ARVR

JULY 19, 2021

On Thursday, May 27th, key players from the haptics, hand tracking, and VR training industries gathered to discuss the scaling of haptics in VR training applications. It addressed how a company can leverage haptic technology across all their virtual training scenarios thanks to Interhaptics and Innoactive technologies.

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Road to VR

JUNE 12, 2023

Unity engine support is promised but with no plans for motion control support, Apple has cut out any possibility of porting most of the existing or future VR catalog to its platform. Hand-tracking is a logical affordance for AR based spatial computing and no doubt some experiences will work well with that design philosophy.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Interhaptics is a Haptics software company specializing in tools for haptic design and rendering, and hand tracking interactions for digital platforms as Mobile, XR, and consoles. It supports an extensive list of XR controllers, hand tracking systems, and haptic devices.

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ARVR

JUNE 16, 2020

In this blog post, we analyze how V-commerce scenario creators can leverage Haptics and hand interactions to increase the value for its customers. Build your first HoloLens 2 Application with Unity and MRTK 2.3.0 Multi-sensory experience with haptics With Interhaptics, you can create your haptic designs very easily.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

SenseGlove is an exoskeleton for your hands that is able to provide you haptics sensations. This realism is offered through three main features: Fingers tracking : Senseglove can detect the orientation of your hand and also the bending angle of your fingers. Haptics quality. What is SenseGlove?

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2022

First of all, he got some CAD files about it, and from those, it is possible to see that the device includes two front tracking cameras, one RGB camera to colorize the passthrough of the tracking cameras and a depth sensor that may help with scene understanding and hands tracking. News worth a mention.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 28, 2022

With tracking technologies, companies can build more immersive experiences for XR users. Eye tracking helps users to navigate a space more effectively, while improving software performance and minimising discomfort. Hand tracking, on the other hand, ensures individuals can interact more effectively with virtual content.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 3, 2023

The product combines hand tracking with haptic feedback to give the user a more hands-on approach to interacting with the virtual environment around them. Battery life is around two hours with haptics on and eight hours with it turned off. You can also hot swap the battery to keep it up and running.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 15, 2023

Unity adds OpenXR hand integration package. Unity has just released the XR Hands package, currently in preview, that aims at making developers integrate hand tracking into their applications via OpenXR. Cats are the best haptic devices. Learn more. Some XR fun. Standalone headsets are evil.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 27, 2023

Users benefit from a streamlined and lightweight form factor, crisp visuals, and self-tracking controllers with access to haptic feedback capabilities. The brand also has a range of peripherals and accessories on offer, including gloves with haptic feedback capabilities.

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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. Compatible with HTC Vive and other SteamVR headsets, Manus Polygon will be compatible with Unity when it officially launches in June 2020.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

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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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

This time we will talk about haptics in XR with some celebrities in the field like Guido Gioioso from Weart, Ashley Huffman from TitanHaptics, and Joe Michaels from HaptX. Upload has gone hands-on with the relaxing Shores Of Loci. Interesting research about a VR haptic glove. It is going to be suuuuuuper interesting! Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

The sentence with which they have started the tease is “Big things are in motion here at Ultraleap”, which makes me think about something big that moves… may it be a new device to perform body tracking? All without leaving your editor.

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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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Leapmotion

JUNE 11, 2016

Unity Widgets are back – with a new name and massively streamlined functionality! Just released for our Unity Core Assets , the UI Input Module provides a simplified interface for physically interacting with World Space Canvases within Unity’s UI System. What’s Inside? The UI Input Module aims to do just that.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

So many developers could find themselves with the conundrum of what to offer and to which device : if the Quest 3 Lite will sell a lot of units, maybe developers will prefer to develop content that is compatible with hand tracking, shifting the current attention to games to something else.

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Road to VR

MAY 29, 2019

There’s also on-board haptics, and the end of the stylus has a pressure-sensitive tip which allows for pressure-sensitive writing against physical surfaces. SEE ALSO Tactical Haptics to Open Pre-orders for 'Reactive Grip' Dev Kits on May 29th. A VR stylus that’s good enough for handwriting could be the key.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 1, 2024

The brand also has a range of peripherals and accessories, including gloves with haptic feedback capabilities. The solution also supports hand tracking through Ultraleap Gemini and Positional tracking via SteamVR.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Facebook has showcased how thanks to the use of hand-tracking gloves, it has been able to let people touch-type in VR. Microsoft has showcased a new haptic device, that is made by a ball that moves towards your hand when you grab a virtual object and that goes away when your hand is free in the game.

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 27, 2018

To test the feature, the team used an Oculus Rift CV1 for display and a Leap Motion was applied for hand tracking. The virtual environment was developed in the Unity game engine, and the native physics engine of Unity was used to drive the physics-based simulation of the Force Push interface.

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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

JULY 26, 2021

We have seen that hands tracking has enabled new kinds of experiences that we hadn’t even thought of before (think about the great experiments by Daniel Beauchamp ), and I’m sure that the same will happen with passthrough AR, too; Facebook is building a platform that will work for all future headsets. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Ultraleap hand tracking. Custom made eye tracking. Spatial has announced a toolkit for creators that can be used directly inside Unity. Diver X has started a new Kickstarter campaign about haptic gloves. Its specifications are actually quite cool: Display: 2x 3.2″ ″ 2880 x 2880 Fast LCD. Learn more.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Haptics, however, can be prohibitively expensive, even for some enterprise. Now, if you're not familiar with haptics, we're going to get right into this. A little while ago, I had the opportunity to try haptic gloves, and I put them on and I was able to reach out in virtual reality and grab an object and feel that object in my hand.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Haptics, however, can be prohibitively expensive, even for some enterprise. Now, if you're not familiar with haptics, we're going to get right into this. A little while ago, I had the opportunity to try haptic gloves, and I put them on and I was able to reach out in virtual reality and grab an object and feel that object in my hand.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Haptics, however, can be prohibitively expensive, even for some enterprise. Now, if you're not familiar with haptics, we're going to get right into this. A little while ago, I had the opportunity to try haptic gloves, and I put them on and I was able to reach out in virtual reality and grab an object and feel that object in my hand.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

OpenXR has arrived at the first version of the standard, and now it has been implemented by all the major vendors : Microsoft has implemented it for HoloLens and WMR; Oculus for Rift and Quest; Valve has implemented it in SteamVR; etc… Talking about game engines, Unreal Engine now already offers it, while Unity is still lagging behind.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

There’s also a 3-point precision fit headband for extra comfort. The Varjo headset includes Ultraleap hand-tracking to monitor natural hand movements, and true-to-life MR passthrough with 12 megapixel video. There’s even the option to use haptic gloves for feedback.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 23, 2023

The Varjo headset includes Ultraleap hand-tracking to monitor natural hand movements and true-to-life MR passthrough with 12-megapixel video. Plus, users can unlock depth awareness capabilities powered by LiDAR and Inside-out tracking capabilities for more immersive experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 17, 2020

Holo-BLSD reproduces the standard course settings since it has a virtual instructor and a low-cost CPR manikin , to teach learners CPR providing them with realistic haptic feedback. Then, of course, we started fighting with issues related to the field view and hand-tracking capabilities. This point is quite funny.

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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

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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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. And we also just got awarded a Unreal-- or an Epic MegaGrant to develop in Unreal, basically in collaboration with BeBop Sensors who makes these haptic hand tracking gloves.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. And we also just got awarded a Unreal-- or an Epic MegaGrant to develop in Unreal, basically in collaboration with BeBop Sensors who makes these haptic hand tracking gloves.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

Glasses : Weight : 88g Connectivity : USB-C compatible Optics : Combined Lightguide FOV : 52° Maximum resolution: 1080p Environmental Understanding : SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping), 6DoF tracking, Plane detection, Image tracking Cameras : two tracking cameras + one RGB. All bugs that were taunting me vanished away.

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