XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

Although, an emerging presence in the development space is hand and eye tracking. AR/VR/MR headsets are increasingly equipped with hand and eye tracking technology. Previously, commercial XR devices like the Meta Quest had experimented with hand-tracking features which improved as the device matured.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

Although, an emerging presence in the development space is hand and eye tracking. AR/VR/MR headsets are increasingly equipped with hand and eye tracking technology. Previously, commercial XR devices like the Meta Quest had experimented with hand-tracking features which improved as the device matured.

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Tech Trends VR

MARCH 17, 2019

Microsoft’s new piece of kit doesn’t disappoint, but the real excitement of its MWC announcement goes well beyond the hardware. Microsoft is in this for the long haul and will continue cashing in just fine without even touching the consumer market Click To Tweet. That’s the low-hanging fruit as far as Microsoft is concerned.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

This special version of the headset features additional sensors that can get more data about the user: A heart rate sensor on the forehead; Two additional cameras that track the lower part of the face of the user, so that to read his facial expressions; Eye-tracking cameras , that can also detect the dimension of the pupil.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Of course, after the announcement, a lot of questions started coming to my mind , especially regarding the use of these new graphics cards with regard to VR and AR. Of course, they haven’t revealed to me any secrets, but it has been interesting reading some details anyway. RTX games use the Microsoft DX12 DXR ray tracing API.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 9, 2022

The Digital Markets Act is a law that the European Parliament and Commission are discussing since 2020 and has the purpose of limiting the excessive power of the major tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta. We can expect so all big tech companies to comply with it in 2023.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

Just to make an example, I was there when there was the Netscape vs Internet Explorer war, but now the leading web browser is Google Chrome. It will work with PlayStation 5 and offer amazing clarity, next-generation haptics, and for the first time on a consumer device, eye tracking. AR glasses. Me and my Nreal Light glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 30, 2020

The same day of the launch of Half-Life: Alyx, Hewlett-Packard has announced its new virtual reality headset, the Reverb G2 , made in collaboration with Microsoft and Valve. The old Reverb was already a great headset, with a 2K per eye resolution that was above all the other headsets on the market (with the exception of Pimax, of course).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 21, 2019

Of course, he was not only talking about Oculus but about VR in general. These numbers are of course far away from mainstream adoption. That’s, of course, an interesting number: even if we all know that Gear VR accounts for at least 80–95% of that amount, I personally thought that the sales were much lower.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

On the contrary, Microsoft has worked a lot on the platform, to make it more appealing to enterprise customers. It has released experiences like Microsoft Remote Assist, that let different teams in a company work together to solve maintenance problems. “Decent” to be a devkit, of course.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

A good example of this in virtual reality can be seen in a recent campaign by The Coca-Cola Company on the Advrty platform. Turning the physical world into a digital opportunity is something you can also see in this example from 19 Crimes wine. Check out the example below of Mica , Magic Leap’s intelligent agent.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The devices that will be based on this reference design will have amazing specifications like: 2K x 2K display resolution per each eye ; Have up to 7 cameras used simultaneously, including the ones for tracking, mixed reality and eye-tracking; High-quality passthrough augmented reality with high resolution and framerate.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

Of course, the device that is reaching (or has already reached) this magical number is the Oculus Quest 2 , which has literally taken VR out of its quicksands, becoming the first mainstream device. I think this year we will have always more examples of this kind, and the Apple headset should be the final realization of this trend.

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Road to VR

MARCH 24, 2017

Eye Tracking: IMR’s algorithm utilises single pass dynamic compression schemes, including foveation, tuneable parameters and offers support for eye tracking. Of course all systems have to deliver under a frame of round trip latency. Of course, any sort of compression introduces latency.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Mr. Mike Powell, he is the head of the Microsoft Garage and the author of “Age of Smart Information,” a new book about how artificial intelligence and spatial computing will transform the way we communicate forever. Like, of course you’re going to look a little strange. So a teacher is preparing a plan on physics.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Mr. Mike Powell, he is the head of the Microsoft Garage and the author of “Age of Smart Information,” a new book about how artificial intelligence and spatial computing will transform the way we communicate forever. Like, of course you’re going to look a little strange. So a teacher is preparing a plan on physics.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 20, 2021

Of course, the community reacted pretty badly to this piece of news. This is much more than what Oculus promised to track some years ago (“only the height of the user is sent to Facebook, for statistical purposes”), and the amount of tracking info is going to slowly increase.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

While the first version was an all-in-one with diffractive waveguides like Microsoft HoloLens, the new one is an all-in-two light device that connects to your smartphone and uses birdbath optics. Facebook is pushing a lot its new Quest 2 and of course, it is running many marketing initiatives to promote it. The Void has shut down.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

And then, of course, a lot of kitchen brochures and such are 3D. Of course, moving 3D data between different applications has always been hard. Alan: So somebody who -- let's say, for example -- is a furniture store, local furniture store. So 3D models, of course, are the Lego pieces that we build everything on.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

And then, of course, a lot of kitchen brochures and such are 3D. Of course, moving 3D data between different applications has always been hard. Alan: So somebody who -- let's say, for example -- is a furniture store, local furniture store. So 3D models, of course, are the Lego pieces that we build everything on.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2019

And of course, between a glass of champagne and a slice of panettone, there is still time for VR, so here you are a collection of best VR news of the past week! Oculus Quest gets hand tracking. More info (ARCore depth sensing) More info (Example app developed with this solution). Top news of the week.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Eye-tracking startup Eyefluence, which raises $14 million this month, is acquired about a year later by Google. For example, Lumberyard from Amazon is released for creating games and VR experiences, while both Unity and Epic reveal in-VR tools to speed up the development process. December 2015. March 2016. October 2016.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

And then, of course, a lot of kitchen brochures and such are 3D. Of course, moving 3D data between different applications has always been hard. Alan: So somebody who -- let's say, for example -- is a furniture store, local furniture store. So 3D models, of course, are the Lego pieces that we build everything on.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

This could actually be quite beneficial for Meta, Microsoft, and Magic Leap. For example, they are lowering the cameras and sensors so users’ hands aren’t getting tired. For example, WebXR experiences on the Meta Quest are still immersive but delivered through a browser instead of a standalone application.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

It’s printed on premium paper and it’s priced high like a textbook at fifty dollars – of course it’s filled with an hour of animation – so it’s not a normal book and it doesn’t adhere to book economics. So if, for example, look at GPS in a phone, right, there would be no Uber, no Seamless.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

It’s printed on premium paper and it’s priced high like a textbook at fifty dollars – of course it’s filled with an hour of animation – so it’s not a normal book and it doesn’t adhere to book economics. So if, for example, look at GPS in a phone, right, there would be no Uber, no Seamless.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

You’ve got mobile phone-based AR, eye tracking set devices, taste experiments, hot and cold devices, thermal devices, and then tracking systems for motion capture, and of course, treadmills for omni-directional walking. Antony: Yeah, of course, I was there; I listened to all the presentations by HTC.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

You've got mobile phone-based AR, eye tracking set devices, taste experiments, hot and cold devices, thermal devices, and then tracking systems for motion capture, and of course, treadmills for omni-directional walking. Antony: Yeah, of course, I was there; I listened to all the presentations by HTC.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

But for real-time spatial computing technologies — like XR, for example — that just won’t cut it, especially when it could mean life or death. Of course, when you go to environments where there is a lot of people at one place — a coliseum sporting event, or a shopping mall, or– Alan: Coachella.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

But for real-time spatial computing technologies — like XR, for example — that just won’t cut it, especially when it could mean life or death. Of course, when you go to environments where there is a lot of people at one place — a coliseum sporting event, or a shopping mall, or– Alan: Coachella.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

You’ve got mobile phone-based AR, eye tracking set devices, taste experiments, hot and cold devices, thermal devices, and then tracking systems for motion capture, and of course, treadmills for omni-directional walking. Antony: Yeah, of course, I was there; I listened to all the presentations by HTC.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

And once you decide to sell a premium product, of course, the price becomes super-high and unaffordable for all normal people. But we also know that when in VR, most people just look forward with their eyes. Of course, indies won’t be super-happy of this decision, but unluckily this is how business works.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

Austin has written multiple courses across VR and AR design and development. Alan: Let’s give an example. For example, I saw one where Coke did a visualizer to show retailers what the new Coke machine would look like in their stores. That example follows through to these physical products as well.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

Austin has written multiple courses across VR and AR design and development. Alan: Let’s give an example. For example, I saw one where Coke did a visualizer to show retailers what the new Coke machine would look like in their stores. That example follows through to these physical products as well.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

Austin has written multiple courses across VR and AR design and development. Alan: Let's give an example. For example, I saw one where Coke did a visualizer to show retailers what the new Coke machine would look like in their stores. That example follows through to these physical products as well.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Alan: One of the tools that I think we’re just starting to see come online is eye tracking and motion tracking, where we’re really able to get data points about humans that we’ve never had before. Let me give you a few examples. And that gives us some very powerful tools. What would you recommend?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

One of the coolest examples that I think of, which may not apply to the everyday medium-sized company, is training in a way that is location-agnostic, and it could even be marketing; meaning, you could have a salesman or a lead engineer in Dallas, and you could have another engineer in Detroit. And where did we come from?"

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