The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Unreal Engine and Photoshop), as it happens in Google Docs when many people edit the same document at the same time. More info (Kickstarter page) More info (Article on Upload VR). More info (Read the article plus the comments to my tweet). The change made by one user in its program (e.g. New kind of AI inside”.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

Anyway, I will keep you posted about that in a dedicated article! Valve publishes a deep dive article on the speakers of Valve Index. This week, Valve has published a deep dive article on the speakers , and how they got to the current design. Oculus publishes a deep dive article on ASW 2.0. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 26, 2020

Unity and Unreal are both incredible game engines and both require specialized training and/or teams to develop for. It feels abandoned in the overall Amazon ecosystem and the rendering technology is older and inefficient. This is scheduled for a Q4 release. As for Sumerian, it is quite complex with a long learning curve.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2024

I think that it is important to shine a light on this episode because all the articles talking about this mention the fact that the police are investigating the facts, but the laws are not ready to punish this kind of crime. I’m very sorry for what this girl has gone through and I hope she is recovering.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

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 ). Unreal is already compatible with the framework, so in 2021 we’ll soon have also the tools ready to create OpenXR cross-compatible platforms.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

More info (Google Starline announcement) More info (Google Starline article on Wired). Quest 2 recalled from Amazon EU for skin irritation issue. Facebook is working with Amazon to solve all the bureaucratic stuff and we hope that sales can start again soon. Digilens shows a reference design for AR glasses. News worth a mention.

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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. But I guess there were some legal reasons for that.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

The game is very different from its predecessor, and it is less a realistic combat simulator and more an adrenaline multiplayer game, like Unreal Tournament or Quake Arena. Multiplayer shooter Solaris Offworld Combat , from the creators of the successful Firewall: Zero Hour, has been released this week. Magic Leap may partner with AWS.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2019

This article has been a while coming… 2 headsets, 3 pairs of controllers and a right ear speaker since launch meant more time in meat space than I’d recommend to any VR enthusiast. . For this first article, we will concentrate on the Index Facial Interface ; a later article will cover the Index Controllers and Index Ear Speakers.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal. Authors’ opinions are their own. Find out more details, dynamics and submission guidelines here. . Who Will Own the Metaverse? by Marko Balabanovic.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Amazon and Netflix also entered the market, with Netflix taking a different approach by offering downloadable game content on users' devices. Games are gradually becoming capable of producing photo-realistic levels of image fidelity in real-time – some of the most impressive being those built with the Unreal 5 engine.

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

You can read some of my hands-on articles on my blog (e.g. This can be a fantastic feature for concierge services for hotels, restaurants, or similar structures (it reminds a bit of what Amazon Sumerian tried to offer some months ago, and that my friend Eloi exploited well ).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2020

After having read this article until this chapter, you are probably intrigued by the bHaptics suit. Being a developer, of course one of the first things that I did was digging into the bHaptics SDK, that you can find on the Unity asset store or on Unreal Engine Marketplace. bHaptics already provides this out of the box.

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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? I really hope that you liked this article. Yes, it is!

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Emily: Ok, I wish I were productive enough to write multiple articles a week. And there were all these headlines, “Glasshole” articles. I’m going to shift gears a little bit because one of the articles that you wrote was talking about XR in HR. But there’s a lot going on. Time really is money in business. Emily: Yes.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Emily: Ok, I wish I were productive enough to write multiple articles a week. And there were all these headlines, “Glasshole” articles. I’m going to shift gears a little bit because one of the articles that you wrote was talking about XR in HR. But there’s a lot going on. Time really is money in business. Emily: Yes.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Emily: Ok, I wish I were productive enough to write multiple articles a week. And there were all these headlines, “Glasshole” articles. And while I don't think the use cases are really there for consumers yet, and the devices aren't quite there-- although I was really impressed with Unreal's mixed reality glasses. Alan: I agree.

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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. You can mess around with Amazon Sumerian. Definitely, the advances with neural networks and AI on the graphics side are just making things possible that were never possible before.

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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. You can mess around with Amazon Sumerian. Definitely, the advances with neural networks and AI on the graphics side are just making things possible that were never possible before.

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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. You can mess around with Amazon Sumerian. Definitely, the advances with neural networks and AI on the graphics side are just making things possible that were never possible before.

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