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. This will include query based voice interactions for a new level of digital agency, and even the ability to interact with and control digital environments through conversation.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

Developers continue to have fun with Oculus Quest hands tracking! A new week, a new sheer of demos exploiting Oculus Quest hands tracking! A demo made by the creator of Holoception, that mixes portals and hands tracking. And this time, you will finally be able to download one of them. More info Buy it now!

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Tech Trends VR

MAY 8, 2018

McQuire points to the fact that this follows similar moves made by Amazon Web Services over the past 12 months, and sees it as a clear statement of intent at gaining developer mindshare against Google ahead of its own developer event, Google I/O which also happens this week. The whole world is becoming a computer Click To Tweet.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2024

Instead a ‘look-and-tap’ system relying on eye and hand-tracking is the core input method, and by all accounts ( including mine ) it works very well. Signals from Amazon suggest Quest 2 may have outsold Quest 3 nearly 3:1, if not more. 10 years later, Apple is finally about to launch its first headset.

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Upload VR

MAY 9, 2023

A new app uses your smartphone camera to track your body and it can send the data to the standalone VRChat Quest app. Existing VR systems focus on head and hand tracking, though some VRChat enthusiasts use extra hardware to add body tracking. The developer plans to add more tracking points in future.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Google is doing it again. It is not clear what is the destiny of the VR 180 format, especially because Google declined to comment on the topic. There are other nice 180 3D cameras out there. It seems that Google lately is destroying all the VR projects it started…. Amazon announces Echo Frames smartglasses.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

He’s going to kill Apple and Google Maps in 2 years , at least in places where he has a lot of cars” All these cars have 8 camera, Lidar, AI chips, and they are connected to the cloud. Amazon and Tesla could be two outsider of the XR ecosystem instead. “He has one million cars collecting data of the world.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Image by Google). Google completely opensources Cardboard. With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard. Google affirms that Cardboard has been a huge success to introduce people into VR, and more than 15 million headsets have been distributed. Image from Amazon).

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

New Amazon Prime Video App With Downloads Amazon launched an all-new Prime Video Quest app that supports passthrough and downloads. New Amazon Prime Video Quest App Supports Downloads Amazon just launched an all-new Prime Video Quest app that supports downloads for offline viewing.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MARCH 4, 2024

Major Firms Enter the XR Market During a launch event at MWC 2024, Samsung showcased a new XR headset developed in collaboration with Google and Qualcomm. Additionally, as Samsung and Google have partnered with Qualcomm, it is reasonable to assume that the device will use the Qualcomm XR2+ Gen 2 Platform, which supports AI-ready wearables.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

For the first time, a major company has shown some AR glasses that look ok-ish to wear in public and that have good technical features (good FOV, hand tracking, etc…). Meta has not an existing 2D store like Apple or Google, so it has to also create an ecosystem of 2D apps from scratch.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

This is a framework that introduces many facilities for applications employing hands tracking: for instance, it makes sure that the hands of the user adapt dynamically to the shape of the object they are holding. The previous one went great on Amazon, and I’m sure this will be a great read, too. Learn more.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 6, 2023

Unveiled at the Mobile World Congress 2023 , the new device includes a trove of innovative features such as a “retina-level” electrochromic adaptive display, lighting adjustment, Snapdragon Spaces tethering, and hand tracking, among others.

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Charlie Fink

JUNE 7, 2019

RealMax's AR and VR device with hand tracking by Leap Motion and an epic 102-degree field of view, was used for a multiplayer AR game which involved grabbing fish and knocking over boxes. AWE is a snapshot of a developing industry, though it does not have participation from major players with developer conferences of their own.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

Another leak regarded the release date: an Amazon listing put the availability date of the Quest 3 starting from October, 10th. First of all, Google has to keep the work on the headset very secret also internally , because Samsung is afraid that Google will steal its expertise to build a competing product.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Google) Google announces important AI and XR news at Google I/O This Google I/O has seen immersive realities back to the menu. But to summarize, the most important XR-related tidbits have been: Google confirmed that is still working with Qualcomm and Samsung to build an XR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

An Amazon ad appearing on the streaming platform Peacock shows the Meta Quest 3 and Quest 3S and the caption: “Meta Quest, starting at $299.99”. Regarding the actual release date, we have also a rumor: someone spotted on the Australian Amazon page an entry about the Quest 3S and the availability date being October, 16.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

When you walk into a Best Buy’s or you walk into any retailer, they’re selling you the Amazon Echo and they’re selling you the Google Home, where you ask a question, it plays a video. And there are incredible new headset manufacturers are doing hand tracking, where you can put your hand right on top of that.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Vive Flow is a 6DOF headset that works with your Android phone as a 3DOF controller (hands tracking is coming in the future). Amazon Glow is a video projector for kids. Amazon has just announced Glow, a product to make people interact and play with children remotely. NVIDIA CloudXR is now available on Google Cloud.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In the videos, it is possible to see that the passthrough is great, but also that features like positional tracking and hand tracking are pretty wonky. Until April, it is bundled with all the purchases of Quest 3 devices Owlchemy Labs has launched its new social co-op game called Dimensional Double Shift.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Alan: I’m going to Google it here. Hand gesture control, hand using hand gestures. Google Pixel came out. I was in my friend’s BMW the other day, and he was just swinging his hand around, changing the radio station, using gesture control. Wouldn’t that be amazing? Voice is everywhere.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Alan: I’m going to Google it here. Hand gesture control, hand using hand gestures. Google Pixel came out. I was in my friend’s BMW the other day, and he was just swinging his hand around, changing the radio station, using gesture control. Wouldn’t that be amazing? Voice is everywhere.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

When you walk into a Best Buy's or you walk into any retailer, they're selling you the Amazon Echo and they're selling you the Google Home, where you ask a question, it plays a video. And there are incredible new headset manufacturers are doing hand tracking, where you can put your hand right on top of that.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

When you walk into a Best Buy’s or you walk into any retailer, they’re selling you the Amazon Echo and they’re selling you the Google Home, where you ask a question, it plays a video. And there are incredible new headset manufacturers are doing hand tracking, where you can put your hand right on top of that.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2020

They also feature eye tracking, hand tracking and now the XR-3 version has also added a Lidar camera for environment scanning and a custom-made inside-out tracking algorithm. Google shuts down Google Poly. Nreal Light launches in Europe in Spring 2021.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Alan: I'm going to Google it here. Hand gesture control, hand using hand gestures. Google Pixel came out. I was in my friend's BMW the other day, and he was just swinging his hand around, changing the radio station, using gesture control. Alan: The Quest hand tracking is coming in January and the Hololens 2.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

More info Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon release open map dataset A group called the Overture Maps Foundation, which includes Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and TomTom, has released its first open map dataset, including 59 million “points of interest,” such as restaurants and landmarks.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

New leaks on Amazon and MediaMarkt have revealed that probably the headset will be available starting from October, 10th, 2023. This headset should feature pancake lenses, mixed reality capabilities, and micro-LED displays by Raxium , a startup owned by Google. And its latest update, dubbed the “Mixed Reality 2.0 Hope you enjoy!

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2022

Because of ongoing Covid lockdowns in China, Pimax were unsure if the controllers would ship with batteries (held at another warehouse location), so advised me to purchase them on Amazon and provided a link. Google searches are very revealing. Pimax headset listed on Amazon (Image by Amazon, provided by Rob Cole).

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Road to VR

MARCH 26, 2020

You’ll find a load of them on Amazon, eBay, and from specialized vendors such as VR Cover. Quest needs UV-C death rays, not hand tracking – Image courtesy Oculus. SEE ALSO How to Tell if Your PC is VR Ready. Going deeper: Killing Microbes.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

Luckily there is AR that is still strong, and we can hope to wear Google AR glasses soon… ah no, they are dead too. The most interesting ones for me are related to hand tacking. Meta Quest will receive Hand Tracking 2.2, Ah no, not even that because also Twitter is dead. Long story short, this week has been a cemetery.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

Imagine it as the Google Docs for 3D artists, a set of tools that let people involved in CGI work on the same scene collaboratively at the same time, even if they are at the opposite sides of the world. Discover (and buy) the book on Amazon. If you need an Oculus device, it is now the time to buy it!

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Apple Vision Pro on the other hand has occlusion in two distinct forms. The main form is hand and arm occlusion. There’s clearly a 2D hand and arm segmentation model (separate to the 3D skeletal hand tracking) running for each eye’s camera. Unintentional inputs are also a very real problem with hand tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The console can also be inserted in a special case (a much improved version of Google Daydream View) to become a VR headset. The controllers can slip into a plastic shell with tracking rings. Upload has gone hands-on with the relaxing Shores Of Loci. Snap and Amazon partner to offer AR preview of shopping items.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Getting started in AR marketing and virtual try-ons can be tricky for enterprise, especially if — like Walmart or Amazon — you’ve got hundreds of thousands of products to model and host. You don’t have to download the Amazon app, or the IKEA app, or whatever. Alan: Amazon’s got 1.4 billion products.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Getting started in AR marketing and virtual try-ons can be tricky for enterprise, especially if — like Walmart or Amazon — you’ve got hundreds of thousands of products to model and host. You don’t have to download the Amazon app, or the IKEA app, or whatever. Alan: Amazon’s got 1.4 billion products.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Getting started in AR marketing and virtual try-ons can be tricky for enterprise, especially if -- like Walmart or Amazon -- you've got hundreds of thousands of products to model and host. You don't have to download the Amazon app, or the IKEA app, or whatever. Alan: Amazon's got 1.4 Is that what I'm--? billion products.

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