The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2022

Someone in the communities argued with me that HoloLens 2 has still some advantages over Magic Leap 2: it is well integrated with Azure, it is standalone so it doesn’t need a potentially dangerous cable connecting the headset to the computational unit, and it doesn’t need controllers (it uses hands tracking). Other relevant news.

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AR Insider

APRIL 12, 2021

This week, Apple and Epic continue to exchange blows, Tom Brady leans into NFTs and Vuzix forms partnership with TechSee. Let’s dive in… Apple says Epic’s Fortnite lawsuit is a marketing stunt to revive ‘flagging interest’ in the game. More from AR Insider…. W elcome back to Spatial Beats.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

A new cycle of XR The Apple Vision Pro launch has been a disruptive moment for our industry (Image by Apple) As I said in a popular post a few months ago , I think we have entered a new cycle for immersive realities. Huawei and Pico are rumored to be working on an Apple Vision Pro competitor).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The drama about Unity’s new pricing models has set the whole game development community on fire, while we had an unexpected leak about the Pico 5 and some updates on the Apple Vision Pro. There are some important pieces of news to know about and you are in the right place to read them! per install. And this $0.2

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

Sony unveils the new controllers of the PSVR2. One month after the reveal of a “next-gen VR headset for the Playstation” (whose name is not known, but I guess it will be PSVR2), Sony has revealed one important detail of its new VR system: the controllers. The controllers will be given to selected developers very soon.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 15, 2022

As you’ve read in my other article written today , this is a special day for this blog… but it is also Monday, so I won’t skip writing a new amazing roundup of AR/VR news So, wishing you a happy Ferragosto (the name of today’s holiday in Italy), I leave you to the best XR news of the week! Apple MR headset may cost $2000+.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Apple is working on some sort of metaverse, and its headset is entering mass production. It has been a week of interesting rumors about the upcoming Apple MR headset. So, forget about an Apple headset that is going to enter the mainstream , as I already sold in this previous article. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2023

But unluckily, their tracking performance was bad, especially for what concerns controllers, the manufacturing quality was debatable, and especially Microsoft never invested enough into dedicated content. Speaking with the journalist Alex Heath, Boz claimed that Meta will unveil a very expensive prototype for AR glasses already in 2024.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 28, 2024

The Apple Vision Pro Developer Kit, Apple’s collection of tools designed to support app development, has been available for a while now. In fact, Apple opened the program for applications long before the spatial computing headset ever hit the market. What is the Apple Vision Pro Developer Kit?

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Developers will soon be able to integrate hand gesture control into their projects on the ARKit platform, no extra hardware needed. The industry has seen the release of not one, but two powerful AR platforms , support from a wide variety of developers, and some of the coolest immersive experiences of the year.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Speaking on the Unity integrations, Ivan Rajkovic, CEO of SpectreXR, noted: We’re excited to expand hand-tracking support for OctoXR and enable even more Unity developers to create immersive and engaging interactive VR/AR experiences. Unity itself is a highly accessible graphics engine ready for a range of developers.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Many people are analyzing the Apple Vision Pro… including the ones at Meta Here you are with the usual huge roundup of news about the Apple Vision Pro (a roundup in a roundup). They also talk about the current difficulties of using Unity to develop for the Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

We were all waiting for an Apple announcement, hoping that it could bring back some enthusiasm into the field, and it seems that the Vision Pro is having some beneficial effects , indeed. Apple showed investors that XR is not a fad, and even if it is still in its early stages, it is going to stay.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2023

After having announced some of the features and the price just before the launch of the Apple Vision Pro, now the company formerly known as Facebook is already working towards the launch of the device. AR Foundation is typically used for AR devices, e.g. smartphones, and it’s the first time to my knowledge that is employed with a VR headset.

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Upload VR

JULY 5, 2023

You can try Apple Vision Pro's eye tracking based interface on your Quest Pro with this sideloadable recreation. Supernova Technologies built the recreation with its Nova UI framework for Unity to promote the middleware. Quest Pro's eye tracking seems to be more than good enough for this demo, as long as you perform calibration first.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

Today in Italy it should be the day when we go pic-nicking… but given the fact that we are in lockdown, I’ll just eat a lot at home While I send you a lot of good vibes, let’s see together what have been the best pieces of AR/VR news of this week, that has been incredibly interesting! (My Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

Apple glasses are coming in 2021–2022 and they are incredibly sleek. Apple glasses are coming. The glasses are expected to run a new operating system, rOS (or reality OS), and Apple is exploring touch panels, voice activation, and head gestures as a means of control. (Image by Techgenyz).

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Join pick a side and join the battle for control of previous Exotic Matter in this modern revival of the 2013 location-based AR game. Thankfully, however, the data Niantic collected from Ingress’s short-lived years wasn’t wasted as it’s now being used for Niantic’s upcoming Harry Potter: Wizards Unite AR game.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Apple is gearing up for the Vision Pro debut. However, a key difference and benefit that Apple has over some of its competition is the already-established iOS ecosystem of products and software. On the other hand, Apple is not the only XR firm pushing for interoperability and cross-pollination of hardware and software.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The US Army is experimenting with AR goggles on dogs. The prize for the weirdest news of the week goes to a piece of news from Business Insider that details an experiment by an entrepreneur that loves dogs about creating sort of AR glasses for dogs. It seems that after 3–4 weeks of training, the dog gets used to using AR.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

One-year price performance for MSFT, AAPL, GOOGL, SNE, and NVDA According to the latest report from Statista , the global augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) markets are rapidly growing and are forecast to reach a total of $72.8 One-year price performance for MSFT as of 2/3/20 Apple Inc.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 8, 2023

The first one is that since the Gaming Showcase is happening on June, 1st, it seems positioned in a way to make Meta perform some announcements right before the Apple WWDC. Apple WWDC is where the Apple Reality headset may be announced, and it is taking place on June, 5th. The price is going to be very cheap: only £79.99.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Top news of the week (Image from Upload VR) Pico 5 leaks show a very ambitious product line The leaks on the Pico 5 are intensifying , which usually means that the device is going to be announced quite soon. My only fear is that they are promising a bit too much and so they will have to compromise on something when reality will hit (e.g.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

It is relevant that for the first time, a Varjo headset is adding integrated audio and integrated controllers. It is relevant that for the first time, a Varjo headset is adding integrated audio and integrated controllers. This would show the level of polish of the upcoming Apple headset. Lone Echo).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 29, 2024

It is exciting to see the progress and innovation that emerging technology solutions are bringing. Will the Apple Vision Pro Debut in China Apple’s CEO and spatial computing champion, Tim Cook , confirmed that the recently released Apple Vision Pro would land in China in 2024. per cent to 9.7 million units in 2024.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

XR Today recently marked this period with an XR Trends series, which brought together some of the best minds in the industry to share AR/VR/MR insights. Peter Vindevoge, speaking on the entry of Meta Platforms, Apple, and many others, could lead to a trend of greater VR gaming adoption.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

XR devices are all over the headlines this month; the release of the Apple Vision Pro has brought spatial computing/mixed reality wearables to the forefront of emerging workplace and consumer-based digital solutions. Bingo Wu AR glasses offer immense potential across various B2B applications.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The past week has been a pretty interesting one for the tech world: between Microsoft Ignite, Unity Unite, and the OpenAI drama, there has been a lot to follow. Unity 6 takes back the original way of specifying engine versions and abandons the confusing one that bound a new Unity version to the year it was released.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

This week in XR hasn’t had any explosive news, but it was interesting nonetheless: in particular we had cool info on AR glasses, with some news from Kura, Lynx, and Samsung. And it also makes me super-happy that no one is about Facebook and Apple… I was getting pretty bored in writing newsletters only about these two companies!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2023

Welcome to another roundup of AR/VR news of the week! Wishing you all a very positive and special year of the rabbit, I leave you with the most important news of the week in AR and VR! Wishing you all a very positive and special year of the rabbit, I leave you with the most important news of the week in AR and VR!

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

10,000 people are working on XR at Facebook. Zuck has released an interview to The Information and inside it, we can find the interesting information (pun intended) that now more than 10,000 people are working on AR/VR at Facebook. Apple AR headset may have been delayed to 2025. (Image by Facebook).

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Niantic has been shaping expectations of consumer AR experiences since before they were Niantic. Qualcomm works inside of XR devices powering both AR experiences on our mobile phones and VR experiences in headsets. See Also: Dedicated AR and VR Accessories Manufacturers. See Also: Dedicated AR and VR Accessories Manufacturers.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

During the keynote, CEO Sundar Pichai and his collaborators announced interesting features both for AR and VR. According to a guy on Twitter that answered my post, Ultraleap should launch a new tracking controller this year. All without leaving your editor. Google Photos can also let you modify your photos with the powers of AI.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Major firms like Microsoft, Valve, and Apple are continuing to build immersive product portfolios leading towards the dawn of 2024. adds various fixes, including general performance, controller, and driver optimisations. As important industry events occur, the sector continues to progress. Moreover, SteamVR 2.0

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 10, 2019

Well, you are in the right place… Google ARCore. Just a quick rewind for everyone: ARCore is Google’s answer to Apple ARKit, a framework that lets people enjoy augmented reality from their smart p hones without using external hardware or markers. Max fighting with an AR Gundam Zaku. Do you want to discover how?

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

JULY 26, 2023

The Apple Vision Pro has made sensational headlines across global media outlets, leading to renewed interest in virtual, augmented, mixed, and extended reality (VR/AR/MR/XR) technologies. Doing so will also provide greater interoperability with additional platforms such as Unity and Xcode, among others.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

You can see that the user is holding a Touch Plus controller (with the Oculus logo on the home button as some devkits have) confirming this. I bet that Meta will do the second, showing use cases also for productivity and other stuff, because gaming is proving to be just a niche for XR and mixed reality indoor games are usually not that fun.

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