The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2020

Daniel is an XR professional that has become very famous this year for his mindblowing experiments with the hands tracking of the Oculus Quest , where every prototype of his is focused on an interaction that is so crazy that most of the time you couldn’t think about it before. Networked hand tracking!

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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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Road to VR

MARCH 22, 2018

At a sponsored GDC 2018 session, the still mysterious augmented reality company Magic Leap has revealed how their prototype hardware has evolved from 2014 to present day. Magic Leap Specs and ‘Lumin’ SDK details that are known thus far: Head tracking. Eye tracking. Gesture and hand 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. More info Immersed VISOR to support hand tracking and eye tracking It seems that Immersed truly wants to compete with Apple with its VISOR headset.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 1, 2020

In terms of tracking, the XR-3 features both eye as well as hand-tracking powered by integrated Ultraleap technology. In addition to visuals and tracking Varjo has also introduced several improvements to comfort. Varjo’s VR-3 features the same specifications as the XR-3 with a few additional goodies.

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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

AUGUST 8, 2022

Meta wants to help developers in creating hand-tracked experiences. Meta has just released on App Lab “First Hand”, a demo application that shows an example of the i mplementation of proper hand tracking interactions. copy-paste) on how to implement hand tracking in their own experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The following paragraph is directly quoted from one of these job descriptions: Our team is building the software components that control and manage the hardware on our Augmented Reality (AR) products. It has a retro look that makes it very nerdy, and it should be able to offer passthrough AR and hands tracking via Ultraleap.

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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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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

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Yes, it is less than the 5% of Unreal, but until yesterday we only paid per seat, not both per seat and per revenue sharing. Some developers I know are already switching to Godot or Unreal because they say that Unity can’t be trusted anymore. of our revenues with Unity. And this 2.5% Learn more Volumetrics secure $1.1M

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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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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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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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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

Ben Lang has written a very interesting editorial on the topic, and for instance, he imagines that this may mean that all Sony-owned game studios will all start using Unreal Engine as their game engine , unifying the production processes among them all. Unreal Engine can now use your iPhone to record facial animations.

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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 - 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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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

MAY 11, 2020

And the results are incredible, according to what the company says: “Across four sites, we use augmented reality to complete spacecraft manufacturing activities in 90% less time than with traditional methods. Unreal Engine 4.25 update, Unreal Engine has added many features that may be useful in crafting XR experiences.

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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).

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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. Who knows…. More info (nReal teases new headset) More info (nReal changes name).

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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

MAY 30, 2023

Since I’m not totally convinced that just a few LEDs in that position may alone offer realiable tracking, I would also speculate that maybe either data from the depth sensor or some hand-tracking data is involved in the sensor fusion to arrive at the final controller pose. But that’s just a speculation of mine.

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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. With it, you can develop also Web AR experiences using a popular framework like MRTK, and also experiences that support hands tracking. Maybe there is hope for broken Rift CV1 cables.

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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. The issue fell where I didn’t have a Linux driver for the Leap Motion sensor and there were not many stable alternatives for hand tracking at the time. Is this the only supported programming language or devs can also use Unity and Unreal Engine?

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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. Unreal SDK. Eye tracking. Real-time tracking. Full specs.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2021

They are augmented reality glasses devoted to the enterprise, especially to let people see multiple AR displays in front of them. The environment where she has performed in was made in Unreal Engine and the modeling and the shading was so good that for a moment I thought it was a real studio. Lenovo ThinkReality A3.

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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

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.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Qualcomm has acquired hand tracking technology company Clay AIR. One particular panel, “Shaping the Metaverse”, consisted of futurist Cathy Hackl, author John Buzzell of Epic Games and Unreal Engine , Upland CEO Dirk Lueth, Christina Wootton of Roblox , and Lindsey McInerney of AB InBev. But, that’s not all.

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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. Of course, Epic is completely against Apple and its vision of its own walled garden.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

There are no controllers, but Ultraleap hands tracking (you can use it with FinchShift controllers, though). $500 for this device is a steal. And since Epic has violated the rules of the App Store, Apple had all the rights to kick Fortnite out of it, and even to suspend the support in the integration of iOS inside of Unreal Engine.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2024

The headset (that you see in the above picture) is quite slick and features pancake lenses, eye tracking by Tobii, integrated audio, and Wi-Fi 6/6E/7. First of all, it revealed that, according to analyst firm IDC, XREAL owns 51% of the augmented reality market.

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