ARPost

JULY 21, 2023

However, Almeida said that he had been waiting for something like an Apple headset for even longer than that – ever since he was, like so many others, disenchanted by the Google Glass device that launched in 2013. If there are a few hidden gems on the Apple Vision Pro, eye tracking and hand tracking are among them.”

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I’m sorry about that, but it’s still a miracle I’ve managed to write it… Top news of the week (Leaked image from Samsung video) Samsung is back to XR with Google and Qualcomm The big news of the week is that Samsung is back to XR. What is even more interesting is that this device will be built in partnership with Google and Qualcomm.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

He’s going to kill Apple and Google Maps in 2 years , at least in places where he has a lot of cars” All these cars have 8 camera, Lidar, AI chips, and they are connected to the cloud. Why can’t it be Facebook, or Magic Leap ? “He has one million cars collecting data of the world. PRNewsfoto/BadVR).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2020

Spatial works from the smartphone to the Magic Leap One. It is compatible with: Microsoft HoloLens Oculus Quest Magic Leap One PC VR headsets PC/Mac/smartphone/whatever through the web portal. Astonishing hands-tracking on HoloLens 2 (GIF by Next.Reality). The magic of the web portal. Cross-platform.

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Road to VR

JUNE 17, 2024

Still, many of the existing games on other VR platforms need to be tailored to work with the headset’s eye and hand-tracking only approach to input, which leads me to my next point… Motion Controllers What : Some games simply don’t work without motion controllers—at least not in the way they were initially designed to.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

Two new interesting demos for Quest hands tracking. This week two interesting demos employing Oculus Quest hands tracking have emerged. The first one is another cool work by Daniel Beauchamp and shows a simple social ecosystem for Quest where you can naturally interact with hands and fingers with the other participants.

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Upload VR

APRIL 15, 2024

In 2020 Mozilla laid off 250 employees including staff working on Firefox Reality, and in 2022 handed over the project to "open source software consultancy" Igalia, which relaunched it as Wolvic. Today Wolvic is available on Meta Quest, Pico, Magic Leap 2, and Huawei VR Glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Mixed with hand tracking, it could be a perfect mix to let people interact with Oculus Menus without the need of controllers. Magic Leap, Niantic, etc…) and by two big countries (USA and China). Magic Leap releases new tools for developers. Google Chrome adds supports for WebXR. More info.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

With it, experts can see what you see to guide professionals with step-by-step work instructions via a micro display similar to Google Glass or Vuzix. Other devices from Magic Leap and Microsoft’s HoloLens headsets offer deeper levels of immersion. These range from the Lenovo A3 [and Magic Leap 2].

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Even if they are not general-purpose glasses like Hololens or Magic Leap, these glasses feature inside so many technological innovations that made all we of the tech communities fall in love with them, and with their creator Jeri Ellsworth. Google is doing it again. Keep an eye on it.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

There is no point if you have face tracking and it doesn’t work well… and the positional tracking alone is very difficult to provide well even for established companies (only Oculus’s one is very fluid) In the video they say confusing things like “R&D is cheap now” (really? More info (Using Google Translate).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Vive Flow is a 6DOF headset that works with your Android phone as a 3DOF controller (hands tracking is coming in the future). Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap 2 has been teased. The headset looks like an improved Magic Leap 1, lighted, slimmer and more elegant, and with a single cable on the back.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 6, 2023

Unveiled at the Mobile World Congress 2023 , the new device includes a trove of innovative features such as a “retina-level” electrochromic adaptive display, lighting adjustment, Snapdragon Spaces tethering, and hand tracking, among others.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 18, 2024

” Wright added Today, we’re all familiar with collaboration tools in the 2D domain, such as Google Docs and PowerPoint. The device notably ditches controller-based input to focus on eye and hand-tracking controls that support gaze and pinch controls. They’re all very simple to use and intuitive.

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Charlie Fink

JUNE 7, 2019

RealMax's AR and VR device with hand tracking by Leap Motion and an epic 102-degree field of view, was used for a multiplayer AR game which involved grabbing fish and knocking over boxes. AWE is a snapshot of a developing industry, though it does not have participation from major players with developer conferences of their own.

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CraneMorley

JUNE 27, 2023

Current key players in the field are Microsoft, Magic Leap, and Meta. Apple and Google are rumored to be building headsets of their own to rival their competitors. Human understanding: hand-tracking, eye-tracking, and speech input. Spatial sound. Locations and positioning in both physical and virtual spaces.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Varag: So Clay is a software company, we're specializing in hand tracking and gesture recognition, mostly in the AR and VR space. We did a project just using Google's hand tracking library. And hand tracking needs to be there. But let's get back to hand tracking, because this is a vital part.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Varag: So Clay is a software company, we're specializing in hand tracking and gesture recognition, mostly in the AR and VR space. We did a project just using Google's hand tracking library. And hand tracking needs to be there. But let's get back to hand tracking, because this is a vital part.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap looks for a $100-million deal to save itself. Some reports by Business Insider and The Information talk about the current situation of Magic Leap, that seems always more complicated. More info (Magic Leap trying to raise $100M) More info (Magic Leap timing for the future).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

Magic Leap. Me, wearing a Magic Leap One. The most important news has been for sure the launch of the Magic Leap One. Rear view of the Magic Leap One. Magic Leap. Magic Leap will work a lot in trying to have new compelling experiences on its marketplace.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Varag: So Clay is a software company, we're specializing in hand tracking and gesture recognition, mostly in the AR and VR space. We did a project just using Google's hand tracking library. And hand tracking needs to be there. But let's get back to hand tracking, because this is a vital part.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

GB: Magic Leap is a big presence in the AR discussion. Outside of the sort of people in this room and in the games press, I don’t think most people know what Magic Leap is. When you talk about investment, certainly Magic Leap has garnered the most, but ODG just closed a big round. GB: Google Glass.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Anand Agarawala sold his previous startup, BumpTop — a 3D physics multi-touch desktop — to Google, and also demoed this in a TED Talk. ” After he gave his TED Talk on it, there’s interest from Apple, and Google ended up buying his company. And so we have our Magic Leap build coming out very soon.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Anand Agarawala sold his previous startup, BumpTop — a 3D physics multi-touch desktop — to Google, and also demoed this in a TED Talk. ” After he gave his TED Talk on it, there’s interest from Apple, and Google ended up buying his company. And so we have our Magic Leap build coming out very soon.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2024

After you have installed the application and paired your smartwatch with an XR headset, you can use your hand as a mouse for immersive realities, pointing at UI elements and clicking. I guess many of you will be thinking now: why do we need this when we already have hand tracking on all the major headsets now? But… why?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

First of all, Google has to keep the work on the headset very secret also internally , because Samsung is afraid that Google will steal its expertise to build a competing product. Google is working in parallel to build the Android XR operating system for this headset and a Micro XR operating system for AR glasses.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Anand Agarawala sold his previous startup, BumpTop -- a 3D physics multi-touch desktop -- to Google, and also demoed this in a TED Talk. After he gave his TED Talk on it, there's interest from Apple, and Google ended up buying his company. And so we have our Magic Leap build coming out very soon.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2020

Nreal wins first round against Magic Leap in the IP theft trial. Another bad news arrives for Magic Leap: the judge that was examining the case of IP theft from Nreal has found no evidence that a theft has actually happened , and so has closed the case. Google experiments on Lightfields streaming. Image by Nreal).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

Image by Google). Project Iris is the codename of Google’s AR glasses. According to a report on The Verge, Google is working on AR glasses. The operating system should be Android, but it seems that Google is also building an operating system specific for XR. Header image by Google). What about yours?

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VRGuy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Eye tracking software converts eye images into gaze direction. Hand tracking software converts hand position into gestures. Google Glass has not been as successful as hoped. Magic Leap is not commercial yet. Smart software can turn data into higher-level information.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

When you walk into a Best Buy’s or you walk into any retailer, they’re selling you the Amazon Echo and they’re selling you the Google Home, where you ask a question, it plays a video. These are like the Microsoft Hololens, Magic Leaps. And the great thing is– Alan: The Quest is now doing hand tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

OMG, it’s almost 3 years that I write these roundups… the first week peek was exclusive for my blog subscribers and it featured as best news the release of Google Blocks and in the other news something about Samsung Gear VR… how much time has passed since then! Magic Leap raises other $350M. This is the 150th Week Peek!

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

When you walk into a Best Buy's or you walk into any retailer, they're selling you the Amazon Echo and they're selling you the Google Home, where you ask a question, it plays a video. These are like the Microsoft Hololens, Magic Leaps. Alan: The Quest is now doing hand tracking. And the great thing is--.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

When you walk into a Best Buy’s or you walk into any retailer, they’re selling you the Amazon Echo and they’re selling you the Google Home, where you ask a question, it plays a video. These are like the Microsoft Hololens, Magic Leaps. And the great thing is– Alan: The Quest is now doing hand tracking.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Meta AR Orion Demo As I’ve explored the market over the last decade I’ve experienced AR headsets, hand tracking, eye tracking, gesture detection, haptic armbands, wireless XR streaming, spatial persistence, conversational AI, video calls with avatars, and multiplayer games. I was then handed a second pair of glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Google) Samsung XR headset may have been delayed The new rumor in town is that Samsung has delayed its upcoming headset that it is building in partnership with Google and Qualcomm. It’s been another interesting week in immersive realities, so let’s see what happened in our field in the past few days!

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Viveport is improving a lot, and now HTC is also launching the Vive XR Suite , which will be distributed thanks to the support of a strong network of partners like HP, NVIDIA, Baidu (the Chinese Google), and Accenture. Facebook has showcased how thanks to the use of hand-tracking gloves, it has been able to let people touch-type in VR.

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