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The XR Week Peek (2024.05.14): New rumors on the Vision Pro 2, Ultraleap Hyperion, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

This is a period with many tech announcements: we had Meta telling about its Horizon OS, yesterday OpenAI unveiled the new GPT-4o, and today Google will hopefully unveil its Android XR operating system. Robust to handling objects: Hyperion offers superior hand tracking while holding an object in your hand, making it perfect for mixed reality.

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TapID Uses Bone Conduction To Deliver A Better Typing Experience In VR

VRScout

Currently, entering your password and username or typing out a message in VR means awkwardly selecting keys using your motion controllers. Developers have explored potential solutions in the past, such as Google Daydream’s ultra-fun Drum Keys or Logitech’s VR compatible keyboards. Unfortunately, typing is not one of them.

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Cloudhead Games CEO: Apple Vision Pro is an AR Headset Wearing VR Clothes

Road to VR

Whether or not to include controllers to support legacy VR titles. Whether to allow users to full-dive into Virtual Reality, freely move around, and be active in the medium. Hand-tracking is a logical affordance for AR based spatial computing and no doubt some experiences will work well with that design philosophy.

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XR Technology at AWE and the Auggies: Exclusive Content From Ori Inbar

ARPost

The Augmented City – imagine a kind of point-cloud Google Earth. See Also: VR Artist Rosie Summers on Art and Virtual Reality. Figmin – a platform for creating, editing, and sharing holograms by the group “Figmin XR” Greg Madison , for Tangible UI – an exploration of hand tracking on flat surfaces.

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Apple Vision Pro Review: A Portable But Heavy Cinema & Monitor With A Promising Spatial OS

Upload VR

And to be clear, I used it in a real home, not a carefully controlled demo environment or a well-lit studio. Another smaller problem is that to drive this resolution, Vision Pro makes constant use of eye tracked foveated rendering. Apple Vision Pro on the other hand has occlusion in two distinct forms.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.08.25): Lots of new VR content previewed, Sony acquires Insomniac, Matrix 4 in the works and much more!

The Ghost Howls

You will be able to use all the controls in a natural way just by using all the ten fingers of your hands! Google releases an opensource library for hand tracking. Google has released opensource a library for tracking your hands on a mobile device. Someone made Google Lens work in VR.

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Reaching into 3D Data, Exploring CAD Designs, Virtual Meetings, and More

Leapmotion

VR has the power to transform our lives and connect us in new ways, while hand tracking lets you reach beyond the digital divide and take control. Much like our UI Widgets , it’s a set of interface elements – switch, lever and potentiometer – that can be embedded in any virtual environment. Requires: Webcam.

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