The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

A new FCC listing appears for an HTC Vive headset. And in fact, a new request to FCC for a new device has arrived from HTC. FCC certifications are requested before releasing an electronic device in the US (to certify that it is safe to be used), so this is a clear sign that HTC is going to release a new headset soon.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

XR headset manufacturer HTC VIVE has debuted its VIVE Ultimate Tracker, which will offer users multiple vantage points for body tracking, Shen Ye, Global Head of Product, HTC VIVE announced in a blog post on Wednesday. Building on the successes of the HTC VIVE Tracker 3.0,

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

This weekend I’ve also organized together with SIDI a big VR workshop on new technologies (XR, AI, neural links, etc…). Image by HTC Vive). HTC expands its Cosmos offering and teases the future with Proton. This has been a pretty interesting week for HTC Vive. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

When Mark Zuckerberg acquired Oculus, all the eyes of the tech industry started looking at VR as the “next big thing” And now that Apple entered the field, all people in the technology world are talking about the Vision Pro, and especially of the future evolutions of the device, which could become mainstream.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

More info (Quest 3 going ok in Steam Hardware Survey) More info (Quest 2 selling much better than Quest 3 on Amazon) HTC announced the Vive Ultimate Tracker Finally, HTC has officially announced the Vive Ultimate Tracker, its standalone inside-out tracker unit. But for now, we are not sure at all this is going to happen.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

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. How has eye and hand-tracking tracking technology advanced in 2022 and 2023?

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

Creating remote MR productions Hand Tracking Thanks to the release of the Oculus Quest, one of the most popular UI in XR today is the hand tracking input. The system is technically compatible with hand tracking, but it is not natively supported. Augmented reality (AR) is the future of Restaurant Menu?

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 27, 2023

RealWear Exploring various aspects of the immersive technology landscape, RealWear produces sensors, apps, and hardware for the XR space. On the other hand, the VIVE Pro Series includes a collection of high-performance PC VR solutions with high visual fidelity and stereoscopic audio.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

XR data analytics firm CORTEXR has launched its platform on Tuesday to standardise virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) technologies as well as the Metaverse. Eye, gaze, and hand-tracking were also key to learning user behaviours and interactions with immersive content, the survey continued.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 1, 2024

Here are some of the VR vendors making waves in the industry as of 2024: RealWear Meta Apple Goertek Pimax Pico HP HTC Vive Samsung Varjo Lenovo Valve Index Vrgineers RealWear Exploring various aspects of the immersive technology landscape, RealWear produces sensors, apps, and hardware for the XR space.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

Image courtesy HTC. HTC have finally revealed the price and release date of the anticipated Vive Pro , opening preorders globally at Vive.com and other retailers. The company is still heavily involved with VR development however, and are expected to present some new technology with Google at Display Week 2018 in May. Nvidia RTX.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2022

It has become one of the headset manufacturers with the biggest worldwide market, and the market leader (together with HTC) in the B2B virtual reality sector. The Pico Neo 3 has this special technology thanks to which it doesn’t connect via USB to become a PCVR headset (like the Quest 2 and Focus 3 ), but it does that via DisplayPort.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The only company not much affected by it is HTC, that manufacturers its headsets in Taiwan and not in Mainland China. HTC Vive releases Cosmos Elite, two models of Vive Pro Eye and creates some confusion. Developers continue to have fun with Oculus Quest hands tracking! base stations and a 20m fiber cable.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 3, 2023

Nintendo ultimately sold 1 million of the things, but the technology just wasn’t there, and the dream controlling gameplay with a robo-glove appeared to have died along with it. 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.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

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. Their goal is to transform how users interact with XR solutions and applications.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

HP and Microsoft have a long track in offering enterprise hardware, so this headset may battle HTC on his own land (B2B). First of all, Peter Chou, ex founder of HTC , has launched his startup XrSpace, with his first VR headset Mova (that you can see in the header image of this post), together with its social XR platform Manova.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The Immerse Global Summit 2022 Miami concluded on Wednesday, where some of the biggest players in the tech industry gathered to explore the future of Web3 technologies. This began with devices from Lenovo, HTC VIVE, Pico Interactive, and Meta Platforms, so the growth we’ve seen for consumer use cases has been very strong since then.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The two-day event is essentially a mini-GDC, focused exclusively on VR headsets and related technologies. Get in on the ground floor with this talk from Martz, who will tell you how to get to grips with the new platform including working with Google VR SDKs for Android, Unity, and Unreal. November 3rd, 10:15am. November 3rd, 2:30pm.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 24, 2022

This was widely shared – leading to many believing Quest just got body tracking support – but both the name of the API and the illustration are misleading. Meta’s Hand Tracking API provides the actual position of your hands & fingers, tracked by the outwards-facing cameras.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 24, 2020

Ever since virtual reality (VR) remerged as a viable consumer product the quest has been to make the technology as immersive and interactive as possible. 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.

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ARPost

JUNE 3, 2022

If you’re not amazed because many XR applications have built-in hand tracking, remember that your hands need to be in view of the headset’s cameras for hand tracking to work. You can do it with your hands behind your back. Not so with StretchSense. StretchSense. You can do this in a pocket.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

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. It can so be used as a hand tracking device; Vibrotactile feedback : SenseGlove has some motors that can vibrate so that you feel vibrations on your fingertips.

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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. New augmented and virtual reality developers have little out-of-the-box support for this historically difficult technology,” adds Dan Duggan, a software engineer at Charles River.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

The price tag seems a bit too steep given the current situation of the company unless behind the curtains they have some secret technology and some Carmack-style talents. The VR route is instead being pursued by HTC (with its VEC event happening soon) and IEEE. Google MediaPipe can now track 3D objects. Support the Skarredghost.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

It’s a while that I virtually know Chris Koomen , a talented professional that works with immersive technologies at KLM. In 2015 my girlfriend came with a Cardboard and with no experience with Unity I created my first 360 photo which I’ve shown to my manger. There started to grow the use of interactions in 360 videos.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

Watching it, I had serious AR-Cloud vibes (most probably powered also by the technology of 6d.ai that Niantic acquired), and the fact that Niantic is working with telco operators to support 5G is an indicator that the company wants also to dominate this technology. Cubism is a great case study for hand tracking UX.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

We all love to make speculations on the technology and I am no exception. Not because I am a genius, but because the technology is still evolving very slowly and so it is very predictable. With ARKit you can also track your face, and some developers have started also using it as an animation tool. Augmented Reality in 2018.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Vive Focus 3 has an expensive cooling system that can keep the Snapdragon XR2 cold enough to perform its operations at the best temperatures (Image by HTC Vive). This is great news for us developers, because it means we can develop a VR app for Quest, Pico, and Focus using exactly the same SDK provided by Unity! Production quality.

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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

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The motion blur is very noticeable, and I don’t know if it is due to a problem in the tracking or in the display technology. Since having a 3DOF controller with a 6DOF headset is weird (HTC and Lenovo know this well), RealMax has decided to add also support for Leap Motion. The Realmax Qian unboxing experience was good.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

This means that someone made some predictions that were totally wrong and this made lots of companies bet on a technology that was not ready enough, creating huge losses and so the general consensus that VR is not taking foot and so it is a dead technology. Mister President launching the Vive Focus (Image by HTC). Enterprise.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2019

” review of standalone headsets (you can find in other posts the ones related to Oculus Go and HTC Vive Focus ). it is bigger than the Oculus Go but smaller than the massive HTC Vive Focus. On the front side of the headset, that is black, you can find the two cameras used for the inside-out 6 DOF tracking of the device.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 26, 2016

” Head tracking is an essential part of all mixed reality technology, both VR and AR, and the so-called inside-out variety in a VR headset makes set up dramatically easier. “We’ve experimented with input devices communicating over Wi-Fi to the HoloLens and sending real-time X,Y,Z coordinates in Unity,” Zachary wrote.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

We had at the same time the Game Developer Conference (the GDC) and the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) by NVIDIA, so we had lots of announcements about 3D technology in general and also about XR. There have been companies that have tried to compete with HTC in this market, but they all had their big share of trouble in doing that.

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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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Road to VR

AUGUST 23, 2016

The technology that enables the core experience that comprises virtual reality is progressing quickly, but as VR headsets become more advanced companies are looking to where the next generational leap in VR will come from. In June 2016, we finished multiple Unity Demos to demonstrate what Dexmo is capable of.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2021

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. We all know that HTC is hosting an event inside the social VR platform ENGAGE and that it is going to announce a new product.

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