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What’s the future of SteamVR tracking?

The Ghost Howls

The controller of Magic Leap 2 features onboard cameras that perform inside-out tracking, too. Motion capture If you want a cheap system for motion capture you can use Vive Trackers and full-body VR to record animations of yourself moving.

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Spatial Beats: Oculus, Snapchat and new XR Funding

AR Insider

This week we cover a handful of new funding rounds, new Snap AR milestones and Oculus Quest sales Inflections, among other items. Arden’s Wake hits the Oculus Store. Finally, Penrose Studios’ award-winning narrative VR experience is available for the Oculus Rift for $7.99. W elcome back to Spatial Beats.

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Magic Leap’s John Gaeta talks about the future of cinema, storytelling and mixed reality

The Ghost Howls

He has joined Rony Abovitz at Magic Leap and now he’s there, trying to build the MagicVerse as the SVP of Creative Strategy of the Florida company. And what you are doing at Magic Leap to create these experiences for people? ( Magic Leap glasses.

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Facebook’s plan for our post-web future

TechCrunch VR

Five years ago, Facebook acquired VR pioneers Oculus for $2 billion. Oculus became (somewhat creepily named) Facebook Reality Labs , headed by Andrew Bosworth , one of the company’s first 15 engineers, who also headed the company’s transition from desktop to mobile advertising. Let us connect some dots.

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Apple’s Tim Cook Sees Opportunity In AR, But It ‘Will Take Some Time To Get Right’

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

In 2013, Apple acquired a company called PrimeSense which created the original motion sensors used in Microsoft’s Kinect hardware.Then, in 2015, Apple bought a German AR firm called Metaio and another motion capture named Faceshift. It’s been a big few years for Apple and AR.

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Dress for Success: Talking Headsets and Haptic Suits with Skarred Ghost Antony Vitillo

XR for Business Podcast

You’ve got mobile phone-based AR, eye tracking set devices, taste experiments, hot and cold devices, thermal devices, and then tracking systems for motion capture, and of course, treadmills for omni-directional walking. Oculus Quest is coming out. You’ve got VR headsets, AR headsets.

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Dress for Success: Talking Headsets and Haptic Suits with Skarred Ghost Antony Vitillo

XR for Business Podcast

You've got mobile phone-based AR, eye tracking set devices, taste experiments, hot and cold devices, thermal devices, and then tracking systems for motion capture, and of course, treadmills for omni-directional walking. Oculus Quest is coming out. You've got VR headsets, AR headsets. So there's a lot to unpack here.

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