The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Some weeks ago, I’ve reported of rumors about Magic Leap being in big trouble and having assigned all its patents as collateral to bank JP Morgan, probably because it is looking for a loan or to raise a round E. Oculus products have gone pretty well during the Black Weekend. Adobe acquires Oculus Medium.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

They should guarantee better tracking both for the headset and the controllers; The controllers are smaller and seem a mix between the Oculus Touch and the WMR 1 controllers. I don’t see this device stealing the scene from Oculus, since Oculus is cheaper, but I’m quite sure this new headset will be able to grab a good market share.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

The shape of the controllers is slightly different than the one of the Oculus Touch, though, and there is a ring that surrounds the wrist of the user. There is also “finger-tracking” a la Valve Index , but just for the thumb, index, and middle finger (so, it is more a la Oculus Touch). News worth a mention. Image by Microsoft).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

Theoretically, the SenseGlove can be used outside VR, but practically speaking it is inside the virtual reality that it shines , because it is able to give more realism to your VR experiences by offering more realistic touch sensations. This is good to give some tactile information, making you feel the texture of objects.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 14, 2015

The Earth Elevator makes several stops along the way to provide you with information and time to look around. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Designed by a team of students at Game-U ( @gameu_nj ), Nerves is an intense visit to the operating room for a motion-control surgeon. Requires: Mac, Oculus Rift. IoT Projects.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 13, 2016

With a perspective like that in mind, the judges chose Virtual Reality Suite , lead developed by Markus Prenneis and Thomas Trzaska of present4D , as the contest’s grand prize winner. Multi-user B2B software for creating and playing 360° VR presentations, the app is optimized for Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, and Cardboard.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 25, 2014

of Airspace Home and the Leap Motion software. The Leap Motion Software and Airspace Home v1.2 From calls and radio control to travel information, his demos show what might be possible with HUD windshields. Join Leap Motion experience engineer Daniel Plemmons as he explores the changing face of UX design.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 1, 2015

The experience used an Oculus DK1 (vintage!) to give users the experience of interacting with an actual hologram in a virtual room. Head to MotionSavvy’s product page to find out more about the team and stay in the loop on pre-order information. The post 2014: A Year in Virtual Superlatives appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Established in 2015, Circuit Stream has helped over 40,000 people learn to design and develop virtual reality and augmented reality applications. If you’re going to do a lot of development, you had better use Oculus Link through a USB 3.0 Also, install the Oculus app and the Oculus Hub on your computer.

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 2, 2016

With the Leap Motion Unity Core Assets and Modules , you can start building right away with features like custom-designed hands, user interfaces, and event triggers. Each section includes links to more information, including high-level overviews, documentation, and examples. Leap Motion Core Assets.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. But with the lines between the real and virtual worlds now blurrier than ever, could we cut it even further? Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Please try a new text input interface using Leap Motion!” Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 15, 2015

It’s available free for the Oculus Rift on the Leap Motion App Store. What do virtual reality and outer space have in common? I think everyone wants to experience floating weightlessly in orbit or outer space and for the majority of people virtual reality is the closest they’ll ever get to the real thing.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Then, The Information has reported a similar rumor, but talking about other glasses, codenamed Stella , that should be similar to Snap’s Spectacles and be released much sooner than 2023 (it could be the 1st generation of devices created by this partnership). More info (Report by CNBC) More info (Report by The Information).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Thanks to BCI, we could have a virtual reality that goes beyond physical reality. Neurable has already proven that you can make some little games with a VR+BCI headset, but the EEG technology employed can only give very rough information about the brain status. Oculus official side distribution platform is coming soon.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Vincent McCurley’s post Storyboarding in Virtual Reality covers several techniques informed by Mike Alger’s work on VR interface design. Many developers are also using Oculus Medium to rapidly prototype scenes before committing to more robust scene designs. They also captured Oculus Story Studio a well-deserved Emmy.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 18, 2015

You can download the Windows demo free for the Oculus Rift: frooxius.itch.io/world-of-comenius. Virtual reality allows us to create experiences that wouldn’t be possible in the real world, so you can play around inside of a cell, observing how its biochemistry reacts to little changes you make (like a sandbox game, but based on facts!)

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Leapmotion

APRIL 28, 2015

This means that we have to be careful on how we use sound so that we aren’t giving people enough information to continue to ignore their weaker eye. We are also still planning on releasing a game for home use when the Oculus Rift CV1 comes out. appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2021

PS Before starting, would you mind joining my Patreon so that to support my hard work in informing the XR communities with detailed reviews like this one?]. This means that at the moment you can not use NextMind with the Oculus Quest standalone (you can use it with Quest + Link, of course). But does its device live up to the hype?

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In his 1984 classic Neuromancer, characters entered a virtual reality world called “the matrix” (inspiration for the 1999 film of the same name by the Wachowskis). What virtual avatars, creatures, information layers or interactive components are here. “Cyberspace” was coined by SF author William Gibson.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

For the array of new 3D input devices, especially in virtual reality, the lack of options and standards can create significant development challenges. Yesterday, I introduced you to Hovercast – a hand-controlled menu interface for virtual reality environments. Where possible, use simple hand motions and reliable gestures.

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Road to VR

MARCH 30, 2017

Demonstrating VR Touch haptics at SVVR 2017 this week, Go Touch VR showed the device in action using an Oculus Rift with attached Leap Motion for hand tracking. And while rumble is widely applicable for that abstract approach, it seems best suited for shooting games if you want to make use of the more immersive direct approach.

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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. In the context of motion controls, good affordance is critical, since it is necessary that users interact with objects in the expected manner. Creating Affordances. Ergonomics.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

Alvin Wang Graylin is an industry leader, evangelist and passionate driver of XR technologies, particularly virtual reality. Alan: Today’s guest is an industry leader, evangelist and passionate driver of XR technologies, and particular virtual reality, Mr. Alvin Wang-Graylin. So that is a very surprising finding.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

Alvin Wang Graylin is an industry leader, evangelist and passionate driver of XR technologies, particularly virtual reality. Alan: Today’s guest is an industry leader, evangelist and passionate driver of XR technologies, and particular virtual reality, Mr. Alvin Wang-Graylin. So that is a very surprising finding.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 11, 2020

TG0 thinks that current controllers like Valve Knuckles or Oculus Touch are nice if you are already a gamer, but they can become complicated for people that don’t come from a technical background , and that aren’t used to the standard abstractions provided by joysticks. Use with virtual reality. Use without VR.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The interface in Quill by Oculus builds on the physical skeumorphs of traditional PC design to create a familiar set of cues. In turn, they continue to inform our other bleeding-edge internal projects. At Leap Motion, we’ve been experimenting internally with a range of different interfaces that are part of the user.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

And I know Oculus Quest just introduced hand tracking. Are things like midair haptics-- I know-- I guess Leap Motion would be a competitor to you guys, even though they're using a hardware solution to do that. But things like midair haptics, with the Ultra Haptics or the Ultra Leap now. Varag: Wow. Alan: Indeed.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

And I know Oculus Quest just introduced hand tracking. Are things like midair haptics-- I know-- I guess Leap Motion would be a competitor to you guys, even though they're using a hardware solution to do that. But things like midair haptics, with the Ultra Haptics or the Ultra Leap now. Varag: Wow. Alan: Indeed.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 12, 2019

At a certain point, information got confused: someone received devkits, but then we had no more info about the company and the product. The Dexmo force-feedback glove is an exoskeleton that you wear to have true fingers presence in any virtual environment. Honestly, I thought that they had shut down.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

And I know Oculus Quest just introduced hand tracking. Are things like midair haptics-- I know-- I guess Leap Motion would be a competitor to you guys, even though they're using a hardware solution to do that. But things like midair haptics, with the Ultra Haptics or the Ultra Leap now. Varag: Wow. Alan: Indeed.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This week has been the week of the Oculus Connect 6 , the biggest yearly event by Oculus where the VR company announces all its most important news, both on hardware and software sides. Oculus Link. You can even access to Oculus Home and Dash. Oculus Link will be available in beta in November 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2019

This represents the current status of the technology, that is evolving, but has still not reached the inflection point to become mainstream (as I have already told you in my 2019 predictions about augmented and virtual reality ). It will be something similar to the new Oculus Home. A wireless Oculus Rift (Image by Road To VR).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The whole event was all about Facebook creating a parent company called Meta that is going to control all the products that until now were in the Facebook’s family, that is Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, Oculus, Portal, and all the rest. Ultraleap (formerly Leap Motion) has just released the fifth version of its hands-tracking engine.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Most people know Xu due to his dispute with American virtual reality company Magic Leap. In June 2019, Magic Leap accused Xu of stealing AR glasses technology when he was an engineer working at the firm. Situ founded Virtual Reality Pop , the #1 Medium.com publication on immersive technology with over 37,000 subscribers.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

But this is known since a lot (see all the work researchers are doing with smart prosthetics), and the Matrix is something far more different than it : it would require injecting information into all areas the brain, something for which now we have just very simple experiments. Anyway, see you in Half-Life today! Other relevant news.

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