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. The solution turns tracking inside out to reduce setup time, and loosens the hardware restrictions of other devices.

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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. Plus, a 6-degree-of-freedom camera is built into the system for tracking purposes. Plus, the solution includes tools for positional tracking and hand tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

It features two internal cameras, one for each eye to support eye tracking. It also includes four external cameras, two RGB cameras for MR experiences and two for head tracking which can also be used to generate accurate depth maps. . “The reference design supports up to seven cameras.

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Road to VR

MARCH 27, 2017

Now that virtual reality is coming to a wider audience, it seems the medium is mature enough to open the conversation about funding games with ads, something HTC is letting developers enable in a big way with their newly announced VR Ad Service—and VR ads are different. People actually have to look at the ads.

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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

We’re working to take virtual reality from an early adopter concept to a revolution for all of computing. At NVIDIA, we’re inventing that system with cutting-edge tools, sensors, physics, AI, processors, algorithms, data structures, and displays. Modern Virtual Reality Systems. Research is Vision.

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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. Guest Article by Dr. Oliver Kreylos.

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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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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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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.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

I have been able to speak for almost one hour with Jeremy Bailenson , which is the professor at Stanford that is a legend in the VR field for his studies on interactions, psychology, and training in Virtual Reality. However, it does give you a tool that changes the way people tend to think about other groups.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Virtual Reality is quickly moving beyond novelty experiences and showing its potential for enabling new types of social interaction. We caught up with some of them to get a glimpse of what the virtual-social future might look like. VR as a Communication Tool. But which platform(s) will be the one to make that happen?

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

The annual presentation at Oculus Connect by Michael Abrash, Chief Scientist at Oculus, is always a highlight of the company’s annual developer event, projecting a forward-thinking and ever inspirational look at the future of virtual reality. Add virtual humans, and it becomes an equally powerful group working tool.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

What is your vision for virtual augmented reality? Was the best virtual reality or a AR experience is what is the best thing that you have done? You are the voice of virtual reality in the Midwest. So, what are some of the tools that you’ve seen used really effectively to create this content?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

What is your vision for virtual augmented reality? Was the best virtual reality or a AR experience is what is the best thing that you have done? You are the voice of virtual reality in the Midwest. So, what are some of the tools that you’ve seen used really effectively to create this content?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

What is your vision for virtual augmented reality? Was the best virtual reality or a AR experience is what is the best thing that you have done? You are the voice of virtual reality in the Midwest. there's just all these tools. Thank you so much for joining me on the show today. Amazon Sumerian.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

If you follow me since a while, you should recall that I had a startup focused on full body virtual reality called Immotionar : we mixed VR headsets and Kinects to let you use your full body in VR. Last Saturday I visited my former startup partner Gianni Rosa Gallina. We had full-body room-scale VR in 2014 , we were so cool.

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VRGuy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Increased Device Diversity leads to more Choices for Customers Trends An avalanche of new virtual reality devices arrived. For example, head tracking can come from optical trackers or inertial ones. OSVR implications OSVR embeds Virtual Reality Peripheral Network (VRPN), an established open-source library.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

There’s a couple of companies making some really interesting headway in virtual reality training, and I’ve tried a few of them. Alan: What a powerful tool. And I thought that was just an incredible tool for visualizing real estate. Pretty impressive. Emily: Yeah, exactly. Boeing as well. Emily: Exactly.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

There’s a couple of companies making some really interesting headway in virtual reality training, and I’ve tried a few of them. Alan: What a powerful tool. And I thought that was just an incredible tool for visualizing real estate. Pretty impressive. Emily: Yeah, exactly. Boeing as well. Emily: Exactly.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

There's a couple of companies making some really interesting headway in virtual reality training, and I've tried a few of them. And so to see some of these become large rollouts, thousands of devices -- in Wal-Mart's case, hundreds of thousands of devices -- or standard work tools like they are at DHL, that's just standard.

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Headjack

JANUARY 12, 2015

The recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas made it clear: virtual reality is taking on serious forms ! 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. Even Microsoft decided to join the club.

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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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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. Designing virtual interactions for human arms, hands, and fingers means digging into the range of motion of shoulders, elbows, and wrists.

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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. Well-designed tools afford their intended operation and negatively afford improper use. Scale: Augmented vs. Virtual Reality. Hand Position.

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