XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In recent years, we’ve discovered just how powerful technology can be in delivering information to those who need it most. Meta (Oculus). With the Oculus ecosystem, schools and professional training companies alike are beginning to scale their virtual curriculums for a wide range of use cases. That’s where Unity comes in.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

He has a very interesting working story, having worked for great companies like Microsoft and Fast Company. In the interview with me, he talked about many topics, like the rumors he heard on Apple Glasses, on the Oculus Quest 2 , the America vs China war, XR entrepreneurship, Tesla, and more! 2022 could be the key year for XR.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Offering a convenient way to provide consumers with product information, enhanced shopping experiences, and better customer service, XR is quickly becoming a table stakes part of the new digital retail space. In recent years, Microsoft has begun making a name for itself as perhaps the most significant innovator in the mixed reality space.

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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. That is if every company implemented OpenXR, a program built for the Oculus should work with SteamVR as well. Image by Oculus).

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

SAP shapes the future of work with Unity. That’s changing with the SAP Extended Reality Cloud (XR Cloud), which is based on Unity’s platform and enables the development of mixed reality applications. To make it easier for Unity developers to integrate SAP data into Unity, SAP recently launched the Unity Integration Toolkit.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 28, 2023

Today I want to take you on a journey on one of the coolest prototypes I’ve ever worked on, which is about creating Unity applications that can dynamically modify their logic at runtime depending on the user’s needs thanks to generative artificial intelligence. Cubes are easy to do. It got thousands of downloads.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

But now a new report from The Information informs us that it is also building its own operating system for those glasses, and it won’t be based on Android (like most of the operating systems for mobile devices, including standalone headsets), but made entirely custom. This is something we already knew. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 15, 2023

Image by The Information). Thanks to this, the card will be able to keep two Wi-Fi connections at the same time: one towards a router to have an internet connection, and the other directly to another device, like the Oculus Quest. Congress is stopping the acquisition of more Microsoft IVAS headset. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

BTW, I’ve managed to found some time here and there to write this newsletter, because I’m happy to inform you of the community, especially my Patrons that always cheer for me (have you considered supporting me on Patreon as well?). Image by Oculus). The other bombshell news is that Resident Evil 4 is coming to the Oculus Quest 2.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

This week has mostly been in the sign of Oculus, with many news and updates from the brand controlled by Facebook. Before leaving you to the best news of the week, I would like to highlight two notable things about my work: My crazy trolling game “The Unity Cube” has been featured in a video by Upload VR! Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Oculus has also partnered with Virtuclear to offer prescription lenses for the Quest 2 for $80. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Image by Microsoft). Microsoft ramps up distribution of HoloLens 2 and Kinect For Azure. Microsoft is working to improve the distribution of its latest devices: HoloLens 2 and Kinect For Azure. Oculus delays shipments of the Elite Strap due to breakage reports. Other relevant news. New details on the Lynx MR headset.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The flexible Oculus environment has already become the platform for a range of virtual museum, gallery and concert experiences hosted around the globe. Meta’s Oculus team have already partnered with leading companies like Sony Music to give fans an immersive way to explore music videos and unique content.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The startup is pretty new, in fact, and its owner group is Megadodo, another unknown company that is working on an MMO game about which is difficult to find any information. While Oculus is getting all the glory for the Quest, its competitors are not sleeping. Notwithstanding all this hate, the Oculus Quest 2 is selling very well.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

We can say the new cycle started with the announcement of the Apple Vision Pro , because that has been a disruptive moment for our market: Road To VR’s Ben Lang says that it has been the most important moment for virtual reality after Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus , and I agree. Photoshop is doing the same.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2021

The first interesting forecast is about the number of sold Oculus Quest 2 headsets. Microsoft too had to lose $10B to let Xbox enter the gaming console market and compete with PlayStation. Image by Microsoft). Unity releases free guide on mobile development optimization. But actually, this has not happened. Judge James E.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

The Oculus Quest 2 continues its march towards mainstream adoption. It wouldn’t be a normal week without some news about Facebook and/or the Oculus Quest. In all this promotional message, he said two interesting pieces of information. Mathew Olson from The Information (subscribe to his awesome newsletter !)

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2020

We will be working with our partners to finalize the details and will share more information about our plans in the coming weeks.” Before the postponement, a litany of companies stepped back from GDC 2020 such as Epic, Microsoft, Unity, Sony, Electronic Arts, Facebook, and Kojima Productions.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Update (12:20 PM ET) : Tim Sweeney has confirmed in a Game Informer interview that VR games will have a home on the platform, although the store “doesn’t have any sort of VR user interface.” Epic Games Store is said to launch soon and begin what Sweeney calls “a long journey to advance the cause of all developers.”

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

Zuck has released an interview to The Information and inside it, we can find the interesting information (pun intended) that now more than 10,000 people are working on AR/VR at Facebook. In September, the new Facebook Avatars will come and substitute the current Oculus avatars. Read about Microsoft’s Ignite conference.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

As pointed out in one of the Unity Developers’ blog posts , aside from the exponential rise of development businesses, we’re also seeing more developer tools, such as the Unity and Unreal engines, becoming more accessible. We’re already seeing key metaverse players coming together in the collaboration between Meta and Microsoft.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

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). References found in Quest 2 firmware hint to Quest Pro features.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 18, 2017

One of the devices that generates the greatest interest among the tech community at the moment is Microsoft HoloLens. Development: Unity , Vuforia , Microsoft Visual Studio , Windows 10 SDK , HoloLens Emulator (if you do not have a device). Unity helps developers to manipulate this HoloLens feature in many ways.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Here are just some of the tech stocks many are looking at right now (in no particular order): Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) For the people who brought you the Hololens 2, probably the most sophisticated pair of mixed reality smart glasses out there to date. A person who chooses to invest in any securities should do so with caution.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Oculus devices will require a Facebook login. The enormous piece of news of the week is tha t Facebook has communicated that from October, 20th, all people that want to use an Oculus device for personal use will have to use their personal Facebook account to log in. Top news of the week. Image by Tweakanalogy). The same on Twitter.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

We can deploy to a vast of platforms using game engines like Unity, Unreal Engine, the more recent Godot engine or any of the other engines out there, which have all started to add VR features”. we can’t use OpenVR and choose to execute directly in Oculus runtime); that will be dictated by the API/SDK we are using instead. .:

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

A report on Bloomberg informed us all that Magic Leap is exploring a sale of the company. And while this is anyway a good result for a startup (developing an AR headsets means spending billions in R&D), targeting the consumer market has been a suicide move , that let Microsoft get full control of the profitable enterprise market.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2020

New Oculus Venues gives us a glimpse of Facebook Horizon. Without previous notice, Facebook has started rolling out a new version of Oculus Venues, for now available only to selected beta users. After having read this post, I think that people at Unity and Unreal Engine should do something to fix this issue. Image by Facebook).

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VRScout

MARCH 14, 2018

Sinespace was built using the Unity game engine allowing for an easily customizable as well as upgradable experience. Sinespace is currently available on PC via download or a web client, all OpenVR compatible headsets including the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Microsoft Mixed Reality, with plans for iOS and Android releases in the near future.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

This shows once more how our road towards mainstream AR is still very long Next year the company should still release the Hypernova smartglasses , very likely an upgraded version of Ray-Ban Stories with a display to show contextual information The Portal video communication appliance will become a device dedicated only to enterprises.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Augmented reality is a technology that allows us to superimpose digital information into the real-world environment. Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. Microsoft Hololens is a key player in the MR market.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Although Unity 3D is undoubtedly the most common and trained standards for developing and deploying augmented and virtual reality application for both beginner or expert developer, it is cannot be employed for developing content for some headsets. You also give 5% of net revenues per quarter although its free to use.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

Last year, it was still called Oculus Gaming Showcase, and it featured important updates on games like Pistol Whip, The Climb 2, I Expect You To Die 2, and Resident Evil 4 VR. Ruth Bram, Executive Producer at Oculus Studios, will be the host of the show. Pico Neo 3 , Vive Focus 3 , Oculus Quest 2 ) only offer Wi-Fi connectivity.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

Image by The Information). Talking about more reliable leaks, developer Luboš V with the support of Basti564 has found references of a multiplayer Oculus Home in the Quest firmware, so it seems that very soon the home space of the Quest will let everyone invite more people. Microsoft Maquette gets discontinued. Image by Meta).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 28, 2023

Don’t rely just on information you find online, and don’t trust at all what the West says about the East. While still in Italy, I verified that Microsoft Teams, Unity, and Github were accessible from China. Oculus Quest Me and my Quest 2 When I’m at home, the Quest is the headset that I use the most.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

What virtual avatars, creatures, information layers or interactive components are here. They could be layers of information, such as instructions, directions, tourist information, information about objects in the location, or game characters, artworks or virtual scenes.

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VRScout

JANUARY 21, 2017

Unfortunately, when it comes to immersive experiences, WebVR sits backstage, while VR headsets from HTC, Oculus, Playstation VR, Google and Samsung soak up all the limelight. If you’re interested in entering the hackathon, you can find more information at virtuleap.com.

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