The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

All the 3 major VR runtimes (Oculus, SteamVR, Microsoft) are now compatible with OpenXR , and this means that on the runtime layer on PC, now OpenXR has been fully integrated. This means that if you develop an experience using OpenXR, you can run it on Oculus, SteamVR, and Microsoft runtimes with no modification. The Verge).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The result is that many big brands are canceling their presence at CES: Google, Intel, Microsoft, Meta, Lenovo, and many others, have decided not to go , and maybe provide their news virtually. Huawei this week has announced a new pair of smart glasses, available in China for around $270. a $100 Amazon Card). Some XR fun.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 2, 2024

We’ve already seen examples of companies leveraging Nvidia’s tools for supercomputing use cases. With its 3D modeling solutions and omniverse tools for streaming XR content more efficiently, Nvidia is poised to transform the future of immersion. By 2028, the “supercomputer” market is set to reach around $12.14

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Microsoft ships HoloLens 2, nReal gets ready to do the same with its glasses. After a long wait, finally Microsoft is shipping its HoloLens 2 headset. Adobe releases AR authoring tool Aero. Adobe has finally released its Adobe Aero tool. Image from Amazon). Great times ahead for augmented reality!

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2019

Licensing your game to LBVR can give you extra cash in the west, while in China you must be very careful about piracy and people not paying the licenses. Here on my blog I am experimenting with different income sources (Patreon, Adsense, Amazon Affiliate, Sponsored Posts, etc…). Maquette by Microsoft).

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

And the core of augmented reality is not– it’s not a measurement tool, it’s not a tool for everything. This is a tool to improve the way you’re telling stories, basically. AR is a good tool to make things visible. Also, for training processes, AR is really good thing, a tool to make things visible.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

And the core of augmented reality is not– it’s not a measurement tool, it’s not a tool for everything. This is a tool to improve the way you’re telling stories, basically. AR is a good tool to make things visible. Also, for training processes, AR is really good thing, a tool to make things visible.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

BlackBerry started off kind of as an enterprise tool, as well. And being immersed in a 360 video, for example, makes a wonderful training tool. Outside of that, we’ve worked with companies like PayPal, Microsoft, Accenture. It’s really going to be the enterprise that drives this very hot space in the XR industry.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

BlackBerry started off kind of as an enterprise tool, as well. And being immersed in a 360 video, for example, makes a wonderful training tool. Outside of that, we’ve worked with companies like PayPal, Microsoft, Accenture. It’s really going to be the enterprise that drives this very hot space in the XR industry.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

BlackBerry started off kind of as an enterprise tool, as well. And being immersed in a 360 video, for example, makes a wonderful training tool. Outside of that, we've worked with companies like PayPal, Microsoft, Accenture. It's really going to be the enterprise that drives this very hot space in the XR industry.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 24, 2019

And I think they've done a really good job at taking "phone," and matching it with a very inexpensive "toy" or "tool," and creating unlimited possibilities on this thing called the MERGE Cube. I had the opportunity to travel to China with the principals. It's four times the size of Amazon. So, really exciting.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 24, 2019

And I think they’ve done a really good job at taking “phone,” and matching it with a very inexpensive “toy” or “tool,” and creating unlimited possibilities on this thing called the MERGE Cube. I had the opportunity to travel to China with the principals. So, really exciting. It was really cool.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 24, 2019

And I think they’ve done a really good job at taking “phone,” and matching it with a very inexpensive “toy” or “tool,” and creating unlimited possibilities on this thing called the MERGE Cube. I had the opportunity to travel to China with the principals. So, really exciting. It was really cool.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

(Personally, I think that this trend that every country wants to keep its data inside its boundaries in understandable, but it risks also creating a collection of walled gardens, as it is happening with USA vs China). Microsoft has acquired Zenimax for $7.5B. And this is just a summary of the most interesting things. Let’s dream!).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 28, 2019

He claims that the headsets and controllers have a “Made in China” tag, and this makes me think that Valve has now some Chinese partner that is actually manufacturing the most critical devices of the Index bundle, and this could easily explain their ability to ramp up the production…. Amazon Prime Video comes to Oculus mobile devices.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Mr. Mike Powell, he is the head of the Microsoft Garage and the author of “Age of Smart Information,” a new book about how artificial intelligence and spatial computing will transform the way we communicate forever. ” And I guess he sent it to me on Amazon. Today’s guest is somebody absolutely spectacular.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Mr. Mike Powell, he is the head of the Microsoft Garage and the author of “Age of Smart Information,” a new book about how artificial intelligence and spatial computing will transform the way we communicate forever. ” And I guess he sent it to me on Amazon. Today’s guest is somebody absolutely spectacular.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 13, 2016

When the first consumer version of the Oculus Rift was launched in the spring, it was disappointingly bundled with a Microsoft Xbox controller – and we’ve eagerly been awaiting the native Touch Controllers. Now, the day is here, and the wait was… worth it? GOOGLE DAYDREAM SCORES NETFLIX AND HBO APPS. MAGIC LEAP’S CONTROVERSY.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Michael: And this is why I’ve been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building — there’s VRTK for Unity… there’s just all these tools. Amazon Sumerian. So, what are some of the tools that you’ve seen used really effectively to create this content?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Michael: And this is why I’ve been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building — there’s VRTK for Unity… there’s just all these tools. Amazon Sumerian. So, what are some of the tools that you’ve seen used really effectively to create this content?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Michael: And this is why I've been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building -- there's VRTK for Unity. there's just all these tools. Amazon Sumerian. So, what are some of the tools that you've seen used really effectively to create this content? The tools are here.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The ongoing impact of Covid, huge demand for electronics, labour shortages, power cuts in China leading to 3-day-working in factories, and the ongoing container shipping lottery have broken many “just in time” supply lines. Lockdowns and shortages. Image provided by Rob Cole). Why had they settled on this shape? Image by Rob Cole).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2020

A worker wearing HoloLens 2 (Image by Microsoft). Thanks to Snapchat and Instagram, and its new tools to create filters, like Spark AR, we’re seeing an explosion of the production of this kind of content, that are a new way for people to express their creativity. This shows how the technology is just slowly improving.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

This headset will serve to make Meta also conquer a bigger share of the prosumer market , the ones that are unsatisfied from the current Quest performances and/or want to use the Quest as a productivity tool. Meta should be more worried about Project Cambria and all its goal of making the Quest/Cambria a productivity tool.

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