The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

And if you need some pieces of advice regarding how to professionally survive this quarantine, I have written a blog post on the topic you can read. This means mainly two things: Livestreams and blog posts where the companies make the announcements that they would have made during the event. Google MediaPipe can now track 3D objects.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 27, 2020

When you think of creativity in virtual reality (VR) one app that’s surely going to come to mind is Google’s Tilt Brush. Originally released back in 2016 for HTC Vive, the app has made it to most VR headsets including Oculus Quest in 2019 but PlayStation VR was always notably left out.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

More info (Announcement link) More info (News on my blog) More info (Error in one of the screenshots). More info (Use Google Translate). When I interviewed Facebook’s Sean Liu , he told me that 2019 was an inflection point for VR, and the data around us seems to confirm this statement. Google Chrome now supports WebAR.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Google ARCore now adds depth detection. Great news for all the augmented reality developers: the next version of Google ARCore is adding depth detection. Interested developers can fill a form and get notified by Google when the feature will be available for testing. JanusVR and High Fidelity close. But that day is not today.

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Ryan Schultz

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In its place, the company announced the Hubs Cloud Community Edition : Community Edition is designed to help developers deploy the full Hubs stack on any Linux-based infrastructure, including AWS, Google Cloud, and even your own computer.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

SuperData has forecasted an XR market in 2020 that will be similar to the one of 2019, with no actual growth. This startup just exited from stealth mode, is like Google Maps but for the interior of shopping centers, offices, and other closed environments. More info (Google Lens) More info (AR copy to Photoshop) More info (VROOM).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 18, 2019

It’s a beautiful summer day and I’m quite happy because this week my blog has turned three years old ! Oculus Quest on the road to sell more than 1M units in 2019. According to a report by SuperData, in Q2 2019 the Oculus Quest has sold a bit less than 347K units worldwide. Happy blog’s birthday, Tony!

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2019

And in case that even manual is not enough, well, Microsoft comes to help thanks to the HoloLens browser, that can be opened to perform a Google Search when needed (it will try to open Bing, but, ehm …). Holo4Labs has just won Emerging Europe 2019’s award for Best Innovation initiative of 2019. Samples scanning.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 30, 2019

Google has released to researchers and developers its own mobile device-based hand tracking method using machine learning, something Google R esearch engineers Valentin Bazarevsky and Fan Zhang call a “new approach to hand perception.” in palm detection, researchers claim.

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Peter Graham

JULY 25, 2019

The option is enabled by default with Janice Von Itter, Staff Program Manager at Mozilla saying in a blog post: “We strongly believe privacy shouldn’t be relegated to optional settings. In 2019 Mozilla plans on rolling out support for the WebXR specification, multi-window browsing, bookmarks sync and SteamVR.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Between that, I worked on consumer cloud software with Google for five years… managing engineering teams for Gmail, Japanese mobile, Google Labs, and social (Blogger etc.) As of 2019, we are an expanding private company with about 40 people based in Japan and funded by Japanese venture capitalists. teams for Japan.

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Delight XR

MAY 14, 2019

Google Cardboard. visit website Google Daydream View. visit website Google Daydream View 2. In other words, virtual reality becomes affordable and thanks to massive price drops and discounts on hardware and software bundles, now is the perfect time to get your own VR headset and discover what all the hype is about. Release date.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

pic.twitter.com/BupFCxSrTw — Valve (@valvesoftware) November 18, 2019. I can’t wait to hear more news on Thursday (be sure that I will write something about it here on my blog!). Header image from Google Images). We’re excited to unveil Half-Life: Alyx, our flagship VR game, this Thursday at 10am Pacific Time.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

With a surprise move, Facebook has acquired Sanzaru Games, the company behind the best VR game of 2019, Asgard’s Wrath. According to Tipatat Chennavasin, 106 games have made more than $1M in revenue, and half of these titles have come out in 2019. In 2019 AR startup Daqri has shutdown. Facebook acquires Sanzaru Games.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2, the company’s most recent smartglasses (or rather smart glass ), was only available to partner companies when it launched in May 2019. Now Google is allowing its third-party hardware vendors to sell the headset direct to developers. Image courtesy Google.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

While discussing the earning calls for Q3 2019, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has admitted that VR is taking longer than expected to become successful. You can read from the blog post all the UX choices they took to make the subtitles interface to appear in a way that is unobtrusive and comfortable for the eyes. Are you ready?

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Delight XR

AUGUST 7, 2022

The great thing is, one can start for as cheap as fifteen bucks with the simplest headset from Google (Cardboard). Google Daydream View. Google Cardboard. Google Play / iOS Appstore. Google Play / iOS Appstore. Spring 2019. Google Daydream. Ultimately, you get what you pay for. Oculus Rift.

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ARVR

MARCH 5, 2021

Here is one more good straight ahead historical layout for folks who like a timeline with capsule summaries of key moments in the development process, from an excellent blog titled, Virtual Speech. It is still far from clear what Google was thinking but it sent a kind of signal. until Google Cardboard showed it didn’t have to be.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

Having had the chance to play with it for some days , I can tell you that it is really an interesting product (I’ll write a review about it here on this blog, so register to my newsletter to not miss it!). I have to perform further analysis and then I’ll publish a blog post about that). Google AR apps.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2019

VR just passed the thorough of disillusionment and is here to stay thanks to investments in the AR/VR market by Facebook, Google and Apple. Mn by 2027 and 2019 seems to be the second wind with Sandbox VR raising $68 million from Andreessen Horowitz and other investors. Since 2015 there are 200 000 customers played these games. .

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

We know this because Oculus has explicitly declared this on its developers’ blog : Oculus Quest runs on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 mobile chip set, providing the device with lightning fast performance speeds. Regarding the specifications of this new headset, gathering infos here and there we have a quite clear picture.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

If I had to choose the most common question I’ve received in these 4 years on the blog, social media, and Quora, I would surely pick “How do I get started with virtual reality?” So, I googled around and found a workshop from a Unity event that taught how to do a Unity game. The blog & social media.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Other partners of JFF Labs include the Departments of Labor and Education, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Walmart, Salesforce, and Google. The company that uses AI to create VR social and emotional learning modules started really gaining steam in 2019 , and hasn’t slowed down. The final piece of the puzzle is Talespin.

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Road to VR

APRIL 17, 2019

Already own a copy of Google’s VR creation tool Tilt Brush (2016) from the Oculus Store? The company announced the news today in a Facebook blog post , outlining some of the changes the team made to get Tilt Brush on Quest’s mobile hardware. We’ll have feet on the ground there, so check back soon.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

We entered so the “winter of VR”, which happened between 2017 and the first part of 2019, that is the period when virtual reality was considered “dead”, and it was very hard to survive in the ecosystem. Then in 2019, it was the Facebook Oculus Quest’s success to give new life to the ecosystem.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 22, 2023

See our blog here:… — Nick Clegg (@nickclegg) May 22, 2023 The case involved an alleged violation of Article 46(1) in the GDPR framework, where it continued transferring to the US following a major court ruling. Subsequently, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) imposed a $5 billion USD penalty in 2019.

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Road to VR

MARCH 21, 2019

The Oculus Rift S announcement made its way to the front page of most major tech blogs yesterday, and the tone was pretty straightforward: ‘The new Oculus headset is here, it works better, there’s cool content, and it’s a pretty attractive package at $400’ Image courtesy Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 28, 2021

I take into great consideration what Mr.Riccitiello says because his predictions made in 2017 turned out to be true: he forecasted the “VR is dead” period and also the come back of XR in 2019. Icosa Gallery is the new Google Poly. I want to welcome Jean-Marc Duyckaerts and Adam Boyd to the family of the people that support this blog!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

This is why companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Meta are exploring similar technologies. For others, they might be a way of selling ads, Dr. Bautista said. […] In 2018, Intel shut down the Vaunt project, before selling many of its patents to North, the start-up acquired by Google. A game no one had ever hyped online.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The total revenues on the Quest Store alone had been $1B since its foundation in 2019, and this shows that many people are enjoying Quest games. It’s great to see that the community is carrying on the project that Google has abandoned, and now it is thriving and growing even better than before! Please support this blog.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2021

There are most probably many more people that failed doing VR games than the few ones whose success the big stores highlight in their blog posts. Gartner Hype Cycle 2019. In 2019 I saw Louis Cacciuttolo asking in some XR groups if we knew a spare developer to join VRrOOm as an employee.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

In actual fact, I've just recently started writing a series of guest posts for Vive on the Vive blog. You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. But I've been writing a series of blogs about my journey using and integrating the HTC Vive headsets at GESS.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The Valve Index sold around 56K units in Q3, and its real issue is not the demand, but the supply for which Valve can’t keep the pace Half-Life Alyx has earned in less than a year more money than all PC VR games combined made in 2019. More info (Using Google Translate). Facebook announces new cloud gaming service. Some XR fun.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

In actual fact, I've just recently started writing a series of guest posts for Vive on the Vive blog. You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. But I've been writing a series of blogs about my journey using and integrating the HTC Vive headsets at GESS.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Today I am very happy to host on my blog Kura Technologies , one of the most interesting augmented reality startups out there. More and more vendors will target consumers, both with full-fledged AR glasses and with devices more like Google Glass for information display (e.g. What’s your forecast for the next 5 years in AR?

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

In actual fact, I've just recently started writing a series of guest posts for Vive on the Vive blog. You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. But I've been writing a series of blogs about my journey using and integrating the HTC Vive headsets at GESS.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Thanks to a dirty hack developed by me and that you can find inside this blog post (I’ve put it open-source on GitHub!), The problem of Quest is that it is coming probably in May 2019 , so if you need a 6 DOF headset right now, you should buy the Focus. Me reading Metaverse book by Charlie Fink with my Vive Focus on.

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