The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

French startup Lynx announced some months ago a quite interesting headset featuring pass-through augmented reality , hands tracking, eye tracking, and an innovative lens design. Sam & Max: This Time It’s Virtual has been released on the Oculus Quest. Netflix may be interested in the VR market.

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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 cloud rendering could become a reality for always more headsets, and using always more cloud services. Google is hiring waveguide developers for AR.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The inaugural Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC) is kicking off tomorrow at the Park Central Hotel in San Francisco. Making Daydream Real – Building for Google’s New VR platform. Nathan Martz, Product Manager, Google. Applications of Eye Tracking in Virtual Reality.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2022

Already the, virtual reality in gaming market is expected to grow to a value of $53.44 VIVE has a huge range of tools to support different kinds of XR gaming, from the VIVE Flow for wireless wellness, to the VIVE Pro Eye, with built-in eye tracking capabilities. billion by 2028, accelerating at a CAGR of 31.4%.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 19, 2021

This is confirmed also by a previous prediction by the CEO of Unity, which foresees that in 2030 VR headsets will be as popular as gaming console: that is mainstream, but still not as TV, for instance. The most notable to me is that the upcoming new headset featuring eye-tracking (that is, the Quest 2 Pro) has already a codename, “SeaCliff”.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

At GDC 2017 LG showcased a virtual reality headset that was SteamVR compatible: it was a game-changing moment since for the first time a new non-Vive headset would have been compatible with SteamVR tracking and ecosystem. But we also know that when in VR, most people just look forward with their eyes. Google AR apps.

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

I’m looking forward to learning more about RealityKit and Reality Composer. The reveal that Apple will be using Unity to bring 3D applications and games to Vision Pro was exciting. If you consider virtual reality over the last few years, there has been increasing traction in the enterprise. It remains to be seen.

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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. A big wave of negative comments, memes, threatens of class actions, people canceling their orders of Oculus headsets, people explaining why this is so bad for us all has started.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Unity support for OpenXR is still in early beta , and so it’s not reliable yet to develop an OpenXR-compliant application in Unity. We Unity developers have still to use the current Unity tools that make us develop once, but then build for every different platform (like the ones I describe in this article ). Learn more.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

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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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The main scope of this position is to prototype, ship, and support consumer gaming products leveraging visual-inertial tracking (HMD and controllers), camera passthrough, environment understanding, eye tracking, and hand tracking. Google Starline starts real-world testing. Quest Hand Tracking v2.1

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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. You can do with the Quest mixed reality WebXR applications (and this is incredibly cool). Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 9, 2021

Talking about the hardware, we have confirmation about the 2K x 2K per eye resolution and the eye-tracking used for foveated rendering. Google Tensor chip is made for AI and AR. Google has teased its Pixel 6 phones and at the same time, it has also unveiled its first custom-made SoC, called Tensor.

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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 20, 2021

References found in the Oculus Quest 2 firmware by users Reggy04 and Basti564 highlight how the Quest 2 Pro should have: Eyes tracking Facial expressions tracking Eye relief knob Granular IPD adjustment External charging station. References found in Quest 2 firmware hint to Quest Pro features.

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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. Clothing virtual try-ons, but more for in-store.

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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

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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The New York Times distributes more than 1 million Google Cardboard phone VR viewers to subscribers with the launch of The Displaced , a 360-degree video project focusing on children driven from their homes by war. Eye-tracking startup Eyefluence, which raises $14 million this month, is acquired about a year later by Google.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

It was an exciting vision, and many people — including myself — got into virtual worlds as much for the possibilities they promised as for what they were actually able to deliver in the present. Virtual worlds aren’t the only visible path to a metaverse. Virtual reality ramps that up a hundred-fold.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2018

A commercial war that has given us lots of high-quality virtual reality products for always decreasing prices (ehm, cough cough Vive Pro excluded… cough cough). When I visited 7Invensun , the company has made me see a prototypical Vive Focus hacked to add eye tracking inside. The never-ending story.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Alan: Today's guest is Cameron Ayres, the director of innovation at Sector 5 Digital, a digital agency specializing in augmented reality and virtual reality applications for the enterprise. That's where virtual reality, and augmented reality, and a lot of other different media come into play.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Alan: Today's guest is Cameron Ayres, the director of innovation at Sector 5 Digital, a digital agency specializing in augmented reality and virtual reality applications for the enterprise. That's where virtual reality, and augmented reality, and a lot of other different media come into play.

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VRScout

MARCH 23, 2017

Bye will be delivering a keynote at SVVR, as will Nonny de la Peña, CEO of Emblematic Group, Tony Parisi, Head of VR and AR at Unity Technologies, and Rikard Steiber, SVP of VR at HTC. Here’s a peek of the far-reaching topics at SVVR 2017: Education And Virtual Reality – Clay Park VR. ’”. .

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Alan: Today's guest is Cameron Ayres, the director of innovation at Sector 5 Digital, a digital agency specializing in augmented reality and virtual reality applications for the enterprise. That's where virtual reality, and augmented reality, and a lot of other different media come into play.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Alan: Today's guest is Cameron Ayres, the director of innovation at Sector 5 Digital, a digital agency specializing in augmented reality and virtual reality applications for the enterprise. That's where virtual reality, and augmented reality, and a lot of other different media come into play.

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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.

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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.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

And it's not only this, it's vision processing, it's neural networks, it's parallel computing, it's virtual reality and 3D graphics. I think Microsoft is calling them "world anchors" and I think Google has called them "VPS points" or-- everybody has a solution for it today or is a solution for it. And I think that's good.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

And it's not only this, it's vision processing, it's neural networks, it's parallel computing, it's virtual reality and 3D graphics. I think Microsoft is calling them "world anchors" and I think Google has called them "VPS points" or-- everybody has a solution for it today or is a solution for it. And I think that's good.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

And it's not only this, it's vision processing, it's neural networks, it's parallel computing, it's virtual reality and 3D graphics. I think Microsoft is calling them "world anchors" and I think Google has called them "VPS points" or-- everybody has a solution for it today or is a solution for it. And I think that's good.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Speaking of things like MetaVRse, you have Invidia, who just announced Omniverse this week, which is their kind of persistent, collaborative platform for high quality virtual reality running in the cloud. So front facing cameras, IR cameras, eye tracking cameras, facial tracking cameras, all of these things.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Speaking of things like MetaVRse, you have Invidia, who just announced Omniverse this week, which is their kind of persistent, collaborative platform for high quality virtual reality running in the cloud. So front facing cameras, IR cameras, eye tracking cameras, facial tracking cameras, all of these things.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Speaking of things like MetaVRse, you have Invidia, who just announced Omniverse this week, which is their kind of persistent, collaborative platform for high quality virtual reality running in the cloud. So front facing cameras, IR cameras, eye tracking cameras, facial tracking cameras, all of these things.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2020

Outside VR, the big news to keep an eye on is the dispute between Epic Games and Apple (and Google), which could lead to a complete change in how app stores are managed, even in VR. With this new method, the tracking of the facial expressions is less accurate, but it works well the same. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

There is not even an assembly kit like with Google Cardboards. If you have already heard his name, it is probably because he is the author of this famous photo of Sergey Brin wearing Google Glass in the metro. Furthermore, the position of the real and virtual hands were not exactly identical. There’s no help in doing this.

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