The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2023

But there’s even more: Unity has already published a page about how it is possible to build for the Quest 3 using not only the XR Interaction Toolkit, but also AR Foundation. Unity page also confirms that the headset will provide plane detection, so you will be able for instance to detect the walls and the desks in your room.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Augmented reality is a technology that allows us to superimpose digital information into the real-world environment. In this article, we will discuss on augmented reality. Augmented Reality (AR)  — It overlays digital content in the real world. Pokemon Go is the best example for an augmented reality game.

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JUNE 9, 2023

The device also hints at Metaverse support with Unity-native applications like Rec Room porting to the device. Additionally, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Amazon.com are assisting Hexa in optimising its platform for spatial computing and imaging, respectively. Time will tell, as always, as the emerging market swings so quickly.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 2, 2022

percent year-on-year, with augmented reality (AR) peaking 94.1 Affected companies include Meta Platforms, Amazon, and the global cryptocurrency community. Additional businesses like Epic Games, Unity, Autodesk, Adobe, NVIDIA, and many others have pivoted to the Metaverse to reach these goals. percent YoY for 2023.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

But things on the consumers’ side may not be going as well: according to some data scrapped from Amazon, the Quest 2 outsold the Quest 3 by a factor of 3:1 in the last 30 days. More info A Universal Unity VR injector may be in the works, or maybe not Raicuparta has just added an old simple Universal Unity VR Mod tool to its Rai Pal tool.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

Another leak regarded the release date: an Amazon listing put the availability date of the Quest 3 starting from October, 10th. Since MRTK was used especially for AR applications, it is natural that these three giants of augmented reality are interested in keeping it alive. That’s fantastic news for all Unity XR developers!

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ARPost

APRIL 17, 2023

Some of the most important Fortune 500 companies will be represented at the event, including Boeing, Canon, Shell, Amazon, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Augmented Enterprise Summit When: October 24-26 Where: Houston, TX; virtual As its name suggests, this AR/VR event is aimed at enterprises.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 18, 2023

AR software development kit (SDK) providers like Apple, Xreal, Niantic, 8 th Wall, Unreal, and Unity give developers the tools to make and distribute custom AR content that naturally drives retention and engagement with new interactive experiences to “wow” potential buyers. Although, this is quickly changing.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Firms such as Amazon, AT&T, Meta Platforms, Magic Leap, Qualcomm, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Unity Technologies, Lenovo, General Motors (GM), and others will take the XR centre stage to discuss how metaverse technologies reshaping enterprises and their operations. Immerse Global Summit (@ImmerseSummit) October 13, 2022.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Previous events haven’t just covered common topics related to extended, virtual, and augmented realities. In 2022, the Immerse Global Summit featured speakers from some of the world’s best-known brands, including Amazon, Meta, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and Unity, and demonstrations of some of the most exciting metaverse technologies.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

French startup Lynx announced some months ago a quite interesting headset featuring pass-through augmented reality , hands tracking, eye tracking, and an innovative lens design. Amazon Lumberyard becomes opensource. Amazon has launched some years ago its 3D engine called Lumberyard, derived from Crytek’s Cryengine.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 26, 2020

MetaVRse One App: Our unique One App solution unlocks Augmented Reality by installing a small utility application (16mb). With other game engines already available, both on standalone (Unity, UE4) and web (Sumerian), why did you feel the need to create a new one? This is scheduled for a Q4 release.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Zappar is trying to come to the rescue with a new version of its ZapBox headset: a cheap lightweight shell inside which you can put your smartphone to enjoy some kind of augmented reality. There are also two simple 6DOF controllers through which you can interact with the augmentations. This is so cool!

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The famous journalist Charlie Fink has had an amazing experience trying Augmented Reality on a small combat plane. Snap and Amazon partner to offer AR preview of shopping items. This video about a “virtual reality viewer” from 1830 has been one of the viral content of the week. Red6 made Charlie Fink try AR on a plane.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 17, 2023

With partners like Unity, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Intel, the GDC event showcases some of the latest technologies in the XR world from the biggest businesses. This year, leading names like Deborah Oyeyinka from Unity Technologies , and Kristofor Mellroth of Xbox are set to attend.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The free app, powered by Unity, opens with a quick warning about being aware of your surroundings while using AR and encourages you to supervise children when using the app. As of this writing, the AR story puzzle is not available on other online retailers like Amazon. From there, the app only has a play button and a settings button.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Considering the leaks on Amazon and MediaMarkt, the device will probably be available starting from October, 10th, 2023. It will transform the PC software into just a lightweight runtime to: Make the Quest work with the Link on SteamVR Use old content bought on the Rift Store Make developers debug the apps they are making in Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Holo-Light has also just announced to have become the first AR/VR streaming provider to be named Unity Verified Solutions Partner. Amazon has for sure some servers in the region, so the streaming was happening from a close location. Hands-on XRnow.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

There will be a new launcher, improved graphics, improved in-game camera, production-ready Unity SDK for the creators, improved full-body VR, and much more. First of all, the Web3 VR platform has announced version 3.0 which is releasing this autumn with a massive update in which basically everything will be improved.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

According to Upload VR, for instance, “in UK, it’s now available at GAME , Amazon UK , ShopTo , Currys , Argos and more. All without leaving your editor. The console is now available for purchase at the most popular online and offline retailers. This is a very important moment for the console, whose sales until now haven’t been stellar.

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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Mark Zuckerberg has been talking a lot about augmented reality and investing a lot, too. ” Facebook already has internal plans for the next five years and most of these new plans, and excitement, are about augmented reality. .” Back to the augmented reality devices that Zuckerberg is promising.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 1, 2017

VR and augmented reality are going to be the most visually-demanding platforms ever,” says Sweeney. Just like Minecraft enabled 50 million people to become 3D content creators, I think there will be hundreds of millions of computer content creators with augmented reality and VR makes that completely accessible to people.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Holoride is taking a bet on its ability to extend reality from the car seat to the metaverse, where the digital and virtual worlds intertwine with physical and augmented reality. .” Incorporating blockchain, NFTs and cryptocurrency into the Holoride platform isn’t just a way to get attention with nebulous buzz words.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

More info Epic layoffs people and changes the price of Unreal Engine After the drama that surrounded Unity a few weeks ago because of its pricing change, it seems that Epic is not having its most epic (pun intended) moment ever, either. Learn more Some XR fun Should you buy a Quest 3 or a Virtual Boy? Wait, what???

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

I mean, all UE developers, we Unity developers felt like being in a party where everyone is making out and you’re just there sipping a coke. Discover (and buy) the book on Amazon. Italian startup InVRsion has just raised $3M for simulating supermarkets and other shops in virtual reality.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

The super-interesting eye tracking device Droolon F1 by 7Invensun is now in preorder on Taobao , with Amazon listing coming soon. Oculus and Unity partner for a course on VR. Oculus and Unity have just released a free course on virtual reality. It is not a product yet, but I hope it can become one soon.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

More info Google may still be working at Project Iris Some months ago a rumor claimed that Google had stopped working on Project Iris, its project devoted to the creation of augmented reality glasses. The book is coming in March, 2024, but can already be preordered on Amazon. SteamVR 2.0 is now live for everyone.

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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

MARCH 2, 2020

The devices that will be based on this reference design will have amazing specifications like: 2K x 2K display resolution per each eye ; Have up to 7 cameras used simultaneously, including the ones for tracking, mixed reality and eye-tracking; High-quality passthrough augmented reality with high resolution and framerate.

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Robert Scoble

JANUARY 11, 2022

This tells me the augmented reality industry has focused on the wrong type of experience. Apple and Unity aren’t going to continue making this mistake, because they have done the kinds of human factor research I have. After we get augmented reality devices we will change what we want in the home.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

Amazon now offers the possibility to try-on shoes in AR on its app. You know that I am a member of VRrOOm , a French startup that is aiming at revolutionizing events in immersive realities (and at “making the world a better place”, as all startups say according to the series Silicon Valley). Learn more. Learn more. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Someone invokes saviors like Google and Amazon, but even if they managed to succeed, they are other data-harvesting companies , so in any case, we are f**ked. Let’s see what will happen… and in the meantime let’s eat lots of popcorns. More info (Apple threatens Epic) More info (Microsoft files an official support for Epic).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

I am a bit sad no one gave an award to The Unity Cube , though… I would have loved to get a “Worst Application Award 2021” from Road To VR…. Then, it guarantees that there is an open-source alternative to Unity and Unreal, so if in the future Meta wants to build its own engine, it could start doing that by forking Godot.

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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 ). Learn more.

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VRWorld

JULY 12, 2017

Confirmed speakers are as follows: Rikard Steiber, President Viveport and SVP Virtual Reality, HTC. Tony Parisi, Global Head of VR/AR, Unity Technologies. It is surprising not to see major players from Amazon, Facebook, Google or Valve. Ted Schilowitz, Futurist, 20th Century Fox. Maureen Fan, CEO, Baobab Studios.

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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. affiliate link) More info (Quest on Amazon? affiliate link) More info (Quest on Amazon?—?affiliate affiliate link).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Amazon promises “single-digit latency” XR streaming. Amazon has announced some weeks ago “Wavelength”, a new offering of its AWS services, that should provide “single-digit latency” over 5G networks. 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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