The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2020

Daniel is an XR professional that has become very famous this year for his mindblowing experiments with the hands tracking of the Oculus Quest , where every prototype of his is focused on an interaction that is so crazy that most of the time you couldn’t think about it before. Networked hand tracking!

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

After the latest Unite event, Unity has released in Open Beta the tools to develop applications for the Apple Vision Pro. The development packages are usable only by people having Unity Pro or Enterprise, but the documentation is publicly available for everyone to see. PC), it can be built and deployed on all other platforms (e.g.

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MARCH 14, 2024

This lets you, for example, use Quest 3's IOBT for the upper body and real Vive Trackers for the lower body, giving you true 6DoF body tracking at the lowest possible cost. It also adds the ability to emulate Valve Index controllers using Quest's controller-free hand tracking, enabling finger tracking in SteamVR games which support it.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 19, 2023

An example is shown below of a level that applies a uniform grid of swinging lasers across the room. An example of a pattern-based level, a uniform pattern of movement is applied to a grid of lasers, covering the entire room. The below example shows a pattern that creates a sequence of blinking laser walls between the buttons.

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Road to VR

JUNE 21, 2023

However, if your goal is to create a fully immersive VR experience for Vision Pro that also works on other headsets like Meta’s Quest or PlayStation VR, you have to use Unity. It’s like diet-Unity that’s built specifically for this development stack. But those rich AR features are only available in Full Spaces.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 12, 2023

Unity, a leading real-time 3D (RT3D) development platform, released a significant update to its XR Interaction Toolkit ( XRI ) this week. update could provide Unity developers with a significant step forward for VR/AR/MR interaction. Unity XRI 2.3: Eye Gaze and Hand Tracking XRI 2.3

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OCTOBER 13, 2023

Developers can already implement dynamic occlusion for your hands by using the Hand Tracking mesh, but few do because this cuts off at your wrist so the rest of your arm isn't included. Looking at Meta's example clip, it's hard to imagine any developer will choose Hard.

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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. Photoshop is doing the same.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The Lynx R-1 headset houses six cameras: two B&W cameras for 6DoF positional tracking, two IR cameras for hand-tracking, and two RGB visible light cameras for the color passthrough AR mode. Hand-tracking, controllers. AR + Hand-tracking. Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax), Bluetooth 5.0. Connectors. USB Type-C.

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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. He gives the example of Star Trek: Bridge Crew , a VR game that was made in collaboration with Ubisoft. The open-sourced Watson Unity SDK can be found on GitHub.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 28, 2021

You can, for example, attach a virtual screen to a physical wall or navigate a virtual character with realistic occlusion throughout your real-world environment. With Interaction SDK Experimental, Facebook is making it easier for you to integrate hands and controller-centric interactions while in VR. Image Credit: Facebook.

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Road to VR

JUNE 22, 2018

Knuckles EV2, for example, not only contains a touchpad, a joystick, trigger and buttons, and a number of capacitive sensing areas, but also a new force sensor, which detects actual grip force, and a track button which also has a force sensor. Documentation is now available on the OpenVR GitHub Wiki.

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

All three features are available as part of the v60 SDK for Unity and native code. Inside-Out Upper Body Tracking Inside-Out Body Tracking (IOBT) uses Quest 3's side cameras, which face downward, to track your wrist, elbows, shoulder, and torso using advanced computer vision algorithms.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 17, 2022

This Tuesday, Nreal unveiled a hand-tracking update to its augmented reality (AR) software development kit (SDK) for the Chinese company’s lineup of smart glasses, including new controller support and eye tracking options. AI+AR = our new Hand Tracking API. Hand menus (user interface – UI).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Oculus releases hands tracking SDK, official Link cable for Quest and more. First of all, Oculus has finally released the hands tracking SDK for Oculus Quest , letting all developers create hands-tracked application for this popular standalone headset. More info (Example n.1 I hate this.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 15, 2023

Unity adds OpenXR hand integration package. Unity has just released the XR Hands package, currently in preview, that aims at making developers integrate hand tracking into their applications via OpenXR. It is exactly the example of how NOT to do a porting…. It’s terrible, really. Some news on content.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2022

Someone in the communities argued with me that HoloLens 2 has still some advantages over Magic Leap 2: it is well integrated with Azure, it is standalone so it doesn’t need a potentially dangerous cable connecting the headset to the computational unit, and it doesn’t need controllers (it uses hands tracking). Image by PUBG).

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NOVEMBER 18, 2020

For example, the minimal environment removed the need for detailed environment modelling or complex lighting, and helped put the focus on the puzzle in front of the player. One instance where I realized I was over-scoping was with my plans to support hand-tracking in the initial release of the game.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

Although, an emerging presence in the development space is hand and eye tracking. AR/VR/MR headsets are increasingly equipped with hand and eye tracking technology. Previously, commercial XR devices like the Meta Quest had experimented with hand-tracking features which improved as the device matured.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 6, 2021

For example, PCs are defined by the ways we control them, such as keyboard and mice. We’re talking voice, hand tracking and eye tracking, all of which exist today in various forms. There, Zuckerberg asserts that it’s all about the inputs. The same goes for mobile (touch and voice) and gaming (controllers).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

Although, an emerging presence in the development space is hand and eye tracking. AR/VR/MR headsets are increasingly equipped with hand and eye tracking technology. Previously, commercial XR devices like the Meta Quest had experimented with hand-tracking features which improved as the device matured.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 11, 2016

Unity Widgets are back – with a new name and massively streamlined functionality! Just released for our Unity Core Assets , the UI Input Module provides a simplified interface for physically interacting with World Space Canvases within Unity’s UI System. This utility is used in each of our example Widgets. What’s Inside?

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ARVR

JULY 19, 2021

On Thursday, May 27th, key players from the haptics, hand tracking, and VR training industries gathered to discuss the scaling of haptics in VR training applications. The development of high-fidelity hand tracking interactions and haptic feedback can take a very long time and be complicated.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JUNE 7, 2023

Moreover, the Vision Pro has a trove of hardware features, including a 4096 x 5464 pixels micro-OLED resolution, eye/hand tracking, voice recognition, spatial audio, high-dynamic range (HDR), wide colour gamut (WCG), 2-hour battery life, iPhone/iPad/Mac synchronization, a light seal, a LiDAR scanner, and a TrueDepth camera.

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

The latest version of the Oculus Integration for Unity, v23, adds experimental OpenXR support for Quest and Quest 2 application development. OpenXR Support for Oculus Unity Integration. Today Oculus released new development tools which add experimental OpenXR support for Quest and Quest 2 applications built with Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The damn coronavirus continues to impact all our lives: the fact that many countries are applying restrictions on flights to and from Italy is, for example, creating various nuisances to my job. Developers continue to have fun with Oculus Quest hands tracking! This is one of the weirdest rag-doll experiments in Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

This realism is offered through three main features: Fingers tracking : Senseglove can detect the orientation of your hand and also the bending angle of your fingers. It can so be used as a hand tracking device; Vibrotactile feedback : SenseGlove has some motors that can vibrate so that you feel vibrations on your fingertips.

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JUNE 24, 2017

Combined with hand tracking and visual feedback, sound even has the power to create the illusion of tactile sensation. Engines like Unity and Unreal are constantly getting better at representing sound effects in 3D space – with binaural audio , better reverb modeling, better occlusion and obstruction modeling, and more.

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JULY 5, 2017

It can recognize more than 30 gestures users make with their hands, allowing for controller-free navigation of experiences. You can see those examples in action below. The SDK is already functional with the Unity engine, and support for Samsung’s Galaxy phones is also planned for the near future.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

During all these months, I had the occasion of reading on Linkedin about all his cool prototypes and enterprise solutions that he and his colleagues have developed inside the company, ranging from 360 videos to hand-tracked training solutions with the Quest, not to mention XR entertainment solutions for airplane passengers.

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AUGUST 31, 2016

These issues are particularly acute when it comes to integrating naturalistic hand interaction with a digital space and its objects, for example in VR.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Small startups can’t compete with big companies, so usually, startups produce expensive headsets at a smaller scale to survive : see VRgineers or Varjo as an example. Facebook has showcased how thanks to the use of hand-tracking gloves, it has been able to let people touch-type in VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2023

More info Estee Lauder’s new try-on app is a great example of accessibility As an advocate for accessibility in XR, I can only praise the latest AR application by Estee Lauder, one of the leading make-up brands in the world. This is a great use of technology to make a part of the life of people better.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

The sentence with which they have started the tease is “Big things are in motion here at Ultraleap”, which makes me think about something big that moves… may it be a new device to perform body tracking? All without leaving your editor.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2021

I have found no way of using the UI with just my hands : Pico mentioned it was working on hand tracking, and I think that it should implement that pretty fast because the ability to use your hands is great in enterprise settings so people do not have to mess with controllers. object detection).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

#VR #gamedev #madewithunity pic.twitter.com/ycBTR7dKOM — Zi — majormcdoom.bsky.social (@MajorMcDoom) November 29, 2023 Zi, an Independent XR Creative and Former Owlchemy Labs Developer , explained how the device’s feet-tracking technologies were instrumental to his VR experiments in Unity. Named FOTA 6.0,

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 26, 2023

The Pico 4 Enterprise edition is one example of such a solution. 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. What is the Pico 4 Enterprise Edition?

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