The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Apple Vision Pro 2 may come in 2026 The rumors about the Apple Vision Pro 2 continue. It seems that most of the rumors are aligning on the launch of an Apple Vision Pro 2 in 2026–2027. What a time to be alive! Matt Miesnieks said that the rumor aligns with some things he heard.

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ARPost

JUNE 5, 2023

And Apple ruled a lot of those talks. Bracing for Impact From Apple A big shift is expected this week as Apple is expected to announce its entrance into the XR market. Whether an Apple entrance is real this time or not, AWE is bracing itself. And diversity in the industry is what sets Apple apart. “If

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Upload VR

MAY 28, 2024

Apple Vision Pro is now home to two of VR's best-selling titles, Job Simulator and Vacation Simulator from Owlchemy Labs. Both titles fully support hand tracking – a first for Job Simulator – which launches on Apple Vision Pro at the same time the feature is added to the game on Quest headsets.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

A Unity sign-up page confirmed two of the best-selling VR games are coming to Apple Vision Pro: Job Simulator and Vacation Simulator. USD on Apple Vision Pro. Its port to the Apple Vision Pro will make it one of the biggest titles to date on Apple's platform. UploadVR confirmed Job Simulator will be priced $19.99

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VRGames

AUGUST 19, 2023

Pico, the virtual reality technology owned by ByteDance, appears to be shifting its focus from controllers and towards hand tracking in their next headsets. Their adjustment comes after Apple launched it’s VR solution – Vision Pro back in April this year.

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Upload VR

AUGUST 14, 2023

Kluge Interactive CEO Arturo Perez confirmed to UploadVR the studio is exploring Synth Riders hand tracking support. In a snippet from an upcoming interview we'll publish soon, we asked whether Kluge's future plans include supporting Apple Vision Pro. Perez expressed interest, saying, "we'd like to, but we'll see.

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Upload VR

AUGUST 18, 2023

In the wake of Apple Vision Pro's announcement earlier this year, ByteDance-owned Pico appears to be switching its focus from controllers to hand tracking. Apple, instead, opts for a fresh start with an interface based on a breakthrough combination of eye and hand tracking.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This week, hand-tracking market leader SpectreXR made various strides in innovating in XR input with various partnerships that aim to elevate immersion for XR training applications and user experiences. They’ve built realistic hand interactions for OctoXR that complement Ultraleap’s hand tracking perfectly.

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Road to VR

JUNE 21, 2023

Apple Vision Pro has brought new ideas to the table about how XR apps should be designed, controlled, and built. In this Guest Article, Sterling Crispin offers up a concise guide for what first-time XR developers should keep in mind as they approach app development for Apple Vision Pro.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 30, 2023

Eye and hand-tracking technology is quickly becoming crucial to the extended reality experience. With state-of-the-art sensor technology, XR developers can eliminate the need for clunky controllers. Many of the most advanced vendors in the XR space offer eye and hand tracking to boost user immersion.

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VRScout

MARCH 7, 2022

Customize your hand gestures to activate specific visual and haptic feedback experiences. . The company NuEyes has partnered with ManoMotion to incorporate hand tracking and gesture technology into the NuEyes Pro 3 AR smartglasses, a move that will help make the 5G enabled glasses even more appealing to enterprise customers and even gamers.

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2022

Apple is a notorious black box when it comes to internal projects, although sometimes details based on supply chain rumors shed a sliver of light on what might be happening with the company’s AR/VR headset behind closed doors. The report says Cook “rarely visits the group at its offices away from the main Apple campus.”

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Upload VR

JANUARY 24, 2023

A new report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman provides more details on Apple’s upcoming mixed reality headset, including information on the core interaction mechanism. Quest 2 allows users to control the user interface with hand tracking, but doesn’t include eye tracking technology.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Today it’s a great day for virtual reality: at WCVRI conference, HTC has just announced a kit to provide 6 DOF controllers for Vive Focus and has showcased a hands-tracking technology for the Vive Pro ! Then he described virtual reality advancements, highlighting the dominant role of China and HTC in this technology.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2022

New reports highlight some episodes of the life of Apple XR glasses. This week The Information has written a long report about the history of Apple XR glasses. The post The XR Week Peek (2022.05.23): New info on Apple glasses, Qualcomm glasses go wireless, and more! Google launches “Immersive Stream for AR”.

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VRScout

JANUARY 15, 2022

According to a new report by Bloomberg , Apple’s long-rumored VR/AR headset could be delayed until 2023 due to a combination of technical issues, citing “people familiar with the situation.” We first received word of a potential mixed reality headset in development at Apple back in 2018. Image Credit: Apple.

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Upload VR

MAY 8, 2024

on Apple Vision Pro. An Immersive Story is described as a "Disney+ Original story coming exclusively" to Apple's platform in passthrough mixed reality, offering an hour-long experience. Details are light still, but placing a Marvel fan at the center of a multiversal story with hand tracking certainly sounds intriguing.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

A new cycle of XR The Apple Vision Pro launch has been a disruptive moment for our industry (Image by Apple) As I said in a popular post a few months ago , I think we have entered a new cycle for immersive realities. Huawei and Pico are rumored to be working on an Apple Vision Pro competitor).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 22, 2024

Last week, Siemens, in collaboration with enterprise XR software provider BILT, leveraged Apple Vision Pro headsets to provide on-site electricians with XR instructional overlays. The partnership also gives BILT a place as the newest member of its Xcelerator Ecosystem for scaling enterprise XR solutions.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Many people are analyzing the Apple Vision Pro… including the ones at Meta Here you are with the usual huge roundup of news about the Apple Vision Pro (a roundup in a roundup). This week both Zuck, the CEO of Meta, and Boz, the CTO of Meta, expressed their opinions on the Apple Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2022

Apple WWDC may reveal something about Apple’s upcoming headset. Today is the day of the Apple WWDC event and maybe we can have more info about its upcoming headse t. Anyway, it is more probable that we’ll have some software reveal that hints at Apple’s XR strategy. The Verge) More info (Predictions for Apple at WWDC?—?Bloomberg).

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Puzzling Places marks the latest Apple Vision Pro launch game, available today as a free download. confirms that Puzzling Places , a meditative 3D jigsaw puzzle game, was redesigned from the ground up on Apple Vision Pro to use its eye and hand-tracking interface. Similar to Synth Riders , Realities.io

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2023

The reason is the one I’ve already reported in this newsletter a few weeks ago: after the announcement of the Apple Vision Pro, Samsung has been caught a bit off guard by the announced features and it is now trying to power up its headset so that it will be able to properly compete with Apple’s device.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MAY 28, 2024

The Apple Vision Pro Developer Kit, Apple’s collection of tools designed to support app development, has been available for a while now. In fact, Apple opened the program for applications long before the spatial computing headset ever hit the market. What is the Apple Vision Pro Developer Kit?

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Upload VR

JANUARY 19, 2024

Apple officially revealed the Vision Pro specs when opening preorders today. It introduces new features never before shipped, and its visionOS fuses eye tracking and hand tracking for intuitive input with a unique take on the spectrum of immersion. Apple says the battery will last for 2 hours of general use or 2.5

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Upload VR

JULY 5, 2023

You can try Apple Vision Pro's eye tracking based interface on your Quest Pro with this sideloadable recreation. Supernova Technologies built the recreation with its Nova UI framework for Unity to promote the middleware.

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Upload VR

MAY 22, 2023

Phil Schiller, who leads the App Store, pushed for Apple's upcoming headset to have a "strong gaming component", Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. The report published this weekend is a rundown of the key Apple executives behind the hardware, software, content and marketing of the headset expected to be branded Apple Reality Pro.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 17, 2024

It appears that innovative digital healthcare solution providers are taking note of the recently released Apple Vision Pro. Veyond Metaverse provides medical professionals with AI-ready XR learning and remote collaboration technologies. The Apple Vision Pro is becoming a hotbed for healthcare solutions; this should be no surprise.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Apple has around 3000 people working on its upcoming AR/VR headset, The Information reports. According to recent public filings, Apple employed approximately 164,000 people in September of this year while Meta had 87,314. But adding this screen apparently made the development of its camera passthrough technology more difficult.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2022

Someone in the communities argued with me that HoloLens 2 has still some advantages over Magic Leap 2: it is well integrated with Azure, it is standalone so it doesn’t need a potentially dangerous cable connecting the headset to the computational unit, and it doesn’t need controllers (it uses hands tracking). Other relevant news.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 30, 2022

For years, human beings have been searching for better methods of communicating and interacting with technology. Even in 2007, when Apple announced the first iPhone, Steve Jobs was keen to get rid of the stylus for touchscreen management, arguing separate controllers and devices make using technology more cumbersome.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Apple reportedly cut full body tracking from Vision Pro "years ago". Vision Pro has downwards-facing cameras, announced as being for hand tracking. 0:00 / 0:23 1× Apple Vision Pro's sensor array includes downwards cameras. 0:00 / 0:23 1× Apple Vision Pro's sensor array includes downwards cameras.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 18, 2023

Apple reportedly indefinitely postponed its AR glasses, but plans to eventually release a more affordable headset model. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that standalone Apple Glasses had at one point years ago been planned for 2023. Glasses Shelved. Some startups like Nreal have already released primitive AR glasses.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Notably, a big market shifting factor is Apple’s entry, Shen noted: I think having Apple come in has really validated everything that we’ve invested in, in our hardware, our platform, our infrastructure, and we’ve seen a lot more interest in this space and even this show (MDC 2024).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 2, 2024

2024 is here, and following my own extensive coverage last year, it seems that certain technology giants are aiming to reinvigorate mainstream XR with a range of new solutions and hardware. Apple was a significant headline stealer last year after the firm unveiled its Vision Pro headset at WWDC 2023. When will the Vision Pro Debut?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 15, 2023

Some selected developers have received the Apple headset. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who is considered a reliable reporter about Apple, claimed that “a small number of high-profile software developers” have already received the Apple mixed reality headset to start developing content for it. Vooiage Technologies. Lynn Eades.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Subscribe to find out more [link] #Nreal #iPhone14 #iPhone14Pro #Apple. Nreal first teased the technology crossover before Apple’s technology showcase last Wednesday. Apple 14 adopters can use their new smartphone as a controller for the Nreal Air smart glasses. Nreal (@Nreal) September 15, 2022.

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