The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Of course, Microsoft and Amazon are observing the situation: in my opinion, Microsoft will wait a bit , considering its focus on AR enterprise with HoloLens, while Amazon could improve its already existing offering of glasses connected with Alexa. Some will also feature tracked controllers. Nu Eyes AR glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

As John Riccitiello (CEO of Unity) said some years ago , the VR market won’t be interesting enough until it will reach the 10 million users mark. Amazon and Tesla could be two outsider of the XR ecosystem instead. . “The farm has been plowed, the farm is now ready for seeds” , he adds. for a price around $600.

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

This allows users to create more advanced spatial experiences for the augmented reality landscape, with hand gesture recognition and spatial audio. Foremost cloud leaders like AWS and Microsoft offer access to spatial computing solutions, such as Amazon Sumerian, for 3D scene creation.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

This allows users to create more advanced spatial experiences for the augmented reality landscape, with hand gesture recognition and spatial audio. Foremost cloud leaders like AWS and Microsoft offer access to spatial computing solutions, such as Amazon Sumerian, for 3D scene creation.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

HoloLens 2 is an amazing device, with a decent FOV, eye tracking, and hands tracking, that for sure will make many companies happy. Image from Amazon). HTC has started selling again the OG Vive headset, but this time selling second-hand devices. If you will be in Italy, please come visiting me!

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 22, 2024

There is even one aspect in which it is better than the Quest 3: its front IR illuminators make hand tracking work even in the dark , which is useful for… some use cases. The headset is already selling well, and it is currently the most-sold gaming console on Amazon. It works incredibly well and has also amazing hand tracking.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. But there's actually some things you can buy on Amazon, and so those you can get for a couple of thousand, but it's not a full motion simulator. Alan: Amazing. Brandon: They are.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. But there's actually some things you can buy on Amazon, and so those you can get for a couple of thousand, but it's not a full motion simulator. Alan: Amazing. Brandon: They are.

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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 20, 2020

Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. But there's actually some things you can buy on Amazon, and so those you can get for a couple of thousand, but it's not a full motion simulator. Alan: Amazing. Brandon: They are.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Amazon promises “single-digit latency” XR streaming. Amazon has announced some weeks ago “Wavelength”, a new offering of its AWS services, that should provide “single-digit latency” over 5G networks. Unity now supports Vulkan for Oculus Quest. Unity has finally implemented Vulkan support for the Oculus Quest, in Unity 2019.3.

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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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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

And as any year, Oculus has really amazed us: for sure you have already read my short recap published after the first keynote of OC6 where I told you about amazing stuff like Oculus Link, Facebook Horizon and Hands Tracking. Hand tracking on Quest. Hands tracking will guarantee 25 tracked points for each hand.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

So many developers could find themselves with the conundrum of what to offer and to which device : if the Quest 3 Lite will sell a lot of units, maybe developers will prefer to develop content that is compatible with hand tracking, shifting the current attention to games to something else. Wait, what???

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2021

I have found no way of using the UI with just my hands : Pico mentioned it was working on hand tracking, and I think that it should implement that pretty fast because the ability to use your hands is great in enterprise settings so people do not have to mess with controllers. object detection). Price and availability.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 24, 2020

We just worked with Unity, building augmented reality projects. And I cannot wait until the day that I can take all my controllers and like run over them with my car, because– Alan: [laughs] We’re actually going through this.How can we get the hand tracking in Oculus Quest? And I can’t say which one yet, TBD.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 24, 2020

We just worked with Unity, building augmented reality projects. And I cannot wait until the day that I can take all my controllers and like run over them with my car, because– Alan: [laughs] We’re actually going through this.How can we get the hand tracking in Oculus Quest? And I can’t say which one yet, TBD.

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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. That’s fantastic news for all Unity XR developers! This can be a placeholder date (10/10), but it would be quite unusual as a choice, so it is probable that this is the actual launch date. in the reviews!

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

I mean, all UE developers, we Unity developers felt like being in a party where everyone is making out and you’re just there sipping a coke. That genius that answers the name of Daniel Beauchamp has used Quest Hands Tracking to make a miniature version of Beat Saber that you can play using your fingers.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 24, 2020

We just worked with Unity, building augmented reality projects. Alan: [laughs] We're actually going through this.How can we get the hand tracking in Oculus Quest? Cortney: Well, yeah, the hand tracking Quest is going to be amazing. You can buy it on Amazon, you can buy it at Best Buy.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

There will be a new launcher, improved graphics, improved in-game camera, production-ready Unity SDK for the creators, improved full-body VR, and much more. First of all, the Web3 VR platform has announced version 3.0 which is releasing this autumn with a massive update in which basically everything will be improved.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Upload has gone hands-on with the relaxing Shores Of Loci. Maestro , the VR game that makes you impersonate a conductor, makes great use of hands tracking, and some videos on Reddit show that. Snap and Amazon partner to offer AR preview of shopping items. Mindport helps you in building your Unity VR experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Considering the leaks on Amazon and MediaMarkt, the device will probably be available starting from October, 10th, 2023. After the Vision Pro announcement, both Meta and Pico started giving even more attention to it, and a few days ago, the Quest runtime was updated so that the main menu became hands-first.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

The sentence with which they have started the tease is “Big things are in motion here at Ultraleap”, which makes me think about something big that moves… may it be a new device to perform body tracking? According to Upload VR, for instance, “in UK, it’s now available at GAME , Amazon UK , ShopTo , Currys , Argos and more.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

The most interesting ones for me are related to hand tacking. Meta Quest will receive Hand Tracking 2.2, which makes the hand tracking more responsive to fast movements of hands : the system can so track the hands also when the user is playing fitness games like FitXR (or HitMotion: Reloaded).

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Unity renderer implementation of foveated rendering, on the other hand is much rougher, and in multiple Unity apps I saw very obvious and harsh artifacts, particularly on text. Given this only happens in Unity Full Space apps, I suspect this can be solved in future software. The main form is hand and arm occlusion.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

We’ve got AR platforms being hosted by Amazon, by Facebook, by Snapchat, where you can develop your own AR lenses. But I think we can stay on the cartoonish side of things as long as we hope things like eye tracking and hand tracking. And we’re seeing these kind of rapid advances in technology.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

We've got AR platforms being hosted by Amazon, by Facebook, by Snapchat, where you can develop your own AR lenses. But I think we can stay on the cartoonish side of things as long as we hope things like eye tracking and hand tracking. I mean, the introduction of ARKit and ARCore probably put 200 startups out of business.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

We’ve got AR platforms being hosted by Amazon, by Facebook, by Snapchat, where you can develop your own AR lenses. But I think we can stay on the cartoonish side of things as long as we hope things like eye tracking and hand tracking. And we’re seeing these kind of rapid advances in technology.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Spaces offers functionalities in: Image tracking Object tracking Hand tracking Spatial mapping Environment understanding and meshing Plane detection Real/virtual world occlusion …and more. Universal mapping of gestures to handle input across devices including controllers and hand tracking. Responsive Scale?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

French startup Lynx announced some months ago a quite interesting headset featuring pass-through augmented reality , hands tracking, eye tracking, and an innovative lens design. The standalone headset still features passthrough AR/MR, XR2 chipset, dual 1600×1600 LCD panels running at 90Hz, Ultraleap hands tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Top news of the week. Have I already told you that I love this game?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Tracking The tracking of the headset is the very solid one that Meta is used to provide on Quest headsets: it’s stable and precise. The tracking of the controllers is very good as well, but it has its small issues. The Touch Plus controllers rely on a mix of IR LEDs tracking on hand tracking to work.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2020

If you don’t have enough of this stuff, Amazon is your friend. Create something new with VR, for instance using Quest’s hand tracking , or Vive Pro’s SRWorks MR framework, or whatever else that is new and innovative. the USB cable for Oculus Link) and the (rechargeable) batteries for the controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 28, 2019

If you are a Unity/UE developer, you may have issues with Quest developing at this moment after the update , because when you build the app, you may see only one controller, or the controllers behaving in a weird way. This also means that the hand is able to occlude the virtual holograms , for added realism. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

I always refused to have an Alexa in my house because I know that what I say may randomly be sent to some Amazon offices in India where a person listens to my worlds and checks if the AI has detected well what I’ve said, with a clear violation of my privacy. I’m a developer, where is Unity, where is Visual Studio?

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