Ultraleap & Goertek accomplice on new VR headset reference design

January 11, 2024 – Ultraleap, a supplier of prolonged actuality (XR) applied sciences equivalent to hand monitoring and mid-air haptics, has lately introduced that’s working with Goertek, a digital actuality (VR) headset producer, to carry to market the subsequent era reference design for VR and combined actuality (MR) headsets with pre-integrated hand monitoring from Ultraleap. 

The brand new reference design, which is obtainable now, follows on from last week’s announcement on Qualcomm’s VR and MR reference design HMD (which additionally included a partnership with Goertek), and as a substitute includes the mixture of Goertek’s headset design and manufacturing capabilities with help for Gemini – Ultraleap’s hand monitoring platform. Based on the Ultraleap, the brand new reference design will now make it even simpler and quicker for OEMs to carry hand monitoring interactions to their clients.

For the primary time, Ultraleap’s laptop imaginative and prescient and machine studying fashions permit hand monitoring to run on the cameras used for SLAM and controller monitoring with LED lighting. Ultraleap said that this may assist to considerably cut back the price of integrating hand monitoring for OEMs and headset producers, whereas nonetheless delivering a extremely differentiated monitoring efficiency that’s synonymous with the corporate’s hand monitoring options. 

In immediately’s new XR headsets, hand monitoring has turn into a compulsory characteristic, as many UX designers are figuring out that pure gestures are a superior interplay methodology for customers in immersive experiences. Consequently exact and high-quality hand monitoring might help to considerably improve the power to make customers really feel extra immersed in coaching, enterprise and client experiences. 

Tom Carter, CEO at Ultraleap, mentioned: “We imagine pure hand interactions shall be to VR what contact was to smartphones. Integrating Ultraleap’s hand monitoring straight onto current digital camera sensors makes it very simple for purchasers to design and launch new headset merchandise. This excellent collaboration implies that corporations seeking to launch new VR headset merchandise can now simply develop a headset constructed with the world’s greatest hand monitoring from the world’s main headset producer. It’s an unbeatable mixture.”

Marvin Chang, Company Vice President, International Head of Advertising at Goertek, mentioned: “Goertek is dedicated to offering wonderful general options for XR headsets, and this integration with Ultraleap exhibits that we will carry best-in-class, leading edge expertise like hand monitoring, in a manufacturable kind issue direct to the world’s largest OEMs.”

Chang additionally added that the timing of the announcement displays a rising demand for pure interplay that’s being seen throughout the XR trade, and the mixture of the 2 corporations’ applied sciences within the new reference design will assist OEMs to cut back time-to-market for his or her next-generation VR headsets.

Ultraleap’s hand monitoring expertise has been developed over 10 years utilizing synthetic intelligence, machine studying and laptop imaginative and prescient. Nevertheless, its expertise isn’t just restricted to XR, and has a variety of purposes throughout industries together with automotive, digital signage, industrial automation, client electronics and location-based leisure, to boost pure interplay between folks and expertise. 

For extra info on Ultraleap and its hand monitoring expertise, click on here. To study extra about Goertek and its VR options, click on here.

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