Remove Controllers Remove Oculus Remove Unreal Remove Wearables
article thumbnail

The XR Week Peek (2020.05.17): Apple Glasses are sleek, UE5 rises hype, NVIDIA releases CloudXR SDK, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The glasses are expected to run a new operating system, rOS (or reality OS), and Apple is exploring touch panels, voice activation, and head gestures as a means of control. What is the only wearable that people is keeping on their face all day? Unreal Engine 5 may change the rules of game development. Yes, Airpods.

Apple 310
article thumbnail

Daniel Beauchamp inspires us to do more crazy experiments in VR

The Ghost Howls

Daniel is an XR professional that has become very famous this year for his mindblowing experiments with the hands tracking of the Oculus Quest , where every prototype of his is focused on an interaction that is so crazy that most of the time you couldn’t think about it before. Daniel Beauchamp (Image by Daniel Beauchamp).

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Refract raises $8.5M SGD funding, announces new game development division 

TechCrunch VR

The latest funding will be used to intensify R&D for AXIS , a wearable and game-oriented full-body motion capture solution. CEO of Refract Chng told TechCrunch that the solution they found out was to allow players to use their bodies as game controllers. billion gamers through its games and technology, such as the wearable AXIS. .

article thumbnail

The XR Week Peek (2021.02.15): Facebook keeps working on its masterplan, WebXR arrives on iOS, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The news is interesting for three reasons: Smartwatches and smartglasses are closely related; This shows how Facebook is working on all kind of wearables , so it has a broader scope than just making AR/VR glasses. Then it could update them very fast and make them as powerful and successful as the Oculus Quest. Other relevant news.

Taiwan 366
article thumbnail

How the Stock Market is Showing Faith in Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR)

ARVR

FB) Facebook is the owners of Oculus Quest , the current gold standard when it comes to VR headsets. In addition to releasing Oculus Quest 2, Facebook spent $150 million on content for the device (to bring you VR games from brands like Assassin’s Creed, Splinter Cell, Star Wars, Jurassic World, and Medal of Honor).

article thumbnail

The XR Week Peek (2021.02.22): Samsung AR glasses leaked, Kura price revealed, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Last week I told you about MetaHumans creator, the tool to create realistic humanoid avatars in Unreal Engine. Oculus is selling refurbished Quest for $199. Facebook is rolling out an update to let multiple users share the same Oculus Quest 2 (the feature is coming also to Quest 1, but at a later time).

Samsung 446
article thumbnail

The XR Week Peek (2020.07.20): Oculus ready to manufacture the Quest S, Pico doubles-down on 3DOF, and more!

The Ghost Howls

(Image by Oculus). Oculus could be starting the production of a new Quest at the end of July. Multiple reports seem to confirm that Oculus is actually starting the production of a new Oculus Quest headset, with an expected release date in 2021. Oculus improves development time for UE4 developers. Image by Pico).

Oculus 320