The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Amazon Lumberyard becomes opensource. Amazon has launched some years ago its 3D engine called Lumberyard, derived from Crytek’s Cryengine. Now, in what seems a desperate move to become relevant in a field dominated by Unity and Unreal Engine, it has made this engine opensource with the name Open 3D Engine. billion) and ARkit (1.25

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 10, 2023

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. Unity shared how digital twins were helping its customers unlock new levels of innovation.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

And I’m also worried about using a Facebook account for everything XR related, because Facebook has a long history of obscure practices with the data of its users , apart from the standard “personalized ads” business. Facebook already had full control of my Oculus and Facebook accounts, so it had already my XR data.

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VRScout

APRIL 29, 2019

Benzing then moved on to create Hilda , which “ had its World Premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2017 and was distributed to Amazon, ” and Diptych , which “ had its world premiere at Lincoln Center’s Dance on Camera (2018), ” as is stated on her personal blog. We’re working with Unity on this project.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The console can also be inserted in a special case (a much improved version of Google Daydream View) to become a VR headset. Then, there are the data about sales numbers. Snap and Amazon partner to offer AR preview of shopping items. Mindport helps you in building your Unity VR experiences. Learn more. Learn more.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 18, 2023

Max Bickley Digital twins operate in tandem with XR hardware and software by leveraging immersive visualization, real-time data integration, remote collaboration, and simulation capabilities. Data Integration : XR service providers integrate real-time data from digital twins into XR experiences.

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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. But a new data mining revealed that new strings mentioning Iris have appeared in Android. It seems the journalist liked them.

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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. Out of nowhere, Epic Games has teased the next version of Unreal Engine, Unreal Engine 5, due to be released in 2021.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

As a long-time AR enthusiast, and one of the first to have tried Google Glass in Italy, I have to admit that I will consider AR mainstream only when it will be on glasses that we will wear all day , when we’ll live in a completely shared mixed reality world (the AR Cloud). Or is it just a talk about glasses?

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. 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 has applications in training and educational use cases.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

For this reason, NVIDIA has released two new graphics cards: NVIDIA RTX A6000 dedicated to prosumers and enterprises that want to work with very complex scenes to render on their workstations NVIDIA A40 dedicated to Data Centers that wants to exploit it for remote renderings and AI computations. Max Power Consumption 300 W Form Factor 4.4″

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

The third major change came from Unity which recently announced that it will now be serving AR ads on mobile. Unity has one of the world’s largest mobile ad serving businesses and at the end of last year they partnered with Fossil to pilot this new ad format in mobile games. Virtual humans are getting more and more real.

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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. Blogger Tom Ffiske, that writes on Virtual Perceptions, has decided to write a very good book about AR and VR technologies and it is becoming pretty popular on Amazon.

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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.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The World Map in this world therefore isn’t a 2D street map like we have with Google Maps or Open Street Map, nor is it a 3D map with terrain and building volumes. Accompanying this will be persistent, stateful geographic Assets and Data, some static, others interactive with behaviors of their own.

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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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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

As John Riccitiello (CEO of Unity) said some years ago , the VR market won’t be interesting enough until it will reach the 10 million users mark. “He has one million cars collecting data of the world. They are collecting data of the world surrounding them and Tesla is building amazing maps out of that.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The New York Times distributes more than 1 million Google Cardboard phone VR viewers to subscribers with the launch of The Displaced , a 360-degree video project focusing on children driven from their homes by war. Eye-tracking startup Eyefluence, which raises $14 million this month, is acquired about a year later by Google.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

We had, for DuPont Corian — which is a client of ours — we had an experience that showed bathroom vanities that you’re able to look at and place inside of your own space, similar to what IKEA is doing, and Amazon. Alan: So, I think Google’s leading. Yes, exactly. And Instagram as well.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

We had, for DuPont Corian — which is a client of ours — we had an experience that showed bathroom vanities that you’re able to look at and place inside of your own space, similar to what IKEA is doing, and Amazon. Alan: So, I think Google’s leading. Yes, exactly. And Instagram as well.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

More info (Sebastian’s Tweet) More info (Sebastian’s Tweet with answer by GermanRifter) More info (Google Cache for Bestware shop page for Cosmos). It is highly probable that an HLVR game will be developed in the Source game engine, so a Unity game is not a possibility. Sensor Tower reveals some data about mobile AR games.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

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. Given this only happens in Unity Full Space apps, I suspect this can be solved in future software. But Google said no, he claimed.

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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.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

He has a background with telco, gaming, automotive, and data science, and interactions with CRMs being the major thread in his career. Next to data, I like storytelling. A big company like Apple, Google, really pushing the thing out and saying, “this is what it’s going to be,” and then making it part of everyday life.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

He has a background with telco, gaming, automotive, and data science, and interactions with CRMs being the major thread in his career. Next to data, I like storytelling. A big company like Apple, Google, really pushing the thing out and saying, “this is what it’s going to be,” and then making it part of everyday life.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

I feel like some products, such as Google Cardboard, and some of the lower-end pieces of hardware, have actually done more harm than good to the reputation of virtual reality. People get in it, and they see, "this as a medium-to-low-quality image or video that I'm sitting in," and there's not much interaction if it's a Google Cardboard.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

I feel like some products, such as Google Cardboard, and some of the lower-end pieces of hardware, have actually done more harm than good to the reputation of virtual reality. People get in it, and they see, "this as a medium-to-low-quality image or video that I'm sitting in," and there's not much interaction if it's a Google Cardboard.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

And you’re doing this through virtual/augmented reality, and the metrics that you’re able to collect, keep maps, and where people are looking and the amount of data that you’re able to collect from users in a digital world versus a physical world is actually really quite amazing. And in VR, it took six months. Alan: Why?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

And you’re doing this through virtual/augmented reality, and the metrics that you’re able to collect, keep maps, and where people are looking and the amount of data that you’re able to collect from users in a digital world versus a physical world is actually really quite amazing. And in VR, it took six months. Alan: Why?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

I feel like some products, such as Google Cardboard, and some of the lower-end pieces of hardware, have actually done more harm than good to the reputation of virtual reality. People get in it, and they see, "this as a medium-to-low-quality image or video that I'm sitting in," and there's not much interaction if it's a Google Cardboard.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

I feel like some products, such as Google Cardboard, and some of the lower-end pieces of hardware, have actually done more harm than good to the reputation of virtual reality. People get in it, and they see, "this as a medium-to-low-quality image or video that I'm sitting in," and there's not much interaction if it's a Google Cardboard.

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Augmented Reality Virtual Reality Technology Training 60

XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

So things like Uber or Google Maps and directions were native to the phone, that were kind of useless on the PC. So that was a problem that, in the past, could only be solved with expensive depth cameras or Google Street View-style cars, or take a thousand photos and wait a day for it all to be processed. Matt: Just on Medium.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

So things like Uber or Google Maps and directions were native to the phone, that were kind of useless on the PC. So that was a problem that, in the past, could only be solved with expensive depth cameras or Google Street View-style cars, or take a thousand photos and wait a day for it all to be processed. Matt: Just on Medium.

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AR Technology Industry Augmented Reality 78

XR for Business Podcast

JULY 26, 2019

Sort of a three-dimensional mesh of everything, or as Charlie Fink likes to say, “painting the world with data.” ” The data associated with the identity of that part: is it accurate? We want to rely on those data sets. For example, that engine. And it also allows them to be shareable. Alan: Very interesting.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 26, 2019

Sort of a three-dimensional mesh of everything, or as Charlie Fink likes to say, “painting the world with data.” ” The data associated with the identity of that part: is it accurate? We want to rely on those data sets. For example, that engine. And it also allows them to be shareable. Alan: Very interesting.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

So things like Uber or Google Maps and directions were native to the phone, that were kind of useless on the PC. So that was a problem that, in the past, could only be solved with expensive depth cameras or Google Street View-style cars, or take a thousand photos and wait a day for it all to be processed. Matt: Just on Medium.

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