The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Two days ago I was reading an interesting editorial about PSVR 2 by Scott Hayden, and my mind started wandering about the current moment of virtual reality, the stasis we live in, and our expectations for the upcoming headset. I hope to be wrong, of course and see Quest 3 selling 50 million units, but I highly doubt it.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 1, 2024

Demand for virtual reality is expanding at an incredible rate. Users are discovering that virtual reality isn’t just a powerful tool for entertainment. The Gear devices build on the capabilities of mobile virtual reality, allowing users to turn their existing smartphone devices into tools for immersion.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

Of course for some ad-based tech companies, the current economic situation is not the only problem, but there is another big one which is Apple and its new privacy features embedded into iOS. The same luck has not happened to employees at Niantic at Unity. This is of course the base technology needed for foveated rendering.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

But hey, let me play this game anyway, so here you are my predictions for virtual reality in 2021 based on the trends and the anticipations that we had at the end of 2020! Every year since when I entered VR, someone says that “this will be the year of VR” and then of course this never happens.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

French startup Lynx announced some months ago a quite interesting headset featuring pass-through augmented reality , hands tracking, eye tracking, and an innovative lens design. Sam & Max: This Time It’s Virtual has been released on the Oculus Quest. Netflix may be interested in the VR market.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

So, here you are how I envision this 2020 in virtual reality! (I’ll PlayStation VR selling more than 5 million units until now has proven that console players like virtual reality. Too many people still don’t understand the potential of virtual reality. Me wearing the Oculus Quest. The reasons?

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2022

Today is a watershed moment for virtual reality : Pico has finally done what everyone in the XR community was waiting for with the launch of Pico Neo 3 Link , the first Quest 2 competitor. And today, at Laval Virtual, Pico has broken through the hesitation and has launched also the West its first consumer headset: the Pico Neo 3 Link.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

It is weird that it is only one camera when mixed reality must be stereo. But maybe the system performs sensor fusion between all the three cameras to create a colored stereo passthrough Two 480p 120FPS eye-tracking cameras Two 400p 120FPS face-tracking cameras. If you want to become a VR developer, check them out!

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

The super-interesting eye tracking device Droolon F1 by 7Invensun is now in preorder on Taobao , with Amazon listing coming soon. I can’t wait to use this device, that for only $150 can give eye tracking functionalities to all Vive headsets (including Focus). Oculus and Unity partner for a course on VR.

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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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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

An eye-tracking accessory built for Vive should work with Rift as well, and so on. And it is not stopping here: OpenXR has just added new extensions for hands and eye tracking , and a company like UltraLeap has just released a beta implementation for its hands’ tracker. But I want to be positive about this… go OpenXR! .

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

During the Chinese counterpart of the event, the V2EC, Vive has also announced two other interesting pieces of news: The 7Invensun Droolon F2, an eye-tracking add-on for the Vive Pro 2 and Vive Focus 3, coming soon for $299. PSVR2 may feature 4K display and eye tracking. Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment).

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 14, 2020

Virtual reality use cases have greatly matured over the past few years. A Grid Raster survey this spring found that 56 percent of executives said they had already implemented virtual or augmented reality, and 27 percent had fully deployed their solution and were looking to scale it up.

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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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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. Virtual Reality is creating a rise in insurance claims. Virtual Virtual Reality 2 has been released. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

We all love virtual reality, but sometimes it gives us big headaches. If SteamVR apps can’t detect your Vive controllers or you see your Vive/Oculus controllers fixed on a point on the ground in the virtual world without any possibility to move them, go on reading! Of course, this didn’t work for me.

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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.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The French startup headed by Stan Larroque is developing passthrough AR glasses with eye-tracking and hands tracking that can offer a new paradigm to augmented reality. RTFKT studios have created the METAJACKET, a virtual jacket that you can buy and have videos and photos with you wearing it thanks to AR filters.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

Sentences like “With eye-tracking (ET) and a few well-placed sensors, they’ll learn our unconscious reactions to anything we see. The idea is that if you are the passenger in a car, you can entertain yourself with virtual reality. Of course, there are also some concerns. These are all problems to be figured out.

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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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The Ghost Howls

JULY 9, 2023

One of the things that got people excited the most is its interface that works only by using eye tracking and hand pinching , which according to the journalists that underwent the demo, is fantabulous. Let’s start with the good one: the eye tracking was actually working very well to select the app icons.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2019

The Valve Index is for sure the big surprise for virtual reality in this 2019. After having only been behind the curtains for what concerns creating Virtual Reality headsets, Valve has finally decided to create its own device , and as you may imagine, it is a very special one. We can say that it is an improved Vive Pro.

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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

JULY 19, 2021

This is confirmed also by a previous prediction by the CEO of Unity, which foresees that in 2030 VR headsets will be as popular as gaming console: that is mainstream, but still not as TV, for instance. The most notable to me is that the upcoming new headset featuring eye-tracking (that is, the Quest 2 Pro) has already a codename, “SeaCliff”.

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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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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2021

Think about it as an eye-tracking device that instead of looking into your eyes, reads inside your skull. I know that you’re big fans of my unboxing videos, and of course, I have one also for NextMind. Of course, if you want to use it together with a VR headset, you have to own a VR-ready PC.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

I’m looking forward to learning more about RealityKit and Reality Composer. The reveal that Apple will be using Unity to bring 3D applications and games to Vision Pro was exciting. If you consider virtual reality over the last few years, there has been increasing traction in the enterprise. It remains to be seen.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Unity support for OpenXR is still in early beta , and so it’s not reliable yet to develop an OpenXR-compliant application in Unity. We Unity developers have still to use the current Unity tools that make us develop once, but then build for every different platform (like the ones I describe in this article ).

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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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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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VRScout

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

The addition of eye-tracking injects a new layer of interactivity to the user experience. Voice commands, navigation, interactivity with 3D objects, virtual collaboration; almost every aspect of the HoloLens experience has been fine-tuned and upgraded. EYE-TRACKING AND VOICE COMMAND. Image Credit: Microsoft.

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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. Quest Hand Tracking v2.1 increases the reliability of hand tracking on Quest 2.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

Or we can put on device on our head (a head-mounted display or HMD) that completely occludes us from the real world allowing us to enter a completely simulated environment which we can walk around and interact in because the computer is sensing our physical actions: this is Virtual Reality or VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 31, 2022

The headset won’t come in two sizes, but in a single one, because the eye box of the lenses is big enough to accommodate for different positions of the eyes in the users. To be exact, the eye box is twice as large as the one in Magic Leap One. Image by Unity). News worth a mention. It is a quite mind-bending article.

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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. It is like having a virtual recording studio in your home!

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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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