The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Brad Lynch) Bloomberg got a preview of the Quest 3 Last week I predicted that Meta could have given us a glimpse of the Quest 3 during the Gaming Showcase on June, 1st, so that to create attention around its device before the announcement of the Apple headset. There is no face or eye tracking.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 15, 2024

Today, Khronos updated its OpenXR API to optimise its support of cross-platform AR/VR/MR application development with its version 1.1 Moreover, RT3D development services like Autodesk VRED, Blender, Godot, NVIDIA’s Omniverse, StereoKit, Unreal Engine, and Unity support OpenXR integration. OPPO also uses OpenXR 1.1

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

If these specs are confirmed, the Pico 5 sounds very cool to me: it has everything the Quest 3 is promising, for a price that is even slightly lower. All headsets feature OLED microdisplays and are focused on the productivity use case. of our revenues with Unity. And this 2.5% As an entrepreneur, I understand.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 1, 2024

Today, there are numerous brands producing lightweight, ergonomic, and infinitely powerful wearable solutions for VR users. So, where should business buyers start their search for the ultimate headset? The ThinkReality portfolio from Lenovo includes both a set of AR smart glasses and the ThinkReality VRX all-in-one headset.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

While with other VR headsets like the Vive Focus Plus it is already possible to do some kind of augmented reality , this is the first standalone headset that can provide both good quality AR and VR on the same device. These are pretty cool, also because the Snapdragon XR 2 is much more powerful than the 835 mounted by the Oculus Quest.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2022

The AR gaming landscape is experiencing similar growth. While there are various XR vendors on the market today with powerful tools for those in the gaming landscape, some stand out as particularly innovative. The company was one of the first to make it easier for companies of all sizes to start creating entertaining experiences in AR.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

The advantage of using 72 Hz is that everything appears smoother, plus the display becomes brighter and the colors warmer ; Fixed foveating : we all know what foveated rendering is and we all know that to be implemented it requires eye tracking. But we also know that when in VR, most people just look forward with their eyes.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

An eye-tracking accessory built for Vive should work with Rift as well, and so on. And it is not stopping here: OpenXR has just added new extensions for hands and eye tracking , and a company like UltraLeap has just released a beta implementation for its hands’ tracker. Niantic is not building its AR glasses.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Apple’s Vision Pro triggered new discourse on the future of virutal, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR). Revealed at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), the Apple Vision Pro has sparked both praise and criticism from the global XR community. Apple is adept at proposing something you didn’t think you needed.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

PSVR 2, Apple XR visor) and games, will be fundamental to understand its evolution and its potential. Body tracking leaked from Quest SDK documentation. Probably you all recall the iconic Apple commercial inspired by the book 1984 that helped a lot the company in becoming popular. References to Apple RealityOS have been leaked.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Kura promises to deliver lightweight AR glasses with astonishing features like 150° FOV, 8K resolution per eye, and outdoor use thanks to some breakthrough innovations they are working on. They could make AR enter a new immersive phase that leads towards mainstream adoption. It’s like 2 years (!!)

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

We spoke about AR and VR for 2 hours and we were having so much fun that we could have gone on for other 2 hours without problems! If you want to watch the video of the recording, you can find it here: And now, let’s start speaking about the best AR/VR news of the week! Top news of the week. Image by Facebook).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

Mirror Lake includes holographic lenses, reverse passthrough (people can see your eyes when you wear it), varifocal, and eye-tracking in a single very lightweight device. The hype around Apple glasses is huge , and everything that gets shared about Apple and XR gets many views. Useless news.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

One of the more surprising announcements during the presentation, Spatial Anchors serve as a way to share three-dimensional images compatible with Apple’s ARKit as well as Google’s ARCore. In other words, down with the “walled garden” approach favored by companies such as Apple and Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

This one is the last AR/VR news roundup for this summer! References found in the Oculus Quest 2 firmware by users Reggy04 and Basti564 highlight how the Quest 2 Pro should have: Eyes tracking Facial expressions tracking Eye relief knob Granular IPD adjustment External charging station. It has 4.5DOF.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

It is a set of very high-quality headphones that are able to offer truly immersive and spatial audio, with a unique feature that lets you blend the audio of the AR experience and of your real world in an optimized way. This is made through the filtering of some particular frequencies of the outside world, while letting pass other ones.

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Road to VR

APRIL 17, 2024

Facilitated by the standards body Khronos Group, OpenXR is a royalty-free standard that aims to standardize the development of VR and AR applications, making for a more interoperable ecosystem. The original vendor extension has been adopted natively in Unity, Unreal, and recently by NVIDIA Omniverse.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

Then in 2012, the IKEA catalog app had AR in it. I think we were one of the first big companies in the world using marker based AR. And then the Apple guys came with a brilliant ARKit, and it worked beautifully. That's how we've done AR so far, when it comes to older things. So that didn't really fly. Martin: Okay.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

Then in 2012, the IKEA catalog app had AR in it. I think we were one of the first big companies in the world using marker based AR. And then the Apple guys came with a brilliant ARKit, and it worked beautifully. That's how we've done AR so far, when it comes to older things. So that didn't really fly. Martin: Okay.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

Then in 2012, the IKEA catalog app had AR in it. I think we were one of the first big companies in the world using marker based AR. And then the Apple guys came with a brilliant ARKit, and it worked beautifully. That's how we've done AR so far, when it comes to older things. So that didn't really fly. Martin: Okay.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

March has just started… I hope it will be an amazing day for you and for all the AR/VR ecosystem! Unreal is already compatible with the framework, so in 2021 we’ll soon have also the tools ready to create OpenXR cross-compatible platforms. Qualcomm announces AR Smart Viewer reference design. More info (Qualcomm AR Viewer?—?Road

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2019

The SIGGRAPH has shown some interesting AR/VR solutions. Some of the most important AR/VR showcases have been: NVIDIA showing a solution for AR foveated rendering. Some of the most important AR/VR showcases have been: NVIDIA showing a solution for AR foveated rendering.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And so Apple bought them shortly thereafter. So SPACES was acquired quietly by Apple this year. And Apple also earlier this year acquired NextVR, which-- that company has all the licensing rights to real-time capture in 360 of NASCAR, and NBA, and all of the other sports. But then you look at Unreal. Golf, I think.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And so Apple bought them shortly thereafter. So SPACES was acquired quietly by Apple this year. And Apple also earlier this year acquired NextVR, which-- that company has all the licensing rights to real-time capture in 360 of NASCAR, and NBA, and all of the other sports. But then you look at Unreal. Golf, I think.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2024

Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Apple announces the release date of the Apple Vision Pro During the last few days, the rumors about possible release dates for the Apple Vision Pro have intensified , and someone talked about January, 27 as the day of the launch. The headset will be available for purchase in the U.S.,

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And so Apple bought them shortly thereafter. So SPACES was acquired quietly by Apple this year. And Apple also earlier this year acquired NextVR, which-- that company has all the licensing rights to real-time capture in 360 of NASCAR, and NBA, and all of the other sports. But then you look at Unreal. Golf, I think.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

XR Today is honoured to summarise several featured stories from the meeting as part of our final event coverage of the global virtual, augmented, mixed, and extended reality (VR/AR/MR/XR) industry. ” He continued, stating, “We like to work with a lot of partners because we are a local company with local knowledge.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2020

Outside VR, the big news to keep an eye on is the dispute between Epic Games and Apple (and Google), which could lead to a complete change in how app stores are managed, even in VR. With this new method, the tracking of the facial expressions is less accurate, but it works well the same. Is The Sony XRperia coming?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The device, which should compete with Meta Quest Pro, is expected to feature: RGB cameras to offer AR passthrough High-quality haptics on the controllers thanks to the use of LRA (Linear Resonant Actuators), which are motors able to provide strong and detailed haptics Automatic IPD adjustment. VR Modding reaches a new milestone.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 13, 2020

I mean, you built the AR Porsche visualizer where you could drop a Porsche right in your living room and I actually have a photo of a Porsche in my living room from your app. And so when ARKit popped up from Apple and they said surprise, now everybody with an iPhone 6 and above and use augmented reality, it really changed the game.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 13, 2020

I mean, you built the AR Porsche visualizer where you could drop a Porsche right in your living room and I actually have a photo of a Porsche in my living room from your app. And so when ARKit popped up from Apple and they said surprise, now everybody with an iPhone 6 and above and use augmented reality, it really changed the game.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 13, 2020

I mean, you built the AR Porsche visualizer where you could drop a Porsche right in your living room and I actually have a photo of a Porsche in my living room from your app. And so when ARKit popped up from Apple and they said surprise, now everybody with an iPhone 6 and above and use augmented reality, it really changed the game.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Oculus” name was a problem because AR/VR is so huge that its related product should have fallen under the main brand of the company, to make it clear whose are those products. And so it happened. So there was never an attachment, as there was never an attachment towards the old Oculus management (Palmer, Brendan, Nate, etc…).

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