XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

Although, an emerging presence in the development space is hand and eye tracking. AR/VR/MR headsets are increasingly equipped with hand and eye tracking technology. For more information regarding hand and eye tracking companies, take a look at XR Today’s recent market map.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 17, 2022

This Tuesday, Nreal unveiled a hand-tracking update to its augmented reality (AR) software development kit (SDK) for the Chinese company’s lineup of smart glasses, including new controller support and eye tracking options. AI+AR = our new Hand Tracking API. Eye tracking.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

UltraLeap Tobii Manus Spectre XR Rokid Contact CI Emerge HTC VIVE OpenBCI UltraLeap Dedicated to transforming the way users share valuable data with XR solutions and applications, UltraLeap has produced a host of powerful technologies for the hand and eye tracking sector.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

Although, an emerging presence in the development space is hand and eye tracking. AR/VR/MR headsets are increasingly equipped with hand and eye tracking technology. For more information regarding hand and eye tracking companies, take at look at XR Today’s recent market map.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 12, 2021

But now, thanks to VR Expert , a company specialized in selling and lending AR and VR headsets, I have been able to test this device for a few days and report to you my impressions about it. Besides that, I also noticed the “screen door effect” for the first time on an AR headset.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2022

Increasingly, vendors and innovators are searching for new and improved ways to immerse users in unique experiences, using powerful and disruptive technology. Hand and eye tracking tools, capable of sensing the movements, gestures, and gaze of a user, can take XR experiences to a new level.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

If these specs are confirmed, the Pico 5 sounds very cool to me: it has everything the Quest 3 is promising, for a price that is even slightly lower. All headsets feature OLED microdisplays and are focused on the productivity use case.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

The headset should be operated through the use of hand tracking and eye tracking , exactly like the Vision Pro. We already knew that Meta should manufacture its first AR glasses, codenamed Orion, in 2014 , and that they should be built with high-end features and be manufactured in the US.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

Nreal is for sure one of the most interesting AR startups on the market. It got the attention of all the press at CES 2019 revealing an AR glass that is light, fashionable, and affordable. Through the lenses of nReal glasses connected to my PC: all the text is easily readable, and also colors are very sharp.

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Upload VR

JULY 5, 2023

You can try Apple Vision Pro's eye tracking based interface on your Quest Pro with this sideloadable recreation. Supernova Technologies built the recreation with its Nova UI framework for Unity to promote the middleware. Keep in mind it won't work on Quest 2 or Quest 3, since those headsets don't have eye tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

There are some typical questions that arise in the mind of the AR enthusiasts of the world: how is it? For this purpose, it has created a reference design for an AR headset dubbed North Star , giving full instructions on how everyone can build one at home. And being no developers, there are almost no apps. Is it good?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

This week in XR hasn’t had any explosive news, but it was interesting nonetheless: in particular we had cool info on AR glasses, with some news from Kura, Lynx, and Samsung. Samsung AR glasses concept has been leaked. Popular Twitter leaker WalkingCat has leaked two trailer videos about two AR glasses by Samsung.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Increasingly, the headsets used to navigate the digital space are evolving, becoming more lightweight, efficient, and feature-rich. We’re progressing towards a world where true-to-life holographic images in AR and MR are no longer a science-fiction concept. Hand-Eye Tracking.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Each team had two HTC Vive Pro Eye’s to play with – the company’s latest enterprise-focused headset – meaning eye-tracking needed to feature in some way. 2nd Place – Munch Mania – A roomscale videogame which used the lip tracking module. Best Audio Prize – An Eye Mosity ?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 31, 2023

Last Thursday, leading hand-tracking firm SpectreXR announced a strategic collaboration with XR headset vendor HTC VIVE via its Linkedin account to drive innovation, immersion, and realistic interaction on the latter’s product portfolio. via Untiy’s Asset Store.

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VRScout

MARCH 19, 2018

Edgar Martín-Blas, CEO of Virtual Voyagers , told VRScout he’s been excited about the capabilities of eye-tracking, hand-tracking, nine hand gesture recognition, and “the possibility of controlling the content with a mobile app.”. Anyone can access the Magic Leap Creator Portal and sign-up for free.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

As it is a tradition of this blog , I have read everything I could about the AR and VR technologies showcased there, and I’ve condensed all the news in a single article , that you can skim fast until you find a topic you are interested in. If instead, you need a consultancy about AR/VR for your business, feel free to contact me.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 6, 2021

That eventual vision will involve AR and VR — which Facebook is clearly keen to develop. So a key design element for AR and VR is agency , which is why FRL spends so much time on human-computer interaction. We’re talking voice, hand tracking and eye tracking, all of which exist today in various forms.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Ok, enough with football… let’s get back to AR and VR…. French startup Lynx announced some months ago a quite interesting headset featuring pass-through augmented reality , hands tracking, eye tracking, and an innovative lens design. Top news of the week. Image by Lynx).

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 15, 2024

Augmented reality kits seem to be everywhere, from well-known options like Apple’s ARKit and Google ARCore to Apple’s new collection of AR development tools. The simple reason is that demand for AR is growing at an incredible pace. Here, I’ll introduce you to the benefits of AR kits and the top options you can explore in 2024.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

A report of some years ago said that Microsoft has canceled the second version of the device that it was going to produce because the market for such a device was too little (AR glasses currently occupy only a niche) and there were anyway no credible competitors to fight with a new generation of the device. AR/VR Mixed mode.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

This roundup of the most important AR/VR news of the past week comes out with a little delay since I’ve been very busy with my development job, and I’ve also a damn cold that doesn’t make me feel very well (but it’s no coronavirus, don’t worry :D). iPhone 12 may feature a special connection for AR glasses. Sorry for that!

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

But at first, let’s get serious and read the relevant news of the week in AR and VR. These modules are: A microdisplay to let the user see the augmentations; An image sensor for seeing the surroundings and processing them through computer vision (e.g. Unity talked about PlayStation VR 2 at GDC. Top news of the week. Other news.

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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. Here you are the full list of specs (courtesy Road To VR): CPU ?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 31, 2023

It maintains all of the critical features of the company’s leading MR device, including phenomenal eye tracking, positional tracking, connectivity, and field of view. It also has the industry’s highest resolution (over 70 ppd), and the widest currently available field of view at 115 degrees.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Increased interest in spatial computing is leading to the development of more advanced sensors for hand/eye tracking and IoT connectivity. Even the cameras and processors in these innovative tools are becoming smaller and more powerful. Rokid recently launched a dedicated AR studio spatial computing platform.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The main scope of this position is to prototype, ship, and support consumer gaming products leveraging visual-inertial tracking (HMD and controllers), camera passthrough, environment understanding, eye tracking, and hand tracking. Quest Hand Tracking v2.1 Learn more. Learn more. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

So many exciting things are happening and I’m thankful to you all for the support you are giving me. The eye and face tracking can also work via Quest Link (but maybe only for developers). There are new complaints about Meta’s privacy policy on eye tracking , as my friend Avi Bar-Zeev points out.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Increased interest in spatial computing is leading to the development of more advanced sensors for hand/eye tracking and IoT connectivity. Even the cameras and processors in these innovative tools are becoming smaller and more powerful. Rokid recently launched a dedicated AR studio spatial computing platform.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Oculus” name was a problem because AR/VR is so huge that its related product should have fallen under the main brand of the company, to make it clear whose are those products. Unity has built this nice demo using the Presence Platform. And so it happened. And in fact, now it happens that everything Oculus becomes Meta.

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Upload VR

AUGUST 21, 2022

VRChat worlds are premade in Unity on desktop, with most lighting “baked in” by a powerful PC – and the most impressive worlds aren’t accessible to Quest users at all. Visually detailed features without detailed tracked motion can make an avatar feel like a lifeless mannequin.

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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. The external area of the frame is getting huge compression (Image by Ars Technica).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

If you’re investing in spatial computing experiences, you’ll need to define your requirements: Hardware: Spatial computing hardware can cover everything from the computer systems you need to access or mobile devices to wearable headsets (MR, VR, and AR), sensors, and even processing chips for hardware development.

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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

AUGUST 3, 2020

An eye-tracking accessory built for Vive should work with Rift as well, and so on. We are at a point that Oculus is now accepting submissions of applications implementing OpenXR on its store. There are business reasonings, and I don’t think that for instance Oculus will let other headsets run on top of the Oculus Store.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Get in on the ground floor with this talk from Martz, who will tell you how to get to grips with the new platform including working with Google VR SDKs for Android, Unity, and Unreal. Applications of Eye Tracking in Virtual Reality. Smartphone AR, Tango, and You. November 3rd, 10:15am. Franciscan Ballroom, Level 3.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2021

It just understands among the objects in the scene in front of you, which one of them you are looking at , so that you can interact with it. Think about it as an eye-tracking device that instead of looking into your eyes, reads inside your skull. NextMind vs Eye Tracking. Hands-on with the demos.

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