The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 10, 2020

A VR maker has built a pair of motorized shoes, controlled by an app , that let you walk in real life to walk in VR. My friend Nicolas Esposito of Enter Reality has just released RIGEL, a professional solution to do motion capture using off-the-shelf hardware. More info. A VR maker is building shoes to walk in VR.

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Road to VR

MARCH 30, 2017

HTC Vive Senior Engineer James Xiong has provided a Vive IK Demo on GitHub , which includes a reference source code and Unity demo. Using the HTC Vive headset and controllers combined with three Vive Trackers, the program uses hardware tracking and inverse kinematics to pose a virtual model that closely matches the human player.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 25, 2022

The latest funding will be used to intensify R&D for AXIS , a wearable and game-oriented full-body motion capture solution. CEO of Refract Chng told TechCrunch that the solution they found out was to allow players to use their bodies as game controllers.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 30, 2023

Motion Capture software, or “Mocap systems”, are particularly valuable for content creators looking to enhance XR experiences with realistic avatars, motion, and gesture controls. Mocap solutions are primarily used for the creation of XR content.

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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. Compatible with HTC Vive and other SteamVR headsets, Manus Polygon will be compatible with Unity when it officially launches in June 2020.

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ARVR

JULY 19, 2021

Enhancing the user experience is key in VR Training, but controllers can be very limiting for this kind of experience. It can be easily explained by data from a case study made by Innoactive , Unity , and Volkswagen. Thanks to Interhaptics, haptic feedback can be deployed both for controllers and haptic devices.

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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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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 15, 2024

They can include features for everything from photo-realistic rendering to physics controls, animations, camera effects, and more. These tools give developers solutions for object capture and 3D modeling, custom shading, dynamic assets, object occlusion, and more, paving the way for enhanced AR experiences.

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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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ARVR

JUNE 17, 2021

Software development engines like Unity and Unreal are becoming more elaborate , there are myriads of SDK libraries, countless knowledge exchange communities and free-for-use collaboration tools. CONTROL & SAFETY With any immersive experience, the user has to have a sense of safety and freedom.

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Life at the Feeding Edge

APRIL 29, 2021

Way back in the dim and distant era of 2009 I was exploring a lot of tools to help me build virtual environments with avatars and characters that could be animated, typically in Unity. Then in the Sequence controller, the film events list I swapped the target actor from the original to mine and away we go.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Hand Capture. A new motion capture and animation plugin for Autodesk MotionBuilder 2016, Hand Capture lets you “capture hand and finger movement in real time directly inside MotionBuilder.” Handful of Tones is a music app that lets you control the volume and pitch of a chord with your hands.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2020

But yeah, with these controllers, it was quite hard to-- if you push on a button and then something happens that's not really a training. And then yesterday, the new Airpods have 3DOF controllers built in, so they have accelerometers built into them. Compare that with the amount that they make on training with controllers.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2020

But yeah, with these controllers, it was quite hard to-- if you push on a button and then something happens that's not really a training. And then yesterday, the new Airpods have 3DOF controllers built in, so they have accelerometers built into them. Compare that with the amount that they make on training with controllers.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2020

But yeah, with these controllers, it was quite hard to-- if you push on a button and then something happens that's not really a training. And then yesterday, the new Airpods have 3DOF controllers built in, so they have accelerometers built into them. Compare that with the amount that they make on training with controllers.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 6, 2015

Motion control opens up exciting possibilities for manipulating 3D designs , with VR adding a whole new dimension to the mix. I got my Leap Motion Controller at the start of 2014, and quickly went about making demos. What if you could disassemble a robot at a touch? Check out the source code at github.com/Zaeran/CAD-Demo.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Some of its features are: 2,160 × 2,160 resolution per eye 90Hz framerate 4-cameras inside-out tracking (like the Quest) Touch-like controllers with Knuckles-like finger-sensing Face tracking Hips tracking (for better orientation in games) Integration with SteamVR games Wireless add-on. So this is a market we should all keep an eye on.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 23, 2021

What I’ve not enjoyed is that SideQuest has removed The Unity Cube from its listing, stating that there were too many cubes there. To write, you have to take your controller upside-down, so you can use it as a big pen. ???! These days are pretty hot here, but this doesn’t stop me from enjoying virtual reality.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

HTC has finally revealed the price of the Vive Pro : it will cost $799 just to have the headset (no controller and no base stations, so you must already have a Vive 1 kit) and will be available for pre-orders since April, 5th. The controller too is very comfortable and does its job very well. So, are you ready? Let’s start!

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 26, 2017

A year later, the team had upgraded the platform to six players combating virtual reality zombies with assault rifles in the Unity-developed Outbreak game. Patent-pending technology using more than 100 cameras and motion capture devices track each player in real-time as they move.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 28, 2016

Prize: $10,000, Unity Suite, 2 OSVR HDKs, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti. Prize: $7,500, Unity Pro, OSVR HDK, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti. Prize: $5,000, Unity Pro, OSVR HDK, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti. Prize: $2,500, Unity Pro, OSVR HDK. Prize: $1,000, Unity Pro, OSVR HDK. Prize: $500, Unity Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

It’s a good read , full of interesting anecdotes, like when it is written that Beat Saber became the testbench for the tracking of the Quest controllers , or that Asgard’s Wrath, in the beginning, was a tower defense game. And kudos to Kevin Williams to have predicted it some months ago ). Cubism is a great case study for hand tracking UX.

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