The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

After Venice VR Expanded has come to an end, I have finally had the time to experiment with Oculus Quest AR Passthrough. I couldn’t wait to put my hands on it, and I expected all the other devs to be pretty excited too. The community immediately grasped the potential of hand tracking and embraced it totally.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Circuit Stream , the company he works for, offers a full platform of AR/VR training and learning services to help people master immersive technology. The article Dejan has written is a big collection of tutorials, suggestions, and tips about developing applications that use hand tracking. That said, have a nice read!

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

A Unity sign-up page confirmed two of the best-selling VR games are coming to Apple Vision Pro: Job Simulator and Vacation Simulator. Vacation Simulator launched in 2019 and, over a year later in late 2020, got controller-free hand tracking support on Quest. The studio teased the feature right before launching it.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2020

Daniel is an XR professional that has become very famous this year for his mindblowing experiments with the hands tracking of the Oculus Quest , where every prototype of his is focused on an interaction that is so crazy that most of the time you couldn’t think about it before. Networked hand tracking!

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VRScout

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Developers wasted no time creating unique experiences that effectively showcased the potential of Oculus Passthrough technology. Facebook today announced that everyone will have access to Passthrough technology in the next release, letting you build, test, and ship experiences using Passthrough capabilities. INTERACTION SDK.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

We can say the new cycle started with the announcement of the Apple Vision Pro , because that has been a disruptive moment for our market: Road To VR’s Ben Lang says that it has been the most important moment for virtual reality after Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus , and I agree.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Oculus releases hands tracking SDK, official Link cable for Quest and more. This has been a great week for all Oculus Quest users and developers. First of all, Oculus has finally released the hands tracking SDK for Oculus Quest , letting all developers create hands-tracked application for this popular standalone headset.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 31, 2023

Last Thursday, leading hand-tracking firm SpectreXR announced a strategic collaboration with XR headset vendor HTC VIVE via its Linkedin account to drive innovation, immersion, and realistic interaction on the latter’s product portfolio. via Untiy’s Asset Store.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The Lynx R-1 headset houses six cameras: two B&W cameras for 6DoF positional tracking, two IR cameras for hand-tracking, and two RGB visible light cameras for the color passthrough AR mode. Hand-tracking, controllers. I imagined this must have been like when Oculus just started out. AR + Hand-tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

The headset should be operated through the use of hand tracking and eye tracking , exactly like the Vision Pro. Then the Vision Pro beta for the Unity game engine has not been distributed yet, so many Unity developers can’t build applications for the Vision Pro, yet.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 2, 2022

Unity VisualLive. Created by a market-leading provider of XR development software, Unity VisualLive allows professionals in a host of environments to visualise designs and collaborate more effectively in a real-time space. With an Oculus headset, users can jump into a virtual meeting space and access a range of unique capabilities.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

More info (Eye+hand interface) More info (My doubts on Apple Vision Pro’s UX) Still talking about UX, but on the development side, I loved reading the article where Realities.io They also talk about the current difficulties of using Unity to develop for the Vision Pro. describes how they ported Puzzling Places to the Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. That is if every company implemented OpenXR, a program built for the Oculus should work with SteamVR as well. Image by Oculus).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

More info (HTC Vive Ultimate Tracker — Road To VR) More info (HTC Vive Ultimate Tracker — Upload VR) Valve releases its own version of Quest Link Out of the blue, Valve has launched Steam Link, which basically is… Oculus Air Link offered directly by SteamVR. But for now, we are not sure at all this is going to happen.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 6, 2018

candidate in the Department of Computer Science and the Institute for Creativity, Technology, and the Arts. The technology always did make me feel a bit like a wizard (or witch) in a Harry Potter movie, using my own two hands to cast incantations and prompt holograms to do my bidding.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

One part of the characteristics of VRTK is its management of the project/scene for specific platforms (Oculus, Vive, etc.). It is required to set up tracking, bindings, and several SDKs if you want to work on multiple platforms. The system is technically compatible with hand tracking, but it is not natively supported.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

French startup Lynx announced some months ago a quite interesting headset featuring pass-through augmented reality , hands tracking, eye tracking, and an innovative lens design. The standalone headset still features passthrough AR/MR, XR2 chipset, dual 1600×1600 LCD panels running at 90Hz, Ultraleap hands tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

This weekend I’ve also organized together with SIDI a big VR workshop on new technologies (XR, AI, neural links, etc…). Developers are coming up with creative uses of Oculus Quest hands tracking. Oculus Quest hands tracking is being a success among developers. It is amazing to be seen.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2022

Its latest headset, the Pico Neo 3 , was a very good Oculus Quest 2 clone , that also brought some innovations, like the DP Cable to connect it to the PC for a true PCVR experience. And for these reasons, Pico has been bought by Bytedance in 2021 … a move that many compared to the acquisition of Oculus by Facebook. The logo of ??,

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2022

Last Thursday, Microsoft debuted version three of its Mixed Reality (MR) toolkit (MRTK3) for use in Unity Technologies’ real-time 3D (RT3D) animation engine. The technology partnership accelerates the development of MR content on the open-source development hub to deliver cross-platform immersive experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 15, 2023

Thanks to this, the card will be able to keep two Wi-Fi connections at the same time: one towards a router to have an internet connection, and the other directly to another device, like the Oculus Quest. Unity adds OpenXR hand integration package. Timberman VR aims at bringing the popular game Timberman to Oculus Quest 2.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

While Oculus is getting all the glory for the Quest, its competitors are not sleeping. This year, I’m just watching the conference from home The conference has been interesting, and it has been the usual mix of technology and politics. Notwithstanding all this hate, the Oculus Quest 2 is selling very well.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2022

First of all, he got some CAD files about it, and from those, it is possible to see that the device includes two front tracking cameras, one RGB camera to colorize the passthrough of the tracking cameras and a depth sensor that may help with scene understanding and hands tracking. I’m interested to know more about it….

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

To make you understand how these features are incredible, Qualcomm has stated that “the [XR2] reference design has 2x the CPU and GPU performance, 4x more video bandwidth, 6x higher resolution and 11x AI improvement compared to our current widely adopted XR platform [the Oculus Quest ]”. My favorite from this week? More info Buy it now!

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 27, 2018

candidate in the Department of Computer Science and the Institute for Creativity, Technology, and the Arts. And although the fun factor and Star Wars association are surely enough to justify any number of grant hours dedicated to such pursuits, there are practical applications that also makes this technology rather attractive.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 23, 2021

What I’ve not enjoyed is that SideQuest has removed The Unity Cube from its listing, stating that there were too many cubes there. People can talk, gesticulate (hands tracking is supported), and enjoy a full sense of presence. You can now invite your Oculus friends to play with a web link. Other relevant news.

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ARVR

AUGUST 31, 2021

Founded by members of Unity, Interhaptics , Senseglove , and Nanoport. link] Aldin Dynamics is an Icelandic VR software company founded in early 2013, focused on creating believable virtual reality experiences and technologies to sustain presence and immersion. How has hand-tracking changed the creation of an immersive VR experience?

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

No smearing, reduced mura; The lenses have been upgraded, using the ones engineered by Valve for the Index; The audio is conveyed through off-the-ear speakers , like the ones of the Valve Index; Comfort has been improved; There is IPD adjustment; There are now 4 tracking cameras. Oculus Link 2 could be tetherless.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2020

I so asked some questions on Twitter to some people from the social media corporate and Chris Pruett , Director of Content Ecosystem at Oculus, has been so kind as to answer them. In case you were in vacations and you lost contact with VR this week, you may have lost the announcement of the new Facebook account policy for Oculus devices.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

The Oculus Quest 2 continues its march towards mainstream adoption. It wouldn’t be a normal week without some news about Facebook and/or the Oculus Quest. The first one is that the Quest 2 has now sold in some months more than all the other Oculus headsets (with the exclusion of Gear VR) combined in all these years.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

I mean, all UE developers, we Unity developers felt like being in a party where everyone is making out and you’re just there sipping a coke. Oculus Link now works with USB 2.0. Very Silently, Oculus has changed the specifications of Oculus Link , which now doesn’t require anymore a USB 3.0 port and cable.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

The price tag seems a bit too steep given the current situation of the company unless behind the curtains they have some secret technology and some Carmack-style talents. Valve Index and Oculus Quest were on sale again. This week the Valve Index and the Oculus Quest have been put back in stock. Image by Oculus).

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

The company is still heavily involved with VR development however, and are expected to present some new technology with Google at Display Week 2018 in May. Magic Leap has launched the SDK for the device’s Lumin OS , with support for Unity and Unreal engines. Magic Leap announcements. image courtesy Magic Leap. Nvidia RTX.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Pico has been a very smart company, and all these years it has been able to evolve from the mediocre Pico Neo 1, to the interesting Pico Neo 2, to arrive at the Pico Neo 3, that on paper, looks like a Chinese version of the Oculus Quest 2 , and it seems to have all the features to compete properly with this device. But is it really that good?

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Quest’s ‘Body Tracking’ API isn’t what it looks and sounds like. Body Tracking API was released on Thursday as part of Movement SDK, which also includes Eye Tracking API and Face Tracking API for Quest Pro. It’s not actual tracking, and it doesn’t include your legs.

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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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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

This means that someone made some predictions that were totally wrong and this made lots of companies bet on a technology that was not ready enough, creating huge losses and so the general consensus that VR is not taking foot and so it is a dead technology. Oculus Quest and controllers inside a stand. Standalone headsets.

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