The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 31, 2020

Facebook Connect is coming September, 16th Oculus de facto rebranded as Facebook Reality Labs. Oculus is de facto no more. This week, Facebook has finally announced the date of the Oculus Connect 7, which is September, 16th. But it won’t be called Oculus Connect 7, but Facebook Connect. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

You probably have heard about Leap Motion’s Project North Star , that should be able to offer people affordable augmented reality. Notice a Leap Motion sensor installed on top of it. Project North Star is an opensource augmented reality headset that Leap Motion has designed and gifted to the community.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2020

I want to start this year and this decade (that will be pervaded by immersive technologies) with an amazing tutorial about how you can get started with Oculus Quest hands tracking SDK and create in Unity fantastic VR experiences with natural interactions! How to get started with Oculus Quest hands tracking SDK in Unity – Video Tutorial.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 7, 2016

The new Leap Motion Mobile Platform consists of hardware and software optimised for VR and AR hand tracking on mobile devices. Building on the success of the original Leap Motion device, the brand new hardware aims to be tightly integrated into future mobile VR headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

More info (How to pre-load Half-Life: Alyx) More info (Leaked review of Half-Life: Alyx) More info (Suggestions on how to stream the game) More info (Valve Index on top of Steam charts) More info (Oculus Rift S soldout) More info (Vive Cosmos Elite gives Alyx for free) More info (Vive Cosmos Elite review) More info (Gabe Newell talks BCI).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

Leap Motion. You may ask why I’m adding Leap Motion here. Well, during 2018, Leap Motion has announced the North Star reference design : a cheap augmented reality connected to PC, that is able to detect your hands very well thanks to Leap Motion’s sensor.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Considering that Facebook is very smart also in leaking misleading info (as it has happened with the “Monterey” headset ), this can also be a move from Menlo Park to create hype for the upcoming Oculus Connect 6 and the AR glasses that will be teased there. The Oculus Connect 6 is coming! Games on Oculus Quest are selling really well.

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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

It will be something similar to the new Oculus Home. New Qualcomm reference design. Qualcomm reference design headset plugged into a Snapdragon 855 phone (Image by Road To VR). At CES, Qualcomm has showcased a new reference design for VR headsets that is very close in design to a Windows Mixed Reality headset.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Project North Star is an opensource reference design for a wide-FOV augmented reality headset that Leap Motion (now Ultraleap ) has given to the community. The hand tracking was fabulous as always thanks to Leap Motion and its Orion tracking. At WCVRI , I have tried some cool AR/VR hardware. North Star AR headset.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

For example, pointing at oneself when referring to another person would feel strange.). Leap Motion Orion tracking was designed with simple physical interactions in mind, starting with pinch and grab. The post Building Blocks: A Deep Dive Into Leap Motion Interactive Design appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 2, 2017

Between Google’s Tilt Brush and Blocks and Oculus’ Medium and Quill you might not think there’s much room for more creative experiences within VR. With my left motion controller (in this case Oculus Touch) I can change the tools in my hand to suit a variety of different needs.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

I think that Gartner was not referring to the consumer market, where VR is still unripe (even if devices like the Oculus Quest and the Vive Focus Plus are helping it in becoming more widespread), but at the B2B one, where VR is already helping companies to spare money (e.g. Header image by Leap Motion).

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VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2016

Project Alloy stands alone among the current lineup of technologies available because it isn’t tethered to a desktop computer like HTC Vive or Oculus Rift, nor does it use a smartphone like Google Cardboard, Gear VR or Google Daydream. All the computing power, cameras and sensors used by Project Alloy are completely self-contained.

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VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2016

Project Alloy stands alone among the current lineup of technologies available because it isn’t tethered to a desktop computer like HTC Vive or Oculus Rift, nor does it use a smartphone like Google Cardboard, Gear VR or Google Daydream. All the computing power, cameras and sensors used by Project Alloy are completely self-contained.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

Oculus Quest gets v29 update. This week Facebook has started rolling out the v29 runtime update for Oculus Quest , and it brings some interesting features like: Multi-user mode on the original Quest 1 A renewed UI of the “toolbar” of the device. Digilens shows a reference design for AR glasses. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Around the event venue, instead, there are many writings about VR, and many references around the tech. In the surroundings of the event, there are many references to VR and 5G. RealMax can mount a Leap Motion device, so you have the power of using naturally your hands to interact with AR elements. I liked it a lot.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Qualcomm is the company making almost all the chipsets and the reference designs upon which almost all XR headsets of nowadays are based upon. At the beginning of 2020, the American company will finalize its reference design based on this chipset, and in the second half of the year we will see the first headsets implementing this technology.

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Road to VR

JUNE 15, 2016

But that first version of the glove required a third-party tracking system like Leap Motion in order to translate the movement of the user’s hands into virtual reality. The latest Gloveone prototype integrates its own tracking system which utilizes IMUs arranged along each finger and along the user’s arm and torso.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2020

I found very interesting that they are trying to create full-body VR content for the Oculus Quest. I have instead tried another demo for Oculus Quest called Anamika, where you impersonate a four-armed Indian goddess. They showcased a series of 360 videos shot by them and that could be enjoyed through an Oculus Go. VR Pianist.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

This doesn’t look like Oculus Quest” and in the text puts a link to an Imgur album with 4 photos featuring various half-assembled VR headsets. We don’t know if it is just a reference design for external partners (like HTC) or it is an actual headset that Valve is producing. So, we are at premium 1st gen levels.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 14, 2017

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. Our Unity Core Assets and the Leap Motion Unreal Engine 4 plugin both handle position and scale out-of-the-box for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Body frame of reference.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 29, 2015

Players can pilot the ship with their head using the Oculus Rift DK2, while freeing up his or her hands to control the weapon system. It’s available free for Windows on the Leap Motion App Store. After developing for Leap Motion and VR with Unity, do you have any cautionary tales from the trenches? Yup, definitely!

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VRScout

OCTOBER 24, 2018

You don a Vive Pro headset, equipped with leap-motion sensors for hand tracking, and are also able to communicate with your partner via voice. Produced for the Male Cancer Awareness Campaign, this is part of the Oculus VR for Good Creators Lab, where filmmakers are paired with nonprofits to make great VR in the name of social good.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 7, 2015

One of the most powerful things about the Leap Motion platform is its ability to tie into just about any creative platform. Today on the blog, we’re spotlighting getnamo’s community Leap Motion plugin for Unreal Engine 4, which offers some unique capabilities alongside the official plugin. GET THE PLUGIN.

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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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Tech Trends VR

OCTOBER 30, 2018

You don a Vive Pro headset, equipped with leap-motion sensors for hand tracking, and are also able to communicate with your partner via voice. Produced for the Male Cancer Awareness Campaign, this is part of the Oculus VR for Good Creators Lab, where filmmakers are paired with nonprofits to make great VR in the name of social good.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2018

Oculus Go launch. We all knew that Oculus Go would have been launched at F8 and this has been the case. And not only online on Oculus website, but also on Amazon and Best Buy supermarkets : before the conference, lots of people started posting on Reddit the pictures of the Go being already inside Best Buy shopping centers.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 14, 2018

That application became Cat Explorer , which you can download now for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. This makes the transition from seated to standing experience seamless, but requires environmental references to fade in, making the vertical movement evident and maintaining the orientation. This is the core of our mission at Leap Motion.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Please try a new text input interface using Leap Motion!” Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Leap Commander. Build Chinese. Who knows what’s next for me as a VR developer!”. CAD & OBJ Viewer.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

SenseGlove is currently producing its DK1 device , that can be used both with Vive systems (in this case, a Vive Tracker is attached to the gloves to provide the positional tracking) or Oculus systems (in this case, the Oculus Touch controllers are used). It has not been thought for games, but more for enterprise uses like training.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 12, 2015

For example, pointing at oneself when referring to another person feels foreign. In the field of industrial design, “affordances” refers to the physical characteristics of an object that guide the user in using that object. Oculus’ best practices guide covers this issue in great detail. Creating Affordances. Ergonomics.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

According to creator Bertz ( @cbrpnkrd ), its “monochrome art style bears reference to industrial design, machine vision, and the works of Tsutomu Nihei. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. It’s the first Oculus Rift game that lets you space walk outside unprotected from deep space!” Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Let’s start with the specs set, so that you can keep them as a reference: Headset: Display resolution : 1,440 × 1,600 per eye Display type : ultra-low persistence LCD Refresh-rate : 120 Hz (with optional 80/90/144Hz modes) FOV : around 130 degrees IPD Adjustment : hardware. Go on reading and discover everything about the Valve Index!

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The city is full of references to Virtual Reality, and so it is like a paradise for us VR enthusiasts. That’s a bit disappointing and considering that in some months Oculus will release the Quest , that has full 6 DOF support, HTC had necessarily to do something. Header image by HTC).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Right now we’re stuck thinking in terms of head-mounted displays (HMDs), like the Vive or the Oculus. AR mode will be everywhere else: calling a heads up display of Google Maps on the street, stopping to catch a Pokemon in a field, or scanning the person in the coffee meeting across from you to cross-reference their LinkedIn profile.

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Oculus Connect 5 is taking place in a few days in San Jose, California on September 26-27th at the McEnery Convention Center. Last year, Oculus Go, a $199 standalone VR headset, has blown people’s minds. It is rumored that the Oculus team will spend a considerable amount of time discussing Project Santa Cruz at the event in California.

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