The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Who doesn’t want to do that can still use his/her Oculus account to log in until 2023 , but he/she won’t be able to use all the social functionalities of the device (like Venues, Horizon, etc…). After 2023, the devices won’t be guaranteed to work with an Oculus login.

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Hypergrid Business

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Input methods will include gestures and voice control, he said. This is planned to start in limited beta this year, expand to more beta participants in 2022, and fully launch to all businesses in 2023. The most popular VR game engine, Unity, is free at the basic level for small creators.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

The latest Q2 2023 operating loss of Reality Labs has been around $4 billion. I think we’ll understand the real situation Meta is in during this holiday season: Meta is betting a lot on having a fantastic end of 2023, and if it is not going to happen, then the company may be in trouble.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Facebook is reportedly working on its AR glasses (made with Luxottica) that should be released in 2023. 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. Top news of the week. Image by Facebook).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The puck of the Nimo runs on top of a Qualcomm Snapdragon XR 2 (Gen 1) and it is used both as a computation unit and as a controller. More info Google may still be working at Project Iris Some months ago a rumor claimed that Google had stopped working on Project Iris, its project devoted to the creation of augmented reality glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Don’t misunderstand me, the headset has also its good sides, like great lenses and amazing controllers. Meta confirms Quest 3 is coming in 2023. We were all suspecting it, but now it is official: Meta has announced that Quest 3 is coming in 2023. We can also guess that the release will happen during Meta Connect 2023.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). The Oculus Quest 2 and its controllers Quest coming to the market has been a milestone for the global VR industry.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

This week, the analysts Ming-Chi Kuo has teased that Apple Glasses are coming in 2022 at the earliest (2022–2023 timeline). The glasses are expected to run a new operating system, rOS (or reality OS), and Apple is exploring touch panels, voice activation, and head gestures as a means of control.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The new DRIVE Thor superchip aimed at autonomous vehicles, which companies will be able to use from 2025 Omniverse Cloud , which lets companies use Omniverse completely via cloud rendering even on non-powerful machines A connector to let you use Omniverse with Unity. Image by Google). Meta and Google announce layoffs.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

The solution also comes with privacy controls to help businesses maintain their compliance standards in the evolving digital landscape. The comprehensive Spatial Creator Toolkit powered by Unity also enables businesses to develop more unique spaces.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 11, 2023

The solution also comes with privacy controls to help businesses maintain their compliance standards in the evolving digital landscape. Plus, the customizable social spaces come with spatial audio, media sharing capabilities, and access controls for improved security and privacy. 12.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Moreover, Apple is also pushing its Vision Pro SDK to support its first-party and Unity-supported third-party immersive applications, again in a bid to create a sophisticated piece of hardware with a system-selling lineup of integrated applications and hardware. The Vision Pro device is due in 2024 for $3,499.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 9, 2021

Regarding the controllers, we know that they are similar to the Oculus Touch but with force-feedback triggers and more nuanced haptic sensations. The report also talks about capacitive sensors that can detect how distant is a finger from the handle of the controller, which i s so able to give full fingers tracking like the Index Controllers.

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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. Hands-On: Meta’s Reprojection-Free Passthrough Prototype At SIGGRAPH 2023 we tried Flamera, Meta’s research prototype of reprojection-free passthrough AR. And Apple did not send UploadVR a review unit, we bought our own.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This may be one of the potential names for either the upcoming mixed reality headset that Samsung is developing with Google or the name of future AR glasses. In this game, a VR user impersonates a giant that has to smash some normal-sized avatars armed with rockets that are controlled by flatscreen PC users.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 23, 2023

Meanwhile, in 2023 technology like Chat GPT has taken some of the attention away from immersive content distribution and services. Many solutions providers are leveraging Web3 and Metaverse technology to provide consumer and enterprise-grade solutions going into 2023. Web3 and the Metaverse were 2022’s significant tech trends.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

It seems that Sony is hoping for a Q4 release in time for the holidays, but analyst Ming-Chi Kuo thinks that delays will bring the release to Q1 2023. A developer had the great idea to tie an Oculus Touch controller to a cardboard box so that the box can be ported into VR and be used as a magical box with which the user can interact.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

Luckily there is AR that is still strong, and we can hope to wear Google AR glasses soon… ah no, they are dead too. Quest Pro is also receiving a special hybrid mode, where both controllers and hands are tracked at the same time. Ah no, not even that because also Twitter is dead. Long story short, this week has been a cemetery.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Google) Google killed its AR glasses Project Iris Do you remember the name Project Iris? Various reports indicated it as the internal codename in Google for a project meant to build augmented reality glasses. It was our hope for Google entering the AR race together with Meta and Apple.

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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. Yes, it’s a lot of time, but these are realistic projections.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

As John Riccitiello (CEO of Unity) said some years ago , the VR market won’t be interesting enough until it will reach the 10 million users mark. 2022-2023 are the years when VR should grow a lot (Image by Road To VR). They control all their ecosystem : software, hardware, chips. 2022 could be the key year for XR.

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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. The m**averse hype is attracting investors.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 5, 2023

The company’s comprehensive platform empowers users to create immersive learning experiences in an ecosystem designed for non-technical individuals. The ARuVR platform combines an XR authoring system for building simulations with real-time session management, where individuals can lead, moderate and control interactions.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Since Facebook doesn’t control Oculus anymore, because everything is becoming Meta, the Facebook login won’t be mandatory for “Oculus” devices anymore. It is comprised of grip handles for the controllers and a special facemask that makes it easier to clean the headset after you have sweat inside it.

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