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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.12.16): Oculus Quest gets hand tracking, Magic Leap pivots towards enterprise and much more!

The Ghost Howls

More info (Oculus Quest runtime v12 features) More info (Oculus Quest hands tracking update) More info (How to enable hands tracking on Quest) More info (List of Quest apps supporting hands tracking) More info (Hands tracking having issues with tattooed hands). Magic Leap pivots towards enterprise. Other relevant news.

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Blippar Expands Blippbuilder Support to AR Glasses Under New CEO

ARPost

While AR on a head-mounted display and AR on a handheld display might sound similar, there were some initial hurdles. “To The first two headsets were Magic Leap and Meta Quest Pro. “This is my family.” To be frank, it was a bit of heavy lifting when we started on headsets. The first one,” said Prasannan.

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Snapdragon AR2 to Empower AR Devices, Qualcomm Says

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

The San Diego, California-based firm has become synonymous with delivering XR solutions capable of untethering head-mounted displays (HMDs) from PC. With it, experts can see what you see to guide professionals with step-by-step work instructions via a micro display similar to Google Glass or Vuzix.

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How Brain-Computer Interfaces Can Deliver On VR’s Promises

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Meta is working on an AR headset, which puts them in the same league as Microsoft and Magic Leap. Gribetz often speaks of a “zero-learning curve” computer, a machine that is so intuitive that you’ve always known how to use it. One thought-leader on this subject is neuroscientist and entrepreneur Meron Gribetz, CEO of Meta.

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Convergence, Enterprise AR, and Mapping the Inside World with Charlie Fink

XR for Business Podcast

Of course, anybody who has a warehouse can be hugely benefited, because you take the functionality of that pad, the barcode, the RF gun, and you put it all in a head-mounted display. Magic Leap a lot of great people running off doing different things. Those are the kinds of apps that Magic Leap wants to enable.

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Convergence, Enterprise AR, and Mapping the Inside World with Charlie Fink

XR for Business Podcast

Of course, anybody who has a warehouse can be hugely benefited, because you take the functionality of that pad, the barcode, the RF gun, and you put it all in a head-mounted display. Magic Leap a lot of great people running off doing different things. Those are the kinds of apps that Magic Leap wants to enable.

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Making AR Focals Functional and Fashionable, with North’s Stefan Alexander

XR for Business Podcast

And about a year before it came out, they hired me and they said, "Stefan, we think that the control of smart glasses and the control of head mounted displays is really important. I don't even know how to make the hologram work with multiple colors. And from working in displays, a monochrome display is hard.

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