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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.12.16): Oculus Quest gets hand tracking, Magic Leap pivots towards enterprise and much more!

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Oculus Quest gets hand tracking. But, most importantly, now the Quest features hands tracking. If you update the Quest until its latest runtime, you can now activate hands tracking in its experimental features. To start, now the Oculus Link is more stable and it is compatible with some AMD GPUs.

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Magic Leap Reveals Music App Collaboration with Sigur Rós, New Images

Road to VR

Magic Leap today revealed a collaborative AR project with Icelandic band Sigur Rós, a musical experience which fills the player’s surroundings with ethereal visuals and an interactive soundscape. Hogan appears to have also left us a significant hint, revealed by reading between the lines, about Magic Leap’s capabilities.

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Essential XR Hand and Eye Tracking Events for Your Calendar in 2022

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

For instance, hand and eye tracking solutions are quickly becoming a must-have part of every XR creation. With these tools, it’s possible to boost the efficiency and performance of VR, AR and MR tools, while making experiences more natural and immersive. Augmented Enterprise Summit. XR Fair Tokyo.

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Magic Leap to Launch in 19 Countries, Exec Says

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AR tech firm Magic Leap is set to launch in 19 countries across the world, Lisa Watts, Vice President of Product Marketing and Developer Programs for Magic Leap announced at the Immerse Global Summit (IGS) 2022 Europe on Madeira Island, Portugal. Magic Leap 2 stands on the shoulders of giants and the force. ” Comfort is Key.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.07.13): Sony invests in Epic, Rockstar is working on an AAA VR game, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Johnson has a long career as an executive at Qualcomm and Microsoft, and will so be able to bring some experience and pragmatism to the Florida-based Startup, that until now has made countless business mistakes. Catan is the next big AR game by Niantic. Niantic has officially announced its upcoming AR game and it is “Catan?—?World

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek: Facebook admits that VR is taking longer than expected, Pistol Whip ready to launch and much more!

The Ghost Howls

It’s again that time of the week where I tell you the most important news in AR and VR! Are you ready? Mixed with hand tracking, it could be a perfect mix to let people interact with Oculus Menus without the need of controllers. Digicapital instead offers us a picture of the landscape of AR and VR companies and startups.

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Magic Leap One first impressions review: it’s not a leap, but a step

The Ghost Howls

In my opinion, this is one of the greatest innovations that it has introduced in the AR ecosystem. And again, I appreciated the attention of the Florida company to the visual experience that the user should have, this is really great. There are hands tracking and eye tracking , but they are almost never exploited.