The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

The first one is from Panasonic : the windshield features an eye-tracking system, and can so detect where are the eyes of the driver. The second one I selected is from Samsung , and in this case to show what I wouldn’t like to have in an AR windshield. It is very interesting. Further references. Other news.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

I mean, we have not even agreed if it is “the” metaverse or “a” metaverse (I believe in the former, btw)… how can we produce and how can we bring to success something that we don’t even know what it is? No one has an idea on how to build it. Eye tracking. This meme says it all.

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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. Samsung AR glasses.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 29, 2016

2015’s CES was the first for Samsung’s ‘Oculus powered’ mobile VR headset ‘Gear VR’ having been unveiled and impressing a few months earlier at IFA Berlin. Built atop an open source set of APIs, the platform was a refreshing take on how to deliver immersive technology.

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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Samsung heavily invests in DigiLens to build its AR glasses. Samsung has to lead a new round of investment into DigiLens, which is now evaluated at more than $500M. Upload VR has spotted a patent from Sony that details how it may use eye tracking to implement foveated rendering to boost the performances of its device.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Samsung will manufacture the chips for Facebook AR glasses. According to the Korean outlet “The Electronic Times”, Samsung will manufacture the tracking chips that will be used by Facebook AR glasses. A new patent highlights the possible design of future Samsung AR glasses. More info. News worth a mention.

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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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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

All the other major companies (Samsung, Huawei, etc…) are working on AR and Apple for sure can’t stop experimenting with if it doesn’t want to miss the next communication platform as Microsoft did with Windows Phone. A new job listing points out to the fact that Oculus is planning to integrate eye tracking in its next devices.

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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 23, 2020

Maybe with eye-tracking, AI, 5G connection, and a battery that lasts all day. The only exception may be Samsung, that at CES teased an AR headset to be connected to Galaxy Phone glasses. This year we’ll see the launch of nReal, the first truly consumer-oriented AR glass, and it will be very interesting to see what happens.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

The screen is a pentile OLED, featuring 1600×1440 per eye resolution. We are at the same level of Vive Focus or Vive Pro… probably the display is the same made by Samsung. This is the same chip of the Samsung S8 and it is not the latest available for VR: Qualcomm has already released the 845 VR reference design.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Then, many people didn’t understand how to enter the concert, and when they got it, they couldn’t enter because of server problems. Bondi should be a headset that can bring multiple virtual displays in front of the eyes of the user: something very useful, but for sure not as interesting as a new HoloLens.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 20, 2021

This is much more than what Oculus promised to track some years ago (“only the height of the user is sent to Facebook, for statistical purposes”), and the amount of tracking info is going to slowly increase. Facebook always speaks with a very positive attitude (Image by Facebook). Even if another company (e.g.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

During the experience, I never got how to use them at a first glance. The Oculus Quest touch controllers: this is how I want manual interface in XR. There are hands tracking and eye tracking , but they are almost never exploited. That’s really bad. Other considerations. Final impressions. I am not impressed.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The two frontal cameras, that are in the same position of the eyes, make the user look like Bender of Futurama for a very funny effect. Oculus knows how to delight the eyes of its customers and it has made a very well crafted headset, that looks incredibly elegant. The shape is not original and recalls the one of the Rift.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. Our guest today, Jacob, has also been a partner at Samsung NEXT. And when Jinha finished up at Samsung, AR had sort of started catching on in earnest. Jacob, welcome to the show.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. Our guest today, Jacob, has also been a partner at Samsung NEXT. And when Jinha finished up at Samsung, AR had sort of started catching on in earnest. Jacob, welcome to the show.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

You sat there and you talked to the person and it recorded your eye tracking, your hand motions, your head pose. Knowing what to do, and knowing how to do something are two completely different things. Alan: That was actually… [chuckles] you know how to speak my language on this show! Todd: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

You sat there and you talked to the person and it recorded your eye tracking, your hand motions, your head pose. Knowing what to do, and knowing how to do something are two completely different things. you know how to speak my language on this show! I can walk you step-by-step through how to fix that machine.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. Our guest today, Jacob, has also been a partner at Samsung NEXT. And when Jinha finished up at Samsung, AR had sort of started catching on in earnest. Jacob, welcome to the show.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

You sat there and you talked to the person and it recorded your eye tracking, your hand motions, your head pose. Knowing what to do, and knowing how to do something are two completely different things. chuckles] you know how to speak my language on this show! I can walk you step-by-step through how to fix that machine.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

From the stats, they will see how many of the PC VR users will use a Rift S and how many will use a Quest+Link and then they will decide how to go on. Hand tracking on Quest. Half Dome 3 looks impressive: it is compact, it has eye-tracking, an innovative varifocal display and a very good FOV.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

We were tasked with exploring how to bring new gamers into the Steam platform. Ellsworth: Again, it’s difficult to know how to handle all these different interactions. When you break it down, it’s really the work of very talented people figuring out how to do something that otherwise would be impossible.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

In a recent video, it is possible to see an avatar that represents a person wearing an eye-tracked headset (Vive Pro Eye), many Vive Trackers and Valve Knuckles controllers. The result is a virtual avatar that looks incredibly realistic in his movements, since it has the eyes, the fingers and the whole body tracked.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

We see some really amazing products are being developed to in the education arena to help train people to not just do surgical procedures, but also to work as a team on difficult problem, how to deliver distressing news to a family or to a patient, how to interview a patient in an effective way. Is it less expensive?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

And also, yeah, the Samsungs get a bit melted. Alan: We actually melted one of the Samsung Gear VRs back in the day. And I don’t remember how it got melted. Alex: On the last burn, we actually had to put two Samsungs in and one Fusion. It tracks your eye. Alex: Yeah, the GoPro Fusion. Thanks, GoPro!

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

And also, yeah, the Samsungs get a bit melted. Alan: We actually melted one of the Samsung Gear VRs back in the day. And I don’t remember how it got melted. Alex: On the last burn, we actually had to put two Samsungs in and one Fusion. It tracks your eye. Alex: Yeah, the GoPro Fusion. Thanks, GoPro!

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

We see some really amazing products are being developed to in the education arena to help train people to not just do surgical procedures, but also to work as a team on difficult problem, how to deliver distressing news to a family or to a patient, how to interview a patient in an effective way. Walter: Absolutely.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

And also, yeah, the Samsungs get a bit melted. Alan: We actually melted one of the Samsung Gear VRs back in the day. Alan: We actually melted one of the Samsung Gear VRs back in the day. And I don't remember how it got melted. Alex: On the last burn, we actually had to put two Samsungs in and one Fusion.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

We see some really amazing products are being developed to in the education arena to help train people to not just do surgical procedures, but also to work as a team on difficult problem, how to deliver distressing news to a family or to a patient, how to interview a patient in an effective way. Is it less expensive?

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

And it was kind of last year at AWE, our motto was “go XR or go extinct” because it felt like if you’re gonna ignore it as something that is only going to happen in the future, you may be left behind, because it takes time really to understand how it’s going to improve their business, how to adopt it, how to deploy it.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

And it was kind of last year at AWE, our motto was “go XR or go extinct” because it felt like if you’re gonna ignore it as something that is only going to happen in the future, you may be left behind, because it takes time really to understand how it’s going to improve their business, how to adopt it, how to deploy it.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

They have an augment in the book and we’re one of the sponsors; the CEO and co-founder of the company Matt Miesnieks, a former Samsung executive who also is part of a well-known AR venture capital fund, Super Ventures. I believe it was Eyefluence or one of the eye-tracking companies. Charlie: 6d.ai

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

They have an augment in the book and we’re one of the sponsors; the CEO and co-founder of the company Matt Miesnieks, a former Samsung executive who also is part of a well-known AR venture capital fund, Super Ventures. I believe it was Eyefluence or one of the eye-tracking companies. Charlie: 6d.ai

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