The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

I am a bit sad no one gave an award to The Unity Cube , though… I would have loved to get a “Worst Application Award 2021” from Road To VR…. The result is that many big brands are canceling their presence at CES: Google, Intel, Microsoft, Meta, Lenovo, and many others, have decided not to go , and maybe provide their news virtually.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

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. This means that if you develop an experience using OpenXR, you can run it on Oculus, SteamVR, and Microsoft runtimes with no modification.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

Before leaving you to the best news of the week, I would like to highlight two notable things about my work: My crazy trolling game “The Unity Cube” has been featured in a video by Upload VR! Johnson has worked at Microsoft and Qualcomm before, and she is a very respected executive. Amazon is opening its AR Beauty Salon.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Microsoft Hololens is a key player in the MR market. It has the ability to create a cross platform code where users can create their projects in either JavaScript, Unity, Xamarin, and Cordova. It is useful to simulate situations that are too dangerous or difficult to recreate in real life.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 1, 2023

We’re already seeing aspects of spatial computing emerge in everything from collaborative platforms like Microsoft Teams to smartphones. Foremost cloud leaders like AWS and Microsoft offer access to spatial computing solutions, such as Amazon Sumerian, for 3D scene creation. With a projected value of $544.6

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

Or we can put on device on our head (a head-mounted display or HMD) that completely occludes us from the real world allowing us to enter a completely simulated environment which we can walk around and interact in because the computer is sensing our physical actions: this is Virtual Reality or VR. Virtual humans are getting more and more real.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

We’re already seeing aspects of spatial computing emerge in everything from collaborative platforms like Microsoft Teams to smartphones. Foremost cloud leaders like AWS and Microsoft offer access to spatial computing solutions, such as Amazon Sumerian, for 3D scene creation. With a projected value of $544.6

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

I mean, a game is everything about a simulated world and a story mixed together. So what a game engine do, they can provide you with real time simulated worlds and/or stories. Again, think of it of a simulated world. They do hundreds of simulation for a year, just to solve some very basic problem. What is a game?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

I mean, a game is everything about a simulated world and a story mixed together. So what a game engine do, they can provide you with real time simulated worlds and/or stories. Again, think of it of a simulated world. They do hundreds of simulation for a year, just to solve some very basic problem. What is a game?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

For me this is not a fortunate sentence: this is what Alex Kipman said about the HoloLens, a few weeks before the whole Microsoft Mixed Reality division was disbanded and he was fired from the company. One of these people was Andrew Bosworth, which has rebuked the report , saying “not to believe everything you read”.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

I mean, a game is everything about a simulated world and a story mixed together. So what a game engine do, they can provide you with real time simulated worlds and/or stories. Again, think of it of a simulated world. They do hundreds of simulation for a year, just to solve some very basic problem. What is a game?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

A series of announcements from Amazon, Crytek, Epic Games and Unity Technologies showcase an evolution among their respective game engines into VR world creation toolsets. In fact, developers using Unity and SteamVR start effectively standardizing this mixed reality capture method. March 2016.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

A lot of what I do is try to take new and emerging technology -- obviously right now, VR/AR/XR; all that falls into it -- and using that to enhance messaging and storytelling, training, simulation, all of that type of stuff. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. It's not something that every company will do.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

A lot of what I do is try to take new and emerging technology -- obviously right now, VR/AR/XR; all that falls into it -- and using that to enhance messaging and storytelling, training, simulation, all of that type of stuff. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. It's not something that every company will do.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

A lot of what I do is try to take new and emerging technology -- obviously right now, VR/AR/XR; all that falls into it -- and using that to enhance messaging and storytelling, training, simulation, all of that type of stuff. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. It's not something that every company will do.

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Augmented Reality Virtual Reality Technology Training 60

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

A lot of what I do is try to take new and emerging technology -- obviously right now, VR/AR/XR; all that falls into it -- and using that to enhance messaging and storytelling, training, simulation, all of that type of stuff. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. It's not something that every company will do.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

You can build in Unity, it’s the same thing. I think that was one of the biggest challenges over the last few years, was… well, put it this way: Amazon has 1.5 billion products for sale on Amazon. But with all the investment of the Apples, the Microsofts, the Googles, the Facebooks, the Amazon.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

You can build in Unity, it’s the same thing. I think that was one of the biggest challenges over the last few years, was… well, put it this way: Amazon has 1.5 billion products for sale on Amazon. But with all the investment of the Apples, the Microsofts, the Googles, the Facebooks, the Amazon.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 12, 2022

The tool would also simulate muscle movements and lifelike hair textures. Numerous companies such as Adobe, Dell, Epic Games, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services trialled the Omniverse at the event.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 26, 2019

So they were running a simulation inside of a digital twin of, “we want to move this object from here to here. And even the ability to just do an Amazon Go-like transaction is actually a spatial transaction. Alan: Yeah, an oil rig. Gabriel: Yeah. What’s easiest path, or how will it fit?” It can be sent.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 26, 2019

So they were running a simulation inside of a digital twin of, “we want to move this object from here to here. And even the ability to just do an Amazon Go-like transaction is actually a spatial transaction. Alan: Yeah, an oil rig. Gabriel: Yeah. What’s easiest path, or how will it fit?” It can be sent.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 26, 2019

So they were running a simulation inside of a digital twin of, "we want to move this object from here to here. And even the ability to just do an Amazon Go-like transaction is actually a spatial transaction. Gabriel: This is exactly what you were just talking about earlier with the digital twin. was it an oil plant or oil rig.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Michael: And this is why I’ve been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building — there’s VRTK for Unity… there’s just all these tools. Amazon Sumerian. Unity is always my top one. We’re not tied to Microsoft. Is it marketing? Is it training?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Michael: And this is why I’ve been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building — there’s VRTK for Unity… there’s just all these tools. Amazon Sumerian. Unity is always my top one. We’re not tied to Microsoft. Is it marketing? Is it training?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Even the big players like Sony, Apple, and Microsoft have substantially reduced their production estimates for 2022, whilst processor manufacturers talk of delays into 2024. Amazon sold me a moulded nylon grip for an AR-15 airsoft rifle… it was time to start work building my first development “Mule”. Image provided by Rob Cole).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Microsoft and Samsung may be partnering for an AR device.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Michael: And this is why I've been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building -- there's VRTK for Unity. Amazon Sumerian. Unity is always my top one. As someone who grew up as a game designer and player, I definitely side towards Unity. We're not tied to Microsoft.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

So I feel like there’s so much of a mirroring of what’s happening in these virtual worlds that the training applications are just incredible, in terms of whether it’s a surgical simulation or Walmart’s using it to train for different employees. And we’re seeing these kind of rapid advances in technology.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

So I feel like there's so much of a mirroring of what's happening in these virtual worlds that the training applications are just incredible, in terms of whether it's a surgical simulation or Walmart's using it to train for different employees. I mean, the introduction of ARKit and ARCore probably put 200 startups out of business.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

So I feel like there’s so much of a mirroring of what’s happening in these virtual worlds that the training applications are just incredible, in terms of whether it’s a surgical simulation or Walmart’s using it to train for different employees. And we’re seeing these kind of rapid advances in technology.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

If developers of PC games want to invest more time to create a VR version of them (like it happened for No Man’s Sky, or Microsoft Flight Simulator, for instance), this could help a lot the PCVR market. Epic has implemented it, and Unity is doing that too. I am a Unity developer, and I can tell you that now Unity.XR

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