VRScout

MARCH 29, 2017

Audiences were treated to a hysterical contest as Michael Che of SNL’s Weekend Update and Andrew Rannells of HBO’s Girls used the popular VR art tool Tiltbrush to battle each other in a round of three-dimensional Pictionary. Scarlett went from nausea to ecstasy in almost the blink of an eye.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

As companies continue to discover new methods for producing lightweight, wearable devices, the number of immersive tools in this landscape is growing. Today, the market for smart glasses is growing at a CAGR of 10.3%, expected to reach a value of around $12.76 billion by 2030.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Previously considered little more than a novelty, these immersive tools have captured the attention of consumers and business professionals alike. They’ve bene created mainly for enterprise use, providing frontline workers with access to critical data in a hands-free, heads-up display.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Hand and eye tracking are crucial, integral tools to create the most authentic extended reality (XR) experiences. Tobii has remained at the forefront of these solutions, recognising that eye-tracking tools pilot the world’s top immersive experiences.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 4, 2023

As companies continue to discover new methods for producing lightweight, wearable devices, the number of immersive tools in this landscape is growing. The Air headset, introduced at CES , offers 3 degrees of head tracking, and echo cancellation technology, while the Light glasses provide 6DoF head, hand, image, and plane tracking.

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Road to VR

JUNE 2, 2016

Usens is one of the early developers of hand and head tracking tech; according to the announcement from the company this investment will help launch new and improved non-controller hand and head tracking tools. This week uSens announced a $20 million Series A funding round led by Fosun Kinzon Capital.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The science of how sound interacts with differently shaped ears is well understood enough that it can be represented with a compact numeric function—called a Head-related Transfer Function (HRTF). To do this, Facebook researchers built prototype earbuds and prototype glasses with several microphones, head tracking, and eye-tracking.

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AllThingsVR

AUGUST 11, 2016

Jaunt VR and Facebook Are Tracking Your Head Movements For Better 360-Degree Videos Well-funded 360-degree video startup Jaunt VR recently debuted a publishing platform to rival YouTube as it continues to dabble in all aspects of reality capture. Facebook, in fact, just announced similar tools. Read more here.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 7, 2016

Head- and hand-tracking startup uSens raises $20M Series A led by Fosun Kinzon with participation from Maison, iResearch, others; produces developer tools for creating virtual and augmented reality apps that provide physical interaction without controllers or gloves. retail competitor called GAME.“ Read more here.

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Cats and VR

JULY 20, 2016

Creating a social VR experience poses new challenges like head tracking on a massive scale, and networked physics so people can realistically interact in a persistent shared space. "We are creating something magical with Improbable,” says Dedric Reid, founder and CEO, HelloVR.

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ARPost

JUNE 3, 2022

Leia Inc makes a “lightfield experience platform” – a 2D device that displays 3D content through head tracking. The glasses were announced over a year ago , but remain a highly coveted developer tool. “At “The idea is that it’s a garment, not a piece of hardware. It needs to be forgettable.”.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 20, 2017

He has been developing virtual reality as a tool for scientific discovery since 1998, and is the creator of the open-source Vrui VR toolkit. There are no details on resolution, frame rate, brightness or other image specs, and any mention of head tracking is suspiciously absent. Oliver Kreylos.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

Magic Leap’s flexible technologies support various input options for the devices, as well as tools for integration and management via an Android-based platform. Plus, the solution includes tools for positional tracking and hand-tracking. 2 stereo speakers are included for audio, alongside 2 microphone array channels.

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AR Insider

JULY 30, 2019

Though Oculus Go has a more basic user interface and less sophisticated positional tracking (rotational head tracking versus full-6D spatial movement), it will be a strategic point of entry to a large addressable market. For VR developers, the above statement has important implications.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 23, 2023

Magic Leap’s flexible technologies support various input options for the devices, as well as tools for integration and management via an Android-based platform. With this device, users can also take advantage of built-in head tracking to immerse them in the digital experience as they move around.

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Road to VR

MARCH 27, 2017

” But because of VR’s integrated head tracking technology, gaining revenue from ads is going to be a bit different. People actually have to look at the ads. “Accordingly, the multiplied effect of effective impressions and verified viewings will bring you higher advertising revenue!

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TechPrior

MAY 25, 2020

In fact, the multinational conglomerate introduces new and improved AR tools on its iOS platform each year. These new smart glasses from Apple might also have the capabilities of object tracking and 6DOF head-tracking using computer vision. Apple has always been quite clear-sighted where its AR aspirations are concerned.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Optic ID Iris-based biometric authentication OS VisionOS Audio Spatial audio with dynamic head tracking, a 6-mic array with directional beamforming Battery 2 hours of general use or 2.5 Plus, the eye tracking is insanely good. Capacity 256GB, 512GB, 1TB Display 23 million pixels, Micro-OLED, 7.5-micron

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

I saw a blind creator on TikTok who also has nystagmus talk about how he was worried about the eye tracking on Apple Vision Pro, and so he promptly switched the setup to allow his cursor to be controlled via head tracking.

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ARPost

AUGUST 3, 2022

Although, because AltspaceVR avatars don’t have arms, sometimes hand tracking makes things a little more awkward. A headset also enables head tracking. Desktop users can simulate head tracking by moving the mouse where they would like the avatar to appear to be looking. Exploring Avatar Customization.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 30, 2020

Introducing VIVE Sync Open Beta, a VR collaboration tool that allows businesses to hold virtual meetings/presentations in real-time from the comfort of home. The head tracking and the hand-held controllers both feel real. In other headsets, the head tracking or the controllers would sometimes drift. My wish list.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Next, he moved briefly to audio; personalised head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) will enhance the realism of positional audio. The Rift’s current 3D audio solution generates a real-time HRTF based on head tracking, but this is general across all users.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 14, 2017

Creating a sense of space is one of the most powerful tools in a VR developer’s arsenal. Space and perspective are among the most powerful tools in a VR developer's arsenal. Click To Tweet To bring Leap Motion tracking into a VR experience, you’ll need a virtual controller within the scene attached to your VR headset.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 17, 2016

Your main tool throughout the game is a chunky PDA that is ever-present in your left hand, but you also use your left hand to target the slightly twitchy system for Vive teleport motion; it only works when targeting a flat surface which makes, for example, climbing a staircase a lot more annoying than it needs to be.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The Qualcomm XR SDK includes core functionality like inside-out head tracking and the ability to run applications on a headset without writing a new application framework from scratch. Larroque tells us that Lynx R-1 will run Android 10 and the company will supply an SDK that’s built on top of the Qualcomm XR SDK.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 6, 2020

Nolo VR does this wirelessly by way of its PolarTraq technology, which is based on an optic-acoustic-radio-signal tracking technology developed by the company. Pimax “4K” with integrated audio, Image courtesy Pimax.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

What really made my cry has been the use of head tracking: when you select an app in the initial menu with your controller, then the system shows you a 3D gizmo of the app that you have to position in your room USING YOUR HEAD. It’s a safer choice, IMHO. Other resources. This has been just a brief hands-on session.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

While the $600 standalone headset has since made its way westward, shifting away from consumers and emphasizing its use in the enterprise market, the controller remained a sticking point for users and developers who found its 6DOF optical head tracking and 3DOF controller tracking to be pretty strange bedfellows.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 8, 2015

In yesterday’s post , I talked about the need for 3D design tools for VR that can match the power of our imaginations. Users have suggested things ranging from refining the tool to be more like “the Photoshop of 3D” to incorporating the drawing function into some sort of game mechanic like this. What’s next?

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ARVR

JANUARY 20, 2021

Since the relevant anatomy is typically not directly visible in these procedures, Grinshpoon and the team at Columbia University developed a hands-free augmented reality system that uses use voice and head tracking to assist physicians in 3D navigation. In fact, it is even being used in the field of psychology and psychotherapy.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Click To Tweet Since this project was designed to run on mobile VR headsets, we designed knowing that it might be experienced with only 3 degree-of-freedom (3DoF) head tracking. What kinds of 3D UIs would you like to see, touch, and create with these tools? Your interfaces should be curved as well!

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Regarding what components have been opensourced, Google states that “The open source project provides APIs for head tracking, lens distortion rendering, and input handling. Adobe releases AR authoring tool Aero. Adobe has finally released its Adobe Aero tool. AR and VR will take time, I keep repeating it.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

At NVIDIA, we’re inventing that system with cutting-edge tools, sensors, physics, AI, processors, algorithms, data structures, and displays. Instead, the head tracking data are routed to a GPU stage that appears after rendering is complete. Understanding the Pipeline.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

And I think you’re right, in the last few years, we’ve seen significant maturity of both the products, whether it’s smart glasses or tools that are available, not just on glasses, but also on mobile devices. So not as much on games, more on tools, on enabling tools. Alan: [chuckles] I agree. Ori: To do a lot.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

We were using VR not as a thing to study in and of itself, but we were using it as a tool to run more rigorous social psych studies. It’s leveraging head tracking in VR and allowing them to look at patterns and practice their decision-making skills. Let it roll means he’s going to keep the original play.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

And I think you’re right, in the last few years, we’ve seen significant maturity of both the products, whether it’s smart glasses or tools that are available, not just on glasses, but also on mobile devices. So not as much on games, more on tools, on enabling tools. Alan: [chuckles] I agree. Ori: To do a lot.

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Headjack

JANUARY 12, 2015

While this tool definitely works, I have to say that the interface is an absolute mess and the software is hugely overpriced for the functionality it offers. That’s why have developed our own simplified tool, called ManyCams , which you can purchase in our shop. Most people use 360 CamMan , created by 360Heros. Closing thoughts.

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