The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2020

Presenz is a company developing a solution to create 6DOF Videos. That is, using its software, you can create a 360 3D video where the user can move the head. It is not tailored to shoot videos of the real world with a camera, but to create CGI videos. InVR is another nice company making 360 videos and volumetric videos.

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VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2016

Project Alloy stands alone among the current lineup of technologies available because it isn’t tethered to a desktop computer like HTC Vive or Oculus Rift, nor does it use a smartphone like Google Cardboard, Gear VR or Google Daydream. Later a prerecorded video showed a woman in a small virtual world complete with a pet dog.

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VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2016

Project Alloy stands alone among the current lineup of technologies available because it isn’t tethered to a desktop computer like HTC Vive or Oculus Rift, nor does it use a smartphone like Google Cardboard, Gear VR or Google Daydream. Later a prerecorded video showed a woman in a small virtual world complete with a pet dog.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

But having seen Google taking a similar route, releasing a faceplate to add 6DOF controller tracking for Mirage Solo , I think that both companies realized that the hardware solution was a better solution at the moment. Watch the video below to see the 6 DOF tracking in action. Screenshot of the above video. Very nice.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 2, 2017

Between Google’s Tilt Brush and Blocks and Oculus’ Medium and Quill you might not think there’s much room for more creative experiences within VR. Leap Motion support is included for example, allowing you to bring hand-tracking into the experience.

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VRScout

JULY 25, 2017

Unlike the Lucasfilm AR headset, which uses a smartphone to power it (like the Google Daydream or the Samsung Gear VR does), the company says this concept is a standalone, self-powered headset. San Francisco-based Leap Motion has raised a $50M Series C for their hand- and finger-tracking technology.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 26, 2016

The system is already used on the $3,000 HoloLens, an advanced augmented reality system, but with it employed on a low-cost VR headset Microsoft may have leapfrogged efforts by both Facebook and Google, powered by Windows. That said, I’d like to see Microsoft provide a solution here. ”

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Even with the organizers of the event, I have to speak mostly in Chinese (hence my headache) and use a lot of Baidu Fanyi (the Chinese counterpart of Google Translate). And last year there were tons of people… I have seen some videos that were a bit shocking… people were so many that it was almost impossible to enter! I liked it a lot.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2018

You may wonder why I am saying this: well, spend some minutes to watch this video and you get immediately the reasons. It is a square one, so it seems that the system takes the undistorted view of one eye, exactly as the Oculus Go does when recording a video. The headset has taken a big step forward with the 2.0 It is jaw-dropping.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

It has already some AR features since it lets you add AR filters to your video stream. It has bought the hand-tracking company Leap Motion various months ago for $30M since the two hardware are a perfect fit the one for the other. Its peculiarity? They work by being connected with iOS phones and tablets.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

63 for the Leap Motion Controller and VR Developer Mount , now on sale in our web store. 15 for a Google Cardboard viewer. Setup your Google Cardboard with Leap Motion Controller. Once the Leap Motion Controller is properly mounted, use the USB extender to plug the controller into your computer.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 9, 2016

The annual Proto Awards, set up to highlight and honour the best and brightest the VR industry has to offer, is over for another year, with Google’s Tilt Brush walking away as the overall winner. Pearl – Google Spotlight Studios. Tilt Brush – Google. Most Innovative: Tilt Brush – Google (Winner). The Lab – Valve.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 28, 2019

At worst, use Google Translate. Personally, I have made the first translation with Google Translate, then I asked my assistant Miss S to check and correct the translation. Since when you are in China it is more difficult to buy stuff (language barrier, Google services blocked, etc…), try to buy the most while you are at home.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

From the vantage of the early 90s and the first web pages, not even science fiction authors predicted Instagram influencers, a US president tweeting policy or 300 hours of video being uploaded to YouTube every minute – so we can only make some early guesses! But first, what will the AR Cloud actually be used for?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

This system makes the headset dependent on static hardware, however, and so top engineers at Oculus , HTC and Google are all racing to crack the inside-out code first. You could walk around a AR space, place virtual windows and videos in the room around you, have everything stay put without much drift.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 5, 2015

These are just some of the videos that you can dive into with Kolor’s 360° video player Kolor Eyes, now featured on the Leap Motion Developer Gallery. Kolor’s platform works by stitching together panoramic videos into massive virtual experiences that let you look anywhere within the scene. Play & Pause.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Please try a new text input interface using Leap Motion!” Recommended: Google Chrome. Recommended: Google Chrome. Leap Motion enables new ways of using our devices but we still unconsciously use the mouse and keyboard as a model, missing potentially intuitive solutions,” the team told us.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 15, 2016

I’m an early-stage VC focused on virtual and augmented reality, so I pieced this together based on the forward-thinking pitches and demos I’ve been lucky enough to see through my work, plus a lifetime of burning through sci-fi and video games. Check out the bottom of this post for a list of VR inspiration.

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Despite being an emerging concept for the last few years, Google’s April Fools-joke-turned-into-reality made the technology a mass hit. Picking up awards at two industry shows, VR Roulette combined Oculus Rift and Leap Motion controller s to plunge players into a virtually interactive casino. UCI Google Glass.

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Delight XR

AUGUST 7, 2022

Motion tracking is either done by the smartphone’s sensors or built-in headset sensors; thus, there are no cables hindering free movement. The great thing is, one can start for as cheap as fifteen bucks with the simplest headset from Google (Cardboard). Google Daydream View. Google Cardboard. Oculus Rift.

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Delight XR

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Motion tracking is either done by the smartphone’s sensors or built-in headset sensors; thus, there are no cables hindering free movement. The great thing is, one can start for as cheap as fifteen bucks with the simplest headset from Google (Cardboard). Google Daydream View. Google Cardboard. Oculus Rift.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

If you’ve never watched Bob Ross smack his brush onto a canvas and instantly create a majestic evergreen, clear 27 minutes from your schedule and watch this video. We learned how to use Unity, code in C#, design in Autodesk Maya, and use a Leap Motion sensor. ” Recommended: Google Chrome. HappyLittlePainter.

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Google Cardboard ($15) . Google Cardboard, developed by Google for the promotion of the VR concept, is indeed made up of cardboard, and in different sizes for compatibility with different smartphones. It was first distributed to attendants at the 2014 Google I/O meeting as a gift. Google Daydream View ($99).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 18, 2025

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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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Google) Google announces important AI and XR news at Google I/O This Google I/O has seen immersive realities back to the menu. But to summarize, the most important XR-related tidbits have been: Google confirmed that is still working with Qualcomm and Samsung to build an XR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

Some examples of this category of glasses: Intel Vaunt (project abandoned); North Focals; Vuzix Blade; Snap Spectacles v2 (they are just cameras to share videos); Bose AR glasses (these are not for visual, but for audio augmented reality). Leap Motion. You may ask why I’m adding Leap Motion here.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Nreal is one of the most popular companies in the field, having won over several well-known investors like Qualcomm, short video app Kuaishou, video streaming app iQiyi, and GP Capital. Most people know Xu due to his dispute with American virtual reality company Magic Leap. The company was later acquired by Google in 2010.

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VRGuy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Acer, NVIDIA, Valve, Ubisoft, Leap Motion and many others joined the ecosystem. Augmented reality tools detect objects in video feeds. For example, DAQRI integrated a plugin that detects objects in a video stream. Google Glass has not been as successful as hoped. Magic Leap is not commercial yet.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 31, 2020

Facebook has lifted the embargo on Horizon and so we have started seeing the first reviews and videos about it. There is now a new gameplay trailer and at the end of the video, you can see that there is mention of the Rift S and the Quest , but a tiny writing warns you that Quest works only through the Link. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

This means having AR and VR on the same device ; Feature a 5G modem ; Play 8K videos at 60fps; Have accelerated AI so that to be able to perform objects recognition and other cool stuff on the camera feed. More info (Oculus Go being best-seller on Amazon) More info (Oculus Quest sold out) More info (Oculus Quest vs PSVR Google search stats).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Image by Google). Google’s next flagship phone, the Pixel 4, won’t be compatible with Daydream View headset and Google has also stopped selling the Daydream View. VR-2 Pro adds an integrated Leap Motion and a 10m cable. Header image by Google). Top news of the week. Daydream has died.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Some months ago, we all read that letter where Zuckerberg claimed wanting to get complete control of the hardware and software stack so that Facebook shouldn’t depend on external companies, like Google or Apple for the SO, or phone manufacturers for the hardware. new gameplay video) More info (The Walking Dead: Saint and Sinners?—?preorders

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Google makes Tilt Brush opensource. Google has just announced that the VR painting program Tilt Brush has been put opensource on GitHub. The bad news is that this means that Google has abandoned it. Google is becoming well-known for abandoning the interesting project it creates. This is both bad and good news.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2019

In Taiwan, all western websites work and so you don’t need to set up a VPN just to use Google. Even worse, it wasn’t able to track my finger movements well (it was worse than Leap Motion … and Leap Motion doesn’t have worn sensors!). Just some takeaways: That amazing video of Taiwan required 3 YEARS of shooting.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

Another big kudos comes from the fact that Snap is clearly showing all the limitations of the device in its communication : in all photos and videos, you can spot the limited FOV of the device, something that instead all the other AR companies try to hide. Google unveils Starline communication solution. Kudos to Snap for it.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2021

I still can’t believe this… some years ago I even thought 10K was an impossible target for me… in the end, I’m just a guy writing technical walls of text, publishing badly edited Youtube videos, and making jokes about porn in VR… but here I am with 20,000 written next to the count of my followers. Google is still into XR.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

I’ve used Google search to find all the pages with references to Del Mar in the Oculus website, and all the docs are identical to the previous versions. 90% of people getting a Quest for Christmas are new users for VR; Facebook has released 3 videos related to the 3 talks that it should have performed at GDC. Yes, Android, Google.

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