Peter Graham

MARCH 24, 2020

That’s lead to motion controllers, eye tracking and hand tracking but full-body tracking has stopped and started due to the complexities of this process. Another key part of Manus Polygon is the networked object tracking feature. Manus VR isn’t the only company exploring the full-body tracking space.

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AUGUST 3, 2023

Although, an emerging presence in the development space is hand and eye tracking. AR/VR/MR headsets are increasingly equipped with hand and eye tracking technology. Previously, commercial XR devices like the Meta Quest had experimented with hand-tracking features which improved as the device matured.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

Although, an emerging presence in the development space is hand and eye tracking. AR/VR/MR headsets are increasingly equipped with hand and eye tracking technology. Previously, commercial XR devices like the Meta Quest had experimented with hand-tracking features which improved as the device matured.

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Peter Graham

JULY 15, 2019

The most popular tend to be videogame engines such as Unity and Unreal Engine which have been fine-tuned over many years. Today, Charles River Analytics – a developer of intelligent systems solutions – has announced the launch of the Virtuoso Software Development Kit (VSDK), to aid speedy development of AR and VR experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. If you want to watch it, it’s a very interesting 2-hour-long video and you can find it here [link] together with a summary of the key points he said.

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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. I’ve made my usual video review of the new UltraLeap Gemini runtime , with some cool in-action shots of me using hands-tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Mark Zuckerberg, but also Unity CEO John Riccitiello) that should mark the beginning of the serious adoption of new technology. Meta shows its work on haptic gloves. Sometimes Meta publishes interesting posts about its research work, and this week it has released an article detailing its project about building haptic gloves.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 23, 2016

Dexta believe that this advanced form of haptic feedback encapsulates a next step in the VR experience. Dexmo works by capturing the full range of your hand motion, providing what Dexta term as “instant force feedback” With Dexmo, the company claim, you can feel the size, shape, and stiffness of virtual objects.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2021

VR fitness game HitMotion: Reloaded has just added support for LIV and bHaptics suit , and it is a total blast with haptic feedback! It also has a lens design that is unique in its field , and hands tracking as its primary interaction means. HTC is probably going to announce a new standalone headset this week.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 14, 2018

VR, AR and hand tracking are often considered to be futuristic technologies, but they also have the potential to be the easiest to use. That application became Cat Explorer , which you can download now for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. That application became Cat Explorer , which you can download now for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This is the same confusion that created issues for HTC in the past with the Vive Pro, for instance. HaptX announces the new generation of its haptic gloves. Dubbed HaptX G1, they are much smaller and cheaper than the previous version, and so present an important evolution for all the haptics space. Other news. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

It will be the first consumer headset with eye-tracking and foveated rendering, and also the first one to feature haptics directly on the headset. This tracker can be worn on the wrist, for a more accurate hand-tracking experience, or be installed on external props (e.g. First impressions from CES are positive.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: I’ve tried some haptics gloves. I mean, it sort of makes more sense to me that, as long as the prices for the headsets are lingering up pretty high — like the Cosmos from HTC, the brand new one, it’ll be an $800 purchase. It makes the Pro Eye more expensive than the other HTC offerings for sure.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: I’ve tried some haptics gloves. I mean, it sort of makes more sense to me that, as long as the prices for the headsets are lingering up pretty high — like the Cosmos from HTC, the brand new one, it’ll be an $800 purchase. It makes the Pro Eye more expensive than the other HTC offerings for sure.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: I've tried some haptics gloves. I mean, it sort of makes more sense to me that, as long as the prices for the headsets are lingering up pretty high -- like the Cosmos from HTC, the brand new one, it'll be an $800 purchase. Dean: And I think more critical are these more foundational companies, like Facebook and Valve and HTC.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2020

This makes us think that PSVR 2 controllers will feature full hands tracking, and will so be very similar to the Valve Knuckles. Image by HTC Vive). HTC is now selling Vive Cosmos Elite headset-only. Finally, HTC is selling the Vive Cosmos Elite not only as a full bundle anymore but also as a headset-only option for $550.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Unity renderer implementation of foveated rendering, on the other hand is much rougher, and in multiple Unity apps I saw very obvious and harsh artifacts, particularly on text. Given this only happens in Unity Full Space apps, I suspect this can be solved in future software. The main form is hand and arm occlusion.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: I’ve tried some haptics gloves. I mean, it sort of makes more sense to me that, as long as the prices for the headsets are lingering up pretty high — like the Cosmos from HTC, the brand new one, it’ll be an $800 purchase. It makes the Pro Eye more expensive than the other HTC offerings for sure.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

Last year we had nReal showing us that AR can be trendy, and HTC making us dream with the Vive Cosmos. Yes, the biggest companies were not there with a booth (Oculus will probably target the OC6, HTC the VEC, etc…), but it is the first time that I read the XR news from CES and I dont’ remain surprised. Good luck to it.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 4, 2023

The headset should also provide hand tracking, eye tracking and reverse passthrough , so people should be able to see the eye of the wearer. Because if Apple is just going to repeat the same use cases of the HTC Vive and Meta Quest 2, but selling it at $3000, it is just going to fail spectacularly. For what purpose?

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

I’m sure that after April, 20th, the Meta Quest ecosystem will appear even richer than it is now , creating a wider gap with other companies that may think about competing with the Quest, that is Pico, HTC, and even Apple. Unity talked about PlayStation VR 2 at GDC. Unity had a talk about developing for PlayStation VR 2 at GDC 2022.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

We already saw this problem happening when HTC departed from the Steam platform to build its Viveport store because hardware sales were not enough to have an ambitious business. Muse looks a lot like ChatGPT integrated inside Unity. Let’s see: Google is still working with Qualcomm and Samsung on a mixed-reality headset.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

And as any year, Oculus has really amazed us: for sure you have already read my short recap published after the first keynote of OC6 where I told you about amazing stuff like Oculus Link, Facebook Horizon and Hands Tracking. Hand tracking on Quest. Hands tracking will guarantee 25 tracked points for each hand.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In a side event happening after AWE, HTC has announced a bunch of updates of Vive Focus 3 that have the potential of revolutionizing the Location Based Entertainment in VR (LBEVR o LBVR) sector. With the upcoming update of the runtime, Vive Focus 3 will be able to track its position in a space up to 33m x 33m, that is 1000 square meters.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

thanks to a better tracking algorithm that allows for less power consumption on the IR LEDs of the controllers (thanks TESTED for having pointed this out). The haptic feedback of these controllers has been improved , and they can provide much stronger vibrations than the one of the original Quest. Rift line gets discontinued.

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