The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2019

The talks were interesting to be updated about the latest news and products : for instance, I had the opportunity to see there a picture of the lip tracking device for the Vive Pro. And I also learnt about the eye tracking features or the 3D spatial audio features offered by the Vive SDK.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

The StarVR headset has a monstrous combined resolution of 5120×1440 formed from dual 2160×1200 resolution displays in a canted arrangement, in front of which sit 2 sizeable, custom Fresnel lenses.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Founded in 2011, Tobii’s eye-tracking products have been used by huge companies in the gaming space (Acer has launched several monitors incorporating the tech) to determine where users are looking on screens.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2018

The second most important XR news from this F8 has surely been the reveal of the Oculus Half Dome prototype : a tethered headset with varifocal display (that lets you see sharply the objects that in VR are close to your face, for instance), 140 degrees field of view and eye tracking. You can see the announcement in this video.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Enter RiVR, who are using 360 video and photogrammetry to recreate these practice blazes digitally. We also use 360 video to show you at the end of it — for your learning outcome — where the fire actually started. Like with the fire service, and like with 360 video for bus driver training in London.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Enter RiVR, who are using 360 video and photogrammetry to recreate these practice blazes digitally. We also use 360 video to show you at the end of it — for your learning outcome — where the fire actually started. Like with the fire service, and like with 360 video for bus driver training in London.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Enter RiVR, who are using 360 video and photogrammetry to recreate these practice blazes digitally. We also use 360 video to show you at the end of it -- for your learning outcome -- where the fire actually started. Like with the fire service, and like with 360 video for bus driver training in London.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

So, normal 360 video allows you to kind of look around from the point of the camera, but what you guys have developed is a way to give, kind of, more presence by adding that ability to move up and down, and left and right. Well actually, your eyes point to different places. Can you maybe speak to that? Alvin: Yeah. Alvin: Yes.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

So, normal 360 video allows you to kind of look around from the point of the camera, but what you guys have developed is a way to give, kind of, more presence by adding that ability to move up and down, and left and right. Well actually, your eyes point to different places. Can you maybe speak to that? Alvin: Yeah. Alvin: Yes.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 15, 2020

We’re actually seeing real use cases across 360 video with Strivr. When you start to have eye tracking, head tracking, gait analysis, gesture analysis, hand tracking, pose analysis, speech analysis, biometrics. ” But guess what? Now the proof cases are there. We’re using AR on our phones.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 15, 2020

We’re actually seeing real use cases across 360 video with Strivr. When you start to have eye tracking, head tracking, gait analysis, gesture analysis, hand tracking, pose analysis, speech analysis, biometrics. ” But guess what? Now the proof cases are there. We’re using AR on our phones.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

But what we proved with those is that you can have this small phone attachment and you can simply and easily capture, edit, and share photos and videos in 360 to social media without ever having to pull out the microSD card from your camera. But that would be even more so as we get eye-tracking involved. Is that correct?

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

But what we proved with those is that you can have this small phone attachment and you can simply and easily capture, edit, and share photos and videos in 360 to social media without ever having to pull out the microSD card from your camera. But that would be even more so as we get eye-tracking involved. Is that correct?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Alan: There’s VR where you can make the full thing in computer graphics, but there’s also 360 videos; being able to capture a training experience in 360 video, and then add computer graphics on top of that. They’re going to sell you 360 video. It’s easy to get overwhelmed.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Alan: There’s VR where you can make the full thing in computer graphics, but there’s also 360 videos; being able to capture a training experience in 360 video, and then add computer graphics on top of that. They’re going to sell you 360 video. It’s easy to get overwhelmed.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

You’ve got mobile phone-based AR, eye tracking set devices, taste experiments, hot and cold devices, thermal devices, and then tracking systems for motion capture, and of course, treadmills for omni-directional walking. All of these headsets are gonna start to have eye tracking and all of these things.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

But what we proved with those is that you can have this small phone attachment and you can simply and easily capture, edit, and share photos and videos in 360 to social media without ever having to pull out the microSD card from your camera. But that would be even more so as we get eye-tracking involved. Is that correct?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 6, 2020

And what some companies have done is actually flooded a real home and then created 360 video of that home. A lot of the immersive content today has to go through a full production with 360 video recording. I'm really excited to have eye tracking as part of the daily experience of XR. Brian: Yeah, absolutely.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 15, 2020

We're actually seeing real use cases across 360 video with Strivr. When you start to have eye tracking, head tracking, gait analysis, gesture analysis, hand tracking, pose analysis, speech analysis, biometrics. But guess what? Now the proof cases are there. We're seeing people use this right now.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Alan: There's VR where you can make the full thing in computer graphics, but there's also 360 videos; being able to capture a training experience in 360 video, and then add computer graphics on top of that. And if you bring in a studio who is really good at 360 video, guess what they're going to sell you.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

You've got mobile phone-based AR, eye tracking set devices, taste experiments, hot and cold devices, thermal devices, and then tracking systems for motion capture, and of course, treadmills for omni-directional walking. All of these headsets are gonna start to have eye tracking and all of these things.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

You’ve got mobile phone-based AR, eye tracking set devices, taste experiments, hot and cold devices, thermal devices, and then tracking systems for motion capture, and of course, treadmills for omni-directional walking. All of these headsets are gonna start to have eye tracking and all of these things.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

Now he’s doing VR and he’s come up with a couple of funny VR shorts, interactive 360 videos. Microsoft and Facebook have talked about inside out tracking. Google recently bought Eyefluence for its eye tracking. To me, that seems like an investment in one particular person, the guy who made Madagascar.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The French startup headed by Stan Larroque is developing passthrough AR glasses with eye-tracking and hands tracking that can offer a new paradigm to augmented reality. I wonder if something similar could be employed for 360 videos…. VR can be used in financial planning.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Oculus Quest “Light” The Oculus Quest 2 Pro is going to win the heart of all us techies, but what about all the average consumers that don’t care much about full-body VR and passthrough AR and just want to watch 360 videos or play Beat Saber? Horizon Worlds + Workrooms.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

It’s good news by the way that there is continuous IPD adjustment (and with a wider range than before) and that thanks to eye tracking sensors, the headset can tell you if you have positioned it well on your head. There is also an eye-relief dial, so you can put the lenses very close to your eyes, for added field of view.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

This means that you can shoot 30FPS videos and then have fluid ones as output! Participate in a VR eye-tracking apps contest! My friends at 7Invensun and HTC have organized a contest to develop VR applications featuring eye tracking. The winners get free hardware and also cash prizes.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

XTAL is an enterprise headset with incredible specifications, like for instance: 5120 x 1440 display resolution (2560 x 1440 per eye); OLED display Custom non-Fresnel lenses 180° diagonal FOV Spatial 3D sound from a built-in sound card Embedded microphone Embedded eye tracking Auto-IPD adjustment Embedded Leap motion v2 sensor.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Alan: I mean, to put it in perspective, just to put a final point in that: four years ago we started doing 360 video for companies, and it was about $10,000 a minute. The hardware is just year over year just changing at a blistering pace, which is amazing for anyone who’s getting into the ecosystem.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Alan: I mean, to put it in perspective, just to put a final point in that: four years ago we started doing 360 video for companies, and it was about $10,000 a minute. The hardware is just year over year just changing at a blistering pace, which is amazing for anyone who’s getting into the ecosystem.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Alan: I mean, to put it in perspective, just to put a final point in that: four years ago we started doing 360 video for companies, and it was about $10,000 a minute. The hardware is just year over year just changing at a blistering pace, which is amazing for anyone who's getting into the ecosystem.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Alan: I mean, to put it in perspective, just to put a final point in that: four years ago we started doing 360 video for companies, and it was about $10,000 a minute. The hardware is just year over year just changing at a blistering pace, which is amazing for anyone who's getting into the ecosystem.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Oculus TV app will be empowered so that to become the place to go to watch storytelling content in VR : it will include content from popular services like Amazon Prime Video and Fandango NOW (that has just signed a partnership to bring more than 90,000 movies and shows to Oculus TV), but also indie VR content like Travelling While Black.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There's also 360 videos where you can now buy, 360 stock photos from a company like Blend Media, and also 3D assets on CGTrader or Sketchfab. Who owns the eye tracking data? People don't understand; once you have eye tracking in these glasses. It's kind of the bare minimum to get going.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There's also 360 videos where you can now buy, 360 stock photos from a company like Blend Media, and also 3D assets on CGTrader or Sketchfab. Who owns the eye tracking data? People don't understand; once you have eye tracking in these glasses. It's kind of the bare minimum to get going.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

But maybe the system performs sensor fusion between all the three cameras to create a colored stereo passthrough Two 480p 120FPS eye-tracking cameras Two 400p 120FPS face-tracking cameras. HTC ecosystem conference brings news in eye-tracking and positional tracking solutions.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 9, 2019

But the idea with that is that we couldn’t possibly build even if it was just 360 video. If we just focus on 360, you couldn’t possibly build all the tools necessary to deliver that and keep it future relevant. And it’s almost like an Amazon model where we take a small percentage and and go from there.

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