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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Back to Blog Page. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Guides is a modular software platform which means that authors can update Guides as needed. Unlike most other training application where users are required to learn in a controlled environment off the frontline. Microsoft Power Automate is exactly what it sounds like.

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JULY 1, 2020

For ABB’s customers, two key personnel are involved in this process: the field operators responsible for maintaining and servicing equipment, and control room operators who supervise the process and are located in another part of the facility. Make it easy to control what the user sees. How did ABB solve these challenges?

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CraneMorley

MARCH 5, 2024

Back to Blog Page In the realm of emergency response, every second counts. In recent years, technological advancements have been transforming the landscape of emergency response, and one groundbreaking innovation leading the charge is the Microsoft HoloLens 2.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

If you make some calculations using these data, the result is that Meta has probably sold 9–10M Quest 2 units until now. So creating new devices that young kids may like (the Quest 2) and that have an independent store (Quest Store) and where Meta can perform all the data tracking that it wants, seems the ideal scenario.

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CraneMorley

MARCH 1, 2021

Back to Blog Page. Guides helps employees build muscle memory and remember processes in a safe controlled environment. This feature provides valuable data to improve training and ongoing processes. Analytics and Guides templates aggregates real time data on user performance. Reduce errors and help improve safety.

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CraneMorley

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Back to Blog Page In an exciting collaboration between two giants of the tech and aerospace industries, Boeing and Microsoft have teamed up to provide cutting-edge mixed reality tools to the Australian Air Force. This augmented information can include data on navigation, enemy positions, and the status of their aircraft systems.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

But the thing that surprised me the most in Gurman’s description is the controllers. Controllers do have not the tracking ring like the ones of Quest 2 and have not onboard cameras like the ones of Quest Pro (I guess they would have been too expensive). In the meanwhile, Microsoft is working on a 1.1

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

As it is a tradition of this blog , I’ve prepared a big roundup of the best news in XR from this year’s CES! Controllers specifications. I’ve seen what companies are doing nowadays to use tracked props on the Oculus Quest: they have to add bulky mounts to install the even bulkier Touch controllers on them.

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CraneMorley

APRIL 5, 2021

Back to Blog Page. Microsoft HoloLens 2 has transformed the way we train employees. Here are five ways Microsoft HoloLens has changed the way we train. Users control when they complete each step and when to move forward. Advance Data Tracking. The way we train is changing. Remote Trainings.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Welcome to this new edition of the XR Week Peek, which this week will be a bit special because I will summarize here what happened during the Meta Connect, the event during which Mark Zuckerberg launched the Quest 3, the Ray-Ban Meta smartglasses, and new techniques for data harvest… cough cough I mean, new AI services.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

The unboxing shows that the device has a very simple packaging, which includes both the headset and the controllers. This confirms that the headset is going to ship with controllers and that there is no charging station in the original box. The video was later republished by “VR Panda” on Twitter.

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CraneMorley

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Back to Blog Page In the dynamic realm of pharmaceuticals, where innovation is the heartbeat of progress, Sanofi Pharmaceuticals is scripting a groundbreaking narrative by seamlessly blending the physical and digital worlds through Microsoft HoloLens 2 mixed reality technology. The result?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2021

Only a minimum of the data should be shared with the online servers and most of them should be handled locally; the applications and the communications should be secure; the user must have all the control among what data of his/hers gets shared and what not. Anyway, let’s see how things will go. Some numbers about VR training.

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Anand Tech

MARCH 21, 2024

Formed in the summer of 2023, the UEC aims to develop a new standard for interconnection for AI and HPC datacenter needs, serving as a de-facto (if not de-jure ) alternative to InfiniBand, which is largely under the control of NVIDIA these days.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Later during testing, I received the SteamVR “lighthouse” faceplate , letting me enjoy the precision of sub-mm room-scale tracking, whilst enabling the use of Valve Index, HTC Vive, and Pimax Sword controllers, as well as Vive and Tundra trackers. As the image above shows, once installed, there are additional settings in the headset menu.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Vive Flow is a 6DOF headset that works with your Android phone as a 3DOF controller (hands tracking is coming in the future). Magic Leap is back: CEO Peggy Johnson has just unveiled in a post on the company blog the Magic Leap 2 , the new version of the AR glasses from the company in Florida. Other relevant news. Image by Magic Leap).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2023

Making some calculations, it is possible to estimate that the per-eye resolution is around 2064×2208, a value that was leaked a few months ago from some data miner (Samulia). Learn more Zwift controllers use TG0 technologies Do you remember the Etee controllers by TG0 ?

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 1, 2019

A consortium made by all the major XR companies of the world (Facebook, HTC, Microsoft, Google, etc…) called Kronos has fed all the data related to VR of the last 50 years into a big AI, to get analytics and predictions about the future of this technology. Experimental 6 dof controllers for the Lenovo Mirage Solo.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Meta announces at Connect Quest Pro and a partnership with Microsoft. There have been a few key announcements at Connect: Meta has launched Quest Pro , its new premium headset, for $1500 Meta announced its focus on a new vertical, productivity Meta has partnered with Microsoft and Accenture to tackle the XR enterprise world.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Let’s see in a few months what will be the data shared in this sense by Snap. What was expected but still not announced is that the FTC is also trying to prevent Microsoft from acquiring Activision Blizzard. Quest Pro controllers now work also with Quest 2. These new VR Vive Controllers are safe to be smashed against a wall.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

I strongly believe that one of the reasons why Apple has chosen only eyes, voice, and hands as the interactions means for its glasses is because with future AR glasses people won’t take controllers with them all the time. I think the more we go on, the more VR-only headsets will disappear unless they have a strong focus on gaming.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 4, 2023

Its controllers have no ring and no onboard cameras. They are dubbed “Meta Touch Plus”, and they work (as I predicted last week) by fusing the data of IMU, IR LED tracking, and hand tracking together. That’s why Quest Touch Pro controllers are better. The launch price is $499 for the 128GB version.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2022

Another area of concern is that current VR headsets have no parental control tools , and so kids can use them to play horror games or enjoy porn content, and this is not healthy for their wellbeing either. limiting the time spent in VR) and also offer them parental control tools. The US Army confirms IVAS deployment for 2022.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

This special version of the headset features additional sensors that can get more data about the user: A heart rate sensor on the forehead; Two additional cameras that track the lower part of the face of the user, so that to read his facial expressions; Eye-tracking cameras , that can also detect the dimension of the pupil.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

The ring should have a double purpose: on one end, it should act as a health sensor, able to track heart data like a smartwatch; on the other end, it should act as a controller to be used in conjunction with XR glasses. I wonder if this data could be useful also for building the AR Cloud.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

The Sonic seems a good device: 4K resolution, 101° FOV, 72Hz refresh rate, 256GB, and 6DOF controllers. It is a bit disappointing that it just has 2 tracking cameras, but the controllers are tracked with ultrasound beacons, so the tracking FOV should be good. It looks like a refreshed Vive Focus Plus. was a lot of money?).

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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

MAY 17, 2021

base stations) Controllers : Vive Wands. But this device got also some criticism: first of all , HTC has not released new controllers and still sells it with the old Wands. 749 for just the headset, $1399 for the full bundle with the headset, wands controllers, and base stations. technology (with support for Steam VR 1.0

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Today I host a new post by my friend and VR professional Rob Cole , who has already published many interesting posts on my blog, including a review of Pimax Sword controllers , a series of hack on how to modify the Valve Index , and his experiements in creating new innovative controllers for SteamVR.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

As it is tradition of this blog, I have prepared a big fatty roundup with all the news announced at the latest Facebook Connect 2. Read more about this news: Founder’s letter by Mark Zuckerberg: [link] Design blog on Meta’s logo: [link] Facebook spending $10B for the metaverse: [link] Integral keynote of Facebook Connect 2: [link].

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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. So this is a market we should all keep an eye on.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 31, 2021

Today I host a new article of the amazing Rob Cole, passionate maker and ergonomics expert from Immersion Mechanics , already the author of amazing posts on this blog, especially about the ergonomics of the Valve Index. Image provided by Rob Cole). Tundra Labs HQ (Image by Tundra Labs provided by Rob Cole).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

It’s a very busy working period for me, and I’m sorry if I’m being very irregular in writing blog posts or in answering on social media… but I’m really tight on time! to play simulation games) or if you don’t need to play games where controllers tracking is fundamental, like competitive shooters. Other relevant news.

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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. Microsoft signs a $22B deal with the US Army. Well played, Microsoft. More info.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

And are also good for data harvesting cough cough cough. The company has not posted real photos or footage from the glasses, just a promo video with an accompanying blog post detailed some of their characteristics. Eye-tracking could also be used for foveated rendering, letting the Quest 2 Pro having a sharper display.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

But this has not been the case: with a brief post on its blog, Sony has announced that there will be a “next-generation” VR device that will work with PS5, but that it will simply not be released this year. Some people started to think that Sony could have abandoned VR. This is news that will have massive consequences.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Stay tuned on this blog, because in some days I will publish an EXTRAORDINARY interview related to one of the most awaited VR games of 2021! When I tried the Looxid Labs add-on for the Vive I’ve found it interesting, but its data were pretty noisy, and some community members defined it as “another random numbers generator”.

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