The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

During the Chinese counterpart of the event, the V2EC, Vive has also announced two other interesting pieces of news: The 7Invensun Droolon F2, an eye-tracking add-on for the Vive Pro 2 and Vive Focus 3, coming soon for $299. PSVR2 may feature 4K display and eye tracking. Pico Neo 3 launch has been a success in China.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MAY 24, 2022

The report found that Meta’s Quest 2 as well as China’s DPVR and Pico VR headsets were among the most popular devices in this category. Precise eye-tracking. Eye-tracking data is collected by an integrated eye-tracking system used for debriefing and behaviour analysis. as well as USB 3.2

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2018

When I was in China, the last company I visited in Shanghai has been Lenqiy. This is another Vive-X company working in the educational sector and that has given me interesting insights into the educational ecosystem in China , that confirmed what I have learned speaking with Langzou and Judao. He is a great person , for sure.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

The Neo 2 may not be sexy as the Quest, but it is more powerful (thanks to the Snapdragon 845), has a crisper resolution , and in the “Eye” version, it also features embedded eye tracking. And all of this is cheaper than the $1000 enterprise Oculus Quest : the Neo 2 costs $700 and the Neo 2 Eye costs $900.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

In v1 it was only possible to enhance the central part of the frame, while in this new version, VRSS integrates dynamic gaze tracking, and will be able to move its high-quality region so that to make it stay where the user is looking. NVIDIA DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) will be natively supported for HDRP in Unity 2021.2.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The French startup headed by Stan Larroque is developing passthrough AR glasses with eye-tracking and hands tracking that can offer a new paradigm to augmented reality. Talking about AR glasses and smart startups producing them, another cool company to talk about is Lynx. But honestly, I would believe that only when I try it.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Droolon F1 is now on sale in China. The super-interesting eye tracking device Droolon F1 by 7Invensun is now in preorder on Taobao , with Amazon listing coming soon. I can’t wait to use this device, that for only $150 can give eye tracking functionalities to all Vive headsets (including Focus).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

Actually, the first launch has happened in China with the Vive Focus at the end of 2017, but we had the full development of the ecosystem now. And I could go on with other examples… In China, we had the opening of a giant VR theme park in Guizhou , even if it actually is still an incomplete effort. Standalone headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

Sentences like “With eye-tracking (ET) and a few well-placed sensors, they’ll learn our unconscious reactions to anything we see. People always seem surprised when Facebook announces something that was obviously in its masterplans (e.g. These are all problems to be figured out. Netflix will probably focus on mobile gaming.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The devices that will be based on this reference design will have amazing specifications like: 2K x 2K display resolution per each eye ; Have up to 7 cameras used simultaneously, including the ones for tracking, mixed reality and eye-tracking; High-quality passthrough augmented reality with high resolution and framerate.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

There is a lot at stakes, because if these two companies won’t settle (and I think that they are just firing big shots before finding an agreement), Unreal Engine developers won’t be able to develop properly for Apple XR devices, and they will have all to migrate to Unity. China is launching real name identification in games.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Here you are the integral interview that I had with Kelly Peng, asking her everything from Kura to the differences between the US and China (Kelly comes from Xi’an), not to mention her life as a startupper. eye-tracking analysis to see if you have fallen asleep while driving). Video interview With Kura’s Kelly Peng.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

It’s been a long road for FOVE , the creators of the eye-tracking VR headset that hit Kickstarter last summer, but today the company launches pre-orders for their first commercially available product, the FOVE 0. Display: WQHD OLED (2560 x 1440) 1280 x 1440 per eye. Accessories: Position tracking camera / Face cushion.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

With ARKit you can also track your face, and some developers have started also using it as an animation tool. Both systems also track images, and so you can use ARKit and ARCore as you used Vuforia before. Feature comparison between ARCore, ARKit and the Unity Handheld AR SDK (Image by Unity).

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Regarding technologies, the Metaverse will incorporate artificial intelligence (AI), virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR), the internet of things (IoT), and hand and eye tracking tools. Companies like Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Epic Games, Unity, and others are facilitating the rise of serious gaming technologies.

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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

JANUARY 31, 2022

The headset won’t come in two sizes, but in a single one, because the eye box of the lenses is big enough to accommodate for different positions of the eyes in the users. To be exact, the eye box is twice as large as the one in Magic Leap One. Image by Unity). News worth a mention.

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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. Quest Hand Tracking v2.1 increases the reliability of hand tracking on Quest 2.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 29, 2018

So, I sent some questions to the company and after some time, I finally got some answers from NVIDIA China! What about Unity, instead? Will it be available also for Unity developers? In the previous link, there is, in fact, a reference saying that both Unreal Engine and Unity will implement DXR APIs.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

And since there is not hands tracking yet (it is coming soon, the company told me), interactions with the Nreal Light devkit feel very limited. When I reviewed the Nreal glasses in China, I underlined that the tracking was one of its weak points: the objects moved quite a lot while I was moving in the environment.

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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

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 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

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

JANUARY 21, 2020

In the end, I still believe in the old predictions of Unity CEO John Riccitiello: Look at this graph shown by Mr. Riccitiello in 2017: the purple line is the one of the analysts, while the white one is the one forecasted by him. This is perfectly normal and in line with what that genius that answers to the name of Michael Abrash has said.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

Mirror Lake includes holographic lenses, reverse passthrough (people can see your eyes when you wear it), varifocal, and eye-tracking in a single very lightweight device. For every one of the four main themes, a headset solving it has been shown in the video. You may wonder why Zuck has decided to pull out of this showcase.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Last week at a dedicated Vive X event, Chinese company 7Invensun has presented one of the most interesting eye tracking accessories to date. 7Invensun is one of the worldwide leaders for what concerns eye tracking. The two parts of the Droolon F1 eye tracking device (Image by 7Invensun).

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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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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

The device will be available for $3500 in United States, Japan, China, Germany, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Australia, and New Zealand, the same countries where it was previously available for pre-order. Exploiting eye-tracking, the plugin improves the image perceived by the eye, considering its current position.

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VRScout

MARCH 6, 2017

VALVE’S R&D IN EYE-TRACKING TO INCREASE. LOTS OF BIG UNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS AT GDC. CHINA BUILDS VIRTUAL REALITY TOWN. . …and more. FOX SPORTS USES VIRTUAL REALITY ART FOR SUPER BOWL COMMERCIALS. LA, GET EXCITED: BJORK’S VR EXHIBITION COMES TO LOS ANGELES. WHEN WILL WIRELESS VR GET HERE? NYC LAUNCHES VR/AR LAB.

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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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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

edge detection); Eye-tracking sensors (accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer); A battery system ; A 5Ghz radio communication antenna to make the lens communicate with an external unit; An ARM0 processor , that acts as a “traffic cop” for the data. Unity talked about PlayStation VR 2 at GDC. News worth a mention.

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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. So you’re basically saying, most people’s eyes — well, everybody’s eyes — only see in the middle 5 percent of what you’re looking at any given time.

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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. So you’re basically saying, most people’s eyes — well, everybody’s eyes — only see in the middle 5 percent of what you’re looking at any given time.

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