UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 8, 2017

This most recent example turns your phone into a controller for the mixed reality headset. Currently, HoloLens is mainly controlled through gestures with your hand, though can also be navigated with voice recognition and gaze-based input. The result is what you see in the video above. Tagged with: HoloLens , microsoft.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Renji Bijoy, Immersed Chief Executive , posted a short video on his company blog, which unveiled the Quest Pro’s colour passthrough features. Video footage also shows the device provides peripheral vision blinders, allowing users to block out peripheral light sources depending on virtual or mixed reality (VR/MR) use.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

Object tracking : Hyperion allows the Leap Motion Controller 2 camera to track AR Markers (also known as fiducial markers) enabling tracking of any object. It’s interesting to see that Neurable is still around and kicking: a few years ago there was a bit of hype around it when it created an EEG-based “mind controller” for the HTC Vive.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Microsoft announced in a blog post that it’s testing out new firmware for Xbox controllers in order to ensure that the accessories people already have in their collections have cross-device connectivity akin to what the Series X|S controllers currently offer. Read more.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Valve’s introduction video to SteamVR at the launch of the HTC Vive last year remains a superb illustration of the impact of presenting VR in this way. The video is seen heading this article. The upcoming Vive Tracker is ideal for this application, rather than having to use a third controller.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 5, 2022

The measures are positive, but potentially overdue: Outlets including The Guardian and The New York Times have reported that TikTok is rife with misleading videos purporting to depict footage of the war. Already, posts from the TikTok accounts of outlets like RT come with a label that designates it as "Russia state-controlled media.".

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 28, 2022

In an official blog post , Sony introduced several new features to improve the PSVR 2 user experience. PSVR 2’s “see-through-view” mode provides a black and white feed of a user’s surroundings, with additional highlights to show the device’s controllers. What to Expect from PSVR 2. Built-in microphone.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

In both their videos, they basically claim that the Vision Pro may have something nice like a very high resolution, but at the end of the day, the Meta Quest 3 is a better product … even if we do not consider the price. More info (Under Cover) Other news OpenAI Sora is an impressive text-to-video generative AI system.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 12, 2017

So in reality the first time I ever used the Touch controls was against Palm.The Unspoken on the E3 FB Live stream. You can check me playing Dead And Buried with the Unspoken one in the video below at the 51 minute mark. I went from not getting into E3 to that! So Mote It Be. Week 1 Day 1.

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GizModo VR

JULY 20, 2021

Seeking to give users ever-increasing control over their scrolling experiences, Instagram on Tuesday unveiled plans to debut a Sensitive Content Control option that will allow users to better control which content appears in their Explore feeds. Read more.

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AR Insider

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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Road to VR

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Meta announced the acquisition of Within on the Oculus blog saying that the studio will be run under Meta Reality Labs, the company’s XR organization. At first the company was producing 360 VR video content, including some seminal 360 short films like Evolution of Verse and Clouds Over Sidra.

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Road to VR

JULY 26, 2023

This is especially useful if you want to bring real-world elements, such as instruments or controller devices into the virtual environment through one or many “windows”. Chroma Keying Chroma keying involves removing a specific color (usually green or blue) from the background to overlay one image or video onto another.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The posts on social media and on the blogs of gaming studios and platforms (including SideQuest) in which people express their disappointment are countless. The new iPhone 15 was launched, and its high-tier models can shoot spatial videos for the Vision Pro. Others have even threatened the safety of the employees.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Not all ‘Sneaks’ make it to release, but Project CloverVR has, as it addresses a fundamental problem with editing 360 video or other immersive media in Premiere. This includes several sessions relating to VR, such as “ Creating Virtual Reality Video ” and “ Project Felix: 3D for Graphic Designers and a Journey into AR/VR ”.

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VRScout

APRIL 26, 2018

Using a series of interactive windows, users can build their ideal augmented workspace in which they control the layout and information displayed using their own two paws. Each display appears to have a satisfying density to them, in turn generating a more realistic sense of motion when controlled by the user.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2023

What surprised me in the features list is the presence of a heart rate sensor , which is not exactly clear how it is installed on the device (is it in the handles of the controllers? The AR content may be: The actual experience meant to be seen, and in this case, the smartphone acts just as a “controller” of the AR experience.

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VRScout

APRIL 24, 2019

Created in collaboration with uber-popular YouTube artist AmandaRachLee , the still-in-progress smartphone app opens up access to a variety of Amanda’s helpful videos, allowing you to place the transparent AR visuals directly over your work and view them from any angle by moving your smartphone around your physical space.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The Oculus Quest is getting lots of cool updates in these weeks , and after the Oculus Link that lets you use the Quest as a PC VR headset, now we have also the possibility to use our bare hands to control the UI of the device. How to enable hands tracking on Oculus Quest – video tutorial. Do you like video tutorials?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2021

Oculus Mixed Reality Capture is a plugin that lets content creators make amazing mixed reality videos of a VR game for the Oculus Quest. Oculus MRC in Unity – Video Tutorial. My friend Alex Gonzalez is a real pro in making this kind of mixed reality videos for Quest (Image by Alex Gonzalez). Prerequisites.

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Road to VR

MARCH 25, 2019

acclaimed survival horror video game. The game, dubbed Five Nights at Freddy’s: Help Wanted is a collection of VR experiences based on the original Five Nights at Freddy’s games, “but it includes several new experiences as well,” Steel Wool Studios’ co-founder Jason Topolski says in a PlayStation blog post.

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Upload VR

JULY 29, 2022

You can also seamlessly switch back to controllers whenever needed, so you can easily swap between the two input methods depending on your situation. ” There’s also a new “Classic Videos Mode” which adds in the original Myst videos (with sound) for most of the character interactions. .

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Microsoft has announced plans to acquire American video game holding company ZeniMax Media, owner of numerous high-profile game publishers, for a reported $7.5 The acquisition means an additional 2,300 employees and a sizable list of legendary franchises now under the control of Microsoft.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Most recently, vTime introduced its new “Theaters” feature, allowing groups to enjoy curated content together in unique locations like the Sports Bar and Video Bowl. Here you can chat with your group and share personal media, immerse yourself in 360-degree photos, and capture virtual selfies.

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VRScout

JUNE 19, 2019

In an effort to provide a more personalized and effective experience for viewers as well as brands looking to advertise over specific content, AR Beauty Try-On enables viewers to try-on real cosmetic products in real-time without even having to pause the video. Image Credit: Google / YouTube.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2020

In 4 days it will be the 4th birthday of my blog, and so in this period, I want to write some special posts to celebrate. Now I leave you to his words and his videos: I’ve embedded many videos in this article, so that you can admire his most famous works. Hello Daniel, I am very pleased to have you on my blog today!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2024

This could be interesting when paired with XR glasses Apple has removed the functionality of “removing your room ceiling” from Vision Pro There is a video showing hand-tracking performances on Vision Pro: tracking is good, and occlusion is good, but the lag is incredibly high. inch 4K OLED microdisplays. It’s the end of an era.

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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

AUGUST 28, 2023

The first huge leak we had this week was a full unboxing video of the device. This time was not some hotel employees finding some random Quest boxes, but a n anonymous guy uploading the unboxing video on Reddit. The video was later republished by “VR Panda” on Twitter. He has written that the codename of the Quest 3 is Crystal.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Originally scheduled to take place May 4th through the 6th at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California, Facebook states in an official blog update that it will be canceling the in-person element of the conference in order to remain inclusive to the many international developers who make their way to the event each year.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

You can imagine that after it has been released through two official blog posts, an enormous backlash from the community started to happen. Facebook already had full control of my Oculus and Facebook accounts, so it had already my XR data. So far for the announcement by Facebook. The same on Twitter.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

If you watch the video , you can see me say stupid things about XR… well, more or less as I do every day in my life… Have fun! In a video published on Facebook, he showed himself wearing the headset and let us also see what he was seeing inside , with some footage directly from his point of view. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 25, 2023

Presentation video of the Argo smartglasses The version I tried was still a prototype because the glasses should go into production in Q3 this year. I tried two demos with these glasses: the first one was just a video playing attached to my head. Nothing major, but still, it was a little downside I thought you would like to know.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2018

NVIDIA RTX 2080 videos and photos. While at Microsoft booth there was a premium RTX 2080 Ti , that I’ve been able to take in my hands so to make a video where you can see it from all angles. Pawel showed me his PSVR porting of The Wizards : you surely know that game, I’ve also reviewed its first version here on my blog.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2019

Various months ago, I got from Lenovo a Mirage Solo headset for a limited period of time to review it on my blog. If you want to watch an unboxing video in which I have a terrible hairstyle and a WIDMOvr T-shirt that makes you feel in summer again, here you are: The headset. Right view: here you control the audio of your experience.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

If you want to watch the video of the recording, you can find it here: And now, let’s start speaking about the best AR/VR news of the week! Abi Bar-Zeev knows that too, and he has written an interesting blog post predicting how Facebook will behave in the upcoming years. Top news of the week. Image by Facebook).

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Road to VR

AUGUST 18, 2017

As explained in his development blog , Moody wanted to create a game that took advantage of his strengths as an artist, and his interest in cars. Because I specialize in modeling mechanical objects for video games and am not a programmer, any game I build myself needs to be heavy on art content and light on programming needs”, he wrote.

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