The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Apple threatens future support in Unreal Engine. According to an evidence presented by Epic Games, Apple has not only removed Fortnite from the Apple Store, but it has also revoked the status of developer to Epic Games. All Apple software, SDKs, APIs, and developer tools ?—?Pre-release Other relevant news.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 24, 2024

This could mean you can access crucial business tools, from CAD software to Microsoft Teams’ Immersive Spaces. Remember to account for extra fees, like software costs, too. There are also three options, including a Focal option with boosted mixed reality capabilities and a Secure edition for governments and business users.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

Render of the possible upcoming Apple device (Image by Antonio DeRosa). Apple is proposing itself to be the next competitor of Meta. Apple has the most important tech brand, it has a lot of money, it has experience in shipping successful hardware and software, it has compelling content (movies, music, apps), and it has physical stores.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This year saw massive interest in MR headsets following Apple’s Vision Pro debut, and Meta looks to own the space following its experience with MR via its Pro headset. The XR marketplace could experience shockwaves when Apple debuts its headset. Meta is moving towards MR headsets instead of purely VR devices.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

Apple Glasses may release in 2021 for $499. In the end, technologist Jon Prosser has revealed the main details he knows about the Apple Glasses. Well, on another website, I’ve been able to find someone that reading some Apple’s documents has found pictures of strange colored circular tags that may act as QR Codes for Apple devices.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 28, 2022

Tencent Holdings is set to build an extended reality (XR) unit, its immersive wing tasked with developing hardware and software for future metaverse solutions, Reuters reported last week, citing three sources familiar with the matter.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 8, 2024

Innovators like Apple, Meta, Microsoft, and Varjo have revolutionized the space, showing how flexible, versatile, and powerful mixed reality can be. Solutions like the Meta Quest 3 and Apple Vision Pro allow users to choose exactly what type of immersion they want for each use case.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

For example, we invited senior executives from HUAWEI, JBD, HTC, Alibaba, iQIYI, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and so on. Additionally, the government is involved and has played a critical role in the Chinese market, and its policies, both local and national, have effectively promoted the application of VR technology in China.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 6, 2022

How Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony have responded Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony are the three biggest names in console gaming and they've all made moves to cut off Russia, at least to some extent. In the case of Microsoft, the U.S.-based Brad Smith, president and vice chair at Microsoft, suggested further actions could be taken.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 28, 2023

As a leader in industrial-grade VR/XR software and hardware, Varjo already has an outstanding reputation in the enterprise landscape. With the Varjo XR-4 series, the tech leader aims to offer a more affordable and diverse alternative to upcoming headsets like the Apple Vision Pro. All versions feature offline mode functionality.

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Bernard Marr

JANUARY 29, 2024

The problem doesn't so much lie in a lack of software built locally for the Icelandic language but in getting the Icelandic language into the global software and applications that Icelanders use every day – things like social media and news or e-commerce sites.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

These have appeared across Google’s ARCore, Niantic’s Lightship AR developer kit (ARDK), Snap Lens, Meta’s Reality system, and Apple’s ARKit platforms, namely for smartphones. Companies like Lenovo, ARuVR, Microsoft, and ArborXR have mastered such device requirements with administrative account management.

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Bernard Marr

AUGUST 22, 2022

The people are pieces of software called avatars. Satya Nadella , Microsoft MSFT -1.4%. Microsoft’s CEO understands that the metaverse concept will impact every part of the way we do business. Whether it will be Meta, Microsoft, or his own company that defines the way we use it, is up in the air. Eric Schmidt , Google.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

So at least the collaboration with Valve is true, but notice that it has not been on the headset, so they got no reference design from Valve, it has just been on the software integration. And while China always moves chaotically, I think that the push of the government is helping its VR companies. Doug Lombardi, Valve. Learn more.

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EON Reality

JULY 30, 2021

It’s a global project that requires millions of people, which is why the XR giant is recruiting all sizes of governments, academic institutions, and entrepreneurial businesses to participate and help add their own experiences to the knowledge metaverse. This includes supporting most smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktops that over 5.3

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

XR devices are all over the headlines this month; the release of the Apple Vision Pro has brought spatial computing/mixed reality wearables to the forefront of emerging workplace and consumer-based digital solutions. Regular software updates and security patches help guard against new threats.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This week, though, Apple CEO Tim Cook showed he still “thinks different” by telling us what it isn’t – “the future.”. And giants of the world of office and productivity software – Microsoft and Adobe, for example – talk of the “ enterprise metaverse.”.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Regarding the glasses, I have not big hopes for true AR glasses, but I think that thanks to Facebook and Apple, finally we’ll have some important smartglasses entering the market , making the mainstream think about wearing something on their face to enjoy notifications from the phone. Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Apple is having delays in the manufacturing of its XR headset. According to new ultra-reliable rumors (#sarcasm), the AR/VR headset that Apple is working on has a too complex design (whatever it means), so it will have production delays. It is an original approach, but I have to discover more details before saying my opinion about it.

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AR Insider

JULY 15, 2021

It took wave after wave; generations of hardware improvements gated on new technology and manufacturing processes, big software improvements, wider consumer acceptance, low switching cost, and some paid contract plan “subsidies” to get to one billion smartphones. The state of society and our own self-governance is what’s most unknown.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

We may know the field of view of Apple AR headset. Of course, since he has not an Apple HMD, the only thing he could obtain was the screen splitting in two on his phone, showing that view that we XR developers know very well. It is now sure that Apple is going to release an AR headset , the questions are just when and what.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

2020 has been a good year for the sales of VR devices : Half-Life Alyx and the launch of the Quest 2 have created a big spike in the sales of VR hardware and software. I expect all these trends to continue in 2021, for a year that will see the growth of the technology on all its sides (software and hardware).

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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? I’m an electrical/optical/software engineer. We started talking with other professionals in the field, and they always kept saying to us “If Microsoft can’t do it, how can you do it?”. Hello Kelly! Can you introduce yourself?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 24, 2023

Instead, he has concentrated his journalistic efforts on a stereotypical dystopia of avatars and social media white elephants from a caricatured Meta, Microsoft AltSpaceVR, and Decentraland. This fallacy consciously overlooks the massive numbers of startups, tech firms, analysts, experts, and others involved in the industry.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

Moreover, Apple recently made a huge splash in the XR market with the Vision Pro, an XR device which leverages eye and hand tracking for its spatial computing input system. The device does not use controllers at all, instead, Apple believes that with the XR revolution comes increased usability and accessibility via hand/eye-based inputs.

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TechCrunch VR

MARCH 13, 2022

When it finally launched its first product after years of delays, secrecy and hype, tech watchers balked at a device which failed to deliver on many of the claims made by the startup’s eccentric founder Rony Abovitz and instead made largely incremental gains over the competing Microsoft HoloLens which was unveiled years earlier.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 5, 2024

Moving from hype to tangible breakthroughs, 2023 has been an exciting time for Extended Reality (XR) development in hardware and software. The two headsets are expected to expand and proliferate use cases across enterprises, institutions and governments, he explained at the time. This progressed XR from XR 1.0,

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

On the enterprise side, many AR headsets, from firms like RealWear and Microsoft, for on-site usage provide eye and hand-tracking features to optimize workplace operations and communications. It is anticipated that the release of the Apple headset will bring new and innovative tracking technology, which is a hallmark of the company.

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Building the Metaverse

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Web1 was the original World Wide Web, built upon open-source (such as Linux), permissionless development (such as PC software) and open standards (HTML/HTTP). Amazon, Netflix, Google) were built on this ecosystem, or benefitted from expanding into it (Microsoft, Apple). Blockchains become the enabling software stack for this.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

They’ve already got, you know, in your Apple phone, RF detection is already built in. But I think the companies that Microsoft included in the survey were those large companies that have innovation offices. But any kind of a magic-verse is going to be governed by a filter. That’s the beginning. Alan: Interesting.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

They’ve already got, you know, in your Apple phone, RF detection is already built in. But I think the companies that Microsoft included in the survey were those large companies that have innovation offices. But any kind of a magic-verse is going to be governed by a filter. That’s the beginning. Alan: Interesting.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Not merely software code, but critically, ethical, and social codes as well. In the “white mirror” version, we have the opportunity to use these technologies to assist us in working together more effectively to improve our ecologies, economies, and governance models, and leave the world better than the one we entered.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

But its reputation as a video game engine can also be intimidating — especially to those who want to create AR software for enterprise. Paul has been a software developer and technology consultant since 1997 – since before the interwebs! He chats with Alan about his claim to flame.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

But its reputation as a video game engine can also be intimidating — especially to those who want to create AR software for enterprise. Paul has been a software developer and technology consultant since 1997 – since before the interwebs! He chats with Alan about his claim to flame.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

But its reputation as a video game engine can also be intimidating -- especially to those who want to create AR software for enterprise. Paul has been a software developer and technology consultant since 1997 - since before the interwebs! How do people build software -- in 2018 at the time -- what's their workflow?

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ARVR

JUNE 30, 2020

Creating remote MR productions Even ahead of California’s enactment of its mirror legislation, tech giants Apple and Microsoft declared their support for the GDPR and similar legislation in the U.S. “We Apple CEO Tim Cook in a speech at the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners in October 2018.

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Tech Trends VR

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

As researchers continue to push the boundaries of what is possible and companies like Microsoft prototype new haptic devices, we can probably look forward to a near-future where the virtual world will not only look realistic, but also feel real to all our senses. If there’s an elephant in this virtual room, its name is Apple.

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