The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The article talked about a headset shipping without controllers and aiming at the sweet price point of $200. More info Apple Vision Pro may have a very slow start The same Ming-Chi Kuo, who probably woke up with a lot of pessimism that day, has also expressed doubts about the widespread success of the Apple Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

There are some interesting pieces of information about the glasses inside the article. First of all, it seems that the headset is not a new product, but that Apple has been working on it for 7 years. It seems anyway that for the first time ever at Apple, Cook has this time now given priority to the operations team.

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AR Insider

JUNE 3, 2020

This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. Unity has had a very successful run in the last 10 years or so and is more specific in its purpose as an authoring tool, originally being a 3D game engine giving mostly indie developers a platform to build games for smartphones. by Andy Gstoll.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

It was our hope for Google entering the AR race together with Meta and Apple. More info (Meta Quest+ gaming service) More info (Cross-buy available for Meta Quest+ games) Unity announces AI tools when Valve stops AI games This week has been an emotional rollercoaster for games (VR and not) made with the support of artificial intelligence.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

It was too early for Unity, but they taught me about C++, C#, Java, OpenCV, OpenGL and other fancy development stuff. For who wasn’t doing AR at that time: Metaio had an amazing SDK for phone-based AR, but then it got acquired by Apple and it disappeared from the market. Since I loved gaming (who doesn’t love gaming?),

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The new DRIVE Thor superchip aimed at autonomous vehicles, which companies will be able to use from 2025 Omniverse Cloud , which lets companies use Omniverse completely via cloud rendering even on non-powerful machines A connector to let you use Omniverse with Unity. Rec Room announces Rec Room Studio. Some news on the metaverse.

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ARVR

APRIL 9, 2021

In this article, we will talk about ARKit, ARCore, Vuforia, and AR Foundation with comparisons and elaboration on each of the software. It is available at the Apple Developer website under the Applications tab. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. It is an answer to Apple’s ARKit. What is AR? An example of ARCore use is eBay.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 10, 2022

As this article was being written, Varjo further expanded its cloud with Unreal and Unity engine integrations. While almost all non-Apple mobile devices run Android, it is also the backbone of many XR headsets.). CloudXR From NVIDIA. XR streaming is already a reality on other cloud platforms.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

One-year price performance for MSFT as of 2/3/20 Apple Inc. AAPL) As we previously detailed in depth, Apple has been discreetly working on a number of AR/VR products for several years now and is planning to release its own AR smart glass and AR/VR hybrid headset. Ways to Get Your Business into VR 2. the year of AR glasses?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Apple VR headset may feature a 3000PPI microOLED display. This week we had a new rumor about the XR headset Apple is working on. According to Korean publication The Elec, Apple has requested a sample of a display component for OLED displays that can arrive up to 3000PPI. Apple Event was not about AR, like, at all.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

Of course, Epic is completely against Apple and its vision of its own walled garden. Epic also announced a few interesting things, like a tool to record facial animations for MetaHumans that run on an iPhone; and Fab, the Unreal version of the Unity Asset Store, where the developers can find many tools and multimedia elements put on sale.

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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. Apple headset may be very lightweight.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

PSVR 2, Apple XR visor) and games, will be fundamental to understand its evolution and its potential. A leaked image from the Oculus team shows that the company is working to implement body tracking inside the Oculus Unity SDK. References to Apple RealityOS have been leaked. Leaks about Apple are intensifying over the weeks.

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Building the Metaverse

JANUARY 18, 2023

This article explores the technological and business trends enabling this future. From my article: “ Creating a Text Adventure in ChatGPT ” Lensa and Self-Expression Lensa grew to tens of millions of revenue in only a few weeks. Image from Unreal Engine 5.1 Persistent Worlds 3D engines provide a window into a world.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 26, 2020

With the One App, creators have access to the full power of ARCore and ARKit for the best possible AR experiences. ( Apple Store ) ( Play Store ). With other game engines already available, both on standalone (Unity, UE4) and web (Sumerian), why did you feel the need to create a new one? You can try it here (Image by MetaVRse).

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Although Unity 3D is undoubtedly the most common and trained standards for developing and deploying augmented and virtual reality application for both beginner or expert developer, it is cannot be employed for developing content for some headsets. You also give 5% of net revenues per quarter although its free to use.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Unreal Engine and Photoshop), as it happens in Google Docs when many people edit the same document at the same time. The author of the video has used a free app available on the Apple Store and with it, it was able to scan 3D objects with a quality and a speed never seen before. Someone has made a WebAR exporter for Unity.

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ARVR

APRIL 21, 2021

PBR is used in real-time applications like Unity and Unreal game-engines as well as the web. link] The most friendly real-time PBR file format is glTF or GLB and is supported by The Khronos group, a non-profit consortium of companies from HP, Apple, Adobe, Facebook, and more. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. The incumbents have an advantage with existing mapping such as Google Maps, Earth, Street View, Apple Maps and the Indoor Maps Program, and Bing Maps but there are also significant geographic data players such as Foursquare and OpenStreetMap.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Unity support for OpenXR is still in early beta , and so it’s not reliable yet to develop an OpenXR-compliant application in Unity. We Unity developers have still to use the current Unity tools that make us develop once, but then build for every different platform (like the ones I describe in this article ).

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ARVR

JULY 15, 2020

Apple seems to be cornering the popular entertainment industry, with the acquisition of NextVR, as industry rivals such as Magic Leap focus on enterprise solutions. With the Starboard UI and Apple Glasses release anticipated for Q4 2020/Q1 2021, the world is eagerly awaiting the next generation of extended reality (XR) standards.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

Anyway, I will keep you posted about that in a dedicated article! And i ts 2021+ timeline for XR makes me wonder if Huawei plans to release its headset around that date … that is more or less the same that we predict for Apple glasses. Valve publishes a deep dive article on the speakers of Valve Index. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

The most viral XR article of the week has been an interview that Mark Zuckerberg had with The Verge. The claim reshared by many people from the article is that “five years from now […] people will primarily think about us as a metaverse company, rather than a mobile internet company”. Top news of the week. Image by Facebook).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

More info (China’s push for VR) More info (Huawei 6DOF VR glasses) More info (Huawei smartglasses) More info (Shadow Creator’s new glasses) More info (Full article on HongHu glasses, in Chinese) More info (Official page of HongHu glasses). Simple WebXR” aims at bringing WebXR to Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Unity has built this nice demo using the Presence Platform. Unreal Engine support is coming next year Interaction SDK : a set of facilities to develop applications with hands-tracking, that provides out-of-the-box tools for interacting with the UI and with objects in the scene. Read more about this news: Project Nazare: [link].

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

This is also confirmed by the Wired article, where the journalist states that he has been able to see the conference in preview before the general audience. They could build together something that could seriously compete with Facebook and Apple: let’s keep an eye on them. All of this running thanks to the power of the Azure cloud.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

He wanted to write on my blog his opinion on this device to inform the community and of course I accepted, because I’m more than happy to host another one of his super-detailed articles. After receiving the tracking information for my Pimax Crystal shipment, I looked forward to what would be my first time using a Pimax VR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

And it also makes me super-happy that no one is about Facebook and Apple… I was getting pretty bored in writing newsletters only about these two companies! Last week I told you about MetaHumans creator, the tool to create realistic humanoid avatars in Unreal Engine. Among the top 5 news I have chosen, only 1 is about VR.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 14, 2020

And while Unreal Engine already supports OpenXR, Unity is a bit lagging, but support is coming in 2021. And it could finally make us reach a point where an app built for a device will work on all devices , making the life of us developers easier… …until Apple arrives with a competing standard, of course. News worth a mention.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

Trending AR VR Articles: 1. It takes plenty of time, trial and working on game engines such as Unity & Unreal to get close to the fidelity that consumers have come to demand from even the most rudimentary smartphone apps. What about Apple Glass? I was very critical of this approach with the Apple Watch?—?it

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

And then if you take things like Unreal Engine, they're doing concerts on their Fortnite platform. Unity Technologies just went public. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started. Alex: Huge news.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

And then if you take things like Unreal Engine, they're doing concerts on their Fortnite platform. Unity Technologies just went public. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started. Alex: Huge news.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Will a little startup be able to beat the big behemoths like Apple and Facebook? High-precision 6DOF tracking, eye tracking, gesture inputs, with dedicated input controllers The SDK will support Unity , with Unreal coming Soon. You watch it and then tell me what you think about it in the comments!).

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

And then if you take things like Unreal Engine, they're doing concerts on their Fortnite platform. Unity Technologies just went public. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started. Alex: Huge news.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

people walking around), so I don't have an apples-to-apples comparison against Santa Cruz. The SDK offers native APIs, but also supports popular game engines like Unity and Unreal 4. If you want to read a short description about these VR apps, I suggest you read the related article on Upload VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2018

I’ve not been able to test it in person, but looking around its users manual, the aGlass DK II seems quite easy to install and also easy to be used as a developer , thanks to its handy Unity and Unreal plugins. As you know, in the west, SMI (M&A by Apple) was an advanced eye-tracking company before. Yes, it is!

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And so Apple bought them shortly thereafter. So SPACES was acquired quietly by Apple this year. And Apple also earlier this year acquired NextVR, which-- that company has all the licensing rights to real-time capture in 360 of NASCAR, and NBA, and all of the other sports. But then you look at Unreal. Golf, I think.

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