Road to VR

JULY 15, 2017

Holovis’ press release describes some of its interactivity achieved via hand tracking – “riders could explore things in the cab, such as change the radio station, scroll through the news and pick up elements that fall from the glove box as it opens during the first inversion”. image courtesy Holovis. image courtesy Holovis.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

XTAL is an enterprise headset with incredible specifications, like for instance: 5120 x 1440 display resolution (2560 x 1440 per eye); OLED display Custom non-Fresnel lenses 180° diagonal FOV Spatial 3D sound from a built-in sound card Embedded microphone Embedded eye tracking Auto-IPD adjustment Embedded Leap motion v2 sensor.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Oculus official side distribution platform is coming soon. Last year, Facebook announced that it was going to release in 2021 a new side content distribution platform for the Oculus Quest. Echo VR , the VR sports game available on Oculus headsets, is getting a ‘battle pass’ system called Echo Pass.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Let me tell you my first hands-on impressions on it! Project North Star is an opensource reference design for a wide-FOV augmented reality headset that Leap Motion (now Ultraleap ) has given to the community. The hand tracking was fabulous as always thanks to Leap Motion and its Orion tracking.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Virtual Battlespace 3 , a professional simulation experience from Bohemia Interactive Simulations, today added support for the Oculus Rift’s consumer version (CV1) and the HTC Vive as part of its v3.9.2 Others have also replaced other wide field of view display solutions with the Oculus Rift.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2022

For years, the company has been delivering some of the most powerful and accessible XR experiences around, with tools like the Oculus Quest. To achieve their mission of delivering highly immersive, productive, and engaging experiences, Meta invests heavily in tracking technologies.

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Peter Graham

JULY 15, 2019

VSDK is a Unity-based solution for developers looking to create naturalistic user interactions whilst supporting a wide variety of headsets (HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Oculus Quest) and peripherals (bHaptics TactSuit, Leap Motion, and ManusVR gloves.).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2019

The journalists that have tried it, have said that it is a great product : the foveated rendering applications work like a charm and the analytics offered by eye tracking are fundamental for training applications. It will be something similar to the new Oculus Home. Everyone is hyped for the Quest (Image by Oculus).

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Leapmotion

JUNE 14, 2018

VR, AR and hand tracking are often considered to be futuristic technologies, but they also have the potential to be the easiest to use. That application became Cat Explorer , which you can download now for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. That application became Cat Explorer , which you can download now for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 19, 2017

Above: David Holz, founder of Leap Motion, shows off hand-tracking in VR. The headset used sensors to detect my fingers, using software from Leap Motion. It reminded me of a speech by Mike Abrash , chief scientist at Oculus, speaking last fall. Image Credit: Dean Takahashi. R&D still to come.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 28, 2015

Recently, we caught up with Vivid Vision co-founder James Blaha to ask him how he’s retraining people’s brains using VR and hand tracking technology. It’s very challenging to balance the requirements of the training with fun game mechanics. appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 6, 2015

I got my Leap Motion Controller at the start of 2014, and quickly went about making demos. My first major project was Battleship VR , which was intended to investigate UI interaction with finger tracking. It can still be found on Oculus Share, although it’s quite old now. What’s the story behind your 3D CAD demo?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys — Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. ”H-A-P-T-X, the ones that have air– Dean: I’ve trained theirs, but I haven’t tried that particular demo. And that was with controllers.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys — Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. ”H-A-P-T-X, the ones that have air– Dean: I’ve trained theirs, but I haven’t tried that particular demo. And that was with controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2018

It is a square one, so it seems that the system takes the undistorted view of one eye, exactly as the Oculus Go does when recording a video. It can’t track your hand while it is near to your back, because your hand should be in the field of view of the cameras… we have to see how big is the FOV of this tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 12, 2019

for advanced training) and so even the price is very enterprise-oriented. What is incredible is that the glove can work with WHATEVER tracking system. You choose… and Dexta even made a demo using the glove with Oculus Quest controllers! Hands-on. Features of Dexmo gloves (Image by Dexta Robotics). What else can I say?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys -- Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. Dean: I've trained theirs, but I haven't tried that particular demo. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2021

This means that at the moment you can not use NextMind with the Oculus Quest standalone (you can use it with Quest + Link, of course). A future runtime could offer more functionalities , a bit like it has happened with Leap Motion that in 2012 was a rough accessory and now is an amazing hands tracking device.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys — Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. ”H-A-P-T-X, the ones that have air– Dean: I’ve trained theirs, but I haven’t tried that particular demo. And that was with controllers.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 12, 2015

Hand tracking and virtual reality are both emerging technologies, and combining the two into a fluid and seamless experience can be a real challenge. No two people have the same intuitions, but we’re trained by our physical world to have triggered responses based on our expectations. Ergonomics.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 15, 2015

This year marks the 120th anniversary of L’Arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat , an early piece of silent film footage that astonished (and by some accounts even terrified) its audience. With hand tracking as the fundamental input for VR, there are some really exciting possibilities for film over the next 10 years.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

So, for enterprise use cases, you can now have a shared design experience, or experience in general, where people can train together. For, you know, virtually any company that has many people training at one time. I think the training applications are just going to be massive with this technology. Alvin: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

So, for enterprise use cases, you can now have a shared design experience, or experience in general, where people can train together. For, you know, virtually any company that has many people training at one time. I think the training applications are just going to be massive with this technology. Alvin: Yeah.

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