AR Insider

JULY 15, 2021

Facebook reportedly has a deal with Ray-Ban, which is part of eye-wear giant Luxottica, which also owns LensCrafters, Sunglass Hut, prescription lens makers and many of your favorite brands. FWIW, Google had also partnered with Luxottica but never shipped a more fashionable version of Glass.]. 2023+: Eye Tracking and beyond.

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JULY 9, 2022

The Digital Markets Act is a law that the European Parliament and Commission are discussing since 2020 and has the purpose of limiting the excessive power of the major tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta. And the same holds for Google, which is applying similar restrictions.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The headset has a very nice design and features these specifications: Standalone 6DOF headset 1600×1600 resolution per eye 90Hz refresh rate 90° FOV RGB AR passthrough Innovative lenses that make the headset more compact Integrated audio Controller-free hand-tracking Eye-tracking 6GB of RAM 128GB of storage WiFi 6 (802.11ax), Bluetooth 5.0,

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2022

And if you want to discover how to prepare for the job interview with me… well, Joma Tech has made a great video on the topic you can’t miss: [link]. Google starts testing its AR glasses in the wild. Google has announced that it is going to start to test the prototypes of its AR glasses in the wild. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2019

This is how to set it up. The SDK will support eye-tracked foveation and fixed foveation (like the one of Oculus Go); The Vive Focus will soon have finger tracking : for every hand, you will be able to have something similar to what Leap Motion offers. The 8 modes of the Vive Focus Plus.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 15, 2019

He got quite bored by the related solutions of the moment, since as he states, companies were just “copying-and-pasting Google Analytics into virtual reality” , while he thought that virtual reality had much more potential for the analytics sector. AR and VR are actually great technologies to study the behavior of the users.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2018

Maybe reading these lines you have in your head the same thought that came into mine when going to Lenqiy website: “But… ahem… Space Draw is a clone of Google Tilt Brush and Space Block is a clone of Google Blocks… ehm… why have you developed them??”

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

On the server-side, it is being integrated with Microsoft Azure, and it is also coming in the future for Google Cloud and Tencent Cloud. This means that foveated rendering for VR applications will be possible using eye-tracking devices embedded into the headset. Google is hiring waveguide developers for AR.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 12, 2024

How to Choose a Cheap Virtual Reality Headset Demand for VR headsets has skyrocketed among consumers and businesses alike in recent years. Not so long ago, if you wanted a cheap VR headset, you’d be limited to phone-based devices like Google Cardboard. By 2029, experts predict the market will be worth around $203.35

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Pico 4 Pro should feature next-gen functionalities like RGB passthrough, eye tracking, face tracking, and automatic IPD adjustment. The specifications of the device are really high, and I wonder for instance how the XR2 can support such a high-resolution screen without eye tracking.

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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. Additional firms such as IKEA and Walmart have also explored how to use AR for shopping experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2022

There is only one big problem: the form factor is terrible , they look super-dork, even worse than Google Glasses. I don’t even know how they plan to sell this device in China, a country where people want to appear cool and not weird. copy-paste) on how to implement hand tracking in their own experiences.

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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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

There are three very interesting tidbits from this article: Somnium is going to open source the algorithm used for eye-tracking The headset will let developers have access to the raw streams of the passthrough cameras.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2019

More info (Oculus Quest runtime v12 features) More info (Oculus Quest hands tracking update) More info (How to enable hands tracking on Quest) More info (List of Quest apps supporting hands tracking) More info (Hands tracking having issues with tattooed hands). Google ARCore now adds depth detection.

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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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Upload VR

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The app also supports Quest Pro’s face and eye tracking features. Tribe XR can teach you how to mix music and become a DJ with a straight-forward tutorial that uses the concepts from rhythm games to teach you how to operate a deck. Gravity Sketch. Color Passthrough Apps & Games.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

One of the more surprising announcements during the presentation, Spatial Anchors serve as a way to share three-dimensional images compatible with Apple’s ARKit as well as Google’s ARCore. In the demo given by Julia Schartz, Senior Researcher at Microsoft, we got a glimpse of what these “instinctual interactions” feel like.

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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. As headsets become more sophisticated, the devices record increasing user data, from hand tracking, eye tracking, environment scanning and more.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Well, with this new chip, headsets will: Have a resolution of 3K per eye ; Have up to 7 cameras used simultaneously (12 in total for the device). The Quest has dominated the searches on Google and it has gone sold out quite soon, and people that really wanted to buy it had to buy it from some online resellers that offered it at higher prices.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Someone invokes saviors like Google and Amazon, but even if they managed to succeed, they are other data-harvesting companies , so in any case, we are f**ked. Currently, it works only for static environments, but the researchers are studying how to make these scenes interactive, for instance for photorealistic VR games.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 18, 2023

Here’s Arsenal’s team goal through the eyes of Tomiyasu last season. In Be Your Best, players can replay this exact scenario, learning how to scan correctly. For example, XR firms like NeuroSync have incorporated their eye-tracking PRO-SYNC solution to monitor gaze, pupil measurements, and other metrics.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

This special version of the headset features additional sensors that can get more data about the user: A heart rate sensor on the forehead; Two additional cameras that track the lower part of the face of the user, so that to read his facial expressions; Eye-tracking cameras , that can also detect the dimension of the pupil.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

Austin McCasland is a UX prototyper working with Google, and he and Alan chat about the finer points of UX design for AR. He's designed and developed Paint Space AR, named by Apple as one of the best apps of 2017 and currently works full time at Google as an AR Interaction designer. Austin: Thank you for having me, excited to be here.

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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

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. Image by Acer).

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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. Spatial&’s first V-Commerce example is in collaboration with Dreamworks for “How to Train Your Dragon: Hidden World”.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

And that means that every time you go to use Vision Pro you have to consciously think about how to best position this 353 gram anchor, around double the weight of a typical smartphone, and how to keep the cable out of the way of your left arm. And I mean fully. This basic idea isn’t new.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 30, 2023

On the UX side, other interesting things are being rumored: the headset would ship with no controller, and rely only on eye tracking and hands tracking for interactions. This doesn’t sound to me very “Apple”. It has been said that the menu will look like a spatial version of the home menu on the iPad.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

I’ll be there to talk about HitMotion: Reloaded and how to properly design a VR fitness game (using the precious lessons that our game designer Max Ariani has taught me). The Quest 2 Pro should so feature improved comfort, better FOV (eye relief knob is important to increase the FOV of the user in VR), and tracking of facial expressions.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The service offered by Enjoy, where an operator comes to your house and explains you how to correctly use the Magic Leap One, will be expanded from only 6 to 39 cities. To be exact, it will be available in the “contiguous U.S” ” , that are all the member states of the USA, excluded Alaska and Hawaii.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The eye and face tracking can also work via Quest Link (but maybe only for developers). There are new complaints about Meta’s privacy policy on eye tracking , as my friend Avi Bar-Zeev points out. The new guide about how to write content about the metaverse Funny link. Other relevant news. Funny link.

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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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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

JANUARY 11, 2022

The tool should have a free tier for small teams, and at CES new features have been announced, like t he integrations with popular 3D marketplaces like Sketchfab and Turbosquid, and a cloud version to make people work all together on an online project in a way similar to what happens with Google docs. It is very interesting. Other news.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 30, 2020

The same day of the launch of Half-Life: Alyx, Hewlett-Packard has announced its new virtual reality headset, the Reverb G2 , made in collaboration with Microsoft and Valve. If Microsoft will improve the WMR ecosystem with at least 4 tracking cameras, this can be an headset to look at with much attention. Other relevant news. Image by HP).

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