XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 22, 2024

Eye and hand tracking technologies embedded into wearable devices, or delivered through external sensors, provide the feedback that applications need to optimize the immersive experience for each user. The Swedish company has produced a number of eye-tracking solutions, including the Tobii Pro Glasses 3.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 12, 2021

The first time I turned it on, it was evening, and the super-bright white OS windows were too much for my eyes. But at least I could adjust brightness manually using the brightness controls that are on the headset. Hands Tracking. And here comes my personal critic of the use of hand tracking as the main input means.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

Eye and hand tracking technologies embedded into wearable devices, or delivered through external sensors, provide the feedback that applications need to optimize the immersive experience for each user. The Swedish company has produced a number of eye-tracking solutions, including the Tobii Pro Glasses 3.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 31, 2023

The programme promotes collaboration between HTC VIVE and independent software vendors (ISVs) like SpectreXR to scale AR/VR/MR and its integrated technology stacks for enterprise clients – including technology such as hand tracking, eye tracking, and metaverse services. via Untiy’s Asset Store.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 12, 2023

But with Apple taking an incredibly active approach to educating employees on the headset, the firm could promote XR education that helps potential buyers adopt the hardware. More on Apple Vision Pro The upcoming Vision Pro headset will feature two Micro OLED 4K displays with a resolution of 3800 x 3000 per eye.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 12, 2024

These take full advantage of the device’s unique capabilities, leveraging features like spatial tracking and hand/eye tracking. If you’re a music creator, then the Spatial Symphony app is excellent, allowing you to experiment with a synthesizer controlled by your hand gestures.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2020

What is worrisome the most is that it is unclear what will happen to all the other amazing XR projects that Mozilla was managing like the WebXR framework A-frame or the WebXR exporter for Unity. HTC has confirmed this week to Upload VR that the upcoming Cosmos Play will be an enterprise headset devoted to museums and educational institutions.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

We still need a lot of time and effort to educate people on what really is the metaverse and why it is a beautiful thing. Since Facebook doesn’t control Oculus anymore, because everything is becoming Meta, the Facebook login won’t be mandatory for “Oculus” devices anymore. We’ll get there, we have time.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

This week has mostly been in the sign of Oculus, with many news and updates from the brand controlled by Facebook. Before leaving you to the best news of the week, I would like to highlight two notable things about my work: My crazy trolling game “The Unity Cube” has been featured in a video by Upload VR!

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

The new VR headset enhances everything from resolution and field of view to tracking and input ; It will connect to PS5 with a single cord to simplify setup and improve ease-of-use while enabling a high-fidelity visual experience; It will feature controllers carefully studied for VR.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

And to be clear, I used it in a real home, not a carefully controlled demo environment or a well-lit studio. When you first put it on you’re told to hold the top button, and you feel (and see a visualization of) the lenses moving horizontally to align with your eyes. And Apple did not send UploadVR a review unit, we bought our own.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2022

Pico will exploit the content of its B2B store, which will be re-adapted for consumers where feasible, so that to offer experiences also in the medical, productivity, educational, and many more fields. Pico Neo 3 Pro headset and controllers. Pico Neo Link specifications.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The new controller, the Touch Plus, seems also to track very well, and has the interesting feature that they have better tracking performances than Quest 2 ones around the torso of the player. The Crystal-Sim is an update to the Pimax Crystal, without controllers, and a lower refresh rate option.

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VRScout

MARCH 6, 2017

Facebook-owned Oculus has slashed Rift + Touch controller bundle prices from $800 to $600, which positions the Rift at a mere $100 more than the console-powered Playstation VR. Bringing Nearpod’s total funding to $30.2M, this round was led by Insight Venture Partners, Reach Capital, GSV Education, AGP Miami, and Krillion Ventures.

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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. Discover opensource WebAR tools.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

It was great to see that the device would be controlled using our hands, instead of external controllers, meaning that it is far more intuitive for people to use and should ensure success when the product is released. The reveal that Apple will be using Unity to bring 3D applications and games to Vision Pro was exciting.

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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

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Oculus Quest and controllers inside a stand (Image by Ars Technica). Vive Focus and its companion controller. Oculus Quest has been reported to have a great tracking technology, but it’s true that it has been tried only in ultra-controlled settings, with environments that made the tracking very easy.

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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. Pico Neo 2 and Pico Neo 2 Eye, enterprise headsets just launched at CES (Image by Pico Interactive).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

In April, we opened the doors to the first Upload Collective in San Francisco, a hub for VR and AR startups, development, co-working, education, meetups and even live broadcasting. Eye-tracking startup Eyefluence, which raises $14 million this month, is acquired about a year later by Google. December 2015. April 2016.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

The third major change came from Unity which recently announced that it will now be serving AR ads on mobile. Unity has one of the world’s largest mobile ad serving businesses and at the end of last year they partnered with Fossil to pilot this new ad format in mobile games. Virtual humans are getting more and more real.

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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). Hybrid headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

But this time, Google has understood the educational potential of this framework, so instead of abandoning it, it is gifting it to the community, that can so carry it on. HoloLens 2 is an amazing device, with a decent FOV, eye tracking, and hands tracking, that for sure will make many companies happy.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Founder and CEO Lou Pushelberg created Circuit Stream courses to give companies the power to educate and empower themselves, and just make the whole XR ecosystem stronger. Rather than try to build the next big application like everyone else, Lou saw a bigger need for education and training that could help propel the industry forward.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Founder and CEO Lou Pushelberg created Circuit Stream courses to give companies the power to educate and empower themselves, and just make the whole XR ecosystem stronger. Rather than try to build the next big application like everyone else, Lou saw a bigger need for education and training that could help propel the industry forward.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Founder and CEO Lou Pushelberg created Circuit Stream courses to give companies the power to educate and empower themselves, and just make the whole XR ecosystem stronger. Rather than try to build the next big application like everyone else, Lou saw a bigger need for education and training that could help propel the industry forward.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Founder and CEO Lou Pushelberg created Circuit Stream courses to give companies the power to educate and empower themselves, and just make the whole XR ecosystem stronger. Rather than try to build the next big application like everyone else, Lou saw a bigger need for education and training that could help propel the industry forward.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But at the same time, for those companies that do have that and really want to bring things in-house, what are some of the tools that you're seeing -- besides ARKit, ARCore, and Unity -- that are standing out to you? It's not something that every company will do.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But at the same time, for those companies that do have that and really want to bring things in-house, what are some of the tools that you're seeing -- besides ARKit, ARCore, and Unity -- that are standing out to you? It's not something that every company will do.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 13, 2020

And they’ve been keeping some different KPI metrics, and they’ve made millions of dollars in sales and they’ve saved millions and dollars in travel, simply by using this AR education. They’ve been tracking it. You need somebody who understands Unreal or Unity. We do projects on the Go.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 13, 2020

And they’ve been keeping some different KPI metrics, and they’ve made millions of dollars in sales and they’ve saved millions and dollars in travel, simply by using this AR education. They’ve been tracking it. You need somebody who understands Unreal or Unity. We do projects on the Go.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But at the same time, for those companies that do have that and really want to bring things in-house, what are some of the tools that you're seeing -- besides ARKit, ARCore, and Unity -- that are standing out to you? It's not something that every company will do.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But at the same time, for those companies that do have that and really want to bring things in-house, what are some of the tools that you're seeing -- besides ARKit, ARCore, and Unity -- that are standing out to you? It's not something that every company will do.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 13, 2020

And they've been keeping some different KPI metrics, and they've made millions of dollars in sales and they've saved millions and dollars in travel, simply by using this AR education. They've been tracking it. You need somebody who understands Unreal or Unity. And I said, "Well, how much did it cost?" We do projects on the Go.

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VRGuy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Figure 1 – Without OSVR: each device needs multiple plugins The problem is that there are many graphics and game engines (Unity, Unreal, Crytek, VBS, Mongame, OpenVR, Unigine, WebVR, etc.) Current Status OSVR is integrated Unity, Unreal Engine, and Monogame Future Plans A plugin for OpenVR (Valve) is in beta and should be completed soon.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

Terry: One of the best experiences I ever had was actually realizing that the technology can be used not just to make people money, or to provide education, but to actually save lives — that it can really be transformative. You mentioned Unity, and Tony Parisi has been working in the WebAR space forever, and really pushing forward.

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