ARPost

APRIL 13, 2020

We didn’t have to shake the tree very hard to find someone that we were excited to talk to but we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to talk with the good folks at Unity. What Is Unity? The name “ Unity ” probably sounds familiar to you. Unity is the platform that makes this world a reality. More Buzz Around Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2021

Triton works with Leap Motion (now Ultra Leap) hands tracking. With Pumori.io , I had created 6 Unity apps that demo UI/UX concepts on the Project North Star headset. With Pumori.io , I had created 6 Unity apps that demo UI/UX concepts on the Project North Star headset. Yes, Three.js The amount of Three.js

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ARPost

JUNE 3, 2022

AWE day two started off with back-to-back keynotes from mixed reality display maker Magic Leap and AR commerce solution Avataar. A Look at the Magic Leap 2. Magic Leap’s Head of Product Management, Jade Meskill, presented “Magic Leap 2 and the Augmented Enterprise.”

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2022

First of all, he got some CAD files about it, and from those, it is possible to see that the device includes two front tracking cameras, one RGB camera to colorize the passthrough of the tracking cameras and a depth sensor that may help with scene understanding and hands tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

Every time that you want to interact with the augmentations, especially the 3D ones that you put on planes, the controller doesn’t follow your hands, and this makes the interactions really clunky. The NRSDK is Nreal’s SDK that lets you develop applications using the popular Unity game engine.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

As John Riccitiello (CEO of Unity) said some years ago , the VR market won’t be interesting enough until it will reach the 10 million users mark. Why can’t it be Facebook, or Magic Leap ? Suzanne Borders, CEO and founder of BadVR, at the company’s office in Marina Del Rey, with a Magic Leap One on.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

This is a simpler mechanism than the waveguides employed by Microsoft HoloLens 2 or by Magic Leap, and while it may provide a bit less immersive holograms, it is the only way to provide affordable wide-FOV glasses at the moment. Realmax has an SDK that is compatible with Unity 2017 and Unity 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

Rony Abovitz steps down from Magic Leap CEO. This was a very good thing and attracted many people to Magic Leap. I hope that Magic Leap will benefit from it and will recover pretty soon. Road To VR) More info (Qualcomm’s Wi-fi 6 chips?—?Upload Upload VR). In the end, it has happened. Snapdragon 845 RAM ?—?6GB

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Facebook has showcased how thanks to the use of hand-tracking gloves, it has been able to let people touch-type in VR. Some years ago, she performed in The Life, a Mixed Reality art piece inside the Magic Leap One. Simple WebXR” aims at bringing WebXR to Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

Unity details its MARS solution. In a blog post, Unity has detailed its MARS solution, that lets you create easily augmented reality experiences , even with little coding knowledge. Two new interesting demos for Quest hands tracking. This week two interesting demos employing Oculus Quest hands tracking have emerged.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 4, 2024

If you're not familiar with it, Godot is a free and open-source alternative to Unity and Unreal. Standardization of Hand, Face & Body Tracking "Hand tracking has been supported in Godot for a long while now, however improvements have been made to ensure better cross platform support, including standardisation between OpenXR and WebXR.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

This week, Microsoft announced that MRTK will migrate to an independent GitHub account and that the project will be supported by a consortium including Microsoft, Magic Leap, and Qualcomm. That’s fantastic news for all Unity XR developers! in the reviews! in the reviews!

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2022

To achieve their mission of delivering highly immersive, productive, and engaging experiences, Meta invests heavily in tracking technologies. Tools like the Oculus already come with hand tracking functionality, to help users interact with some software on a hands-free basis. Unity and Magic Leap.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

At Tilt Five, we designed a really clever system that only works on tabletop experiences but it has features that are just leaps and bounds above what the big Magic Leap or HoloLens type AR systems are. We can track wands… this [shows a device in front of the camera] is our six degrees of freedom wand that comes with it.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

Two years ago, the company had won a $480M deal with the army to produce the first evaluation units (beating Magic Leap in this contest and condemning it to a sad fate) that should have increased soldiers’ efficiency and lethality. Cubism is a great case study for hand tracking UX. Learn more.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Other devices from Magic Leap and Microsoft’s HoloLens headsets offer deeper levels of immersion. We’re now bringing that directly to developers, who can download the software development kit (SDK) for Unity or Unreal Engine. These range from the Lenovo A3 [and Magic Leap 2].

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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? AMD releases its new RX6 graphics cards.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

Today, we’re looking at some of the top MR headset manufacturers in the industry, to help business leaders track down the right endpoints for their technology stack. The device includes two active Bluetooth controllers, and access to development platforms such as Unity.

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Upload VR

MAY 4, 2024

For everything else, here are our top five VR news stories we previously missed: VRChat Reworks Hand Tracking For Cross-Platform Support In the latest developer update , VRChat announced its reworked hand tracking support. Unity, the leading engine for VR game development, appointed Matthew Bromberg as its new CEO.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Some organizations focus heavily on hand tracking. For instance, Ultraleap offers state-of-the-art hand-tracking tools to monitor even minute movements at your fingertips. Other brands leverage eye tracking to help enhance user experiences in the extended reality world and even offer functionality like foveated rendering.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 23, 2023

Magic Leap Currently focusing its attention on the enterprise landscape, Magic Leap produces AR and MR headsets designed to address the needs of various industries. The Varjo headset includes Ultraleap hand-tracking to monitor natural hand movements and true-to-life MR passthrough with 12-megapixel video.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 18, 2024

The device notably ditches controller-based input to focus on eye and hand-tracking controls that support gaze and pinch controls. The other challenge Wright mentions is working with the technical development tools on Vision Pro, specifically tools still in their early stages, such as the Unity toolchain.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

Yeah, the 3D model of the trainer seems taken from the Unity Asset Store… Samsung has not talked about the glasses, not even revealing the name, or the specifications. And in fact, Neon reminds me a bit too much Magic Leap’s Mica project. They look like the nReal Light (another clone?) but we know zero about it.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Google can count on the acquisition of North, the experience he has matured by producing Google Glass and investing in Magic Leap, and the fact that it owns the most-used mobile operating system. All will feature tracking cameras for 6dof, hand tracking, speakers, microphone, and an additional camera to shoot photos and videos.

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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.

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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. With ARKit you can also track your face, and some developers have started also using it as an animation tool. Magic Leap.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2024

WowMouse is currently compatible with Magic Leap 2 and with Quest 2/3 headsets and it is suggested to be executed on Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 / 5 / 6 or Google Pixel Watch 2 smartwatches. The system just works by integrating with Unity Input System, so you have just to define a bunch of Actions and you’re good to go.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

I guess they will steal some ideas from Magic Leap and provide a more comfortable headset (more cushions) and more customization options (more accessories to fit it on your nose, support for prescription lenses, etc…). I expect with this one to switch to at least 100K polygons in every Unity AR game. Tracking technology.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And then even Magic Leap, I’ve heard rumors that they’re going to be introducing an enterprise division, or an enterprise something. I don’t know about Magic Leap yet. I tried that demo out, but my hand kept going through all of the objects in space that I was touching or trying to grab.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And then even Magic Leap, I’ve heard rumors that they’re going to be introducing an enterprise division, or an enterprise something. I don’t know about Magic Leap yet. I tried that demo out, but my hand kept going through all of the objects in space that I was touching or trying to grab.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 12, 2021

Magic Leap One ), your brain kind of accept that you see augmentations only through the lens of the glasses and not in the peripheral vision, and so the limited FOV becomes more acceptable. The Achille’s heel of positional tracking is the light: if the room is completely dark, it doesn’t work anymore. Hands Tracking.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

John Riccitiello -- the CEO of Unity -- was one of the first to point out that there was going to be this great sort of gold rush of people who were going to overhype VR and its potential, and then we're going to see this gap of a disappointment where the early reality didn't match up with the hype and a lot of people were going to bail on it.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And then even Magic Leap, I’ve heard rumors that they’re going to be introducing an enterprise division, or an enterprise something. I don’t know about Magic Leap yet. I tried that demo out, but my hand kept going through all of the objects in space that I was touching or trying to grab.

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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. Owlchemy Labs adds subtitles to Vacation Simulator.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

Google is also hiring high-profile people for it, like Bernard Kress, principal optical architect on Microsoft’s HoloLens team, and Paul Greco, the previous CTO of Magic Leap. With this simple tool, it is possible instead to make some quick tests in play mode , because the pose of the headset is streamed from the headset to Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

The idea of Leap Motion is going against the current trend of augmented reality glasses, that is mostly based on expensive devices that have closed ecosystems (e.g. HoloLens or Magic Leap One ), but to create a headset that is: Affordable; Completely open, both from a software and hardware standpoint. Hands-on review.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

It is standalone (as HoloLens and Magic Leap ) and has cameras through which it sees the environment. For instance, in Unity, the Oculus Utilities plugin is the same for PC, Go and GearVR. This is why in its Facebook Reality Labs, they are doing a lot of R&D on augmented reality.

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