Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2018

Announced with support for both Unity and Unreal, the Lumin SDK exposes the capabilities of the Magic Leap One headset to developers who can use it to begin building augmented reality experiences for the platform. Eye tracking. Gesture and hand tracking. 6DOF hand controller (Totem) tracking.

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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. Then the Vision Pro beta for the Unity game engine has not been distributed yet, so many Unity developers can’t build applications for the Vision Pro, yet.

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TechCrunch VR

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Qualcomm today launched a new developer platform for building head-worn augmented reality experiences: the Snapdragon Spaces XR Developer Platform. ” for its hand tracking and gesture recognition solutions. Deutsche Telekom and T-Mobile U.S. “We enabled, through the last decade, devices like ODG. .

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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. The standalone headset still features passthrough AR/MR, XR2 chipset, dual 1600×1600 LCD panels running at 90Hz, Ultraleap hands tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

So many developers could find themselves with the conundrum of what to offer and to which device : if the Quest 3 Lite will sell a lot of units, maybe developers will prefer to develop content that is compatible with hand tracking, shifting the current attention to games to something else.

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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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 27, 2023

The company’s XR portfolio covers everything from augmented reality smart glasses to a cloud-based platform for digital workflow creation. Goertek Goertek produces a variety of hardware and device options for the XR space, including augmented reality smart glasses and comprehensive VR headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

It is 6DOF and lets you enjoy both virtual reality and passthrough augmented reality. Developers are coming up with creative uses of Oculus Quest hands tracking. Oculus Quest hands tracking is being a success among developers. At this point, I wonder if GDC may be canceled as the MWC.

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ARPost

JUNE 1, 2020

The Unreal Engine General Manager Marc Petit announced new tools on the Epic Online Services platform to help developers create scaling multiplayer experiences. Tom Emrich, VP of Product at 8th Wall, presented the award for Best Campaign to “ PORTAL ” an augmented reality shopping experience supported by Nreal. Announcements.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

Unreal Engine 5 may change the rules of game development. Out of nowhere, Epic Games has teased the next version of Unreal Engine, Unreal Engine 5, due to be released in 2021. It means that you can take whatever model, even with billions of polygons, and put it in your Unreal Engine project. Other relevant news.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 1, 2024

The company’s XR portfolio covers everything from augmented reality smart glasses to a cloud-based platform for digital workflow creation. The solution also supports hand tracking through Ultraleap Gemini and Positional tracking via SteamVR.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The French startup headed by Stan Larroque is developing passthrough AR glasses with eye-tracking and hands tracking that can offer a new paradigm to augmented reality. For instance, Rebecca Minkoff, a very famous stylist, has decided to showcase her new creations in augmented reality.

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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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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

We’re now bringing that directly to developers, who can download the software development kit (SDK) for Unity or Unreal Engine. Developers can gain access to its deep AR, perception, hand-tracking, 3D reconstruction, and other technologies.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

At the same time, Next Reality has spotted that nReal has slightly changed the name of its company from Hangzhou Tairuo to Shenzhen Tairuo, and has now a new parent company called Beijing Unicorn Technology. Google MediaPipe can now track 3D objects. Unity’s HDRP is now VR-compatible. Who knows….

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Facebook has showcased how thanks to the use of hand-tracking gloves, it has been able to let people touch-type in VR. Simple WebXR” aims at bringing WebXR to Unity. On GitHub has appeared a new project called “Simple WebXR” aimed at letting you develop WebXR experiences inside Unity. News from partners (and friends).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 26, 2023

In recent years, the extended reality marketplace has evolved drastically. Only a short time ago, most people associated concepts like virtual and augmented reality exclusively with the consumer world. The SDK also supports development with Unreal, Unity, and OpenXR and can be used offline.

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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 have seen that hands tracking has enabled new kinds of experiences that we hadn’t even thought of before (think about the great experiments by Daniel Beauchamp ), and I’m sure that the same will happen with passthrough AR, too; Facebook is building a platform that will work for all future headsets.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 20, 2015

The Leap Motion Controller is a small USB sensor that tracks how you naturally move your hands, so you can reach into the world beyond the screen – in virtual reality, augmented reality, Mac or PC. It can track your hands to about two feet, converting the raw image feed into a rich array of tracking data.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2021

Triton works with Leap Motion (now Ultra Leap) hands tracking. With Pumori.io , I had created 6 Unity apps that demo UI/UX concepts on the Project North Star headset. With Pumori.io , I had created 6 Unity apps that demo UI/UX concepts on the Project North Star headset. I’ve read that the Launcher is in Three.js.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

If we sum these features to the other ones added in the past, like hands tracking, Passthrough Shortcut, or the multiple windows in Oculus Browser , we start seeing the first signs of a mixed reality operating system, with which you can interact with the controllers or with the hands in a natural way. This is massive.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

VR has the power to transform our lives and connect us in new ways, while hand tracking lets you reach beyond the digital divide and take control. From Unreal community plugin creator getnamo , NexusVR is a space between worlds, where you can move between different VR experiences. 3DUI: Three Dimensional User Interfaces.

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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. It is a tabletop tower defense inspired by classic Plants vs Zombies.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

You probably have heard about Leap Motion’s Project North Star , that should be able to offer people affordable augmented reality. Project North Star is an opensource augmented reality headset that Leap Motion has designed and gifted to the community. Is it good? Is it easy to assemble one?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

Various reports indicated it as the internal codename in Google for a project meant to build augmented reality glasses. At first, we had good news: Unity finally revealed its first two AI tools: Muse, which lets you create assets (textures, animations, code) directly in the editor using textual queries.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Spaces offers functionalities in: Image tracking Object tracking Hand tracking Spatial mapping Environment understanding and meshing Plane detection Real/virtual world occlusion …and more. These are the five pillars or Reality Engine (copy-pasted from its website): Reality Application Runtime ?—?8th

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

” Kent: Well, first of all, virtual and augmented reality as a medium is a new paradigm of computing: spatial computing. Alan: Well, that speaks to exactly what you were saying; design work and collaboration and higher level work collaboration in augmented reality. It really– it feels right. Alan: Incredible.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

Kent: Well, first of all, virtual and augmented reality as a medium is a new paradigm of computing: spatial computing. Alan: Well, that speaks to exactly what you were saying; design work and collaboration and higher level work collaboration in augmented reality. It really-- it feels right. Alan: Incredible.

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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. Top news of the week. Have I already told you that I love this game?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

” Kent: Well, first of all, virtual and augmented reality as a medium is a new paradigm of computing: spatial computing. Alan: Well, that speaks to exactly what you were saying; design work and collaboration and higher level work collaboration in augmented reality. It really– it feels right. Alan: Incredible.

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VRGuy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Many game engines – such as Unity, Unreal and SteamVR- immediately support it. Augmented reality tools detect objects in video feeds. Eye tracking software converts eye images into gaze direction. Hand tracking software converts hand position into gestures. Others did this work themselves.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Talking about augmented reality, Zuck has said that Meta is following two different approaches: On one side, they are taking the small form factor of everyday glasses and see how much technology they can put in it. Unity has built this nice demo using the Presence Platform. I’m very curious about its consequences. Cloud Backup.

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