The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

Image by Samsung, taken from Upload VR). Samsung may launch a next-gen Samsung Odyssey. A recent filing at the Chinese IP offices makes us speculate on a new PC VR headset in the works by Samsung. Unity changes how it handles XR Plugins. That said, let’s have a look at this interesting week in AR and VR.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The drama about Unity’s new pricing models has set the whole game development community on fire, while we had an unexpected leak about the Pico 5 and some updates on the Apple Vision Pro. In the case of Unity Personal, the thresholds are 200,000 downloads and 200,000 in revenues, and the fee is $0.20 per install. And this $0.2

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

We are at the beginning of March and I just realized that I haven’t written yet a post with my predictions for augmented and virtual reality for this year. The last cycle before this one was the Quest one, which started to make virtual reality known to the mainstream audience for what concerns games and fitness.

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JUNE 1, 2023

Industry conversation on the Metaverse and XR has also fuelled discussions across the Augmented World Expo (AWE) USA 2023. Explaining further, he added, “Not to be outdone, the Google-Samsung-Qualcomm power trio is cooking a comeback of their very famous mega Android partnership with a new XR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Two days ago I was reading an interesting editorial about PSVR 2 by Scott Hayden, and my mind started wandering about the current moment of virtual reality, the stasis we live in, and our expectations for the upcoming headset. Google and Samsung Prototype of the Samsung XR headset.

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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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MARCH 23, 2023

Samsung Technology brand Samsung has been traversing the immersive technology space for some time, with the development of tools designed to take advantage of Samsung smartphones and other computing devices. The device includes two active Bluetooth controllers and access to development platforms such as Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

This made sure investors gained some trust for immersive reality startups again, something that will be beneficial for our whole industry. I think that the upcoming release of Quest 3, and the increasing rumors about Samsung are going to improve our situation even more. Let’s all hope so. Great job, Magnopus!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

So, here you are how I envision this 2020 in virtual reality! (I’ll PlayStation VR selling more than 5 million units until now has proven that console players like virtual reality. Too many people still don’t understand the potential of virtual reality. Me wearing the Oculus Quest. The reasons?

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

According to the news outlet DigiTimes, Apple will use Taiwan-based Pegatron as its sole assembly manufacturer for it, and mass production of the device is set to begin “at the end of the first quarter of 2023”. Hello Neighbor VR is not coming only to PSVR 2, but on all headsets in 2023. Some news on content. Learn more. Learn more.

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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…). Me trying virtual reality in an arcade in China… some years ago, when I was younger The charm of VR needs to be experienced in person.

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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. Samsung terminates its XR services.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

This WWDC has not been an exception in this sense, and now all the Apple analysts (including Kuo and Scoble) already envision a reveal of the Apple headset for January 2023. Rumors already talk about a new AR headset produced by Microsoft in collaboration with Samsung that should substitute it, but we have no sure info about it.

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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. Then, you can create MR applications, and so code in Unity and at the same time see the preview of your 3D game in 3D in front of you. Unity releases the XR Interaction Toolkit. Top news of the week. Image by Facebook).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

More info (Sam Altman returns as CEO of OpenAI) More info (The Q* algorithm could be the reason why Altman was fired) News worth a mention Samsung trademarks “Samsung Glasses” Samsung has filed a trademark for “Samsung Glasses” in the UK. Thanks to Davy Demeyer for the tip!)

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

It projects continuous growth for VR, with Enterprise VR revenues to reach $4.26B by 2023. by 2023 , 45% of all XR revenue. This gives you the dimension of what AAA studios think about immersive realities… and having talked with Ubisoft, some months ago, I can confirm that this is exactly their vision. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 6, 2022

Poised to arrive around January 2023, it is considered by many the savior of XR, the hardware that will show the real possibilities of immersive realities and make finally VR mainstream. The hype for the Apple visor is very high, and everyone is waiting for it as a kid waits for Christmas. Think about ARKit.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

If these Facebook features proved to be popular, more developers would use them, and finally, Facebook could have more power on the VR development tools , after the failed acquisition of Unity. The report also highlights that one of the regions where VR may grow more in 2019–2023 is Western Europe. More info.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

Let’s see: Google is still working with Qualcomm and Samsung on a mixed-reality headset. At first, we had good news: Unity finally revealed its first two AI tools: Muse, which lets you create assets (textures, animations, code) directly in the editor using textual queries. Muse looks a lot like ChatGPT integrated inside Unity.

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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. Microsoft and Samsung may be partnering for an AR device.

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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). VR in 2022-2023 will definitely enter the mainstream market , and I wonder if it will just be because of Quest or there will be some other devices.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

We are at the same level of Vive Focus or Vive Pro… probably the display is the same made by Samsung. This is the same chip of the Samsung S8 and it is not the latest available for VR: Qualcomm has already released the 845 VR reference design. For instance, in Unity, the Oculus Utilities plugin is the same for PC, Go and GearVR.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Virtual Reality is in a moment where there is a lot of confusion, and things are evolving so fast that it is difficult to keep pace with them. Unity and Qualcomm now have GPU profilers for Quest so you can better tune apps to the headset pic.twitter.com/hYeD7TPCfl — Russell Holly (@russellholly) September 25, 2019.

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