Road to VR

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The Lynx R-1 headset houses six cameras: two B&W cameras for 6DoF positional tracking, two IR cameras for hand-tracking, and two RGB visible light cameras for the color passthrough AR mode. Hand-tracking, controllers. AR + Hand-tracking. Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax), Bluetooth 5.0. Connectors. USB Type-C.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Regarding the photon-to-photon latency of the passthrough, Optofidelity confirmed with a test that it is below 12 ms, as Apple claims. More info (Eye+hand interface) More info (My doubts on Apple Vision Pro’s UX) Still talking about UX, but on the development side, I loved reading the article where Realities.io

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

The device also exploits Leap Motion hands tracking and offers a completely natural interface all based on hands interactions. Or because he’s been the first person attaching a Leap Motion to an Oculus DK1 with some duct tape, envisioning how hand tracking could be vital for virtual reality. Hands-on review.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Currently known as "Project Moohan", the headset will feature "state-of-the-art displays", eye tracking and hand tracking. I went hands-on with an early headset developer kit showcasing Google's software and Samsung's hardware. Meanwhile, eye tracking is a core part of its pinch selection interface in Apple Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2022

When I reviewed it , I highlighted how this is so much cooler than USB streaming: you have no latency and no visual compression, it’s fantastic. At Laval Virtual, Ultraleap has just announced a hand tracking accessory for Pico Neo 3 (Image by Ultraleap). It’s truly like having a tethered headset like the Valve Index.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

An “Edge” cloud infrastructure allows businesses to place XR assets within their operator networks, promoting a low-latency and highly scalable on-site experience. Companies can use engines from companies like Unity to recreate digital “twins” of products, buildings, and other items, combined with information from various data sources.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 31, 2016

At CES in January the Leap Motion team let us get our hands on Orion with an early verison of their Interaction Engine, a significant milestone for the company in terms of their overall tracking framework with impressive leaps in lowered tracking latency and the systems ability to handle hand tracking issue.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 6, 2025

You do get color passthrough which means the passthrough experience is closer to that of the Quest 3 than the Quest 3 but there is a bit of latency. The Lynx R1: Tracking and Controls Although Lynx-R has indicated that they are working on a set, dedicated controllers havent been included in the initial shipments of the Lynx R1 headset.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2021

But… there is also a drawback, that is the latency. A future runtime could offer more functionalities , a bit like it has happened with Leap Motion that in 2012 was a rough accessory and now is an amazing hands tracking device. Hands-on with the demos. The Unity SDK for NextMind is just fantastic.

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Upload VR

MARCH 14, 2024

It also adds the ability to emulate Valve Index controllers using Quest's controller-free hand tracking, enabling finger tracking in SteamVR games which support it. And emulated Vive Trackers isn't the only new feature in this Virtual Desktop update.

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ARPost

JUNE 1, 2020

These capabilities include higher bandwidth for lower latencies, and real-time volumetric capture and rendering. Patrick O’Shaughnessy presented the Auggie for Best Developer Tool to Unity , a cross-platform tool that hosts many XR experiences. “We know that 5G is coming and, in some cases, it’s already here,” said Ness. “It

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

It’s part hardware, part software, built from the ground up to tackle the unique challenges of hand tracking for VR. It comes with a huge increase in the general capabilities of our tracking technology and a profound shift in the reliability guarantees of markerless motion tracking systems. We’ve unlocked lower latency.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 24, 2022

This was widely shared – leading to many believing Quest just got body tracking support – but both the name of the API and the illustration are misleading. Meta’s Hand Tracking API provides the actual position of your hands & fingers, tracked by the outwards-facing cameras.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

All will feature tracking cameras for 6dof, hand tracking, speakers, microphone, and an additional camera to shoot photos and videos. Some will also feature tracked controllers. There are vaiours solutions to also export Unity XR projects to the web (Image by Mozilla). Nu Eyes AR glasses. And that’s it!

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 31, 2023

The headset includes the widest field of view of any XR headset currently available, as well as depth awareness, advanced security measures and ultra-low latency. Here’s what we know so far. It also has the industry’s highest resolution (over 70 ppd), and the widest currently available field of view at 115 degrees.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 23, 2023

The Varjo headset includes Ultraleap hand-tracking to monitor natural hand movements and true-to-life MR passthrough with 12-megapixel video. Plus, users can unlock depth awareness capabilities powered by LiDAR and Inside-out tracking capabilities for more immersive experiences.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

There’s also a 3-point precision fit headband for extra comfort. The Varjo headset includes Ultraleap hand-tracking to monitor natural hand movements, and true-to-life MR passthrough with 12 megapixel video. The device includes two active Bluetooth controllers, and access to development platforms such as Unity.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Additional specs include proprietary, low-latency 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz WiFi as well as 6DoF ‘inside-out’ tracking. I made several penguin foot mechanics in this experiment, using @htcvive’s newly released, self-tracking VIVE Ultimate Trackers.” by featuring flat, lightweight frames. #VR

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Unique passthrough capabilities: With dual, low-latency 20-megapixel cameras, the XR-4 headsets can create photorealistic mixed-reality experiences. Users can access over 100 third-party applications and engines, including Unreal Engine and Unity.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 23, 2016

In June 2016, we finished multiple Unity Demos to demonstrate what Dexmo is capable of. For example we tried to use the tracking coordinates that Hololens API provided, and that doesn’t even require the setup of lighthouse. We built some Unity plugins that is somewhat similar to the Vive. And our SDK was finally finalized.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Some use cases that are presented, like realtime streaming of VR games, are still far away : streaming of desktop games has not proven yet to be a successful business, so streaming of VR games, that is even more difficult because of the low latency requirement, is something not so close in the future.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

JULY 26, 2023

Doing so will also provide greater interoperability with additional platforms such as Unity and Xcode, among others. Despite this, Latta praised the headset’s features like its field of view (FoV), controller-less hand tracking, eye and gaze tracking, and 3D video recording capabilities. Do you want me to proceed?’

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Together with connection reliability, the Client updates included much improved inside-out tracking, local dimming, lighthouse mode, audio latency adjustment, bug fixes, and other important features.

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VRGuy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Many game engines – such as Unity, Unreal and SteamVR- immediately support it. Reducing Latency is Becoming Complex Trends Presence in VR requires low latency, and reducing latency is not easy. Low latency is also not the result of one single technique. Eye tracking software converts eye images into gaze direction.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Amazon promises “single-digit latency” XR streaming. Amazon has announced some weeks ago “Wavelength”, a new offering of its AWS services, that should provide “single-digit latency” over 5G networks. To have such a low latency, the company needs very fast 5G networks and edge servers very close to the client. Image by Oculus).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

And as any year, Oculus has really amazed us: for sure you have already read my short recap published after the first keynote of OC6 where I told you about amazing stuff like Oculus Link, Facebook Horizon and Hands Tracking. Hand tracking on Quest. Hands tracking will guarantee 25 tracked points for each hand.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The problem is not the headset, but the controllers, that maybe to spare battery are emitting very low IR light, that can’t be detected very well outside, where the Sun emits too many IR rays; A Redditor has published a super cool guide on how to obtain the most from your router to have very low latency on Virtual Desktop.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

It has a dual camera system: one camera does inside-out tracking , so it just tracks your position around the table, so there’s no sensors that you have to put in the room; the other one is used for pure machine vision , we can do hand tracking , so you can reach into this virtual space and move stuff around.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2021

It also has a lens design that is unique in its field , and hands tracking as its primary interaction means. I don’t think the average VRChat user will ever want to move to this platform : first of all, the world’s creation tools are overly simplistic , while we on VRChat can use the full power of Unity. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

There will be a new launcher, improved graphics, improved in-game camera, production-ready Unity SDK for the creators, improved full-body VR, and much more. First of all, the Web3 VR platform has announced version 3.0 which is releasing this autumn with a massive update in which basically everything will be improved.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

We have seen that hands tracking has enabled new kinds of experiences that we hadn’t even thought of before (think about the great experiments by Daniel Beauchamp ), and I’m sure that the same will happen with passthrough AR, too; Facebook is building a platform that will work for all future headsets. Fracked is the game of the moment.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In the near field, Quest even uses positional tracking so that your head can translate through this reprojected view before the next camera frame is even available to minimize perceived latency. Given this only happens in Unity Full Space apps, I suspect this can be solved in future software.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Motion-to-Photon latency is touted at 15ms whilst the refresh rate is either 90hz or 120hz. The hardware for hand tracking is already incorporated, though wasn’t activated at the time I started testing the system, coming soon as part of ongoing software updates.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 24, 2021

The Wave SDK has grown a lot in the last years , and it has also added features like Foveated Rendering and Hands Tracking. Vive Wave SDK is perfectly integrated with the Unity XR Plugin Management System. Since we made it using Unity Interaction Toolkit, the porting was super easy to do.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Anyway, all the analysis for tracking happens on the device and not on the cloud (obviously, latency would be enormous otherwise!). It turns on when the tracking cameras get activated (Image by Road To VR). For instance, in Unity, the Oculus Utilities plugin is the same for PC, Go and GearVR. Development.

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