The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

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. More info (Camera Path and Google Drive backup) More info (Sketchfab exporting).

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VRScout

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Because of the time difference and distance, we communicated through Facebook messenger, kept all our assets on a shared google drive folder, and built the game using Unity’s collab version control system.”. The next boot camp will take place in late June 2019. Screenshot of VR adventure title ‘Chrysalis.’

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Alice Bonasio (@alicebonasio) February 2, 2019. Although they haven’t deployed on Magic Leap yet, they’re hopeful that because every platform out there is investing in enabling Unity compatibility which enables them to develop cross-platform more easily. UploadVR (@UploadVR) February 20, 2019. pic.twitter.com/UMhQbxgH1g.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

It seems that Mark is still working on that vision, so that in the end, Facebook will be able to do on its devices whatever it wants, without compromises and without control. A company of this kind, with full control and no restrictions, could do great things on the tech side, but very bad things on the privacy side.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

This was a bit the philosophy of Google Daydream View, that was the first headset employing this kind of materials. I admit I am not a huge fan of Oculus Quest comfort , both of the headset and the controllers. Controllers. The new Touch controllers are in my opinion the worst part about the whole Oculus Quest system.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

There’s a rumor going around that Nintendo is making a VR headset in partnership with Google. There was no head tracking, motion controllers, or even games that wouldn’t have played equally as well on a standard Gameboy. Well, it was a pretty awesome experiment when it was first released in 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Between that, I worked on consumer cloud software with Google for five years… managing engineering teams for Gmail, Japanese mobile, Google Labs, and social (Blogger etc.) As of 2019, we are an expanding private company with about 40 people based in Japan and funded by Japanese venture capitalists. teams for Japan.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

More info (Use Google Translate). When I interviewed Facebook’s Sean Liu , he told me that 2019 was an inflection point for VR, and the data around us seems to confirm this statement. Google Chrome now supports WebAR. More info (Google Chrome 81 supports AR) More info (Nicolò Carpignoli’s initiative). Image by Microsoft).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The coronavirus is also impacting the production of all the major VR headsets : we’re at the point that Valve’s customer service has no more left controllers to give to people for RMA. With a surprise move, Facebook has acquired Sanzaru Games, the company behind the best VR game of 2019, Asgard’s Wrath. Facebook acquires Sanzaru Games.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

HTC has finally revealed the price of the Vive Pro : it will cost $799 just to have the headset (no controller and no base stations, so you must already have a Vive 1 kit) and will be available for pre-orders since April, 5th. The controller too is very comfortable and does its job very well. So, are you ready? Let’s start!

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

While discussing the earning calls for Q3 2019, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has admitted that VR is taking longer than expected to become successful. Mixed with hand tracking, it could be a perfect mix to let people interact with Oculus Menus without the need of controllers. Google Chrome adds supports for WebXR. Are you ready?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

As a long-time AR enthusiast, and one of the first to have tried Google Glass in Italy, I have to admit that I will consider AR mainstream only when it will be on glasses that we will wear all day , when we’ll live in a completely shared mixed reality world (the AR Cloud). Some will also feature tracked controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

These advanced haptics make us dream of PSVR 2 controllers with best-in-class immersive haptics … but we have to still wait various months before discovering if this is the truth. More info (New features of OpenXR) More info (OpenXR in Unity) More info (OpenXR in Microsoft products). All the reviewers are amazed.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 28, 2021

Unity CEO predicts in 2030 XR headsets will be as popular as gaming consoles. Unity CEO John Riccitiello has made new predictions on AR and VR , and this time he talked about the projections for XR headsets in 2030. Icosa Gallery is the new Google Poly. More info (ENGAGE raises $10M) More info (VRChat raises $80M).

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

And to be clear, I used it in a real home, not a carefully controlled demo environment or a well-lit studio. In the Shared Space where rendering is controlled by Apple it mostly just works, though very occasionally you’ll see minor visual artifacts in the periphery. And Apple did not send UploadVR a review unit, we bought our own.

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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. Pico Neo Eye 2 and controllers. Me trying Huawei VR glasses at WCVRI 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The sentence in Chinese say something like: “explore the world, there are a lot of interesting things” I think it is some kind of word pun, since searching the last three characters on Google Translate, I actually found “Focused” as the translation and the device is the Vive Focus. Controllers. Thanks to Miss S.

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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. More info (Sebastian’s Tweet) More info (Sebastian’s Tweet with answer by GermanRifter) More info (Google Cache for Bestware shop page for Cosmos). Other relevant news.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

The third major change came from Unity which recently announced that it will now be serving AR ads on mobile. Unity has one of the world’s largest mobile ad serving businesses and at the end of last year they partnered with Fossil to pilot this new ad format in mobile games. The Evolution of Out of Home and Product Placement.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

High-precision 6DOF tracking, eye tracking, gesture inputs, with dedicated input controllers The SDK will support Unity , with Unreal coming Soon. More and more vendors will target consumers, both with full-fledged AR glasses and with devices more like Google Glass for information display (e.g. All APIs have a plain C version.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

Reliance Jio’s foray into mixed reality started in 2019 when they acquired majority stake in deep-tech startup Tesseract which has a few hardware products in XR space. We’re looking at you, Google Glass. You can see it in action below: [link] Why build on Android?

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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. ” You know what, go learn Unity and coding and figure out how to actually make it. And it was for me as well; I’ve been a Unity user forever. It’s amazing.” ” Paul: [laughs] Right.

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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. ” You know what, go learn Unity and coding and figure out how to actually make it. And it was for me as well; I’ve been a Unity user forever. It’s amazing.” ” Paul: [laughs] Right.

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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. You know what, go learn Unity and coding and figure out how to actually make it. And it was for me as well; I've been a Unity user forever. Alan: And then they ask their tech teams and they're like, "does anybody know Unity?"

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2021

Gartner Hype Cycle 2019. They crave security and tend to be more anxious, and instead of wading into the sea of random chance open to what may come, they remain fixated on controlling the situation, on seeking a specific goal. The amazing Unity Cube. Unlucky people are narrowly focused, he observed. Don’t give up.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 10, 2024

It was 2019 and I had a very brief written interview with Charlie Fink about his new book Convergence. And if I can not predict my life, where I have a lot of knowledge and total control, imagine how difficult it is for me to imagine how things will be in a whole technological field where I am just a little drop in the sea. licensing).

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2019

So you reach out and grab things, controls, models, and it’s all just near interaction with your hands. I mean, a lot of people just– anything you can get into Unity, you can basically get into VR or mixed reality experience, unless they’re like custom one-off apps. Like, how is that possible in 2019?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2019

So you reach out and grab things, controls, models, and it’s all just near interaction with your hands. I mean, a lot of people just– anything you can get into Unity, you can basically get into VR or mixed reality experience, unless they’re like custom one-off apps. Like, how is that possible in 2019?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2019

So you reach out and grab things, controls, models, and it's all just near interaction with your hands. I mean, a lot of people just-- anything you can get into Unity, you can basically get into VR or mixed reality experience, unless they're like custom one-off apps. Like, how is that possible in 2019? What do I do?

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ARPost

JUNE 23, 2021

The last major update was in 2019. and PlayCanvas , as well as a Unity SDK coming to the next generation of ZapBox. Indeed, the first iterations were similar to Google Cardboard and subsequent editions weren’t much better. It also has seriously industrious-looking re-imagined controllers modeled after the Quest controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

The documentation was the same as before, if not for the fact that in the page about headset Input page, there was also a reference to “Oculus Jedi” controllers. I’ve used Google search to find all the pages with references to Del Mar in the Oculus website, and all the docs are identical to the previous versions.

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