The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

Of course, the object must be in the FOV of the cameras of the headset to be tracked, even if HTC says that the tracking can somewhat continue also when this condition is not true (i guess using just IMU data). Qualcomm and Microsoft partnership. I think that this tracker can be very useful. Further references. Shiftall MeganeX.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The devices that will be based on this reference design will have amazing specifications like: 2K x 2K display resolution per each eye ; Have up to 7 cameras used simultaneously, including the ones for tracking, mixed reality and eye-tracking; High-quality passthrough augmented reality with high resolution and framerate.

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CraneMorley

JUNE 27, 2023

Current key players in the field are Microsoft, Magic Leap, and Meta. Apple and Google are rumored to be building headsets of their own to rival their competitors. Human understanding: hand-tracking, eye-tracking, and speech input. Spatial sound. Locations and positioning in both physical and virtual spaces.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

On the other side, this is massive for Apple, that mixing the data of Apple Maps together with all these point clouds detected by the rear cameras when in use, will be able to create an AR Cloud ecosystem probably even before Facebook, Microsoft, and Google. Let’s see if Facebook will be a worthier opponent than Google.

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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! Image by Microsoft). This is the 150th Week Peek! News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The project is carried on by Microsoft which was given the monster contract of $22B to create this device by modifying its HoloLens glasses. The next step is about trying to integrate the glasses with cloud services, something about which Microsoft is a worldwide leader thanks to Azure.

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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). When Microsoft won a $22B dollars contract with the US Army to develop a special version of HoloLens that could increase the “lethality” of troops, the news made strides worldwide. Other relevant news.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MAY 28, 2024

It’s similar to many of the extended reality developer kits available from companies like Meta, Google, and more. Productivity and collaboration apps like Microsoft Teams and Zoom are already extremely popular among Apple Vision Pro users. Developers also have a growing opportunity to design apps specifically for certain industries.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

On the contrary, Microsoft has worked a lot on the platform, to make it more appealing to enterprise customers. It has released experiences like Microsoft Remote Assist, that let different teams in a company work together to solve maintenance problems. Of course, it will exploit the already awesome Microsoft platform.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

If the rumor is true, probably this is the Del Mar headset , and the Jedi controllers may be like the Oculus Touch but more comfortable and maybe with full finger tracking. Or eye tracking?). Microsoft presents VROOM, a solution that mixes AR and robotics to let you have a telepresence robot with your AR avatar during meetings.

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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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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

My favorite ones have been: Sony Interactive Entertainment has revealed that the next PSVR headset will be called PSVR 2 and will feature 2K x 2K per eye, up to 120 Hz framerate, and 110° FOV. It will be the first consumer headset with eye-tracking and foveated rendering, and also the first one to feature haptics directly on the headset.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Image by Google). Google completely opensources Cardboard. With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard. Google affirms that Cardboard has been a huge success to introduce people into VR, and more than 15 million headsets have been distributed.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Microsoft has officially stated that Minecraft Earth , that has been in beta for Android and iOS in carefully selected worldwide locations in the past months, is now ready for its launch. Keep an eye on it. Google is doing it again. It seems that also the Pimax 5K+ in some conditions can now run at 120Hz. The time is coming!

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 13, 2018

For instance, tracking stability : on Magic Leap, the “holograms” appear as trembling a bit, while on HoloLens, they’re damn fixed. When I’ve tried HoloLens , I was really impressed by this, because I know how it is hard to make no-jittery augmented reality and Microsoft has really done a terrific job in doing this.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 4, 2024

In 2024, the space saw far less sophisticated XR devices with older products like early Oculus or Google Glasses. At the same time, XR’s enthusiasts were well aware of other players in the headset space, like Microsoft, Varjo, HTC VIVE, and others. But the race is on.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The OpenXR standard, that aims at standardizing virtual reality hardware and runtime is keeping improving, and in its latest release, it has added new features like experimental overlays and hand tracking extensions. More info (New features of OpenXR) More info (OpenXR in Unity) More info (OpenXR in Microsoft products).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Considering that Quest supports multitasking for 2D apps, this is great to use the Quest as a tool to work: you could have Slack in one Window, and Google Doc in another, and work on a document together with your team. For instance, the virtual hands will be able to grasp objects in a natural way. Presence Platform. Spark AR updates.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Varag: So Clay is a software company, we're specializing in hand tracking and gesture recognition, mostly in the AR and VR space. We did a project just using Google's hand tracking library. And hand tracking needs to be there. But let's get back to hand tracking, because this is a vital part.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Varag: So Clay is a software company, we're specializing in hand tracking and gesture recognition, mostly in the AR and VR space. We did a project just using Google's hand tracking library. And hand tracking needs to be there. But let's get back to hand tracking, because this is a vital part.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Anand Agarawala sold his previous startup, BumpTop — a 3D physics multi-touch desktop — to Google, and also demoed this in a TED Talk. Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Anand Agarawala sold his previous startup, BumpTop — a 3D physics multi-touch desktop — to Google, and also demoed this in a TED Talk. Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Varag: So Clay is a software company, we're specializing in hand tracking and gesture recognition, mostly in the AR and VR space. We did a project just using Google's hand tracking library. And hand tracking needs to be there. But let's get back to hand tracking, because this is a vital part.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Anand Agarawala sold his previous startup, BumpTop -- a 3D physics multi-touch desktop -- to Google, and also demoed this in a TED Talk. Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. The founders have deep backgrounds in 3D user interfaces.

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VRGuy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Eye tracking software converts eye images into gaze direction. Hand tracking software converts hand position into gestures. If you are an eye tracking expert, you can add an eye tracking plugin. Google Glass has not been as successful as hoped.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

This device looks like a big pair of glasses (it reminds me the Bose Rondo) and it has installed on a lot of sensors: 2 IR external cameras, 2 IR internal cameras (for eye tracking), 1 RGB camera, 7 microphones, 2 IMUs. I don’t trust Facebook, Google, and all the other marketers where “You are the product” being sold.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

GB: Google Glass. I look at Google Glass and it was really interesting. Above: Microsoft’s HoloLens in action. Image Credit: Microsoft. Or it’s a Google problem. With hand tracking and eye tracking built into the headset, I can be playing with my friends across the world.

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