The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2021

Triton works with Leap Motion (now Ultra Leap) hands tracking. The issue fell where I didn’t have a Linux driver for the Leap Motion sensor and there were not many stable alternatives for hand tracking at the time. The optical architecture of Triton glasses (Image by Graham Atlee).

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APRIL 20, 2025

This short experience aims to unfold as a large sensory fresco with strong emotional potential, letting you explore this surrealist animated realm comprised of fractal architectures, plants, people, motifs, calligraphy, and more. I recently tried Ito Meiky during NewImages Festival 2025 through the XR Market for 20 minutes on Quest 3.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Kilograph brings Michael Graves’ unrealized architectural designs to life in VR. Using an Oculus Rift/Rift S VR headset in combination with Leap Motion’s hand-tracking technology, you can teleport throughout different areas of the resort and use your own two hands to add color to interactive outlines of various buildings.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

With eye-tracking solutions, software can be designed to effectively render the content users are viewing according to their specific needs, reducing bandwidth use and improving clarity. With hand-tracking capabilities, innovators can remove the need for teams to utilize external controllers and devices when interacting with digital content.

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Road to VR

JUNE 22, 2022

Apple says it’s aiming to appeal to professionals like architecture and interior designers for conceptual exploration and planning, as well as developers of real estate, e-commerce, or hospitality apps; developers can integrate RoomPlan directly into their AR-capable apps. It’s not for consumers (yet) though.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2022

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. copy-paste) on how to implement hand tracking in their own experiences. More info (First Hand?—?Official

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 21, 2025

Both of these models are based on NVIDIAs new Blackwell architecture , and both of them feature GDDR7 VRAM. BEATABLE is a new rhythm game by XR Games that makes genius use of hand tracking. You have to use your hands to follow the notes of the songs (a la Guitar Hero), and to do that, you have to tap your hands on the table.

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MAY 4, 2022

In turn, they also rebuilt the part of the Codec Avatars AI model to take advantage of the chip’s specific architecture. Positional-tracking and hand-tracking are a critical part of any XR experience—yet another place where designing the hardware and algorithms together could yield substantial benefits in speed and power.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Alongside the haptic feedback distribution, TouchDIVER Pro leverages full hand tracking with a deep precision of 0.6 With haptics covering a broad range of product engineers in verticals such as automotive, architecture, construction, industry, medical equipment design, and consumer goods.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2022

For the transition to a consumer device, Pico employees had to re-architecture the store, the paying system, the accounting system, the backend, the networking, the user interface, and all the rest to make it become a compelling consumer product. As for the content, the company aims at having more than 200 games on its native Pico Store.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 12, 2021

The Achille’s heel of positional tracking is the light: if the room is completely dark, it doesn’t work anymore. Hands Tracking. HoloLens 2 has no controllers, but it lets you interact with the mixed reality elements through hand tracking, eye tracking, and voice commands.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Although his original background is in architecture, his current work in VR spans from indie games like Cubism to enterprise software for architects and engineers like Resolve. One instance where I realized I was over-scoping was with my plans to support hand-tracking in the initial release of the game.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Using hand-tracking technology, you’ll interact with a variety of virtual puzzles as you search for ancient Egyptian treasures. Table Towers by DB Creations Blake Gross & Dustin Kochensparger’s Table Towers is an architectural experience that lets you build and manage your own futuristic utopia on your coffee table.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

GHz CPU Cores: Qualcomm® Kryo 385 CPU, Octa-core CPU CPU Architecture: 64-bit Up to 8GB RAM Support for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.0, Interacting with the HoloLens using the air-tap was a PITA , so I guess that Microsoft will offer two little controllers to let the user interact with the AR apps without stressing his hands and arms.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 8, 2017

” The company says their new camera processing architecture and Adreno 630 GPU will help Snapdragon 845 deliver “up to 30 percent power reduction for video capture, games and XR applications compared to the previous generation,” and up to 30% improved graphics/video rendering. image courtesy Qualcomm.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Microsoft envisions companies using the headset for design, remote assistance, training, visualization, collaboration, architecture, construction, and much more. Hand tracking. Two-handed fully articulated model, direct manipulation. Eye tracking. Real-time tracking. HoloLens 2 Specs. Audio and speech.

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ARPost

APRIL 13, 2020

See Also: VR Technology and Hand Tracking in VIVE’s Second Developer Talk. The new platform uses Unity’s existing AR Foundation but gives extra affordances for testing and app data. It’s specifically designed for designing with mobile platforms and eventually wearable XR technology. It’s one of Unity’s most powerful industry tools.

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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. 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.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

Epic Games have detailed Unreal Engine’s support for the Magic Leap One Creator Edition on their blog, which confirms some significant hardware features of the device, including eye tracking, hand tracking, and room scanning. Nvidia RTX. Photo: Remedy Entertainment. Stealth game ‘Budget Cuts’ resurfaces.

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Road to VR

MARCH 12, 2017

The listing for the former seeks a candidate who can “define new architectures for virtual reality products while collaborating with [industrial design] and human factors teams,” and can “travel as needed to […] manufacturing facilities overseas.”

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

Specifications VRTK’s list of scripts & modules Interaction Builder architecture General Features VRTK is a comprehensive and complete development framework for XR applications. The drawback is the steep learning curve, and the legacy development mechanism to fully understand the whole architecture.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 31, 2024

Skonec has dedicated significant effort to crafting diverse user experiences using controllers, hand tracking, and curved UI elements. Unlike monitors and smartphones, which display content within a frame, VR immerses users in an expansive space, necessitating a unique user experience.

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JUNE 20, 2024

It's a new mixed-reality puzzle adventure in which an artifact known as the ‘Plinth’ materializes in your home, and you're tasked with solving 3D geometric puzzles using hand tracking or motion controllers. On Apple Vision Pro, it also supports 3D spatial audio.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

As such, Varjo has positioned its headsets as being ideal for design, architecture, high-end training, and more. SEE ALSO Varjo Launches VR-2 Headset with SteamVR Support, Improved 'Bionic Display', and Hand-tracking Option.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

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 hands tracking. This week two interesting demos employing Oculus Quest hands tracking have emerged.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Regarding controllers, Abrash stood by his predictions of Touch-like controllers remaining the primary input device in the near future (alongside hand tracking). Image courtesy Oculus.

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ARVR

JUNE 16, 2020

Recent research shows how this increased customer engagement during online shopping ( [link] ) Hand Tracking Input Compatibility Our suite supports hand tracking with most VR devices giving you the choice to switch between controllers and Hand tracking as you like, just as your controllers allow it.

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OCTOBER 19, 2023

Although his original background is in architecture, his work in VR spans from indie games like Cubism to enterprise software for architects and engineers like Resolve. In this Guest Article, developer Thomas Van Bouwel explains his approach to designing an MR game that adapts to different environments.

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OCTOBER 4, 2024

UploadVR David Heaney Here are all the recent Godot XR improvements Olij outlined: XR Architecture Improvements Improved Frame Timing "When OpenXR was originally implemented in Godot 3 there were limitations on the order in which certain actions took place. See the Meta Hand Tracking tutorial for the full details about these features."

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Split Wireless Compute Architecture Another reason Orion is slimmer than the new Snap Spectacles is that it offloads the heaviest compute tasks to a wireless puck that fits in your pocket. Meanwhile app logic, including rendering and general processing, run on the compute puck, with rendered frames streamed wirelessly to the glasses.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 10, 2020

For enterprises which deal in high-end 3D design (think architecture, automotive, engineering, etc), Varjo thinks there’s value in giving workers a way to seamlessly move between their 2D tools and the immersive power of VR in this way. Jump back to the CAD application make some tweaks and then check again in VR with just a click.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 17, 2020

Then, of course, we started fighting with issues related to the field view and hand-tracking capabilities. And the number of applications for VR is expanding from gaming to business, medicine, manufacturing, and architecture. The first impression I had of the Hololens was extremely positive. This point is quite funny.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

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 hand tracking extensions. AMD today introduced the Radeon RX 6800, 6800 XT, and 6900 XT graphics cards based on its latest RDNA 2 architecture.

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Voices of VR

JULY 24, 2024

We also cover some of the unique insights from architecture that have also really helped to shape van Bouwel's journey from architectural visualization into the frontiers of leveraging spatial affordances for mixed reality gameplay. The release date for Laser Dance has not been announced yet, but you can wishlist it here.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 8, 2024

Moreover, the device also negates keyboard requirements (and controller requirements) with eye and hand-tracking features integrated into the headset. The tracking features aim to streamline user interaction while also potentially increasing accessibility to innovative computing technology.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

Keep in mind that this device has a pixel density far superior even to the one of the Valve Index, so it is perfect not only for gaming but also for prototyping, design and architecture. HP and Microsoft have a long track in offering enterprise hardware, so this headset may battle HTC on his own land (B2B). Snapdragon 845 RAM ?—?6GB

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Spectacles have four cameras linked to the Snap Spatial Engine that enables hand tracking. Snap’s dual system-on-a-chip architecture, Snapdragon processors from Qualcomm, power the glasses, which are capable of running for 45 minutes of continuous standalone runtime.

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