The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

While Kura aims at making us dream with the headset of the future, another company , TiltFive, has its feet very grounded on Earth and is going to release an AR headset focused on a single purpose (tabletop gaming), but very well suited on it. If you are into tabletop gaming, my advice is to support them!

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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. AR and VR is a game changer in customer support.

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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. Is it just gaming? Alan: When you say “tipping point,” what does that actually mean?

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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. Is it just gaming? Alan: When you say “tipping point,” what does that actually mean?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Apple headset will not be focused on gaming. A new report seems to suggest that the upcoming Apple headset won’t be focused on gaming at all. In fact, at launch, it won’t even be possible to create Unity content for it. Thanks Ivan Aguilar for the tip!). Meta is under heavy pressure. Meta releases Movement SDK.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

As a gamer, I definitely enjoy the fact that I can play a game, not be sitting the entire time, and afterwards, I’ve burnt 500 calories, and feel really good about it the next day. Michael: The boxing games are pretty popular, and I definitely have to mention Beat Saber. It’s a multiplayer game, kind of dodgeball.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

As a gamer, I definitely enjoy the fact that I can play a game, not be sitting the entire time, and afterwards, I’ve burnt 500 calories, and feel really good about it the next day. Michael: The boxing games are pretty popular, and I definitely have to mention Beat Saber. It’s a multiplayer game, kind of dodgeball.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

As a gamer, I definitely enjoy the fact that I can play a game, not be sitting the entire time, and afterwards, I've burnt 500 calories, and feel really good about it the next day. Michael: The boxing games are pretty popular, and I definitely have to mention Beat Saber. It's a multiplayer game, kind of dodgeball. Michael: Yep.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

So it includes industrial productivity hardware & software, advertising, AR commerce enablement, and developer/creative tools like Unity , Adobe Aero and Amazon Sumerian. A tipping point will be followed by accelerated adoption, similar to last decade’s enterprise smartphone adoption. manufacturing efficiencies).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

But at the same time, I know that this is part of the game. HTC Vive is at the second place; Oculus Quest, even if it is so new, has already gathered a lot of interest from developers; Gaming is still the most popular content developed in XR, but now there is also interest in other kinds of applications , like entertainment (e.g.

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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. In the meanwhile, Puzzlar, the first indie game developed with the dev grants of Magic Leap, has been released.

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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. Epic Games releases Matrix Resurrections tie-in experience.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

This has led to long manufacturing delays and component shortages , especially for the silicon processors used in everything from electric cars and smartphones to game consoles and VR equipment. I was now officially a SteamVR developer, and free to build games or hardware for release on the Steam platform.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

As always in January I like to play the speculation game and make my personal predictions for augmented and virtual reality for the new year (2022, in this case). After so many years, finally VR is reaching its tipping point where one platform will reach the 10 million sold units, which is considered as a magic number for a healthy ecosystem.

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