The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

I’m trying to keep expectations in place not because I want to be negative about VR (I’m a strong believer in the tech), but because in the past I’ve already seen that trend of setting unrealistic expectations and then writing “VR is dead” the day after when the market of course haven’t reached those results.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

See Also: Creating 3D Characters and Animations for AR Children’s Books Of course, the adorable puzzle doesn’t tell the whole story. The puzzle pieces come to life with the help of a free AR mobile app for Apple and Android devices. As of this writing, the AR story puzzle is not available on other online retailers like Amazon.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Apple AR glasses may be released in 2022–2023. Apple remains committed to AR, it still believes it is the technology that will supersede smartphones , but the technology is not ready to create something that is worth the Apple logo now. More info (Apple glasses delayed to 2022) More info (Apple glasses delay).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

In the interview with me, he talked about many topics, like the rumors he heard on Apple Glasses, on the Oculus Quest 2 , the America vs China war, XR entrepreneurship, Tesla, and more! But of course, the technology is still not there: the Oculus Quest is still uncomfortable, we can’t read texts in it, and so on.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The news of course has attracted a lot of funny comments, like “these dogs have better hardware than me”, or the invention of new terms like “Dogmented Reality”, or “AR Doggles”. The author of the video has used a free app available on the Apple Store and with it, it was able to scan 3D objects with a quality and a speed never seen before.

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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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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Apple Vision Pro is a very impressive fusion of hardware and software, but it's by no means perfect. Apple Vision Pro Specs, Features & Details Apple officially revealed the full Vision Pro specs when opening preorders today. And Apple did not send UploadVR a review unit, we bought our own. But does it deliver?

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Robert Scoble

JANUARY 11, 2022

Apple and Unity aren’t going to continue making this mistake, because they have done the kinds of human factor research I have. Apple even built a fake home to study these different contexts in the home. Apple has new eyes on these uses of technology in the home. Here we are.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Regarding the glasses, I have not big hopes for true AR glasses, but I think that thanks to Facebook and Apple, finally we’ll have some important smartglasses entering the market , making the mainstream think about wearing something on their face to enjoy notifications from the phone. Phone AR will be always more popular.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

Of course I’m talking about a potential AR glass, the iGlass , that could so exploit the computational power of the phone without needing a cable to be connected to it. Is this really what Apple wants? (Thanks Robert Scoble for this news!). This is one of the weirdest rag-doll experiments in Unity. More info Buy it now!

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

Of course, developers have not to abuse this feature, or it can become annoying in the long run. It looks more colorful and this is great, but of course, I would like to verify its usability. Oculus Quest 2 has disappeared from all Amazon EU websites. Or maybe Amazon and Facebook are negotiating about the revenue share?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

And then, of course, there is SuperData , that someone has already renamed “SuperGuess”, that has released its estimates of VR sales for Q4 2019. Amazon promises “single-digit latency” XR streaming. Unity now supports Vulkan for Oculus Quest. Unity has finally implemented Vulkan support for the Oculus Quest, in Unity 2019.3.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Unity support for OpenXR is still in early beta , and so it’s not reliable yet to develop an OpenXR-compliant application in Unity. We Unity developers have still to use the current Unity tools that make us develop once, but then build for every different platform (like the ones I describe in this article ).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The Porto, Portugal-based company and attendee of the Immerse Global Summit 2022 Miami will announce further partnerships in due course. Furthemore, the platform is compatible with most gaming engines, including Unity, Unreal Engine, and others. This also includes Amazon Polly, Mixamo, Apple’s ARKit, and many more.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The incumbents have an advantage with existing mapping such as Google Maps, Earth, Street View, Apple Maps and the Indoor Maps Program, and Bing Maps but there are also significant geographic data players such as Foursquare and OpenStreetMap. In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The pages have been already removed, of course, so this makes us think that they had been published by error. Internal iOS 13 code seems to point at Apple AR glasses. It is not a secret that Apple is working on a pair of AR glasses (even if someone still thinks that the project has been abandoned). Who knows.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

Every year since when I entered VR, someone says that “this will be the year of VR” and then of course this never happens. This is an amazing piece of news: in 2021 all the brands could finalize their beta implementation of the standard, and Unity could also finally implement it into its game engine.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

A series of announcements from Amazon, Crytek, Epic Games and Unity Technologies showcase an evolution among their respective game engines into VR world creation toolsets. In fact, developers using Unity and SteamVR start effectively standardizing this mixed reality capture method. October 2016.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Is Apple partnering with Valve on AR? A report by DigiTimes claims that Apple is partnering with Valve for the production of its AR glasses. The news would be incredible: Apple is a company that knows how to create something usable and cool to see, while Valve has a long expertise in experimenting with AR and VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

And of course, what's coming up with Unreal Engine 5? So, of course, we use game engine technology to validate design, and to get a project that is greenlit; say, "Look at this beautiful car." And some of them are built on Unity, others are built on Unreal. It's a bunch of sourcing right now on Amazon, it doesn't cost us much.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

And of course, what's coming up with Unreal Engine 5? So, of course, we use game engine technology to validate design, and to get a project that is greenlit; say, "Look at this beautiful car." And some of them are built on Unity, others are built on Unreal. It's a bunch of sourcing right now on Amazon, it doesn't cost us much.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

And of course, what's coming up with Unreal Engine 5? So, of course, we use game engine technology to validate design, and to get a project that is greenlit; say, "Look at this beautiful car." And some of them are built on Unity, others are built on Unreal. It's a bunch of sourcing right now on Amazon, it doesn't cost us much.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

It’s funny because it’s quite a known car, of course — they only make 100 of series, like how the Pagani Huayra Roadster, I believe there were only 100 made. This one is, of course, flipped to VR and especially screens, because a lot of the clientele will want to use it on screens. Barry: Yeah, that’s true.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

It’s funny because it’s quite a known car, of course — they only make 100 of series, like how the Pagani Huayra Roadster, I believe there were only 100 made. This one is, of course, flipped to VR and especially screens, because a lot of the clientele will want to use it on screens. Barry: Yeah, that’s true.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Apple headset will not be focused on gaming. A new report seems to suggest that the upcoming Apple headset won’t be focused on gaming at all. In fact, at launch, it won’t even be possible to create Unity content for it. The solution is having more realistic headsets and interactions, of course. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2018

It is one of those places where people look for 3D models , alongside other marketplaces like the Unity Asset Store, Google Poly or Turbosquid. Not to mention how 3D technologies are being adopted and developed by major companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple. Thank you for talking to me. Well, what can I say?

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AR Insider

MARCH 24, 2020

Brand spending on sponsored mobile AR lenses is a bright spot, as is Apple AR glasses rumors. Of course, there are use cases in industrial settings, such as automation and visualization. This category also includes developer tools such as Unity and AR democratization tools such as Amazon Sumerian or Adobe Aero.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

A new report from CCS Insight, instead, predicts that this year will be sold 7 million standalone VR headsets , and of course Oculus Quest and Go should make a great part of these devices. Apple moves top executive to AR glasses team. According to a report, Apple has just moved Kim Vorrath to the AR glasses team. That is huge.

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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. This training course cost about $3,000 and was mandatory for anyone wanting to use SteamVR. Image provided by Rob Cole). Tundra HDK RMA. The tracked object.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

I remember years ago — I think it was probably, I want to say about five years ago — we had a Unity session in our office, where we did Unity development basics, and we invited a lot of companies from the area in Austin to come to our office, and we would run a Unity training session around 2D/3D asset development.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

I remember years ago — I think it was probably, I want to say about five years ago — we had a Unity session in our office, where we did Unity development basics, and we invited a lot of companies from the area in Austin to come to our office, and we would run a Unity training session around 2D/3D asset development.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

I remember years ago -- I think it was probably, I want to say about five years ago -- we had a Unity session in our office, where we did Unity development basics, and we invited a lot of companies from the area in Austin to come to our office, and we would run a Unity training session around 2D/3D asset development.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 23, 2019

So, it’s more like a Dropbox use case, if you will, for all the phases of product development, where a 3D artist needs to iterate with his colleagues and coworkers — and of course, none of them have 3D software to open any of the 3D designs. We were launching partners of Apple for USDZ and we’re working on it.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 23, 2019

So, it's more like a Dropbox use case, if you will, for all the phases of product development, where a 3D artist needs to iterate with his colleagues and coworkers -- and of course, none of them have 3D software to open any of the 3D designs. We were launching partners of Apple for USDZ and we're working on it. So we will, yes.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 23, 2019

So, it’s more like a Dropbox use case, if you will, for all the phases of product development, where a 3D artist needs to iterate with his colleagues and coworkers — and of course, none of them have 3D software to open any of the 3D designs. We were launching partners of Apple for USDZ and we’re working on it.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

If you show up to a– pick your favorite large industrial customer and you show up with a great computer vision SDK and Unity and you say, “listen, we can go build anything.” ” And then, of course, I realize I get the crash course and “Oh, we make this CAD-like program where you can build a product.”

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

If you show up to a– pick your favorite large industrial customer and you show up with a great computer vision SDK and Unity and you say, “listen, we can go build anything.” ” And then, of course, I realize I get the crash course and “Oh, we make this CAD-like program where you can build a product.”

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