Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

ManoMotion, a computer-vision and machine learning company, today announced they’re integrated their company’s smartphone-based gesture control with Apple’s augmented reality developer tool ARKit , making it possible to bring basic hand-tracking into AR with only the use of the smartphone’s onboard processors and camera.

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ARPost

MAY 4, 2020

With AR and AI solutions, companies can upskill their workforce and augment jobs. In an interview, he tells us how AR can enhance the modern workforce. He also talks about Vera, a powerful AI/AR platform. Pebbles Interfaces, a company specializing in gesture control, was one of them. The future of AR is bright.

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ARPost

MAY 21, 2021

Even focusing just on the AR content, there was a lot to unpack. Expanding AR Capabilities With Lens Studio 4.0. as well as Ghost, a new AR innovation lab partnered with Verizon for research into 5G-enabled experiences. as well as Ghost, a new AR innovation lab partnered with Verizon for research into 5G-enabled experiences.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

While AR experiences and services based on the mobile phone are everywhere, augmented and mixed reality head-up displays are few and far between. Right now, the consumer AR and MR headset market is largely one of speculation. See Also: Could the 2020s Be the Decade When AR Glasses Replace the Smartphone?

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ARPost

MAY 29, 2020

For example, how does someone with Parkinson’s navigate gesture controls? Designers also brought in two extra side-facing cameras to increase the range of gesture controls – a trick borrowed from Microsoft’s HoloLens. The University of Oregon professor Donna Davis presenting “Immersion and Ethical Responsibility”.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Based on our experience reviewing some of the industry’s most impressive AR and AI specs, here are our top picks for the glasses you should be considering in 2025. Viture Pro XR Glasses: Best Mixed Reality Specs If youre looking for cutting-edge immersion, the Viture Pro XR glasses are truly incredible.

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ARPost

JULY 1, 2020

While it lacked the pizzazz of an AltSpace event, Popper again presented the Reverb G2 at the VR/AR Global Summit the following week. Other webinar speakers were Mimbus CEO Laurent Da Dalto, Rainfall ’s AR/VR Director Keith Mellingen, and the Institute for Creative Technologies Director of Medical Virtual Reality Albert “Skip” Rizzo.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The VR/AR Association held its second virtual VR/AR Global Summit last week, concluding Friday afternoon. This second virtual VR/AR Global Summit attracted thousands of XR technology enthusiasts as well, according to the VR/AR Association. VR/AR Global Summit News and Announcements. Following the VR/AR Association.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Futurologists had predicted and filmmakers embodied on the screen that mankind would forget any third-party apps and devices alien to human physiology even before the first concepts of AR and VR appeared. There is a big difference between VR-helmets (or AR-glasses) with controllers and ones that can be controlled by hand gestures.

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ARPost

JANUARY 13, 2020

Here, we’ll be taking a look at the AR and MR headsets and glasses that caught our attention in 2019 and that we’ll be keeping an eye on going into 2020. Because MR is more complex than AR, it requires a lot of computing power. AR and MR Glasses. AR involves super-imposing digital artefacts over the actual landscape.

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ARPost

JANUARY 27, 2021

That’s not to say that there are no apps currently on the marketplace. Fantasy World is an immersive space that users navigate with voice commands, and head and gesture controls. Rokid’s Vision 2 MR glasses offer increased offerings for entertainment – a market that is underserved in the AR and MR markets.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 1, 2018

When the HoloLens first hit the market in 2016, the AR device received positive reviews among AR/VR industry experts, as well as leaders from other industries. Army as Microsoft’s biggest and most influential HoloLens consumer, which could give the AR device a much-needed boost in terms of product awareness and sales.

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Tech Trends VR

MARCH 10, 2019

Over the course of one month, 19 patients who reported having frequent nightmares were able to modify the visuals —for example a great white shark swimming closer and closer— they found threatening – using an Oculus headset and joysticks with gesture controls – in order to make them less scary.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The other product is an “interaction builder” for creating gesture controls. These controls are showcased to many XR users in a gaming environment but have huge practical implications in enterprise training. Controllers are more precise from a tracking perspective, but they are a barrier to entry,” said Vezzoli.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For those looking for more use cases for the virtual screen display, the company has big news: major console support, and betas for its AR YouTube app and the mac version of its Nebula operating system. Nreal Air is a lighter-weight model than the Nreal Light , a full-force AR smart glasses product. The Road So Far.

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Road to VR

MARCH 9, 2019

First was the punch card, then the command line, the mouse… and now we’ve got touchscreens, voice assistants, and VR/AR headsets which read the precise position of our head and hands for natural interactions with the virtual world. Showing something awesome in AR or VR? Get in touch!

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Road to VR

AUGUST 30, 2019

Moreover, they hope to also support dynamic gestures, which could be a boon for machine learning-based sign language translation and fluid hand gesture controls.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JUNE 18, 2024

At AWE this week, leading XR headset vendor Magic Leap and gesture technology innovators Doublepoint Technologies are highlighting a deep product partnership to distribute WowMouse, an input device that leverages Android smartwatches to enable gesture controls such as pinch and gaze for AR applicaitons.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

HoloLens 2 also brings hand-tracking which goes much further than the coarse gesture control in the original headset. Now with full hand-tracking, users can interact much more directly with applications by touching, poking, and sliding controls directly rather than using abstract gestures.

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ARPost

APRIL 15, 2021

Earlier editions of Lens Studio allowed full-body gesture controls that triggered certain effects but they weren’t able to convincingly track the body to the level required for wearables like Byte’s jacket. The virtual jackets are also part of Byte’s drive for more environmentally sustainable fashion.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The paper looks at optical issues in XR and the solutions companies are developing to solve them. It also looks at how and when these developments are likely to impact the XR technology market. The greatest barriers to large scale adoption of advanced XR technology are optical problems. The Optical Interface. Quite a lot.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 22, 2025

At CES 2025, a representative wore TCL's RayNeo X3 Pro AR glasses while showing the basic concept for controlling menus with the wristband. Wristbands like Mudra Link are an exciting development in wearable technology and hold a lot of promise for robust input within glasses and headsets.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 18, 2017

When Ben Taft and Matt Stern, two of the co-founders of Mira, opened up the box of the Prism AR headset for me for the first time I’ll be honest: I wasn’t that impressed. The Prism AR headset, from new company Mira, is lightweight, cheap, and surprisingly effective.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 29, 2021

A session with Vice President of AR/VR Andrew “Boz” Bosworth saw the announcement of the “Presence Platform”, a suite of tools to help developers create mixed reality applications. The platform is set to include software for: Environmental understanding; Standardized gesture controls through a hand interaction SDK; Voice commands.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 5, 2019

This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. Authors’ opinions are their own. . From WebAR to Wearables: The AR Moments of 2019 and What’s In Store for 2020. From WebAR to Wearables: The AR Moments of 2019 and What’s In Store for 2020. 2019 was a major “AR 2.0”

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Already, we’re interacting with a range of artificially intelligent bots and automated tools through gestures, and voice. Gesture control managed by motion or hand tracking technologies may allow future engineers and construction workers to operate machinery from a distance, using IoT connected devices, AI, and edge computing.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2021

VR, as well as AR (Augmented Reality) enable users to experience digital content in both physical and virtual spaces. Enthusiasts are hopeful that this type of technology will eventually become as ubiquitous as today’s digital communication devices, such as smartphones.

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ARVR

JANUARY 29, 2021

While Apple fans have long been waiting for Apple to launch its own augmented and virtual reality ( AR/VR ) wearables, and despite many competitors already presenting market-ready AR glasses and VR headsets , there are still more questions than answers around what Apple’s AR/VR first product will look like.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JUNE 27, 2022

US retail behemoth Walmart announced on Thursday it had updated its customer shopping app with two novel augmented reality (AR) solutions aimed at improving shopper experiences. Today, we announced two new AR shopping experiences on the Walmart app: ‘View in your space’ and AR in-store. Walmart Inc.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

XR devices are all over the headlines this month; the release of the Apple Vision Pro has brought spatial computing/mixed reality wearables to the forefront of emerging workplace and consumer-based digital solutions. Bingo Wu AR glasses offer immense potential across various B2B applications.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 18, 2023

In recent years, the company has been investing heavily in its vision of the “metaverse”, exploring new ways to bring people together in a digital landscape through virtual, mixed, and augmented reality (VR/MR/AR). The Meta Quest 2 and Meta Quest Pro are just two examples of the latest immersive technologies offered by Meta.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 7, 2024

Rumors about an impending set of Meta AR glasses have been circulating for a while now, and it’s easy to see why. For months, most rumors about these glasses were based on speculation and occasional hints from Meta’s team, like Mark Zuckerberg posting a picture of him surrounded by AR specs. So, what will these glasses do?

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Peter Graham

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Earlier this year British startup Litho revealed its hardware idea for controlling and manipulating digital objects in the real world, an elegant device which sits between your index and middle fingers. Now creatives at the forefront of AR can access the hardware for $199.99 For all the latest AR updates, keep reading VRFocus.

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ARPost

JUNE 8, 2023

The headset arguably looks more like what industry insiders call an “AR viewer” – that is, rather than providing spatial content, it provides a spatial interface for 2D content. Meta, on the other hand, has been experimenting with inputs like voice and gesture controls since the Quest 2, but is by no means ditching the controllers.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Introduced at the same time as a brand-new Snap OS , these AR specs go beyond anything Snap has previously accomplished in the smart glasses space. While Snap has technically been experimenting with smart glasses since it first introduced its “Spectacles” back in 2016, most of these devices didn’t feature true AR capabilities.

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ARPost

JUNE 30, 2021

That’s what we learned when Xenco Medical announced HoloMedX at the VR/AR Association Global Summit earlier this month. You get the patient’s anatomy suspended in air,” Haider explained when announcing the platform during the VR/AR Association Global Summit. What happens when a medical device company starts exploring extended reality?

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ARVR

AUGUST 8, 2022

Focals by North In October 2018, the Kitchener, OT based company North, introduced a consumer AR glasses called Focals. Intel, it may be remembered, demonstrated an AR glasses called ‘Vaunt’ in February 2018, (which also used LBS optics), and then, (in classic Intel fashion), they abruptly canceled the project in April of that year.

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