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

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This week, the company has announced it is going to hire additional 10,000 people to help in developing the m verse , and all these new hires will happen in the Europen Union , and in particular, inside Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, the Netherlands and Ireland . VR came into mind as the ideal tool to provide both.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

As a long-time AR enthusiast, and one of the first to have tried Google Glass in Italy, I have to admit that I will consider AR mainstream only when it will be on glasses that we will wear all day , when we’ll live in a completely shared mixed reality world (the AR Cloud). The answer is not so trivial.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

If you will be in Italy, please come visiting me! Adobe releases AR authoring tool Aero. Adobe has finally released its Adobe Aero tool. There are already various tools that claim to let people create AR applications without coding, so you may wonder why I am giving that much importance to this news. Image from Amazon).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2019

Is that VR event in the mountains of Italy really a good opportunity? Here on my blog I am experimenting with different income sources (Patreon, Adsense, Amazon Affiliate, Sponsored Posts, etc…). More or less one year ago, we thought about developing a tool to let people prototype in VR, like the Adobe XD of VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

Or better, I can imagine who can be the names and they are all the big monoliths: Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon , etc… Only companies of this size could afford selling a good headset under cost and at the same time attract enough developers to publish VR games on their own new stores. There will be at least another big game.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 28, 2019

and this is good from one side, but stressful on others… much thanks to air conditioning to make me survive in that oven that is Italy in these days!). Amazon Prime Video comes to Oculus mobile devices. Amazon streaming services come to VR. Amazon has selected some cool VR experiences like “Invasion!”

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

I’m still here in the US for some days after having attended AWE, planning to meet some interesting people before heading back to Italy. This is a strategic acquisition so that Unity can integrate in its offering all the tools that Weta has developed over time that regard the creation and management of 3D assets and special FX.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Today is a special day in Italy when families prepare the Christmas Tree, so I decided to publish a very special post that is a big gift to the whole XR community. Amazon sold me a moulded nylon grip for an AR-15 airsoft rifle… it was time to start work building my first development “Mule”. Why had they settled on this shape?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2020

It’s the day in which in Italy we prepare the Christmas tree and I send an enormous hug to all my family. Poly was used by many indie studios, and it was an invaluable tool for prototyping (I used it myself a lot) or for storing the 3D assets produced in VR by artists. Top news of the week. Image by Respawn Entertainment). VR is dead.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2020

A final mention goes to the fact that now it is summer and here in Italy it is quite hot. These patterns can be easily designed with a visual web-based tool called bHaptics Designer and exported in.asset files ready to be imported into Unity. Luckily, if you find the right fit this doesn’t happen. Price and availability.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

Jokes apart, before starting, let me send a big hug to all of you that are in quarantine because of the coronavirus and thank all the people that in these days have cared about me after having heard the sad news about Italy (Simon, David, Daniel, Suzie, Mark… John that has been so kind… Sebastian, and many others!). Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

I’ve preordered my basic $299 one (€349 in Italy) and it will arrive on October, 15th. I think the name ARIA is a mix of AR and AI , because the glass goes around collecting data for the AI, and since ARIA means also “air” in Italy, it can be a suggestion about the fact that it is used outside the lab.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 16, 2020

Someway, Dino Audino , which is basically the Bruce Springsteen of film teaching books publishing in Italy (they released fundamental books from academics like Vogel, Katz as well as popular directors such as Maurizio Nichetti), knew about me and we met in Rome. It will be available on Amazon soon.

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