The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2019

Frontal view of the device (Image by Microsoft). The biggest news of the MWC for what concerns XR has been for sure the announcement of the HoloLens 2 by Microsoft. Image by Microsoft). Together with the HoloLens 2, Microsoft has also announced a new version of the Kinect, called Kinect Azure. HoloLens 2. Azure Kinect.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

Today, we’re looking at some of the top MR headset manufacturers in the industry, to help business leaders track down the right endpoints for their technology stack. Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 headset enables 6 degrees of freedom tracking, with spatial mapping and mixed reality capture.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 6, 2023

Unveiled at the Mobile World Congress 2023 , the new device includes a trove of innovative features such as a “retina-level” electrochromic adaptive display, lighting adjustment, Snapdragon Spaces tethering, and hand tracking, among others.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 23, 2023

Today, we’re looking at some of the top MR headset manufacturers in the industry to help business leaders track down the right endpoints for their technology stack. The Varjo headset includes Ultraleap hand-tracking to monitor natural hand movements and true-to-life MR passthrough with 12-megapixel video.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The designs cover all three technologies from a sleek looking, matt black VR headset to an MR device similar to Microsoft’s HoloLens. Other useful features of the reference design include an IR emitter for hand tracking and head tracking, allowing for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) to coexist.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

It seems that his first tests were so-so, but after a new firmware beta update, the system became quite accurate, and apart from some latency problems, it was able to track his body very well. Mocopi could be a good alternative to Vive Trackers for standalone VR users that want to have fun in VRChat.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 7, 2023

mm jack Microphone : 2x integrated microphones (noise canceling) Tracking : inside-out + support for SteamVR via dedicated faceplate Controllers : Varjo controllers (powered by RAZER ) included Weight : 1021g The various models of Varjo XR-4.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

JULY 26, 2023

Despite this, Latta praised the headset’s features like its field of view (FoV), controller-less hand tracking, eye and gaze tracking, and 3D video recording capabilities. ” He explained further, “Looking at the production line, I don’t want to have controllers in my hand or to look for them.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Here’s everything we learned through our hands-on experiments with the device. Its futuristic eye, hand-tracking capabilities, incredible visuals, and breathtaking audio make it a true industry leader. Plus, the eye tracking is insanely good. Plus, you can use your keyboard and mouse normally without any latency.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 28, 2023

This aligns it with the prices for competing solutions like the Apple Vision Pro and Microsoft HoloLens 2. Unique passthrough capabilities: With dual, low-latency 20-megapixel cameras, the XR-4 headsets can create photorealistic mixed-reality experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The problem is not the headset, but the controllers, that maybe to spare battery are emitting very low IR light, that can’t be detected very well outside, where the Sun emits too many IR rays; A Redditor has published a super cool guide on how to obtain the most from your router to have very low latency on Virtual Desktop.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Together with tracking, it also is good at doing everything related to environment understanding, like for instance performing object detection or hand tracking. All these different latencies should be considered when showing the image in front of the eyes of the user, because in the meantime his/her head, of course, has moved.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Already, innovators like Microsoft and Meta have begun leveraging intelligent tools to help users create photo-realistic avatars they can use in virtual environments with VR headsets. Many leading XR vendors are also experimenting with more intelligent tools for eye, face, and hand tracking.

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ARPost

MARCH 31, 2023

So, in the past few weeks we have seen big tech, including Meta and Microsoft, announce massive layoffs , mostly to their XR division and at the same time, pivoting towards artificial intelligence and generative content. Despite the news, this year’s DEAL expo was as busy as ever. Perhaps more like 60fps or 45fps with reprojection to 90hz?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 19, 2024

However, the Quest 3 doesn’t support eye tracking, so you have less control when interacting with content hands-free. The eye and hand tracking on the Apple Vision Pro are phenomenal, whereas the hand tracking on the Quest 3 is a little unreliable. Instead, you’ll be better off using the Plus controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). Of course, Microsoft and Amazon are observing the situation: in my opinion, Microsoft will wait a bit , considering its focus on AR enterprise with HoloLens, while Amazon could improve its already existing offering of glasses connected with Alexa. Sounded good. Nu Eyes AR glasses.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Microsoft chose this approach for HoloLens 2, which Quest Pro actually bears a striking resemblance to. The most impressive core tech of Quest Pro though is the inside-out tracking – without a doubt the best I’ve ever used. It remains rock solid with no perceptible jitter, latency, or drift. Face Tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

It has a dual camera system: one camera does inside-out tracking , so it just tracks your position around the table, so there’s no sensors that you have to put in the room; the other one is used for pure machine vision , we can do hand tracking , so you can reach into this virtual space and move stuff around.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 30, 2023

Eye and hand-tracking trends have evolved rapidly in recent years. Eye and hand-tracking solutions use spatial computing concepts to make interacting with computer systems more natural and intuitive. 3. Advanced AI Enhances Tracking Technologies Artificial intelligence and extended reality often go hand-in-hand.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

Like one of the things I did some work with zero latency and they did some work with the Australian Army in building simulations. I know a guy that was looking in London for a year trying to find a location for Zero Latency location, and he couldn’t. We’ve built all sorts of things; motion tracking, volumetric capture.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

Like one of the things I did some work with zero latency and they did some work with the Australian Army in building simulations. I know a guy that was looking in London for a year trying to find a location for Zero Latency location, and he couldn’t. We’ve built all sorts of things; motion tracking, volumetric capture.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Motion-to-Photon latency is touted at 15ms whilst the refresh rate is either 90hz or 120hz. You can take very long flights in Microsoft Flight Simulator or some very long driving sessions when racing “24 Heures du Mans”. They feature a small joystick, X and Y buttons, Menu and Pimax buttons, side grip buttons, and frontal triggers.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Together with connection reliability, the Client updates included much improved inside-out tracking, local dimming, lighthouse mode, audio latency adjustment, bug fixes, and other important features. Arguably the most important update, and something long awaited by the non-Beta community, was the activation of eye tracking.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

Above: Microsoft’s HoloLens in action. Image Credit: Microsoft. GB: Is it a tradeoff against what you’d call latency, maybe? With hand tracking and eye tracking built into the headset, I can be playing with my friends across the world. They’ll see a holographic version of my hand.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

These are like the Microsoft Hololens, Magic Leaps. So Metastage uses Microsoft’s volumetric Hcap, holographic capture. Fraunhofer, there’s several handfuls of volumetric studios that create– Alan: There’s 55 of them globally. And the great thing is– Alan: The Quest is now doing hand tracking.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

These are like the Microsoft Hololens, Magic Leaps. So Metastage uses Microsoft's volumetric Hcap, holographic capture. Fraunhofer, there's several handfuls of volumetric studios that create--. So you have a freeway system, much bigger freeway system with very little latency. Alan: The Quest is now doing hand tracking.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

These are like the Microsoft Hololens, Magic Leaps. So Metastage uses Microsoft’s volumetric Hcap, holographic capture. Fraunhofer, there’s several handfuls of volumetric studios that create– Alan: There’s 55 of them globally. And the great thing is– Alan: The Quest is now doing hand tracking.

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VRGuy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Reducing Latency is Becoming Complex Trends Presence in VR requires low latency, and reducing latency is not easy. Low latency is also not the result of one single technique. Predictive tracking lowers perceived latency by estimating future orientation. Simplicity is not limited to configuration.

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