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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.12.16): Oculus Quest gets hand tracking, Magic Leap pivots towards enterprise and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Magic Leap pivots towards enterprise. At the same time, Magic Leap has also shipped a new runtime for its hardware , with the addition of new nice features like vocal commands. At the same time, Magic Leap has also shipped a new runtime for its hardware , with the addition of new nice features like vocal commands.

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ConjureKit AR Tool Features ‘Instant Calibration’ Tech

VRScout

Augmented reality (AR) technology lets you change the world around you by overlaying digital content that can be used to find your friends at a packed music festival, fight crime as a Marvel superhero , and bring conventional tattoos to life. Launch shared AR experiences in seconds. ’”.

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Possible Apple AR Headset Surfaces Once More In Patents

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

The patent discloses a method of displaying points of interest in the real world using AR. Through the screen of an iPhone, for example, you might be able to spot iconic landmarks in a city, similar to something we’ve already seen from one iOS developer. Right now if feels more like a question of when rather than if.

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A brief history of VR and AR

TechCrunch VR

” The technology served as a visually rich shorthand for dystopian cyberpunk fears in an age of rapidly accelerating technology. For decades, the technology has felt ahead of its time, beginning with Sensorama in 1962. It was, effectively, a version of the Sensorama designed to be worn on one’s head.

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Vuzix Medical Use Cases Show Value of AR Smart Glasses

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Empirical data from Vuzix’s collaborations and ventures has led to a series of reports evidencing respective use cases for its technologies. Following a decades-long career with the photography giant, he developed the world’s first VR head-mounted display (HMD) firm, Forte Technologies.

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How Will AR Transform Advertising?

AR Insider

Or we can put on device on our head (a head-mounted display or HMD) that completely occludes us from the real world allowing us to enter a completely simulated environment which we can walk around and interact in because the computer is sensing our physical actions: this is Virtual Reality or VR.

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Why we should care about ergonomics in virtual reality

The Ghost Howls

I’m at the technology store today in my local shopping mall because I want to get a new VR headset. And this is where things become more complicated when designing consumer equipment like virtual reality headsets, as there are few other products on the market that are worn so intimately against the face whilst secured to the head.