VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The last big breakthrough we saw in ease-of-use interactivity was the launch of hand tracking and gesture recognition on enterprise and consumer VAR devices. The high-level architecture of IBM’s DeepQA used in Watson // Image Credit: AI Magazine. The open-sourced Watson Unity SDK can be found on GitHub.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Although his original background is in architecture, his work in VR spans from indie games like Cubism to enterprise software for architects and engineers like Resolve. The emulation tool can take these files, and spawn several rooms next to each other directly in the Unity editor.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The headset will also have a ring of LED lights to assist with eye-tracking performance and sensors to support hand tracking, allowing operators to interact with their spatial computing environment without controllers. The Vision Pro will leverage a proprietary software stack and an Apple silicon architecture.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 12, 2021

The Achille’s heel of positional tracking is the light: if the room is completely dark, it doesn’t work anymore. Hands Tracking. HoloLens 2 has no controllers, but it lets you interact with the mixed reality elements through hand tracking, eye tracking, and voice commands.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The labs also guide using Apple Vision Pro’s new features and frameworks, like spatial audio, hand tracking, and face capture. It will also have a ring of LED lights to improve eye-tracking performance and hand-tracking sensors, allowing users to interact with their spatial computing environment without controllers.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Although his original background is in architecture, his current work in VR spans from indie games like Cubism to enterprise software for architects and engineers like Resolve. One instance where I realized I was over-scoping was with my plans to support hand-tracking in the initial release of the game.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2022

For the transition to a consumer device, Pico employees had to re-architecture the store, the paying system, the accounting system, the backend, the networking, the user interface, and all the rest to make it become a compelling consumer product. As for the content, the company aims at having more than 200 games on its native Pico Store.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

Magic Leap has launched the SDK for the device’s Lumin OS , with support for Unity and Unreal engines. Epic Games have detailed Unreal Engine’s support for the Magic Leap One Creator Edition on their blog, which confirms some significant hardware features of the device, including eye tracking, hand tracking, and room scanning.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Developers are coming up with creative uses of Oculus Quest hands tracking. Oculus Quest hands tracking is being a success among developers. One in which you take one hand of yours, y ou throw it to the other side of the room, and then remotely move your hand to perform some tasks. It is amazing to be seen.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

GHz CPU Cores: Qualcomm® Kryo 385 CPU, Octa-core CPU CPU Architecture: 64-bit Up to 8GB RAM Support for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.0, With HoloLens v1 there were absurd limitations regarding the maximum allowed polygons in a Unity scene (like 20K polygons), so almost every produced program run sloppy. Hand Tracking. Eye tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

Unity details its MARS solution. In a blog post, Unity has detailed its MARS solution, that lets you create easily augmented reality experiences , even with little coding knowledge. Two new interesting demos for Quest hands tracking. This week two interesting demos employing Oculus Quest hands tracking have emerged.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

Keep in mind that this device has a pixel density far superior even to the one of the Valve Index, so it is perfect not only for gaming but also for prototyping, design and architecture. HP and Microsoft have a long track in offering enterprise hardware, so this headset may battle HTC on his own land (B2B). Unity launches MARS tools.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

Unity talked about PlayStation VR 2 at GDC. Unity had a talk about developing for PlayStation VR 2 at GDC 2022. This proves the value of eye-tracking and its implementation inside PSVR 2. More info (Foveated Tracking boost inside PSVR 2) More info (Full Unity talk at GDC). News worth a mention. Other news.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Unity renderer implementation of foveated rendering, on the other hand is much rougher, and in multiple Unity apps I saw very obvious and harsh artifacts, particularly on text. Given this only happens in Unity Full Space apps, I suspect this can be solved in future software. The main form is hand and arm occlusion.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

I mean, all UE developers, we Unity developers felt like being in a party where everyone is making out and you’re just there sipping a coke. and a new 7nm architecture. That genius that answers the name of Daniel Beauchamp has used Quest Hands Tracking to make a miniature version of Beat Saber that you can play using your fingers.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

The new update for Oculus Quest brings with it some interesting features, like the tracking of the Apple Magic Keyboard, some updates to the UI, and a new menu for hand tracking. Samsung has just announced its new Exynos 2200 mobile chipset , powered by AMD RDNA 2 architecture. Meta releases runtime v37 for Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

For sure, as Tom Ffiske reports, it doesn’t include only the cost of the hardware, but also the software and Azure cloud architecture that Microsoft will build for the program. Cubism is a great case study for hand tracking UX. over 5–10 years, to deliver a maximum of 120,000 units. $22B is an insane number for the XR market.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The OpenXR standard, that aims at standardizing virtual reality hardware and runtime is keeping improving, and in its latest release, it has added new features like experimental overlays and hand tracking extensions. More info (New features of OpenXR) More info (OpenXR in Unity) More info (OpenXR in Microsoft products).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 17, 2020

Then, of course, we started fighting with issues related to the field view and hand-tracking capabilities. I stressed everybody in my team because I wanted to be able to place anchors in the world space with maximal accuracy and directly within the Unity editor. I also found limitations in the anchoring system.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Numerous innovations continue to enhance the smart glasses industry for enterprise workers, including developments in hand tracking, device management, software platforms, and interoperability. Global teams are now intricately connected with remote engineers and experts, leading to a streamlined, agile workforce.

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VRGuy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Many game engines – such as Unity, Unreal and SteamVR- immediately support it. Eye tracking software converts eye images into gaze direction. Hand tracking software converts hand position into gestures. The open OSVR architecture opens plugin development to everyone. Others did this work themselves.

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Leapmotion

JULY 21, 2015

At a high level the architecture had a few different modules running asynchronously: Libraries used: SFML , LeapGL, Autowiring , Eigen , FreeImage , Glew , Leap Motion SDK, Oculus SDK. The project used the public Leap Motion SDK with standard tracking to receive hand tracking and video passthrough data. Leap Motion.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

And so anybody that’s doing design and 3D objects, it’s almost like a no-brainer, whether it’s in architecture, or designing 3D objects, or big aerospace, airplanes, cars. So you see a lot of it in architecture, engineering, construction. And you don’t have to spend all this money to prototype these things out.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

And so anybody that's doing design and 3D objects, it's almost like a no-brainer, whether it's in architecture, or designing 3D objects, or big aerospace, airplanes, cars. So you see a lot of it in architecture, engineering, construction. And you don't have to spend all this money to prototype these things out. But once the WebXR 2.0

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

And so anybody that’s doing design and 3D objects, it’s almost like a no-brainer, whether it’s in architecture, or designing 3D objects, or big aerospace, airplanes, cars. So you see a lot of it in architecture, engineering, construction. And you don’t have to spend all this money to prototype these things out.

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