The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2020

Daniel is an XR professional that has become very famous this year for his mindblowing experiments with the hands tracking of the Oculus Quest , where every prototype of his is focused on an interaction that is so crazy that most of the time you couldn’t think about it before. Networked hand tracking!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

My only fear is that they are promising a bit too much and so they will have to compromise on something when reality will hit (e.g. The new Unity Personal will also remove the famous Unity splash screen Successful games using Unity Pro or Enterprise can choose if paying per install or by a 2.5% of our revenues with Unity.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Niantic has just launched its Lightship SDK to offer every developer the same toolset Niantic is using to build its geolocalized AR experiences like Pokemon Go. It is basically an SDK to build outdoor shared experiences that exploit the AR Cloud. So if you are not successful, you don’t have to pay.

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TechCrunch VR

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

To build out the software ecosystem, Qualcomm lined up a wide range of partners, including Epic Games’s Unreal Engine, Niantic’s Lightship platform, Unity, Viacom CBS and others. are also partnering with Qualcomm to support startups that use Snapdragon Spaces through the hubraum program. Image Credits: Qualcomm.

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2018

Today Magic Leap has launched the Lumin SDK, the toolkit which allows developers to build AR experiences for Lumin OS, the operating system that powers the Magic Leap One headset. Eye tracking. Gesture and hand tracking. 6DOF hand controller (Totem) tracking. Room scanning and meshing. Spatialized audio.

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Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2018

Leap Motion builds the leading markerless hand-tracking technology, and today the company revealed a update which they claim brings major improvements “across the board.” ” The upgraded tracking and improved developer tools are available in beta today on Windows , alongside three new demos to try it out for yourself.

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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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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Google) Google killed its AR glasses Project Iris Do you remember the name Project Iris? It was our hope for Google entering the AR race together with Meta and Apple. It seems that more than 300 people worked on the project, which was headed by Clay Bavor, the head of AR/VR efforts at Google.

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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.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Qualcomm Technologies has remained at the forefront of developing top-tier solutions for the global virtual, augmented, mixed, and extended reality (VR/AR/MR/XR) industry, with its latest solution designed for AR devices. XR Today: Qualcomm recently debuted its Snapdragon AR devices platform.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

My speech will be about AR and BCI. A bit like Apple, whose upgrades to ARKit show its creation of an AR framework aimed at the future more than the present (because phone AR is good only to add features to 2D apps), Facebook updating the Quest gives us a hint of what we can expect in the upcoming years. Top news of the week.

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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. AR users to reach 800M by the end of the year. Top news of the week.

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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.”. One developer we spoke with has been eagerly exploring the SDK to see what’s possible.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

He says that Apple AR glasses will come in 2021 and that he has seen them. Is it for a future AR/VR headset? There are two things you must be aware of: Apple is surely making various prototypes , so we don’t know what Jon has actually seen. Unreal Engine 5 may change the rules of game development. Other relevant news.

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Road to VR

JULY 24, 2019

Despite securing $280 million from Japan’s largest telecom earlier this summer, we’ve heard surprisingly little from the multi-billion dollar AR startup of late regarding its flagship headset, Magic Leap One. Officially support for Unity 2019.2 binary builds for Unreal available through the Epic Launcher).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2022

Someone in the communities argued with me that HoloLens 2 has still some advantages over Magic Leap 2: it is well integrated with Azure, it is standalone so it doesn’t need a potentially dangerous cable connecting the headset to the computational unit, and it doesn’t need controllers (it uses hands tracking). Learn more. Funny link.

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ARPost

JUNE 1, 2020

The AR Cloud. The AR cloud is the complex idea of a digital world that maps to our physical world, allowing advanced spatial computing. Building the AR cloud is an ongoing project and there is much disagreement as to who will bring it about and how. The next step is going to be building a “semantic understanding” of that cloud.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Microsoft and Samsung may be partnering for an AR device.

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Road to VR

JULY 11, 2018

Speaking during a developer livestream today, Magic Leap’s Alan Kimball, part of the company’s developer relations team, offered the first details on what developers can expect in terms of the power and performance on the AR headset. The headset connects to a belt-clipped module which contains the battery and compute hardware.

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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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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

It is for the professional and the gamer, and it is especially intriguing if mixed with wireless module and Index Controllers; Cosmos XR (price unknown): features two high-res RGB cameras, that let you use the Cosmos both as a VR headset and an AR one. Developers are coming up with creative uses of Oculus Quest hands tracking.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

XR data analytics firm CORTEXR has launched its platform on Tuesday to standardise virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) technologies as well as the Metaverse. Eye, gaze, and hand-tracking were also key to learning user behaviours and interactions with immersive content, the survey continued.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

The AR startup is in big troubles : after having overhyped its device for years and having collected billions of investments, it just delivered a HoloLens clone. invested in AR and VR companies. Google MediaPipe can now track 3D objects. A new interesting AR project is thriving on Kickstarter. Who knows….

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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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Peter Graham

JULY 15, 2019

There are a number of ways to create your own virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) app/videogame. The most popular tend to be videogame engines such as Unity and Unreal Engine which have been fine-tuned over many years.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

But Huawei is not only in the VR market: it is also releasing a new version of its AR smartglasses called Huawei EyeWear 2, made in collaboration with the fashion brand Gentle Monster. Facebook has showcased how thanks to the use of hand-tracking gloves, it has been able to let people touch-type in VR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 31, 2023

Other features include: Integrated Ultraleap hand tracking and 200hz eye tracking Inside-out tracking (currently in beta) Depth awareness enabled by LiDAR technology 99% sRGB color matching and 93% DCI-P3 color matching Seamless switching between MR, VR, and AR experiences Compatibility with Unity, Unreal, Autodesk and more A 3-point precision fit (..)

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 27, 2023

Currently, Samsung is also in the process of expanding its XR roadmap , with plans to re-enter the XR space with AR smart glasses and new devices. Varjo Offering a selection of XR and VR solutions alongside software and cloud-based tools for immersive reality, Varjo assists companies in discovering a range of new opportunities.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 1, 2024

Currently, Samsung is also in the process of expanding its XR roadmap , with plans to re-enter the XR space with AR smart glasses and new devices. → Explore Samsung Varjo Offering a selection of XR and VR solutions alongside software and cloud-based tools for immersive reality, Varjo assists companies in discovering a range of new opportunities.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

Epic also announced a few interesting things, like a tool to record facial animations for MetaHumans that run on an iPhone; and Fab, the Unreal version of the Unity Asset Store, where the developers can find many tools and multimedia elements put on sale. A very cool experiment.

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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

AUGUST 3, 2020

OpenXR has arrived at the first version of the standard, and now it has been implemented by all the major vendors : Microsoft has implemented it for HoloLens and WMR; Oculus for Rift and Quest; Valve has implemented it in SteamVR; etc… Talking about game engines, Unreal Engine now already offers it, while Unity is still lagging behind.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

We spoke about AR and VR for 2 hours and we were having so much fun that we could have gone on for other 2 hours without problems! If you want to watch the video of the recording, you can find it here: And now, let’s start speaking about the best AR/VR news of the week! These are all problems to be figured out.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 31, 2016

You can join us on the showfloor or follow @LeapMotion to experience the future of VR/AR. Orion: next-generation hand tracking for VR. 17: The rise of VR means that our dreams of interacting with digital content on a physical level are coming to life. Redesigning our Unity Core Assets. Inverse ). It was amazing.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

A quick note: VR/AR is a rapidly emerging ecosystem, and many of the engine tools and features that we use to build our Unity and Unreal assets are constantly shifting. In this section, we’ll cover our community’s three most popular environments for deskop and VR/AR: Unity, Unreal, and JavaScript.

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