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. For me this is not a fortunate sentence: this is what Alex Kipman said about the HoloLens, a few weeks before the whole Microsoft Mixed Reality division was disbanded and he was fired from the company.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

A report from Insider states that Microsoft may have canceled its plans for HoloLens 3. There is instead a rumored partnership with Samsung , where Samsung would actually build a new XR device and Microsoft offer the platform on top of which the headset may run. Learn more. Some updates on Meta products. Les Mills BodyCombat.

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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.

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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. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2019

MRTK, not to be confused with VRTK, is the official SDK to develop for Microsoft HoloLens and HoloLens 2. Google releases an opensource library for hand tracking. Google has released opensource a library for tracking your hands on a mobile device. Someone made Google Lens work in VR.

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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 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.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

We’ll be learning about the challenges and learnings from his experience. 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. You need to bring in a machine or in location, and that sort of thing.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

We’ll be learning about the challenges and learnings from his experience. 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. You need to bring in a machine or in location, and that sort of thing.

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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. 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. Then you've got higher-end things where maybe you want to have full hands on training of something.

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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. And we're also tackling a couple other industries, automotive. Varag: Yeah.

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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. And we're also tackling a couple other industries, automotive. Varag: Yeah.

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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. And we're also tackling a couple other industries, automotive. Varag: Yeah.

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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. These are like the Microsoft Hololens, Magic Leaps.

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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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VRGuy

AUGUST 1, 2016

If developers use an API from one peripheral vendor, they need to learn a new API for each new device. Some accept a high-end gaming PC, while others prefer inexpensive Android machines. Eye tracking software converts eye images into gaze direction. Hand tracking software converts hand position into gestures.

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