The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 25, 2021

According to The Verge, the top executives from Facebook are working on a rebrand of the company, most probably to create a parent company that owns all the various businesses controlled by Facebook … something similar to what Google made when it created Alphabet. Positional Tracking : SteamVR 2.0/1.0 Positional Tracking : SteamVR 2.0/1.0

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

These have appeared across Google’s ARCore, Niantic’s Lightship AR developer kit (ARDK), Snap Lens, Meta’s Reality system, and Apple’s ARKit platforms, namely for smartphones. Augmented reality (AR) solutions have grown in popularity over the last few years, utilising mostly consumer-facing smartphone platforms.

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EON Reality

JUNE 18, 2019

— such as the immersive businesses at The Landing in MediaCityUK who’ve just received investment for their Government-backed Digital Catapult space in Salford ?— The breakfast tech panel discussed everything from eye-tracking in VR and biosensor or haptic inputs to predictive analytics within AR applications.

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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! Participate in a VR eye-tracking apps contest!

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2018

7invensun for eye tracking addons). Some days ago, the Chinese government has released a document that states how China really wants to commit to VR , how wants the ecosystem to grow well and fast and how also wants to lead the world for what concerns virtual reality. You can find the original text in Mandarin here.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 18, 2023

For example, XR firms like NeuroSync have incorporated their eye-tracking PRO-SYNC solution to monitor gaze, pupil measurements, and other metrics. According to UK government statistics, motorcyclists were the most vulnerable transport group and were 50 times more likely to die in accidents than car drivers.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

High-precision 6DOF tracking, eye tracking, gesture inputs, with dedicated input controllers The SDK will support Unity , with Unreal coming Soon. We’ve made demos with them to our early clients like some big corporates and government agencies, and now we’re going to send them small batch by batch. for fitness).

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

While not swapping anything out, Google is attempting to make the world an ad through its visual search app–Google Lens. Just imagine a world where Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant have bodies. Once the rival ad is burned, a Burger King ad is shown in its place. Virtual humans are getting more and more real.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

Or better, I can imagine who can be the names and they are all the big monoliths: Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon , etc… Only companies of this size could afford selling a good headset under cost and at the same time attract enough developers to publish VR games on their own new stores.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

There’s a whole range of services, and GPS is getting better now that it’s being married to computer vision, so you can get highly-localized Google directions – really accurate, down to a couple of feet. Is this a job for Google Glass? Charlie: Yeah it’s Google Glass. Google put in 500 million dollars.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

There’s a whole range of services, and GPS is getting better now that it’s being married to computer vision, so you can get highly-localized Google directions – really accurate, down to a couple of feet. Is this a job for Google Glass? Charlie: Yeah it’s Google Glass. Google put in 500 million dollars.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

And while these well-funded companies can only push the technology forward for its use as a medical devices today thanks to regulatory hoops governing implants and their relative safety today, eventually the technology will get to a point when it’s both safe and cheap enough to land into the brainpan’s of neurotypical consumers.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Jameson Spivack, Senior Policy Analyst of Immersive Technologies for the FPF , added, “BIPA applies to information based on ‘scans’ of hand or face geometry, retinas or irises, and voiceprints, and does not explicitly cover the collection of behavioral characteristics or eye tracking.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

The government spent millions and billions of dollars on it at different levels. And there’s a huge opportunity for VR companies to try to work with both local and state/province governments. The other thing that they’ve got coming is eye tracking for their VIVE. There’s lots of money invested in it.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

The government spent millions and billions of dollars on it at different levels. And there’s a huge opportunity for VR companies to try to work with both local and state/province governments. The other thing that they’ve got coming is eye tracking for their VIVE. There’s lots of money invested in it.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

The government spent millions and billions of dollars on it at different levels. And there's a huge opportunity for VR companies to try to work with both local and state/province governments. Bob: You just mentioned Google Cardboard, and actually, something that I was looking at earlier today, that Nintendo [Labo] -- is it "LAY-boh?"

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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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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2022

These technology parks have been partly funded as part of a Government-backed initative to increase development and production of XR equipment in key regions across China. Google searches are very revealing. Pimax 8K Kickstarter campaign (Image by Pimax on Kickstarter, provided by Rob Cole).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2022

To summarize, these are its specifications: Qualcomm XR2 chipset 4K low-persistence 90 Hz Curved Display 3664 x 1920 resolution, 773 PPI 72Hz with support for 90Hz 98° FOV 6GB RAM (2133 Mhz) for the Pro model, 8GB for the Pro Eye Model 256GB storage Wi-Fi 6 connectivity USB-C 3.0 In total, 52.5% of the earnings will go to Meta.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 20, 2021

This is much more than what Oculus promised to track some years ago (“only the height of the user is sent to Facebook, for statistical purposes”), and the amount of tracking info is going to slowly increase. On the web, Google has similar behaviors. The tech world domination.

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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 for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

It was 2015, right after Google Glass, quote/unquote failed. So I know AGCO is using Google Glass all over. And not everybody understands the plans, especially if it’s a public building, and now you have to bring in people from local government. Google has some easy tools. But there’s a lot going on.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

It was 2015, right after Google Glass, quote/unquote failed. So I know AGCO is using Google Glass all over. And not everybody understands the plans, especially if it’s a public building, and now you have to bring in people from local government. Google has some easy tools. But there’s a lot going on.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

It was 2015, right after Google Glass, quote/unquote failed. So if you want to know more about this, it's brainxchange.com and just look for EWTS, or just Google "Enterprise Wearable Technology Summit". So I know AGCO is using Google Glass all over. Google has some easy tools. But there's a lot going on. Alan: Really?

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