The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2020

One of them is today’s article, where I interview one of the people whose work has inspired me the most this year: Daniel Beauchamp. Now I leave you to his words and his videos: I’ve embedded many videos in this article, so that you can admire his most famous works. Networked hand tracking! Pack it in, folks.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

Some of them have been brainstormed with Lorenzo Cappannari with whom I wrote an article a few months ago and who I thank for the collaboration ). Even here, the launch of the Apple Vision Pro, with its strong focus on MR and hand tracking, is changing a bit the rules of the market. Of course not.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

After the latest Unite event, Unity has released in Open Beta the tools to develop applications for the Apple Vision Pro. The development packages are usable only by people having Unity Pro or Enterprise, but the documentation is publicly available for everyone to see. PC), it can be built and deployed on all other platforms (e.g.

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ARVR

JUNE 29, 2022

The 3 days of lectures has been recorded, and I will update this article after I watch all the recordings. New Software VisionLib : SDK with super impressive tracking on 3D objects (ready for Unity as well). link] New Hardware Pico Neo 2 eye : eye tracking, vr and ar, hand tracking. super expensive.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 2, 2021

After I have written my super in-depth review on the Vive Focus 3 , HTC has finally enabled hands tracking on its device , so I decided to talk about it to you. There is a lot to talk about, so keep reading, and I’m sure you will find this article interesting! Hands Tracking on the Vive Focus 3.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In this Guest Article, developer Thomas Van Bouwel explains his approach to designing an MR game that adapts to different environments. Guest Article by Thomas Van Bouwel Thomas is a Belgian-Brazilian VR developer currently based in Brussels. When it comes to MR platforms, an active discussion on data privacy is important too.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

In this article, I’ll share a summary of my impressions. The Lynx R-1 headset houses six cameras: two B&W cameras for 6DoF positional tracking, two IR cameras for hand-tracking, and two RGB visible light cameras for the color passthrough AR mode. Hand-tracking, controllers. AR + Hand-tracking.

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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.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

It is relevant that for the first time, a Varjo headset is adding integrated audio and integrated controllers. The headset works out-of-the-box with inside-out tracking, but an add-on for SteamVR is available. If all the existing flatscreen Unity games could become VR-compatible, that would be huge.

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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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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Guest Article by Thomas Van Bouwel. In this article, I want to share some lessons I learned on how to stay on track when bootstrapping your first VR game. 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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ARVR

JUNE 16, 2020

Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Build your first HoloLens 2 Application with Unity and MRTK 2.3.0 Interhaptics is based on a controller agnostic architecture. Thanks to this, you can integrate complex hand tracking interaction simply within Interhaptics. Designing for a modern 3D world: A UX design guide for VR 2.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Interhaptics is a Haptics software company specializing in tools for haptic design and rendering, and hand tracking interactions for digital platforms as Mobile, XR, and consoles. It supports an extensive list of XR controllers, hand tracking systems, and haptic devices. Trending AR VR Articles: 1.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

I’ve written a dedicated news roundup article dedicated to Google I/O today, so I won’t go deep into details here and I invite you to read that post (linked here below) if you want to have the details about the news. According to a guy on Twitter that answered my post, Ultraleap should launch a new tracking controller this year.

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Road to VR

MAY 25, 2020

Here are two user-friendly avatar character creator apps for that purpose which won’t require the use of developer-level tools like Unity, Blender, etc. Ready Player Me avatars currently only give you a head and chest, meaning they aren’t rigged for full-body IK or other animations like hand-tracking.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Creating remote MR productions Hand Tracking Thanks to the release of the Oculus Quest, one of the most popular UI in XR today is the hand tracking input. VRTK, as other existing VR interaction toolkits, is built around logic input from controllers.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Trending AR VR Articles: 1. If there is any new feature released in SDKs or libraries in Unity, you are most likely to find the first tutorial video about it on his YouTube channel. Manomotion Manomotion is a hand tracking and gesture control SDK for smartphones. Augmented reality for maintenance and repair 4.

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ARVR

JUNE 10, 2020

To illustrate this point we will compare two looking alike products that you can use to create interactions for VR content: the VR Interaction Framework, a well-reviewed Unity Plugin known to be user friendly, and the Interaction Builder from the Interhaptics Suite. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Why these two?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

It is also working on creating its own hardware : a previous report highlighted that it could build its own chips in the future, and this article shows how the company is working also in acquiring hardware parts markers. Oculus releases hands tracking SDK, official Link cable for Quest and more. Honestly, this scares me a lot.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The article talked about a headset shipping without controllers and aiming at the sweet price point of $200. Mark Gurman reiterated a similar rumor: he didn’t say that Meta will ship it without controllers, but just that it is evaluating also that option. The second is about interactions.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

I have read countless of his articles, and reading that he’s without a job makes me sad. So, forget about an Apple headset that is going to enter the mainstream , as I already sold in this previous article. Pimax Portal is a handheld console with detachable controllers , exactly like the Switch. Some news on the metaverse.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2021

As usual, I have also created a video version of this article, and in it, I describe to you all the main features of this headset , from the visuals to the comfort, not to mention the headset and controllers’ tracking. Controllers. Pico Controllers look like elongated Quest 2 controllers.

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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. Unity, the leading engine for VR game development, appointed Matthew Bromberg as its new CEO.

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ARVR

JULY 19, 2021

On Thursday, May 27th, key players from the haptics, hand tracking, and VR training industries gathered to discuss the scaling of haptics in VR training applications. Enhancing the user experience is key in VR Training, but controllers can be very limiting for this kind of experience. Trending AR VR Articles: 1.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

I had a lot of delays in writing this article (sorry Pico, sorry VR community), but I promise you that it will be deep and detailed… as you like the posts on my website. Side view of Pico 4 controllers. A note on this article. Inside the box, the headset, controllers, and accessories are stored in a tidy way. Right View.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2023

But unluckily, their tracking performance was bad, especially for what concerns controllers, the manufacturing quality was debatable, and especially Microsoft never invested enough into dedicated content. This can be used only on devices that can track your face, like the Quest Pro. Last week, people said January.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

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. It doesn’t have controllers (you just use your hands), but you can buy external controllers by Finch to use with it. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2022

Let me explain everything you need to know in this article! Pico Neo 3 Pro headset and controllers. At Laval Virtual, Ultraleap has just announced a hand tracking accessory for Pico Neo 3 (Image by Ultraleap). Pico enters consumer VR. People playing with Pico headsets (Image by Pico). Pico Neo Link specifications.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 23, 2021

What I’ve not enjoyed is that SideQuest has removed The Unity Cube from its listing, stating that there were too many cubes there. People can talk, gesticulate (hands tracking is supported), and enjoy a full sense of presence. To write, you have to take your controller upside-down, so you can use it as a big pen.

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ARVR

AUGUST 31, 2021

Founded by members of Unity, Interhaptics , Senseglove , and Nanoport. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. How has hand-tracking changed the creation of an immersive VR experience? The one way to truly feel the difference is to try out the same experience with and without haptic feedback and hand-tracking.

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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. This is because the company sent me a special version of the device with already the necessary setup to use it with the Leap Motion Controller to exploit hands input.

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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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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 27, 2018

This ability to respond to more nuanced hand movement is due to the technique’s physics-driven algorithms. Dynamically mapping rich features of input gestures to properties of physics-based simulation made the interface controllable in most cases. This article originally was published on VRScout. But now it feels really cool.”.

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ARVR

JUNE 22, 2021

This article was extracted from the Recommended Practices for Haptics in Enterprise VR published by the Haptics Industry Forum. Hand tracking and natural interactions coupled with well-designed haptic feedback can meet or exceed user expectations of interactive content. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Application maturity.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The coronavirus is also impacting the production of all the major VR headsets : we’re at the point that Valve’s customer service has no more left controllers to give to people for RMA. Developers continue to have fun with Oculus Quest hands tracking! A new week, a new sheer of demos exploiting Oculus Quest hands tracking!

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

Before starting, let’s make a recap of the previous article: what is SenseGlove? SenseGlove is an exoskeleton for your hands that is able to provide you haptics sensations. You have to connect your Tracker adapters to your USB ports (so that you can use the Trackers and the Controllers), and then do the pairing of your trackers.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2023

Could also be a negative one, if these people want to control it, though. More info Unity fires around 300 employees While the news about Microsoft layoffs made headlines everywhere, it was more silent the second round of layoffs at Unity. This could act as a positive force. In this session, around 300 people lost their job.

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