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Google launched the Daydream View headset late last year, the company’s first virtual reality hardware product. A slew of recent job postings however suggest significant new AR/VR hardware in the works from Google. A slew of recent job postings however suggest significant new AR/VR hardware in the works from Google.
There is only one big problem: the form factor is terrible , they look super-dork, even worse than Google Glasses. And the CEO of Improbable stated that with the current architecture, they could go much beyond that, up to 100,000 users in the same shared space. Meta wants to help developers in creating hand-tracked experiences.
The last big breakthrough we saw in ease-of-use interactivity was the launch of handtracking and gesture recognition on enterprise and consumer VAR devices. The high-level architecture of IBM’s DeepQA used in Watson // Image Credit: AI Magazine. So functionally, that’s how it works,” says Pavitt. RICHER NARRATIVES.
The company is still heavily involved with VR development however, and are expected to present some new technology with Google at Display Week 2018 in May. Since then, the project has remained quiet, and there is no sign of the headset this year. Magic Leap announcements. image courtesy Magic Leap. Nvidia RTX. Photo: Remedy Entertainment.
However, it could be argued that this has always been the case for industry veterans and enthusiasts—from Google Glass to Samsung VR and the original Oculus models. Skonec has dedicated significant effort to crafting diverse user experiences using controllers, handtracking, and curved UI elements.
SEE ALSO Google & LG Detail Next-Gen 1,443 PPI OLED VR Display, 'especially ideal for standalone AR/VR'. Regarding controllers, Abrash stood by his predictions of Touch-like controllers remaining the primary input device in the near future (alongside handtracking). Image courtesy Oculus.
InsiteVR’s latest solution, called Resolve, lets AEC (architecture, engineering, construction) professionals explore 3D models of environments with other people on the Oculus Quest. Two new interesting demos for Quest handstracking. This week two interesting demos employing Oculus Quest handstracking have emerged.
The OpenXR standard, that aims at standardizing virtual reality hardware and runtime is keeping improving, and in its latest release, it has added new features like experimental overlays and handtracking extensions. AMD today introduced the Radeon RX 6800, 6800 XT, and 6900 XT graphics cards based on its latest RDNA 2 architecture.
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. Kinect gets a Second Life.
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 handtracking, among others. This is offered on the Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 1 and AR2 Gen 1 processing platforms.
Lenovo created headsets such as the Mirage Solo and Mirage VR S3, which used Google Daydream, as well as the Lenovo Explorer, a Microsoft Windows-based MR device, along with the company’s VR classroom platform. 6 degrees of freedom (DoF) tracking with 4 cameras and hand-tracking controllers. 70/90Hz refresh rates.
Varag: So Clay is a software company, we're specializing in handtracking and gesture recognition, mostly in the AR and VR space. We did a project just using Google'shandtracking library. And handtracking needs to be there. But let's get back to handtracking, because this is a vital part.
Varag: So Clay is a software company, we're specializing in handtracking and gesture recognition, mostly in the AR and VR space. We did a project just using Google'shandtracking library. And handtracking needs to be there. But let's get back to handtracking, because this is a vital part.
Varag: So Clay is a software company, we're specializing in handtracking and gesture recognition, mostly in the AR and VR space. We did a project just using Google'shandtracking library. And handtracking needs to be there. But let's get back to handtracking, because this is a vital part.
Tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT , Google’s Gemini , and Microsoft’s Co-pilot have become the go-to resources for "Ask me anything" queries. These innovations have been touted as potential Google Killer , disrupting the way we search for information, communicate with machines, and receive machine responses.
Image by Google). Project Iris is the codename of Google’s AR glasses. According to a report on The Verge, Google is working on AR glasses. The operating system should be Android, but it seems that Google is also building an operating system specific for XR. Header image by Google). What about yours?
Eye tracking software converts eye images into gaze direction. Handtracking software converts hand position into gestures. The open OSVR architecture opens plugin development to everyone. If you are an eye tracking expert, you can add an eye tracking plugin. Magic Leap is not commercial yet.
Google AR Cloud Streaming. Google has partnered with FCA (Fiat Chrysler Automobiles… do you know that Fiat is from my city in Italy?) In this version, the Jeep has 4K textures and tens of millions of polygons, and it gets rendered on Google servers and streamed very fast to your smartphone. Pollen Robotics.
In the videos, it is possible to see that the passthrough is great, but also that features like positional tracking and handtracking 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.
If this partnership is exclusive, Meta has just got a huge edge over its competitors like Samsung or Google. Here in Italy, I have no idea where to buy any smartglasses, but I’ve seen many shops selling Ray-Ban Meta.
Though keyboards and mice are “ abstraction layers ” compared to things like intuitive VR handtracking, the former is advantaged by its familiarity. Miesnieks backs up this point with the classic cautionary tale of Google Glass. Old habits die hard. Baby Steps. ” Social Contract.
and a new 7nm architecture. Apart from this, we had other two key announcements: NVIDIA CEO announced Ampere, NVIDIA 7nm GPU architecture, and its first chip based on it, the A100 , devoted to professional usage (mostly for data centers). More info (Oculus Link works with Usb 2.0?—?Road NVIDIA announces CloudXR 1.0
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 handtracking) running for each eye’s camera. Unintentional inputs are also a very real problem with handtracking.
But because you’re much likelier to hear about VR today, especially this month with the launches of Playstation VR, Google Daydream, and Oculus Touch, AR can feel distant and overhyped. Today, that would include things like LinkedIn, their tweets, Instagram photos, significant Google search results, and more.
The developers behind the app even imported the open source Tilt Brush application and you can paint in the open air with your hands too. Architecture-focused app Arkio lets you import the room setup layout and modify it or add virtual objects as you see fit. The World Beyond. Color Passthrough Apps & Games. Puzzling Places.
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