The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

And when you have finished it, you have immediately 5 demos of games that are waiting for you. And when you turn it on the first time, you have immediately five free demos that you can play from the first instants , that show you how gaming in VR can be great. When I demo the Quest to people, everyone loves it. User Experience.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

It has created tools to improve geolocation, multiplayer, and also to deliver more realistic AR experiences (e.g. Giving great tools to creators is important to create a new ecosystem: see what has happened after creators had the opportunity of creating AR filters. Oculus Quest 2 has disappeared from all Amazon EU websites.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

So where this lower layer of software comes as a bunch of tools. Alan: So one of the things that you guys just released is a video showing the new PlayStation 5 running the Unreal Engine, and the demo was -- and I'll quote -- there's billions of polygons running. You put new tools in place. It's not science fiction.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

So where this lower layer of software comes as a bunch of tools. Alan: So one of the things that you guys just released is a video showing the new PlayStation 5 running the Unreal Engine, and the demo was -- and I'll quote -- there's billions of polygons running. You put new tools in place. It's not science fiction.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

So where this lower layer of software comes as a bunch of tools. Alan: So one of the things that you guys just released is a video showing the new PlayStation 5 running the Unreal Engine, and the demo was -- and I'll quote -- there's billions of polygons running. You put new tools in place. It's not science fiction.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2023

This included adopters of the Omniverse such as Amazon, Deutsche Bahn, and others. He explained further, “Amazon is using Omniverse to visualise their warehouse, [a] giant robotic system, to help their workers [and] to simulate their fleet of AMRs. [We We are] creating a digital twin of the [Earth’s climate system].

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

Meta has also released a small demo of a fitness game to prove how it works well. More info (Official Sony blogpost) More info (Summary by Upload VR) Pimax works for the release of Portal Pimax Portal, the Nintendo Switch-like console by Pimax , has just been released on Amazon. Meta Quest will receive Hand Tracking 2.2,

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

All social companies are now competing on who can offer the best tools to create them: the one having the lead is currently Snapchat (that has been the first startup believing in augmentations), which has already implemented full-body filters, and location-based filters, where you can augment certain landmarks of various cities.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

So we would require many public demos about it… but well, there is a pandemic and so people can go out less, and even if they go out, it’s not safe wearing the headset that others have worn in a demo booth. But we all know that this is not enough: VR must be tried to be understood (and sold).

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. But there's actually some things you can buy on Amazon, and so those you can get for a couple of thousand, but it's not a full motion simulator. Alan: Amazing. Would that be possible?

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. But there's actually some things you can buy on Amazon, and so those you can get for a couple of thousand, but it's not a full motion simulator. Alan: Amazing. Would that be possible?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. At Magic Leap, Paul recognized the lack of accessible tools for non-game developers that was hindering widespread adoption of immersive and spatial computing technologies. It’s amazing.” ” Paul: [laughs] Right.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. At Magic Leap, Paul recognized the lack of accessible tools for non-game developers that was hindering widespread adoption of immersive and spatial computing technologies. It’s amazing.” ” Paul: [laughs] Right.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The image above, clearly an homage to the legendary Unity Cube , demonstrates the position and orientation of optical sensors across different surfaces of the object… this would ensure that sensors are always available as the object is turned or moved. Image by Rob Cole). This was quickly solved using a five meters long active USB 2.0

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. But there's actually some things you can buy on Amazon, and so those you can get for a couple of thousand, but it's not a full motion simulator. Alan: Amazing. Would that be possible?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. At Magic Leap, Paul recognized the lack of accessible tools for non-game developers that was hindering widespread adoption of immersive and spatial computing technologies. And it was for me as well; I've been a Unity user forever.

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Building the Metaverse

JANUARY 18, 2023

But more recently, tools have helped dematerialize the experience and make it more easy to conduct your campaign online. Generative AI tools have also helped dungeon masters create imagery to share with their groups. Realtime ray tracing was a demo in 2018 that required a $60,000 PC. Image from Unreal Engine 5.1

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

And to be clear, I used it in a real home, not a carefully controlled demo environment or a well-lit studio. But there is significant double imaging when you rotate your head - so much so that "wow, it's really blurry when you move your head" was the first reaction of the only person I've demoed Vision Pro to so far.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

HTC did something with Batman; that Game of Thrones thing; some of the demos that Magic Leap had really. I got invited to this DJ at it with my emulator board, and it was Robert Scoble and I; we both went into the little tent, and there was this guy showing these VR demos. I thought, “that’s a nice marketing tool.”

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

HTC did something with Batman; that Game of Thrones thing; some of the demos that Magic Leap had really. I got invited to this DJ at it with my emulator board, and it was Robert Scoble and I; we both went into the little tent, and there was this guy showing these VR demos. I thought, “that’s a nice marketing tool.”

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

You can build in Unity, it’s the same thing. I think that was one of the biggest challenges over the last few years, was… well, put it this way: Amazon has 1.5 billion products for sale on Amazon. But with all the investment of the Apples, the Microsofts, the Googles, the Facebooks, the Amazon. Alan: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

You can build in Unity, it’s the same thing. I think that was one of the biggest challenges over the last few years, was… well, put it this way: Amazon has 1.5 billion products for sale on Amazon. But with all the investment of the Apples, the Microsofts, the Googles, the Facebooks, the Amazon. Alan: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But at the same time, for those companies that do have that and really want to bring things in-house, what are some of the tools that you're seeing -- besides ARKit, ARCore, and Unity -- that are standing out to you? It's not something that every company will do.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But at the same time, for those companies that do have that and really want to bring things in-house, what are some of the tools that you're seeing -- besides ARKit, ARCore, and Unity -- that are standing out to you? It's not something that every company will do.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But at the same time, for those companies that do have that and really want to bring things in-house, what are some of the tools that you're seeing -- besides ARKit, ARCore, and Unity -- that are standing out to you? It's not something that every company will do.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But at the same time, for those companies that do have that and really want to bring things in-house, what are some of the tools that you're seeing -- besides ARKit, ARCore, and Unity -- that are standing out to you? It's not something that every company will do.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 28, 2019

If you are a Unity/UE developer, you may have issues with Quest developing at this moment after the update , because when you build the app, you may see only one controller, or the controllers behaving in a weird way. Amazon Prime Video comes to Oculus mobile devices. Amazon streaming services come to VR. News worth a mention.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

” But I think we’ve kind of — in the last two years — put a lot of POCs, a lot of effort, into building these demos and proofs of concepts, developing these trials. 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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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

” But I think we’ve kind of — in the last two years — put a lot of POCs, a lot of effort, into building these demos and proofs of concepts, developing these trials. 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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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

But I think we've kind of -- in the last two years -- put a lot of POCs, a lot of effort, into building these demos and proofs of concepts, developing these trials. 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. Amazon Sumerian.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has demoed the technology by showing a mini version of him that could answer the questions of the journalists. Another interesting demo showed a virtual avatar that was able to talk with two customers of a restaurant and suggest to them what to eat with a natural conversation, all in an automated way.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Facebook encourages people to create new worlds inside Horizon using the World Creation tools , that let people create easily new experiences for Horizon from inside virtual reality in an easy way and without knowing how to code (there is a visual scripting system). In the demos, Facebook has showcased a plane game call Wing Strikers.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

Yeah, I just talked to Anand [Agarawala] — who’s the CEO of Spatial — and saw the demo and just did a whole breakdown of all what they’re doing with Spatial. We’ve got AR platforms being hosted by Amazon, by Facebook, by Snapchat, where you can develop your own AR lenses. Kent: Oh, cool.

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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. Top news of the week.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

Yeah, I just talked to Anand [Agarawala] -- who's the CEO of Spatial -- and saw the demo and just did a whole breakdown of all what they're doing with Spatial. We've got AR platforms being hosted by Amazon, by Facebook, by Snapchat, where you can develop your own AR lenses. Alan: We had Jacob Lowenstein from Spatial on the show.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

Yeah, I just talked to Anand [Agarawala] — who’s the CEO of Spatial — and saw the demo and just did a whole breakdown of all what they’re doing with Spatial. We’ve got AR platforms being hosted by Amazon, by Facebook, by Snapchat, where you can develop your own AR lenses. Kent: Oh, cool.

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