The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

The Neo 2 may not be sexy as the Quest, but it is more powerful (thanks to the Snapdragon 845), has a crisper resolution , and in the “Eye” version, it also features embedded eye tracking. And all of this is cheaper than the $1000 enterprise Oculus Quest : the Neo 2 costs $700 and the Neo 2 Eye costs $900.

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VRGuy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Since the OSVR launch in January this year, nearly 250 organizations including Intel, NVIDIA, Xilinx, Ubisoft, Leap Motion, and many others have joined the OSVR ecosystem. Concurrent with the expansion of the OSVR community, the capabilities of the software platform have grown by leaps and bounds. Add OSX support.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

Leap Motion. You may ask why I’m adding Leap Motion here. Well, during 2018, Leap Motion has announced the North Star reference design : a cheap augmented reality connected to PC, that is able to detect your hands very well thanks to Leap Motion’s sensor.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: Getting back to the platform owners, I think if you look at HTC and some of the things that they’ve done… you know, they did an eye-tracking version of the HTC Vive here. Alan: The VIVE Pro Eye. But I think first that is sort of talking about what’s happened. Dean: Yeah. Alan: It’s so true.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: Getting back to the platform owners, I think if you look at HTC and some of the things that they’ve done… you know, they did an eye-tracking version of the HTC Vive here. Alan: The VIVE Pro Eye. But I think first that is sort of talking about what’s happened. Dean: Yeah. Alan: It’s so true.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

John Riccitiello -- the CEO of Unity -- was one of the first to point out that there was going to be this great sort of gold rush of people who were going to overhype VR and its potential, and then we're going to see this gap of a disappointment where the early reality didn't match up with the hype and a lot of people were going to bail on it.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: Getting back to the platform owners, I think if you look at HTC and some of the things that they’ve done… you know, they did an eye-tracking version of the HTC Vive here. Alan: The VIVE Pro Eye. But I think first that is sort of talking about what’s happened. Dean: Yeah. Alan: It’s so true.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

The tracking FOV is reported to be quite good, but not as good as the one of the controllers , so you can use your hands only more or less in your vision FOV. Unity and Qualcomm now have GPU profilers for Quest so you can better tune apps to the headset pic.twitter.com/hYeD7TPCfl — Russell Holly (@russellholly) September 25, 2019.

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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. Notice a Leap Motion sensor installed on top of it. Project North Star is an opensource augmented reality headset that Leap Motion has designed and gifted to the community.

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VRGuy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Acer, NVIDIA, Valve, Ubisoft, Leap Motion and many others joined the ecosystem. Many game engines – such as Unity, Unreal and SteamVR- immediately support it. The same is also true for input and output peripherals such as eye trackers and haptic devices. Eye tracking software converts eye images into gaze direction.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The front features a glossy plastic lid , that can be removed to uncover the so-called “frunk”, a hole with a USB-3 port , that can be used to attach accessories like Leap Motion to the Index. So, I put my Valve Index, opened BigScreen and developed in Unity in VR for 4 hours. What intrigues me are the front cameras.

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