The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The devices that will be based on this reference design will have amazing specifications like: 2K x 2K display resolution per each eye ; Have up to 7 cameras used simultaneously, including the ones for tracking, mixed reality and eye-tracking; High-quality passthrough augmented reality with high resolution and framerate.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Apple Vision Pro is a very impressive fusion of hardware and software, but it's by no means perfect. Read on for my breakdown of the Vision Pro hardware and software and the experience they enable. The eye tracking cameras sense the positions of your pupils and tiny piezoelectric actuators move the lenses into place.

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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! Amazon is opening its AR Beauty Salon. Oculus Tracking is much better than SteamVR Tracking Funny link. I’m here waiting for them.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Advancements in Hardware and Wearables Spatial computing solutions rely on a combination of intuitive hardware and powerful software. Increased interest in spatial computing is leading to the development of more advanced sensors for hand/eye tracking and IoT connectivity.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Advancements in Hardware and Wearables Spatial computing solutions rely on a combination of intuitive hardware and powerful software. Increased interest in spatial computing is leading to the development of more advanced sensors for hand/eye tracking and IoT connectivity.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Unity support for OpenXR is still in early beta , and so it’s not reliable yet to develop an OpenXR-compliant application in Unity. We Unity developers have still to use the current Unity tools that make us develop once, but then build for every different platform (like the ones I describe in this article ).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This is a huge problem for Meta, which subsidizes hardware with software sales. It is also possible to create your custom spaces to use in Mesh either with a no-code editor or by using Unity to create more personalized and complex scenes. It looks me a very interesting solution, and I can’t wait to give it a try with my colleagues.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

2020 has been a good year for the sales of VR devices : Half-Life Alyx and the launch of the Quest 2 have created a big spike in the sales of VR hardware and software. I expect all these trends to continue in 2021, for a year that will see the growth of the technology on all its sides (software and hardware).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

If these Facebook features proved to be popular, more developers would use them, and finally, Facebook could have more power on the VR development tools , after the failed acquisition of Unity. affiliate link) More info (Quest on Amazon? affiliate link) More info (Quest on Amazon?—?affiliate affiliate link).

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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. You could also choose to brand the environment.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Some time ago, it had already released the public specifications for the headset , and so many 3rd party vendors had been able to design and sell their viewers, but now even all the software has been released on GitHub. That is, all the software layer of Cardboard is public domain now. Image from Amazon). The hype is rising….

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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.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

The software suffers because the budget is taken from that. We're not talking, "we designed it better with a new software." They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. Cameron: So, I'll start with the software side of it. Who owns the eye tracking data? This is a monumental shift. Do you have control?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

The software suffers because the budget is taken from that. We're not talking, "we designed it better with a new software." They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. Cameron: So, I'll start with the software side of it. Who owns the eye tracking data? This is a monumental shift. Do you have control?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

The software suffers because the budget is taken from that. We're not talking, "we designed it better with a new software." They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. Cameron: So, I'll start with the software side of it. Who owns the eye tracking data? This is a monumental shift. Do you have control?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

The software suffers because the budget is taken from that. We're not talking, "we designed it better with a new software." They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. Cameron: So, I'll start with the software side of it. Who owns the eye tracking data? This is a monumental shift. 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. Because if you’re working with dozens or hundreds or thousands of headsets, then you’ve got to have some system to be able to deploy updates and software to all those headsets. Alan: Yeah. Kent: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Then you needed software, and the software didn’t exist yet, so you had to make it. 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.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Then you needed software, and the software didn’t exist yet, so you had to make it. 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.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Then you needed software, and the software didn't exist yet, so you had to make it. 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. Unity is always my top one. combine that with a computer.

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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. Because if you're working with dozens or hundreds or thousands of headsets, then you've got to have some system to be able to deploy updates and software to all those headsets. Anybody can do this, not just developers.

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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. Because if you’re working with dozens or hundreds or thousands of headsets, then you’ve got to have some system to be able to deploy updates and software to all those headsets. Alan: Yeah. Kent: Yeah.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This week has been the week of the Oculus Connect 6 , the biggest yearly event by Oculus where the VR company announces all its most important news, both on hardware and software sides. It is a software solution that lets you connect your Oculus Quest to the PC so that you can “transform” your Oculus Quest into a PC VR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

The software market will have a slight growth, but it will be driven anyway by the Quest, that is a standalone headset, which makes up 60% of all the SteamVR users. Eye tracking. Eye tracking inserts around the lenses of the Pico Neo 3 Eye (Image by Pico). Project Cambria should come with eye tracking too.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

It is the console business model: selling the hardware undercost so that subsidize it with exclusive software, and your data in this case. Oculus Quest is the best product not because of its hardware (that is more or less the same of the Vive Focus Plus), bu t for its software: the good runtime and the amazing exclusive games.

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