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The XR Week Peek (2025.03.18): Niantic sells Pokemon Go, Meta released passthrough APIs, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The approach chosen by Meta is similar to the one that Google promised to take with Android XR. Probably Ultraleap, or even when it was just Leap Motion, should have aimed to be bought by a headset manufacturer before all the major XR brands started developing hand tracking internally.

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Exclusive: Scaffolding in VR – Interaction Design for Easy & Intuitive Building

Road to VR

Barrett is the Lead VR Interactive Engineer for Leap Motion. Martin is Lead Virtual Reality Designer and Evangelist for Leap Motion. Barrett and Martin are part of the elite Leap Motion team presenting substantive work in VR/AR UX in innovative and engaging ways. The Challenge.

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A Hands on Look at the State of Input in VR

VRScout

While still present, we’ve also seen the use of gamepads diminish dramatically. Google Daydream View plus 3DOF controller. Many mobile headsets, like the Google Daydream View and Samsung Gear VR, become fully functional as soon as you slide your compatible smartphone into them. Google Daydream Controller. LEAP Motion.

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VEC 2019 – All the most important news from the Vive Ecosystem Conference

The Ghost Howls

The SDK will support eye-tracked foveation and fixed foveation (like the one of Oculus Go); The Vive Focus will soon have finger tracking : for every hand, you will be able to have something similar to what Leap Motion offers. During the presentation, there has been almost no mention of the Cosmos.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.03.22): Sony reveals PSVR2 controllers, FRL shows the wristband of the future, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Facebook is also working with haptics, and it has presented two prototypes of the wristbands that could apply vibrations or pressure sensations on the wrist. Google halves its revenues on the Play Store. Google has just decided to cut its share on the Play Store to “just” 15% of the revenues of the titles up to $1M.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.09.22): Oculus working on AR glasses with Luxottica, Apple glasses FOV discovered and much more!

The Ghost Howls

The glasses, codenamed Orion, should be made to replace smartphones and are slated for a release date of 2023–2025, that seems very reasonable, considering that no present tech is able to create truly consumer AR. It is notable to see that all these headsets present different aspect ratios for their visuals. Its peculiarity?

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Stereopsia report / 1: hands-on with Presenz, Antilatency, full-body on Quest and more!

The Ghost Howls

They use AntiLatency tracking to provide positional tracking in a large setting to a VR headset and some props present in the scene. What I liked a lot was the artistic idea that they had: t hey took a series of paintings by the famous Belgian painter Bruegels and recreated them in real life, but with the setting of the present time.

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