Tech Trends VR

JANUARY 11, 2019

Pimax unveiled prototypes of intuitive controllers and high-resolution, broad Field of View bundles in Las Vegas this week at CES 2019. Pimax over-delivered at CES 2019 with its Leap Motion bundle featuring 8K VR headset with built-in speakers, 200° FOV and optional eye tracking Click To Tweet.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Displays : Dual Mini LED LCD; 2880 x 2720 px per eye Refresh rate : 90 Hz Optics : Custom-made variable resolution aspheric lenses with 35 PPD peak fidelity Field of View : Horizontal: 115°, Diagonal: 134° at 12 mm eye relief Interpupillary Distance : Automatic IPD adjustment with motor, Supported IPD range: 57–73 mm Audio : 3.5

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Recently I had a big issue with my VR controllers in SteamVR (both with Oculus and Vive) and so I’m writing this post to try to help you in solving it. I bought my Vive to experiment with 7Invensun eye tracking and I was really enthusiast about trying eye-tracked UX. I had only to configure my room.

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2018

Half Dome introduces a much larger 140 degree field of view (to the Rift’s ~100 degree) along with a varifocal display and eye-tracking. Then there’s eye-tracking—the ability for the headset to know precisely which direction your eyes are looking— which can enable game-changing capabilities.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

This new HoloLens has for sure made a huge leap forward for what concerns comfort. The new HoloLens uses its integrated eye tracking to perform user authentication via iris recognition. The new HoloLens features: Eye tracking Full hands tracking (a la Leap Motion) Voice commands understanding.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 14, 2019

A variation called the VR-2 also offers integrated hand-tracking via Ultraleap (formerly Leap Motion). Alongside the VR-2, Varjo will also offer a VR-2 Pro which will include integrated hand-tracking via Ultraleap (formerly Leap Motion), as well as a removable counterweight for the back of the headset to achieve better balance.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 31, 2020

Before telling you my impressions, let me tell you the specifications of this jewel: Display resolution: 1440×1600 per eye (standard screen) + 1920×1080 per eye (micro-display) Refresh-rate: 60/90Hz Field of view: 87° Tracking: SteamVR 2.0 Eye-tracking. Let’s start my impressions from the design.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Tracking has been switched to inside-out , and Varjo now provides a set of controllers, manufactured by Razer, together with the headset. Some extras can also be bought: for instance, the faceplate for SteamVR tracking costs €1000. The tiny dots that you see are the LEDs for eye tracking The FOV was larger than usual (e.g.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

XTAL is an enterprise headset with incredible specifications, like for instance: 5120 x 1440 display resolution (2560 x 1440 per eye); OLED display Custom non-Fresnel lenses 180° diagonal FOV Spatial 3D sound from a built-in sound card Embedded microphone Embedded eye tracking Auto-IPD adjustment Embedded Leap motion v2 sensor.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

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.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 4, 2023

It should run on top of an M2 chipset, which is much more powerful than the processing unit of the Quest 2, 4K displays per eye with strong HDR (a rumor talks about a 5000-nits display, about which many are lost in the optical path), a quite nice FOV. Its controllers have no ring and no onboard cameras.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2019

HTC Vive Cosmos and its controllers, just announced at CES (Image by HTC). A redditor published this great album with various close-up photos of the Cosmos and its controllers. While the Cosmos is tailored at consumers, the just announced Vive Pro Eye is dedicated to enterprise customer s. Take a breath and start reading!

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2019

Before officially releasing it, Mr. President has highlighted that the Focus Plus is not just a Vive Focus with two 6 DOF controllers, but it has also a better weight balancing and new improved lenses (I will tell you my impressions on the device in my next post). Improvements of the Vive Focus Plus over the Vive Focus.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

At this point, there is another question that every one of us is making: is this a controlled leak by Valve itself? I’m not saying that it is absolutely a controlled leak… I just want to say that personally, I believe that it is. There are no signs of eye tracking in this headset. Two chips visible).

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Road to VR

JUNE 26, 2019

Pimax says the latest controller prototypes will arrive next month, the Valve Index-style controllers called ‘Sword’ and ‘Sword Sense’ The company says they plan on manufacturing both of these variants—one with a thumbstick and the other with a touchpad—for many years to come. ” Pimax Accessories.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

These accessories could include Leap Motion, VR input gloves, 6DoF controllers and even eye-tracking solutions if manufacturers are so willing, Engadget reports. HTC says the Vive Wave VR SDK offers an open interface enabling interoperability between numerous mobile VR headsets and accessories.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2021

After the startup has started its marketing push at the beginning of this year, I’ve seen too many Youtube videos titled with captions like “THIS IS THE FUTURE”, “BRAIN CONTROL IS HERE” or other bombastic things. NextMind vs Eye Tracking. Well, let me tell you that this is not exactly the truth.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 17, 2018

There’s a lot that can be said about the Magic Leap One. It’s trying to do a ton—eye-tracking, hand-tracking, 6DoF controllers, real-time meshing and a number of other features that haven’t been seen in a mobile MR device before. Meet the trio | Image courtesy Magic Leap.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

Ultraleap Hand Tracking – Ultraleap Leap Motion controller. Through input events, the user may configure apps to receive inputs from a number of input sources — 6 degrees of free (6DoF) controllers, articulated hands, and voice, as well as Select or Menu, features, and correlate them with various inputs.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

A new job listing points out to the fact that Oculus is planning to integrate eye tracking in its next devices. More info (Jon Lax’s quote) More info (Osborne Effect) More info ( Eye tracking job listing) More info (Oculus mixing real and virtual) More info (Assassin’s Creed and Splinter Cell). More info.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

There is also an eye-relief knob Tracking : with external emitters ( Steam VR 2.0 ) Connection : 1x USB 3.0, Controllers: Inputs : A Button, B Button, System Button, Trigger, Thumbstick, Track Button with Force Sensor, Grip Force Sensor, Finger Tracking, IMU Connections : USB-C, 2.4 1x DisplayPort 1.2 Commentary.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 1, 2019

The controllers are great and let you finally also throw objects in VR and give you all five fingers. This will let some people create cheap tracking solutions in their spaces, and will allow some LBVR centers to avoid using complex systems like OptiTrack. the headset alone $500 and the headset+controllers will be priced at $750.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The whole event was all about Facebook creating a parent company called Meta that is going to control all the products that until now were in the Facebook’s family, that is Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, Oculus, Portal, and all the rest. Ultraleap releases Gemini hands-tracking runtime.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

The Reverb was already a very good headset (as you can read in my hands-on impressions ) with good comfort and an astonishing resolution, but it had some problems with the display (mura, red smearing) and with the controllers (classical mediocre WMR tracking). built in to headband Controllers ?—?6DOF 75Hz FOV ?—?101

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Or maybe a section of the floor itself serves as the treadmill, raised up as a platform that controls pitch, yaw, roll, and speed. For those who want to push immersion further, optional climate controls mirror environmental conditions (within a safe temperature range). Control options. Let’s move to the top of the head.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

In the meantime, the headset sends the pose of the headset and the controllers to the PC , so that the PC can render the frames and execute the logic of the game for the next frame. It is very interesting to notice that the hands tracking won’t be only limited to custom applications, but it will work also in the system UI of Quest !

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

If you look down, you can actually see your keyboard, or you could see your hand game controller, and that way you’re able to manipulate physical objects, even when you’re in this headset as a monitor replacement. Yes, so at the VEC – and at GDC – we actually announced our USDKs for hand tracking. Alvin: Yes.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

If you look down, you can actually see your keyboard, or you could see your hand game controller, and that way you’re able to manipulate physical objects, even when you’re in this headset as a monitor replacement. Yes, so at the VEC – and at GDC – we actually announced our USDKs for hand tracking. Alvin: Yes.

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VRGuy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Acer, NVIDIA, Valve, Ubisoft, Leap Motion and many others joined the ecosystem. A goggle is better with an eye tracker, a hand controller and a haptic device. Eye tracking software converts eye images into gaze direction. Hand tracking software converts hand position into gestures.

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VRGuy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Since the OSVR launch in January this year, nearly 250 organizations including Intel, NVIDIA, Xilinx, Ubisoft, Leap Motion, and many others have joined the OSVR ecosystem. Concurrent with the expansion of the OSVR community, the capabilities of the software platform have grown by leaps and bounds.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

We’re used to navigating our computing with keyboards, mice, and maybe track pads — analog input. That’s why we need gesture controls ASAP, according to today’s guest, Clay AIR’s Varag Gharibjanian. Varag: So Clay is a software company, we're specializing in hand tracking and gesture recognition, mostly in the AR and VR space.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

We’re used to navigating our computing with keyboards, mice, and maybe track pads — analog input. That’s why we need gesture controls ASAP, according to today’s guest, Clay AIR’s Varag Gharibjanian. Varag: So Clay is a software company, we're specializing in hand tracking and gesture recognition, mostly in the AR and VR space.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

We’re used to navigating our computing with keyboards, mice, and maybe track pads — analog input. That’s why we need gesture controls ASAP, according to today’s guest, Clay AIR’s Varag Gharibjanian. Varag: So Clay is a software company, we're specializing in hand tracking and gesture recognition, mostly in the AR and VR space.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I think there were people early on, like the folks at Sixth Sense who have the hand controllers. They were talking about there are a wide variety of things you can do with these hand controllers for VR. And that was with controllers. Alan: The VIVE Pro Eye. Hand tracking is a kind of universal input system.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I think there were people early on, like the folks at Sixth Sense who have the hand controllers. They were talking about there are a wide variety of things you can do with these hand controllers for VR. And that was with controllers. Alan: The VIVE Pro Eye. Hand tracking is a kind of universal input system.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I think there were people early on, like the folks at Sixth Sense who have the hand controllers. They were talking about there are a wide variety of things you can do with these hand controllers for VR. And that was with controllers. you know, they did an eye-tracking version of the HTC Vive here. Dean: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I think there were people early on, like the folks at Sixth Sense who have the hand controllers. They were talking about there are a wide variety of things you can do with these hand controllers for VR. And that was with controllers. Alan: The VIVE Pro Eye. Hand tracking is a kind of universal input system.

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