XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 31, 2024

The Division Director also noted that headset SDKs can help considerably with the XR application development process, with Woosung explaining that “at Skonec, we’ve worked with the SDKs of most commercially available HMDs, including the Vive series, Oculus/Meta series, and Pico series.”

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

Late to the party after Oculus and Microsoft already released prototypical implementations, but finally Valve has implemented OpenXR into its runtime SteamVR. Someone is working on a Linux driver for the Oculus Rift. Indie developer Thaytan is working on a Linux driver for the Oculus Rift. Other relevant news. Cannes XR goes VR.

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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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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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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. Lenovo itself also has a growing reputation in the VR space.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

In the meanwhile, the community is still rioting about the Facebook login , and /r/Oculus should now be called /r/FacebookBannedMyAccount because this is the only topic people are talking about. AMD today introduced the Radeon RX 6800, 6800 XT, and 6900 XT graphics cards based on its latest RDNA 2 architecture. Boost Clock (GHz) 2.25

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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. What are the differences and the similarities in Virtual Reality before Oculus Kickstarter campaign and after? Oculus revamped the whole idea of VR and changed its paradigms. This point is quite funny.

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Road to VR

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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Pre-orders for Oculus Touch officially went live today. This is a significant moment in the life of Oculus as a company, and it is also a significant moment in the ongoing virtual reality “console wars.” The first thing you’ll need in order to accomplish a room scale Rift setup is Oculus Touch.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

No smearing, reduced mura; The lenses have been upgraded, using the ones engineered by Valve for the Index; The audio is conveyed through off-the-ear speakers , like the ones of the Valve Index; Comfort has been improved; There is IPD adjustment; There are now 4 tracking cameras. Oculus Link 2 could be tetherless. 6GB Connectivity ?—?5G,

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Road to VR

JANUARY 10, 2020

Finland-based startup Varjo, makers of high-end enterprise VR headsets, has charted a rapid growth, similar to the early years of Oculus. Varjo even showed how they could turn on hand-tracking so that my real hands could be projected into the cockpit with me.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

Road To VR reported about Manus VR’s new Quantum Metagloves with very precise hand tracking for enterprise use (cost: $9000). I have anyway selected four news that can be relevant for you: NVIDIA has announced a new GPU architecture, called Hopper, that represents the evolution of Ampere. Kudos to the Asian company for this.

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Voices of VR

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Since this is the last episode in my series from Meta Connect 2024, then here's a list of all 20+ interviews and 12+ hours of my coverage from this year: #1468: Kickoff of Meta Connect 2024 Coverage with Orion AR Glasses Hands-on Impressions with Tested's Norm Chan & CNET's Scott Stein #1469: Analyst Anshel Sag on Meta Connect Announcements & Orion (..)

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Varag: So Clay is a software company, we're specializing in hand tracking and gesture recognition, mostly in the AR and VR space. We did a project just using Google's hand tracking library. And hand tracking needs to be there. But let's get back to hand tracking, because this is a vital part.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Varag: So Clay is a software company, we're specializing in hand tracking and gesture recognition, mostly in the AR and VR space. We did a project just using Google's hand tracking library. And hand tracking needs to be there. But let's get back to hand tracking, because this is a vital part.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Varag: So Clay is a software company, we're specializing in hand tracking and gesture recognition, mostly in the AR and VR space. We did a project just using Google's hand tracking library. And hand tracking needs to be there. But let's get back to hand tracking, because this is a vital part.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 22, 2020

Oculus has gained in these years always more success in the consumers’ landscape, and now with the Oculus Quest , thanks to an affordable device running great content , it is making strides in the market. Today, finally, Facebook has changed all of this and i s making Oculus For Business available to all interested companies.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 27, 2020

The Oculus Quest 2 has been leaked. The famous leaker WalkingCat did it again, leaking this time a new model of the Oculus Quest , in the beginning with some renders, and then with true pictures of a pre-production device (that had been originally shared by redditor CallThePlumber). Top news of the week. Image by WalkingCat).

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Leapmotion

JULY 21, 2015

One of our tracking engineers suggested using our prototype Dragonfly module to augment a physical display with virtual widgets. Our team’s video got shared on /r/oculus and led to a feature on Wired. The project used the public Leap Motion SDK with standard tracking to receive hand tracking and video passthrough data.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

There is another reason that will make medium-big studios happy: from now on, there won’t be any revenue share with Epic until $1M of revenues of your game, a limit that raises to $5M if your game is published on Oculus Store. Oculus Link now works with USB 2.0. More info (Oculus Link works with Usb 2.0?—?Road port and cable.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Developers are coming up with creative uses of Oculus Quest hands tracking. Oculus Quest hands tracking is being a success among developers. One in which you take one hand of yours, y ou throw it to the other side of the room, and then remotely move your hand to perform some tasks.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2021

They have hired the popular singer Madison Beer (I had no idea who she was, honestly) and have made her perform inside a virtual venue for a virtual concert that won’t be available only in streaming, but also via Oculus and PSVR headsets. You know that I organize VR concerts with VRrOOm (and our last one even had 75M total views!)

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Because of this, this device has no way to compete with the Quest 3 on the consumer side, but the above features may still make it compelling for some categories : for instance, the better support of hands tracking, eye tracking, and lossless connection to PC may make it very interesting for people that spend their time on VRChat on PC.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

Last year, it was still called Oculus Gaming Showcase, and it featured important updates on games like Pistol Whip, The Climb 2, I Expect You To Die 2, and Resident Evil 4 VR. Ruth Bram, Executive Producer at Oculus Studios, will be the host of the show. Pico Neo 3 , Vive Focus 3 , Oculus Quest 2 ) only offer Wi-Fi connectivity.

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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

JANUARY 24, 2022

The new update for Oculus Quest brings with it some interesting features, like the tracking of the Apple Magic Keyboard, some updates to the UI, and a new menu for hand tracking. Samsung has just announced its new Exynos 2200 mobile chipset , powered by AMD RDNA 2 architecture. Meta releases runtime v37 for Quest.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Meta Quest 3 (left) and Apple Vision Pro (right) We once asked Oculus executive Jason Rubin whether his company was considering a tethered compute model. Apple Vision Pro on the other hand has occlusion in two distinct forms. The main form is hand and arm occlusion. He's what he said: "That’s a model we’ve definitely explored.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

And so anybody that’s doing design and 3D objects, it’s almost like a no-brainer, whether it’s in architecture, or designing 3D objects, or big aerospace, airplanes, cars. So you see a lot of it in architecture, engineering, construction. I mean, I will say that with Oculus Quest that’s changing for me.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 25, 2016

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. AR UI/UX: Because it is free of physical screens, AR makes greater use of controls through voice, hands and hand-tracking, and brain computer interfaces.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

And so anybody that's doing design and 3D objects, it's almost like a no-brainer, whether it's in architecture, or designing 3D objects, or big aerospace, airplanes, cars. So you see a lot of it in architecture, engineering, construction. I mean, I will say that with Oculus Quest that's changing for me. Alan: Oh, I can't wait.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

And so anybody that’s doing design and 3D objects, it’s almost like a no-brainer, whether it’s in architecture, or designing 3D objects, or big aerospace, airplanes, cars. So you see a lot of it in architecture, engineering, construction. I mean, I will say that with Oculus Quest that’s changing for me.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

The Oculus Quest 2 continues its march towards mainstream adoption. It wouldn’t be a normal week without some news about Facebook and/or the Oculus Quest. The first one is that the Quest 2 has now sold in some months more than all the other Oculus headsets (with the exclusion of Gear VR) combined in all these years.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2021

architecture firms), and it also has the typical solid manufacturing of HTC. Hand tracking support is coming in the future; The two new controllers of the Focus 3. They are clearly inspired by the Oculus Touch (Image by HTC Vive). The battery is rechargeable and every charge lasts for 15 hours.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But, instead of holding a plastic peripheral in your hand, the Quest version of the game relies entirely on hand-tracking. It's got a fantastic tracklist of rock classics and the hand tracking, for the most part, is now reliable enough for the experience to work as intended. Here’s our updated Unplugged review.

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