The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

We at VRrOOm are hiring to do our innovative XR events, check the “Friends” section of this newsletter if this opportunity can interest you! Image by Apple). Apple has not announced any glasses at WWDC. RoomPlan is an app that scans your room and identifies where are the pieces of furniture and what is their size.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 1, 2019

A flurry of new job listings for Apple’s secretive ‘Technology Development Group’ suggests that the company has reached a new phase of turning its years of AR/VR R&D into actual upcoming products. However, Apple only barely dipped its toe into VR , but in recent years has become publicly silent on the subject.

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ARPost

JUNE 20, 2022

Remote collaboration is a big thing in enterprise AR. That includes newer-model Apple products, and the HoloLens line of MR glasses. You’re not drawing something that floats on my video, you’re reaching into my video,” CEO Adrian Hatch said in a recent interview and product demo. Maybe not with Imajion. What Is Imajion?

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The launch of Apple Vision Pro is in some ways the most significant event for the XR industry since the acquisition of Oculus by Meta back in 2014. With Apple bringing new ideas to the table, the headset has prompted reflections on the XR industry up to this point and where things are headed.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2024

This has been the week when the preorders of the Apple Vision Pro have been opened and s**t just started getting real! I’m very curious about what Apple’s headset is going to bring to our ecosystem… and you? Of course, some people from all over the world made some tricks to buy it anyway.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 5, 2023

I just watched the full keynote of Apple at WWDC , where the company in Cupertino announced the Apple VisionPro headset. The official video with the full announcement What I was looking for If you are a reader of my weekly newsletter, you know what I was looking for in this announcement. UX : Can Apple make XR usable?

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ARPost

JUNE 8, 2023

Both Apple and Meta revealed highly anticipated headsets in the last seven days. Meta’s seemingly hasty announcement of the Quest 3 seems to have been timed to come out before Apple’s announcement of the Vision Pro. Apple reported over 10 million pixels per eye, but did not release familiar resolution metrics or field-of-view.

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DECEMBER 22, 2023

Meta's CTO seemed to suggest the company could demo a highly advanced true AR glasses prototype in 2024. Meta has been working on AR glasses for at least eight years now, spending tens of billions of dollars on the project that Mark Zuckerberg hopes will one day deliver him an "iPhone moment".

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VRScout

AUGUST 9, 2018

Imagining future AR interactions with wearables. Using #ARKit image detection to recognize images displayed on an Apple Watch, showing more information in AR. It’s his augmented Apple Watch demo, however, that seems to have people riled up the most. Do you work with AR technology often?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The Apple Vision Pro is the device of the moment: since the preorders have been opened on January, 19th, my social media feed is full of posts that just talk about this device. And this is for a good reason: Apple entering the field is for sure a defining moment for the immersive reality space. But is it a good idea?

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Road to VR

JUNE 21, 2023

Apple Vision Pro has brought new ideas to the table about how XR apps should be designed, controlled, and built. In this Guest Article, Sterling Crispin offers up a concise guide for what first-time XR developers should keep in mind as they approach app development for Apple Vision Pro.

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2022

Apple is a notorious black box when it comes to internal projects, although sometimes details based on supply chain rumors shed a sliver of light on what might be happening with the company’s AR/VR headset behind closed doors. The report says Cook “rarely visits the group at its offices away from the main Apple campus.”

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Steadily becoming the biggest open-secret in the industry… more evidence has come to light that Apple in ongoing development of an AR headset. beta 3 has reportedly unlocked a ‘StarTester’ mode which renders a stereoscopic view suitable for an AR headset. Inside iOS 13.1 A developer sifting through iOS 13.1

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MARCH 13, 2024

Niantic and Meta partnered to fund three multiplayer mixed reality demo games that run in the browser and support crossplay between Quest 3 and mobile. The demos were built over a ten week period using Niantic's 8th Wall web-based AR engine, which has a fully in-browser editor and offers cloud hosting for built projects.

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VRScout

JUNE 4, 2018

Apple continues to jump firmly into the world of augmented reality (AR). Announced during WWDC, you can soon expect AR apps to have multi-user functions, letting you see and share AR experiences with friends at the same time. “AR AR is transformational technology.”.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 24, 2023

From the nth rumor on the Apple headset to the announcement of the Pico 4 Pro in China, there have been a few things happening that you as an XR enthusiast can’t miss. According to Gurman, Apple is also investing in games, which will be an important part of the experience. This week we had quite a few interesting pieces of XR news.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2020

One of the most mind-blowing interviews I had in recent months has been the one with Mojo Vision, the company producing AR contact lenses that got famous during CES 2020. I thought it was an ultra-experimental company needing 20 years to release a product, and instead, they are far ahead from where we all imagined they were.

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Road to VR

MAY 15, 2023

Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus who left the company in 2017, appears to have insider knowledge of upcoming Apple XR headset, which is expected to be unveiled at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) next month. To Luckey, Apple’s hotly awaited entrance into the space is apparently “so good.”

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2023

Since there is the possibility that Apple announces its headset soon, all the companies are rushing to announce what they have in the pipeline before the big day. This means that these days we are going to have a lot of announcements. It’s been a strange week. On the technological side, it has been exciting.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Could Apple Vision Pro be a serious competitor in the enterprise AR market? While Vision Pro was mainly pitched as a consumer product when revealed at WWDC in June, Apple also teased enterprise use cases, including room-scale augmented reality apps. Another dark horse in the enterprise AR space could of course be Meta's Quest 3.

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VRScout

JANUARY 15, 2022

Looks like we might have to wait just a little while longer for the company’s combination VR/AR headset. According to a new report by Bloomberg , Apple’s long-rumored VR/AR headset could be delayed until 2023 due to a combination of technical issues, citing “people familiar with the situation.”

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Road to VR

MAY 16, 2024

Apple announced it’s introducing a host of accessibility features to Vision Pro, which is set to include Live Captions for the deaf or hard of hearing. Provided Apple decides to push such a feature in the near-future, it could mean face-to-face conversations will soon have subtitles, like you might see on TV or in video games.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2023

The reason is the one I’ve already reported in this newsletter a few weeks ago: after the announcement of the Apple Vision Pro, Samsung has been caught a bit off guard by the announced features and it is now trying to power up its headset so that it will be able to properly compete with Apple’s device.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

With ARKit in the wild for a few months now, Apple’s special iPhone 8 event was the place to announce the coming wave of augmented reality apps. image courtesy Apple. Warranting an on-stage demo, the competitive multiplayer RTS lets you duke it out with your friends in the same room in augmented reality. The Machines.

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Road to VR

JUNE 3, 2019

At the company’s annual WWDC developer conference today, Apple revealed ARKit 3, its latest set of developer tools for creating AR applications on iOS. ARKit 3 now offers real-time body tracking of people in the scene as well as occlusion, allowing AR objects to be convincingly placed in front of and behind those people.

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VRScout

AUGUST 3, 2017

Over the past year Jackson and his team at Wingnut AR, a subdivision of Wingnut Films , have been utilizing Apple’s ARkit to experiment with various types of AR experiences. On stage demo at Apple’s WWDC. The post Peter Jackson’s New Studio is All About AR Storytelling appeared first on VRScout.

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ARPost

JANUARY 21, 2022

However, some of the most exciting trends are all around AR glasses. It’s been said before, but (probably) not by me: this could be the year that we see consumer AR glasses start to break into the mainstream. Google Glasses were the first arguably-AR glasses on the consumer market, coming out in 2013.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 6, 2023

One of the most interesting things about Vision Pro is the way Apple is positioning its fully immersive capabilities. It’s an incredibly powerful and capable VR headset, but Apple has done extensive work to make the default mode feel as little like being in VR as possible. Vision Pro is somewhat ironic.

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Voices of VR

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Bert Nepveu is a co-founder of VRvana, which made a enterprise mixed reality headset that was acquired by Apple in 2017 and provided a number of key innovations that have now shipped with the Apple Vision Pro.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I lived by a police scanner,” said Hill according to Apple. While attached to the machine, Hill participated in a demo program designed by Dr. Tarrant that tasked the journalist with maintaining a calm mental state in order to keep an animated airplane air-born at certain altitude. . StoryUP CEO Sarah Hill / Image Credit: Apple.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Speaking with the journalist Alex Heath, Boz claimed that Meta will unveil a very expensive prototype for AR glasses already in 2024. Considering that many companies are working on XR devices, saying that Meta is going to show the most advanced thing created by humankind is pretty bold. All of this sounds very… futuristic.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 21, 2019

A leading indicator for product development in AR can often be the demos shown at top meetups. At last week’s AWE Nite SF — the mother of all AR meetups — the theme was AR in gaming… but an unplanned sub-theme emerged: audio AR. That could put additional muscle behind audio AR.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 28, 2017

A lot of people believe that when things are all said and done that augmented reality (AR) will be the dominant technology over the likes of virtual reality (VR.) VR, for example, immerses the user in a digital space that doesn’t actually exist whereas AR brings aspects of the digital space into the real world around you.

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APRIL 26, 2024

Meta's Head of AR Glasses Hardware claims they give the same "Oh my God, wow! She switched to Head of AR Glasses two years ago. Regardless, it's clear that what Kalinowski means here is that trying Meta's AR glasses is just as mindblowing as trying good VR for the first time. I can't believe this!"

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Apple Vision Pro 2 may come in 2026 The rumors about the Apple Vision Pro 2 continue. It seems that most of the rumors are aligning on the launch of an Apple Vision Pro 2 in 2026–2027. What a time to be alive!

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

0:00 / 0:13 1× Meta research demo of neural wristband tracking, from 2021. While headsets like Meta Quest and Apple Vision Pro are already capable of tracking your fingers optically using computer vision, this approach has limited accuracy and relatively high latency. So how will this arrive in a Meta product?

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VRScout

JUNE 5, 2017

A new generation of iOS augmented reality apps are coming. Apple is jumping firmly into the world of augmented reality. Announced during WWDC, ARKit brings AR development tools to iOS, allowing your phone’s sensors to detect things like depth, ambient light, and motion. Apple also mentioned AR apps from IKEA and Lego.

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