XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 31, 2024

Apple Vision Pro apps, coming to Apple’s latest spatial computing experience, will ensure individuals and teams can make the most of their new headset. Initially, Apple didn’t reveal much information about the apps available on the Vision Pro. Think of things like the Apple iCloud and Wallet apps.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 1, 2024

Here are some of the VR vendors making waves in the industry as of 2024: RealWear Meta Apple Goertek Pimax Pico HP HTC Vive Samsung Varjo Lenovo Valve Index Vrgineers RealWear Exploring various aspects of the immersive technology landscape, RealWear produces sensors, apps, and hardware for the XR space.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The technology’s similarity to pre-existing systems enables the easy integration of XR within a range of business environments, such as construction and healthcare, helping drive the adoption of immersive solutions and devices. The firm named the OEP’s digital twin one of the next “big things” in XR technology in 2023.

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Apple is set to debut its Vision Pro mixed reality (MR) headset in March next year, Bloomberg reported on Monday. Apple successfully built its own processors, but the company’s in-house technologies team has a lot more to design, including cameras and screens.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The Apple Vision Pro headset is getting ready for its 2024 debut, and XR developers are already leveraging the device’s SDK to create a range of immersive productivity tools. Just like with WebRTC, we see the potential of this technology, and we are proud to be the first to have created it. The technology is right there.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 12, 2023

It appears that Apple is very much getting ready to release its Vision Pro device. Following its announcement earlier this year, Apple has been cautious about confirming a specific release date for the Vision Pro. However, with the currently available information, Apple is aiming for a March 2024 window.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

These are the improvements it applied: Changes in prices will start with the next Unity 2023 LTS, so existing applications will not be affected, at least while the use previous Unity versions Unity Personal will still be free (now up to 200K of revenues) and applications made with it will be subject to no fee at all.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Many people are analyzing the Apple Vision Pro… including the ones at Meta Here you are with the usual huge roundup of news about the Apple Vision Pro (a roundup in a roundup). This week both Zuck, the CEO of Meta, and Boz, the CTO of Meta, expressed their opinions on the Apple Vision Pro.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Earlier this year, Apple debuted its Vision Pro XR headset to provide an immersive productivity tool to act as a technology leap forward following the firm’s Mac laptop and desktop portfolio. Users can then view their iPhone-captured 3D spatial recordings via Apple’s Vision Pro MR headset as an AR visualisation.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 15, 2023

We plan to continue maintaining the system software with critical bug fixes and security patches until 2024. Some selected developers have received the Apple headset. Could this really be the year of the Apple headset? Unity adds OpenXR hand integration package. Vooiage Technologies. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

More info Apple Vision Pro offers an incredible hand segmentation A leaked screenshot from an Apple Vision Pro devkit shows how the Vision Pro is able to show almost perfectly the hand of the user above virtual content. This would show the level of polish of the upcoming Apple headset.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 29, 2024

It is exciting to see the progress and innovation that emerging technology solutions are bringing. Will the Apple Vision Pro Debut in China Apple’s CEO and spatial computing champion, Tim Cook , confirmed that the recently released Apple Vision Pro would land in China in 2024. million units in 2024.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Apple is gearing up for the Vision Pro debut. However, a key difference and benefit that Apple has over some of its competition is the already-established iOS ecosystem of products and software. On the other hand, Apple is not the only XR firm pushing for interoperability and cross-pollination of hardware and software.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Meanwhile, the immersive industry is coming closer to a potential paradigm shift in 2024, as big technology brands plan to make a mark on the emerging sector. Parkinson also noted other major trends would involve the “expansion of display technology” as well as further AI integrations.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2023

It was not a perfect day because I also had some work-related issues to cope with, but it’s part of life when you are working with cutting-edge technologies I’m curious to know how the holidays are going for you, so answer this post letting me know how life is going for you! But before, let me list the most important XR news of the past week.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 18, 2024

Microsoft is planning for device-wide general availability in 2024. Microsoft’s Dynamics 365 software employs cutting-edge technology like AI, MR, IoT, and others to provide users with new features, benefiting companies that utilize Microsoft Teams in their AR workflows and those that use Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 MR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

Image by Apple). Apple has not announced any glasses at WWDC. Every year, we have the same ritual: we wait for an event by Apple, hoping to hear some news about an upcoming XR device, then nothing happens in this sense, we are disappointed and so we hope for a new reveal next year. Top news of the week. Other relevant news.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Major firms like Microsoft, Valve, and Apple are continuing to build immersive product portfolios leading towards the dawn of 2024. Also, the report stated that Microsoft will explore microLED displays to circumvent some of the issues with waveguide technologies, including “their size and the poor visual quality.”

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The past week has been a pretty interesting one for the tech world: between Microsoft Ignite, Unity Unite, and the OpenAI drama, there has been a lot to follow. Unity 6 takes back the original way of specifying engine versions and abandons the confusing one that bound a new Unity version to the year it was released.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 24, 2024

Leo Barella, Takeda’s Chief Technology Officer , added: The world of work continues to evolve at a rapid pace, but the importance of human connection has never gone away. However, competitors can say the same, with Apple and Meta having deep enterprise connections. Mesh is helping us achieve that.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Will 2024 be the year for the industrial Metaverse? Following this period of Metaverse criticism, firms such as Apple avoided the terminology for their own MR device, and Meta barely referred to its Horizon service during Connect 2023. And will Meta and other industrial Metaverse vendors see success in 2024?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2023

Mark Gurman in his latest update confirmed that Apple will announce its Reality Pro headset in Spring , give more details about its development practices during WWDC, and then release the device during the autumn. The new report regards other devices in the work at Apple. But this is something that we already knew.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 22, 2023

So, it appears that the two emerging technologies, XR and AI, coexist to enhance outcomes for end-users across the board – instead of competing. However, while competition between the two technologies may not be as drastic as audiences once thought. At the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2023, NVIDIA introduced the CloudXR 4.0

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JUNE 7, 2023

Apple’s Vision Pro device is coming in under a year if predictions are correct. Costing roughly $3499 and debuting in early 2024, the Vision Pro is promising to bring spatial computing and AR workspaces to the mainstream. An infinite digital canvas is how Apple sees its immersive product.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 23, 2023

After this update, Cix Liv and other VR people (like the usual Brad) said that the rumor in town is actually not that Bytedance is closing Pico, but that Pico will focus mostly on MR to chase Apple with its Vision Pro and will shut down its VR business. Shipping is expected to happen in Q2 2024.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

billion by 2024, a five-year CAGR increase of 54%. One-year price performance for MSFT as of 2/3/20 Apple Inc. AAPL) As we previously detailed in depth, Apple has been discreetly working on a number of AR/VR products for several years now and is planning to release its own AR smart glass and AR/VR hybrid headset.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 18, 2023

The customer journey is changing, and technology is leading that evolution. Historically, the way in which brands and marketing teams connect with audiences relies heavily on emerging technology, from the Internet to immersive solutions. Moreover, The emerging AR technology space is rapidly growing.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

This month could just prove that immersive business solutions will start seeing greater media hype in the next few months leading into 2024, CES, and beyond. As 2024 continues to build up as perhaps another foundational year for XR, November is seeing major organisations unveil the last major updates of the year.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 17, 2023

Obviously, due to his role at leading XR firm Meta, the company representative is consistently discussing the technology market on his social media platforms and podcast. Moreover, Boz touched on competition stemming from the Apple Vision Pro MR headset, available in 2024 for roughly $3,499.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

Then the wish to compete with Apple may not become a reality: when the Vision Pro was announced, Samsung didn’t expect such cool features from it, so it delayed the announcement of the headset to have the time to increase its capabilities. That’s fantastic news for all Unity XR developers! in the reviews!

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 4, 2024

The move enables the project partners to extend digital twin adoption and create new use cases for volumetric capture technology – including the XR content it produces. We’re dedicated to leveraging cutting-edge technologies, including Artificial Intelligence, to create immersive storytelling experiences in the metaverse.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

More info Some news about Apple Vision Pro The news and rumors about Vision Pro never end. In these two weeks, we got to discover that Apple is planning to organize demo sessions of Vision Pro inside the Apple Store venues and that in the beginning, the only way to buy a Vision Pro will be going to an Apple Store.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 26, 2023

In 2022, the HoloLens 2 faced various roadblocks that slowed the development of the product, as other firms such as Meta and Apple ramped up efforts towards next-level MR devices. Moreover, despite a lack of HoloLens presence, at Inspire 2023, Microsoft addressed XR technology integration across its product portfolio.

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AR Insider

JUNE 30, 2021

These include video, social media, mobile apps and games (just ask Unity). To put some numbers behind that, 75 percent of apps in Apple’s App Store’s first year were paid apps — similar to VR today. VR Global Revenue Forecast, 2019-2024. That figure declined to 15 percent in 2014 and about 10 percent today.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

But I hope you’ll enjoy this newsletter coming from the world of the undead anyway… Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Apple starts accepting applications for Vision Pro devkits Apple has started accepting applications from interested developers to get a Vision Pro to develop XR experiences.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

XR devices are all over the headlines this month; the release of the Apple Vision Pro has brought spatial computing/mixed reality wearables to the forefront of emerging workplace and consumer-based digital solutions. In 2024, we expect better device utilization and a faster time to deploy from pilot to global scale.

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