The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A variety of computer mice built from 1985 to 2007 (Image by Sandstein, from Wikipedia) The mouse is one of the most simple controllers and we use it every day when we are at our computer. Eye and hand tracking must be more reliable Eye and hand tracking are cool, but the technology behind it is not fully ripe.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 30, 2022

Even in 2007, when Apple announced the first iPhone, Steve Jobs was keen to get rid of the stylus for touchscreen management, arguing separate controllers and devices make using technology more cumbersome. Eye and hand tracking solutions are emerging as a valuable alternative to old-fashioned control mechanisms.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The last big breakthrough we saw in ease-of-use interactivity was the launch of hand tracking and gesture recognition on enterprise and consumer VAR devices. He talks about Mass Effect, an open-world game that was really groundbreaking when it first came out in 2007.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Developed by Crypton Future Media , Miku was originally introduced in 2007 as a Vocaloid software voicebank in Japan. This expensive onesie tracks every movement the wearer makes, no matter how minute, and injects that data into a 3D character. Cut to 2019 and the character has developed into an international idol.

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TechCrunch VR

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

” for its hand tracking and gesture recognition solutions. Today’s platform is able to support features like local anchors and persistence, hand tracking, object recognition and tracking, plane detection, occlusion spatial mapping and meshing. ” Image Credits: Qualcomm.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

More info Is Apple working on the Vision Pro since 2007? A fascinating report by 9to5Mac shows that Apple filed a patent defining an XR headset already in 2007, when the first iPhone was launched. Of course, we expect much more for when the app will be released to production , but in the meantime, 10K is a good start.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

As mainstream VR/AR input continues to evolve – from the early days of gaze-only input to wand-style controllers and fully articulated hand tracking – so too are the virtual user interfaces we interact with. Once we defined the overall design goals and layout schemes, it was time to design the user interfaces themselves.

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