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

I have read countless of his articles, and reading that he’s without a job makes me sad. 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. This is clearly the beginning of Apple’s entrance into the Metaverse.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In this Guest Article, developer Thomas Van Bouwel explains his approach to designing an MR game that adapts to different environments. Guest Article by Thomas Van Bouwel Thomas is a Belgian-Brazilian VR developer currently based in Brussels. When it comes to MR platforms, an active discussion on data privacy is important too.

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ARVR

MARCH 31, 2021

Apple signals interest in location-relevant AR through its geo-anchors and Project Gobi. continuing here with Apple. Part II: Apple Apple’s AR play?—?as But that doesn’t mean Apple doesn’t have geospatial components in its AR master plan. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. But it’s not alone. is to sell hardware.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 9, 2022

The Digital Markets Act is a law that the European Parliament and Commission are discussing since 2020 and has the purpose of limiting the excessive power of the major tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta. Data privacy.

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VRGames

JULY 18, 2023

This article delves into a developer’s impressive experiment recreated Apple Vision Pro’s front display on a Meta Quest Pro using an iPhone. To accomplish this Adam 放学臻 attached his iPhone to the headset making use of its FaceID sensor suite, VR app reading the eye tracking data and iOS app rendering a virtual avatar.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

So the AR cloud ( assisted by 5G ) offers a spatially relevant data layer that coats the earth and dynamically informs AR devices where they should anchor graphics. Apple’s initiative to revamp Apple Maps could spin out capability for 3D visual mapping. Autonomous Vehicles (AV’s) could also create lots of visual mapping data.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Apple may announce its headset at WWDC 2022. A new week, a new rumor about Apple. This time it comes from Bloomberg, which predicts that Apple will announce its MR headset in June 2022 during WWDC , to launch it some months later, probably during the holiday season. And the same holds for the articles that I write every week.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Countless articles have been written about something the author doesn’t know and the readers do not know either. The “metaverse” has an unknown article. But it’s good that we keep the point about the article. There is no definition of “metaverse”, nor of its features, or its article.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

The rumors on the Apple Glasses are intensifying. It is not a secret that Apple is working on an XR device: the mystery is when it is going to release it and what it will actually be. The hype is rising, and Apple is playing with it. (My usual terrible image to wish you Happy Easter, if you celebrate it). Top news of the week.

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 26, 2023

And they cost just $379 — still a little on the high side but about as much as you’d pay for a second monitor, and only about a tenth of the price of Apple’s yet-to-be-released Apple Vision Pro headset. Xreal Air AR glasses. Image courtesy Xreal.) Right now they only come in black and look a little clunky.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

(Some of them have been brainstormed with Lorenzo Cappannari with whom I wrote an article a few months ago and who I thank for the collaboration ). Huawei and Pico are rumored to be working on an Apple Vision Pro competitor). And they are entering it to dominate it.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 21, 2023

More info Some new leaks on the Apple Vision Pro This has been a quite positive week to discover news about the Apple Vision Pro, thanks to a few leaks about it. My thoughts and prayers go to the dev team that violated the NDA of the Apple Vision Pro: Apple will find them and sue them to hell. RIP Kinect, again.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

After the latest Unite event, Unity has released in Open Beta the tools to develop applications for the Apple Vision Pro. For now, I’ve read the available documentation and I think it’s already worth telling you what are some very interesting tidbits that I’ve learnt about Apple Vision Pro development in Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

But before, please read (and share around) my latest article which is about a crazy experiment I did with mixed reality and generative AI… I’m sure you will love it! Yes, Mark Gurman, exactly the guy who is giving us leaks and rumors about the Apple headset every week. Meta really wants to fight Apple on his own territory.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

Apple has killed its AR glasses project… maybe. A piece of unexpected news has shaken the XR communities this week: according to a report on Digitimes Taiwan, Apple has abandoned its AR/VR glasses project and all the members of the team have been re-allocated in other teams. AR is still alive, Apple will still release its AR glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

Apple already made hardware, so it already had the infrastructure to build it and just added XR people on top of this infrastracture, while Facebook could not). This has of course nothing to do with gathering data from the biggest number possible of people. Apple AR headset may have been delayed to 2025. Absolutely Not.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 4, 2023

0:00 / 0:22 1× To enable this on your headset you need to enable 'Share point cloud data' in Settings -> Privacy -> Device Permissions. Quest system software updates often include updates that aren't formally announced when they're launched, so we'll be investigating v60 for such changes and will update this article if we find any.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2023

The first is that the headset is just at the beginning of its life, some pieces of content like Beat Saber are not available yet, so this initial data is spurious and over time Beat Saber will be the most sold game again. A pretty useless one, like all the rumors about Apple and its glasses. This may have two different explanations.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Apple AR/VR headset may rely on a nearby iPhone to work. The latest news on Apple’s upcoming AR/VR visor comes from The Information, which in a report reveals how Apple is working on making its upcoming headset not a fully standalone, but something that works thanks to the processing power of a nearby iPhone. Image by Lynx).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The article talked about a headset shipping without controllers and aiming at the sweet price point of $200. More info Apple Vision Pro may have a very slow start The same Ming-Chi Kuo, who probably woke up with a lot of pessimism that day, has also expressed doubts about the widespread success of the Apple Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Here below I have selected some news articles that talk about some cool offerings that you can exploit these days. Apple XR headset may have great processing power. This week I’m so desperate that there is no news to write about that I’m even sharing a rumor about the Apple headset. Read the postmortem of Eye Of The Temple.

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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. 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. Leaks about Apple are intensifying over the weeks.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 13, 2021

When Apple launched ARkit in 2007, several concept videos emerged on YouTube showing AR’s potential to guide customers through airports and shopping malls. The front-end UX is one thing, but reliably navigating to a given item in a store requires lots of data. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. But unfortunately, they were just that….concepts.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 10, 2022

As this article was being written, Varjo further expanded its cloud with Unreal and Unity engine integrations. While almost all non-Apple mobile devices run Android, it is also the backbone of many XR headsets.). The RealWear Cloud also allows data analysis across headsets. CloudXR From NVIDIA.

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ARPost

JUNE 21, 2023

The Types of Artificial Intelligence in Extended Realities For the sake of this article, there are three main different branches of artificial intelligence: computer vision, generative AI, and large language models. However, in the summer of 2022, Apple and the University of British Columbia developed a way to do it with one video.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

But things on the consumers’ side may not be going as well: according to some data scrapped from Amazon, the Quest 2 outsold the Quest 3 by a factor of 3:1 in the last 30 days. This would show the level of polish of the upcoming Apple headset. THREE TO ONE.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2020

Discover this and many other intriguing details in this article that summarizes the interview I had with Steve Sinclair, SVP Product & Marketing at Mojo Vision! This unit can be attached to the smartphone to exploit its connection to the internet (maybe in 5G) to send some data to the cloud. Mojo Vision.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 14, 2023

I guess this line has been added to the keynote speech because Apple is going to announce its device very soon at WWDC (at least according to the rumors), and Google wanted to show that it’s part of the game, too. And this trend can only get better, especially after Google will have launched its XR version of Android.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 14, 2021

This week we had another report from supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, that is said to very reliable in rumors about Apple (even if he only made wrong predictions about Apple Glasses, but this is none of my business). More info (Report by Kuo) More info (Report about Apple Glasses). Apple announces minor XR news at WWDC 2021.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

We witness a growing public awareness, in which nearly 80% of US internet users are concerned about the data collected by companies. On the corporates’ end, market leader Apple has recently made significant privacy-focused changes like limiting apps’ tracking capabilities on iOS 14 and launching App Store privacy labels.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

This article explains why working out in VR is game-changing for those of us who have a hard time staying motivated with a typical gym routine. See, for example, this article by VR Scout where they share a success story from Robert who developed a daily 30 minute workout routine using just Beat Saber and lost 138 pounds in only two months.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

For Apple , it’s all about hardware and making its devices more attractive. We’ve examined evidence from each of the Big 5 in individual articles, a report , and a chapter in Charlie Fink’s book Convergence. Starting with Apple, it has several AR balls in the air and is cultivating near and long-term strategies.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 7, 2020

In this article I’ll describe the 6 most important AR trends to watch in 2020. Big names such as Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Google are rapidly developing the technology, making it accessible to many industries. Apple and Google played big roles in this. Apple recently introduced ARKit 4.0 Trending AR VR Articles: 1.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 1, 2021

To be fair, the concept of geo-achchored data that enables AR experiences is already classified under the AR cloud. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Apple signals interest in location-relevant AR through its geo-anchors. This will be the data backbone for Facebook’s AR ambitions. This is what we’ve been calling the metavearth.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 13, 2021

billion this year, according to data from AR research firm ARtillery Intelligence. Apple Steps Further Into AR’s Future. A version of this article first appeared on eMarketer. . This should supercharge mobile AR spending and make such ads more feasible. Yoram Wurmser is principal analyst at eMarketer.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 3, 2019

This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. Apple’s AR Glasses are Hiding in Plain Sight. Silicon Valley’s advent calendar clearly marks September as the traditional time for Apple to talk finished hardware, not secretive projects. by Peter Rubin, WIRED. That’s by design.

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