Road to VR

JULY 24, 2017

Microsoft has undoubtedly been working on the next version of HoloLens, the company’s AR headset, but now we know a little more about what’s going into the next iteration: a Microsoft-built custom AI chip designed to carry out low-latency computer vision tasks. image courtesy Microsoft. The post HoloLens 2.0

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ARPost

APRIL 22, 2022

The XRA is an industry organization founded by Google , HTC VIVE , Microsoft , Oculus , and Sony Interactive Entertainment. The world-facing cameras on XR devices that enable world-tracking in AR and hand-tracking in VR contribute to what some are calling “the era of constant reality capture.” Access and Adoption.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

WebXR experiences with hand tracking are some of the first truly cross-platform worlds you can visit from both an Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest. All data on Hubs is associated with user email addresses.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 22, 2024

At GTC, NVIDIA wowed the world with robotics, digital twins, automatic vehicles, AI processors, and countless more innovations, and behind many, many, many of these innovations, spatial data. With the rise of emerging technology solutions, spatial and XR data is seemingly the lynchpin holding a segment of the future of work together.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

VirtualLink was announced back in 2018 with the backing of NVIDIA, AMD, Microsoft, Valve, Oculus, and HTC—representing a bulk of the most significant hardware players in the VR industry. data channel for on-board cameras, and up to 27 watts of power. But for some reason VirtualLink’s momentum faltered.

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ARPost

APRIL 13, 2020

In this instance, ‘real-time’ means immediate data consumption and interactivity to bring these experiences to life,” Unity Montreal’s Studio Head and Vice President of Features Andre Gauthier said in an email interview. “I The new platform uses Unity’s existing AR Foundation but gives extra affordances for testing and app data.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The headset has a very nice design and features these specifications: Standalone 6DOF headset 1600×1600 resolution per eye 90Hz refresh rate 90° FOV RGB AR passthrough Innovative lenses that make the headset more compact Integrated audio Controller-free hand-tracking Eye-tracking 6GB of RAM 128GB of storage WiFi 6 (802.11ax), Bluetooth 5.0,

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ARPost

APRIL 11, 2023

Companies like Google, Microsoft, Lenovo, and Vuzix are developing smart glasses to enhance the AR experience. Usage Analytics AI can also help analyze usage data and client feedback. Devices can now gather more information through eye and hand tracking. AR also relies on spatial data to immerse users.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

We’ve seen various flavors over the years such as Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D , and of course Google Earth and Street View. Meanwhile, Realworld gets its underlying geospatial data from Bing Maps. Over time, it could augment that with its own data layers as user annotations and other social collaborations mentioned above are created.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

Since I’m not totally convinced that just a few LEDs in that position may alone offer realiable tracking, I would also speculate that maybe either data from the depth sensor or some hand-tracking data is involved in the sensor fusion to arrive at the final controller pose. But that’s just a speculation of mine.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 9, 2024

However, the success of innovative new headsets, like the Apple Vision Pro, Meta Quest 3 , and the Microsoft HoloLens 2, is driving increased adoption of MR. Suddenly, everyone wants to compare mixed reality headsets and embed them into their workflows. The mixed reality solutions market is growing at a CAGR of 44.39%.

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VRScout

AUGUST 4, 2019

Not too long ago the US Army announced a whopping $479M contract with Microsoft to supply 100,000 modified HoloLens headsets for combat use. Magic Leap Horizons originally developed TRACER as part of the US Army’s Augmented Reality Dismounted Soldier Training (ARDST) project.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

Experiments around MR and natural interactions We are in the middle of a paradigm shift: before the focus was on VR, while now is on MR. Before the focus was on controllers-driven interactions, while now natural interactions (like hand tracking) are getting always more important.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

The ring should have a double purpose: on one end, it should act as a health sensor, able to track heart data like a smartwatch; on the other end, it should act as a controller to be used in conjunction with XR glasses. I wonder if this data could be useful also for building the AR Cloud.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

Developers continue to have fun with Oculus Quest hands tracking! A new week, a new sheer of demos exploiting Oculus Quest hands tracking! A demo made by the creator of Holoception, that mixes portals and hands tracking. Image by Microsoft). My favorite from this week? What a time to be alive.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MARCH 4, 2024

According to reports, the upcoming Samsung XR headset will feature a microOLED display, eight tracking cameras, a Time of Flight (ToF) sensor, voice commands, eye tracking, and hand tracking. Shen explained that the company has been distributing tracking solutions, including hand tracking, for the past four years.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

The Mixed Reality Toolkit (MRTK) by Microsoft is an open-source toolkit that has been around since the HoloLens was first released in 2016. Microsoft-driven MRTK-Unity is a suite of components and capabilities used to speed the creation of cross-platform MR applications in Unity. Understanding the MRTK-Unity Toolkit for MR Developers.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

This week, Microsoft announced that MRTK will migrate to an independent GitHub account and that the project will be supported by a consortium including Microsoft, Magic Leap, and Qualcomm. Since MRTK was used especially for AR applications, it is natural that these three giants of augmented reality are interested in keeping it alive.

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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

MARCH 4, 2019

Frontal view of the device (Image by Microsoft). The biggest news of the MWC for what concerns XR has been for sure the announcement of the HoloLens 2 by Microsoft. Image by Microsoft). Together with the HoloLens 2, Microsoft has also announced a new version of the Kinect, called Kinect Azure. HoloLens 2. Azure Kinect.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 18, 2021

The product increases and improves upon haptic feedback, form factor, and hand tracking to enable a user’s feeling of shapes, textures, and resistance in VR. The company is currently developing an email service to compete with Google and Microsoft. Snap acquires Streetcred, a location data startup.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 3, 2024

integrates the booming technology to extract and automate data for automatically creating training templates. The device features 256GB/512GB/1TB storage, a 23 million pixel display, 90Hz/96Hz/100Hz refresh rate, spatial audio, 2 hours of battery life, Bluetooth, eye tracking, and hand tracking, and weighs between 21.2-22.9

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XROM

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Snapdragon AR2 dynamically works to distribute the processing of latency-sensitive perception data directly on the glasses and offloads more complex data processing requirements to a Snapdragon-powered smartphone, PC or to other compatible host devices3.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

These are all great news for the ecosystem, but someone in the communities pointed out that we should beware of companies claiming vague data about sales without absolute numbers (for instance, it may also be that previous headsets sold worse than we thought). Microsoft signs a $22B deal with the US Army. Well played, Microsoft.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

So many developers could find themselves with the conundrum of what to offer and to which device : if the Quest 3 Lite will sell a lot of units, maybe developers will prefer to develop content that is compatible with hand tracking, shifting the current attention to games to something else.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 14, 2017

By combining the HoloLens’ spatial mapping capabilities with hand tracking, the player can hit the mole on the head. When a player holds his hand in the ‘ready state’ – lifting your index finger upwards – the HoloLens will recognize the hand and create a collider on the hand.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

an ARM chips can be installed on IoT sensors that communicate to a server where an NVIDIA card is used to perform machine learning on the data). While this decision was very smart on the business side because the major headset manufacturers were already building their hands tracking solutions (e.g.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

All these data together make me a bit skeptical about the capabilities of this company: developing such kind of a high-quality headset requires a lot of expertise, while the company is very small and features no known expert in the field. Facebook and Microsoft publish two interesting research projects for VR.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 4, 2024

At the same time, XR’s enthusiasts were well aware of other players in the headset space, like Microsoft, Varjo, HTC VIVE, and others. At its core, Meta is a data company; data revenues drive its social media platforms, and the wealth of data provided by headsets is increasing – therefore, in value for a firm like Meta.

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Road to VR

JUNE 15, 2020

HoloLens 2 has been available to Microsoft business partners and developers since last year, however anyone else interested in the augmented reality headset would have to jump through a few hoops first to get their hands on the device. Now Microsoft has opened sales of HoloLens 2 to anyone with the cash on hand.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Facebook has found a way to provide very robust hands tracking. A paper by FRL Research shows a new algorithm that Facebook has found to provide optimal bimanual hands tracking. Microsoft Flight Simulator comes to VR. More info (Lenovo AR glasses) More info (NuEyes AR glasses). Other relevant news.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Already, innovators like Microsoft and Meta have begun leveraging intelligent tools to help users create photo-realistic avatars they can use in virtual environments with VR headsets. With blockchain solutions, it’s possible to track the movement of data, and the actions of different users on a consistent basis.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

(Image by Microsoft). According to Reuters, Microsoft’s executive vice president Harry Shum took the stage at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai and said that the HoloLens 2 will be released sometime in September of this year. My review of Google Hand tracking library. In any case, we will see.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Lenovo created headsets such as the Mirage Solo and Mirage VR S3, which used Google Daydream, as well as the Lenovo Explorer, a Microsoft Windows-based MR device, along with the company’s VR classroom platform. 6 degrees of freedom (DoF) tracking with 4 cameras and hand-tracking controllers. 70/90Hz refresh rates.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

I also have to say that when reading the various docs, many things I read reminded me of the times I developed an experience on the HoloLens 1 : I think that Apple took some inspiration from the work that Microsoft did when designing its SDK. This is the case with the XR Hands package, which provides cross-platform hand tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

Road To VR reported about Manus VR’s new Quantum Metagloves with very precise hand tracking for enterprise use (cost: $9000). It can train a model 6–7x faster than the previous data center GPU. Microsoft and Nreal have developed a very interesting research project to help blind children in speaking with people around them.

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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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