The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Meta) Meta may be working on a very cheap Quest and very expensive Quest Pro 2 Thanks to Twitter user Lunayian , I got to read an article written by a Korean magazine with some very interesting rumors about Meta. Who is as excited as me? It’s the end of an era.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

It has hand tracking, and the Pro model also has eye tracking, like Apple’s device. Quest 3 is better for gaming and has precision controllers. Maybe Magic Leap, before people got to know that the device was sort of a HoloLens 1+, had such attention to it. It is better for most mixed-reality uses.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

All the rest, that I am going to detail in the rest of the article, are just a bunch of thought speculations. I guess they will steal some ideas from Magic Leap and provide a more comfortable headset (more cushions) and more customization options (more accessories to fit it on your nose, support for prescription lenses, etc…).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

Road To VR reported about Manus VR’s new Quantum Metagloves with very precise hand tracking for enterprise use (cost: $9000). Magic Leap 2 bridges AR and VR. The interest in Magic Leap 2 is growing. HTC adds more parental control tools to its headsets. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2023

And sorry if it took more days than expected to assemble this article… A good year for XR at CES Before listing all the most important pieces of news, let me tell you how XR presence was overall at CES. At CES, Shiftall brought also the concept of innovative controllers called FlipVR.

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Upload VR

MAY 4, 2024

For everything else, here are our top five VR news stories we previously missed: VRChat Reworks Hand Tracking For Cross-Platform Support In the latest developer update , VRChat announced its reworked hand tracking support. for new features and customization options. That's available now after shadow-dropping on Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2019

As for every CES , I’ve not been there (it’s a dream of mine, I hope to be there next year), but I’ve read a lot of AR and VR-related news from this exhibition and so I’m summarizing here all the most important ones, so that you will be able to know what has happened at CES just by reading a single article!

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TechPrior

AUGUST 15, 2023

This article presents a curated list of the top 9 AR glasses that promise to redefine our digital interactions in 2023 and beyond. Key Features: Gesture-controlled commands: Navigate the digital world with intuitive gestures. Hand tracking: Intuitive interaction with augmented content.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 12, 2021

If you prefer videos to walls of texts, this is what you should watch in this article: A HoloLens 2 Video Review just for you! Magic Leap One ), your brain kind of accept that you see augmentations only through the lens of the glasses and not in the peripheral vision, and so the limited FOV becomes more acceptable.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

It doesn’t contain 100% the information of the written article, but it’s a very good summary. Controller : Weight : 23g Tracking : 3DoF Connection : Bluetooth Controls : Touchpad, Click, Haptic feedback. Even the controller, with its nice rounded design, looks cute. Design-wise, they are very cool.

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Upload VR

MARCH 30, 2024

Meta confirmed it won't be making 'air controller' support available anytime soon on Quest. Magic Leap launched a companion mobile app for capturing third-person MR experiences. Sugar Mess Jigsaw Puzzles is a free 3D jigsaw puzzle game on Quest App Lab with hand-tracking support.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

The console works in conjunction with the innovative DualSense controller. At the current stage of the project, he’s been able to make the Rift (both CV1 and S) to work as a 3DOF headset , and he’s also been able to connect with the controllers. The specs, that were already announced, are: GPU: 10.3 SSD (8–9 GB/s). Image by HP).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Google can count on the acquisition of North, the experience he has matured by producing Google Glass and investing in Magic Leap, and the fact that it owns the most-used mobile operating system. All will feature tracking cameras for 6dof, hand tracking, speakers, microphone, and an additional camera to shoot photos and videos.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In my unboxing video, you may see that I’ve found an additional Leap Motion v1 controller + Leap Motion mount for RealMax + USB-C cable for Leap Motion. Thanks to these three buttons, it is possible to handle many of the operations with the Qian even without using the controller. Controller and input.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Another week has just passed by and it was a cool one with many news and articles to talk about! This way the Official Store remains curated like a console, but sharing unapproved apps become much easier than having to use Sidequest and sideloading in general (and also gives Facebook more control on unofficial apps).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

It’s a good read , full of interesting anecdotes, like when it is written that Beat Saber became the testbench for the tracking of the Quest controllers , or that Asgard’s Wrath, in the beginning, was a tower defense game. All in all, I found the article a nice read, but I don’t like that it looks very corporate and bleached out.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2023

And regarding the Quest Pro, he said that it has been rushed and that it has been released with interesting features like eye and hand tracking, but without seriously investing in them (e.g. Regarding the Quest line, he said that Meta pursued a low-price strategy too early, even before the device’s value could be perceived by people.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

But the greatest feature is that finally Oculus is accepting hands-tracked applications in the Oculus Store from the 28th of this month! Mozilla has also released Firefox Reality for HoloLens , and it features hands tracking in WebXR experiences. Magic Leap raises other $350M. It’s all very cool. in Europe).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

You have to buy base stations and controllers separately from HTC or Valve. And the new delay with controllers is not helping with that, either. It is a set of AR glasses strictly focused on tabletop gaming that works together with a 6 DOF controller and a special board made with retro-reflective materials. The time is coming!

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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. Magic Leap rebrands and kills the whale.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

The new HoloLens features: Eye tracking Full hands tracking (a la Leap Motion) Voice commands understanding. During a demo on stage, it has been shown that the hands are the primary means of interface with the UI of HoloLens 2. And that let him/her communicate with other workers or with the control room easily.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 29, 2021

If we exclude the major tech companies (Facebook, Valve, etc…) and the meteor Magic Leap, this is the first VR company to reach this status, and this is another sign of the health of the virtual reality ecosystem. It is very rare that a company gets a valuation over $1B, and so when it happens, it is defined as a “unicorn”. More info.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Some of its features are: 2,160 × 2,160 resolution per eye 90Hz framerate 4-cameras inside-out tracking (like the Quest) Touch-like controllers with Knuckles-like finger-sensing Face tracking Hips tracking (for better orientation in games) Integration with SteamVR games Wireless add-on.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

At Tilt Five, we designed a really clever system that only works on tabletop experiences but it has features that are just leaps and bounds above what the big Magic Leap or HoloLens type AR systems are. Tilt Five glasses and controller, on the board (Image by Tilt Five).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Mixed with hand tracking, it could be a perfect mix to let people interact with Oculus Menus without the need of controllers. Magic Leap, Niantic, etc…) and by two big countries (USA and China). Magic Leap releases new tools for developers. Owlchemy Labs adds subtitles to Vacation Simulator.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2022

connector with OTG 3 Physical IPD adjustments Optical Positional tracking, with 4 tracking cameras Cameras have 400×400 resolution and run at 120Hz Maximum 10m x 10m tracking area and mm-precision accuracy Optical Tracked Controllers, with 32 tracking points All-PU materials fabrication, for easier sanitization 5300 mAh battery, for around 2.5–3h

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2019

If you want to read more about the Hololens 2, I have written a long article about it and you can find it at this link. I’ve already detailed the Azure Kinect in this other article , so I recommend you to read it if you are interested. Azure Kinect. Image by Microsoft). Mic Array; 3. RGB Camera; 4. Sync pins (Image by Microsoft).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

These advanced haptics make us dream of PSVR 2 controllers with best-in-class immersive haptics … but we have to still wait various months before discovering if this is the truth. Then why Magic Leap hasn’t delivered a solid product with 2B?) All the reviewers are amazed. EXECUTION IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING FOR A COMPANY.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Well, your favorite ghost has just done it for you in this article! We were all waiting for a side-upgrade of the Quest, and instead, we got a huge upgrade, with dramatically improved computational power, display, controllers. And no, the controllers won’t track all your fingers. Let’s dig a bit into it.

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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. Pico Neo 2 controllers. They are not beautiful, but functional.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

We’re used to navigating our computing with keyboards, mice, and maybe track pads — analog input. That’s why we need gesture controls ASAP, according to today’s guest, Clay AIR’s Varag Gharibjanian. Varag: So Clay is a software company, we're specializing in hand tracking and gesture recognition, mostly in the AR and VR space.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

We’re used to navigating our computing with keyboards, mice, and maybe track pads — analog input. That’s why we need gesture controls ASAP, according to today’s guest, Clay AIR’s Varag Gharibjanian. Varag: So Clay is a software company, we're specializing in hand tracking and gesture recognition, mostly in the AR and VR space.

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

For consumers, the best you’ll get at the moment is the Valve Index controllers but when it comes to business applications, that choice is blown right open. In reality that has taken longer than expected yet hand-tracking has now caught up with VR headsets. At £5k you’re not going to be adding them to your HTC Vive kit just yet.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Oculus has announced its first 6 DOF standalone headset with 6 DOF controllers and its name is Oculus Quest. Oculus Quest and controllers inside a stand (Image by Ars Technica). On the front there are the four cameras used to track the position of the device and the controllers. Close view of the Quest controller.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

We’re used to navigating our computing with keyboards, mice, and maybe track pads — analog input. That’s why we need gesture controls ASAP, according to today’s guest, Clay AIR’s Varag Gharibjanian. Varag: So Clay is a software company, we're specializing in hand tracking and gesture recognition, mostly in the AR and VR space.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I read the articles that you write, and they’re very insightful. You’ve written countless articles on virtual and augmented reality. I think there were people early on, like the folks at Sixth Sense who have the hand controllers. And that was with controllers. I think we rode the escalator down?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I read the articles that you write, and they’re very insightful. You’ve written countless articles on virtual and augmented reality. I think there were people early on, like the folks at Sixth Sense who have the hand controllers. And that was with controllers. I think we rode the escalator down?

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