The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

But I hope you’ll enjoy this newsletter coming from the world of the undead anyway… Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Apple starts accepting applications for Vision Pro devkits Apple has started accepting applications from interested developers to get a Vision Pro to develop XR experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2022

We often talk about Apple and Meta, but we should not forget that Google is still in the match, and that in the AR Cloud race, it has still many cards to play, like the mapping of all the world already made with Google Maps. Let me quote Upload VR: The executives say the average number of Oculus friends per account was 0.5 Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

These are huge numbers for VR: if you look at the most recent SteamVR survey, you get that Oculus headsets are now at 67% of the whole PCVR market. This is amazing for us developers, but unluckily it is a feature tied to using the Oculus SDK, which is not cross-platform. Image by Apple). Apple may implement WebXR in Safari.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. Projection based  — Directly overlays digital projections onto the physical world by making use of varied machine vision technology, often by combining visible light cameras with 3D sensing systems such as depth cameras.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Oculus has also partnered with Virtuclear to offer prescription lenses for the Quest 2 for $80. All the 3 major VR runtimes (Oculus, SteamVR, Microsoft) are now compatible with OpenXR , and this means that on the runtime layer on PC, now OpenXR has been fully integrated. And yes, I use sarcasm a lot: “Hey Facebook, thanks for this”.

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CraneMorley

AUGUST 1, 2023

It is a combination of virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), (MR) mixed reality, the internet of things (IoT), AI (Artificial Intelligence), machine learning and edge computing. Enhanced safety: The industrial metaverse can help to improve safety by providing workers with a safe and controlled environment to learn and work in.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Alan: So, would the things like computer vision and machine learning, would that fit? Accenture has different groups, like a group headed dedicated to artificial intelligence, things like cloud computing, and machine learning is a part of artificial intelligence. Would you bundle those under XR as well? Alan: Incredible.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Alan: So, would the things like computer vision and machine learning, would that fit? Accenture has different groups, like a group headed dedicated to artificial intelligence, things like cloud computing, and machine learning is a part of artificial intelligence. Would you bundle those under XR as well? Alan: Incredible.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

BUT today is the day of the WWDC, and who knows if Apple will tease something about AR glasses. It doesn’t seem to be on par with the Oculus Quest 2, but as a first device by Nolo, it is not that bad. The second one is a Chinese video comparing some technical characteristics of consumer Pico Neo 3 and Oculus Quest 2.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Is Apple partnering with Valve on AR? A report by DigiTimes claims that Apple is partnering with Valve for the production of its AR glasses. The news would be incredible: Apple is a company that knows how to create something usable and cool to see, while Valve has a long expertise in experimenting with AR and VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

You can learn more about this data at superdataresearch.com. I really want to start digging into this, and learn more about SuperData. Started covering those areas when they were very tied to games, especially when the original Oculus Rift was launched. I want to welcome Carter to the show. Alan: My absolute pleasure.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

You can learn more about this data at superdataresearch.com. I really want to start digging into this, and learn more about SuperData. Started covering those areas when they were very tied to games, especially when the original Oculus Rift was launched. I want to welcome Carter to the show. Alan: My absolute pleasure.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

You can learn more about this data at superdataresearch.com. I really want to start digging into this, and learn more about SuperData. Started covering those areas when they were very tied to games, especially when the original Oculus Rift was launched. I want to welcome Carter to the show. Alan: My absolute pleasure.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 15, 2019

We plan to go online with it on Amazon or Netflix and present it like that, and then have it be an additional thing that maybe Netflix or Amazon has on their platform in the Oculus or HTC. And we put this kind of like Apple-esque music over it, and made this cute little commercial and it never saw the light of day.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

You can learn more about them at ar-experts.de. I can ask Google questions now; Voice, Amazon, Alexa, and Google Voice. But actually, you want to look at a machine or an exhibition, and you want to get information which is there exactly for that machine. It’s ar-giri.com. Björn, welcome to the show, my friend.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

You can learn more about them at ar-experts.de. I can ask Google questions now; Voice, Amazon, Alexa, and Google Voice. But actually, you want to look at a machine or an exhibition, and you want to get information which is there exactly for that machine. It’s ar-giri.com. Björn, welcome to the show, my friend.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

You can learn more about InContext Solutions at www.incontextsolutions.com. Alan: The Oculus Quest is coming out next week at [Facebook] F8, and it’s full six degrees of freedom. I think that was one of the biggest challenges over the last few years, was… well, put it this way: Amazon has 1.5 Alan: My pleasure.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

You can learn more about InContext Solutions at www.incontextsolutions.com. Alan: The Oculus Quest is coming out next week at [Facebook] F8, and it’s full six degrees of freedom. I think that was one of the biggest challenges over the last few years, was… well, put it this way: Amazon has 1.5 Alan: My pleasure.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 31, 2016

If you look at what you have now as a convergence of big data and analytics, machine learning, natural language processing, ubiquitous connectivity — all these things come together. When you think about things like intelligent assistants, we have embedded services like Siri from Apple, Google Home, Amazon Echo with Alexa.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

You can learn more about the great work that Michael and his team are doing at radiantimages.com. 2010, we had wearable technologies like the Fitbits, the Apple Watch, so forth and so on. So something like an Oculus Go, for example, allows you to look around and be inside of a video. Michael, welcome to the show.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

You can learn more about the great work that Michael and his team are doing at radiantimages.com. 2010, we had wearable technologies like the Fitbits, the Apple Watch, so forth and so on. So something like an Oculus Go, for example, allows you to look around and be inside of a video. Michael, welcome to the show.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

You can learn more about the great work that Michael and his team are doing at radiantimages.com. 2010, we had wearable technologies like the Fitbits, the Apple Watch, so forth and so on. So something like an Oculus Go, for example, allows you to look around and be inside of a video. Michael, welcome to the show.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

To learn more about the work that Dr. Greenleaf and his team are doing, you can visit the Human Interaction Lab at Stanford at vhil.stanford.edu and a new organization that he’s formed called the International VR Health Association at ivrha.org. But now we have better systems that I can order on Amazon. It’s just amazing.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

To learn more about the work that Dr. Greenleaf and his team are doing, you can visit the Human Interaction Lab at Stanford at vhil.stanford.edu and a new organization that he's formed called the International VR Health Association at ivrha.org. But now we have better systems that I can order on Amazon. It's just amazing.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

To learn more about the work that Dr. Greenleaf and his team are doing, you can visit the Human Interaction Lab at Stanford at vhil.stanford.edu and a new organization that he’s formed called the International VR Health Association at ivrha.org. But now we have better systems that I can order on Amazon. It’s just amazing.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

In the end, it has not been Apple or Facebook, but Snap to make its first move in the AR glasses space. Oculus Quest gets v29 update. For us developers, there is also now the possibility of opening WebXR links easily from the PC by writing their URLs in the Oculus Developer Hub. Top news of the week. Image by Snap).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

I can’t guarantee that these predictions will come out to be true (I always joke about the fact that I miss many of the predictions about Meta/Oculus), but I think they will be worth reading anyway to understand what can be the trends to look for in this new year. Me wearing my branded Oculus Quest 2. So… let’s start!

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