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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.12.16): Oculus Quest gets hand tracking, Magic Leap pivots towards enterprise and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Doing that will disable the controllers, and you will be able to navigate in the menus just using your hands. Some developers have anyway already stated they plan to implement a controller-free interface in the next version of their applications. Google ARCore now adds depth detection. JanusVR and High Fidelity close.

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Nothing New: HTC Exec Slams Apple’s Vision Pro’s ‘Pricey’ XR Headset

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According to a Patently Apple report citing Statcounter data, “The rapid drop in market share can be attributed to stiff competition from its competitors, which are macOS from Apple and Chrome OS from Google. These would allow controllers to work interoperably with the gaming on the Apple TV. This is equivalent to $1,515.04

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Web3 And The Future Of Music

Bernard Marr

This means that rather than us all logging onto services and applications that are for the most part owned by huge corporations like Google, Facebook or Microsoft, we will, for the first time, fully own and be in control of our own data and how it is used. But how is this relevant to the world of music? The Limits of Unlimited Music.

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Are The Metaverse And Web3 Still Relevant?

Bernard Marr

A year or two back, a Google search for the term "metaverse" would bring up pages of stories about companies making a move into virtual worlds. Today – not so much! Crucially, the concept of merging the real and virtual worlds is central to the metaverse.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.04.20): Oculus Quest goes AR, Oculus Jedi may be like Valve Knuckles and much more!

The Ghost Howls

There won’t be a physical AWE, but there will be an online one, made through online webinars. that will probably feature color passthrough, controllers tracking the full hand and other amazing features. New info on Oculus Jedi controllers found in the driver. My speech will be about AR and BCI.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.03.30): Half-Life: Alyx breaks every VR record, HP teases Reverb G2, and more!

The Ghost Howls

We can speculate that this will be an enterprise headset costing at least $600, evolving the Reverb fixing the problem with controllers and improving the audio. Valve could provide some audio-visual improvements, while Microsoft its WMR platform, with inside-out tracking of controllers. News worth a mention. Very handy.

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Augmented Reality Top 8 of 2018

VRScout

Notable Women, by former Treasurer of the United States Rosie Rios, Google Creative Lab, and Nexus Studios. The NYT AR piece on the cave rescue was an excellent application of the medium,” said Jon Wiley, Director Google AR VR. “My Three key areas were highlighted: travel, fitness, and gaming. . I was there.