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Valve shows Knuckles prototype controllers v2

The Ghost Howls

It is still not perfect ( Leap Motion is still more accurate), but surely it is a step forward from the Oculus Touch. SteamVR Skeletal input will abstract the actual controller used by the player (Oculus Touch, Knuckles, Leap Motion, etc…), giving the developer the best pose of the hand detectable with the actually used sensor.

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The crazy April, 30th of VR: Oculus Quest, Rift S, Oculus For Business and Valve Index!

The Ghost Howls

This is a super-important news that has not been stressed enough by magazines: Oculus has announced a complete overhaul of its business offering, in part for the good and in part for the bad. I forecast 1-2 million Quests sold this year. Oculus For Business. Oculus Quest used in industrial settings (Image by Oculus).

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VRTK vs INTERACTION BUILDER: Which one is for you?

ARVR

It now supports Oculus Quest, HTC Vive and UltraLeap (former Leap Motion) systems of skeletal hand tracking for interactions based on realistic, and customizable, hand poses. The Interaction Builder is built specifically for hands interaction, which makes the integration of hand tracking far easier. Don’t forget to give us your ?? !

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Indie developer shares the lessons learned from publishing the first App Lab bundle

The Ghost Howls

This crazy team of devs succeeded in its purpose: the news was reported on all the major VR magazines , and I talked about it myself in one of my roundups. Playing around with the Leap Motion interaction system. But was it truly a success? How many copies have they sold? What are your future plans?

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Is it worth going to WCVRI?

The Ghost Howls

The epic Noah Zerkin (the guy making the Leap Motion North Star headsets) at our booth to try the game! People like Eloi Gerard, Nikk Mitchell, Gianluigi Perrone, and many others that I know from the XR Story group on WeChat are all people worth meeting… and many of them were at this event. You may ask me how the event is big.

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All the most important AR and VR news from Facebook F8

The Ghost Howls

I’ve started reading reviews on the Oculus Go on my favorite magazines, that is Upload VR and Road To VR and I was surprised to read that both journalists expressed a quite negative opinion on the device. Markerless full body tracking : Oculus is now able to track completely your body using only the RGB camera of a phone.

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On the XR Beat, with VentureBeat’s Dean Takahashi

XR for Business Podcast

Dean: Yeah, I was sort of a traditional newspaper and magazine journalist for a long time, and then, when the web came along and people started podcasting and blogging, I looked around and felt like it was less of a risk to go try something new than it was to stay at a newspaper. And we can start bringing in all kinds of applications.