XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 31, 2023

With the Focal Edition, companies can access enhanced MR components, which allow users to see crucial tools up-close, in proper focus. It maintains all of the critical features of the company’s leading MR device, including phenomenal eye tracking, positional tracking, connectivity, and field of view.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 1, 2024

Users are discovering that virtual reality isn’t just a powerful tool for entertainment. The Gear devices build on the capabilities of mobile virtual reality, allowing users to turn their existing smartphone devices into tools for immersion. Demand for virtual reality is expanding at an incredible rate.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

The MRTK is a set of components with plugins, samples, and documentation designed to help the development of MR applications using gaming engines from either Unreal Engine or Unity, providing two versions of the solution – MRTK-Unity and MRTK for Unreal. Ultraleap Hand Tracking – Ultraleap Leap Motion controller.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The new technology converts the entire M2 vehicle as a controller for the MR system, using cutting-edge immersive solutions from Helsinki’s Varjo Technologies to merge the real and virtual worlds. Over the last couple years, we have gained a lot of experience with them and their Unreal Engine.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The headset has a very nice design and features these specifications: Standalone 6DOF headset 1600×1600 resolution per eye 90Hz refresh rate 90° FOV RGB AR passthrough Innovative lenses that make the headset more compact Integrated audio Controller-free hand-tracking Eye-tracking 6GB of RAM 128GB of storage WiFi 6 (802.11ax), Bluetooth 5.0,

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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. Last week I told you about MetaHumans creator, the tool to create realistic humanoid avatars in Unreal Engine. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

Also, new more ergonomic controllers, that solve the flaws of the current design, will be part of the package. These controllers should be compatible with the current Quest. Or eye tracking?). Unreal Engine 4.25 update, Unreal Engine has added many features that may be useful in crafting XR experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

There is no face or eye tracking. But the thing that surprised me the most in Gurman’s description is the controllers. Controllers do have not the tracking ring like the ones of Quest 2 and have not onboard cameras like the ones of Quest Pro (I guess they would have been too expensive). There is IPD adjustment.

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XROM

JUNE 5, 2023

Unreal Engine, Epic's game development platform, is fast emerging as the leading tool for creating high-quality 3D content - including for virtual and augmented reality. Vision Pro uses intuitive eye, hand and voice controls that feel natural. Advanced technologies enable Vision Pro's spatial capabilities.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Rob is a big fan of PCVR (he even tried to design a new SteamVR controller , do you remember?) These new features would include eye-tracking, dynamic foveated rendering, IPD auto-adjustment, and stand-alone mod e: these will be enabled through future software updates.

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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. Acquiring it, Epic secures a great source of assets for the developers using its Unreal Engine, and also the connection with many talents. Discover some original VR influencers. Some XR fun.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

But the sequel of the popular Virtual Virtual Reality has not been received very well: many reviewers highlighted the high amount of bugs found, and some others (like me) the clunky controls and the slow pace. Our goal is to provide creators, developers and teams with the proper tools for extracting 3D insights.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

HTC has finally revealed the price of the Vive Pro : it will cost $799 just to have the headset (no controller and no base stations, so you must already have a Vive 1 kit) and will be available for pre-orders since April, 5th. But we also know that when in VR, most people just look forward with their eyes. So, are you ready?

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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. Apple also presented the Vision Pro as a productivity tool, rather than simply entertainment hardware.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

References found in the Oculus Quest 2 firmware by users Reggy04 and Basti564 highlight how the Quest 2 Pro should have: Eyes tracking Facial expressions tracking Eye relief knob Granular IPD adjustment External charging station. VR animation tool Quill has proved to be an interesting tool for creators these years.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

High-precision 6DOF tracking, eye tracking, gesture inputs, with dedicated input controllers The SDK will support Unity , with Unreal coming Soon. eye-tracking analysis to see if you have fallen asleep while driving). The official computational unit runs Android. All APIs have a plain C version.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Some of the most notable points are: 2 Controllers support. In the next months, Magic Leap will offer the possibility to buy an additional controller and pair it with the device, so that it will be possible to use two 6 DOF controllers inside the AR experiences. MagicScript.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 6, 2020

It was developed on the Unreal 4 engine and built by our studios team. The set of tools that enable you to deploy a device within an enterprise environment is more broadly called our enterprise suite and device management being kind of a really key piece of that. It was crazy. People were loving it. Brian: Yeah, absolutely.

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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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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2019

video) More info (Unreal Engine with Octane Renderer) More info (Wi-fi is not enough for VR streaming). The Taiwanese company has released three new trailers highlighting the high comfort of the device and the great controller tracking ( the best in its category, according to it). Other relevant news. Image by HTC).

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

With photorealistic visual fidelity, ultra-low latency, and integrated eye tracking, the XR-1 seamlessly merges virtual content with the real world for the first time ever. And with the eye tracking, they can actually do proper testing so they can drive on a real road. And I want to welcome to the show, Niko.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

With photorealistic visual fidelity, ultra-low latency, and integrated eye tracking, the XR-1 seamlessly merges virtual content with the real world for the first time ever. And with the eye tracking, they can actually do proper testing so they can drive on a real road. And I want to welcome to the show, Niko.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

With photorealistic visual fidelity, ultra-low latency, and integrated eye tracking, the XR-1 seamlessly merges virtual content with the real world for the first time ever. And with the eye tracking, they can actually do proper testing so they can drive on a real road. And I want to welcome to the show, Niko.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

So how do you create a powerful, strong camera, 360 camera tool, but also give it the ease of use of a consumer product, and not have to spend too much time in post and all those things? But that would be even more so as we get eye-tracking involved. And at the end of the day, it’s really all about the user experience.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

So how do you create a powerful, strong camera, 360 camera tool, but also give it the ease of use of a consumer product, and not have to spend too much time in post and all those things? But that would be even more so as we get eye-tracking involved. And at the end of the day, it’s really all about the user experience.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

So how do you create a powerful, strong camera, 360 camera tool, but also give it the ease of use of a consumer product, and not have to spend too much time in post and all those things? 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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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2020

The second one is a study to make codec avatars work with standard headsets : it makes the avatar move their faces by just using an eye tracking sensor and a microphone. With this new method, the tracking of the facial expressions is less accurate, but it works well the same. Popular mixed-reality-videos tool LIV releases 2.0

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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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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

OpenBCI has been making open-source tools for neuroscience and biosensing since 2014. The Galea hardware is designed to be integrated into existing HMDs and is the first device that simultaneously collects data from the wearer’s brain, eyes, heart, skin, and muscles. Will it be compatible with Unity and Unreal Engine for development?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

And you’ve got these 6DOF controllers. And so I expect that one of things I’m really interested in seeing is like some of these different startup companies within the VR space that are remote, and they have to kind of dog food their own remote collaboration tools. Being able to actually look somebody in the eyes in VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

And you've got these 6DOF controllers. And so I expect that one of things I'm really interested in seeing is like some of these different startup companies within the VR space that are remote, and they have to kind of dog food their own remote collaboration tools. Being able to actually look somebody in the eyes in VR.

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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

JANUARY 29, 2020

And you’ve got these 6DOF controllers. And so I expect that one of things I’m really interested in seeing is like some of these different startup companies within the VR space that are remote, and they have to kind of dog food their own remote collaboration tools. Being able to actually look somebody in the eyes in VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 13, 2020

So we work across industries really quite a few, including automotive, commercial real estate, construction, consumer packaged goods, energy and oil, food and beverage, heating and cooling, manufacturing tools, transit, a whole bunch of different industries. 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

So we work across industries really quite a few, including automotive, commercial real estate, construction, consumer packaged goods, energy and oil, food and beverage, heating and cooling, manufacturing tools, transit, a whole bunch of different industries. 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

So we work across industries really quite a few, including automotive, commercial real estate, construction, consumer packaged goods, energy and oil, food and beverage, heating and cooling, manufacturing tools, transit, a whole bunch of different industries. You need somebody who understands Unreal or Unity. We do projects on the Go.

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VRGuy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Many game engines – such as Unity, Unreal and SteamVR- immediately support it. The same is also true for input and output peripherals such as eye trackers and haptic devices. A goggle is better with an eye tracker, a hand controller and a haptic device. Augmented reality tools detect objects in video feeds.

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