Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

ManoMotion, a computer-vision and machine learning company, today announced they’re integrated their company’s smartphone-based gesture control with Apple’s augmented reality developer tool ARKit , making it possible to bring basic hand-tracking into AR with only the use of the smartphone’s onboard processors and camera.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 30, 2019

Google has released to researchers and developers its own mobile device-based hand tracking method using machine learning, something Google R esearch engineers Valentin Bazarevsky and Fan Zhang call a “new approach to hand perception.” in palm detection, researchers claim.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The last big breakthrough we saw in ease-of-use interactivity was the launch of hand tracking and gesture recognition on enterprise and consumer VAR devices. Curious to learn more, I reached out to Joe Pavitt, Master Inventor and Emerging Technology Specialist at IBM Research Europe. NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MARCH 4, 2024

Major Firms Enter the XR Market During a launch event at MWC 2024, Samsung showcased a new XR headset developed in collaboration with Google and Qualcomm. Additionally, as Samsung and Google have partnered with Qualcomm, it is reasonable to assume that the device will use the Qualcomm XR2+ Gen 2 Platform, which supports AI-ready wearables.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2022

Google starts testing its AR glasses in the wild. Google has announced that it is going to start to test the prototypes of its AR glasses in the wild. What is relevant about this piece of news is that Google has just confirmed its strong commitment to augmented reality. More info (Google testing AR glasses?—?Official

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ARPost

MAY 14, 2020

TeamViewer Pilot – a solution that makes it easy for tech support teams to troubleshoot problems in AR to reduce downtime for machines. The Augmented City – imagine a kind of point-cloud Google Earth. The etee controller – a controller that brought us from talking about hand tracking to talking about finger tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2019

VR just passed the thorough of disillusionment and is here to stay thanks to investments in the AR/VR market by Facebook, Google and Apple. The Void parks provide physical feedback with physical walls built, special effects made with fans, mist machines, and heat lamps, as well as prop guns and torches and other items to be used.

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Tech Trends VR

MAY 8, 2018

McQuire points to the fact that this follows similar moves made by Amazon Web Services over the past 12 months, and sees it as a clear statement of intent at gaining developer mindshare against Google ahead of its own developer event, Google I/O which also happens this week. Kinect gets a Second Life.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 16, 2022

Users can tap the game’s hand-tracking features to feed dinosaurs in real-time and take photos with the virtual creatures via Apple Core machine learning (ML) in iOS and Google’s MediaPipe on Android.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

This means that if you are in Google Earth VR in a green room where there is a friend of yours, you can see the city that you are visiting all around you, and the real image of your friend being there with you. More info (Camera Path and Google Drive backup) More info (Sketchfab exporting). Google MediaPipe can now track 3D objects.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Viveport is improving a lot, and now HTC is also launching the Vive XR Suite , which will be distributed thanks to the support of a strong network of partners like HP, NVIDIA, Baidu (the Chinese Google), and Accenture. Facebook has showcased how thanks to the use of hand-tracking gloves, it has been able to let people touch-type in VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

Luckily there is AR that is still strong, and we can hope to wear Google AR glasses soon… ah no, they are dead too. The most interesting ones for me are related to hand tacking. Meta Quest will receive Hand Tracking 2.2, Ah no, not even that because also Twitter is dead. Long story short, this week has been a cemetery.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

VRGO is a special pillow that you can put on your chair so that you can control your movements in the VR game by just leaning your body : e.g. if you learn forward, you can walk forward in the game. VR is an empathy machine, but this is not always the case. My review of Google Hand tracking library.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Vive Flow is a 6DOF headset that works with your Android phone as a 3DOF controller (hands tracking is coming in the future). HTC advertises it as a headset for relaxation and productivity because it wants to position it as a different product than a gaming machine like Oculus Quest 2. News from partners (and friends).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2019

Google releases an opensource library for hand tracking. Google has released opensource a library for tracking your hands on a mobile device. The solution is part of Mediapipe, the framework to create machine-learning-based solutions , and offers 21-points hand tracking on your mobile phone.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Image by Google). Google completely opensources Cardboard. With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard. Google affirms that Cardboard has been a huge success to introduce people into VR, and more than 15 million headsets have been distributed.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

If we sum these features to the other ones added in the past, like hands tracking, Passthrough Shortcut, or the multiple windows in Oculus Browser , we start seeing the first signs of a mixed reality operating system, with which you can interact with the controllers or with the hands in a natural way. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

This is a framework that introduces many facilities for applications employing hands tracking: for instance, it makes sure that the hands of the user adapt dynamically to the shape of the object they are holding. Learn more. Learn more (OpenBrush reaching v1.0) Learn more (Icosa announcing the 1.0

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

There’s a lot to learn about how we can start to blend these different experiences into the world. Ellsworth: On top of that, machine learning is going to be huge in AR. We can predict and learn their patterns, unlocking all of this benefit that couldn’t be there without smarter machines. GB: Google Glass.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

We’ll be learning about the challenges and learnings from his experience. What they learned was we have to exist within this existing ecosystem of these warehouses, and we changed their tagline to “change everything without changing anything.” Alan: I’m going to Google it here. Voice is everywhere.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

We’ll be learning about the challenges and learnings from his experience. What they learned was we have to exist within this existing ecosystem of these warehouses, and we changed their tagline to “change everything without changing anything.” Alan: I’m going to Google it here. Voice is everywhere.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

On the other side, this is massive for Apple, that mixing the data of Apple Maps together with all these point clouds detected by the rear cameras when in use, will be able to create an AR Cloud ecosystem probably even before Facebook, Microsoft, and Google. Let’s see if Facebook will be a worthier opponent than Google. Image by Acer).

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2016

Once in the game, the main villain and namesake, Arcade acts as an overlord, challenging players, learning and adapting as gameplay progresses. Haptic gloves: Similar to the gloves attached to the cabinet, the at home version exoskeleton design brings hand tracking and touch to VR. Brainscan (1994).

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

We'll be learning about the challenges and learnings from his experience. What they learned was we have to exist within this existing ecosystem of these warehouses, and we changed their tagline to "change everything without changing anything." You need to bring in a machine or in location, and that sort of thing.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

As mainstream VR/AR input continues to evolve – from the early days of gaze-only input to wand-style controllers and fully articulated hand tracking – so too are the virtual user interfaces we interact with. An abridged version of this article was originally published on UploadVR.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Varag: So Clay is a software company, we're specializing in hand tracking and gesture recognition, mostly in the AR and VR space. We did a project just using Google's hand tracking library. And hand tracking needs to be there. But let's get back to hand tracking, because this is a vital part.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Varag: So Clay is a software company, we're specializing in hand tracking and gesture recognition, mostly in the AR and VR space. We did a project just using Google's hand tracking library. And hand tracking needs to be there. But let's get back to hand tracking, because this is a vital part.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Google) Google killed its AR glasses Project Iris Do you remember the name Project Iris? Various reports indicated it as the internal codename in Google for a project meant to build augmented reality glasses. It was our hope for Google entering the AR race together with Meta and Apple.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Varag: So Clay is a software company, we're specializing in hand tracking and gesture recognition, mostly in the AR and VR space. We did a project just using Google's hand tracking library. And hand tracking needs to be there. But let's get back to hand tracking, because this is a vital part.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

It was a 6DOF simulation machine. And there’s a really interesting thing for the listeners, if you Google the “Snowden leadership framework”, it’s a Harvard Business Review article, it was back in the 90s. They actually sold their cell phone division to Google to focus on VR. Bob: Man, that was crazy.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

It was a 6DOF simulation machine. And there’s a really interesting thing for the listeners, if you Google the “Snowden leadership framework”, it’s a Harvard Business Review article, it was back in the 90s. They actually sold their cell phone division to Google to focus on VR. Bob: Man, that was crazy.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

You can learn more about the great work that Michael and his team are doing at radiantimages.com. When you walk into a Best Buy’s or you walk into any retailer, they’re selling you the Amazon Echo and they’re selling you the Google Home, where you ask a question, it plays a video. Michael, welcome to the show.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

You can learn more about the great work that Michael and his team are doing at radiantimages.com. When you walk into a Best Buy's or you walk into any retailer, they're selling you the Amazon Echo and they're selling you the Google Home, where you ask a question, it plays a video. Alan: The Quest is now doing hand tracking.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

You can learn more about the great work that Michael and his team are doing at radiantimages.com. When you walk into a Best Buy’s or you walk into any retailer, they’re selling you the Amazon Echo and they’re selling you the Google Home, where you ask a question, it plays a video. Michael, welcome to the show.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2020

Create a TeamViewer account and add the Office PC as one of your machines , so that you can log in every time you want, and even reboot the remote PC without any risks. You can attend them to meet new people and learn something new ! You can learn to cook. Me, Eloi Gerard and Joao Inada hanging around inside Altspace VR.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Reading the specs of Pimax Reality, every VR enthusiast can only go in awe: there are integrated all the features we have always wanted in a VR headset: amazing visuals, comfort, eye tracking, full-body tracking, hybrid functioning mode, etc… It just needs an integrated coffee maker machine to be perfect. Learn more.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

But if you want to learn more about John and the work they’re doing at Seek, it’s seekxr.com. They sell Nescafé machines to convenience stores and grocery stores, and they have end caps. But we learned about this only about a week ago, actually. We’ll get to that. Jon, welcome to the show, my friend.

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