Quill has been an amazing art tool for Oculus headsets for many years.
However things are changing a bit. Ownership of Quill has transferred
from Oculus to Smoothstep, the company of Quill's creator Inigo Quilez.
The new Quill (called Quill By Smooth...
https://www.roadtovr.com/oculus-quest-pro-eye-face-tracking/
https://www.reddit.com/r/OculusQuest/comments/pmxx7z/v32_firmware_dive_oculus_quest_pro_references/
An examination of the latest Quest firmware showed a number of strings
related to a Quest...
https://www.crowdsupply.com/slimevr/slimevr-full-body-tracker SlimeVR is
an inertial mocap solution that has just opened on CrowdSupply. The tech
is similar to mocap systems like Perception Neuron and PrioVR, but with
some very interesting difference...
https://developer.oculus.com/blog/oculus-all-in-on-openxr-deprecates-proprietary-apis
I was annoyed that the PC SDK hasn't been updated since last year (still
v23, while mobile has reached v29). But I guess it will never go higher,
at the end of next...
YAY!
https://www.oculus.com/blog/lone-echo-ii-launch-date-and-price-revealed-plus-discount-for-lone-echo/
It is a Rift exclusive game, but supports Quest via Link/Airlink. From
today until the launch, Lone Echo 1 is reduced to $9.99us. Lone Echo was
...
It's basically a 2D 360 degree laser distance scanner. They are used in
Roombas to scan the room. But putting one on a motorised rig, I can get
a 3D laser scanner similar to this thing: The LIDAR part is the spinning
blue bit on the side. I mainly ju...
My Quest 1, Quest 2 and Rift-S are living at work for the next 5 weeks
for students to use. My Quest 1 hasn't updated to v33 though, it's still
on v32. The Quest 2 did go to v33.
I guess Lighthouse 1 does have the flash pulse to start the timing
cycle, so there's a bit of IR light besides the dot, but sync is going
to be an issue again (it's not continuous, just a very short pulse at
60Hz or so IIRC). Lighthouse 2 got rid of ...
On the positive side, just be thankful Link doesn't use a BNC connector.
Otherwise the whole computer may have ended up on the floor. I've seen
someone trip on coax network cable with BNCs on each end. I also
almost had a laptop go airborn when my ...
