week 16: MRTK3

Meta Layout

Meta finally got its toolkit application, Meta Layout. Which uses the raydar to detect the environments and add ruler to measure the distance. And more, this App uses a new UI looks like it is going to be the new UI for quest. The UI add light reflection to the materials make it more 3D rather than 2D. However, I think the animations are not there yet, it feels toy like.

MRTK3

MRTK3 is the latest version of the Mixed Reality Toolkit. I think it got better UI animation than the quest new UI. I tried to build it on quest 3. It turns out to be very easy. Just use the example template in the repo.

BTW, if you want to try MRTK2 on webXR, here is a link. I have to say the web experience is not there yet.

The other thing MRTK provides is a testing tool. localjoost wrote a blog about how to use it.

ImmerGallery

Hugh Hou introduced a way to record Spatial video using quest3 in his video. It is actual a trick which uses screen cast to record. Because oculus did not provide any method to access the camera. ImmerGallery is a paid app, I have not tried it yet.

Media Pipe

This is google’s official tutorial for Media Pipe. Media Pipe is like Hugging Face’s transformer.js. Which is a tool to use tensorflow model on devices.

Surface Dial Android

I tried to figure out how to make a tool for surface dial. But I found this feed on Reddit. Turns out some people have made an Android Surface Dial Alternative.

I found registry finder, which is a tool to search keywords from windows registry. Sadly I did not found any thing useful for the surface dial.

Tattoo101

I finished reading the book from tattoo101. I am thinking to make some practice on my own.

Pasa Thai

This is a document about Thai characters.