The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

But it is anyway great news and makes us hope for a great 2022 for the whole XR ecosystem. I am a bit sad no one gave an award to The Unity Cube , though… I would have loved to get a “Worst Application Award 2021” from Road To VR…. The headset is expected for Q4 2022 , with no preorders available. This is great. Image by CES).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2022

ARCore, built to empower creators to build their own game in the Google landscape, comes with all the tools and developers need to engage their audience. Respawn Entertainment and Unity. Unity helped with everything from matchmaking in VR, to voice communications for the development of the new game. Fictioneers and Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

It has created tools to improve geolocation, multiplayer, and also to deliver more realistic AR experiences (e.g. Giving great tools to creators is important to create a new ecosystem: see what has happened after creators had the opportunity of creating AR filters. Oculus Quest 2 has disappeared from all Amazon EU websites.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Didimo’s Popul8 tool allows world-building firms to create hundreds of unique characters in a fraction of the time and cost needed to do so. The Porto, Portugal-based company and attendee of the Immerse Global Summit 2022 Miami will announce further partnerships in due course.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

I think that from the results of this battle, which will happen most probably in 2022, we will understand the trends that will drive the VR gaming market in all the upcoming years. Unity support for OpenXR is still in early beta , and so it’s not reliable yet to develop an OpenXR-compliant application in Unity.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

Billion ad spend by 2022. 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.

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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. Yes, it’s a lot of time, but these are realistic projections. It is cool, but pretty old now (Image by Sony).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

All social companies are now competing on who can offer the best tools to create them: the one having the lead is currently Snapchat (that has been the first startup believing in augmentations), which has already implemented full-body filters, and location-based filters, where you can augment certain landmarks of various cities.

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Building the Metaverse

JANUARY 18, 2023

But more recently, tools have helped dematerialize the experience and make it more easy to conduct your campaign online. Generative AI tools have also helped dungeon masters create imagery to share with their groups. Top500 supercomputing clusters (Q4 2022), showing the total, largest and the smallest. exaflops (10¹⁸) 1.5

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 12, 2022

NVIDIA delivered a speech on Tuesday at the SIGGRAPH 2022, revealing a fresh lineup of metaverse solutions to audiences, including virtual world-building, digital twin, and avatar platforms. Kent Bye VoicesOfVR (@kentbye) August 9, 2022. Novel machine learning-backed tools to streamline graphic workflows.

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Building the Metaverse

APRIL 12, 2022

Whether we create something in Roblox, Unity or Unreal; architect an immersive space in VR; or build a decentralized application?—?we essentially a “Unity Asset Store” for the metaverse?—?designed and fraud, scams and exploitable code remains a problem here in in 2022. This is what composability is all about: creativity?—?with

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

This can be a fantastic feature for concierge services for hotels, restaurants, or similar structures (it reminds a bit of what Amazon Sumerian tried to offer some months ago, and that my friend Eloi exploited well ). Unity has bought Weta Digital for 1.6B. Unity has just bought Weta Digital for 1.6B. More info.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Even the big players like Sony, Apple, and Microsoft have substantially reduced their production estimates for 2022, whilst processor manufacturers talk of delays into 2024. Amazon sold me a moulded nylon grip for an AR-15 airsoft rifle… it was time to start work building my first development “Mule”. Image provided by Rob Cole).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

As always in January I like to play the speculation game and make my personal predictions for augmented and virtual reality for the new year (2022, in this case). This is still the situation in this first part of 2022. I think that in a good part of 2022 we will just see the VR market growing because of the huge growth of the Quest 2.

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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. And also some people of my family are now enjoying it since it is a great tool to escape the isolation we are forced into. Some of them talk about tools to organize virtual events or virtual meetings, and that can be very useful for your professional lives.

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