The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Meleap (pronounced “may-leap”) is a combination of the words “Merry” and “Leap”. As of 2019, we are an expanding private company with about 40 people based in Japan and funded by Japanese venture capitalists. Software-wise, we use Unity, Vuforia, and OpenCV. What is Meleap? And can you describe me your product HADO?

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

confirmed with the company that it may not be a Niantic-branded pair of glasses, but a reference design that Niantic is building with Qualcomm since 2019. On a separate note, a new image leaked from the firmware of the Quest 2 seems to point to future phone notifications on it. This is a very welcome feature for little indie game studios.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Today I am very happy to host on my blog Kura Technologies , one of the most interesting augmented reality startups out there. High-precision 6DOF tracking, eye tracking, gesture inputs, with dedicated input controllers The SDK will support Unity , with Unreal coming Soon. The official computational unit runs Android.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Then why Magic Leap hasn’t delivered a solid product with 2B?) In the meanwhile, its adoption is getting better, too: the popular Unity game engine promises the first implementations of OpenXR for the end of the year with a complete implementation coming in 2021, and Microsoft has already completely switched to an OpenXR runtime.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

As it is a tradition of this blog , I have read everything I could about the AR and VR technologies showcased there, and I’ve condensed all the news in a single article , that you can skim fast until you find a topic you are interested in. And in fact, Neon reminds me a bit too much Magic Leap’s Mica project.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

As it is tradition of this little blog, I will write a full round-up of the Oculus Connect 5 , the very important Oculus event that has been held in San Jose on 26th and 27th of September (2018). It is standalone (as HoloLens and Magic Leap ) and has cameras through which it sees the environment. Price and release date.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: Yeah, I was sort of a traditional newspaper and magazine journalist for a long time, and then, when the web came along and people started podcasting and blogging, I looked around and felt like it was less of a risk to go try something new than it was to stay at a newspaper. I was at the San Jose newspaper at the time.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: Yeah, I was sort of a traditional newspaper and magazine journalist for a long time, and then, when the web came along and people started podcasting and blogging, I looked around and felt like it was less of a risk to go try something new than it was to stay at a newspaper. I was at the San Jose newspaper at the time.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: Yeah, I was sort of a traditional newspaper and magazine journalist for a long time, and then, when the web came along and people started podcasting and blogging, I looked around and felt like it was less of a risk to go try something new than it was to stay at a newspaper. So we're still one of the last, larger independent tech blogs.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: Yeah, I was sort of a traditional newspaper and magazine journalist for a long time, and then, when the web came along and people started podcasting and blogging, I looked around and felt like it was less of a risk to go try something new than it was to stay at a newspaper. I was at the San Jose newspaper at the time.

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