but Facebook Connect. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2020

I want to start this year and this decade (that will be pervaded by immersive technologies) with an amazing tutorial about how you can get started with Oculus Quest hands tracking SDK and create in Unity fantastic VR experiences with natural interactions! Are you ready? These are the settings you have to pay attention to.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

More info (How to pre-load Half-Life: Alyx) More info (Leaked review of Half-Life: Alyx) More info (Suggestions on how to stream the game) More info (Valve Index on top of Steam charts) More info (Oculus Rift S soldout) More info (Vive Cosmos Elite gives Alyx for free) More info (Vive Cosmos Elite review) More info (Gabe Newell talks BCI).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

It’s the beginning of 2019, and this means that this is that time of the year when we all make predictions for this year in AR and VR! Jokes apart, what has happened in AR in 2018… and what can you expect to happen in 2019? More or less AR in 2018 has gone as I predicted in 2017. Trendy AR glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This week has been the week of the Oculus Connect 6 , the biggest yearly event by Oculus where the VR company announces all its most important news, both on hardware and software sides. Oculus Link. You can even access to Oculus Home and Dash. Oculus Link will be available in beta in November 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Facebook is reportedly working on its AR glasses (made with Luxottica) that should be released in 2023. Facebook is investing billions for hardware creation, and it is going to move 4,000 employes working on AR hardware in a new venue just built in California. Oculus releases hands tracking SDK, official Link cable for Quest and more.

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Tech Trends VR

JANUARY 11, 2019

Pimax unveiled prototypes of intuitive controllers and high-resolution, broad Field of View bundles in Las Vegas this week at CES 2019. Back in 2016, Oculus’s chief scientist Michael Abrash predicted that within five years, VR headsets would have a monocular 4K resolution and 140-degree FoV. The post Showing Off VR 2.0

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 7, 2016

The new Leap Motion Mobile Platform consists of hardware and software optimised for VR and AR hand tracking on mobile devices. Building on the success of the original Leap Motion device, the brand new hardware aims to be tightly integrated into future mobile VR headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Today it’s a great day for virtual reality: at WCVRI conference, HTC has just announced a kit to provide 6 DOF controllers for Vive Focus and has showcased a hands-tracking technology for the Vive Pro ! 6 DOF Controllers for Vive Focus. In short: the Vive Focus will finally have two 6 DOF controllers. Really fantastic.

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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! Hands-on Realmax AR glasses. It’s like having the FOV of a VR headset on an AR headset.

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Leapmotion

JULY 11, 2019

It was hosted by Polaris AR. In support of the event, our team donated Leap Motion Controllers. Our CTO David Holz and engineer/ AR tennis champion Jonathon Selstad joined the workshop, along with former Leap Motion engineer Adam Munich. The workshop took place in Sunnyvale, CA, just after AWE.

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Leapmotion

MAY 3, 2015

We at Thomas Street have been eyeing the Oculus Rift for quite some time, paying particular attention to demos featuring novel interfaces. Outcome aside, working with the Oculus Rift is, you know, working with the Oculus Rift , so the experience was a ton of fun. Leap Motion UI summary. Initial Research.

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Leapmotion

JULY 21, 2015

Early last month, Leap Motion kicked off our internal hackathon with a round of pitch sessions. Our team of five ran with this concept to create AR Screen. Our team of five ran with this concept to create AR Screen. Our team’s video got shared on /r/oculus and led to a feature on Wired. Leap Motion.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

The Reverb was already a very good headset (as you can read in my hands-on impressions ) with good comfort and an astonishing resolution, but it had some problems with the display (mura, red smearing) and with the controllers (classical mediocre WMR tracking). Preorders are open now in the US, and will open worldwide in June/July.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

A lot of these scripts are utility scripts for specific needs, it means that you do not necessarily need to know everything to be able to build your VR solution. One part of the characteristics of VRTK is its management of the project/scene for specific platforms (Oculus, Vive, etc.). Trending AR VR Articles: 1.

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Road to VR

JULY 15, 2017

The technology claims to offer the rider genuine interactivity and ‘complete agency’ over the experience, including real-time control of the motion profile. I asked how this might work with multiple people, and the team explained that this depends on how the particular story works.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 7, 2017

These rules are so fundamental that we design our digital realities to reflect human expectations about how things work in the real world. At Leap Motion, our mission is to empower people to interact seamlessly with the digital landscape. Now it’s in your hands – we can’t wait to see what you build with it.

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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!). The player that is with you in the experience controls his own avatar the same way.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Oculus official side distribution platform is coming soon. Last year, Facebook announced that it was going to release in 2021 a new side content distribution platform for the Oculus Quest. Echo VR , the VR sports game available on Oculus headsets, is getting a ‘battle pass’ system called Echo Pass. This is a piece of great news.

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Dynamically mapping rich features of input gestures to properties of physics-based simulation made the interface controllable in most cases. To test the feature, the team used an Oculus Rift CV1 for display and a Leap Motion was applied for hand tracking. Connect with her on LinkedIn and follow @alicebonasio on Twitter.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

This doesn’t look like Oculus Quest” and in the text puts a link to an Imgur album with 4 photos featuring various half-assembled VR headsets. At this point, there is another question that every one of us is making: is this a controlled leak by Valve itself? So, we are at premium 1st gen levels.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. Authors’ opinions are their own. It’s been called the AR Cloud by many, the Magicverse by Magic Leap, the Mirrorworld by Wired, the Cyberverse by Huawei, Planet-scale AR by Niantic and Spatial Computing by academics.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2019

Honestly, I find it a smart idea for this moment, but I also think that HTC has to invest more to have more content on Viveport on the long term if it plans to fight with Oculus and its upcoming Quest. HTC is also experimenting with implementing hand gestures and actions ; I want to try it to verify its real accuracy and speed.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The whole event was all about Facebook creating a parent company called Meta that is going to control all the products that until now were in the Facebook’s family, that is Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, Oculus, Portal, and all the rest. Ultraleap (formerly Leap Motion) has just released the fifth version of its hands-tracking engine.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Sci-fi movie interfaces are often breathtaking ways to tell a story, but the next generation of AR/VR interfaces will be clearer and easier to use – with a lot less visual clutter. Ultimately, Mike concludes that “as a community, we are discovering the [VR] medium’s unexpected strengths and weaknesses.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Masahiro Yamaguchi (CEO, Psychic VR Lab), God Scorpion (Media artist, Psychic VR Lab), Keiichi Matsuda (VP Design, Leap Motion), Oda Yuda (Designer), Akihiro Fujii (CTO, Psychic VR Lab). Alex Colgan (Leap Motion): What inspired you to build a North Star headset? Recently we caught up with them.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2022

For years, the company has been delivering some of the most powerful and accessible XR experiences around, with tools like the Oculus Quest. Tools like the Oculus already come with hand tracking functionality, to help users interact with some software on a hands-free basis.

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Delight XR

AUGUST 7, 2022

Desktop VR versus Mobile VR When taking a look at the vast variety of devices, you should know there are two main categories: tethered and mobile headsets. External tracking devices, cameras, and advanced controllers allow for high-end experiences and get the most out of what’s currently possible in VR. Oculus Rift.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2018

It is a square one, so it seems that the system takes the undistorted view of one eye, exactly as the Oculus Go does when recording a video. Awesome controllers. The Vive Focus has inside-out 6DOF tracking but has only a damn 3 DOF controller. Well, actually, I should say “had” 6 DOF controller emulation.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 31, 2015

At Leap Motion, we’ve seen our fair share of impressive motion-controlled robots that will one day bring about the robocalypse. On another level, a high school student’s robotics project is combining the Oculus Rift and motion control to create an experience that takes you wherever the robot goes.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 22, 2014

Experimental headsets are changing how we see the world, either by creating the virtual worlds of our imaginations, like the Oculus Rift, or adding ghostly layers on top of the real world, like Google Glass. At the same time, GetVu wants to bring a new level of control to augmented reality with Leap Motion technology.

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