XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 1, 2024

Users are discovering that virtual reality isn’t just a powerful tool for entertainment. The solution also supports hand tracking through Ultraleap Gemini and Positional tracking via SteamVR. Demand for virtual reality is expanding at an incredible rate.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 26, 2023

Devices were seen as novel tools for the gaming and entertainment landscape. The SDK also supports development with Unreal, Unity, and OpenXR and can be used offline. There’s inside-out tracking, which uses multiple cameras around the device to allow users to move freely when interacting with content.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

VR has gone through a rapid transition from a primarily consumer-focused, tethered device for gaming and entertainment, to standalone headsets in similar verticals. We’re now bringing that directly to developers, who can download the software development kit (SDK) for Unity or Unreal Engine.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Talon Simulations was making great strides in the location-based entertainment industry, until COVID-19 hit. They have full motion simulators for entertainment and training. So Talon Simulations specializes in dynamic and immersive experiences for entertainment centers and training institutes. Today's guest is Brandon Naids.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Talon Simulations was making great strides in the location-based entertainment industry, until COVID-19 hit. They have full motion simulators for entertainment and training. So Talon Simulations specializes in dynamic and immersive experiences for entertainment centers and training institutes. Today's guest is Brandon Naids.

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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 for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Talon Simulations was making great strides in the location-based entertainment industry, until COVID-19 hit. They have full motion simulators for entertainment and training. So Talon Simulations specializes in dynamic and immersive experiences for entertainment centers and training institutes. Today's guest is Brandon Naids.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

We have seen that hands tracking has enabled new kinds of experiences that we hadn’t even thought of before (think about the great experiments by Daniel Beauchamp ), and I’m sure that the same will happen with passthrough AR, too; Facebook is building a platform that will work for all future headsets.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Qualcomm has acquired hand tracking technology company Clay AIR. The site includes games, an NFT showcase, and even XR entertainment like Failed to Render. Finally, Hanke introduced Niantic Ventures , an organization for funding creators contributing to a shared vision of the real-world metaverse. But, that’s not all.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

There are no controllers, but Ultraleap hands tracking (you can use it with FinchShift controllers, though). $500 for this device is a steal. And since Epic has violated the rules of the App Store, Apple had all the rights to kick Fortnite out of it, and even to suspend the support in the integration of iOS inside of Unreal Engine.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2022

Its first VR concert tour springs from years of R&D that resulted in proprietary 9K cameras and software that can automate complex unreal engine-based VR concert visual effects (VFX) modules and run more than 100 headsets at a time. So gaze-to-aim and hand-to-shoot.

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Road to VR

MARCH 1, 2017

The Unreal Engine is put to good use building a visually arresting future cityscape, with supersampling options that allow those with the GPU horsepower to improve clarity even further, and enough graphical settings to ensure that even minimum spec machines get a smooth ride.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

And as any year, Oculus has really amazed us: for sure you have already read my short recap published after the first keynote of OC6 where I told you about amazing stuff like Oculus Link, Facebook Horizon and Hands Tracking. Hand tracking on Quest. Hands tracking will guarantee 25 tracked points for each hand.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 27, 2019

On Unreal Engine, the Wave SDK for the Vive Focus has lots of issues. In defense of HTC, I can tell that I’m seeing the Wave SDK evolving quite fast and adding lots of features (the latest version adds support for finger tracking and foveated rendering, for instance). Enterprise features. I have used it in some demos of mine.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

It is a big showcase demo for its Unreal Engine 5, and I have to say it is pretty impressive. The new update also brings hand tracking support in the Oculus OpenXR plugin. Epic Games releases Matrix Resurrections tie-in experience. Epic Games has released a tie-in experience for the upcoming Matrix Resurrections. Image by Sony).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In a side event happening after AWE, HTC has announced a bunch of updates of Vive Focus 3 that have the potential of revolutionizing the Location Based Entertainment in VR (LBEVR o LBVR) sector. With the upcoming update of the runtime, Vive Focus 3 will be able to track its position in a space up to 33m x 33m, that is 1000 square meters.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

But I think we can stay on the cartoonish side of things as long as we hope things like eye tracking and hand tracking. Kent: Yeah, I feel like VR and AR is such an interesting realm to cover, just because it’s helping define what the human experience is and all the different contexts that we have. But once the WebXR 2.0

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

But I think we can stay on the cartoonish side of things as long as we hope things like eye tracking and hand tracking. And for anybody who's doing serious applications, I would definitely recommend them to do Unity or Unreal, but to also keep an eye on what's happening in the OpenWeb space, because it's going to be a huge part.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

But I think we can stay on the cartoonish side of things as long as we hope things like eye tracking and hand tracking. Kent: Yeah, I feel like VR and AR is such an interesting realm to cover, just because it’s helping define what the human experience is and all the different contexts that we have. But once the WebXR 2.0

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VRGuy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Many game engines – such as Unity, Unreal and SteamVR- immediately support it. We see entertainment, therapy, home improvement, tourism, meditation, design and many other applications. Eye tracking software converts eye images into gaze direction. Hand tracking software converts hand position into gestures.

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