The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Viveport is improving a lot, and now HTC is also launching the Vive XR Suite , which will be distributed thanks to the support of a strong network of partners like HP, NVIDIA, Baidu (the Chinese Google), and Accenture. Facebook and Microsoft publish two interesting research projects for VR.

HTC 421

HTC Oculus Conference China 421

The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

On the contrary, Microsoft has worked a lot on the platform, to make it more appealing to enterprise customers. It has released experiences like Microsoft Remote Assist, that let different teams in a company work together to solve maintenance problems. Of course, it will exploit the already awesome Microsoft platform.

Augmented Reality 406

Augmented Reality Magic Leap Leap Motion AR 406

The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

There will be a new launcher, improved graphics, improved in-game camera, production-ready Unity SDK for the creators, improved full-body VR, and much more. The purpose of the group is of course the one of fighting the duopoly of Apple Maps/Google Maps. First of all, the Web3 VR platform has announced version 3.0

Apple 288

Apple Ukraine Samsung Data 288

XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MAY 28, 2024

It’s similar to many of the extended reality developer kits available from companies like Meta, Google, and more. Unity integration: Unity offers comprehensive support for Apple Vision Pro developers, including a visionOS template which forms the foundation of spatial experiences.

Apple 70

Apple Tools Eye Tracking Unity 70

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

With it, experts can see what you see to guide professionals with step-by-step work instructions via a micro display similar to Google Glass or Vuzix. Other devices from Magic Leap and Microsoft’s HoloLens headsets offer deeper levels of immersion. Brian Vogelsang, AR Product Leader for Qualcomm Technologies.

AR 92

AR Magic Leap Miami Head Mounted Display 92

The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Meta announces at Connect Quest Pro and a partnership with Microsoft. There have been a few key announcements at Connect: Meta has launched Quest Pro , its new premium headset, for $1500 Meta announced its focus on a new vertical, productivity Meta has partnered with Microsoft and Accenture to tackle the XR enterprise world.

Apple 412

Apple Hand tracking Microsoft Ukraine 412

The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

As a long-time AR enthusiast, and one of the first to have tried Google Glass in Italy, I have to admit that I will consider AR mainstream only when it will be on glasses that we will wear all day , when we’ll live in a completely shared mixed reality world (the AR Cloud). Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). Sounded good.

Augmented Reality 494

Augmented Reality Magic Leap AR Apple 494

The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

If we sum these features to the other ones added in the past, like hands tracking, Passthrough Shortcut, or the multiple windows in Oculus Browser , we start seeing the first signs of a mixed reality operating system, with which you can interact with the controllers or with the hands in a natural way. Why does this matter?

Oculus 226

Oculus AR Unity Augmented Reality 226

The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

Late to the party after Oculus and Microsoft already released prototypical implementations, but finally Valve has implemented OpenXR into its runtime SteamVR. Unity details its MARS solution. Two new interesting demos for Quest hands tracking. If you want to help them, there is a dedicated Google Form where you can apply.

Sony 323

Sony AR Augmented Reality Czech Republic 323

The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

He has a very interesting working story, having worked for great companies like Microsoft and Fast Company. As John Riccitiello (CEO of Unity) said some years ago , the VR market won’t be interesting enough until it will reach the 10 million users mark. 2022 could be the key year for XR. for a price around $600.

Apple 527

Apple Oculus China Magic Leap 527

The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

Luckily there is AR that is still strong, and we can hope to wear Google AR glasses soon… ah no, they are dead too. For me this is not a fortunate sentence: this is what Alex Kipman said about the HoloLens, a few weeks before the whole Microsoft Mixed Reality division was disbanded and he was fired from the company.

Apple 309

Apple Survey Machine Learning AR 309

The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

This tracker can be worn on the wrist, for a more accurate hand-tracking experience, or be installed on external props (e.g. This is why companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Meta are exploring similar technologies. The Unity Cube ?? (PS Respect for the devs of Cooking Simulator, it is actually a good game.

Apple 325

Apple Simulation Las Vegas Haptic 325

The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

Image by Google). Project Iris is the codename of Google’s AR glasses. According to a report on The Verge, Google is working on AR glasses. The operating system should be Android, but it seems that Google is also building an operating system specific for XR. Image by Microsoft). What about yours?

Microsoft 338

Microsoft Google AR Virtual World 338

The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The OpenXR standard, that aims at standardizing virtual reality hardware and runtime is keeping improving, and in its latest release, it has added new features like experimental overlays and hand tracking extensions. More info (New features of OpenXR) More info (OpenXR in Unity) More info (OpenXR in Microsoft products).

Sony 384

Sony Oculus Controllers Haptic 384

The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Image by Google). Google completely opensources Cardboard. With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard. Google affirms that Cardboard has been a huge success to introduce people into VR, and more than 15 million headsets have been distributed.

Augmented Reality 166

Augmented Reality Google Machine Learning AR 166

The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Microsoft and Samsung may be partnering for an AR device.

Survey 316

Survey Apple AR Samsung 316

VRGuy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Many game engines – such as Unity, Unreal and SteamVR- immediately support it. Eye tracking software converts eye images into gaze direction. Hand tracking software converts hand position into gestures. Google Glass has not been as successful as hoped. Others did this work themselves.

Latency 40

Latency Trends Software Augmented Reality 40

The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Considering that Quest supports multitasking for 2D apps, this is great to use the Quest as a tool to work: you could have Slack in one Window, and Google Doc in another, and work on a document together with your team. Unity has built this nice demo using the Presence Platform. Read more about this news: Project Nazare: [link].

Oculus 477

Oculus AR Tools Unity 477

The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Pepperidge Farm remembers when people wearing Google Glasses were called “Glassholes” and kicked out of shops (a nice prize for having spent $1500 on a new device) and Facebook wants to see if in 2020 there could be similar problems (“Ariassholes” sounds good). That will come in the second step of the project.

Oculus 545

Oculus AR Data Gaming 545