The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

From that day, many people have started asking me more about this augmented reality device, so I understood it was time for one of my big reviews! is the second iteration of the Realmax augmented reality glasses (the first one was the Realmax 100). Are you ready to discover more about Realmax Qian? RealMax Qian.

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ARPost

APRIL 4, 2023

AR and VR Content Creation With Integrated Ultraleap Hand Tracking Ultraleap was founded in 2019 when Leap Motion was acquired by Ultrahaptics , and the two companies were rebranded under the new name.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

Robust to handling objects: Hyperion offers superior hand tracking while holding an object in your hand, making it perfect for mixed reality. Object tracking : Hyperion allows the Leap Motion Controller 2 camera to track AR Markers (also known as fiducial markers) enabling tracking of any object.

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Tech Trends VR

JANUARY 11, 2019

So by that measure, Pimax over-delivered at CES 2019 with its Leap Motion bundle featuring 8K VR headset with built-in speakers, 200° FOV and optional eye tracking being developed in partnership with 7invensun. Pimax holds the Guinness World Record for the most successful crowdfunded VR project with over $4m in funding.

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Leapmotion

JULY 21, 2015

Early last month, Leap Motion kicked off our internal hackathon with a round of pitch sessions. One of our tracking engineers suggested using our prototype Dragonfly module to augment a physical display with virtual widgets. Leap Motion. Our team of five ran with this concept to create AR Screen. normalized().y;

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2018

In a week here in Italy will start a very interesting VR-related event called Immersive Architecture. He told me how this technology could empower his work and I was really intrigued by the fact that a non-techie could be so hyped about the technology that I love the most. Can you introduce yourself to my readers?

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 24, 2024

It was a reference design by Goertek which was mounting no Leap Motion controller. What Ultraleap was trying to prove was that this may be the right technology to do hand tracking on AR glasses: it has very low power consumption, it has very low computational consumption, and it is highly reactive. And that’s it.

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2018

While there’s certainly a range of exciting games and other VR software coming soon to first-generation hardware, it feels like the market is steadily turning its attention toward next-generation technologies, and fostering a renewed sense of excitement and momentum. Leap Motion North Star. Image courtesy Leap Motion.

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Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2018

DigiLens , a developer of transparent waveguide display technology, is creating a reference headset aimed at wide FOV AR with hand-tracking, dubbed AR HUD. While the company is focused on automotive and wearable HUD devices in the near term, it’s also focusing on longer term on enabling AR headsets with more immersive fields of view.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 19, 2017

I attended the Experiential Technology Conference (XTech) in San Francisco this week to hear talks about creating virtual experiences that truly immerse you in another world. It showed me that virtual reality has only scratched the surface. Above: David Holz, founder of Leap Motion, shows off hand-tracking in VR.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2022

As the XR landscape continues to grow, accelerating towards an expected value of $300 billion by 2024, immersive technology is evolving at an amazing rate. Increasingly, vendors and innovators are searching for new and improved ways to immerse users in unique experiences, using powerful and disruptive technology.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Google) Google announces important AI and XR news at Google I/O This Google I/O has seen immersive realities back to the menu. motion sickness, dizziness, eye strain, etc…). It’s time for another roundup of amazing XR news. Are you ready?

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VRScout

AUGUST 13, 2017

VR was a big part of last year with new experiences, hardware and companies pushing the technology to the forefront of our everyday lives. Also announced was the judging panel that includes virtual reality experts such as Josh Naylor of Unity Technologies, Jenn Duong of Shiift, and CEO of Spiral Media Megan Gaiser.

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

With Pokémon Go recently breaking a financial milestone – reaching one billion USD in revenue , it may finally be time to say that Augmented Reality (AR) is now reaching mainstream acceptance and acknowledgement. Although still a novel concept, the industry is clearly taking altered realities seriously. Why Stop at Gaming?

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VRScout

JULY 25, 2017

Lenovo’s new AR concept headset & Disney partnership, all the VR/AR goodies at Comic-Con, Steven Spielberg’s trailer for Ready Player One is finally here, new industry landscape shows 60% increase in enterprise augmented reality, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… 1. LENOVO KEEPS GETTING MORE IMMERSIVE.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2021

Additionally, I would highly recommend buying this head padding kit from Knox Labs as it will dramatically increase comfort as you wear the headset, especially for longer periods of time as you will be immersed within the Triton. Triton works with Leap Motion (now Ultra Leap) hands tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

The reason for such a decision would be that was impossible to create a glass that could be thin enough and that could contain all the desired technology (e.g. If the report were true, this would mean that Apple doesn’t believe in AR anymore and this would be terrible news for all the immersive realities ecosystem.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

We all love to make speculations on the technology and I am no exception. Augmented Reality in 2018. Not because I am a genius, but because the technology is still evolving very slowly and so it is very predictable. Magic Leap. Me, wearing a Magic Leap One. Rear view of the Magic Leap One.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

The new HoloLens features: Eye tracking Full hands tracking (a la Leap Motion) Voice commands understanding. That’s impressive and that’s what we need: a new technology that is so real that doesn’t need explanations. A girl zooming an object in mixed reality. Open future.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MAY 11, 2022

Ultraleap Gemini is a fifth-generation hand-tracking platform that supports virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) solutions, and has been designed to provide immersive, realistic, and interactive computing experiences. Works in a challenging environment. Flexible integration options. Why Should Users Opt for the Device?

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Peter Graham

JULY 15, 2019

There are a number of ways to create your own virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) app/videogame. With VSDK, developers with less experience, training, and time can still quickly design augmented and virtual reality experiences with intuitive and natural interactions with virtual content.”.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Today it’s a great day for virtual reality: at WCVRI conference, HTC has just announced a kit to provide 6 DOF controllers for Vive Focus and has showcased a hands-tracking technology for the Vive Pro ! The city is full of references to Virtual Reality, and so it is like a paradise for us VR enthusiasts.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 31, 2015

At Leap Motion, we’ve seen our fair share of impressive motion-controlled robots that will one day bring about the robocalypse. What really got me into robotics is that it’s an emerging technology,” he said, “so there’s a lot of room to be innovative without having to make something incredibly sophisticated.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2020

A very nice idea , mixing the art of the past with the technology of the present. A guy and a girl from Prague showcased in Stereopsia a simple demo where you could play the piano with a Vive with a Leap Motion mounted on. Miguel has also now a new company, called Eyedak, working as well on immersive technologies.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Circuit Stream , the company he works for, offers a full platform of AR/VR training and learning services to help people master immersive technology. Established in 2015, Circuit Stream has helped over 40,000 people learn to design and develop virtual reality and augmented reality applications.

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Leapmotion

JULY 28, 2015

The demo puts you in control using a combination of Leap Motion interaction and a fully integrated Hands On Throttle and Stick (HOTAS) control system. As a pre-production demo, it also explores a variety of other concepts including: the use of narrative context to aid motion control usability. Leap Motion + HOTAS Gamepad.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

In particular, it envisions: XR headsets (especially AR ones) being tethered to the smartphone now; XR headsets wirelessly connected to the smartphone (via Wi-fi or similar technologies) in 1–4 years; Fully standalone lightweight XR headsets, connected via 5G, in 5–10 years. Cyber-XR releases its standards for inclusion and accessibility.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 15, 2016

I’m an early-stage VC focused on virtual and augmented reality, so I pieced this together based on the forward-thinking pitches and demos I’ve been lucky enough to see through my work, plus a lifetime of burning through sci-fi and video games. But it’s still incredible enough to give a taste of where it’s headed. Body movement.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Meantime we already have iOS and Android smartphones and tablets: Microsoft Hololens, Google Glass and many others such as Magic Leap, North, Vuzix, Vrvana (acquired by Apple), SMI (same), Snap Spectacles (via the acquisition of Vergence), Bose, Meta View, nReal, DreamGlass, Epson, Rokid (working with the UK’s WaveOptics), Daqri and Realware.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Mix it with the fact that Chrome and Firefox are now implementing WebXR standard, and you can see the potential of A-Frame for the future of the immersive web. OVR Technology is working to bring smell in VR. Talking about smell in Virtual Reality, the names of the companies working in the field were mostly two: VAQSO and FeelReal.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2018

Especially my reviews-super-hero Benjamin Lang has destroyed completely the Go in his review , saying that it could have sense some years ago, but now it is just a step back from current technology. Do you remember Facebook Camera, the augmented reality framework of Facebook? hours (2 hours of gaming, 2.5 Full Keynotes.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 12, 2015

Hand tracking and virtual reality are both emerging technologies, and combining the two into a fluid and seamless experience can be a real challenge. In the context of motion controls, good affordance is critical, since it is necessary that users interact with objects in the expected manner. Ergonomics. Camera Controls.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Back in 2016, designer and filmmaker Keiichi Matsuda released Hyper-Reality, a concept film that imagined an augmented reality future where physical and virtual realities have merged, resulting in a "city saturated in media."

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

These are all very positive news for VR: the technology is slowly getting adoption and while not mainstream yet, I agree with Zuck that in 1–2 years we’ll start getting there. The technology is amazing, but I think it’s too rough to be reliably used nowadays in gaming. All of this is cool, but I think it’s also a smoke of hype.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 31, 2020

It will be the conference through which Facebook will talk about its most innovative products and research about immersive realities and beyond. All the people that were working on AR/VR inside Facebook now have a new group they belong to: “Facebook Reality Labs”. Akonia), this one left all the community puzzled.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

The latest generation of XR technologies introduces radical new capabilities, from multi-user tracking in massive spaces, to 6DOF standalone headsets, to the ability to track hands, eyes, and lips. Alvin Wang Graylin is an industry leader, evangelist and passionate driver of XR technologies, particularly virtual reality.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

The latest generation of XR technologies introduces radical new capabilities, from multi-user tracking in massive spaces, to 6DOF standalone headsets, to the ability to track hands, eyes, and lips. Alvin Wang Graylin is an industry leader, evangelist and passionate driver of XR technologies, particularly virtual reality.

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