The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The article talked about a headset shipping without controllers and aiming at the sweet price point of $200. As for the review, since I’m crunching these weeks, probably I will just write a quick hands-on article and delay a more detailed review for next month. Learn more Some XR fun Should you buy a Quest 3 or a Virtual Boy?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2021

As usual, I have also created a video version of this article, and in it, I describe to you all the main features of this headset , from the visuals to the comfort, not to mention the headset and controllers’ tracking. Can it really compete with the Quest? Pico Neo 3 Pro Video Review. Price and availability.

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Bernard Marr

JULY 4, 2022

Today, we might log into Amazon, Facebook, or Slack for shopping, socializing, or working online. Many metaverse experiences will be created by designers using low-code or no-code worldbuilding solutions, such as Roblox or Somnium Space, as well as tools like Unity which require some understanding of coding to get the most out of.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2018

I’ve not been able to test it in person, but looking around its users manual, the aGlass DK II seems quite easy to install and also easy to be used as a developer , thanks to its handy Unity and Unreal plugins. Will it be available also on Western websites like Amazon? Isn’t it a cool device? Yes, it is!

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

In this article, we will discuss on augmented reality. Computer Vision uses SLAM to receive visual data from our physical world and use this visual input to understand and interact with the environment. It uses GPS and compass sensor data to position the virtual object at a point of interest.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Anyway, many people have called b t on this data, and among these people, there is sir Palmer Luckey. The fact that the Rift S has sold less than the Index seems absurd, since it costs less, it has grown more than Index on the Steam data, and it has never gone out of stock. So, take SuperData’s data with a grain of salt.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Today I host another amazing article by the VR ergonomics expert Rob Cole , which has already written on this blog amazing posts, like the series about the ergonomics of the Valve Index or the viral article about the amazing Caliper VR controllers he worked on by himself. units for my use in these articles. Image by Rob Cole).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Welcome to this new edition of the XR Week Peek, which this week will be a bit special because I will summarize here what happened during the Meta Connect, the event during which Mark Zuckerberg launched the Quest 3, the Ray-Ban Meta smartglasses, and new techniques for data harvest… cough cough I mean, new AI services.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

But before leaving you to the best pieces of AR/VR news of the week, let me tease you that in the upcoming days I will publish an article I’m sure you will all love… it’s a hands-on preview on… you’ll discover it! I told in my analysis that Pico could kickstart the consumer VR ecosystem in China , and the first data may point in that sense.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

This means that while you have the Quest on, your microphone data will be always listened by the device, and you can imagine my profound happiness in knowing this. Unity support for OpenXR is still in early beta , and so it’s not reliable yet to develop an OpenXR-compliant application in Unity. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

For sure, Facebook will repeat a bazillion times that they care about privacy and I think that in the beginning, this will be mostly true: we have seen with Oculus how Facebook takes its time and boils its users slowly like the famous frog, adding over time features to get more data for targeted ads. WebAR will start to exploit its potential.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

Microsoft has released more specifications for its upcoming XBOX Series X, and from these data is clearly possible to see that it will be compatible with VR headsets. In the same article, it is also reported the news that Snap has acquired part of the assets and hired some of the people from Daqri. News worth a mention. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Everyone loves Beat Saber, and if the game offered a free multiplayer mode just requiring a Facebook login, many people would use that, and so Facebook could gather the data of all these players. affiliate link) More info (Quest on Amazon? affiliate link) More info (Quest on Amazon?—?affiliate affiliate link).

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. The third major change came from Unity which recently announced that it will now be serving AR ads on mobile. Streem combines augmented reality, remote video and uses contextualized data to help brands power an exceptional customer experience.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

More info (MacRumors original article) More info (Upload VR explanation). Tyler of VNN has decompiled the Unity code of The Lab (something that is pretty easy to do) and in the DLLs has found all the code of a shooter game that features various characters from Half Life. Who knows.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. 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.

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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.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

This week, Upload is marking the start of its third year and this post is exactly article number 3,000 published for the site. 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. It doesn’t stop the problem.

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Building the Metaverse

JANUARY 18, 2023

This article explores the technological and business trends enabling this future. Physics and realistic light simulation (ray tracing) You’d need a way to have a persistent world with data, continuity, rules, systems. You’d need a way to visualize the experience. Image from Unreal Engine 5.1

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2021

This week has been pretty crazy: It all started with Facebook approving my silly The Unity Cube application (an application with just a cube) on App Lab. The data of these sensors can be used through the Omnicept SDK, which can not only read the raw values but also extrapolate more high-level information about the status of the user.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

While I often discuss the long-term potential of AR & VR, in this article I'm reviewing Apple Vision Pro as it stands as a real product today. The Unity renderer implementation of foveated rendering, on the other hand is much rougher, and in multiple Unity apps I saw very obvious and harsh artifacts, particularly on text.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 24, 2022

This headset is basically identical to the Pico 4, but it features a more cleanable headset, additional sensors for eye and face tracking, plus enterprise services (dedicated assistance, device management, data security certifications, etc…) and an enterprise runtime (which offers kiosk mode, for instance). Meta is under heavy pressure.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

But now, in this article, it is time to go deeper. To obtain it, Facebook had to use some CV magic that uses data on the cameras and the 3D data of the point cloud of the world detected by the device. In the demos, Facebook has showcased a plane game call Wing Strikers. Developer tools.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

Alan: It’s interesting; I wrote a whole article called “The First Killer App for Augmented Reality,” and it was all about virtual try-ons. The tools are pretty [new], and Unity and things, you need to invest a fair bit of time and effort to build something. You can mess around with Amazon Sumerian.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

Alan: It’s interesting; I wrote a whole article called “The First Killer App for Augmented Reality,” and it was all about virtual try-ons. The tools are pretty [new], and Unity and things, you need to invest a fair bit of time and effort to build something. You can mess around with Amazon Sumerian.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

Alan: It’s interesting; I wrote a whole article called “The First Killer App for Augmented Reality,” and it was all about virtual try-ons. The tools are pretty [new], and Unity and things, you need to invest a fair bit of time and effort to build something. You can mess around with Amazon Sumerian.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

Anyway, I will keep you posted about that in a dedicated article! These are the most important data contained in the report: Oculus is now the leading platform for developers. Valve publishes a deep dive article on the speakers of Valve Index. Oculus publishes a deep dive article on ASW 2.0. Top news of the week.

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Building the Metaverse

APRIL 12, 2022

That is the subject of this article: composability in the metaverse. In this article, I will cover: What composability means, with examples of composability in nature, art and technology Why we are are the forefront of a new era of the internet in which all aspects of the metaverse value-chain ? Composability is Compound Interest?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

That said, inviting you to support this blog on Patreon , so that I can keep hosting these amazing articles, I leave you to Rob’s post, that is like a tiny book, on the journey of developing Project Caliper. The name was of course inspired by “The Unity Cube” application (Image by Rob Cole). Enjoy your read.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

And once we did that, we were thinking a lot about this idea of IOT and products broadcasting information about themselves in the form of digital data. 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.”

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

And once we did that, we were thinking a lot about this idea of IOT and products broadcasting information about themselves in the form of digital data. 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.”

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

And once we did that, we were thinking a lot about this idea of IOT and products broadcasting information about themselves in the form of digital data. 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."

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

The ecosystem is full of people that keep writing articles about “How we will study in the metaverse”, “How we will work in the metaverse”, and that make talks about how one day we will have a concert with 20,000 people all together in VR like if it was happening in real life. This meme says it all. Accessories.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

This week’s episode goes all the way back to last year’s Curiosity Camp, when Alan shared a ride with Unity Lab’s Timoni West and Vapor IO CEO Cole Crawford, recording a podcast along the way. Timoni: Director of XR in Unity Labs. Alan: Director of XR at Unity Labs, and Cole Crawford, CEO of Vapor IO. Cole: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

This week’s episode goes all the way back to last year’s Curiosity Camp, when Alan shared a ride with Unity Lab’s Timoni West and Vapor IO CEO Cole Crawford, recording a podcast along the way. Timoni: Director of XR in Unity Labs. Alan: Director of XR at Unity Labs, and Cole Crawford, CEO of Vapor IO. Cole: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

This week’s episode goes all the way back to last year’s Curiosity Camp, when Alan shared a ride with Unity Lab’s Timoni West and Vapor IO CEO Cole Crawford, recording a podcast along the way. Timoni: Director of XR in Unity Labs. Alan: Director of XR at Unity Labs, and Cole Crawford, CEO of Vapor IO. Cole: Yeah.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Well, your favorite ghost has just done it for you in this article! It is the console business model: selling the hardware undercost so that subsidize it with exclusive software, and your data in this case. The device will almost always capture all the data it can , so that it can be studied later on by Facebook engineers.

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