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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Road to VR

JULY 3, 2017

Now that Apple is being open about their interest in VR the company is publicly listing new job postings for a number of roles seeking candidates with VR expertise. See Also: Apple Adds VR Rendering Essentials to MacOS via Metal 2. ” Both roles are part of Apple’s CoreMedia team within their Interactive Media Group (IMG).

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ARVR

DECEMBER 1, 2021

“Metaverse is an embodied Internet where you don’t just look at content, you’re inside it and experience it directly via virtual reality”?—?Mark Photo by Patrick Schneider on Unsplash Virtual reality , as the name suggests, allows users to immerse themselves in an artificially created world that appears real.

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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. XR streaming is already a reality on other cloud platforms. While almost all non-Apple mobile devices run Android, it is also the backbone of many XR headsets.). CloudXR From NVIDIA. Your Forecast: Cloudy.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 26, 2023

Plus, the Unity toolkit allows organizations to build more comprehensive virtual reality and mixed reality experiences too. Apple Similar to Google, Apple has its own dedicated selection of tools and resources created to help developers take advantage of Apple devices for marketing purposes.

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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

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

MARCH 13, 2023

I’ve very limited time, but luckily this week has not been very relevant for the ecosystem, so I’m managing to write this newsletter anyway Top news of the week (Image by Microsoft) AltspaceVR shuts down In one of the saddest moments of the latest years in VR, AltspaceVR has closed its doors.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

And all of this comes in a period when other partnerships between tech giants are happening: remember that some weeks ago, Microsoft closed its streaming service Mixer and allied with Facebook Gaming to fight the quasi-monopoly of (Amazon-owned) Twitch. Unreal Engine can now use your iPhone to record facial animations.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Apple signals interest in location-relevant AR through its geo-anchors and Project Gobi. In partnership with Nvidia, Microsoft, and Cesium, it offers a real-time 3D creation engine for producing immersive mapping and digital twins of real-world locations. How Augmented Reality (AR) is Reshaping the Food Service Industry 3.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 22, 2023

Recently Microsoft noted how MR represents the “ eyes and ears ” of AI. Following a mainstream steer away from the Metaverse by some towards genAI – the latter may be gaining the most focus currently – but roadmaps are already in place by firms such as Microsoft to develop the industrial Metaverse by 2024.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 23, 2024

Meta’s open approach comes as Apple establishes a walled garden ecosystem to support its spatial computing vision. The intention appears straightforward, directly aiming at Apple’s approach to its hardware ecosystem. However, Apple is a notable exclusion; it’s not surprising.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2022

Already the, virtual reality in gaming market is expected to grow to a value of $53.44 Microsoft already stands as one of the biggest gaming companies in the world, thanks to the development of the Xbox ecosystem. XR has rapidly emerged as one of the most powerful new trends in the gaming landscape.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 19, 2024

For example, Copilot in Microsoft Mesh for Microsoft Teams can give each employee a real-time assistant to help them complete tasks. Generative AI can also help generate digital twins of new products, ensuring teams can experiment with different ways to produce lighter and more comfortable virtual reality headsets or smart glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

Microsoft announces Mesh, an XR collaboration platform. Alex Kipman promised us a Microsoft Ignite conference with an amazing level of immersion , and he kept his word. But since Microsoft owns one of those studios (and using it costs around $100K/day if I remember well!), You are all fantastic! Here you are my flower for you!

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

There are quite a handful of platforms that allow you to develop virtual reality and augmented reality apps and content, but it is not easy to find an offline virtual reality school or academy with which to train for those interested in developing AR and VR apps. (Image courtesy RAEng Publications via Pixabay.).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. Microsoft Flight Simulator is adding VR support, but…. Microsoft Flight Simulator is launching on August, 18th, without support for virtual reality.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Apple’s Vision Pro triggered new discourse on the future of virutal, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR). Revealed at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), the Apple Vision Pro has sparked both praise and criticism from the global XR community. Apple is adept at proposing something you didn’t think you needed.

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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. We already knew that Tim likes AR and “what we have to offer” may also be a potato with an Apple brand costing $400. Other relevant news. Image by The Information).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Facebook and Microsoft publish two interesting research projects for VR. This week, Facebook and Microsoft have released two interesting works from their R&D department. 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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VRWorld

JULY 19, 2017

The SDK supports Microsoft HoloLens and Universal Windows Platform (UWP), which will represent the default form for Windows Mixed Reality , Windows 10 Creator’s Edition applications. The company has also added new features to their software to interface with the Microsoft HoloLens on the Universal Windows Platform (UWP).

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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

It isn’t alone, we know of many companies that are spending billions on same, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sony, Magic Leap, Huawei, and others. At its recent Oculus Connect conference, where it was speaking to virtual reality fans and developers, Facebook made it very clear during its keynote “we are building AR glasses.”

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

The Tracker is one of the most successful products sold by HTC: it is mostly used by the VRChat community people to have full-body VR in their favorite social space, or by VR arcades to be able to track props in virtual reality. Of course, Epic is completely against Apple and its vision of its own walled garden.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

In Korea, a TV documentary has used virtual reality to make a mother meet again her daughter Nayeon , who died of blood cancer some months before. I had forecasted it in my predictions for augmented reality in 2020 : AR Cloud wars are starting. Let’s see how Apple and Google will answer. Other relevant news. Great post.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

At GDC 2017 LG showcased a virtual reality headset that was SteamVR compatible: it was a game-changing moment since for the first time a new non-Vive headset would have been compatible with SteamVR tracking and ecosystem. people walking around), so I don't have an apples-to-apples comparison against Santa Cruz.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

This is very intriguing: Oculus has just finished announcing its full line of first generation Virtual Reality headsets (Go, Rift, Quest) and now it has to start talking about its next generation. At the same time, it has already officially stated that it is working on augmented reality glasses.

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VRWorld

JUNE 8, 2016

Case in point is Microsoft’s HoloLens, where a development kit will set you back for $3000. Seebright supports both Apple iOS and Google’s Android, with the Seebright SDK featuring an emulator that works on both platforms. “We recognized the problem of very high barrier of entry for Augmented Reality. .”

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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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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In his 1984 classic Neuromancer, characters entered a virtual reality world called “the matrix” (inspiration for the 1999 film of the same name by the Wachowskis). An Apple AR headset has been a mainstay of the rumor mills for several years, and we expect Facebook to be creating an AR Oculus device.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Magic Leap believes in a future where together with virtual elements there are also virtual characters, like for instance a virtual person that can be your virtual assistant. This is for instance something that Microsoft lacks completely. None of these features are particularly impressive or innovative (e.g.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

All the 3 major VR runtimes (Oculus, SteamVR, Microsoft) are now compatible with OpenXR , and this means that on the runtime layer on PC, now OpenXR has been fully integrated. This means that if you develop an experience using OpenXR, you can run it on Oculus, SteamVR, and Microsoft runtimes with no modification. More info.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: In this week’s VRScout Report, we discuss Oculus Story Studio’s Henry Emmy win, NASA training astronauts with virtual reality gloves, Snapchat flirting with augmented reality, HTC Vive trying to go wireless, and iPhone laying potential plans for VR/AR. to the headset?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

The Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications (FIT) together with various partners from industry including Apple, Ericsson, Huawei, Intel, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and Son y has confirmed the release and official adoption of H.266/Versatile Not a great evolution from Microsoft. 266/Versatile Video Coding (VVC).

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

The AR Content Chicken & Egg Building augmented reality or mixed reality content is hard. 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?

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

I think that this update, together with the last ones, marks the beginning of a mixed reality ecosystem that is being built by Oculus. I think the battle with Apple has just begun. Microsoft has released the news that it is increasing the availability of HoloLens 2 and that tens of thousands of units have been shipped to date.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2019

video) More info (Unreal Engine with Octane Renderer) More info (Wi-fi is not enough for VR streaming). Microsoft has just released its OpenXR implementation, while other companies like Oculus and Epic Games are still working on theirs, and they will be released soon. Apple is working on AR/VR. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

It’s refreshing to see Pimax continuing to develop high-end virtual reality hardware, whilst other players have scaled back their plans, canceled projects, or just offered… radio silence. You can take very long flights in Microsoft Flight Simulator or some very long driving sessions when racing “24 Heures du Mans”.

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