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Developing the Future of Mixed Reality

Tech Trends VR

It was really interesting to see Microsoft pivot towards enterprise with the HoloLens and I think it was absolutely the right move for them to make Click To Tweet. For starters, they’re based in Oregon as opposed to Silicon Valley.

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Report: Interfaces will use voice, gesture, and other inputs

Hypergrid Business

Press release: Voice Control, Gesture Control, and See-through Displays Are Top Electronic User Interface Innovations BOSTON, MA – With Apple, Google, and Microsoft sharpening their focus on electronic user interfaces, voice control, gesture control,...

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How Will Xiaomi’s AR Smart Glasses Square Up with Rivals?

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

With Qualcomm’s industry-leading Snapdragon Spaces platform , Xiaomi can also develop programmes on OpenXR and Microsoft’s MRTK toolkit. Regarding hand tracking, Xiaomi’s latest AR smart glasses boast micro gesture controls, leading to enhanced human-computer interfacing (HCI) capabilities.

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Hands-On: The Mira Prism Headset Wants To Be The Google Daydream Of AR

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

It helps that the field of view is surprisingly large when compared to the likes of the postage-stamp sized view in the Microsoft HoloLens. Instead of relying on hand-based gesture controls every Prism will come with a controller you hold in your hand similar to the Samsung Gear VR or Google Daydream controller.

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Making AR Focals Functional and Fashionable, with North’s Stefan Alexander

XR for Business Podcast

So originally when North was founded, it was actually called Thalmic Labs, and the product was a gesture control armband. You could make motions with your hand and it would detect your muscle movements and you could control computers, music, do presentation control. I wonder-- you started off life as a gesture armband.

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Making AR Focals Functional and Fashionable, with North’s Stefan Alexander

XR for Business Podcast

So originally when North was founded, it was actually called Thalmic Labs, and the product was a gesture control armband. You could make motions with your hand and it would detect your muscle movements and you could control computers, music, do presentation control. I wonder-- you started off life as a gesture armband.

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Using XR to Change Everything (Without Changing Anything) with Lance-AR’s Lance Anderson

XR for Business Podcast

Alan: We’ve got to call out Microsoft on making videos that people will go, “We want that!” ” Lance: It was Microsoft, SAP did one in 2014. Alan: I’m going to Google it here. Hand gesture control, hand using hand gestures. Google Pixel came out. Voice is everywhere.