The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

It’s since when I launched my blog that I always dreamed of interviewing someone from Oculus , and finally today this dream has come true. The VRX conference will be held in San Francisco on December, 12-13th and will feature very high-level speakers from companies like Oculus/Facebook, HP, Snap and many others. Hey, Antony.

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JULY 25, 2017

Earlier this year Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg teased a new form of input being developed over at Oculus: hand tracking gloves. An unlisted Oculus video posted last week, unearthed by Reddit , shows the gloves in action.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Proton Pulse , originally created for the Oculus Rift DK1 development kit in 2013, has been re-released on Apple Vision Pro this week. Practically untouched from its original head-tracked input scheme, the game marks a soft reset in XR game development as developers assess how to approach Vision Pro’s lack of controllers.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Hand-tracking is on the rise in the XR market. In the last couple of years, several emerging high quality and precise hand-tracking technologies were introduced to the market. How AR/VR Are Transforming the Real Estate Industry 2. VRfree is a solid device including precise and scalable hand tracking data.

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Road to VR

JULY 17, 2017

Leap Motion, a veteran player in the virtual reality sector (having been founded two years ahead of Oculus), has announced the closure of a Series C investment round totaling $50 million. However, one place in VR still seems like a potential sweet spot for Leap Motion’s hand-tracking tech: mobile.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

It even had support for eye tracking, which we now know was through a partnership with none other than SMI. However, there was one thing that was missing, hand tracking. In fact, Intel was already demoing hand tracking this year at CES with their Project Alloy prototype.

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MARCH 7, 2022

Image courtesy Oculus. That means it’s possible for the headset to lose track of the controllers if they spend too much time outside of the camera’s view (like if you held them too low, too high, or behind your back). Image courtesy Oculus. There’s more potential benefits too.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Today it’s a great day for virtual reality: at WCVRI conference, HTC has just announced a kit to provide 6 DOF controllers for Vive Focus and has showcased a hands-tracking technology for the Vive Pro ! Nanchang City is showing a very warm welcome for the 4000+ delegates of the “World Conference of the VR Industry”. #VR

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

The latest version of the Oculus Integration for Unity, v23, adds experimental OpenXR support for Quest and Quest 2 application development. OpenXR Support for Oculus Unity Integration. OpenXR Support for Oculus Unity Integration. Phase Sync Latency Reduction in Unity and Unreal Engine.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This week, hand-tracking market leader SpectreXR made various strides in innovating in XR input with various partnerships that aim to elevate immersion for XR training applications and user experiences. They’ve built realistic hand interactions for OctoXR that complement Ultraleap’s hand tracking perfectly.

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AUGUST 23, 2022

Owlchemy Labs’ next VR project will feature multiplayer and hand tracking support. Owlchemy Labs is a veteran VR studio and one of the industry’s best developers , known for some huge titles such as Job Simulator, Vacation Simulator and, most recently, Cosmonious High.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Coming to Quest VR headsets in late 2022, Fight Back is a free VR app aimed at teaching self-defense via hand tracking. From Céline Tricart and produced by both Tricart and Marie Blondiaux, Fight Back uses storytelling steeped in metaphor to teach self-defense techniques via VR headset hand tracking or optional controller tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 22, 2020

Oculus has gained in these years always more success in the consumers’ landscape, and now with the Oculus Quest , thanks to an affordable device running great content , it is making strides in the market. Today, finally, Facebook has changed all of this and i s making Oculus For Business available to all interested companies.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Oculus Quest 2 ships today to pre-order customers (we’re eagerly watching the door). To commemorate the device reaching consumers’ hands and heads, we’re reprising our recent review roundup (say that three times fast). B y now, you’ve probably heard all about Oculus Quest 2.

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VRScout

MAY 14, 2019

Scheduled for release during the launch of the Oculus Quest, Polyarc is celebrating the new standalone edition of its fantasy-inspired VR platformer, Moss, with a free content update that introduces more story, weapons, puzzles, challenges, and player interactions to your and Quill’s adventure.

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VRScout

JANUARY 19, 2022

Once paired, the Quest will layer a digital version of the Apple Magic Keyboard over its real-world counterpart, allowing users to type effectively in VR using hand-tracking technology. Simply choose your content, click the “share” option on your device, and select the Oculus mobile app. Image Credit: Meta.

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DECEMBER 6, 2016

virtual reality peripheral that can be mounted onto an Oculus Rift headset. This device then uses infrared scanning technology to detect the position of your hands in 3D space. ” For Leap, this meant that heavy optimization would be required to get IR hand tracking to work on mobile devices. It’s a $79.99

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JANUARY 6, 2017

In fact, his main demonstration would use an Oculus Rift, retrofitted with Intel’s RealSense Camera. Not only were his real hands inside VR with him, but they were being tracked down to the individual digits. Tagged with: CES , hand tracking , hands , Intel , merged reality , project alloy.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 27, 2019

The latest iteration of its one-size-fits-all Forte Data Glove can now be combined with the Oculus Quest controllers, integrating BeBop’s hand tracking technology with the Quest’s 3D tracking. The post Smart Fabric Technology Brings Touch Haptics To The Oculus Quest appeared first on VRScout.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Legendary programmer and Oculus CTO John Carmack took the stage today at Oculus Connect to have another one of his famous off-script, stream-of-thought talks. There’s a few sore spots in Oculus Go that Carmack thinks could be solved in the next generation of low-cost VR standalones. ” Image courtesy Palmer Luckey.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2021

You may be noticing that I’ve mentioned no hand-tracking hardware: competitors like Senseglove Nova or HaptX Gloves all have some integrated sensors to detect the pose of the fingers and use some external systems (e.g. Vive Tracker) to get the overall pose of the hand. the “No.1

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MAY 7, 2020

An upcoming online workshop by XR development educator Circuit Stream will teach developers the basics of building applications for Oculus Quest. With many of us a stuck at home with some extra time on our hands from not traveling (or getting dressed) it may be an opportune time to learn new skills. The post Bored During Lockdown?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The headset has a very nice design and features these specifications: Standalone 6DOF headset 1600×1600 resolution per eye 90Hz refresh rate 90° FOV RGB AR passthrough Innovative lenses that make the headset more compact Integrated audio Controller-free hand-tracking Eye-tracking 6GB of RAM 128GB of storage WiFi 6 (802.11ax), Bluetooth 5.0,

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MARCH 27, 2024

On March 25, 2014 the world learned Mark Zuckerberg purchased Oculus VR for over $2 billion. Kids who weren't born when he made that decision can now wear , with parental controls, a $500 wireless all-in-one headset with markerless inside-out tracking, precise 6DoF controllers, hand tracking, and mixed reality.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The VR gloves that will let you type and shoot spider webs from your hands. During his recent visit to the company research lab in Redmond, WA today; Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg recently posted photos of himself using a prototype glove that can be used in a AR/VR environment to emulate your physical hand movements in real time.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

In the interview with me, he talked about many topics, like the rumors he heard on Apple Glasses, on the Oculus Quest 2 , the America vs China war, XR entrepreneurship, Tesla, and more! But of course, the technology is still not there: the Oculus Quest is still uncomfortable, we can’t read texts in it, and so on.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

Last Oculus Quest update shows hints of an Oculus MR ecosystem. Facebook is continuously updating the Oculus Quest , its most successful device, and this week it has rolled out the runtime v16. I think that this update, together with the last ones, marks the beginning of a mixed reality ecosystem that is being built by Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Next week, on September 26th-27th, Oculus will perform its annual showcase event: Oculus Connect , that has now arrived at its 5th edition. The latest event, the OC4 has been full of news and interesting information , both on Oculus products and VR in general and I think that this year won’t be different.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

VirtualLink was an open standard that defined a USB-C based connection protocol that was “developed to meet the connectivity requirements of current and next-generation VR headsets,” and backed by major VR industry players. SEE ALSO OpenXR Now Certifying Headset & App Compliance, Adds Extensions for Hand-tracking & Eye-tracking.

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APRIL 30, 2019

Oculus Quest is now available for pre-order and will launch on May 21st. After testing the headset for several weeks, our Oculus Quest review is here. Because it doesn’t rely on a PC, but still has full tracking capabilities, Oculus hopes that Quest can bring VR’s most immersive experiences to a much wider crowd.

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VRScout

AUGUST 23, 2020

Immersive technology is changing the way we look at music the music industry. on Oculus Rift , Oculus Quest , and Steam VR , this hyper-realistic DJ simulator offers you the chance to upload and mix your personal music collection using a virtual deck that mimics the setup used in nightclubs around the world. ELECTRONAUTS.

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MAY 23, 2023

Four years ago this week, Oculus Quest started shipping and changed VR forever. Before Quest , the only way to get a consumer VR setup with positional tracking and tracked controllers was through a gaming PC or PlayStation 4. For almost everyone, good VR was simply out of reach. Many saw it as nothing more than a souped-up Go.

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ARPost

MARCH 26, 2020

All last week Oculus announced their VR news through the Facebook Game Developers Showcase. Connecting with the developer community, sharing our technical insights and learning what is next for the industry is always a highlight for our team,” the VIVE team said in their Tuesday announcement. “ What They Have Planned.

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MAY 2, 2017

Back in mid-April we wrote about a new patent from Oculus that further supported theories the company may one day release hand-tracking gloves for VR experiences. Now another new patent points to the company’s work in eye tracking. Will Oculus reveal its plans for eye tracking this year?

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FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The Korea Economic Daily cites "industry sources" as saying that Mark Zuckerberg will meet with the CEO of LG Electronics on Wednesday to finalize the details of the partnership. Samsung handled the hardware for Gear VR, Oculus Go was manufactured by Xiaomi, and Oculus Rift S was manufactured and co-designed by Lenovo.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

So, for instance, he can use the bare hand with the left hand and the controller in the right hand, or he can use the controllers in both, then put them on the table and start using hand tracking with both hands.

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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. Augmented reality for maintenance and repair 4.

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