2019, Amazon, Augmented Reality and Unity

The Second Coming of Augmented-Reality Glasses

ARVR

JUNE 29, 2020

A augmented-reality (AR) accessory that sits right above one eye and gives access to emails, text messages, directions , etc. Compare that number with another survey conducted in February 2019, the percentage of adults who own a smartphone jumped to 81%. Build your first HoloLens 2 Application with Unity and MRTK 2.3.0

Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality Magic Leap Survey AR

How Can Businesses Prepare for Enterprise VR?

XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The VR industry has skyrocketed immensely, with immersive headset shipments spiking 92 percent in 2019 and 70 percent in 2020. percent year-on-year, with augmented reality (AR) peaking 94.1 Affected companies include Meta Platforms, Amazon, and the global cryptocurrency community. percent YoY for 2023.

Tourism

Tourism Immersion Microsoft Architecture

My predictions for augmented reality in 2021

The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Two days ago, I’ve given you my predictions for virtual reality in 2021 (read it, in case you missed it). Now it’s time to make some forecasts about its companion technology, that is augmented reality! This commercial video about Google Glasses led me to immersive realities.

Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality Magic Leap AR Apple

MetaVRse is the XR engine for enterprise

The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 26, 2020

The demand for easy-to-use 3D creation tools is growing rapidly as demonstrated by a report by Hired that showed demand for VR/AR engineers grew by 1400% in 2019. MetaVRse One App: Our unique One App solution unlocks Augmented Reality by installing a small utility application (16mb). MetaVRse logo (Image by MetaVRse).

AR

AR Education Architecture Training

The XR Week Peek (2020.03.02): XR2 shows the future of standalones, F8 and GDC canceled and much more!

The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The devices that will be based on this reference design will have amazing specifications like: 2K x 2K display resolution per each eye ; Have up to 7 cameras used simultaneously, including the ones for tracking, mixed reality and eye-tracking; High-quality passthrough augmented reality with high resolution and framerate.

Hand tracking

Hand tracking AR Oculus HTC

Mark Zuckerberg and I are confusing the market about VR and AR and the future of all computing: here’s why we need to stop doing that

Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Mark Zuckerberg has been talking a lot about augmented reality and investing a lot, too. ” Facebook already has internal plans for the next five years and most of these new plans, and excitement, are about augmented reality. .” Back to the augmented reality devices that Zuckerberg is promising.

AR

AR Augmented Reality Magic Leap Immersion

The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.11.18): Magic Leap may be in trouble, Carmack leaving Oculus and much more!

The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

The super-interesting eye tracking device Droolon F1 by 7Invensun is now in preorder on Taobao , with Amazon listing coming soon. More info (VR Awards intro video) More info (VR Awards 2019 winners). Oculus and Unity partner for a course on VR. Oculus and Unity have just released a free course on virtual reality.

Magic Leap

Magic Leap Oculus AR Apple

The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.12.02): Facebook acquires Beat Games, Valve gets the Index sold-out and is maybe working on Left4Dead VR, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

If these Facebook features proved to be popular, more developers would use them, and finally, Facebook could have more power on the VR development tools , after the failed acquisition of Unity. The report also highlights that one of the regions where VR may grow more in 2019–2023 is Western Europe. affiliate link).

Gaming

Gaming Czech Republic Microsoft AR

The XR Week Peek (2020.02.03): VR adoption is rising, Lynx teases new MR headset and much more!

The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

And then, of course, there is SuperData , that someone has already renamed “SuperGuess”, that has released its estimates of VR sales for Q4 2019. Having sold 317K units in Q4, the Quest has so sold around 710K units in 2019. Amazon promises “single-digit latency” XR streaming. Unity now supports Vulkan for Oculus Quest.

Unity

Unity Latency AR Amazon

How Will AR Transform Advertising?

AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

Once computers understand space, we can use these informed computers to edit our real world by placing digital objects and information in it and view this all through a transparent digital screen like smart glasses or even our smartphone: this is Augmented Reality or AR. Augmented Reality ads are not new. Source: Ikea.

AR

AR Examples Data Head Mounted Display

The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.09.09): Vive Cosmos probably on sale at €799, Kura reveals 150° FOV AR glasses, Oculus “Cablegate” and much more!

The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

We all know that the Vive Cosmos should release very soon since HTC revealed me that the release date would have been in Q3 2019 and Q3 ends at the end of the month. I know about this technology because I remember my friend Scott Hayden having tried some glasses using the same technology (LetinAR) at MWC 2019.

AR

AR Oculus Virtual Reality Survey

Lighting the Torch for In-App AR Development, with TORCH’s Paul Reynolds

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. Today’s guest is Paul Reynolds, the CEO of Torch, a really exciting augmented reality platform. It’s a mobile augmented reality development and deployment platform for enterprise. It’s amazing.”

AR

AR Magic Leap Unity Augmented Reality

Lighting the Torch for In-App AR Development, with TORCH’s Paul Reynolds

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. Today’s guest is Paul Reynolds, the CEO of Torch, a really exciting augmented reality platform. It’s a mobile augmented reality development and deployment platform for enterprise. It’s amazing.”

AR

AR Magic Leap Unity Augmented Reality

Lighting the Torch for In-App AR Development, with TORCH's Paul Reynolds

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. Today's guest is Paul Reynolds, the CEO of Torch, a really exciting augmented reality platform. It's a mobile augmented reality development and deployment platform for enterprise. That's really the heart of it.

AR

AR Magic Leap Unity Augmented Reality

The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.07.28): Valve Index is now available immediately, Oculus and Magic Leap update their devices and much more!

The Ghost Howls

JULY 28, 2019

Do you remember when the Valve Index was finally launched and some lucky people got it immediately while the other ones could only preorder it with an estimated shipping date of September 2019? Amazon Prime Video comes to Oculus mobile devices. Amazon streaming services come to VR. Well, this is now history.

Magic Leap

Magic Leap Oculus Controllers Amazon

Getting Fit with a VR Toolkit, and Other XR Tips with VRd?j?’s Michael Eichenseer

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

What is your vision for virtual augmented reality? Was the best virtual reality or a AR experience is what is the best thing that you have done? Amazon Sumerian. ” The tools that are popping up are really democratizing virtual and augmented reality creation, and I think that’s what’s really exciting.

Tips

Tips Training Augmented Reality Exercises

Getting Fit with a VR Toolkit, and Other XR Tips with VRd?j?’s Michael Eichenseer

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

What is your vision for virtual augmented reality? Was the best virtual reality or a AR experience is what is the best thing that you have done? Amazon Sumerian. ” The tools that are popping up are really democratizing virtual and augmented reality creation, and I think that’s what’s really exciting.

Tips

Tips Training Augmented Reality Exercises

Getting Fit with a VR Toolkit, and Other XR Tips with VRd?j?'s Michael Eichenseer

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

What is your vision for virtual augmented reality? Was the best virtual reality or a AR experience is what is the best thing that you have done? Alan: In my last interview, we were talking about 2019 as that year where it goes from, "you're doing VR -- you're ahead of the game, you're a future company," to, "you're not using VR?

Tips

Tips Training Augmented Reality Exercises

My predictions for virtual reality in 2022

The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

This is a trend that started in 2019 (with the Quest, Vive Focus, and Lenovo Mirage Solo… yes, the Lenovo Mirage Solo, who else remembers about it?) was already in passthrough AR in 2019 on the Vive Focus Plus , so that to guarantee the safety of the users that could play our fitness game by being aware of their surroundings.

Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality Eye Tracking Apple Government

The XR Week Peek (2020.03.23): Half-Life: Alyx launches, Oculus Del Mar leaked, PS5 revealed and more!

The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

Unity is offering 3 months of Free Learning so that you can sharp your development skills. This has enormous implications for augmented reality and 3D reconstruction , since with the addition of a depth sensor, the iPad Pro will be able to perform these operations much better. from 2019. Get started with ARKit and CoreML.

Oculus

Oculus Magic Leap AR Augmented Reality

Virtual Reality Pulse

The Second Coming of Augmented-Reality Glasses

How Can Businesses Prepare for Enterprise VR?

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My predictions for augmented reality in 2021

MetaVRse is the XR engine for enterprise

The XR Week Peek (2020.03.02): XR2 shows the future of standalones, F8 and GDC canceled and much more!

Mark Zuckerberg and I are confusing the market about VR and AR and the future of all computing: here’s why we need to stop doing that

The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.11.18): Magic Leap may be in trouble, Carmack leaving Oculus and much more!

The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.12.02): Facebook acquires Beat Games, Valve gets the Index sold-out and is maybe working on Left4Dead VR, and much more!

The XR Week Peek (2020.02.03): VR adoption is rising, Lynx teases new MR headset and much more!

How Will AR Transform Advertising?

The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.09.09): Vive Cosmos probably on sale at €799, Kura reveals 150° FOV AR glasses, Oculus “Cablegate” and much more!

Lighting the Torch for In-App AR Development, with TORCH’s Paul Reynolds

Lighting the Torch for In-App AR Development, with TORCH’s Paul Reynolds

Lighting the Torch for In-App AR Development, with TORCH's Paul Reynolds

The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.07.28): Valve Index is now available immediately, Oculus and Magic Leap update their devices and much more!

Getting Fit with a VR Toolkit, and Other XR Tips with VRd?j?’s Michael Eichenseer

Getting Fit with a VR Toolkit, and Other XR Tips with VRd?j?’s Michael Eichenseer

Getting Fit with a VR Toolkit, and Other XR Tips with VRd?j?'s Michael Eichenseer

My predictions for virtual reality in 2022

The XR Week Peek (2020.03.23): Half-Life: Alyx launches, Oculus Del Mar leaked, PS5 revealed and more!

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