The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Someone invokes saviors like Google and Amazon, but even if they managed to succeed, they are other data-harvesting companies , so in any case, we are f**ked. Apple threatens future support in Unreal Engine. All Apple software, SDKs, APIs, and developer tools ?—?Pre-release The same on Twitter. Other relevant news.

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AllThingsVR

MAY 23, 2017

Weekly Funding & People Roundup: Google acquires Owlchemy Labs VR game studio, Improbable grabs $502M, Vivid Vision raises $2.2M, Oculus’s first employee just left 1) Google has acquired the VR game studio behind such popular gaming titles as Job Simulator and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality. Read more here. Read more here.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

One-year price performance for MSFT, AAPL, GOOGL, SNE, and NVDA According to the latest report from Statista , the global augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) markets are rapidly growing and are forecast to reach a total of $72.8 Last year, Google also acquired North, an AR smart glass manufactures.

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VRScout

JULY 11, 2017

Google wants you to play with Blocks, this smartphone wants you to get rid of your headset, a new marketplace connecting content creators with funding, the price of the Oculus Rift is slashed, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… 1. GOOGLE WANTS YOU TO PLAY WITH BLOCKS. THIS SMARTPHONE WANTS TO MAKE HEADSETS OBSOLETE.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Unreal Engine 4 is also an industry standard although it has a steeper learning curve than Unity. Examples are HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Cardboard and other that are now very popular VR platforms for building experiences. Google VR SDK is popular for building virtual reality applications for Android and iOS.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

It is not an app, but a tool to build apps. Microsoft Mesh is a full suite of tools to let you build your multi presence collaborative XR application. If Microsoft commits to building this platform and doesn’t abandon it (a la Google), it can become an incredible tool for us developers. Image by HTC).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2022

While there are various XR vendors on the market today with powerful tools for those in the gaming landscape, some stand out as particularly innovative. With tools like “Mesh” to help developers jump into MR, we’re likely to see a host of innovative creators exploring the Microsoft ecosystem in the years to come.

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ARVR

JULY 15, 2020

source code is also provided as support for developers to make their own AR tools. #3: You probably have heard of well-known models such as the Oculus Go, Oculus Rift, Playstation VR, and HTC VIVE?—?these For example, the Google Cardboard headset is only $20 !!! By the way, all these softwares are free of charge!

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ARVR

MAY 27, 2021

Danny Bittman Danny Bittman is a VR Artist and Creative Director known for bridging industry-standard workflows with VR tools for commercial projects. He’s worked with Google, Under Armor, Hyundai, VMWare, and more. So I began to pick up 3D modeling, and just months later the HTC Vive was released. Trending AR VR Articles: 1.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

One of the leading platforms for software development added improved support for Google’s upcoming Daydream VR platform. The new Google VR SDK 1.0 We have also made it easy to switch in and out of VR mode so that your applications can easily expand to the Google VR audience.”

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

This year’s 70+ person judging panel included academic professors and researchers as well as representatives from Google, HTC, HP, Deloitte, NVIDIA, Apache, and others. The experience now sits in the hall of fame with Google Tilt Brush , which won the category in 2017. Make Real uses VR technology for tools and entertainment.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 28, 2018

Because using VR is currently more tiring to be used, 2D is more effective… I forced myself to develop in VR for VR in order to push the boundaries of the currently available tools, test unreleased hardware and explore short and long-term effects of repeated extended immersions, not because it is more convenient.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

I wonder if Facebook has already taken the decision of leaving the enterprise market to HTC and Pico , while focusing on the much bigger piece of cake of the consumer market. Let’s see how Apple and Google will answer. Google Glass 2 is now available for direct purchase. I think we’ll discover it “soon”.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

HTC has finally revealed the price of the Vive Pro : it will cost $799 just to have the headset (no controller and no base stations, so you must already have a Vive 1 kit) and will be available for pre-orders since April, 5th. But, as Road To VR has stated, maybe HTC should have clarified that in all its marketing material.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 11, 2017

It released with the launch of the HTC Vive in early 2016 and Facebook’s Oculus Touch controllers for Rift late in the year. Other teams in this group include Survios ( which is funded by investors to the tune of $50 million ) and Owlchemy Labs ( acquired by Google ). Embracing New Tools. ” Moore recalls thinking.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Joseph Toma : [From the presentation], although the hardware will inevitably evolve, we are years away from consumers and businesses adopting these tools. Apple also presented the Vision Pro as a productivity tool, rather than simply entertainment hardware. This is likely to change before the release date.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Rikard Steiber (HTC), Joel Breton (HTC). As President of Viveport and Head of Vive Studios respectively, Rikard Steiber and Joel Breton are two of the most senior figures working on the HTC Vive today. Alon Or-bach (Samsung Electronics), Kaye Mason (Google). Stefan Walker (Google), Luca Prasso (Google).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

High-precision 6DOF tracking, eye tracking, gesture inputs, with dedicated input controllers The SDK will support Unity , with Unreal coming Soon. More and more vendors will target consumers, both with full-fledged AR glasses and with devices more like Google Glass for information display (e.g. All APIs have a plain C version.

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VRWorld

MAY 27, 2016

Just in time for E3 2016, WorldViz will bring support for Unreal Engine 4 and Unity 5 on most popular devices such as Google Daydream VR, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, and Sony PlayStation VR. meters i.e. 26,910 sq. feet are covered with a single device.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Google) Google killed its AR glasses Project Iris Do you remember the name Project Iris? Various reports indicated it as the internal codename in Google for a project meant to build augmented reality glasses. It was our hope for Google entering the AR race together with Meta and Apple.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Such tools needed a strong ROI to “compensate for those costs,” namely by reducing risks and creating on-demand training solutions. From a top-down perspective, technology firms needed to create “complex” systems for digital assets with “the geometry, rig, animation, shaders,” and other tools.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

And building those back-end tools, coding, setting up standards and everything, up to 2011. Alan: So how is IKEA using these tools now? Alan: Maybe you can talk about how the vision of the future-- you've been doing this since 2007, you've seen 3D morph into this accessible tool to everybody. Martin: Yeah. Alan: Exactly.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

And building those back-end tools, coding, setting up standards and everything, up to 2011. Alan: So how is IKEA using these tools now? Alan: Maybe you can talk about how the vision of the future-- you've been doing this since 2007, you've seen 3D morph into this accessible tool to everybody. Martin: Yeah. Alan: Exactly.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

And building those back-end tools, coding, setting up standards and everything, up to 2011. Alan: So how is IKEA using these tools now? Alan: Maybe you can talk about how the vision of the future-- you've been doing this since 2007, you've seen 3D morph into this accessible tool to everybody. Martin: Yeah. Alan: Exactly.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

So how do you create a powerful, strong camera, 360 camera tool, but also give it the ease of use of a consumer product, and not have to spend too much time in post and all those things? You see Google. What this does is it uses a technology that Google made popular some years ago and it uses something called dynamic rendering.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

So how do you create a powerful, strong camera, 360 camera tool, but also give it the ease of use of a consumer product, and not have to spend too much time in post and all those things? You see Google. What this does is it uses a technology that Google made popular some years ago and it uses something called dynamic rendering.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

So how do you create a powerful, strong camera, 360 camera tool, but also give it the ease of use of a consumer product, and not have to spend too much time in post and all those things? You see Google. What this does is it uses a technology that Google made popular some years ago and it uses something called dynamic rendering.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond. But then you look at Unreal. You're seeing the world go digital and the creation tools to make such exploding. You have HTC in China dominating the Chinese market with their headsets. What was your biggest challenge? You look at Epic. 30 percent."

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond. But then you look at Unreal. You're seeing the world go digital and the creation tools to make such exploding. You have HTC in China dominating the Chinese market with their headsets. What was your biggest challenge? You look at Epic. 30 percent.".

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ARPost

JUNE 27, 2019

However, the company is partnered with household names like nvidia, Unity, Unreal Engine, and HTC. Live Client is a tool for facial motion capture. It’s a kind of more complicated version of the collaborative editing that you may be familiar with through tools like Google Drive.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond. But then you look at Unreal. You're seeing the world go digital and the creation tools to make such exploding. You have HTC in China dominating the Chinese market with their headsets. What was your biggest challenge? You look at Epic. 30 percent.".

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2020

Outside VR, the big news to keep an eye on is the dispute between Epic Games and Apple (and Google), which could lead to a complete change in how app stores are managed, even in VR. The HTC Cosmos Play will be an enterprise headset. Now HTC has changed its mind, and the Play has become an enterprise headset.

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VRScout

MAY 1, 2017

That’s why Mozilla, the makers of the popular FireFox web browser, are advocating their open source JavaScript API WebVR platform and HTML framework A-Frame to make it easier to design internet-based VR apps that run within cheap smartphone headsets or the more powerful Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. WebVR is one of these technologies.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In a side event happening after AWE, HTC has announced a bunch of updates of Vive Focus 3 that have the potential of revolutionizing the Location Based Entertainment in VR (LBEVR o LBVR) sector. Google to put all its experimental projects inside “Labs” division. Be sure to tune in if you want to participate in this interesting event!

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Horizon World is more or less what we all expect from it: a clone of RecRoom with intuitive and simple creation tools, that at the moment let you just add basic geometric shape and some logic. It is a big showcase demo for its Unreal Engine 5, and I have to say it is pretty impressive. The m**averse hype is attracting investors.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Michael: And this is why I’ve been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building — there’s VRTK for Unity… there’s just all these tools. So, what are some of the tools that you’ve seen used really effectively to create this content? The tools are here.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Michael: And this is why I’ve been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building — there’s VRTK for Unity… there’s just all these tools. So, what are some of the tools that you’ve seen used really effectively to create this content? The tools are here.

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