The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). Of course, Microsoft and Amazon are observing the situation: in my opinion, Microsoft will wait a bit , considering its focus on AR enterprise with HoloLens, while Amazon could improve its already existing offering of glasses connected with Alexa. Sounded good.

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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. I call them the “Incarnations”.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The incumbents like Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft or Snap already own global social graphs, but perhaps looking to unseat them could be the multiplayer gaming behemoths like Sony, Activision Blizzard or EA, or 3D-specific ideas like Aura’s “avatar as a service”. It is tricky to categorize the many overlapping innovators in this space.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

A series of announcements from Amazon, Crytek, Epic Games and Unity Technologies showcase an evolution among their respective game engines into VR world creation toolsets. In fact, developers using Unity and SteamVR start effectively standardizing this mixed reality capture method. March 2016. November 2016.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

For example, Fortnite is built by them. Or if you want to train somebody on-- take the example of training. I can give you an example in construction. This is just one simple example: not having to fly a film crew to Fiji to film a car ad on a beach. And some of them are built on Unity, others are built on Unreal.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

For example, Fortnite is built by them. Or if you want to train somebody on-- take the example of training. I can give you an example in construction. This is just one simple example: not having to fly a film crew to Fiji to film a car ad on a beach. And some of them are built on Unity, others are built on Unreal.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

For example, Fortnite is built by them. Or if you want to train somebody on-- take the example of training. I can give you an example in construction. This is just one simple example: not having to fly a film crew to Fiji to film a car ad on a beach. And some of them are built on Unity, others are built on Unreal.

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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. ” You know what, go learn Unity and coding and figure out how to actually make it. And it was for me as well; I’ve been a Unity user forever. 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. ” You know what, go learn Unity and coding and figure out how to actually make it. And it was for me as well; I’ve been a Unity user forever. 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. You know what, go learn Unity and coding and figure out how to actually make it. And it was for me as well; I've been a Unity user forever. Alan: And then they ask their tech teams and they're like, "does anybody know Unity?"

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

It’s exactly the same use case as the IKEA couch example, but it’s a different industry, and the ROI is much, much faster. Matt: The other one — this sort of thing is the stuff that isn’t obvious to people — but the other big one that I think is a big deal is the Microsoft Dynamics 365 apps.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

It’s exactly the same use case as the IKEA couch example, but it’s a different industry, and the ROI is much, much faster. Matt: The other one — this sort of thing is the stuff that isn’t obvious to people — but the other big one that I think is a big deal is the Microsoft Dynamics 365 apps.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

One of the coolest examples that I think of, which may not apply to the everyday medium-sized company, is training in a way that is location-agnostic, and it could even be marketing; meaning, you could have a salesman or a lead engineer in Dallas, and you could have another engineer in Detroit. And where did we come from?"

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

One of the coolest examples that I think of, which may not apply to the everyday medium-sized company, is training in a way that is location-agnostic, and it could even be marketing; meaning, you could have a salesman or a lead engineer in Dallas, and you could have another engineer in Detroit. And where did we come from?"

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

It’s exactly the same use case as the IKEA couch example, but it’s a different industry, and the ROI is much, much faster. Matt: The other one — this sort of thing is the stuff that isn’t obvious to people — but the other big one that I think is a big deal is the Microsoft Dynamics 365 apps.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

One of the coolest examples that I think of, which may not apply to the everyday medium-sized company, is training in a way that is location-agnostic, and it could even be marketing; meaning, you could have a salesman or a lead engineer in Dallas, and you could have another engineer in Detroit. And where did we come from?"

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

One of the coolest examples that I think of, which may not apply to the everyday medium-sized company, is training in a way that is location-agnostic, and it could even be marketing; meaning, you could have a salesman or a lead engineer in Dallas, and you could have another engineer in Detroit. And where did we come from?"

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

So, I’ll give you a retail example and then a brand example. One other example would be on the brand side. 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 Tracey: Yeah. Tracey: Yes.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

So, I’ll give you a retail example and then a brand example. One other example would be on the brand side. 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 Tracey: Yeah. Tracey: Yes.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 26, 2019

For example, in a warehouse, instead of a pick-and-pack worker looking at a nine-digit code on their screen and trying to find that box in space, you can actually just have a marker right on the box itself. For example, the most traditional use is you have a number of sensors on something, let’s say an engine in a car.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 26, 2019

For example, in a warehouse, instead of a pick-and-pack worker looking at a nine-digit code on their screen and trying to find that box in space, you can actually just have a marker right on the box itself. For example, the most traditional use is you have a number of sensors on something, let’s say an engine in a car.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 26, 2019

For example, in a warehouse, instead of a pick-and-pack worker looking at a nine-digit code on their screen and trying to find that box in space, you can actually just have a marker right on the box itself. For example, the most traditional use is you have a number of sensors on something, let's say an engine in a car. All of the--.

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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

Give us some examples of some of the ways people are using VR to exercise. One example is retail employees. 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. Is it training?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Give us some examples of some of the ways people are using VR to exercise. One example is retail employees. 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. Is it training?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Give us some examples of some of the ways people are using VR to exercise. There's a lot of, for example, architectural firms in town, and they aren't as flashy as a virtual sports or something, but they're all using VR for showing the buildings, or going to a client and saying, "hey, would you like this room moved over here?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Even the big players like Sony, Apple, and Microsoft have substantially reduced their production estimates for 2022, whilst processor manufacturers talk of delays into 2024. Amazon sold me a moulded nylon grip for an AR-15 airsoft rifle… it was time to start work building my first development “Mule”. Image provided by Rob Cole).

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

We’ve got AR platforms being hosted by Amazon, by Facebook, by Snapchat, where you can develop your own AR lenses. For example, if you want to do an architectural visualization, it may be better to do that in VR, because you’re able to completely shift your context and be completely immersed with that environment.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

We've got AR platforms being hosted by Amazon, by Facebook, by Snapchat, where you can develop your own AR lenses. For example, if you want to do an architectural visualization, it may be better to do that in VR, because you're able to completely shift your context and be completely immersed with that environment. But once the WebXR 2.0

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

We’ve got AR platforms being hosted by Amazon, by Facebook, by Snapchat, where you can develop your own AR lenses. For example, if you want to do an architectural visualization, it may be better to do that in VR, because you’re able to completely shift your context and be completely immersed with that environment.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

If developers of PC games want to invest more time to create a VR version of them (like it happened for No Man’s Sky, or Microsoft Flight Simulator, for instance), this could help a lot the PCVR market. I think this year we will have always more examples of this kind, and the Apple headset should be the final realization of this trend.

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