The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Body tracking leaked from Quest SDK documentation. A leaked image from the Oculus team shows that the company is working to implement body tracking inside the Oculus Unity SDK. New info on Microsoft abandoning the Hololens 3. We are not supporting eye tracking or biometrics for this closed beta. Learn more.

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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

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The integrated Tobii eye-tracking operating at 120hz made a noticeable difference to headset setup and optical comfort, as well as lowering the rendering workload in games compatible with dynamic foveated rendering. The eye-tracking system is provided by Tobii, who is the market leader in eye-tracking technology.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

The addition of eye-tracking injects a new layer of interactivity to the user experience. For larger companies looking to connect their entire team with HoloLens 2 headsets, Microsoft is offering a package that includes Dynamic 365 Remote Assist on each MR headset at the cost of $125 per user – per month. HAND GESTURES.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

This could actually be quite beneficial for Meta, Microsoft, and Magic Leap. 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

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

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Meta announces at Connect Quest Pro and a partnership with Microsoft. There have been a few key announcements at Connect: Meta has launched Quest Pro , its new premium headset, for $1500 Meta announced its focus on a new vertical, productivity Meta has partnered with Microsoft and Accenture to tackle the XR enterprise world.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

All the 3 major VR runtimes (Oculus, SteamVR, Microsoft) are now compatible with OpenXR , and this means that on the runtime layer on PC, now OpenXR has been fully integrated. This means that if you develop an experience using OpenXR, you can run it on Oculus, SteamVR, and Microsoft runtimes with no modification.

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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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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 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

JUNE 11, 2020

Of course, you can’t expect from it multiple depth planes or things like that. Of course the actual battery time may vary depending on what you are doing with the device. The NRSDK is Nreal’s SDK that lets you develop applications using the popular Unity game engine. Computational Power.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

He wanted to write on my blog his opinion on this device to inform the community and of course I accepted, because I’m more than happy to host another one of his super-detailed articles. There are also additional IPD “offset” adjustments available in the Pimax PC client, on a per-eye basis, to allow further fine-tuning.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

This acquisition signs a new course for Facebook strategy in XR: after having just partnered with external studios for the development of its top-notch exclusive titles (e.g. The consumer spending will increase and the dominant form of media consumed will be games, of course. Trimble stress-tests its AR helmet.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Meta) Meta launched Quest 3 The main piece of news of the week is of course the launch of the Meta Quest 3 at the Meta Connect. Yes, the Quest 3 will be able to provide some sort of very rough full-body tracking , which is great for social VR experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Kura promises to deliver lightweight AR glasses with astonishing features like 150° FOV, 8K resolution per eye, and outdoor use thanks to some breakthrough innovations they are working on. We started talking with other professionals in the field, and they always kept saying to us “If Microsoft can’t do it, how can you do it?”.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

Of course, its FOV was restricted because there are not in the market displays with so many pixels and such a big size For HDR there was Starburst, an HMD able to deliver 20,000 nits , much more than the 1,000 ones of a commercial HDR TV. These scholarships will be offered by XR Bootcamp, which already offers high-quality courses about XR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

Every year since when I entered VR, someone says that “this will be the year of VR” and then of course this never happens. I also imagine them trying to add enterprise-oriented features like eye-tracking in all their devices. Well, let’s be honest, this won’t happen in 2021, either.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 12, 2021

For instance, in the box I’ve found a cleaning cloth for an Oculus device… and I don’t think it actually comes with a Microsoft HoloLens! So, Microsoft has made whatever it could to make the limited FOV more acceptable and we have to appreciate that. The headset is very light and balanced (Image by Microsoft).

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: Getting back to the platform owners, I think if you look at HTC and some of the things that they’ve done… you know, they did an eye-tracking version of the HTC Vive here. Alan: The VIVE Pro Eye. But Facebook has to stay the course. I think I’m right that I should stay the course in this investment.”

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: Getting back to the platform owners, I think if you look at HTC and some of the things that they’ve done… you know, they did an eye-tracking version of the HTC Vive here. Alan: The VIVE Pro Eye. But Facebook has to stay the course. I think I’m right that I should stay the course in this investment.”

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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. March 2016.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

John Riccitiello -- the CEO of Unity -- was one of the first to point out that there was going to be this great sort of gold rush of people who were going to overhype VR and its potential, and then we're going to see this gap of a disappointment where the early reality didn't match up with the hype and a lot of people were going to bail on it.

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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. Virtual humans are getting more and more real.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: Getting back to the platform owners, I think if you look at HTC and some of the things that they’ve done… you know, they did an eye-tracking version of the HTC Vive here. Alan: The VIVE Pro Eye. But Facebook has to stay the course. I think I’m right that I should stay the course in this investment.”

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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. And the nice thing about Khronos -- now I'm in there, so of course I'm a little bit partial in this -- but it's a group where anyone can join and everybody has an equal vote.

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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. And the nice thing about Khronos -- now I'm in there, so of course I'm a little bit partial in this -- but it's a group where anyone can join and everybody has an equal vote.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Microsoft ships HoloLens 2, nReal gets ready to do the same with its glasses. After a long wait, finally Microsoft is shipping its HoloLens 2 headset. HoloLens 2 is an amazing device, with a decent FOV, eye tracking, and hands tracking, that for sure will make many companies happy.

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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. And the nice thing about Khronos -- now I'm in there, so of course I'm a little bit partial in this -- but it's a group where anyone can join and everybody has an equal vote.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

After many years of waiting, and even a second iteration of the device scrapped away, Microsoft is finally going to announce the next generation of HoloLens. On stage, there will be Satya Nadella (CEO of Microsoft), Alex Kipman (the inventor of Kinect and HoloLens) and Julia White (Corporate Vice President). The time has come.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Of course, we've always had the JavaScript editor on there and you can wrap code in five different languages into this. Sergei [Sachkov], our VP of Research and Development and of course, Octavio, our creative director. So front facing cameras, IR cameras, eye tracking cameras, facial tracking cameras, all of these things.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Of course, we've always had the JavaScript editor on there and you can wrap code in five different languages into this. Sergei [Sachkov], our VP of Research and Development and of course, Octavio, our creative director. So front facing cameras, IR cameras, eye tracking cameras, facial tracking cameras, all of these things.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

edge detection); Eye-tracking sensors (accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer); A battery system ; A 5Ghz radio communication antenna to make the lens communicate with an external unit; An ARM0 processor , that acts as a “traffic cop” for the data. Unity talked about PlayStation VR 2 at GDC. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 4, 2023

It should run on top of an M2 chipset, which is much more powerful than the processing unit of the Quest 2, 4K displays per eye with strong HDR (a rumor talks about a 5000-nits display, about which many are lost in the optical path), a quite nice FOV. This giant virtual screen may also be used to extend the screen of your laptop.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Of course, we've always had the JavaScript editor on there and you can wrap code in five different languages into this. Sergei [Sachkov], our VP of Research and Development and of course, Octavio, our creative director. So front facing cameras, IR cameras, eye tracking cameras, facial tracking cameras, all of these things.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

You're not paying for a hotel, you're not paying for flights to get someone to come down for a day when, instead they can spend three-to-four hours together with each other each day over the course of a week, and never get out of their office. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. Who owns the eye tracking data?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

You're not paying for a hotel, you're not paying for flights to get someone to come down for a day when, instead they can spend three-to-four hours together with each other each day over the course of a week, and never get out of their office. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. Who owns the eye tracking data?

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