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. ” Furthermore, JJFX, Founder, International Dance Association , commented on the XR motion-capturing solution.

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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

The glove is capable of intricate motion capture, including for use in XR applications. 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. But, it has powers. StretchSense.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 23, 2021

People can talk, gesticulate (hands tracking is supported), and enjoy a full sense of presence. A new interesting project has been published on Kickstarter: it is called Axis, and it is a system of sensors that you install on your body to have full-body tracking for gaming and motion capture. Discover AR fashion.

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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. The development of high-fidelity hand tracking interactions and haptic feedback can take a very long time and be complicated.

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Road to VR

JULY 7, 2020

Developers often need to spend time hand animating the hand model so that it appears to hold each object in a realistic way. Some VR games employ various methods of ‘dynamic’ animation to create realistic hand poses when players grab objects in VR ( Lone Echo , for instance).

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Road to VR

JANUARY 5, 2017

SEE ALSO Hands-on: HTC's New Vive Tracker Makes VR More Immersive With Specialized Accessories. We’ve seen the Vive Tracker in action now on numerous devices, and it seems to be an excellent way to harness that great room-scale tracking precision Valve’s Lighthouse tracking system does so well.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In its upcoming 5-year development plan, there should be measures to favor the growth and the spread of Immersive Realities. Facebook has showcased how thanks to the use of hand-tracking gloves, it has been able to let people touch-type in VR. Facebook and Microsoft publish two interesting research projects for VR. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 6, 2019

IKinema was a company working on motion capture and had developed a great solution that lets people animate a full-body avatar with just some Vive Trackers on their limbs. Someone experimented with hands tracking on the Index. The system is a bit glitchy, but it works, and lets you use your hands with the Valve Index.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

Cubism is a great case study for hand tracking UX. It can work both with the hands and the controllers, and since its hand interface works really well , Road To VR asked its developer Thomas Van Bouwel to write an article about it. I really hope that this is going to happen. News from partners (and friends). Learn more.

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Virtual reality (VR) is all about immersion in whatever experience you happen to be in. In reality that has taken longer than expected yet hand-tracking has now caught up with VR headsets. Hand tracking is one of those technologies that will become more ubiquitous whether it’s via gloves or systems like Leap Motion.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 4, 2017

The Vive and Rift have solid controllers, but the CaptoGlove would be a welcome wearable that boosts the immersion of the growing number of virtual experiences. It will also work with every VR headset on the market, which is where the device will likely be most impactful.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The ability to bring the sense of touch into the virtual is the final frontier of true immersion, and some of that technology already exists. So that's the reason why they asked, "OK, we need that next level of immersion. So it's rather like immersion, but we have versus realism that HaptX has as a vision. That's so different.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The ability to bring the sense of touch into the virtual is the final frontier of true immersion, and some of that technology already exists. So that's the reason why they asked, "OK, we need that next level of immersion. So it's rather like immersion, but we have versus realism that HaptX has as a vision. That's so different.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The ability to bring the sense of touch into the virtual is the final frontier of true immersion, and some of that technology already exists. So that's the reason why they asked, "OK, we need that next level of immersion. So it's rather like immersion, but we have versus realism that HaptX has as a vision. That's so different.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 6, 2015

My current goal is to create an immersive fishing simulator, for when uni gets a bit too stressful! What do VR and hand tracking each add to the experience of seeing and disassembling a thing in mid-air? I’ll also be building fun demos for their CAVE (cave automatic virtual environment) throughout the year.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 15, 2024

HDR video and EXIF tags for every ARKit frame 4K video streaming Depth APIs for realistic real-world blending Scene geometry for topological mapping A LiDAR scanner for plane detection People occlusion Motion capture with a single camera Apple’s ARKit is free to use if you just experiment with the features.

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 19, 2019

A lot has happened in the immersive space over the past 12 months. If it’s true what they say that time flies when you’re having fun, then 2019 must have been a really good year for immersive tech, because here we are gearing up for the holidays and I haven’t sent a single Christmas card. Immersive Masterpiece.

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