The Ghost Howls

MARCH 5, 2024

But today’s article is not about me, but about the best tech news, so let me tell you what pieces of XR news I’ve selected this week! This could be useful to let Meta answer to the movies available on the Apple Vision Pro because of Apple TV. But will it be enough now to beat Apple?

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 22, 2023

I was reading Mark Gurman’s latest rumors about the upcoming Apple headset, and I found his article very intriguing. Apple’s products are very popular among content creators (e.g. The seamless transition iPhone X. This is the first Apple keynote I watched hoping for something XR-related.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

My feed on social media is full of posts about the Apple Vision Pro, which has just been released a few days ago. So, as you can expect, a big part of this newsletter will be about Apple’s device, but actually there are also a few interesting pieces of news that regard other products and other companies.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2024

After the announcement of the release date of the Apple Vision Pro, the whole community is just waiting for its preorders to open up this Friday. The headset will be sold in physical stores and on the Apple website. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says that Apple has only 60–80K units available at this time , so most likely they’ll go sold out.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 30, 2023

I’ve read a lot of articles and XR news this week, but actually, at the end of the day, nothing relevant has happened, except for the usual rumor about Apple… so you can close this roundup now… no ok, I’m kidding! This doesn’t sound to me very “Apple”. And by the way, on the personal side, things are going well for me!

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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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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Since we are still in the hype phase for the Vision Pro, this roundup will still be centered a lot on Apple’s device, simply because almost all the VR magazine articles, the Tweets, and whatever people in XR are saying, at this moment is always about the Vision Pro. A single pixel is just the size of a blood cell!

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Road to VR

JULY 31, 2023

Apple Vision Pro is coming next year, not only making for the Fruit Company’s much awaited first XR headset, but also spurring a resurgence in public interest (and likely investment) in the XR space. Apple has a tendency to undervalue gaming initially, though perhaps reluctantly, eventually acknowledges its importance.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Countless articles have been written about something the author doesn’t know and the readers do not know either. The “metaverse” has an unknown article. But it’s good that we keep the point about the article. There is no definition of “metaverse”, nor of its features, or its article.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 29, 2024

This is going to be the week of the Apple Vision Pro, with the first people who preordered it finally receiving the device at home! This is the opposite of what happens when a new iPhone launches: there, the shipping times keep increasing over time. Apple released a new trailer for the headset.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Apple is aiming to launch Vision Pro in February, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. Gurman reliably reported many details of the upcoming headset before it was officially revealed or even acknowledged to exist by Apple. Tim Cook has reaffirmed this window multiple times in recent months, including during the iPhone 15 launch event.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Maria Korolov at the Apple store in Holyoke, Massachusetts. This past weekend, I went to the local Apple store and got a demo of the new Apple Vision Pro headset — the one where you’ll spend a minimum of $3,500 and more likely $4,000 if you buy it. Is the Apple Vision Pro the reason to switch?

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Upload VR

MARCH 27, 2024

That's a lot to add to the empire-building genius column of evidence, but there's also that 2019 article about Twitter's CEO interacting with Zuckerberg which included an anecdote about the billionaire stunning his goats. Is VR Science Fiction Or The Next iPhone? Despite those resources, Apple cancelled its car project.

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Upload VR

MARCH 7, 2024

visionOS is the operating system for Apple Vision Pro, and presumably future Vision headsets too. is to Personas, Apple's realistic virtual avatars. Apple Vision Pro Update Improves Personas Quality visionOS 1.1 Beta noticeably improves the quality and realism of Apple Vision Pro Personas. visionOS 1.1 is now available.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Apple AR/VR headset may rely on a nearby iPhone to work. The latest news on Apple’s upcoming AR/VR visor comes from The Information, which in a report reveals how Apple is working on making its upcoming headset not a fully standalone, but something that works thanks to the processing power of a nearby iPhone.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Apple Vision Pro. Image courtesy Apple.) I recently read a CNN article on Tim Cook and the risk he’s taking with Apple Vision Pro. The gist of it is this: The Vision Pro will be Apple’s riskiest launch in years and could end up being the product that defines Tim Cook’s legacy. Apple Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2022

Apple to launch a second “more affordable” headset in 2025. Since the rumors about the upcoming Apple headset were not enough, the famous Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has thought well to release rumors about the next-generation headset. Other relevant news. Image from the web). Anyway, we’ll see… these are all speculations.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

UploadVR reached out to Google to ask for any additional context that may be useful, and we'll update this article if we get a response. Nearly All’ iPad Apps Will Be Available On Apple Vision Pro “Nearly all” iPad and iPhone apps will be available on Vision Pro, with compatible apps offered “by default,” Apple confirmed.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 13, 2021

iPhone 12 will supercharge mobile AR in 2021. T he iPhone 12 Pro became the first phone to have a back-facing Light Detection and Ranging (Lidar) camera, which enables more sophisticated augmented reality (AR). Before the iPhone 12 was released, AR advertising grew from about half a billion dollars in global revenues in 2019 to $1.41

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

More than 1,000 apps are now available in the App Store for the Apple Vision Pro, an Apple exec has revealed. The announcement comes just over two weeks after the headset launched, at which point Apple said there were 600 apps in the store. million compatible apps. million compatible apps. “We’re

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 4, 2023

I need to rush out this newsletter episode because otherwise tomorrow Apple launches its headset and no one will read my articles: everyone will be too busy reading “The top 5 features of the Apple headset” or “The 7 reasons why the Apple headset can revolutionize peeling potatoes”. But the big question is the “how”.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

At the very first event in Steve Jobs Theater at its new headquarters, Apple Inc. According to Bloomberg, the iPhone X, Apple’s most expensive phone ever , was one of three new models Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook showed off during an event at the company’s new $5 billion headquarters in Cupertino, California, on Tuesday.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Bloomberg published another update on Apple’s headset plans last week, and headlines across the web are shouting Apple is building a VR headset! Bloomberg’s reporting on Apple is historically accurate and the information in the article is broadly in line with previous reports, so I find it credible.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The tech industry is looking to replace the smartphone — and everybody is waiting to see what Apple comes up with. I n 2007, Apple unveiled the iPhone. Apple didn’t invent the smartphone — companies like Palm and Blackberry had been selling them for years. Triangulating Clues in Apple’s AR Roadmap.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Apple headset may have been delayed again. A new week, a new set of rumors about the upcoming Apple Reality One, the most awaited headset in the history of XR. This week we got to know that Apple has just rebranded the operating system of the upcoming device from RealityOS (or rOS) to xrOS. Some articles on the metaverse.

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ARVR

MAY 4, 2021

For example, Apple’s wearables offset iPhone sales declines. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Hearables include devices such as Apple AirPods that could someday house textured and intelligent “audio AR” content. Part of it is the popularity and product/market fit that Apple’s AirPods and Watch have accomplished.

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Mashable VR

JULY 20, 2022

Today in " things we learned on the internet ," TikTok users are sharing a handy iPhone screenshotting tip. You may think you already know how to screenshot on an iPhone, but did you know you could screenshot an entire webpage on your iPhone, then save it as a PDF and revisit its contents whenever your little heart desires?

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Mashable VR

JUNE 18, 2022

Such apps can save articles, Twitter threads, and even entire websites so that you can revisit them. Credit: Screenshot / Apple. Instapaper is a very popular app that offers a highly rated way of saving and storing articles to read later. Instapaper is available for iPhone on the Apple App Store. Instapaper.

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ARVR

JANUARY 29, 2021

© Apple, Inc. While Apple fans have long been waiting for Apple to launch its own augmented and virtual reality ( AR/VR ) wearables, and despite many competitors already presenting market-ready AR glasses and VR headsets , there are still more questions than answers around what Apple’s AR/VR first product will look like.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Trending AR VR Articles: 1. As we’ve examined in light of Apple Glass, smart sunglasses or corrective eyewear compete more in larger markets?—?around But when it comes to integration, there’s one company that has a potentially-greater advantage: Apple. We’re talking synergies with your Watch, Airpods, and iPhone.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2023

A pretty useless one, like all the rumors about Apple and its glasses. And instead… electronic components… wow, only geniuses at Apple could think about it. Let me leave you some articles that talk about how the experience was there. The launch is planned for iPhones this summer. And luckily for you, I have one.

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ARVR

JULY 23, 2020

The Apple glasses I would wear What would it take to make me replace my iPhone with AR glasses? Incoming call on Apple glasses. UI credit: Strahil Hadzhiev Apple glasses are coming. Apple glasses should look like ordinary glasses so people are not afraid of you when they see you on the street Trending AR VR Articles: 1.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Early last month, Apple announced it would introduce a new set of tools to help detect known child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in photos stored on iPhones. The feature was criticized by security experts as a violation of user privacy, and what followed was a public relations nightmare for Apple.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

One of the consequences of the launch of Unity 6 is that Unity also finally released to the public the Unity beta package to develop for VisionOS, so that finally all of us Unity developers can start developing for the Apple Vision Pro, trying our prototypes on the emulator. Great job, Vuzix.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

You have just to scan your face using an iPhone, and then Bigscreen creates the ideal facial interface customized for you. Something that doesn’t surprise me much, considering that is since 2015 that “Apple is coming next year” every year. What is impressive of this device is the form factor: it is incredibly small and lightweight.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 15, 2022

As you’ve read in my other article written today , this is a special day for this blog… but it is also Monday, so I won’t skip writing a new amazing roundup of AR/VR news So, wishing you a happy Ferragosto (the name of today’s holiday in Italy), I leave you to the best XR news of the week! Apple MR headset may cost $2000+.

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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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