The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

Qualcomm releases XR2 5G reference design. Qualcomm has finally released the reference design for AR/VR headsets based on the XR2 chipset (a special version of the Snapdragon 865 for XR headsets), and it will pave the way for the standalone headsets of the future. Image by Microsoft). (Image by Qualcomm). News worth a mention.

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VRScout

MAY 7, 2018

Brought to us by immersive and interactive design studio Cutmod, VR Massage is a trip, out-of-body experience which involves a VR headset, a Microsoft Kinect camera and a real-life massage therapist. Upon first entering the exhibit i was instructed to lay on a specially-designed massage table fitted with an HTC Vive headset at the face rest.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

This could actually be quite beneficial for Meta, Microsoft, and Magic Leap. For example, they are lowering the cameras and sensors so users’ hands aren’t getting tired. The reveal that Apple will be using Unity to bring 3D applications and games to Vision Pro was exciting. Brian Meaney, Head of Product, Alteon.io

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Example of BVH for a 2D scene: on the left you can see the geometry of the scene (the green triangles) and the bounding elements enclosing them (those orange squares) and on the right the resulting BVH tree, that the GPU has to traverse (Image by NVIDIA). RTX games use the Microsoft DX12 DXR ray tracing API. What about Unity, instead?

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

For larger companies looking to connect their entire team with HoloLens 2 headsets, Microsoft is offering a package that includes Dynamic 365 Remote Assist on each MR headset at the cost of $125 per user – per month. If you’re a developer working on your own, Microsoft offers the HoloLens 2 Development Edition.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

If you make a custom device for VR only, you can design it from day zero to be optimal to do only VR : this means that even if the Go is based an old VR 821 reference design, it has more power than a Gear VR mounting an S7 phone (and dissipates better the heat); The Oculus Go headset and controller (Image by Road To VR).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

References found in Quest 2 firmware hint to Quest Pro features. References found in the Oculus Quest 2 firmware by users Reggy04 and Basti564 highlight how the Quest 2 Pro should have: Eyes tracking Facial expressions tracking Eye relief knob Granular IPD adjustment External charging station. Top news of the week. Image by Facebook).

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

Daniel: So, Happy Finish -- or HF, as we're now more commonly referring to ourselves -- we're really in the space of creating content and experiences for grand clients, right from the very beginning. You've done all sorts of things. Tell us, what is Happy Finish? You've done all sorts of things. Tell us, what is Happy Finish?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

Daniel: So, Happy Finish -- or HF, as we're now more commonly referring to ourselves -- we're really in the space of creating content and experiences for grand clients, right from the very beginning. You've done all sorts of things. Tell us, what is Happy Finish? You've done all sorts of things. Tell us, what is Happy Finish?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

This is the first post in a series of technical posts in which we will be covering the bare bones of a Virtual Reality API (Application Programming Interface) and coding a few examples using it. You may be saying “Come on! As a developer, we haven’t control over the runtime in which our application will execute (i.e.:

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

The third major change came from Unity which recently announced that it will now be serving AR ads on mobile. Unity has one of the world’s largest mobile ad serving businesses and at the end of last year they partnered with Fossil to pilot this new ad format in mobile games. I call them the “Incarnations”.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 4, 2017

Microsoft is using the term “Mixed Reality” as an umbrella to encapsulate VR, AR, and all other related devices. For reference, I am currently using the HP headset on an HP Omen machine, which has a GTX 1060 GPU and Intel i5-7400 CPU with 8GB of RAM. Right off the bat let’s clarify that verbiage. Final Thoughts.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

Daniel: So, Happy Finish -- or HF, as we're now more commonly referring to ourselves -- we're really in the space of creating content and experiences for grand clients, right from the very beginning. You've done all sorts of things. Tell us, what is Happy Finish? You've done all sorts of things. Tell us, what is Happy Finish?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Meta’s Horizon Worlds metaverse is a basic example of this. a term popularized about a decade ago, refers to deploying technologies with the potential to enhance industries. At Microsoft Inspire 2023, Microsoft announced it would enhance its industrial metaverse initiative. For those who don’t know, Industry 4.0,

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

For example, Fortnite is built by them. Or if you want to train somebody on-- take the example of training. I can give you an example in construction. This is just one simple example: not having to fly a film crew to Fiji to film a car ad on a beach. And some of them are built on Unity, others are built on Unreal.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

For example, Fortnite is built by them. Or if you want to train somebody on-- take the example of training. I can give you an example in construction. This is just one simple example: not having to fly a film crew to Fiji to film a car ad on a beach. And some of them are built on Unity, others are built on Unreal.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2023

For reference, my head is 59cm meaning I take a medium-sized bicycle helmet, albeit at the upper end for medium. Eye Tracking Apart from sessions a few years ago using the HTC Vive Pro Eye and Microsoft Hololens, I didn’t have any experience with eye tracking.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

For example, Fortnite is built by them. Or if you want to train somebody on-- take the example of training. I can give you an example in construction. This is just one simple example: not having to fly a film crew to Fiji to film a car ad on a beach. And some of them are built on Unity, others are built on Unreal.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Smart glasses give remote experts a see-what-I-see view of the work, providing step by step oversight through Microsoft Teams, Webex, Zoom, or some other common application. For example, the new ThinkReality VRX includes pancake optics, offering better resolution and being thinner and lighter, as well as full-color pass through.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2019

He’s been pushing the envelope of this technology and software for the Microsoft Hololens, and recently built an app for the global launch event of the next generation Hololens 2. To learn more about the work that Greg and his team at Bentley are doing, visit bentley.com. What do I do? Greg: Well, there’s a lot of ways to do it.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2019

He’s been pushing the envelope of this technology and software for the Microsoft Hololens, and recently built an app for the global launch event of the next generation Hololens 2. To learn more about the work that Greg and his team at Bentley are doing, visit bentley.com. What do I do? Greg: Well, there’s a lot of ways to do it.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2019

He's been pushing the envelope of this technology and software for the Microsoft Hololens, and recently built an app for the global launch event of the next generation Hololens 2. I mean, a lot of people just-- anything you can get into Unity, you can basically get into VR or mixed reality experience, unless they're like custom one-off apps.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

But for real-time spatial computing technologies — like XR, for example — that just won’t cut it, especially when it could mean life or death. But let’s dig into what an actual example, of why you would need to map out the world in real-time like that. Terry: Yeah. Terry: Sure. meters, but it’s not.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

But for real-time spatial computing technologies — like XR, for example — that just won’t cut it, especially when it could mean life or death. But let’s dig into what an actual example, of why you would need to map out the world in real-time like that. Terry: Yeah. Terry: Sure. meters, but it’s not.

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 1, 2020

The Microsoft-owned company is now compatible with Vive, Oculus headsets, and Gear VR, and users can also access it without a VR headset via a desktop app. However, the advanced tools require knowledge of the Unity development and design platform. Pricing: AltspaceVR is free to use. See more details on premium pricing here.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

They're creating kind of reference designs for the world to build on. Twelve months ago I put a prediction on LinkedIn saying that I thought -- based on some of the things that we're seeing coming out of Unity -- that Unity was going to go public within the next 12 months. That was a year ago. And so, we'll see what happens.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

They're creating kind of reference designs for the world to build on. Twelve months ago I put a prediction on LinkedIn saying that I thought -- based on some of the things that we're seeing coming out of Unity -- that Unity was going to go public within the next 12 months. That was a year ago. And so, we'll see what happens.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

They're creating kind of reference designs for the world to build on. Twelve months ago I put a prediction on LinkedIn saying that I thought -- based on some of the things that we're seeing coming out of Unity -- that Unity was going to go public within the next 12 months. That was a year ago. And so, we'll see what happens.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 26, 2019

For example, in a warehouse, instead of a pick-and-pack worker looking at a nine-digit code on their screen and trying to find that box in space, you can actually just have a marker right on the box itself. They refer to something called a digital twin. For example, that engine. In the Internet of Things sort of industry 4.0

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 26, 2019

For example, in a warehouse, instead of a pick-and-pack worker looking at a nine-digit code on their screen and trying to find that box in space, you can actually just have a marker right on the box itself. They refer to something called a digital twin. For example, that engine. In the Internet of Things sort of industry 4.0

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 26, 2019

For example, in a warehouse, instead of a pick-and-pack worker looking at a nine-digit code on their screen and trying to find that box in space, you can actually just have a marker right on the box itself. They refer to something called a digital twin. For example, that engine. In the Internet of Things sort of industry 4.0

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Even the big players like Sony, Apple, and Microsoft have substantially reduced their production estimates for 2022, whilst processor manufacturers talk of delays into 2024. This fee had included a suite of useful reference hardware to build tracked objects with, which could also be disassembled and reused to build prototypes. .

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 19, 2019

I just like that as one very tangible example of this is actually ultimately saving lives by helping people avoid these mistakes. One of the examples that I put in that article -- and on the preceding presentation that it did on it -- was exactly that; real, three-dimensional anatomy. But Taylor can talk about some of those examples.

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VRGuy

AUGUST 1, 2016

For example, head tracking can come from optical trackers or inertial ones. Many game engines – such as Unity, Unreal and SteamVR- immediately support it. For those that want to design their own hardware, the OSVR goggle is a good reference design. For example, DAQRI integrated a plugin that detects objects in a video stream.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

Unluckily, in the last 12 months it has happened to me that on two platforms I tried to make a reference to another competitor platform in the environment (a little reference), and I was asked to remove it otherwise my experience would have been removed. Epic has implemented it, and Unity is doing that too. Eye tracking.

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Ryan Schultz

AUGUST 23, 2022

In chapter 5 (Networking), Ball uses popular games such as Microsoft Flight Simulator to explain concepts such as network bandwidth and latency, and how game and metaverse companies work around such limitations. For example, users may need to give other users explicit levels of permission to interact in given spaces (e.g.,

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