Road to VR
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
Ultraleap, a leading company focused on hand-tracking interfaces, this week announced it has secured a £60 million (~$82 million) Series D investment, with the goal of expanding its hand-tracking and mid-air haptic tech in the XR space and beyond. Ultraleap is betting that hand-tracking will be the primary input for XR and the metaverse.
The Ghost Howls
JULY 16, 2020
SenseGlove is an exoskeleton for your hands that is able to provide you haptics sensations. Thanks to the force feedback, the user can really feel the drilling machine in his hands (Image by SenseGlove). Haptics quality. We are too early for realistic haptic feedback , so the mechanism works very well like in 10-20% of cases.
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Leapmotion
NOVEMBER 8, 2017
Click To Tweet When someone first puts on a Leap Motion-enabled VR headset, it often seems like they’re rediscovering how to use their own hands. Since the iPhone introduced multi-touch input in 2007, we’ve seen 2D touchscreen interaction design evolve into a responsive, motion-filled language. In a sense, they are.
The Ghost Howls
MARCH 21, 2021
Sony promises amazing haptic sensations on the controllers, that should be able to provide “impactful, textured, and nuanced” sensations. Facebook is also working with haptics, and it has presented two prototypes of the wristbands that could apply vibrations or pressure sensations on the wrist. It will so have inside-out tracking.
VRScout
OCTOBER 1, 2019
Their computer vision team came up with a new method of using deep learning to understand the position of your fingers using just the monochrome cameras featured on the Quest, with no active depth-sensing cameras, additional sensors, or extra processors required. It’s not perfect, but it is definitely a step in the right direction.
XR for Business Podcast
APRIL 28, 2020
And it's pretty cool that we get to experiment with the latest and greatest machine learning models, and try to get the most out of those chips. But after seeing what came out of CES this year, and learning about this Qualcomm XR2 chip, you've now got AR glasses coming out en masse. There's still some things to be solved.
XR for Business Podcast
APRIL 28, 2020
And it's pretty cool that we get to experiment with the latest and greatest machine learning models, and try to get the most out of those chips. But after seeing what came out of CES this year, and learning about this Qualcomm XR2 chip, you've now got AR glasses coming out en masse. There's still some things to be solved.
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