The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Oculus releases hands tracking SDK, official Link cable for Quest and more. This has been a great week for all Oculus Quest users and developers. First of all, Oculus has finally released the hands tracking SDK for Oculus Quest , letting all developers create hands-tracked application for this popular standalone headset.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In my unboxing video, you may see that I’ve found an additional Leap Motion v1 controller + Leap Motion mount for RealMax + USB-C cable for Leap Motion. It gets the job done and it is usable, but it is subpar even if compared to other standalone headsets on the market like the Oculus Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Today Ultraleap has officially released Gemini, the fifth-version of the hands tracking runtime. As usual, this article comes with a video version where I show you my hands-on session with Ultraleap Gemini! This can be an annoying problems when you are using hand tracking to interact with your VR experiences.

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Road to VR

JULY 15, 2017

Holovis’ press release describes some of its interactivity achieved via hand tracking – “riders could explore things in the cab, such as change the radio station, scroll through the news and pick up elements that fall from the glove box as it opens during the first inversion”. image courtesy Holovis.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Quest hand tracking is perfect for slower experiences with light interaction. During Oculus Connect 6 in San Jose, CA, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled that the Oculus Quest would allow for hand and finger tracking without the need of any hand controllers, and of course, I couldn’t wait to try it.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

Leap Motion. You may ask why I’m adding Leap Motion here. Well, during 2018, Leap Motion has announced the North Star reference design : a cheap augmented reality connected to PC, that is able to detect your hands very well thanks to Leap Motion’s sensor.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2021

One of the first accessories for AR/VR I had the opportunity to work on is the Leap Motion hands tracking controller : I made some cool experiments and prototypes with it and the Oculus Rift DK2. Leap Motion has also been the first important company I have interviewed in this blog.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

XTAL is an enterprise headset with incredible specifications, like for instance: 5120 x 1440 display resolution (2560 x 1440 per eye); OLED display Custom non-Fresnel lenses 180° diagonal FOV Spatial 3D sound from a built-in sound card Embedded microphone Embedded eye tracking Auto-IPD adjustment Embedded Leap motion v2 sensor.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Let me tell you my first hands-on impressions on it! Project North Star is an opensource reference design for a wide-FOV augmented reality headset that Leap Motion (now Ultraleap ) has given to the community. The hand tracking was fabulous as always thanks to Leap Motion and its Orion tracking.

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 27, 2018

And of course this is all much more likely to happen in the most inconvenient and crucial moments of a demo or experience. We wanted to try and do this without any device, just using your hands, and also do it with gestures in a way that’s more playful,” said Doug Bowman, the Frank J.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 21, 2018

One of the biggest drawbacks of HTC Vive headsets with regard to Oculus Rift are the controllers: while Oculus Touch is ergonomic and can emulate the hands quite well, Vive has controllers that are quite big and are usable only as wands. Oculus Touch Controllers. SteamVR Skeletal Input (Image by Valve). Knuckles EV2.

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

There were several announcements at Oculus Connect 6 (OC6) this year that could have taken the top spot. Oculus Link for example or Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond are two worthy mentions, yet it must be the experimental hand tracking feature for Oculus Quest that takes home the crown, especially after testing the technology first-hand.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

The great news is that SenseGlove has been so kind as to send me a review unit some days ago, and of course I’ve made many extensive tests so that to write a detailed review for you! Example of failure of SenseGlove system: my virtual hands are trespassing the object and the haptic feedback is completely wrong.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 20, 2022

Meta is rolling out update v37 for Oculus Quest and Quest 2 bringing quality-of-life improvements like interface tweaks and tracking support for the Apple Magic Keyboard. For now Oculus says the new link sharing feature is only available on Android phones, but iOS support is expected in the future. Interface Improvements.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

VR has the power to transform our lives and connect us in new ways, while hand tracking lets you reach beyond the digital divide and take control. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Please try a new text input interface using Leap Motion!”

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Considering that Facebook is very smart also in leaking misleading info (as it has happened with the “Monterey” headset ), this can also be a move from Menlo Park to create hype for the upcoming Oculus Connect 6 and the AR glasses that will be teased there. The Oculus Connect 6 is coming! Other relevant news. Image by Martin Hajek).

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Cinemas are setting up shop in the metaverse, so we can sit back and watch 2D film classics like our favorite Christmas movie ( Die Hard , of course). This is one of the inspirations behind Oculus Story Studios’ Henry , where the character is brought to life so that it feels like he’s in the room with you.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The best of them comes of course from Facebook. Zuck in its quarterly earning calls has said to investors that the sales of the Quest 2 are going so well that it is on track to become the first mainstream headset (that probably means 10M units sold). Oculus official side distribution platform is coming soon. Image by Facebook).

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys — Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go. Facebook is still investing in Oculus, obviously.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys — Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go. Facebook is still investing in Oculus, obviously.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2018

There it has presented a lot of news regarding all Facebook companies (Messenger, Instagram, Facebook, etc…) and of course, among these pieces of news, we had some AR and VR ones. Oculus Go launch. We all knew that Oculus Go would have been launched at F8 and this has been the case. I’ve purchased my Oculus Go!

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys -- Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go. Facebook is still investing in Oculus, obviously. well, failing.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys — Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go. Facebook is still investing in Oculus, obviously.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2021

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. This means that at the moment you can not use NextMind with the Oculus Quest standalone (you can use it with Quest + Link, of course).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2018

It is a square one, so it seems that the system takes the undistorted view of one eye, exactly as the Oculus Go does when recording a video. It can’t track your hand while it is near to your back, because your hand should be in the field of view of the cameras… we have to see how big is the FOV of this tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

You probably have heard about Leap Motion’s Project North Star , that should be able to offer people affordable augmented reality. Notice a Leap Motion sensor installed on top of it. Project North Star is an opensource augmented reality headset that Leap Motion has designed and gifted to the community.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 12, 2019

Of course, one of the first thing that I did was performing a middle finger. I think that “Time to middle finger” is the “time to penis” of finger tracking systems. What is incredible is that the glove can work with WHATEVER tracking system. The company is reportedly keep improving its comfort design.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This week has been the week of the Oculus Connect 6 , the biggest yearly event by Oculus where the VR company announces all its most important news, both on hardware and software sides. Oculus Link. You can even access to Oculus Home and Dash. Oculus Link will be available in beta in November 2019.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

Yes, so at the VEC – and at GDC – we actually announced our USDKs for hand tracking. And so, two kids had the same courses, the same questions, the same tests, and one supplemented the experience with VR-supplemented material, to allow the kids to be able to interact with the principles that was discussed. It was a disaster.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

Yes, so at the VEC – and at GDC – we actually announced our USDKs for hand tracking. And so, two kids had the same courses, the same questions, the same tests, and one supplemented the experience with VR-supplemented material, to allow the kids to be able to interact with the principles that was discussed. It was a disaster.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Of course the festivals VR exhibit wouldn’t have succeeded without the tireless work from its curator, Mária Rakušanová, who has managed to scale this year’s VR showcase in a really impressive way. The Apple is a Chinese, Japanese and Korean co-production which won Best Multi-Person Experience award at Raindance.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2019

In the American sin city of Las Vegas, there has been an enormous showcase of every kind of innovative technologies and of course, AR and VR have been part of the show. It will be something similar to the new Oculus Home. You may ask what has done Oculus at CES while HTC was generating hype around its devices.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The whole event was all about Facebook creating a parent company called Meta that is going to control all the products that until now were in the Facebook’s family, that is Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, Oculus, Portal, and all the rest. Of course, he’s not going to abandon ads, so Meta will still also be about data collection.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

I have always praised Oculus for being the company offering the best packaging, but now Oculus has a true competitor. The front features a glossy plastic lid , that can be removed to uncover the so-called “frunk”, a hole with a USB-3 port , that can be used to attach accessories like Leap Motion to the Index.

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