After improving hand-tracking and adding multi-user sharing features in the last Lumin OS update, Magic Leap has upped the ante yet again. In the Lumin OS 0.95 update (accompanied by SDK 0.21), Magic Leap introduced tracking for eight key poses from varying positions, as well as the ability to recognize gestures without key poses. Now,...
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Stunning VR Stealth Game Rogan Gets Fresh Teaser, Full Look At E3 VR Showcase
We’ve been looking forward to Rogan: The Thief in the Castle for a while now. It’s a gorgeous new VR stealth game from Smilegate. The latest look at the title just arrived, but there’s more to come. This brief teaser trailer for the game popped up this week. It’s just a taste of what you’ll...
Blood & Truth Is The First VR Game To Hit #1 In UK Retail
A VR game just hit the top spot in the UK physical game sales charts for the first time. As reported by GamesIndustry.biz, Blood & Truth was at number 1 for the week ending June 1st. The game beat out FIFA 19, Team Sonic Racing, and Days Gone. It’s important to note however that these...
Video: H3VR Gets Valve Index Controller Support
There’s a moment in Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades where I pick up a lighter and slide my thumb forward over the controller’s thumbpad button to flip open the metal lid. I slide my thumb back across the pad to light it. The interaction is a quick one in a 6-minute video I captured...
Apple ARKit To Get People Occlusion, Body Tracking, High Level ‘RealityKit’ Framework
At its annual WWDC conference today Apple announced big new updates to ARKit, including people occlusion and body tracking. The company also announced a high level AR framework called RealityKit and easy to use AR creation tool Reality Composer. People Occlusion, Body Tracking With previous versions of ARKit, and with Google’s ARCore, virtual objects often...
Apple juices its AR capabilities with new tools
Augmented reality may not be an iOS feature consumers are dying to get their hands on, but Apple’s latest tools are going to make its long-shot dream of AR ubiquity a little bit easier for developers to build. The company delivered some interesting updates to ARKit for the latest version and introduced a new framework...
Fashion Startup Kollectin Lets You Try on Earrings & Necklaces from Indie Designers in AR, with Just a Swipe to Buy
The natural marriage between fashion and augmented reality is charging onward, but not just from the major brands we already know about. A new Los Angeles-based startup called Kollectin has decided to harness the power of AR to power its entry into the fashion accessories market, not as a gimmick, but as a central part...
Apple’s Third Generation of Animoji Adds Memoji Customization & Stickers to Messages
Apple is giving iPhone owners even more options to express themselves via Animojis with a wide range of customization options for their personal Memojis. During the opening keynote of the annual Worldwide Developers Conference in Cupertino, Apple revealed all of the updates coming to iOS 13. For Messages, the Memoji feature, enabled by the depth-sensing...
This Tool Makes Installing Custom Beat Saber Songs On Oculus Quest Easy
A developer going by the username of NyanBlade created a tool that makes sideloading custom Beat Saber songs to Oculus Quest easy. The tool features step by step instructions, guiding you through everything from enabling developer mode on your Quest to how to get custom songs. The developer has clearly put serious effort into making...
Community Download: What Are Your VR Predictions For E3 2019?
Community Download is a weekly discussion-focused articles series published every Monday in which we pose a single, core question to you all, our readers, in the spirit of fostering discussion and debate. It’s hard to believe that it’s already June but here we are. Next week is the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles,...