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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.11.11): Cardboard becomes opensource, HoloLens 2 and nreal shipping and much more!

The Ghost Howls

With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard. Regarding what components have been opensourced, Google states that “The open source project provides APIs for head tracking, lens distortion rendering, and input handling. Oculus Link is coming soon. Image by Google).

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‘HOLOSCOPE’ Headset Claims to Solve AR Display Hurdle with True Holography

Road to VR

He frequents reddit as /u/Doc_Ok , tweets as @okreylos , and blogs about VR-related topics at Doc-Ok.org. Fortunately, in head-mounted displays the screen is bolted to the viewer’s head, solving the problem. SEE ALSO HoloLens Inside-out Tracking Is Game Changing for AR & VR, and No One Is Talking about It.

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Jeremy Bailenson talks about 1,000,000 Walmart employees training with VR, presence, and the VR “empathy machine”

The Ghost Howls

Today I’m very proud to host on my blog what is probably one of the best interviews I have ever had in these 6 years of career in VR blogging. I promised to celebrate this blog’s birthday with a few cool interviews and this is one of them. His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus.

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Your Left Hand Holds the Past. Your Right Hand Reveals the Future

Leapmotion

These spotlights will focus on game design, interaction design, and the big ideas driving our community forward. It’s available free for the Oculus Rift on the Leap Motion App Store. The core game mechanic in Aboard the Lookinglass is time. My absolute favorite aspect of game development is devising new mechanics.

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VR Prototyping for Less Than $100 with Leap Motion + VRidge

Leapmotion

If you have a newer Android phone and a good gaming computer, it’s possible to prototype, test, and share your VR projects with the world using third-party software like RiftCat’s VRidge. At the same time, it uses your phone’s internal gyros to provide the head tracking. Treat yourself! How it Works. Additional latency.

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Magic Leap One first impressions review: it’s not a leap, but a step

The Ghost Howls

But while we were great on the technical side, we weren’t good at doing business and marketing (I only started my blog in summer 2016 ), so in 2017 we closed the curtain on our crazy adventure. The Oculus Quest touch controllers: this is how I want manual interface in XR. We had full-body room-scale VR in 2014 , we were so cool.

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Newsletter 51 – #WWYL? How Hardware Hacks can Change the World

Leapmotion

This weekend, join your fellow software developers over a three-day marathon with a focus on discovery, gaming, and design apps. Designed for the Oculus Rift and the Leap Motion Controller, a trial build of the 3D space-shooter game Perilous Dimension is now available. Register now ». Hacking Life at 17, the Airspace Way.