The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The drama about Unity’s new pricing models has set the whole game development community on fire, while we had an unexpected leak about the Pico 5 and some updates on the Apple Vision Pro. Some people are migrating to Unreal Engine or Godot. It’s been kind of a crazy week! Others have even threatened the safety of the employees.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

You can imagine that after it has been released through two official blog posts, an enormous backlash from the community started to happen. Apple threatens future support in Unreal Engine. All Apple software, SDKs, APIs, and developer tools ?—?Pre-release So far for the announcement by Facebook. The same on Twitter.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Image by The Information). Apple headset will not be focused on gaming. A new report seems to suggest that the upcoming Apple headset won’t be focused on gaming at all. For sure mixed reality should be big with this headset because this device is being released in preparation for the future Apple AR glasses. Other news.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

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. This would mean that Apple’s XR offering should rely for 3 years on a very expensive headset with very low sales.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

More info (Samsung prototype headset leaked — Upload VR) More info (Samsung prototype headset leaked — XR Daily News) Other relevant news (Image by Meta Reality Labs) Meta’s first AR glasses will be just for internal use A new report by The Information talks about the AR glasses that Meta is building.

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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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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2023

More info (Twitter post that describes the excitement around this project) More info (Official launch blog post) Other relevant news (Image by Google) Chrome ships WebGPU Chrome , the most popular browser around, has just implemented WebGPU. This research, taken further, could bring many interesting innovations in the AR field.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

Ben Lang has written a very interesting editorial on the topic, and for instance, he imagines that this may mean that all Sony-owned game studios will all start using Unreal Engine as their game engine , unifying the production processes among them all. Unreal Engine can now use your iPhone to record facial animations.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

As pointed out in one of the Unity Developers’ blog posts , aside from the exponential rise of development businesses, we’re also seeing more developer tools, such as the Unity and Unreal engines, becoming more accessible. Moreover, they can leverage AI to come up with more accurate results.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The company has not posted real photos or footage from the glasses, just a promo video with an accompanying blog post detailed some of their characteristics. Apple VR headset may feature a 3000PPI microOLED display. This week we had a new rumor about the XR headset Apple is working on. Apple Event was not about AR, like, at all.

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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. Bonelab is coming on Thursday. More info (Multiplayer Horizon Worlds home) More info (Meta Quest runtime v44).

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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 A new full body tracking technique Some researchers working with Meta have developed a new technology to reconstruct the pose of the full body of the user using only the tracking information coming from the headset and the controllers.

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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.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 1, 2021

AR brings digital content and information into the real world. However, I would like to go into this debate in one of my next blog articles, as otherwise, it would go beyond the scope of this article. The focus is and will be on people and their interactions. The use cases seem sheer endless.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

Luckily there is 5% of information there that I’ve actually found interesting. Abi Bar-Zeev knows that too, and he has written an interesting blog post predicting how Facebook will behave in the upcoming years. People always seem surprised when Facebook announces something that was obviously in its masterplans (e.g.

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Cats and VR

OCTOBER 31, 2016

We're grateful for the incredibly robust development tools of Oculus, NVIDIA, Apple, Epic and other partners that have enabled us to create Obduction.” Details on how to view the screenshots can be found on the NVIDIA GeForce blog: [link]. For more information, visit www.obduction.com

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

So I guess that someone at Pico is leaking information to indirectly say “Don’t buy the Quest 3, we are going to release something better soon”. And this makes me believe that the information is authentic. Yes, it is less than the 5% of Unreal, but until yesterday we only paid per seat, not both per seat and per revenue sharing.

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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?” The blog & social media. From it, ARKit has born, I guess. Also reading books helped me in improving my writing skills.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2020

My blog has just turned 4 years old and I’m incredibly happy about it! Outside VR, the big news to keep an eye on is the dispute between Epic Games and Apple (and Google), which could lead to a complete change in how app stores are managed, even in VR. If you have missed it, I suggest you start from this roundup of posts by The Verge.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 17, 2023

This strategy is focused on four pillars: Empowering people and reinforcing skills to foster awareness, access to trustworthy information and build a talent pool of virtual world specialists. This allows for watching the Vision Pro emulator in stereoscopic VR, giving people the closest simulation possible of the Apple device.

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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. Donate to this blog!

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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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Ryan Schultz

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Question: how hard is it to move from Unity to, say, Unreal, or Godot? There’s zero information about how a “device” will be kept track of, so potentially just changing the hardware in a device will cause the fee to reset. Sansar’s in-house engine looks pretty good right now, eh? Is it an impossible task?

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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. Rob is a big fan of PCVR (he even tried to design a new SteamVR controller , do you remember?) So what is the advantage of a replaceable lens?

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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. If you don’t know what to give me as a Christmas gift, I have an idea for you: donate on Patreon to this blog! Tilt Brush). Will this story change with AR glasses?

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

I think the battle with Apple has just begun. Two years ago, I reviewed on this blog a Unity plugin that Mozilla had released in beta to let you create WebVR experiences from your Unity projects. More info (2 Minutes Paper video about NeRF) More info (Official website with technical information). Why does this matter?

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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. Will a little startup be able to beat the big behemoths like Apple and Facebook? I think we’ll discover it in some months… (You can imagine my excitement in publishing this interview. Hello Kelly!

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

Stay tuned on my blog for updates about this new adventure of mine. HTC has finally unveiled some information on the Vive Cosmos. nReal has also been sued by Epic Games for its name that is too close to “Unreal”. But for now, let me do a recap of the best news of the past week in AR and VR! Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The startup is pretty new, in fact, and its owner group is Megadodo, another unknown company that is working on an MMO game about which is difficult to find any information. My friend Nicolas Esposito of Enter Reality has released Project Rigel, his solution to provide full-body tracking and motion capture for Unreal Engine.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

But this has not been the case: with a brief post on its blog, Sony has announced that there will be a “next-generation” VR device that will work with PS5, but that it will simply not be released this year. More info (Blog article about new Oculus For Business) More info (Official page of Oculus For Business with consumer Quests).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

They could build together something that could seriously compete with Facebook and Apple: let’s keep an eye on them. These are the amazing people and company that support “The XR Week Peek” and “The Ghost Howls” blog in general. All of this running thanks to the power of the Azure cloud. Funny link. Give me a P, an A, T, R, E, O, N!

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

OpenXR has arrived at the first version of the standard, and now it has been implemented by all the major vendors : Microsoft has implemented it for HoloLens and WMR; Oculus for Rift and Quest; Valve has implemented it in SteamVR; etc… Talking about game engines, Unreal Engine now already offers it, while Unity is still lagging behind.

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