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We need camera access to unleash the full potential of Mixed Reality

The Ghost Howls

I had some wonderful ideas of Mixed Reality applications I would like to prototype, but most of them are impossible to do in this moment because of a decision that almost all VR/MR headset manufacturers have taken: preventing developers from accessing camera data. Besides, at that time, AI was already there, but not growing as fast as today.

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Inside Leap Motion: 5 Hands-On Tips for Developing in VR

Leapmotion

From gaming to big data, virtual reality gives us the chance to build and explore whole new worlds beyond the screen. Plasma Ball VR stays at a comfortable distance while being controlled by your hands, using tracking data combined with raw image passthrough. Even if some gestures don’t impact the data at all (e.g.

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The Importance of Hand Tracking UX Design

The Ghost Howls

They are currently offering deals for Black Friday, so if you are reading this article close to when I published it, you can check out their offers here. The article Dejan has written is a big collection of tutorials, suggestions, and tips about developing applications that use hand tracking. How to Set Up Hand Tracking in Unity 3D.

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NextMind Review: select objects using your brain powers

The Ghost Howls

The sensor is all black, with a big circular body that contains the circuitry of the sensor, and then an arc that contains nine EEG sensors, that communicate their data directly to the “body” Overview of the “spider” Bottom view. This is necessary so that to guarantee a more reliable data read from your brain.

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Thomas Street’s UI Exploration with the Oculus Rift and Leap Motion

Leapmotion

We all grew tired of talking about how we wanted to explore VR development, so we allocated several weeks to tinkering with the Oculus Rift and Leap Motion — staffing one full-time developer and a few designers part-time. We got things started by downloading the most popular Oculus Rift / Leap Motion demos and giving them a try.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. It’s been called the AR Cloud by many, the Magicverse by Magic Leap, the Mirrorworld by Wired, the Cyberverse by Huawei, Planet-scale AR by Niantic and Spatial Computing by academics. Authors’ opinions are their own. Who Will Own the Metaverse?

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The XR Week Peek (2023.06.04): Apple to launch its headset, Meta unveils Quest 3 and many games, and more!

The Ghost Howls

I need to rush out this newsletter episode because otherwise tomorrow Apple launches its headset and no one will read my articles: everyone will be too busy reading “The top 5 features of the Apple headset” or “The 7 reasons why the Apple headset can revolutionize peeling potatoes”. Its controllers have no ring and no onboard cameras.

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