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OCTOBER 14, 2024

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.

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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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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2018

Announced with support for both Unity and Unreal, the Lumin SDK exposes the capabilities of the Magic Leap One headset to developers who can use it to begin building augmented reality experiences for the platform. Eye tracking. Gesture and hand tracking. 6DOF hand controller (Totem) tracking.

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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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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

Apart from being more accurate, Hyperion features some important new features, that the company describes as follows: Microgesture interactions: Hyperion can track small finger movements down to the millimeter, enabling subtle gestures that require minimal effort. I believe there will be many use cases for this.

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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

JULY 24, 2019

updates, which includes hand tracking with proper occlusion masking, “out of the box” multiplayer support, and a few other goodies that ideally position the platform to appeal to future consumers. With Overture, you can pause and play a track, adjust the volume, skip to the next song, and perform other basic controls.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

It features a 4nm-based AR processor that’s capable of handling multiple features, such as visual analytics and graphics, and it can also support up to nine cameras that would be used for tracking you and your environment. This isn’t counting the cameras on the new Touch Pro controllers.

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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

MARCH 20, 2018

The improved headset is pitched as an upgrade for current Vive owners, as it works with the original controllers and base stations. It is still not known exactly when the improved controllers and SteamVR 2.0 Magic Leap has launched the SDK for the device’s Lumin OS , with support for Unity and Unreal engines.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The G1 device comes with a rich software development kit (SDK), enabling clients to integrate the HaptX brand of realistic feedback into custom immersive applications using Unreal Engine and Unity. The HaptX SDK contains tools to control G1’s feedback and input while a user is within an immersive application.

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Road to VR

MARCH 22, 2018

Magic Leap Specs and ‘Lumin’ SDK details that are known thus far: Head tracking. Eye tracking. Gesture and hand tracking. 6DOF hand controller (Totem) tracking. Use of Unreal Engine 4’s desktop and mobile forward rendering paths. Room scanning and meshing. Spatialized audio.

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Road to VR

JULY 11, 2018

Kimball said that the Unity and Unreal engine integrations for Magic Leap do much of the core balancing optimizations (between the available A57 cores and Denver 2 core) for developers already. At one point the hand is used to smack a boulder out of the way, showing that the hand-tracking system can do more than just detect gestures.

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Road to VR

MAY 29, 2019

Built with SteamVR Tracking tech, the stylus works similarly to a typical SteamVR controller, but affords the natural precision that comes with precise finger control. I got a hands-on demo of the VR Ink Pilot Edition and came away suitably impressed with what Logitech has put together, both in performance and functionality.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 31, 2024

The real-time 3D engines powering AR/VR/MR applications, like Unreal and Unity, found fame and traction as gaming development tools. Skonec has dedicated significant effort to crafting diverse user experiences using controllers, hand tracking, and curved UI elements.

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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. Yes, it is less than the 5% of Unreal, but until yesterday we only paid per seat, not both per seat and per revenue sharing. And this 2.5%

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

For instance, the BMW group used RT3D solutions create a combination of AR and VR applications designed to train frontline workers, manage the assembly line and improve quality control. Using clunky controllers often detracts from the immersive interaction, and can make learning how to use a new technology more complex.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 3, 2020

Soon the standalone headset will get its own foot controller in the form of 3dRudder Pro Wireless. The 3dRudder Pro Wireless has been designed to offer a control option for both Oculus Quest and Android-based standalone headsets. Additionally, there is a Unity asset and an Unreal Engine plugin. EUR/$199.00

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2022

Someone in the communities argued with me that HoloLens 2 has still some advantages over Magic Leap 2: it is well integrated with Azure, it is standalone so it doesn’t need a potentially dangerous cable connecting the headset to the computational unit, and it doesn’t need controllers (it uses hands tracking).

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Until now, building even a simple app for Quest headsets required using a full-fledged game engine like Unity, Unreal, or Godot. It provides rendering, optional passthrough, controller and hand tracking, support for flatscreen and immersive media playback, physics, and spatial audio.

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MARCH 14, 2024

This lets you, for example, use Quest 3's IOBT for the upper body and real Vive Trackers for the lower body, giving you true 6DoF body tracking at the lowest possible cost. It also adds the ability to emulate Valve Index controllers using Quest's controller-free hand tracking, enabling finger tracking in SteamVR games which support it.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 28, 2022

With tracking technologies, companies can build more immersive experiences for XR users. Eye tracking helps users to navigate a space more effectively, while improving software performance and minimising discomfort. Hand tracking, on the other hand, ensures individuals can interact more effectively with virtual content.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2022

Its first VR concert tour springs from years of R&D that resulted in proprietary 9K cameras and software that can automate complex unreal engine-based VR concert visual effects (VFX) modules and run more than 100 headsets at a time. So gaze-to-aim and hand-to-shoot.

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OCTOBER 4, 2024

If you're not familiar with it, Godot is a free and open-source alternative to Unity and Unreal. It's technically controlled by the non-profit Godot Foundation, but all development takes place in the open. See the Meta Hand Tracking tutorial for the full details about these features." As part of the Godot 4.3

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Upload VR

JUNE 26, 2024

We've also been pleased with how rapidly both platforms are improving on the software side, like the lower latency hand tracking coming in visionOS2 and the improved passthrough on Quest. It’s an unreal level of contrast. We look forward to evolving THRASHER along with all these amazing platform updates."

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

But the thing that surprised me the most in Gurman’s description is the controllers. Controllers do have not the tracking ring like the ones of Quest 2 and have not onboard cameras like the ones of Quest Pro (I guess they would have been too expensive). But that’s just a speculation of mine.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

And while this is anyway a good result for a startup (developing an AR headsets means spending billions in R&D), targeting the consumer market has been a suicide move , that let Microsoft get full control of the profitable enterprise market. Google MediaPipe can now track 3D objects. Who knows….

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

The MRTK is a set of components with plugins, samples, and documentation designed to help the development of MR applications using gaming engines from either Unreal Engine or Unity, providing two versions of the solution – MRTK-Unity and MRTK for Unreal. Ultraleap Hand Tracking – Ultraleap Leap Motion controller.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

If we sum these features to the other ones added in the past, like hands tracking, Passthrough Shortcut, or the multiple windows in Oculus Browser , we start seeing the first signs of a mixed reality operating system, with which you can interact with the controllers or with the hands in a natural way.

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Upload VR

MAY 30, 2024

from ILM Immersive serves as an incredible demonstration of the graphical prowess of Epic's Unreal Engine 5 and Apple's M2 chipset. Previously, Marvel Powers United VR from Sanzaru explored superpowers with controllers in hand while Avengers: Damage Control extended the idea to hand tracking a couple years later at The Void locations.

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JUNE 24, 2017

Combined with hand tracking and visual feedback, sound even has the power to create the illusion of tactile sensation. Engines like Unity and Unreal are constantly getting better at representing sound effects in 3D space – with binaural audio , better reverb modeling, better occlusion and obstruction modeling, and more.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 24, 2020

That’s lead to motion controllers, eye tracking and hand tracking but full-body tracking has stopped and started due to the complexities of this process. The company also plans to release an Unreal Engine 4 plugin later this year as well as expanding compatibility for more motion capture hardware.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Get in on the ground floor with this talk from Martz, who will tell you how to get to grips with the new platform including working with Google VR SDKs for Android, Unity, and Unreal. Applications of Eye Tracking in Virtual Reality. Hand Tracked Controls: Design and Implementation for Serious VR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Clearly, this premium headset, set to feature high-quality 4K OLED microdisplays, mixed reality passthrough, and a unique set of controllers, targets a specific market. Like most modern headsets, this device will come with hand and head tracking support, although we’re not sure of eye-tracking will be an option yet.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 26, 2023

Plus, there are two controllers included, with 6 degrees of freedom movement and hand, eye, and face tracking enabled by front-facing sensors. The SDK also supports development with Unreal, Unity, and OpenXR and can be used offline. Plus, Pico promises world-class data security and privacy for all users.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Varjo’s newest headset (available in various styles) sincludes multifocal passthrough cameras, controllers co-developed by Razer, and even integration with the powerful NVIDIA Omniverse. Inside-out tracking: Intelligent inside-out tracking and built-in Varjo controllers created with Razer. What is the Varjo XR-4 Series?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 31, 2023

What Makes the Focal Edition Different? While many of the features of the Varjo XR-3 Focal Edition overlap with the standard XR-3, there are some bonus extras. The system was designed specifically to provide enhanced visuals for real-world training sessions, in places like cockpits, car dashboards, and so on.

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