The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

At AWE Europe one of the projects I loved the most has been OpenAR. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

More info (Laval Virtual canceled) More info (XR Europe canceled) More info (E3 canceled) More info (Tribeca canceled). This means that if you are in Google Earth VR in a green room where there is a friend of yours, you can see the city that you are visiting all around you, and the real image of your friend being there with you.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2020

They also feature eye tracking, hand tracking and now the XR-3 version has also added a Lidar camera for environment scanning and a custom-made inside-out tracking algorithm. Google shuts down Google Poly. Nreal Light launches in Europe in Spring 2021.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 1, 2022

AR tech firm Magic Leap is set to launch in 19 countries across the world, Lisa Watts, Vice President of Product Marketing and Developer Programs for Magic Leap announced at the Immerse Global Summit (IGS) 2022 Europe on Madeira Island, Portugal. Maria Pace, Head of XR Hardware, Global Partnerships and Strategies for Google.

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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. Curious to learn more, I reached out to Joe Pavitt, Master Inventor and Emerging Technology Specialist at IBM Research Europe. NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING.

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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. XR Europe will be awesome! My favorite from this week?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Vive Flow is a 6DOF headset that works with your Android phone as a 3DOF controller (hands tracking is coming in the future). UPDATE (2021.10.19): Road To VR also suggests that this hiring can be used to have a strong voice on regulations happening in Europe. NVIDIA CloudXR is now available on Google Cloud.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Some months ago, we all read that letter where Zuckerberg claimed wanting to get complete control of the hardware and software stack so that Facebook shouldn’t depend on external companies, like Google or Apple for the SO, or phone manufacturers for the hardware. Oculus releases hands tracking SDK, official Link cable for Quest and more.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2019

VR just passed the thorough of disillusionment and is here to stay thanks to investments in the AR/VR market by Facebook, Google and Apple. Seated VR: hand tracking games, movies and simulators. Hand tracking VR allows players to interact with objects in VR with their hands. Seated VR gets you entertained.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

This headset should feature pancake lenses, mixed reality capabilities, and micro-LED displays by Raxium , a startup owned by Google. More info AWE announces a $200K price for XR startups AWE announced that at the upcoming AWE Europe in Vienna there will be the usual XR Startup Pitch competition.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

You will be able to finally buy it in Europe and North America for $599, from the dedicated page on the HTC website. Until now you could only preorder devkits, while from now on in the US and Europe you can really buy the headset going on the Vive website. HTC Vive Focus Specs. The headset will be available in 37 new countries.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

With Quest 3 and Apple Vision Pro on the horizon, developers that have invested the better part of a decade honing their expertise were left to promote themselves at Europe's largest gaming event last month. Heading into Gamescom 2023, I suspected that this year might be about on par with 2022 in terms of VR content on offer.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Meta is trying to find a compromise with the EU, but if it doesn’t happen, it is threatening to leave its business in Europe, shutting down Facebook and Instagram in the whole European Union. Especially if it happens by hiring 10,000 people in Europe, so that it can apply stronger pressures on the EU about its data privacy rules.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 19, 2022

McGuigan began by stating Lenovo had an exciting week of events to attend and had received “a lot of input” from his previous announcement of the ThinkReality VRX at the Immerse Global Summit (IGS) 2022 Europe, which received positive feedback. Lenovo Reveals ThinkReality VRX at IGS Europe 2022. 2280 x 2280 pixels per eye.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

OMG, it’s almost 3 years that I write these roundups… the first week peek was exclusive for my blog subscribers and it featured as best news the release of Google Blocks and in the other news something about Samsung Gear VR… how much time has passed since then! in Europe). This is the 150th Week Peek! It’s all very cool.

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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

JANUARY 10, 2022

This tracker can be worn on the wrist, for a more accurate hand-tracking experience, or be installed on external props (e.g. This is why companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Meta are exploring similar technologies. For some, they might be a way of selling software and services.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

This startup just exited from stealth mode, is like Google Maps but for the interior of shopping centers, offices, and other closed environments. I can proudly say that we Italian have been the first in Europe to adopt a thermal scanning helmet in an Airport. More info (Google Lens) More info (AR copy to Photoshop) More info (VROOM).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2020

This week, the damn coronavirus has caused the cancelation of three super-important events: GTC (that will be substituted by the streaming of the sessions), SXSW and Google I/O. More info (GTC canceled) More info (SXSW canceled) More info (Google I/O canceled) More info (Facebook & working from home).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

But it is still his fault for having driven the company to this point with the massive hirings of the previous months (do you remember he wanted to hire 10,000 people in Europe?) The console can also be inserted in a special case (a much improved version of Google Daydream View) to become a VR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2020

This year I had been invited to top-tier events like MWC, GDC, XR Europe and I was overly happy going there. Exploration experiences : since I miss traveling, having a tour inside Google Earth VR makes me go virtually to other cool places in this world. But they have all been canceled, one after the other.

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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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Cats and VR

JUNE 1, 2017

Europe and China to explore local candidates including Mexico City, Lisbon, Adelaide, Rome, Dubai and Tel Aviv. link] uSens is showing off its new, industry-first single-camera/dual-lens combined inside-out 6DOF (degrees of freedom) head-tracking and 26DOF hand-tracking technology. The expansion takes AWE from the U.S.,

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Alan: I’m going to Google it here. I work in Europe. ” This is– well, at least not in the US and Europe. Hand gesture control, hand using hand gestures. Google Pixel came out. Alan: The Quest hand tracking is coming in January and the Hololens 2. “My name is Joe.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Alan: I’m going to Google it here. I work in Europe. ” This is– well, at least not in the US and Europe. Hand gesture control, hand using hand gestures. Google Pixel came out. Alan: The Quest hand tracking is coming in January and the Hololens 2. “My name is Joe.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Alan: I'm going to Google it here. I work in Europe. This is-- well, at least not in the US and Europe. Hand gesture control, hand using hand gestures. Google Pixel came out. Alan: The Quest hand tracking is coming in January and the Hololens 2. Wouldn't that be amazing? My name is Joe.

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