The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2021

Microsoft too had to lose $10B to let Xbox enter the gaming console market and compete with PlayStation. It’s a good moment for VR: thanks to the strong sales of the Oculus Quest 2 and the rumors of Apple entering the space soon, there is much more confidence in the future of immersive technologies. Image by Microsoft).

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The incumbents have an advantage with existing mapping such as Google Maps, Earth, Street View, Apple Maps and the Indoor Maps Program, and Bing Maps but there are also significant geographic data players such as Foursquare and OpenStreetMap. In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

First, HTC delays the Vive until April 2016, with plans to show an updated developer kit at CES in January. At the end of the month, Oculus officially delays the release of Touch controllers until the last half of 2016. January 2016. February 2016. March 2016. April 2016.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 24, 2023

Instead, he has concentrated his journalistic efforts on a stereotypical dystopia of avatars and social media white elephants from a caricatured Meta, Microsoft AltSpaceVR, and Decentraland. Imagine an internet where only Apple computers can connect to the web.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And this case with VR, starting in 2016, everybody thought it would be games again. And now, to this day, I think it remains Microsoft’s best pivot ever. Alan: Have you been to the Microsoft campus? It’s not your drab, beige Windows building, or Microsoft Word. So, you think Apple Apple would do this?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And this case with VR, starting in 2016, everybody thought it would be games again. And now, to this day, I think it remains Microsoft’s best pivot ever. Alan: Have you been to the Microsoft campus? It’s not your drab, beige Windows building, or Microsoft Word. So, you think Apple Apple would do this?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

John Riccitiello -- the CEO of Unity -- was one of the first to point out that there was going to be this great sort of gold rush of people who were going to overhype VR and its potential, and then we're going to see this gap of a disappointment where the early reality didn't match up with the hype and a lot of people were going to bail on it.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And this case with VR, starting in 2016, everybody thought it would be games again. And now, to this day, I think it remains Microsoft’s best pivot ever. Alan: Have you been to the Microsoft campus? It’s not your drab, beige Windows building, or Microsoft Word. So, you think Apple Apple would do this?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. In 2016, Paul moved to Portland, Oregon, where he founded Torch to address this very problem. ” You know what, go learn Unity and coding and figure out how to actually make it. Paul, welcome to the show.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. In 2016, Paul moved to Portland, Oregon, where he founded Torch to address this very problem. ” You know what, go learn Unity and coding and figure out how to actually make it. Paul, welcome to the show.

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VRScout

MARCH 6, 2017

In the fall of 2016, Microsoft announced a partnership with a handful of hardware manufacturers to make developer headsets implementing the inside-out tracking technology seen on the HoloLens. LOTS OF BIG UNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS AT GDC. DOES APPLE HAVE 1000+ ENGINEERS WORKING ON AR IN ISRAEL? WHEN WILL WIRELESS VR GET HERE?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. In 2016, Paul moved to Portland, Oregon, where he founded Torch to address this very problem. You know what, go learn Unity and coding and figure out how to actually make it. To learn more about Torch, you can visit torch.app.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

Marc: I used to run the Majenta division of Autodesk, so I was building the legacy -- not real time -- tools for visualization in the film and TV industry, and I joined Epic in 2016. And some of them are built on Unity, others are built on Unreal. At the time, for me it was like, "Oh my God, they're going to make it."

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

Marc: I used to run the Majenta division of Autodesk, so I was building the legacy -- not real time -- tools for visualization in the film and TV industry, and I joined Epic in 2016. And some of them are built on Unity, others are built on Unreal. At the time, for me it was like, "Oh my God, they're going to make it."

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And so Apple bought them shortly thereafter. So SPACES was acquired quietly by Apple this year. And Apple also earlier this year acquired NextVR, which-- that company has all the licensing rights to real-time capture in 360 of NASCAR, and NBA, and all of the other sports. Golf, I think. everything. That was a year ago.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And so Apple bought them shortly thereafter. So SPACES was acquired quietly by Apple this year. And Apple also earlier this year acquired NextVR, which-- that company has all the licensing rights to real-time capture in 360 of NASCAR, and NBA, and all of the other sports. Golf, I think. everything. That was a year ago.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

Marc: I used to run the Majenta division of Autodesk, so I was building the legacy -- not real time -- tools for visualization in the film and TV industry, and I joined Epic in 2016. And some of them are built on Unity, others are built on Unreal. At the time, for me it was like, "Oh my God, they're going to make it."

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And so Apple bought them shortly thereafter. So SPACES was acquired quietly by Apple this year. And Apple also earlier this year acquired NextVR, which-- that company has all the licensing rights to real-time capture in 360 of NASCAR, and NBA, and all of the other sports. Golf, I think. everything. That was a year ago.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2023

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. There is a small tab (visible in the image above) that starts a simple Unity-based application, with a series of white and green dots that must be followed by the user.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

And kind of around 2016, 17, 18 we built a game for ARKit, called Zombie Gunship Revenant. Apple featured it a whole bunch of times. We've been working with Unity's Reflect team. We saw some cool stuff coming out of Microsoft with that, the Apollo demo and things like that. laughs] Alan: [laughs] "By the way, we're Apple.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

And kind of around 2016, 17, 18 we built a game for ARKit, called Zombie Gunship Revenant. Apple featured it a whole bunch of times. We've been working with Unity's Reflect team. We saw some cool stuff coming out of Microsoft with that, the Apollo demo and things like that. laughs] Alan: [laughs] "By the way, we're Apple.

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Gaming Magic Leap Industry Retail 78

XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

And kind of around 2016, 17, 18 we built a game for ARKit, called Zombie Gunship Revenant. Apple featured it a whole bunch of times. We've been working with Unity's Reflect team. We saw some cool stuff coming out of Microsoft with that, the Apollo demo and things like that. laughs] Alan: [laughs] "By the way, we're Apple.

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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 could explain why the Wand and Index motion controllers are still the only choices for SteamVR , despite the Vive launching to consumers back in 2016.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 19, 2019

We watched that peak of inflated expectations really take off in 2016/2017, and then -- as a lot of people have felt -- there's been this Winter of VR, as some people will call it, where these initial use cases are being ironed out. One that I love is when we were doing VR development training with Unity back two years ago.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Billion & mind you i haven't added the overall population of #asia.Ignore us at your own risk #facebook #microsoft & the curators of those lists. Founded in 2016, VeeR is a leading VR entertainment platform available worldwide, across all major VR headsets? 3- Ayden Ye. web, and mobile. 17- Helen Situ. 25- Pankaj Raut.

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