The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

After the latest Unite event, Unity has released in Open Beta the tools to develop applications for the Apple Vision Pro. The development packages are usable only by people having Unity Pro or Enterprise, but the documentation is publicly available for everyone to see. PC), it can be built and deployed on all other platforms (e.g.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2024

brings phone mirroring, mouse & keyboard support, improved hand tracking and passthrough, and a number of other improvements. In Meta Quest, on the other hand, bringing your phone into the headset requires using a USB-C cable and USB capture card. also improves controller-free hand tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2024

I wanted just to experiment with technology, not make a product I’m not going to do a step-by-step tutorial, but if you are a bit experienced with Unity, you can use the info I’m providing you to create something similar yourself. Initialization I launched Unity (I’m using version 2022.3 But how to do that?

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OCTOBER 14, 2024

Meta released an XR UI kit for Unity, which some Quest developers have been requesting for years. But until recently , the only way to build XR apps for Meta's headsets was with a game engine, such as Unity or Unreal, and Meta didn't provide any kind of UI framework for either. Meta has finally released a solution to this.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 20, 2023

January is a productive month for extended reality (XR) technologies following CES 2023; as February approaches, Meta and Shopify have introduced hand-tracking innovations for their customers, continuing the journey of XR innovation. Meta Debuts Hand-Tracking v2.1 This Thursday, Meta released hand-tracking v2.1

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 9, 2022

Meta Platforms unveiled last week the latest iteration of its hand-tracking technologies as a demo for developers, allowing users to explore virtual worlds with their hands rather than physical controllers. Modular systems for adjusting hand-tracking functions such as pose recognition and velocity tracking.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Lynx R-1, the upcoming standalone MR headset, has been delayed to late 2020, but a new update from the company says they’re targeting a lower price and now including Ultraleap hand-tracking. Ultraleap’s hand-tracking is recognized as perhaps the best commercially-available hand-tracking solution.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Or that it has multimodal input and can be commanded using controllers, hands, eyes, or voice. Developers can already access a preview of the development environment for native, Unity, WebXR. Controllers are to come in 2025, the year the headset will ship. The chipset is the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2+ Gen2.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2021

One of the first accessories for AR/VR I had the opportunity to work on is the Leap Motion hands tracking controller : I made some cool experiments and prototypes with it and the Oculus Rift DK2. I’ve made my usual video review of the new UltraLeap Gemini runtime , with some cool in-action shots of me using hands-tracking.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 20, 2025

Moreover, with the transition from controllers to haptic gloves comes increased immersion and control over an environment, allowing workers to interact more directly with and react to an immersive space. It also supports XR experiences built on Unity and Unreal Engine SDKs.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 1, 2022

I finally managed (with some delay) to find the time to try First Hand, Meta’s opensource demo of the Interaction SDK , which shows how to properly develop hand-tracked applications. First Hand. First Hand Trailer. First Hand is a small application that Meta has developed and released on App Lab.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 24, 2023

This week, Osso VR, an immersive training platform for healthcare professionals, is introducing hand-tracking input options into its leading VR learning platform. The power of training is now in your hands. Hand-Tracking to Rule XR Input? 2024 is the year of body-tracking.

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VRScout

JANUARY 18, 2020

Oculus Quest hand-tracking turns one apartment into an XR playground. Remember that scene in Minority Report where Tom Cruise’s character cycles through a bunch of important police data by swiping his hands across a massive holographic display? 02 Transform any surface into a giant touch screen.

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VRScout

APRIL 2, 2022

Arkio is a slick collaborative VR tool that lets you create 3D buildings, virtual cityscapes, remodel rooms such as your kitchen or bathroom, review existing 3D models, and create Unity scenes that include triggers and colliders, all in VR with up to 10 other collaborators. . You can also reposition walls or make your ceilings higher.

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ARPost

APRIL 8, 2020

Tuesday, April 7, saw VIVE’s second weekly developer live stream, “Build for Tomorrow – VIVE Hand Tracking SDK.”. The talk, presented by HTC’s senior developer Dario Laverde, focused on how developers can integrate hand tracking into their applications. Hand Tracking in VR Technology – It’s Come a Long Way.

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OCTOBER 22, 2024

Meta's Interaction SDK now supports Unreal Engine, and the Unity version now supports non-Meta headsets. Meta Interaction SDK provides standard common hand interactions and elements that support controllers and hand tracking. 0:00 / 0:07 1× Previously, Meta Interaction SDK was only available for Unity.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This week, hand-tracking market leader SpectreXR made various strides in innovating in XR input with various partnerships that aim to elevate immersion for XR training applications and user experiences. Unity itself is a highly accessible graphics engine ready for a range of developers.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

I mean, when hands tracking launched, my social media feed was full of experiments and tests with hands tracking on Quest , there were some crazy ideas like the ones of Daniel Beauchamp that went incredibly viral, we had the fantastic experience Hand Physics Lab released, and so on. Having a grate time.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 21, 2025

The project is pretty cool: the VR game is about humanoid robots fighting between them, and the idea is to take the best players and make them fight using real robots they are controlling from within the VR headset. BEATABLE is a new rhythm game by XR Games that makes genius use of hand tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

Glasses : Weight : 88g Connectivity : USB-C compatible Optics : Combined Lightguide FOV : 52° Maximum resolution: 1080p Environmental Understanding : SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping), 6DoF tracking, Plane detection, Image tracking Cameras : two tracking cameras + one RGB. On top of it, you can see the controller.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Last week we had a first look at the controllers, while this week we had quite a confusing leak about its product line, which, if confirmed, would show an ambitious plan by the Chinese company. of our revenues with Unity. This is fair, and this is why a good chunk of the community answered positively to these new terms.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 12, 2021

But at least I could adjust brightness manually using the brightness controls that are on the headset. 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.

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Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2018

Leap Motion builds the leading markerless hand-tracking technology, and today the company revealed a update which they claim brings major improvements “across the board.” ” The upgraded tracking and improved developer tools are available in beta today on Windows , alongside three new demos to try it out for yourself.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Meta added a hand tracking teleportation system to its Interaction SDK. The Interaction SDK is a Unity framework providing high quality common hand interactions for controllers and hand tracking. You can try out Meta’s hand tracking teleportation system in the First Hand demo on App Lab.

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Road to VR

JUNE 21, 2023

Apple Vision Pro has brought new ideas to the table about how XR apps should be designed, controlled, and built. You can think of visionOS itself like a Shared Space where apps coexist together and you have less control. Whereas Full Spaces give you the most control and immersiveness, but don’t coexist with other apps.

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JANUARY 13, 2023

Unity’s new package lets developers add hand tracking without using headset-specific SDKs. Previously, adding support for controller-free hand tracking on Quest required importing the Oculus Integration. Unity’s Eric Provencher suggests you should also manually update to OpenXR 1.6.0

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The Lynx R-1 headset houses six cameras: two B&W cameras for 6DoF positional tracking, two IR cameras for hand-tracking, and two RGB visible light cameras for the color passthrough AR mode. Hand-tracking, controllers. AR + Hand-tracking. Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax), Bluetooth 5.0. Connectors.

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Road to VR

JUNE 22, 2018

Accompanying the news that Valve has made a critical redesign of its ‘Knuckles’ motion controller , the company also recently released a new input system in beta that not only aims to create lifelike hands, but make them accessible to all SteamVR app developers. Documentation is now available on the OpenVR GitHub Wiki.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

ManoMotion, a computer-vision and machine learning company, today announced they’re integrated their company’s smartphone-based gesture control with Apple’s augmented reality developer tool ARKit , making it possible to bring basic hand-tracking into AR with only the use of the smartphone’s onboard processors and camera.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 28, 2021

With Interaction SDK Experimental, Facebook is making it easier for you to integrate hands and controller-centric interactions while in VR. The Unity Library, available early next year, will come with a set of ready to use, interaction components like grab, poke, target, and select. Image Credit: Facebook. INTERACTION SDK.

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VRScout

MARCH 19, 2018

Edgar Martín-Blas, CEO of Virtual Voyagers , told VRScout he’s been excited about the capabilities of eye-tracking, hand-tracking, nine hand gesture recognition, and “the possibility of controlling the content with a mobile app.”. Anyone can access the Magic Leap Creator Portal and sign-up for free.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Facebook released two major updates for the standalone device in the latter half of the year, namely Oculus Link and hand tracking. release build Oculus Quest’s hand tracking will receive an option to enable automatic transitioning between hand tracking and controllers, doing away with the clunky menu switching.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 22, 2024

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 12, 2023

Whether or not to include controllers to support legacy VR titles. Unity engine support is promised but with no plans for motion control support, Apple has cut out any possibility of porting most of the existing or future VR catalog to its platform. No doubt (and if rumors are true) there were many debates at Apple HQ about VR.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

More info (Eye+hand interface) More info (My doubts on Apple Vision Pro’s UX) Still talking about UX, but on the development side, I loved reading the article where Realities.io They also talk about the current difficulties of using Unity to develop for the Vision Pro. describes how they ported Puzzling Places to the Vision Pro.

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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. This will include query based voice interactions for a new level of digital agency, and even the ability to interact with and control digital environments through conversation.

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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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