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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.07.15): Apple kills its AR glasses, Oculus full-steam ahead on 2nd gen VR and much more!

The Ghost Howls

A new job listing points out to the fact that Oculus is planning to integrate eye tracking in its next devices. More info (Jon Lax’s quote) More info (Osborne Effect) More info ( Eye tracking job listing) More info (Oculus mixing real and virtual) More info (Assassin’s Creed and Splinter Cell).

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The High-end VR Room of the Future Looks Like This

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Eye tracking will enable more realistic interactions with both NPCs and human avatars, along with detailed analytics, heatmapping, and privacy concerns. Hand and finger tracking, gesture interfaces, and grip simulation: Leap Motion: Manus VR: Neurodigital: Gestigon: Handpose: Usens: Dexta Robotics: Minority Report (film).

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Bending Reality: North Star’s Calibration System

Leapmotion

Leap Motion North Star calibration combines a foundational principle of Newtonian optics with virtual jiggling. The equally devious solution is to film each eye’s optics from two cameras simultaneously. 6] We’ll cover the North Star headset’s eye tracking capabilities in a future blog post.

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Massive XR Environments and Transforming Education with Alvin Wang Graylin

XR for Business Podcast

Alan: So I keep coming back to training, but let’s really kind of take a second to unpack the native hand-tracking and finger-tracking; if you’re able to reach out, see your hands, and interact with things in virtual spaces, this is going to literally unlock unlimited potential for training. Alvin: Yes.

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Massive XR Environments and Transforming Education with Alvin Wang Graylin

XR for Business Podcast

Alan: So I keep coming back to training, but let’s really kind of take a second to unpack the native hand-tracking and finger-tracking; if you’re able to reach out, see your hands, and interact with things in virtual spaces, this is going to literally unlock unlimited potential for training. Alvin: Yes.

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Valve Index review: a step closer to next-gen VR

The Ghost Howls

I have filmed it for you! The front features a glossy plastic lid , that can be removed to uncover the so-called “frunk”, a hole with a USB-3 port , that can be used to attach accessories like Leap Motion to the Index. The top box containing the controllers. The bigger bottom box containing the headset.