The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

Reading the article excited me a bit, because when an experienced VR journalist says that something impressed him, well, I know that thing is super cool for real Vicon , which is a leading company in mocap systems, showcased for the first time its markerless mocap tool.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

But before, please read (and share around) my latest article which is about a crazy experiment I did with mixed reality and generative AI… I’m sure you will love it! Yes, Mark Gurman, exactly the guy who is giving us leaks and rumors about the Apple headset every week. Meta really wants to fight Apple on his own territory.

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Ryan Schultz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

to stay away from what seems to be an unending litany of bad news lately, but last night I slipped up and opened the Apple News app on my trusty iPad, which promptly spit up the article which is the topic of today’s cranky editorial. (It’s Already, at the very beginning of the article, I am ready to tear my hair out.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 6, 2024

One of my biggest highlights has been that my article about Social AR has been featured in the famous New World Notes blog that I usually read… I’ve felt very honored about this! So the fact that Apple is targeting the B2B market makes absolutely sense because $3500 is a price that is too high for average people.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Photo by JESHOOTS.COM on Unsplash After having written about Knowledge Graphs, Decentralization, and the Semantic Web in one of my last articles , it is time to dedicate myself to the Metaverse. Read about what that will look like, who builds it, and how it works in this article! Trending AR VR Articles: 1. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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AR Insider

JUNE 3, 2020

This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. A great alternative to Unity is Epic’s Unreal Engine by the way. Even Apple is now offering a suite of tools to make the creation of 3D experiences more accessible. Find out more or contact us to participate here. by Andy Gstoll.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2023

More info News worth a mention (Image by The Information) Let’s have realistic expectations on the Apple headset We are all very excited about Apple joining our industry, but we must have realistic expectations about the headset that is going to come.

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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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ARVR

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Apple signals interest in location-relevant AR through its geo-anchors and Project Gobi. So today’s metaverse-like fiefdoms we can point to as examples include MMOs Roblox and Fortnite, which is made using Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. But it’s not alone. That’s a fancy way of saying it happens in 3D.

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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. Probably you all recall the iconic Apple commercial inspired by the book 1984 that helped a lot the company in becoming popular. References to Apple RealityOS have been leaked. Leaks about Apple are intensifying over the weeks.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

It wants to create an ecosystem , where most probably all the devices can work together (like it happens today with Apple devices); The report also claims that Facebook may be building its own operating system to encompass all these devices. Apple is working on Micro-OLED displays. Another week, another rumor about Apple’s XR efforts.

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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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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

JUNE 27, 2022

We have lots of non-news about Apple’s XR efforts. The hype around Apple glasses is huge , and everything that gets shared about Apple and XR gets many views. That’s why this week we had a serious amount of articles that got shared that added no information about what we already know but got popular anyway. Useless news.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2021

This is the first public hint that Google is back on track working on a new AR device , most probably glasses that should compete with Facebook and Apple. According to another article, the government should also announce something to promote the industrial use of VR in the upcoming times. Tilt Brush).

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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. The change made by one user in its program (e.g.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

This would be a very good move to come to the market before Apple , that will likely announce its AR glasses from Q4 2019 on; The announcement of a new generation of VR devices that will also be capable of providing AR , a bit like the VRVANA headset (whose company has been acquired by Apple as well). Magic Leap is suing nReal.

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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 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 ). Unity and Unreal are both incredible game engines and both require specialized training and/or teams to develop for. The app is universal and opens AR experiences directly from the web.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 9, 2017

Tim Sweeney, founder of Epic Games and creator of Unreal Engine, has a unique position in the virtual reality industry. If Apple had the most awesome chat platform ever, but it only ran on Apple devices, guess what? Check out the full article to get Rubin’s take on it. Look at the top mobile communication apps.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 1, 2024

But the release of the Apple Vision Pro proved to Valve employees that people are fine with having an all-in-two device with two units connected by a cable. RecRoom without kids For us developers, there will be a dedicated Unity SDK at launch , with the Unreal one following a few months later.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

This week in XR has seen the launch of the first standalone MR headset, plus a lot of interesting news and articles about immersive realities. Let’s see how Apple and Google will answer. I’ve found on the web a long article about the haptics devices available , or on which there are experimentations. Top news of the week.

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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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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Unreal Engine 4 is also an industry standard although it has a steeper learning curve than Unity. Vuforia, a free to use development kit which supports many devices including Tango phones, EasyAR, ARKit for Apple devices; and ARCore from Google, Oculus and OpenVR, are also popular options these days. Both are free to download and try.

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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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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

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). As soon as I’ll know something about it from my Chinese friends, I’ll let you know.

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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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

So, for instance, you record a video of a person from a low position and then see how it looks from a higher position Apple has just published a patent about showing invisible things on mixed reality glasses. Some news on the metaverse. It reports that CMO may earn up to $1.5M/year year to help big corporates in metaverse efforts.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2021

This has not been the most interesting week in AR, VR, but I think that in the next times we’ll see some shots fired: in some days there will be the F8, the official shipment of the Vive Pro 2, then the Apple WWDC conference! Unreal Engine 5 gets released in Early Access. I hope for some juicy news… and you? Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

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. I started with some really mediocre articles, but again, for some weird reasons, people started reading me. ” I’m not crying, you’re crying thinking of Metaio.

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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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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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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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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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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

And then if you take things like Unreal Engine, they're doing concerts on their Fortnite platform. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. We're going to wrap it up today and look out for that article coming out this week. Are they on a phone?

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