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Leap Motion ‘Virtual Wearable’ AR Prototype is a Potent Glimpse at the Future of Your Smartphone

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But when it comes to AR, the hope is that the tech will be a transient and beneficial addition to reality, rather than taking over your world completely. Leap Motion , a maker of hand-tracking software and hardware, has been experimenting with exactly that, and is teasing some very interesting results.

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CityXR: A Vision For Augmented Cities In The Shadow Of Hyper-Reality

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Back in 2016, designer and filmmaker Keiichi Matsuda released Hyper-Reality, a concept film that imagined an augmented reality future where physical and virtual realities have merged, resulting in a "city saturated in media." The film was heavily circulated, covered extensively across media and news outlets when it released.

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

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Top news of the week (Image by Google) Google announces important AI and XR news at Google I/O This Google I/O has seen immersive realities back to the menu. During the keynote, CEO Sundar Pichai and his collaborators announced interesting features both for AR and VR. It’s something crazy that I would like to try.

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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!

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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. Top news of the week. So, what’s happened?

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The High-end VR Room of the Future Looks Like This

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Side note that AR will be much bigger than VR, in both the diversity of use cases and market size (analysts predict $30B for VR versus $90B for AR by 2020), but I still believe that most homes will have a dedicated VR space for total immersion. Check out the bottom of this post for a list of VR inspiration. Body movement.

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HTC Vive announces 6 DOF controllers for Vive Focus and teases hand tracking for Vive Pro

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Today, we are taking the spatial computing industry to yet another level as we announce the availability of the full 6DoF developer kit for the Vive Wave open ecosystem, and a host of new 6DoF content and technologies to more easily bring users into fully immersive virtual worlds.

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Hands-On: Oculus Quest Hand Tracking Feels Great, But It’s Not Perfect

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I was excited to see how this would change current and future immersive experiences and possibly push VR even closer to mass adoption. No sudden reappearance or lag; instead, a seamless transition, keeping you immersed in the experience no matter what the position. In the end, I was not disappointed.