The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2019

And as I promised you, I’m sharing with you all my impressions , so you will feel as if you were here with me… Today I will talk with you about the WCVRI event, the RealMax AR glasses and the Droolon F1 eye tracking accessory! It has very sharp visuals, and with eye tracking, it is super-powerful.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Microsoft 365 is coming to Quest Pro! It has also partnered with Microsoft and Accenture to facilitate the integration of XR solutions inside companies. These are the specs of the device, courtesy of Road To VR: The device features very high resolution, passthrough RGB, and face and eye tracking sensors.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

At Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona today Microsoft unveiled HoloLens 2, the next iteration of the company’s standalone AR headset. The post Watch Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 Reveal Demo from MWC 2019 appeared first on Road to VR.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Notably, Meta doesn’t seem to be pitching Orion for enterprise, like Microsoft did with HoloLens, but rather targeting it squarely at consumers. It also packs a neural interface thanks to built-in eye-tracking and a wrist-worn electromyography (EMG) band used for hand-tracking. Additionally.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 19, 2021

According to reliable Apple analyst Ming-chi Kuo, it’s possible the headset will eschew handheld controllers in favor of eye tracking and iris recognition. There’s no lack of speculation around Apple’s rumored AR headset, but the latest is the most sci-fi of them all. Read more.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Microsoft today announced that its latest AR headset, HoloLens 2, is finally shipping. Microsoft announced HoloLens 2 back in February and has started selling the headset today. Image courtesy Microsoft. Head tracking. Eye tracking. Hand tracking. Eye tracking. Real-time tracking.

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VRScout

MARCH 3, 2019

After four years of waiting, does Microsoft’s new holographic computer live up to the hype? Possible HoloLens 2 use-case / Image Credit: Microsoft. Microsoft reports that the field-of-view (FOV) is twice the size of the old HoloLens, although some have since challenged those claims. HoloLens 2 / Image Credit: Microsoft.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

VirtualLink was announced back in 2018 with the backing of NVIDIA, AMD, Microsoft, Valve, Oculus, and HTC—representing a bulk of the most significant hardware players in the VR industry. SEE ALSO OpenXR Now Certifying Headset & App Compliance, Adds Extensions for Hand-tracking & Eye-tracking.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The VIVE Pro Eye headset is a powerful tool by VIVE, created with a focus on ultra-precise eye tracking and sensor technology. While the main focus of this headset is the tracking technology, the solution also comes with built-in solutions for spatial audio. Microsoft Mesh. Microsoft HoloLens 2 Industrial Edition.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Microsoft confirmed to UploadVR that it told its customers and partners now is the last time to buy the device before stock runs out. With passthrough headsets still years out, and Magic Leap still focused on consumers, Microsoft dominated the enterprise AR market for years with HoloLens 2. HoloLens 2 production has ended.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Yesterday at Mobile World Congress, Microsoft unveiled HoloLens 2, the company’s next iteration of its enterprise-focused standalone AR headset. Microsoft’s Julia Schwarz demoing on-stage, Image courtesy Microsoft. The short answer: yes. For a split second my attention drew to a slight breeze in the room.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The AR2 Co-processor fits in the middle of the glasses , so it can stay quite close to the eye tracking sensors and also some cameras. Hugo Swart also mentioned that there are new interesting partnerships with Adobe, Microsoft, and Niantic that are taking place, but he has not unveiled what they are about. Final considerations.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Just what Google has brewing in their skunkworks, we can’t say for sure, but with their most recent acquisition of Eyefluence , a company that builds eye-tracking technology for VR headsets, it seems Google is getting ever deeper into what’s largely considered ‘the next generation’ of dedicated VR hardware.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

I also have to say that when reading the various docs, many things I read reminded me of the times I developed an experience on the HoloLens 1 : I think that Apple took some inspiration from the work that Microsoft did when designing its SDK. FFR assumes that the user mostly looks in front of him/her with the eyes.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 26, 2020

The leading standalone VR headset, Oculus Quest, has been increasingly focusing on controllerless hand-tracking as a means of input for the device. Other major headset makers, like Microsoft and its HoloLens 2, have also honed in on hand-tracking as a key input method.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 6, 2023

EYE TRACKING. POSITIONAL TRACKING. Microsoft Windows. Lockheed Martin Prepar3D, DCS World, X-Plane 11, Bohemia Interactive Simulations (VBS3, VBS4), Microsoft Flight Simulator, Aero FS 2, FlyInside, and other custom integrations. DIMENSIONS (headset only). 293x123x113 mm / 11.53×4.84×4.44 HEADSET CONNECTIVITY.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 28, 2024

Hand and eye-tracking tech have been pivotal components of the extended reality industry for a while, transforming how users interact with digital content. As vendors search for ways to enhance immersive experiences, and reduce the need for clunky controllers in the XR landscape, tracking technologies are becoming crucial.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The integrated Tobii eye-tracking operating at 120hz made a noticeable difference to headset setup and optical comfort, as well as lowering the rendering workload in games compatible with dynamic foveated rendering. The eye-tracking system is provided by Tobii, who is the market leader in eye-tracking technology.

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Tech Trends VR

MARCH 17, 2019

Microsoft’s new piece of kit doesn’t disappoint, but the real excitement of its MWC announcement goes well beyond the hardware. Microsoft is in this for the long haul and will continue cashing in just fine without even touching the consumer market Click To Tweet. That’s the low-hanging fruit as far as Microsoft is concerned.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Microsoft today revealed HoloLens 2, a standalone AR headset and successor to the original HoloLens. HoloLens 2 was announced today boasting a field of view that’s purportedly twice as large as the original, along with a sharp 47 pixels per degree resolution, hand-tracking, eye-tracking, and improved comfort.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

It was really interesting to see Microsoft pivot towards enterprise with the HoloLens and I think it was absolutely the right move for them to make Click To Tweet. For starters, they’re based in Oregon as opposed to Silicon Valley.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Perhaps the go-to solution for mixed reality innovation in the construction space, Microsoft provides businesses with a unique opportunity to combine real and virtual landscapes. The flexibility of the Microsoft Mesh platform for designing MR experiences makes it easier for businesses to implement the design tools they’re already using.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

Qualcomm and Microsoft partnership. Qualcomm and Microsoft have announced a partnership to push together the next-generation lightweight AR glasses. Further, the announcement reveals plans to integrate Microsoft Mesh—the company’s multi-user XR foundation—with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Spaces XR development tools. Road To VR.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

First, Acer’s VR headsets have been built on Microsoft’s Windows Mixed Reality platform, which ties some of the headset’s hardware and software to Microsoft’s will. SEE ALSO LYNX Reveals Standalone MR Headset with Snapdragon XR2, Eye-tracking, & Novel Optics.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2022

Hand and eye tracking tools, capable of sensing the movements, gestures, and gaze of a user, can take XR experiences to a new level. Innovators in the world of Mixed Reality, Microsoft relies heavily on concepts like hand and eye tracking to help users combine the physical and digital worlds.

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Road to VR

JULY 5, 2017

.” Codenamed 20|20 , Varjo (meaning ‘shadow’ in Finnish) built their early prototype inside of a hacked Oculus Rift by a team of optical scientists, creatives and developers who formerly occupied top positions at Microsoft, Nokia, Intel, Nvidia and Rovio.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

See Also: The Future Is Now: 2023 Metaverse and XR Predictions Worth Looking Into Think how Microsoft revolutionized personal computers, or how Apple changed the mobile phone market forever. Sony Sony is also bringing out the PSVR2 , which is said to use eye tracking for menu selection and navigation of user interfaces.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Thanks to the AR2 Gen 1, eye tracking will now have supported security features such as iris authentication, which could open up new ways for people to unlock their devices and introduce other features to improve your AR experience. This means you could theoretically connect devices to a network at speeds of up to 5.8Gbps.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Although now that Microsoft’s new and improved HoloLens 2 is in the mix, Spatial CEO Anand Agarawala and CPO Jinha Lee took the stage today at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) HoloLens 2 unveiling to show off what’s next for the platform.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

.” More shots fired: Zuckerberg underlines the lack of motion controllers on Vision Pro and what he considers ‘less accurate’ hand-tracking than that on Quest 3. What’s more, he says Vision Pro’s eye-tracking is just “nice,” essentially comparing it to Quest Pro. “Now, look.

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ARPost

JUNE 24, 2021

In addition to top-of-the-line hardware, Reality Cloud is made possible by advances in software including eye-tracking. Their new “foveated transport algorithm,” predicts where an eye will go next. The Mesh platform that Microsoft announced at Ignite might be the closest contender but we still don’t know much about it.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

This special version of the headset features additional sensors that can get more data about the user: A heart rate sensor on the forehead; Two additional cameras that track the lower part of the face of the user, so that to read his facial expressions; Eye-tracking cameras , that can also detect the dimension of the pupil.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Meta announces at Connect Quest Pro and a partnership with Microsoft. There have been a few key announcements at Connect: Meta has launched Quest Pro , its new premium headset, for $1500 Meta announced its focus on a new vertical, productivity Meta has partnered with Microsoft and Accenture to tackle the XR enterprise world.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 29, 2018

RTX games use the Microsoft DX12 DXR ray tracing API. Microsoft has already released an SDK for ray-tracing, supporting NVIDIA algorithms. You can refer to this Microsoft blog post , with a final link to the SDK and tutorials on Github to have more info about it. Textures Space Shading process (Image by NVIDIA).

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Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2019

Inside-out tracking— which does away with external sensors in favor of cameras mounted on the headset itself—would make room-scale tracking the default, while simplifying the setup and usage. Eye-tracking is another feature which is up in the air for Rift S.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Thyssenkrupp teams up with Microsoft to use HoloLens to customize and deliver services four times faster. It’s not surprising that Thyssenkrupp is keen to adopt the HoloLens to make those processes more efficient, as it builds on the company’s existing collaboration with Microsoft. The whole process only took around 3 minutes or so. .

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Road to VR

JUNE 10, 2022

Magic Leap 2 isn’t available just yet, but when it hits the market later this year it will be directly competing with Microsoft’s HoloLens 2. Though Magic Leap 2 beats out its rival in several meaningful places, its underlying design still leaves HoloLens 2 with some advantages.

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