The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2019

Today I will start telling you the main news from the event , and in the next posts, I will tell you how the VEC is and how it has been launching a game there. After having detailed his vision for a better future where we all will wear an XR headset, Alvin has started introducing HTC’s vision for the Vive Focus Plus.

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VRScout

AUGUST 26, 2016

Launched back in 2012, Leap Motion first introduced us to their new way of interacting with computers in three dimensions. At the time, the Leap Motion sensor sat on your desk or was built into your keyboard, allowing for natural hand and finger movement tracking.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

The devices at the time included: HTC Vive wands that shipped with the Vive headset. Today, as more companies enter the VR headset game and input devices continue to see rapid technological advancement, there are now more ways than ever to get your hands into VR. Fully immersive VR experiences bring us to tracked motion controllers.

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Road to VR

MAY 24, 2018

Today at its Vive Ecosystem Conference 2018 in China, HTC said that the 3DOF Vive Focus controller will see a 6DOF mode, and further said that the headset will soon include controller-less hand-tracking for gesture input. SEE ALSO After Management Shuffle, HTC Says VR/AR More Important Than Ever to Its Future.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

If you have a newer Android phone and a good gaming computer, it’s possible to prototype, test, and share your VR projects with the world using third-party software like RiftCat’s VRidge. 63 for the Leap Motion Controller and VR Developer Mount , now on sale in our web store. Install the Leap Motion Orion software.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Otherwise, contact HTC support to have your Vive fixed (good luck with that). So, the first thing to do if the various reboots didn’t work is trying opening a SteamVR game and see if there the controllers work (you can see and move them). Leap Motion driver and runtime. So, choose your poison wisely. ASUS HyStream.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

Leap Motion. You may ask why I’m adding Leap Motion here. Well, during 2018, Leap Motion has announced the North Star reference design : a cheap augmented reality connected to PC, that is able to detect your hands very well thanks to Leap Motion’s sensor.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

The result is a custom Vive setup that utilizes Leap Motion hand-tracking technology to let users control everything without the need of unfamiliar motion controllers. When it comes to high-end VR, one of its biggest roadblocks can be its ability to scare away first-time users.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

XTAL is an enterprise headset with incredible specifications, like for instance: 5120 x 1440 display resolution (2560 x 1440 per eye); OLED display Custom non-Fresnel lenses 180° diagonal FOV Spatial 3D sound from a built-in sound card Embedded microphone Embedded eye tracking Auto-IPD adjustment Embedded Leap motion v2 sensor.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 30, 2017

As for resolution, the company maintains the screen door effect (SDE) is diminished with the headset’s dual 1440×1600@90 Hz LCD displays, a 70 percent increase in pixels over consumer devices like Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Front IR window for optional embedded Leap Motion controller. image courtesy Sensics.

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VRScout

AUGUST 13, 2017

Along with categories that you would expect, such as gaming and entertainment, I was excited to see a category for VR education and training. HTC – Vive. Leap Motion – Leap Motion. Nominees for VR Game of the Year. Epic Games – Robo Recall. Nominees for VR Headset of the Year.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Virtual Battlespace 3 , a professional simulation experience from Bohemia Interactive Simulations, today added support for the Oculus Rift’s consumer version (CV1) and the HTC Vive as part of its v3.9.2 The software had previously supported the Rift’s DK2. The developer is also working on its own VR videogame.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 28, 2019

We of New Technology Walkers have taken there our MR fitness game HitMotion: Reloaded , and made hundreds of people try it. Most of these lessons can be adapted to many countries you can travel to showcase your game to, so I think that if you are a VR indie game developer, you may find this article interesting in any case!

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

The main trigger can give adaptive force-feedback, applying a different force on the index finger depending on what is happening in the game. Ctrl+Labs already demoed it years ago: check out the link to the Dino Game that I added below this paragraph. Vive Facial Tracker works also with non-HTC headsets. As long as it works….

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

Minecraft Earth is, in my opinion, the game having the potential to disrupt the AR market in a similar way to what Pokemon Go did some years ago. Microsoft has released this week a new video showing how the game will work. In all of this, someone has created the design for a Leap Motion mount for the Index that exploits the frunk.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 10, 2017

The event’s three keynotes will be hosted by “Shots of Awe” filmmaker, philosopher and futurist Jason Silva , “The Fourth Transformation” author and Transformative Group partner Robert Scoble , and game designer, author and Carnegie Mellon scholar Jesse Schell.

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Road to VR

MARCH 26, 2017

Bandai Namco’s ‘ Project i Can ‘ has made the Anywhere Door a (virtual) reality using the HTC Vive, Leap Motion, and a few simple props tracked with attached Vive controllers. A VR take on this idea uses simple props to make a unique VR experience.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 21, 2018

One of the biggest drawbacks of HTC Vive headsets with regard to Oculus Rift are the controllers: while Oculus Touch is ergonomic and can emulate the hands quite well, Vive has controllers that are quite big and are usable only as wands. showcased one year ago (Image by Cloudhead games). Owlchemy Labs, Cloudhead Games, etc…).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2019

I’m here to attend the WCVRI , a very big event about Virtual Reality in China, where I am exhibiting HitMotion: Reloaded , the mixed reality fitness game of my agency New Technology Walkers ( contact us if you need some VR development!). Leap Motion) on the same headset. Me with a Droolon F1 inside an HTC Vive Cosmos!

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Road to VR

JULY 28, 2016

The new VR Hub adds a social component to the game that lets you and your friends watch Dota 2 together like never before—and just in time for The International. See Also : Limited Edition DOTA 2 Championship HTC Vive Now Available. Other avatars zoomed around me and idly chatted as we watched a match in progress.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2021

One of the first accessories for AR/VR I had the opportunity to work on is the Leap Motion hands tracking controller : I made some cool experiments and prototypes with it and the Oculus Rift DK2. Leap Motion has also been the first important company I have interviewed in this blog. If you want, you can find it here below!

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Delight XR

AUGUST 7, 2022

Simply take your smartphone and a headset and discover virtual spaces, games, and much more. The former is connected to either a computer or a gaming console and delivers the most powerful VR experience. Motion Controller. Gaming) PC. Gaming) PC. Motion Controller. Gaming) PC. Oculus Rift. April 2016.

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Road to VR

MAY 19, 2016

AltSpaceVR is the first cross-platform social VR application that supports both the Gear VR, Oculus Rift, and HTC Vive. We also talk about some of the social dynamics that occur when they mix together the full range of interaction fidelity between hand-tracked Vive, Leap Motion hands in the Rift, and just the head rotation of the Gear VR.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

this one with the hands-on session on Huawei glasses or this one with our experience in exhibiting a game in this event ), many people that have not been there have asked me if it is worth going there. We made 150-200 people try our game HitMotion:Reloaded, and now we are fixing the game to take in count all the feedback that we got.

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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. OpenVR – Windows Mixed Reality headsets, HTC Vive , and Oculus Rift.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

It’s a new month, we’ve reached level 6 of this Jumanji game that is 2020. HP and Microsoft have a long track in offering enterprise hardware, so this headset may battle HTC on his own land (B2B). It seems a clone of the Vive Focus Plus, and this is because actually it is based on a reference design provided by HTC.

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 2, 2016

With the Leap Motion Unity Core Assets and Modules , you can start building right away with features like custom-designed hands, user interfaces, and event triggers. Leap Motion Core Assets. The Leap Motion Unity assets provide an easy way to bring hands into a Unity game. Let us know in the comments!

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Pool Nation VR – Perilous Orbit & Cherry Pop Games. Best Game: Space Pirate Trainer – I-Illusions (Winner). The Gallery – Episode 1: Call of the Starseed – Cloudhead Games. Bullet Train – Epic Games. Best Interaction Design: Fantastic Contraption – Northway Games & Radial Games (Winner).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 2, 2017

Once you’ve finished up, you can export your creation as an.OBJ file to insert into other games or experiences or more complex CAD programs. Leap Motion support is included for example, allowing you to bring hand-tracking into the experience.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 14, 2017

Click To Tweet To bring Leap Motion tracking into a VR experience, you’ll need a virtual controller within the scene attached to your VR headset. Our Unity Core Assets and the Leap Motion Unreal Engine 4 plugin both handle position and scale out-of-the-box for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Depth Cues.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

It has not been thought for games, but more for enterprise uses like training. Inside the box you find: 1x SenseGlove right 1x SenseGlove left 1x SenseGlove linkbox 1x power cable 1x USB connector cable short (2m/ 6.5ft) 2x USB connector cable long (3m/ 10ft) 2x HTC tracker mounts including screws 1x manual. via Gfycat.

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Leapmotion

MAY 7, 2016

beta, which features native support for the HTC Vive. While working on demonstration projects here at Leap Motion, we’ve found ourselves wanting to use different sets of hands for a variety of reasons. We’ve also improved the DebugHand script to show the rotation basis for each Leap Bone.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2018

If you see the program of the conferences or workshops , you may see that there are very interesting people there, like some guys from Epic Games, other people by HTC Vive, Keiichi Matsuda from Leap Motion , Alex Coulombe and also the epic Enea Le Fons from #30DaysInVR.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 16, 2016

New Retro Arcade: Neon is striving to be one of the most accurate recreations yet of the so called ‘Golden Age of Arcade Gaming’ with its heavy emphasis on ’80s and early ’90s nostalgia. Reviewed On: HTC Vive (Vive Controllers) and Oculus Rift (Xbox Gamepad). New Retro Arcade Neon Details: Official Site.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

It is intriguing that many companies are already experimenting with this new chipset, and one of these partners is Niantic, that is thinking about going the AR hardware route after all its hard work on gelocalized AR games like Pokemon Go. HTC won’t announce anything big at CES. Superdata releases a new report about AR.

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Delight XR

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Simply take your smartphone and a headset and discover virtual spaces, games, and much more. The former is connected to either a computer or a gaming console and delivers the most powerful VR experience. Motion Controller. Gaming) PC. Gaming) PC. Motion Controller. Gaming) PC. Oculus Rift. April 2016.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2019

I had the pleasure of participating to the “VR Visionaries” event in Kaohsiung and then I headed to Taipei to meet some XR companies (like HTC ) and people. Even worse, it wasn’t able to track my finger movements well (it was worse than Leap Motion … and Leap Motion doesn’t have worn sensors!).

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