The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

As with every big event, I’m writing a post to try to summarize the most important news that have come out from the GDC 2018 … so that if you have lost something, you just need to read this post to get in par with the rest of the world. — Benjamin Lang (@benz145) March 23, 2018. So, are you ready? Let’s start!

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 13, 2017

Immersive computing is poised to change the way people see the world and interact with each other. Gaming is likely to be the bridge to that change — the content that offers a reason to buy it and helps put immersive hardware in millions of homes.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

I’ve very limited time, but luckily this week has not been very relevant for the ecosystem, so I’m managing to write this newsletter anyway Top news of the week (Image by Microsoft) AltspaceVR shuts down In one of the saddest moments of the latest years in VR, AltspaceVR has closed its doors.

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2018

Here’s the full press release for VRLA 2018 ( Road to VR readers can save 15% on passes, details here ): Announcing VRLA 2018 Keynotes & Expo Highlights. The Biggest Immersive Tech Event of the Year Returns May 4-5, Exploring “A New Reality.”. Katie Kelly, Head of Engagement, AltspaceVR / Microsoft.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

The free to attend showcase features women-led businesses in immersive technology (XR) and is hosted by the WXR Fund, a venture fund dedicated to amplifying female founders and XR startups committed to gender equality. The founders received a Microsoft mixed reality headset and are currently enrolled in the WXR Mentorship Program beta.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

Jokes apart, what has happened in AR in 2018… and what can you expect to happen in 2019? Augmented Reality in 2018. More or less AR in 2018 has gone as I predicted in 2017. On the contrary, Microsoft has worked a lot on the platform, to make it more appealing to enterprise customers. Leap Motion.

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HaptX

DECEMBER 20, 2018

At HaptX, our team is celebrating a milestone-filled 2018. We started the year strong, receiving the Lumiere Technology Award in January, alongside companies like Disney and Microsoft. Weeks later, we traveled to Park City, Utah to debut our HaptX Glove prototype at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Fortunately, we had an answer.

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VRScout

MARCH 14, 2018

But therein lies the problem: we’ve yet to see an experience that embodies an equal combination of all the features we want in an one immersive VR social app. Sinespace was built using the Unity game engine allowing for an easily customizable as well as upgradable experience.

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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. This is even more than the 20,000 concurrent users of early 2018 when the app went viral on Twitch. Other relevant news.

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Voices of VR

JULY 13, 2023

Liz Hyman President and the CEO of the XR Association (XRA), which is a non-profit, industry trade association representing 47 XR companies including major players like Meta, Google, Microsoft, HTC, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Unity, and HTC. The final rule went into effect on January 18, 2018."

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Peter Graham

JANUARY 28, 2020

Out-of-Home entertainment, and Immersive Technology industry specialist Kevin Williams reports in his latest Virtual Arena column on the further growth in recognition that virtual reality VR is receiving from the Enterprise sector. Image credit: KWP. Redbox VR has also partnered with the leading providers of VR based educational content.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

You know that I love the Vive Focus: since when I have been able to put my hands on one of them, in March 2018, I have loved playing with it and especially with the mixed reality features that I have unlocked exploiting its frontal cameras. If this gets fixed, I can say that the tracking will become as the one by Microsoft.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

On the vertical side, it feels more limited , and sometimes it may be immersion-breaking, but after you learn how to position the glasses on your nose, you get used to it. The NRSDK is Nreal’s SDK that lets you develop applications using the popular Unity game engine. All bugs that were taunting me vanished away.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Image credits SCAND Blog Virtual Reality (VR)  — It teleports the user into a completely immersive world that replaces the physical world. Microsoft Hololens is a key player in the MR market. It has the ability to create a cross platform code where users can create their projects in either JavaScript, Unity, Xamarin, and Cordova.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

From time to time, I like to look at the adoption graph of XR shown by John Riccitiello (the CEO of Unity) in 2017 , where you can see that the real acceleration of immersive technologies should start around 2022-2023. I can’t imagine what company can steal Facebook’s thunder.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

The first change was with Snapchat itself with the introduction of AR programmatic advertising in 2018 which dramatically reduced the price of augmented reality advertising to the same price as regular Snap ads. The third major change came from Unity which recently announced that it will now be serving AR ads on mobile.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

A series of announcements from Amazon, Crytek, Epic Games and Unity Technologies showcase an evolution among their respective game engines into VR world creation toolsets. For example, Lumberyard from Amazon is released for creating games and VR experiences, while both Unity and Epic reveal in-VR tools to speed up the development process.

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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. HIGH-END VIRTUAL REALITY JUST GOT MORE AFFORDABLE. VALVE’S R&D IN EYE-TRACKING TO INCREASE.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

Without HDR, you are conscious that you are seeing the world through a screen, while with actual HDR, you can feel the proper lighting of a scene, and it immediately becomes real and immersive. This controller is marketed as a “NEW controller”, but actually it is the same OLD controller of the original Vive Focus, a device from 2018.

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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. At Magic Leap, Paul recognized the lack of accessible tools for non-game developers that was hindering widespread adoption of immersive and spatial computing technologies. To learn more about Torch, you can visit torch.app.

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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. At Magic Leap, Paul recognized the lack of accessible tools for non-game developers that was hindering widespread adoption of immersive and spatial computing technologies. To learn more about Torch, you can visit torch.app.

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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. At Magic Leap, Paul recognized the lack of accessible tools for non-game developers that was hindering widespread adoption of immersive and spatial computing technologies. And it was for me as well; I've been a Unity user forever.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Ultimately, it’s these experiences that will drive mass-adoption of immersive technologies. . A WebVR Community Group to decide on WebVR standards was formed by Mozilla, Google, Samsung, Facebook, Intel, Microsoft and other major tech players, with Apple recently joining the community in July this year. The ‘Casual VR’ Phase.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Following my article on the Tundra SteamVR HDK published by Skarredghost earlier this year, I embarked on the development of a new motion controller by launching start-up Immersion Mechanics. The name was of course inspired by “The Unity Cube” application (Image by Rob Cole). Image provided by Rob Cole). Image by Rob Cole).

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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. billion before it fell into administration in 2018 after an investor dispute prevented it from raising emergency funding. Blippar was reportedly worth $1.5 web, and mobile.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

If developers of PC games want to invest more time to create a VR version of them (like it happened for No Man’s Sky, or Microsoft Flight Simulator, for instance), this could help a lot the PCVR market. Epic has implemented it, and Unity is doing that too. I am a Unity developer, and I can tell you that now Unity.XR

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