The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The main scope of this position is to prototype, ship, and support consumer gaming products leveraging visual-inertial tracking (HMD and controllers), camera passthrough, environment understanding, eye tracking, and hand tracking. Google Starline starts real-world testing. Quest Hand Tracking v2.1

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

While HTC is only releasing the headset in China, and not in the West as previously announced, the company is using Vive Focus as the impetus for its own mobile VR platform that aims to resolve what HTC calls a “highly fragmented” mobile VR market in China, and become a common platform and storefront across disparate hardware vendors.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

From time to time, I like to look at the adoption graph of XR shown by John Riccitiello (the CEO of Unity) in 2017 , where you can see that the real acceleration of immersive technologies should start around 2022-2023. I also imagine them trying to add enterprise-oriented features like eye-tracking in all their devices.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

The problem is that we had no idea about the release date for us western people because the device had been announced and released only in China. But we also know that when in VR, most people just look forward with their eyes. The SDK offers native APIs, but also supports popular game engines like Unity and Unreal 4.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Unity support for OpenXR is still in early beta , and so it’s not reliable yet to develop an OpenXR-compliant application in Unity. We Unity developers have still to use the current Unity tools that make us develop once, but then build for every different platform (like the ones I describe in this article ). The Verge).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The OpenXR standard, that aims at standardizing virtual reality hardware and runtime is keeping improving, and in its latest release, it has added new features like experimental overlays and hand tracking extensions. More info (New features of OpenXR) More info (OpenXR in Unity) More info (OpenXR in Microsoft products).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2018

And so here we are again: Oculus vs HTC, America vs China, Hugo Barra vs Alvin Wang Graylin. Be careful that I haven’t tried the Quest myself and in any case, the Quest has still not released and the Focus has only been released in China, so both devices could see future impredictable updates. The never-ending story.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Image by Google). Google completely opensources Cardboard. With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard. Google affirms that Cardboard has been a huge success to introduce people into VR, and more than 15 million headsets have been distributed.

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VRScout

MARCH 23, 2017

Bye will be delivering a keynote at SVVR, as will Nonny de la Peña, CEO of Emblematic Group, Tony Parisi, Head of VR and AR at Unity Technologies, and Rikard Steiber, SVP of VR at HTC. ” In service of making this cross-pollination, SVVR included representation from VR communities from Japan, Korea, and China.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And it's a super powerful chip that will allow you to have AI built in for facial tracking and object recognition in these types of things, but also allow you to have-- I think it's up to seven cameras. So front facing cameras, IR cameras, eye tracking cameras, facial tracking cameras, all of these things. Alex: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And it's a super powerful chip that will allow you to have AI built in for facial tracking and object recognition in these types of things, but also allow you to have-- I think it's up to seven cameras. So front facing cameras, IR cameras, eye tracking cameras, facial tracking cameras, all of these things. Alex: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And it's a super powerful chip that will allow you to have AI built in for facial tracking and object recognition in these types of things, but also allow you to have-- I think it's up to seven cameras. So front facing cameras, IR cameras, eye tracking cameras, facial tracking cameras, all of these things. Alex: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And it’s truly incredible, the type of innovation and technology that’s coming out of China as a whole right now, across the board. When you open the box, camera’s inside, but there’s also a VR viewer, like a little Google Cardboard kind of thing, a little plastic thing that you slap on your phone. ” OK.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And it’s truly incredible, the type of innovation and technology that’s coming out of China as a whole right now, across the board. When you open the box, camera’s inside, but there’s also a VR viewer, like a little Google Cardboard kind of thing, a little plastic thing that you slap on your phone. ” OK.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And it's truly incredible, the type of innovation and technology that's coming out of China as a whole right now, across the board. When you open the box, camera's inside, but there's also a VR viewer, like a little Google Cardboard kind of thing, a little plastic thing that you slap on your phone. You see Google. You see Adobe.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Michael: And this is why I’ve been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building — there’s VRTK for Unity… there’s just all these tools. And the next generation of headsets that will come out in the next 24 months will all have eye tracking and head tracking.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Michael: And this is why I’ve been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building — there’s VRTK for Unity… there’s just all these tools. And the next generation of headsets that will come out in the next 24 months will all have eye tracking and head tracking.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Michael: And this is why I've been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building -- there's VRTK for Unity. And the next generation of headsets that will come out in the next 24 months will all have eye tracking and head tracking. Unity is always my top one. Amazon Sumerian.

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