Road to VR

AUGUST 5, 2021

Since its launch in 2019 Oculus Quest has represented a major shift in Facebook’s VR strategy by moving away from the PC. Hand-tracking. Hand-tracking first came to the original Quest in late 2019, offering users and developers a controllerless option for input on the headset. Facebook Messenger.

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Tech Trends VR

JUNE 18, 2020

The real power of the Varjio solution, however, is released when this amazing image quality is combined with their advanced stereo 20/20 Eye Tracker and the integrated Ultraleap hand tracking. The next demo I tried was set in an airport control tower, where eye and hand tracking played a crucial role.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 1, 2024

As extended reality devices, metaverse solutions, and immersive technologies become more accessible, countless companies are updating their training strategies. Evolutions in spatial computing technology offer employees a more natural way to interact with content through gesture, eye, and hand-tracking algorithms.

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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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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The promotional videos leaked on the Quest 2 still operate with a USB cable for the Link , but I’m sure that Oculus is cooking something wireless, with a dedicated dongle to offer a high-throughput low-latency wi-fi. Hands tracking with controllers. Performances of the Qualcomm XR2 vs the previous 835 chipset.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 3, 2021

It is a very smart strategy that will pay in the long run. Jokingly speaking, we can imagine the Oculus Store in 3 layers: Little teams and VR experiments go on App Lab Big teams and great VR games go on the Oculus Store Very popular VR games go straight into Facebook. Quest 2 hands tracking gets 60Hz update.

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Tech Trends VR

JUNE 18, 2020

The real power of the Varjio solution, however, is released when this amazing image quality is combined with their advanced stereo 20/20 Eye Tracker and the integrated Ultraleap hand tracking. The next demo I tried was set in an airport control tower, where eye and hand tracking played a crucial role.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Watts was joined by Pearly Chen, Vice-President of HTC VIVE , Brian Vogelsang, Senior Director of Product Management for Qualcomm Technologies , and Maria Pace, Head of XR Hardware, Global Partnerships and Strategies for Google. Maria Pace, Head of XR Hardware, Global Partnerships and Strategies for Google.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

It has basically created a whole ecosystem of its own through strategic investments : I’m very curious to see what is the final goal of this strategy. 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.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Unique passthrough capabilities: With dual, low-latency 20-megapixel cameras, the XR-4 headsets can create photorealistic mixed-reality experiences. Tracking options: Users can configure their headset for SteamVR tracking, as well as ART and Optitrack via API.

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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. Plus, the solution includes tools for positional tracking and hand-tracking.

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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

MARCH 4, 2019

I have also to say that there is still a long road to go before going there: the magazines that have tried the solution of HTC found it very interesting, but at the same time highlighted how the latency was still high and sometimes if you moved too fast, you lose the tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

All will feature tracking cameras for 6dof, hand tracking, speakers, microphone, and an additional camera to shoot photos and videos. Some will also feature tracked controllers. Nu Eyes AR glasses. They work by being connected to the smartphone, too (Image by NuEyes). And that’s it!

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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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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2020

And what is interesting is what we can expect from it in the coming times : since the XR2 offers hardware acceleration for AI, video encoding/decoding, etc… it has the power to bring better hands tracking, voice detection, and environment understanding to the Quest 2. Initial Setup.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 24, 2021

The Wave SDK has grown a lot in the last years , and it has also added features like Foveated Rendering and Hands Tracking. This is absolutely good and reminded me of the same strategy that the NVIDIA CloudXR SDK follows for cloud streaming. In my tests, it lasted something like 2 hours.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Every major company in the world is working on an XR strategy right now and communications are gonna change forever. So you have a freeway system, much bigger freeway system with very little latency. And there are incredible new headset manufacturers are doing hand tracking, where you can put your hand right on top of that.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Every major company in the world is working on an XR strategy right now and communications are gonna change forever. So you have a freeway system, much bigger freeway system with very little latency. And there are incredible new headset manufacturers are doing hand tracking, where you can put your hand right on top of that.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Every major company in the world is working on an XR strategy right now and communications are gonna change forever. So you have a freeway system, much bigger freeway system with very little latency. And there are incredible new headset manufacturers are doing hand tracking, where you can put your hand right on top of that.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

We’ve been able to come up with a strategy, which is at least three stages to get the customer using the experience on a daily basis, get them using it on the table, and then take the full experience out into the world. GB: Is it a tradeoff against what you’d call latency, maybe? They’ll see a holographic version of my hand.

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