The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Data miner Bast564 discovered it and shared a video about it online. In my opinion, it is a controlled leak to ruin the launch of Pico 4 , which according to rumors is happening these days… but of course, I could be wrong. I mean, this story smells. We have a new leak about the upcoming Pico 4 Pro headset.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

More info A new full body tracking technique Some researchers working with Meta have developed a new technology to reconstruct the pose of the full body of the user using only the tracking information coming from the headset and the controllers. I’m very curious to read the first reviews about it! I think for now the situation is clear.

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ARPost

APRIL 8, 2020

While doing demos, people new to VR technology would repeatedly put both controllers into one hand to reach out and try to touch digital artefacts. Laverde also pointed out that while VIVE’s hand tracking SDK works with a number of common platforms including Unity and Unreal, there can be complications for different hardware.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2023

More info (Twitter post that describes the excitement around this project) More info (Official launch blog post) Other relevant news (Image by Google) Chrome ships WebGPU Chrome , the most popular browser around, has just implemented WebGPU. This research, taken further, could bring many interesting innovations in the AR field. Impossible!)

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2024

I’m not there (I’ve still never been to CES…), but as usual I will follow the news and report it on this blog, so stay tuned! UEVR is a universal VR mod, and it lets everyone easily convert every Unreal Engine-based PC game (including the AAA ones) into a VR experience.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The new technology converts the entire M2 vehicle as a controller for the MR system, using cutting-edge immersive solutions from Helsinki’s Varjo Technologies to merge the real and virtual worlds. Over the last couple years, we have gained a lot of experience with them and their Unreal Engine. Test Driving the Future.

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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

MAY 16, 2022

The 3D models have not been created by hand, but by an AI mixing satellite data with Street View pictures. Then, he donned an Oculus Quest 2, put a controller on the bike, and rode the bike while doing the VR game, with the real track mapped perfectly with the virtual track. VR developers makes crazy experiment with a bike. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Rob is a big fan of PCVR (he even tried to design a new SteamVR controller , do you remember?) He wanted to write on my blog his opinion on this device to inform the community and of course I accepted, because I’m more than happy to host another one of his super-detailed articles.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Last week we had a first look at the controllers, while this week we had quite a confusing leak about its product line, which, if confirmed, would show an ambitious plan by the Chinese company. 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. And this 2.5%

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

The glasses are expected to run a new operating system, rOS (or reality OS), and Apple is exploring touch panels, voice activation, and head gestures as a means of control. Unreal Engine 5 may change the rules of game development. This means that Unreal Engine is now free for everyone forever until you really become rich.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

Zuck also didn’t address much the theme of privacy and how much data harvesting in VR could be dangerous. Probably the sentence “five years from now people will primarily think about us as a company harvesting data on the metaverse, rather than doing it on mobile phones” wouldn’t have sounded much sexy, so he avoided speaking about this.

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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. It has 4.5DOF.

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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

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). But that’s just a speculation of mine.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2020

My blog has just turned 4 years old and I’m incredibly happy about it! LG Uplus will start selling the Chinese AR glasses Nreal Light in Korea as a standalone device for around $586 , or bundled with the Galaxy Note 20 or LG Velvet and a 5G data plan for around $295. Nreal launches its Light glasses in Korea. I really hope so.

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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. HoloData is a VR visualization tool that lets you experience three-axis graph data over time. Scroll through time to see the graph change and provide insights into data trends.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

Today on my blog I’ll host a guest post by Matias Nassi , a great XR developer from Uruguay. We can deploy to a vast of platforms using game engines like Unity, Unreal Engine, the more recent Godot engine or any of the other engines out there, which have all started to add VR features”. You may be saying “Come on!

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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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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. You can now use consumer devices inside Oculus For Business.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

In the meantime, the headset sends the pose of the headset and the controllers to the PC , so that the PC can render the frames and execute the logic of the game for the next frame. You will be able to start a game, or choose a movie to watch in VR without having to use a controller anymore!

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Google owns the best search engine (Google), all the data of the outdoor part of the world (Google Maps), the most used mobile operating system (Android), an AR framework (ARCore), and is strategically acquiring some startups that may be useful for building future AR glasses (North). Mark Zuckerberg and the VRChatverse Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 17, 2023

And may also increase the scrutiny level on the Quest platform by the American authorities, because Meta/Facebook has not a reliable history of management of users’ data, you know… and when kids are involved, people become very sensitive. Now the next step is making also the controllers work with a PC. In the end, he did it.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2018

I’ve also zoomed on the VirtualLink connector : it is actually just a USB-C, but it is strange to me seeing it on a graphics card, especially because I think that all those big cables that at the moment carry data from the PC to the headset can be substituted by only one cable with only one tiny connector. That’s powerful.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2019

video) More info (Unreal Engine with Octane Renderer) More info (Wi-fi is not enough for VR streaming). The Taiwanese company has released three new trailers highlighting the high comfort of the device and the great controller tracking ( the best in its category, according to it). Other relevant news. Image by HTC).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

Stay tuned on my blog for updates about this new adventure of mine. This configuration is interesting because: 6 cameras in those positions allow for a very big tracking cone for the controllers ; The two front cameras are in the same position of the eyes and this will allow mixed reality applications using the SRWorks framework.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

In an interview with the fantastic blog The Ghost Howls (I don’t know if you have ever heard of it), Kura Technologies’s CEO/CTO Kelly Peng has revealed some interesting info about their upcoming AR glasses. Last week I told you about MetaHumans creator, the tool to create realistic humanoid avatars in Unreal Engine.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

Next week my blog will turn 3 years old! If we sum the market share of the Oculus Rift CV1, Rift S, and the highlander DK2, we obtain that now Oculus controls 50% of the market on Steam. These are the most important data contained in the report: Oculus is now the leading platform for developers. I am so excited.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 9, 2015

Touchscreens, accelerometers, and a bevy of easy-to-use external controllers have given performers many options in how to control and shape sound and music. The impossibilities of VR are extremely exciting as anything in virtual space can be controlled by the performer and used to create sound and music.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 20, 2015

With HackingEDU just around the corner, Leap Motion is sponsoring the world’s largest education hackathon with over 100 Leap Motion Controllers for attendees to use. It can track your hands to about two feet, converting the raw image feed into a rich array of tracking data. Getting Started with Leap Motion. The sensor is always on.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

At Google, the change was rapid but much easier to control , as everything from the software to even the servers were designed in-house. Thus Google controlled almost the entire stack that the client web software used — right down to the hardware in the data centers. sports), these activities can be enhanced with technology.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

She’s Head of Content and the lead writer at BrainXchange, lead journalist and senior editor at Enterprisewear Blog, and head of marketing and communications for Augmented World Expo USA and AWE EU. As far as studios, AC companies had it really easy, because they had all that information, that data, CAD models to start with.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

She’s Head of Content and the lead writer at BrainXchange, lead journalist and senior editor at Enterprisewear Blog, and head of marketing and communications for Augmented World Expo USA and AWE EU. As far as studios, AC companies had it really easy, because they had all that information, that data, CAD models to start with.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

She's Head of Content and the lead writer at BrainXchange, lead journalist and senior editor at Enterprisewear Blog, and head of marketing and communications for Augmented World Expo USA and AWE EU. As far as studios, AC companies had it really easy, because they had all that information, that data, CAD models to start with.

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Building the Metaverse

APRIL 12, 2022

Whether we create something in Roblox, Unity or Unreal; architect an immersive space in VR; or build a decentralized application?—?we In these environments, it is systems of control that are more important than systems of creative emancipation. who wish to make use of unused cycles sitting in data centers and desktop computers.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

Matt is renowned as one of the world’s AR industry leaders, and through his influential blog posts and persona around the world. He took our midi controller and made a keyboard out of it, but it looked nothing like a keyboard at all. He drives all the displays off of a sample controller. firm investing in AR solutions.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

Matt is renowned as one of the world’s AR industry leaders, and through his influential blog posts and persona around the world. He took our midi controller and made a keyboard out of it, but it looked nothing like a keyboard at all. He drives all the displays off of a sample controller. firm investing in AR solutions.

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