XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 11, 2023

Google has unveiled its Geospatial Creator for Unity platform, allowing developers to preview 3D assets via the Unity Editor. How Does Google’s Geospatial Creator for Unity Work? Currently, Google’s Geospatial Creator for Unity offers visualisations of more than 2,500 cities in 49 nations.

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VRScout

APRIL 7, 2021

Originally revealed back in September 2020, HP’s professional-grade VR headset offers a variety of enhancements over the basic G2, including an eye-tracking & pupillometry sensor from Tobii, heart rate sensor, and face camera.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 20, 2017

Tobii Pro brings eye-tracking research to VR The eye tracking company is integrating its technology into the HTC Vive business edition headset for commercial and academic research. It’s also becoming apparent that eye tracking within VR can have a role to play in helping to understand human behavior.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 1, 2020

This includes everything from hand and eye tracking technology, optimized visual fidelity via foveated rendering, an ultra-wide 115-degree field-of-view, and “human-eye resolution” just to name a few. In addition to visuals and tracking Varjo has also introduced several improvements to comfort.

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Road to VR

JULY 28, 2016

FOVE, the company behind the eponymous eye-tracking VR headset, today announced that they will be showing off a new industrial design at both Comic-Con and SIGGRAPH 2016 where attendees will have a chance to demo the new headset design themselves. Previous FOVE design | See Also: FOVE’s Eye-tracking VR Headset Was the Next Best at CES.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 5, 2022

What’s more, Meta’s flexibility makes it easy to combine Oculus headsets with state-of-the-art technology and software for building prototypes and designs. Meta recently announced the arrival of a popular architectural tool “ Unity Reflect ” in the Meta Quest environment for 2022.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The Pico 5 Pro Max looks like a dream hybrid headset : it is a standalone device with eye tracking and passthrough, and it also has the DisplayPort connection that makes it work like a true tethered headset when connected to a PC. of our revenues with Unity.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Varjo’s professional-grade headset features retina-grade resolution and eye-tracking functionality. Combined with the headsets integrated eye-tracking functionality, users can supposedly expect lifelike virtual content featuring levels of detail not currently offered by other major providers. FOV: 87 Degrees.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 9, 2022

Meta Platforms unveiled last week the latest iteration of its hand-tracking technologies as a demo for developers, allowing users to explore virtual worlds with their hands rather than physical controllers. Modular systems for adjusting hand-tracking functions such as pose recognition and velocity tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2023

Making some calculations, it is possible to estimate that the per-eye resolution is around 2064×2208, a value that was leaked a few months ago from some data miner (Samulia). Unity page also confirms that the headset will provide plane detection, so you will be able for instance to detect the walls and the desks in your room.

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Upload VR

JULY 5, 2023

You can try Apple Vision Pro's eye tracking based interface on your Quest Pro with this sideloadable recreation. Supernova Technologies built the recreation with its Nova UI framework for Unity to promote the middleware. Keep in mind it won't work on Quest 2 or Quest 3, since those headsets don't have eye tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

The headset should be operated through the use of hand tracking and eye tracking , exactly like the Vision Pro. Then the Vision Pro beta for the Unity game engine has not been distributed yet, so many Unity developers can’t build applications for the Vision Pro, yet.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 22, 2024

Creating the most immersive XR experiences requires more than just the best visuals or spatial audio technologies. Eye and hand tracking technologies embedded into wearable devices, or delivered through external sensors, provide the feedback that applications need to optimize the immersive experience for each user.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

During the Snapdragon Summit, the company unveiled its latest piece of technology, the AR2 Gen 1 platform, which will be a key component for the next generation of slimmer and more fashion-friendly augmented reality (AR) glasses. Hand-tracking Works with Snapdragon Spaces (Unity/Unreal) 2.5X

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Plus there is this sense of perceived “stasis” of the technology. As I said a few months ago , we are in the middle of a paradigm change: the cycle that started with the Quest is arriving at an end, and a new cycle driven by new technologies (mixed reality headsets) and new players (Apple, Google) is starting.

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Road to VR

MAY 31, 2022

Since then, the Brooklyn, New York-based company says it’s attracted beta applicants spanning consumer technology, healthcare, research, training, and gaming & interactive media. SteamVR Tracking 1.0 2x eye-tracking. IPD Adjustment Range. Connectors. breakout box (USB-A 3.0, DisplayPort 1.4). Cable Length.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Extended Reality is one of the most exciting areas in technology today. 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. Photogrammetry.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 13, 2022

In the advertising industry, the rise of new and disruptive technologies can be an incredible way to unlock new levels of audience engagement. Meta is one of the market leaders in the technology environment right now, particularly in regard to XR, advertising, and the metaverse.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 15, 2024

Moreover, RT3D development services like Autodesk VRED, Blender, Godot, NVIDIA’s Omniverse, StereoKit, Unreal Engine, and Unity support OpenXR integration. Many of these updates are incredibly technical, but they all work to reduce unnecessary processes and optimise interacted technology, namely tracking, which requires the utmost precision.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

The same luck has not happened to employees at Niantic at Unity. Unity, instead, is firing 4% of its employees, and this may seem weird considering that in the last months it has proceeded to hundred-millions-dollars acquisitions. This is of course the base technology needed for foveated rendering. Other relevant news.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Apple successfully built its own processors, but the company’s in-house technologies team has a lot more to design, including cameras and screens. Unity also announced at the Unite 2023 last week it would debut its visionOS Beta for Unity’s Pro, Enterprise, and Industry customer bases.

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ARVR

JUNE 29, 2022

New Software VisionLib : SDK with super impressive tracking on 3D objects (ready for Unity as well). link] New Hardware Pico Neo 2 eye : eye tracking, vr and ar, hand tracking. XR Directory : open-sourced free directory of established companies in the field (with over 1M$ of investment or annual revenue).

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 18, 2023

Varjo released a report highlighting a recent partner success story with FORCE Technology to provide cost-efficient maritime immersive training solutions. FORCE Technology develops VR and MR solutions for the maritime industry. FORCE also designed its immersive training application on Unity, ready for Varjo distribution.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2018

When I wrote my post about CES 2018 , I briefly talked about a headset called LooxidVR, able to “read the emotions” of the user by employing a combination of EEG sensors and eye tracking. LooxidVR enables them to collect the user’s eye and brain data simultaneously during a VR experience. What is Looxid Labs?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

Creating the most immersive XR experiences requires more than just the best visuals or spatial audio technologies. Eye and hand tracking technologies embedded into wearable devices, or delivered through external sensors, provide the feedback that applications need to optimize the immersive experience for each user.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2022

Last Thursday, Microsoft debuted version three of its Mixed Reality (MR) toolkit (MRTK3) for use in Unity Technologies’ real-time 3D (RT3D) animation engine. The technology partnership accelerates the development of MR content on the open-source development hub to deliver cross-platform immersive experiences.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

At Slush 2017, Helsinki-based Varjo Technologies today announced an additional investment of $6.7 million from the Finnish business development group Tekes to continue development on their “human eye-resolution” display for VR headsets. image courtesy Varjo.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 31, 2023

In a roundtable with XR Today, SpectreXR CEO Ivan Rajković noted that his firm dedicated over 17000 hours of R&D to hand tracking technology, aiming “to provide the most realistic and intuitive hand interactions inside VR and AR environments.” via Untiy’s Asset Store.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The report surveyed respondents from September last year to June to discuss findings across some of the world’s top firms, including Unity Technologies, HTC, manufacturers such as Jaguar Land Rover, and media firm Yahoo, among many others. What’s the Deal on Data?

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VRScout

JANUARY 2, 2020

As we approach the end of 2019 and look back at the most successful advertisements and marketing campaigns of the year, not one of them has involved the use of VR or AR technology. Studies on the psychology of VR and AR have proven beyond doubt that immersive technology leads to the most effective and impressionable form of content.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Spatial audio is the technology promising to transform the way we engage with sounds in virtual, augmented, and mixed reality settings. The question for today’s companies investing in XR technology, is how do they choose the right vendor for their spatial audio needs? Some applications are not equipped for positional audio.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 9, 2023

This will expand the company’s offerings beyond mobile handsets and boost the number of use cases for its technologies. 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.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 31, 2017

This is combined with eye-tracking technology from German firm SMI, which may have just been acquired by Apple. He said the eye tracking inside the headset wasn’t active during the training and test portion of the demonstration. In the video above you can see each of the objects flash.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The companies investing in spatial audio today are using the technology to enhance the quality of their virtual reality landscapes, and develop new experiences in the metaverse. For companies looking to implement spatial audio into their existing investments, Rebuff reality could offer an excellent alternative to investing in new technology.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Quest’s ‘Body Tracking’ API isn’t what it looks and sounds like. Body Tracking API was released on Thursday as part of Movement SDK, which also includes Eye Tracking API and Face Tracking API for Quest Pro. It’s not actual tracking, and it doesn’t include your legs.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Just like with WebRTC, we see the potential of this technology, and we are proud to be the first to have created it. The technology is right there. The Vision Pro will be powered by two Micro OLED 4K displays, each with a resolution of 3800 x 3000 per eye. Unity comes to the project with a vast range of developer resources.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 15, 2021

I’m talking about my colleagues at New Technology Walkers and MID Studio, my Patreons , the people in the XR communities that are always willing to help… and most probably you that are reading this post. I made this meme in Word in 5 minutes, and it started spreading like fire. Internet is beautiful.

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