The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2018

Eye tracking is, in my opinion, a technology that will disrupt completely the VR ecosystem , exactly as room-scale did with the first HTC Vive. All VR interfaces will change with the introduction of eye tracking, becoming more intuitive. Let’s talk a bit about eye tracking. Yes, it is! Hello 7Invensun!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

More info (VisionOS 2 features — Road To VR) More info (VisionOS 2 features — Upload VR) More info (iPhone 16 can shoot spatial photos and videos) Unity cancels its runtime fee Unity has finally canceled the abomination of the “Runtime fee” , which was meant to charge developers based on revenue in the last 12 months and lifetime installs.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Our current version includes sensors for EEG, EOG, EMG, PPG, and EDA, with the option to include image-based eye tracking as well. There will also be an option to include image-based eye tracking , in addition to the EOG-based eye tracking. Will it be compatible with Unity and Unreal Engine for development?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The Pico 5 Pro Max looks like a dream hybrid headset : it is a standalone device with eye tracking and passthrough, and it also has the DisplayPort connection that makes it work like a true tethered headset when connected to a PC. of our revenues with Unity.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 5, 2022

With virtual reality, companies can build models of projects in a digital landscape, and make it easier to interact with specialists from all over the world. What’s more, Mixed and Augmented reality also allow for greater access to valuable content on the job site, reducing risk levels, and improving productivity.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

During the Snapdragon Summit, the company unveiled its latest piece of technology, the AR2 Gen 1 platform, which will be a key component for the next generation of slimmer and more fashion-friendly augmented reality (AR) glasses. Hand-tracking Works with Snapdragon Spaces (Unity/Unreal) 2.5X

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

You probably have heard about Leap Motion’s Project North Star , that should be able to offer people affordable augmented reality. Project North Star is an opensource augmented reality headset that Leap Motion has designed and gifted to the community. Noah playing around with Unity with the North Star headset.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Hand and eye tracking are crucial, integral tools to create the most authentic extended reality (XR) experiences. Tobii has remained at the forefront of these solutions, recognising that eye-tracking tools pilot the world’s top immersive experiences. The only way to accomplish this is through eye tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

The same luck has not happened to employees at Niantic at Unity. Unity, instead, is firing 4% of its employees, and this may seem weird considering that in the last months it has proceeded to hundred-millions-dollars acquisitions. PSVR 2 will have eye-tracking from Tobii and maybe a detachable cable. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 12, 2021

The HoloLens 2 is considered the best augmented reality headset in the market. The Achille’s heel of positional tracking is the light: if the room is completely dark, it doesn’t work anymore. Hands Tracking. The secret to making it usable is the monstrous hand tracking algorithm. Eye Tracking.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 15, 2024

Augmented reality kits seem to be everywhere, from well-known options like Apple’s ARKit and Google ARCore to Apple’s new collection of AR development tools. billion in 2023 , the AR market is now growing at a CAGR of 39.8%, thanks to evolving smartphone technology, Augmented smart glasses, and intuitive developer tools.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2023

Making some calculations, it is possible to estimate that the per-eye resolution is around 2064×2208, a value that was leaked a few months ago from some data miner (Samulia). Unity page also confirms that the headset will provide plane detection, so you will be able for instance to detect the walls and the desks in your room.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 9, 2023

One of the things that got people excited the most is its interface that works only by using eye tracking and hand pinching , which according to the journalists that underwent the demo, is fantabulous. Let’s start with the good one: the eye tracking was actually working very well to select the app icons.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2022

Hand and eye tracking tools, capable of sensing the movements, gestures, and gaze of a user, can take XR experiences to a new level. Innovators in the world of Mixed Reality, Microsoft relies heavily on concepts like hand and eye tracking to help users combine the physical and digital worlds. Unity and Magic Leap.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 11, 2023

Google has unveiled its Geospatial Creator for Unity platform, allowing developers to preview 3D assets via the Unity Editor. Additionally, people can develop augmented reality (AR) experiences with the platform’s 3D viewing function. How Does Google’s Geospatial Creator for Unity Work?

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

In v1 it was only possible to enhance the central part of the frame, while in this new version, VRSS integrates dynamic gaze tracking, and will be able to move its high-quality region so that to make it stay where the user is looking. NVIDIA DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) will be natively supported for HDRP in Unity 2021.2.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Today I am very happy to host on my blog Kura Technologies , one of the most interesting augmented reality startups out there. Kura promises to deliver lightweight AR glasses with astonishing features like 150° FOV, 8K resolution per eye, and outdoor use thanks to some breakthrough innovations they are working on.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 17, 2022

This Tuesday, Nreal unveiled a hand-tracking update to its augmented reality (AR) software development kit (SDK) for the Chinese company’s lineup of smart glasses, including new controller support and eye tracking options. AI+AR = our new Hand Tracking API. Eye tracking. Planes detection.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

The headset should be operated through the use of hand tracking and eye tracking , exactly like the Vision Pro. Then the Vision Pro beta for the Unity game engine has not been distributed yet, so many Unity developers can’t build applications for the Vision Pro, yet.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

With HoloLens v1 there were absurd limitations regarding the maximum allowed polygons in a Unity scene (like 20K polygons), so almost every produced program run sloppy. I expect with this one to switch to at least 100K polygons in every Unity AR game. So I guess that we’ll have full hands tracking in HoloLens v2.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

The glasses continuously remind you that they’re actually working as displays of an Android system : when you launch Unity applications, you see the visuals split in two for the duration of the splash screen; when you change the volume, you see the standard volume bar of Android moving (split in two, of course).

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

The addition of eye-tracking injects a new layer of interactivity to the user experience. This option gives you a headset plus $500 credit for Microsoft Azure , a three-month free trial of Unity Pro , and the PiXYZ plugin — giving you all the necessary tools to test, create, and launch enterprise apps for the HoloLens 2.

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VRScout

JANUARY 2, 2020

At the Digital Entertainment World Expo this year, Tony Parisi, Head of AR/VR Ad Innovation at Unity, listed the following formats from most to least effective across mediums: Live event content activation (as most effective) VR/MR experiences AR apps AR ad Mobile video. Attention is a resource, and we only have so much of it.

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ARPost

JULY 29, 2021

Last year, Unity’s Vice President of Features, Andre Gauthier, told ARPost how the Unity graphics engine enables a number of BMW’s projects that require real-time rendering. To be fair, BMW didn’t wake up and discover AR and VR technology this week.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

This project involved creating augmented reality statues of women alongside men in eight major cities in France. Learn more Discover Atomic Design’s work for the 8th of March The agency Atomic Design has participated in the 8 th of March, 8 Women project of Snap Inc.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The eye and face tracking can also work via Quest Link (but maybe only for developers). There are new complaints about Meta’s privacy policy on eye tracking , as my friend Avi Bar-Zeev points out. You can do with the Quest mixed reality WebXR applications (and this is incredibly cool). Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

An eye-tracking accessory built for Vive should work with Rift as well, and so on. And it is not stopping here: OpenXR has just added new extensions for hands and eye tracking , and a company like UltraLeap has just released a beta implementation for its hands’ tracker. But I want to be positive about this… go OpenXR! .

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 28, 2025

Lately, Meta, like many other XR innovators , has increased its focus on the enterprise space, recognizing a growing demand for virtual, mixed, and augmented reality solutions that enhance training, collaboration and product design. Meta makes it easy to create VR experiences with existing platforms like Unity and Unreal.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 4, 2025

Other key design features include a lightweight frame with premium build quality, magnetic light seals for customizable immersion, plush padding for extended wear comfort, automatic IPD adjustment via eye tracking, and smart device integration built into the core design.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

Once computers understand space, we can use these informed computers to edit our real world by placing digital objects and information in it and view this all through a transparent digital screen like smart glasses or even our smartphone: this is Augmented Reality or AR. Augmented Reality ads are not new. Source: Ikea.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 5, 2023

The use of eye, hand, and voice interactions make the interface with the headset natural and easy to be learned. The genius part has been mixing eye tracking with hand micro-gestures. It will have tools for building for it, and aside from the usual Apple tools, developers can use Unity to create content for it.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The main scope of this position is to prototype, ship, and support consumer gaming products leveraging visual-inertial tracking (HMD and controllers), camera passthrough, environment understanding, eye tracking, and hand tracking. Quest Hand Tracking v2.1 increases the reliability of hand tracking on Quest 2.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 6, 2025

Lynx told potential customers that the Lynx-R1 would be the first headset of its kind, offering both virtual and augmented reality, privacy by design (with no need for any log-in details), and access to a fully open platform for customization and control. You just get a block in front of your eyes. Speaking of mixed reality.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Among this free content, the real interesting stuff is $500 in free Azure credits , while the other things are highly questionable (like 3 months of Unity Pro license… it is more a free trial than a real added value!!).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

Mirror Lake includes holographic lenses, reverse passthrough (people can see your eyes when you wear it), varifocal, and eye-tracking in a single very lightweight device. For every one of the four main themes, a headset solving it has been shown in the video. You may wonder why Zuck has decided to pull out of this showcase.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

But the partnership seems pretty weird : the two companies have very different visions of the world, and it is not clear how they could partner in that, also because they both have their own store (Apple Store and Steam) that for sure they want to take to augmented reality. Great times ahead for augmented reality!

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 9, 2023

Augmented reality (AR) wayfinding firm ARway, recently announced it would partner with Magic Leap to integrate its solution on the latter’s headsets. Magic Leap 2 devices will also allow ARway to leverage its eye tracking, spatial audio, and six degrees of flight (6DoF) for greater interactivity with creative content.

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