XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 27, 2023

Users are discovering that virtual reality isn’t just a powerful tool for entertainment. Samsung Focused on both the consumer and business markets, Samsung’s range of VR solutions accompanies its broad portfolio of technology peripherals and communication tools. Demand for virtual reality is expanding at an incredible rate.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 31, 2023

With the Focal Edition, companies can access enhanced MR components, which allow users to see crucial tools up-close, in proper focus. It maintains all of the critical features of the company’s leading MR device, including phenomenal eye tracking, positional tracking, connectivity, and field of view.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 1, 2024

Users are discovering that virtual reality isn’t just a powerful tool for entertainment. The Gear devices build on the capabilities of mobile virtual reality, allowing users to turn their existing smartphone devices into tools for immersion. Demand for virtual reality is expanding at an incredible rate.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

The MRTK is a set of components with plugins, samples, and documentation designed to help the development of MR applications using gaming engines from either Unreal Engine or Unity, providing two versions of the solution – MRTK-Unity and MRTK for Unreal. Ultraleap Hand Tracking – Ultraleap Leap Motion controller.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

These new features would include eye-tracking, dynamic foveated rendering, IPD auto-adjustment, and stand-alone mod e: these will be enabled through future software updates. There are also additional IPD “offset” adjustments available in the Pimax PC client, on a per-eye basis, to allow further fine-tuning.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

And as any year, Oculus has really amazed us: for sure you have already read my short recap published after the first keynote of OC6 where I told you about amazing stuff like Oculus Link, Facebook Horizon and Hands Tracking. Hand tracking on Quest. Hands tracking will guarantee 25 tracked points for each hand.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

He stressed many times how he wants to empower creators, and how he wants to provide free tools for content creators and cheap hardware for the users. Meta is launching its own apps on the Store (Facebook and Instagram), and soon also other productivity tools like Slack, Dropbox, Monday.com, and also PlutoTV are coming.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The French startup headed by Stan Larroque is developing passthrough AR glasses with eye-tracking and hands tracking that can offer a new paradigm to augmented reality. Last week I told you about MetaHumans creator, the tool to create realistic humanoid avatars in Unreal Engine. News worth a mention.

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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?). Unreal Engine 4.25 update, Unreal Engine has added many features that may be useful in crafting XR experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

There is no face or eye tracking. Since I’m not totally convinced that just a few LEDs in that position may alone offer realiable tracking, I would also speculate that maybe either data from the depth sensor or some hand-tracking data is involved in the sensor fusion to arrive at the final controller pose.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

We have seen that hands tracking has enabled new kinds of experiences that we hadn’t even thought of before (think about the great experiments by Daniel Beauchamp ), and I’m sure that the same will happen with passthrough AR, too; Facebook is building a platform that will work for all future headsets.

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VRGuy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Many game engines – such as Unity, Unreal and SteamVR- immediately support it. The same is also true for input and output peripherals such as eye trackers and haptic devices. Augmented reality tools detect objects in video feeds. Eye tracking software converts eye images into gaze direction.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

And so I expect that one of things I’m really interested in seeing is like some of these different startup companies within the VR space that are remote, and they have to kind of dog food their own remote collaboration tools. Being able to actually look somebody in the eyes in VR. Alan: Yeah. It really– it feels right.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

And so I expect that one of things I'm really interested in seeing is like some of these different startup companies within the VR space that are remote, and they have to kind of dog food their own remote collaboration tools. So it'll be interesting to see how some of these remote companies are able to adapt and create these tools.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

And so I expect that one of things I’m really interested in seeing is like some of these different startup companies within the VR space that are remote, and they have to kind of dog food their own remote collaboration tools. Being able to actually look somebody in the eyes in VR. Alan: Yeah. It really– it feels right.

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