ARPost

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Google’s real-time face and body tracking; Source: Google. Full-Body Tracking. We are also seeing significant advancements in AR with full-body tracking , something which is important to ensure that digital content is not always overlapping other people in the space; for both safety and immersion reasons.

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ARPost

APRIL 11, 2023

Companies like Google, Microsoft, Lenovo, and Vuzix are developing smart glasses to enhance the AR experience. Devices can now gather more information through eye and hand tracking. Screenshots taken on the official EQ3 website 4. AI-powered 3D representation of products in a user’s environment can increase conversions.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 30, 2023

On the UX side, other interesting things are being rumored: the headset would ship with no controller, and rely only on eye tracking and hands tracking for interactions. And to select objects, you have just to look at them and then pinch with your hand. This doesn’t sound to me very “Apple”.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

You can go forward, backward, and skip a track by just slightly sliding one finger tip over the other, an operation you can do by lying comfortably on a bed , without even raising your hands (like hand tracking would require) and without having a bulky controller with you. These new glasses, part of OpenAR 2.0,

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 25, 2022

Meta releases hands tracking 2.0 Meta has just released the v2 of its hand tracking system for Quest. But the applications won’t use it automatically, but they have to change a little flag to enable the use of this new hand tracking algorithm. I’ll keep you posted about my findings.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The last big breakthrough we saw in ease-of-use interactivity was the launch of hand tracking and gesture recognition on enterprise and consumer VAR devices. So it’s really good from an educational standpoint, as well as instruction based interactions,” he says. What is this thing, what does that do?

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

It uses hand tracking and a real piano to teach you to play songs. Image courtesy Google. With Google Earth VR , you can visit the whole world without leaving the comfort of your home. It’s also pretty cool to see others drum entire covers using it. If you’ve got a piano, you should try it! Learn in VR.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Zappar started developing a Google Cardboard-inspired MR headset in 2016. With that extra Zappar flair, the mobile phone adapter also came with printable “controllers” that really just allowed image-based hand tracking. This includes exploring models of products, configurators, and other options for product education.

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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. And this time, you will finally be able to download one of them.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

I leave in the links here below also two great articles about the available online platforms and how it is hard to organize a VR event (an amazing post written by the Educators in VR summit organizer), so that if you want to organize one, you have some hints on how to start. Google MediaPipe can now track 3D objects.

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ARPost

MAY 14, 2020

The Augmented City – imagine a kind of point-cloud Google Earth. Figmin – a platform for creating, editing, and sharing holograms by the group “Figmin XR” Greg Madison , for Tangible UI – an exploration of hand tracking on flat surfaces. See Also: VR Artist Rosie Summers on Art and Virtual Reality.

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AR Insider

JUNE 5, 2020

XR Talks is a series that features the best presentations and educational videos from the XR universe. Though keyboards and mice are “ abstraction layers ” compared to things like intuitive VR hand tracking, the former is advantaged by its familiarity. Speakers’ opinions are their own. Old habits die hard.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Probably we will also hear some news on hands tracking, solutions to create multiplayer LBVR installations with Oculus Quest and accessories for Quest&Rift S. It has bought the hand-tracking company Leap Motion various months ago for $30M since the two hardware are a perfect fit the one for the other.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The company is also exploring new ways to expand the Moss universe; Schell Games has announced Lost Recipes , an educational experience that teaches you the various cooking techniques of different cultures in a relaxing and entertaining way. The solution is very versatile, and can track the full body and also the hands.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

As a long-time AR enthusiast, and one of the first to have tried Google Glass in Italy, I have to admit that I will consider AR mainstream only when it will be on glasses that we will wear all day , when we’ll live in a completely shared mixed reality world (the AR Cloud). Some will also feature tracked controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Image by Google). Google completely opensources Cardboard. With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard. Google affirms that Cardboard has been a huge success to introduce people into VR, and more than 15 million headsets have been distributed.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Apple Vision Pro on the other hand has occlusion in two distinct forms. The main form is hand and arm occlusion. There’s clearly a 2D hand and arm segmentation model (separate to the 3D skeletal hand tracking) running for each eye’s camera. Unintentional inputs are also a very real problem with hand tracking.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 31, 2023

It’s something that when we talk about this whole ILaaS, it’s not just about making the experience great” CGS ILaaS and the Meta Presence Platform When asked whether the ILaaS service leveraged Meta’s Presence Platform to boost hand-tracking functionality, Stephen replied, “One hundred percent.”

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2020

If with AR/VR you can offer remote education, assistance, training, and telepresence of any kind , then companies may be interested in your services. For instance, I received some requests for remote education now that schools are all closed; Remote showcases. Me, Eloi Gerard and Joao Inada hanging around inside Altspace VR.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

We still need a lot of time and effort to educate people on what really is the metaverse and why it is a beautiful thing. Considering that Quest supports multitasking for 2D apps, this is great to use the Quest as a tool to work: you could have Slack in one Window, and Google Doc in another, and work on a document together with your team.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The sentence in Chinese say something like: “explore the world, there are a lot of interesting things” I think it is some kind of word pun, since searching the last three characters on Google Translate, I actually found “Focused” as the translation and the device is the Vive Focus. Thanks to Miss S.

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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 14, 2022

The console can also be inserted in a special case (a much improved version of Google Daydream View) to become a VR headset. The controllers can slip into a plastic shell with tracking rings. Upload has gone hands-on with the relaxing Shores Of Loci. We can say that Pimax has launched Nintendo Switch and Labo 2.0 Some XR fun.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

He’s going to kill Apple and Google Maps in 2 years , at least in places where he has a lot of cars” All these cars have 8 camera, Lidar, AI chips, and they are connected to the cloud. Talking about our JMJ concert, Robert said “It felt like Coachella, but without leaving your room”; Education : like Nanome.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

The new HoloLens is expected to be lighter (my sources say that it is much smaller than the current one ), with a field of view that is the double of the current one , full hands tracking, eye tracking and integration with AI thanks to a dedicated chip (this could add object detection and other fancy features to the device).

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Samsung’s incubation program, called the C-lab, has backed developer education since 2012, and the C-lab program will be showcasing four of their prime VR/AR projects in Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress this week (remember that now-iconic Dystopian photo of Mark Zuckerberg strolling through a crowd of oblivious VR headset-wearing journalists?

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Google Cardboard ($15) . Google Cardboard, developed by Google for the promotion of the VR concept, is indeed made up of cardboard, and in different sizes for compatibility with different smartphones. It was first distributed to attendants at the 2014 Google I/O meeting as a gift. Google Daydream View ($99).

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

And now, due to some of the new partnerships that we have that we brought to the table with Google for them, we’re enabling some of their content through Google AR Search. You could just run straight Google Analytics and say if they used AR, what was conversion? Let’s talk turkey here. Jon: Yeah, definitely.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

And now, due to some of the new partnerships that we have that we brought to the table with Google for them, we’re enabling some of their content through Google AR Search. You could just run straight Google Analytics and say if they used AR, what was conversion? Let’s talk turkey here. Jon: Yeah, definitely.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 25, 2016

But because you’re much likelier to hear about VR today, especially this month with the launches of Playstation VR, Google Daydream, and Oculus Touch, AR can feel distant and overhyped. Because users generally stay in a single spot or small area in VR, the medium lends itself well to uses like gaming, watching videos, and education.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

And so we're using a lot of the technologies that Google and Apple have been working on -- the ARKit and ARCore and things like that -- of being able to measure the room around you, and then be able to engage with it and start to interact with it and start to answer those what-if questions without having to order--. Let's talk turkey here.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

And now, due to some of the new partnerships that we have that we brought to the table with Google for them, we’re enabling some of their content through Google AR Search. You could just run straight Google Analytics and say if they used AR, what was conversion? Let’s talk turkey here. Jon: Yeah, definitely.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

When you walk into a Best Buy’s or you walk into any retailer, they’re selling you the Amazon Echo and they’re selling you the Google Home, where you ask a question, it plays a video. We’re also working with health and education. And the great thing is– Alan: The Quest is now doing hand tracking.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

When you walk into a Best Buy's or you walk into any retailer, they're selling you the Amazon Echo and they're selling you the Google Home, where you ask a question, it plays a video. We're also working with health and education. Alan: The Quest is now doing hand tracking. And the great thing is--.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

When you walk into a Best Buy’s or you walk into any retailer, they’re selling you the Amazon Echo and they’re selling you the Google Home, where you ask a question, it plays a video. We’re also working with health and education. And the great thing is– Alan: The Quest is now doing hand tracking.

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