The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

Before leaving you to the best news of the week, I would like to highlight two notable things about my work: My crazy trolling game “The Unity Cube” has been featured in a video by Upload VR! Johnson has worked at Microsoft and Qualcomm before, and she is a very respected executive. Amazon is opening its AR Beauty Salon.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 1, 2023

We’re already seeing aspects of spatial computing emerge in everything from collaborative platforms like Microsoft Teams to smartphones. Increased interest in spatial computing is leading to the development of more advanced sensors for hand/eye tracking and IoT connectivity. With a projected value of $544.6

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

We’re already seeing aspects of spatial computing emerge in everything from collaborative platforms like Microsoft Teams to smartphones. Increased interest in spatial computing is leading to the development of more advanced sensors for hand/eye tracking and IoT connectivity. With a projected value of $544.6

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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. I also imagine them trying to add enterprise-oriented features like eye-tracking in all their devices.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Eye-tracking startup Eyefluence, which raises $14 million this month, is acquired about a year later by Google. 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. December 2015. March 2016.

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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

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. HoloLens 2 is an amazing device, with a decent FOV, eye tracking, and hands tracking, that for sure will make many companies happy. Image from Amazon).

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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? Who owns the eye tracking data? Do you have control?

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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? Who owns the eye tracking data? Do you have control?

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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? Who owns the eye tracking data? Do you have control?

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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? Who owns the eye tracking data? Do you have control?

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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. Kent: It reminds me of– I have gone to Microsoft Build for the last three years, and that’s a good place to kind of see some of the AR demos that are there in terms of the partners with Microsoft.

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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. Kent: It reminds me of-- I have gone to Microsoft Build for the last three years, and that's a good place to kind of see some of the AR demos that are there in terms of the partners with Microsoft. Alan: Yeah.

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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. Kent: It reminds me of– I have gone to Microsoft Build for the last three years, and that’s a good place to kind of see some of the AR demos that are there in terms of the partners with Microsoft.

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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. Unity is always my top one. We’re not tied to Microsoft. Is it marketing? Is it training?

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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. Unity is always my top one. We’re not tied to Microsoft. Is it marketing? Is it training?

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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. Amazon Sumerian. And the next generation of headsets that will come out in the next 24 months will all have eye tracking and head tracking. Unity is always my top one.

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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. Eye tracking. Eye tracking inserts around the lenses of the Pico Neo 3 Eye (Image by Pico).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

This device looks like a big pair of glasses (it reminds me the Bose Rondo) and it has installed on a lot of sensors: 2 IR external cameras, 2 IR internal cameras (for eye tracking), 1 RGB camera, 7 microphones, 2 IMUs. I’m a developer, where is Unity, where is Visual Studio? Who decides what is legit and what not?

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