article thumbnail

RealMax Qian review: wide FOV AR is amazing!

The Ghost Howls

While many other AR glasses (like Nreal Light or HoloLens 2 ) have a Field Of View in the 50° ballpark, RealMax glasses have always had ones above 100° , for a more immersive augmented experience. Me trying the Realmax glasses in Nanchang, China… am I not supercool? The Realmax Qian unboxing experience was good.

AR 471
article thumbnail

HTC Plans to Bring Hand & Finger Tracking to Vive Pro

Road to VR

Today at the the World Conference on VR Industry in China, HTC announced plans to bring hand & finger tracking to Vive Pro via the headset’s front-facing cameras. Vive China President Alvin Wang Graylin on stage today at WCVRI 2018 in Nanchang, the capital of China’s Jiangxi province. Image courtesy HTC. .

HTC 241
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

VEC 2019 – All the most important news from the Vive Ecosystem Conference

The Ghost Howls

Yesterday for the first time I have attended the Vive Ecosystem Conference in Shenzhen, China! StreamLink is a little device that you can use to connect your Vive Focus to all your consoles (Xbox, PS, Switch) so that you are able to play your games in a semi-immersive way on a big curved screen all around you. Me at VEC 2019.

article thumbnail

A Hands on Look at the State of Input in VR

VRScout

You can now interact with virtual objects and environments like never before, taking immersion to an entirely new level. The latter two are not yet globally available, with the Vive Focus only available in China and the Oculus Go still only being sent to developers. Fully immersive VR experiences bring us to tracked motion controllers.

article thumbnail

My predictions for augmented reality in 2019

The Ghost Howls

Leap Motion. You may ask why I’m adding Leap Motion here. Well, during 2018, Leap Motion has announced the North Star reference design : a cheap augmented reality connected to PC, that is able to detect your hands very well thanks to Leap Motion’s sensor.

article thumbnail

WCVRI: Hands-on with new North Star headset, Virtualizer 2, Pareal VR and more!

The Ghost Howls

Project North Star is an opensource reference design for a wide-FOV augmented reality headset that Leap Motion (now Ultraleap ) has given to the community. The hand tracking was fabulous as always thanks to Leap Motion and its Orion tracking. Let me tell you my first hands-on impressions on it! North Star AR headset.

article thumbnail

Vive Focus to Get 6DOF Controller Mode, Optical Hand-tracking for Gesture Input

Road to VR

While it’s exciting to start seeing 6DOF standalone VR headsets like the Vive Focus and Mirage Solo, both unfortunately include a 3DOF controller which in many cases functions as an immersion barrier compared to a fully 6DOF VR system. 3DOF to 6DOF Controller Upgrade.