XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 15, 2024

Apple’s RealityKit and ARKit tools are probably the best-known examples. Google ARCore Google’s ARCore is the augmented reality SDK that combines various cross-platform APIs developers can use to build immersive experiences for Android, iOS, the web, and Unity.

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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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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 15, 2021

Of course, I can be an “influencer” (I HATE this word, actually) only because there are so many of you that support me each day by reading what I write, commenting, and resharing it. But today I don’t want to talk only about that.

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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. What about Unity, instead?

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

The addition of eye-tracking injects a new layer of interactivity to the user experience. This option gives you a headset plus $500 credit for Microsoft Azure , a three-month free trial of Unity Pro , and the PiXYZ plugin — giving you all the necessary tools to test, create, and launch enterprise apps for the HoloLens 2.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 5, 2023

I hope they are going to come later… And then of course there is the last horrible thing which is the cable that connects the headset to the external battery. The use of eye, hand, and voice interactions make the interface with the headset natural and easy to be learned. 2D apps all around you, this is what they are selling.

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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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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

When you first put it on you’re told to hold the top button, and you feel (and see a visualization of) the lenses moving horizontally to align with your eyes. The eye tracking cameras sense the positions of your pupils and tiny piezoelectric actuators move the lenses into place. And I mean fully. This basic idea isn’t new.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

The third major change came from Unity which recently announced that it will now be serving AR ads on mobile. Unity has one of the world’s largest mobile ad serving businesses and at the end of last year they partnered with Fossil to pilot this new ad format in mobile games. I call them the “Incarnations”.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The main scope of this position is to prototype, ship, and support consumer gaming products leveraging visual-inertial tracking (HMD and controllers), camera passthrough, environment understanding, eye tracking, and hand tracking. More info (Example usage) More info (Twitter feed of Luma Labs where to see many scans).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Pico Neo 3 Pro, and its sibling Pico Neo 3 Pro Eye (featuring eye-tracking), are the latest enterprise headsets by Pico. I guess Pico did everything it could, and the comfort is indeed good, but having the weight of the device on the head for a long time of course causes some issues. Pico Neo 3 Pro.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 14, 2020

Then, a funnel was created through Unity Analytics to evaluate how many employees completed the original baseline steps. Using sensors from the VR headset and biometrics, they captured eye tracking, 3D positioning and controller actions.

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

For example, they are lowering the cameras and sensors so users’ hands aren’t getting tired. The reveal that Apple will be using Unity to bring 3D applications and games to Vision Pro was exciting. Their partnership with Unity will get them there quickly. Apple will use Unity to bring 3D applications and games to Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

As for the partnerships, the most intriguing one is the one with my friends at 7Invensun , one of the worldwide leading companies in eye-tracking technologies. I guess nReal will experiment with eye-tracking for a new version of the headset, maybe targeted at the enterprise market.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

Some examples of this category of glasses: Intel Vaunt (project abandoned); North Focals; Vuzix Blade; Snap Spectacles v2 (they are just cameras to share videos); Bose AR glasses (these are not for visual, but for audio augmented reality). Both systems also track images, and so you can use ARKit and ARCore as you used Vuforia before.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

It feels slightly heavier than the Go, especially on the forehead and it is also heavier than Rift: since the headset has to contain all the processing units and the batteries, of course it has to be heavier than the Rift. I’ll make two examples: You are in a shooting game. Anyway, no one felt it uncomfortable.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Of course, there are some little issues, like for instance: There is a little latency for positional tracking and tracking of controllers (even if it is hardly noticeable); Sometimes you can spot some artifacts , especially if you move very fast; The images do not appear as crisp as on the Rift S , because of the compression stuff.

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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. A series of announcements from Amazon, Crytek, Epic Games and Unity Technologies showcase an evolution among their respective game engines into VR world creation toolsets. December 2015. 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 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

JANUARY 3, 2019

And then, of course, there is Beat Saber. And I could go on with other examples… In China, we had the opening of a giant VR theme park in Guizhou , even if it actually is still an incomplete effort. Beat Saber has become so popular that even people that are not in the VR ecosystem know it. It’s 2019. Mobile headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2019

Maybe with eye tracking and some more screen resolution, it may have been. The Valve Index is like an evolution of the Vive Pro and so it can be useful for the same category of customers that are currently buying the Vive Pro and this of course includes enterprise customers. We can say that it is an improved Vive Pro.

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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. The tech world domination.

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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

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Founder and CEO Lou Pushelberg created Circuit Stream courses to give companies the power to educate and empower themselves, and just make the whole XR ecosystem stronger. From this journey, Circuit Stream’s 10-week online course emerged. Where do you start with building a course for technology that’s emerging?

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Founder and CEO Lou Pushelberg created Circuit Stream courses to give companies the power to educate and empower themselves, and just make the whole XR ecosystem stronger. From this journey, Circuit Stream’s 10-week online course emerged. Where do you start with building a course for technology that’s emerging?

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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

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Founder and CEO Lou Pushelberg created Circuit Stream courses to give companies the power to educate and empower themselves, and just make the whole XR ecosystem stronger. From this journey, Circuit Stream's 10-week online course emerged. Where do you start with building a course for technology that's emerging?

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Founder and CEO Lou Pushelberg created Circuit Stream courses to give companies the power to educate and empower themselves, and just make the whole XR ecosystem stronger. From this journey, Circuit Stream's 10-week online course emerged. Where do you start with building a course for technology that's emerging?

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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

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

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 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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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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