XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Plus, it means groups of people can share the same aligned XR interaction. Companies can use engines from companies like Unity to recreate digital “twins” of products, buildings, and other items, combined with information from various data sources. Hand-Eye Tracking.

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JULY 31, 2017

This is combined with eye-tracking technology from German firm SMI, which may have just been acquired by Apple. What followed was a brief training session where a group of objects floated in front of me — a train, ball and block among them. It is definitely alarming to hear someone outside VR say my brain is looking good.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

This is because the sales have not been enormous, and the content for it is not exploiting completely its new features (there are some cool uses of eye tracking, but that’s it). The Unity Beta to develop for the Vision Pro is still not available, so many devs like me can’t even play with the emulator.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 9, 2023

Magic Leap 2 devices will also allow ARway to leverage its eye tracking, spatial audio, and six degrees of flight (6DoF) for greater interactivity with creative content. It will also provide support for developers using Unity 2021.3 LTS, where Unity will become the only Unity backend for HoloLens 2 and Windows MR headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

The last days of AltspaceVR have seen many events happening in the platform where people said farewell not only to the platform, but also to the communities and the groups they were part of. Now all these groups of people do not have a house anymore: some of them will migrate to other social VR platforms (e.g.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

million from the Finnish business development group Tekes to continue development on their “human eye-resolution” display for VR headsets. Called the ‘Bionic’ display, Varjo also includes stereo eye-tracking for supposed foveated rendering.

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JULY 29, 2021

Last year, Unity’s Vice President of Features, Andre Gauthier, told ARPost how the Unity graphics engine enables a number of BMW’s projects that require real-time rendering. To be fair, BMW didn’t wake up and discover AR and VR technology this week. Meet Wir Sind Jerry and GOVAR.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Honor to all the other countries, some of them probably deserved more than us, but I think Italy won because we were a true team, a group of people that supported each other for a goal they craved to reach. Facebook, instead, has just added Harry Potter-inspired group filters for its Portal device.

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AUGUST 3, 2020

Image by Khronos Group). Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. An eye-tracking accessory built for Vive should work with Rift as well, and so on. Top news of the week.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MAY 24, 2022

Precise eye-tracking. Eye-tracking data is collected by an integrated eye-tracking system used for debriefing and behaviour analysis. For inter-pupillary distance (IPD) correction, the eye-tracking system employs a one-dot calibration technique unique to it. 8K resolution and user comfort.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 28, 2023

On the platform, users can access a Unity SDK to create their own virtual worlds and unique avatars. You can express yourself through gestures and emotes, leverage lip-syncing and eye-tracking features to showcase your mood through your avatar, and even enjoy spatial sound.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

JULY 26, 2023

Doing so will also provide greater interoperability with additional platforms such as Unity and Xcode, among others. The hand and eye-tracking expert explained that the Vision Pro could serve as a “spatial computing platform that we can build on,” but was not yet social. I think it’s a smart move.”

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 27, 2023

This product was designed in cooperation with an international group of air force experts. The immersive headset can be customized to suit specific client requests and comes with foveated rendering capabilities to enhance overall performance.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 1, 2024

This product was designed in cooperation with an international group of air force experts. The immersive headset can be customized to suit specific client requests and comes with foveated rendering capabilities to enhance overall performance.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Battery life seemed to be around 3-4 hours (eye tracking uses more power), with the spare battery swapped in seconds to provide power for longer sessions. Arguably the most important update, and something long awaited by the non-Beta community, was the activation of eye tracking. Happy anniversary , Pimax!

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 9, 2023

One of the things that got people excited the most is its interface that works only by using eye tracking and hand pinching , which according to the journalists that underwent the demo, is fantabulous. Let’s start with the good one: the eye tracking was actually working very well to select the app icons.

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APRIL 17, 2024

Facilitated by the standards body Khronos Group, OpenXR is a royalty-free standard that aims to standardize the development of VR and AR applications, making for a more interoperable ecosystem. Image courtesy Khronos Group Following the OpenXR 1.0 release in 2019, this week’s release of OpenXR 1.1 “OpenXR 1.1

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

The reveal that Apple will be using Unity to bring 3D applications and games to Vision Pro was exciting. Another core target group for this version of the device is also developers. Their partnership with Unity will get them there quickly. Apple will use Unity to bring 3D applications and games to Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Body tracking leaked from Quest SDK documentation. A leaked image from the Oculus team shows that the company is working to implement body tracking inside the Oculus Unity SDK. A 3D-based experience with six degrees of freedom built in Unity or Unreal Access to source code, with ability to implement a 2MB SDK.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

With ARKit you can also track your face, and some developers have started also using it as an animation tool. Both systems also track images, and so you can use ARKit and ARCore as you used Vuforia before. Feature comparison between ARCore, ARKit and the Unity Handheld AR SDK (Image by Unity).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

In May of 2017, Unity CEO John Riccitiello forecasted two things : That harsh times with people saying that VR is a fad would have come. Thanks to the new RTX 2080 graphics cards , finally we’ll start seeing: Headsets featuring eye tracking to do foveated rendering; Headsets with the Virtualink USB-C connector.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

Although, an emerging presence in the development space is hand and eye tracking. AR/VR/MR headsets are increasingly equipped with hand and eye tracking technology. Previously, commercial XR devices like the Meta Quest had experimented with hand-tracking features which improved as the device matured.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

Although, an emerging presence in the development space is hand and eye tracking. AR/VR/MR headsets are increasingly equipped with hand and eye tracking technology. Previously, commercial XR devices like the Meta Quest had experimented with hand-tracking features which improved as the device matured.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

A little fact: due to their combined shape, the unit+the controller form a group called “Oreo” Controller. The NRSDK is Nreal’s SDK that lets you develop applications using the popular Unity game engine. At the time of writing it doesn’t work with Unity 2019, but only with Unity 2018.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

The advantage of using 72 Hz is that everything appears smoother, plus the display becomes brighter and the colors warmer ; Fixed foveating : we all know what foveated rendering is and we all know that to be implemented it requires eye tracking. But we also know that when in VR, most people just look forward with their eyes.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 31, 2017

The SAO experience was created to welcome new users and teach them how to use Fove 0, the first commercially available VR headset with integrated eye-tracking. The San Francisco-based company has since secured over $11m across 3 funding rounds with investors including Samsung Ventures, Colopl VR Fund, and Foxconn Technology Group.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

Mirror Lake includes holographic lenses, reverse passthrough (people can see your eyes when you wear it), varifocal, and eye-tracking in a single very lightweight device. This is a free association headed by Khronos Group, the consortium behind the OpenXR standard, which aims at creating standards for the future metaverse.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

When you first put it on you’re told to hold the top button, and you feel (and see a visualization of) the lenses moving horizontally to align with your eyes. The eye tracking cameras sense the positions of your pupils and tiny piezoelectric actuators move the lenses into place. And I mean fully. This basic idea isn’t new.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

As for the partnerships, the most intriguing one is the one with my friends at 7Invensun , one of the worldwide leading companies in eye-tracking technologies. I guess nReal will experiment with eye-tracking for a new version of the headset, maybe targeted at the enterprise market.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

In the end, I still believe in the old predictions of Unity CEO John Riccitiello: Look at this graph shown by Mr. Riccitiello in 2017: the purple line is the one of the analysts, while the white one is the one forecasted by him. OpenXR standardization project (Image by Khronos group).

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Eye-tracking startup Eyefluence, which raises $14 million this month, is acquired about a year later by Google. A series of announcements from Amazon, Crytek, Epic Games and Unity Technologies showcase an evolution among their respective game engines into VR world creation toolsets. December 2015. Palmer Luckey.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

Martin is also part of the Khronos Group, an organization working on the open standards for spatial web and 3D world. So you're also part of the Khronos Group, which is an organization working on the open standards of the 3D Web. It's in the 3D Formats Working Group. Martin, welcome to the show. Martin: Thank you, Alan.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

Martin is also part of the Khronos Group, an organization working on the open standards for spatial web and 3D world. So you're also part of the Khronos Group, which is an organization working on the open standards of the 3D Web. It's in the 3D Formats Working Group. Martin, welcome to the show. Martin: Thank you, Alan.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

From time to time, I like to look at the adoption graph of XR shown by John Riccitiello (the CEO of Unity) in 2017 , where you can see that the real acceleration of immersive technologies should start around 2022-2023. I also imagine them trying to add enterprise-oriented features like eye-tracking in all their devices.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

It is also possible to create your custom spaces to use in Mesh either with a no-code editor or by using Unity to create more personalized and complex scenes. There is a lot of hype around this technology, and many research groups are studying its applications, also for XR.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

Martin is also part of the Khronos Group, an organization working on the open standards for spatial web and 3D world. So you're also part of the Khronos Group, which is an organization working on the open standards of the 3D Web. It's in the 3D Formats Working Group. Martin, welcome to the show. Martin: Thank you, Alan.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But at the same time, for those companies that do have that and really want to bring things in-house, what are some of the tools that you're seeing -- besides ARKit, ARCore, and Unity -- that are standing out to you? It's not something that every company will do.

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