ARPost
JUNE 3, 2022
Meskill also discussed Magic Leap’s plan for their AR cloud generated by both the sensors on the headset itself as well as using data collected from other connected devices. Leia Inc makes a “lightfield experience platform” – a 2D device that displays 3D content through head tracking. Jade Meskill.
Road to VR
MARCH 8, 2017
Mobile VR solutions like Samsung’s Gear VR currently employ rotational tracking only. Three infrared sensors, detecting the flashes from an HTC base station (Lighthouse technology), are attached to the front of the Gear VR headset and connected to a microcontroller, which collects the timing data.
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The Ghost Howls
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
We were using something called Visa, which was a very low-level library language, very different from what Unity is right now. I learned how to build hardware because back in the late ’90s, we weren’t using beautiful inside-out tracking systems. For four years, I stayed at UCSB and I learned how to program VR.
Headjack
OCTOBER 2, 2015
An app based on the architecture of a game engine ( Unity ) is much more versatile than a platform like YouTube will ever be, since it allows us to add custom features and interactive “game-like” elements to the video experience. Unity is not build to playback video very well and we had to do a lot custom coding to get it working flawlessly.
Leapmotion
JUNE 12, 2015
Note that some assets (like Image Hands and Widgets) are not currently available for the Orion Unity Core Assets. From there, the opportunities to expand a user’s understanding of data are endless. The Leap Motion API returns some tracking data that can be safely discarded, depending on the use case. Creating Affordances.
Road to VR
JANUARY 12, 2017
The company is calling the capabilities of the tracking ‘homescale’, to suggest that it can enable tracking across a multi-room, home-sized space, and is tuned to track well given the sort of objects you might find in a common home (furniture, shelves, doors, thin etc). ” But it isn’t just for tracking.
XR for Business Podcast
AUGUST 14, 2019
And now, the data coming back is way better than anybody could have ever imagined. Michael: And this is why I’ve been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building — there’s VRTK for Unity… there’s just all these tools. Unity is always my top one.
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