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). 2021 is going to be an interesting year for AR. If we talk about compatible devices, we all have a smartphone that can do AR, we all have watched on some social media short video selfies with some AR effects on.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

It’s because tomorrow the SXSW 2021 starts and together with VRrOOm we have created the virtual spaces for it on VRChat! The second one relates to a system that tries to understand what is happening inside videos. More info (HCI of the future) More info (AI for videos). NVIDIA launches GTC 2021.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

Someone has already received it and has already shared on the social media videos of the Air Link in action. NVIDIA doubles down on Cloud Rendering and Omniverse at GTC 2021. On the client side, the system will become compatible with iOS devices, and a Magic Leap client has also been developed. IKEA releases IKEA Studio.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

In particular, the ones by Panasonic that were so popular at CES 2020 , are going to be released in 2021. Rony Abovitz steps down from Magic Leap CEO. This was a very good thing and attracted many people to Magic Leap. I hope that Magic Leap will benefit from it and will recover pretty soon.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Magic Leap plans dev days and dev programs. We all know that Magic Leap is in big trouble, and it seems that one of the paths it is trying to follow to exit the quicksands is trying to get more developers onboard. This means that most probably, it will launch in 2021. More info (Use Google Translate).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Tilt Five launch video. The idea behind Tilt Five is creating a pair of glasses that are not general-purpose ones, like HoloLens or Magic Leap : Jeri knows the technology is not ready yet. When I visited them in November 2021, they were in the process of building the units for the first backers. the FOV is very little).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Preorders are open now with just a little deposit of $10, shipping in 2021. With a lot of sadness, I’m here watching the photos and the videos of WCVRI , the big Chinese conference about VR that is held every year in Nanchang. Some years ago, she performed in The Life, a Mixed Reality art piece inside the Magic Leap One.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

Microsoft Magic Leap Varjo HP Acer Samsung ASUS Dell Biel AjnaXR FYR Medical ESight Canon IrisVision VRgineers Zappar Lynx Valve Microsoft Microsoft has been increasing its focus on the extended reality landscape in recent years, with the production of solutions such as Microsoft Mesh, and a metaverse environment for Microsoft Teams.

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ARVR

JULY 15, 2020

Apple seems to be cornering the popular entertainment industry, with the acquisition of NextVR, as industry rivals such as Magic Leap focus on enterprise solutions. With the Starboard UI and Apple Glasses release anticipated for Q4 2020/Q1 2021, the world is eagerly awaiting the next generation of extended reality (XR) standards.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 8, 2023

Zapbox features a 100° FOV and is going to launch with a Unity SDK to create content for it. While the concept of phone holders is dead for good in VR, there are a few companies that are trying to bring it to augmented reality, exploiting also the fact that true AR headsets (like Magic Leap 2 ) are very expensive and cost thousands of euros.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

A video that got popular this week has a bit shocked me: in it, you can see a user pointing its Lidar-powered iPad towards some objects and in like 2 seconds being able to reconstruct an exact clone of that 3D object, fully meshed and textured. Someone has made a WebAR exporter for Unity. This is so cool!

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 23, 2023

Magic Leap Currently focusing its attention on the enterprise landscape, Magic Leap produces AR and MR headsets designed to address the needs of various industries. The Varjo headset includes Ultraleap hand-tracking to monitor natural hand movements and true-to-life MR passthrough with 12-megapixel video.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

In the latest invitation to WWDC 2021 , the yearly Apple developers’ conference, there is a picture of an animoji wearing glasses in front of a Mac. So it seems that the user will be able to see the videos he/she is recording, with the actual AR filters already applied in real-time. I’ve seen the video about it, and it is pretty cool!

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

I was expecting a PSVR 2 launch in 2021, but then suddenly Jim Ryan in an interview with The Washington Post has commented on VR with these exact words: PlayStation believes in VR. Coming in May 2021 , with first units sents to reviewers in January 2021, because the product is almost ready. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

It’s been 2 hours full of cool insights and you can watch all of them in the video here below: if you have the time, I assure you you won’t regret watching it! If you don’t have 2 hours, don’t worry, here below I have extracted the most interesting tidbits of the videos for you to enjoy! PRNewsfoto/BadVR).

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

So instead of playing a video game and shooting everybody, you're enjoying a concert by Trevor Scott or whoever. Unity Technologies just went public. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started. Are they not?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

So instead of playing a video game and shooting everybody, you're enjoying a concert by Trevor Scott or whoever. Unity Technologies just went public. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started. Are they not?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2021

Facebook losses in the VR sector will be around $6B in 2021. and also why the $2+B investment in Magic Leap was not enough to bring it to success. Unity releases free guide on mobile development optimization. More info (Brickit app) More info (Viral video of Brickit app in action). Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

NReal Light Devkit Video Review. For everyone of you that doesn’t want to read thousands of words, I’ve prepared a very nice review video about this device. The NRSDK is Nreal’s SDK that lets you develop applications using the popular Unity game engine. Are you ready? Nreal glasses and the Oreo.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

So instead of playing a video game and shooting everybody, you're enjoying a concert by Trevor Scott or whoever. Unity Technologies just went public. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started. Are they not?

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It’s been called the AR Cloud by many, the Magicverse by Magic Leap, the Mirrorworld by Wired, the Cyberverse by Huawei, Planet-scale AR by Niantic and Spatial Computing by academics. In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal. Find out more details, dynamics and submission guidelines here. .

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 29, 2020

Regarding the Quest, Facebook listened to all our complaints about the too strict content curation and said that it is working on a new and more open content distribution platform to be released in 2021. Unity Learn Premium is permanently free. Do you want to learn Unity for your next big AR/VR 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. But its reputation as a video game engine can also be intimidating — especially to those who want to create AR software for enterprise. ” You know what, go learn Unity and coding and figure out how to actually make it.

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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. But its reputation as a video game engine can also be intimidating — especially to those who want to create AR software for enterprise. ” You know what, go learn Unity and coding and figure out how to actually make it.

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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. But its reputation as a video game engine can also be intimidating -- especially to those who want to create AR software for enterprise. You know what, go learn Unity and coding and figure out how to actually make it.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

The most probable explanation is that they don’t even know what it is about: VR must be tried to be understood, and watching Youtube videos isn’t enough. They don’t want VR because they can’t understand the potential from just videos from inside and outside. Unity details its MARS solution. Some news on content. Well, maybe.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

And certainly, if everybody’s trying to uplink a live video stream of something that’s going on, then it becomes even more overwhelming. Alan: I wonder if you could do a combination of putting ARCore and ARKit capabilities, mixed with GPS, mixed with the Magic Leap, to give it all in one. Terry: Yeah, exactly.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

And certainly, if everybody’s trying to uplink a live video stream of something that’s going on, then it becomes even more overwhelming. Alan: I wonder if you could do a combination of putting ARCore and ARKit capabilities, mixed with GPS, mixed with the Magic Leap, to give it all in one. Terry: Yeah, exactly.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

This means that probably we’ll need to wait at least for CES 2021 or 2022 to see again something that will truly amaze us. They also make promotional videos that are a mix of futurism and a healthy dose of WTF, like this one: nReal has still a big strategic advantage , though. We’ll wait. but we know zero about it.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

More info (No Gear VR support on Note 10) More info (Object scanning on Note 10+) More info (Video of object scanning on Note 10+). that should be released around 2021 should add support for VR devices. Unreal Engine is adding Vulkan support for Oculus Quest and Unity fill follow later on this year. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Looking at the video, you may notice that the two games looks both very very good. A bit like what happened with Henry ported from PC to Oculus Go by John Carmack: he used a special encoding of 5K 360 video and the experience is similar to the realtime UE4 experience on PC, even if at the same time it is completely different.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

They’re a Unity authorized training partner and their team of 20 people is giving professionals the skills they need to build value-driven XR experiences. Like, “Unity 101: here’s how to make a model.” From this journey, Circuit Stream’s 10-week online course emerged. Alan: So how did you begin?

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

They’re a Unity authorized training partner and their team of 20 people is giving professionals the skills they need to build value-driven XR experiences. Like, “Unity 101: here’s how to make a model.” From this journey, Circuit Stream’s 10-week online course emerged. Alan: So how did you begin?

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

They're a Unity authorized training partner and their team of 20 people is giving professionals the skills they need to build value-driven XR experiences. Like, "Unity 101: here's how to make a model." From this journey, Circuit Stream's 10-week online course emerged. Their education platform has reached over 25,000 students.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

They're a Unity authorized training partner and their team of 20 people is giving professionals the skills they need to build value-driven XR experiences. Like, "Unity 101: here's how to make a model." From this journey, Circuit Stream's 10-week online course emerged. Their education platform has reached over 25,000 students.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

I think that we’ll have more info at OC7, with maybe a launch in 2021/2022. 90% of people getting a Quest for Christmas are new users for VR; Facebook has released 3 videos related to the 3 talks that it should have performed at GDC. Unity is offering 3 months of Free Learning so that you can sharp your development skills.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

I was pretty shocked to see the video of The Walking Dead on Upload VR and not being able to spot many differences between the two versions. Upload hypothesizes that maybe a 2-year partnership with Lenovo forces them to do so until May 2021. Facebook is going to launch a pair of smartglasses in 2021.

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