The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

First of all, it seems that the headset is not a new product, but that Apple has been working on it for 7 years. It seems anyway that for the first time ever at Apple, Cook has this time now given priority to the operations team. There are some interesting pieces of information about the glasses inside the article.

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VRScout

APRIL 14, 2020

XR experiences in general, have proven themselves to be an amazing tool for everything from workforce training and digital marketing to product visualization, entertainment, and immersive online education. They will soon support a marketplace feature that will allow creators to sell experiences and digital downloads.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 23, 2024

Meta’s open approach comes as Apple establishes a walled garden ecosystem to support its spatial computing vision. The intention appears straightforward, directly aiming at Apple’s approach to its hardware ecosystem. However, Apple is a notable exclusion; it’s not surprising.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 1, 2024

Users are discovering that virtual reality isn’t just a powerful tool for entertainment. The company’s XR portfolio covers everything from augmented reality smart glasses to a cloud-based platform for digital workflow creation.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

According to him, the technology can be used for training and delivering first-hand experiences to learners. As pointed out in one of the Unity Developers’ blog posts , aside from the exponential rise of development businesses, we’re also seeing more developer tools, such as the Unity and Unreal engines, becoming more accessible.

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Building the Metaverse

JANUARY 18, 2023

For people who couldn’t realize their creativity in a sandbox or walled-garden — platforms like Unreal and Unity enable the creation of real-time, immersive worlds that simulate reality. Image from Unreal Engine 5.1 Currently, this is needed for workloads like certain kinds of simulations or training large models like GPT-3.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Apple signals interest in location-relevant AR through its geo-anchors and Project Gobi. It’s become a runaway train in the gaming and VR worlds. So today’s metaverse-like fiefdoms we can point to as examples include MMOs Roblox and Fortnite, which is made using Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. But it’s not alone. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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Hypergrid Business

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

Apple has lagged behind in the virtual and augmented reality race so far. Its latest phones — iPhone X , iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus — support its new augmented reality platform ARKit. Its latest phones — iPhone X , iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus — support its new augmented reality platform ARKit.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 18, 2022

Additionally, the accelerator aims to support emerging technologies crucial to Metaverse experiences, such as augmented reality (AR), non-fungible token (NFT), and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. Additionally, Inworld Studio is available for the Meta Quest and Unreal Engine.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Ambarish Mitra is the CEO and co-Founder of #Blippar one of the first billion dollar “Augmented Reality” Startup from India, being a pioneer, early mover brings its own pro’s & lots of Con’s. Before his entrepreneurial work, Mahajan was an engineer at Epic Games on the Unreal Engine and Gears of War. 1- Ambarish Mitra.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: In this week’s VRScout Report, we discuss Oculus Story Studio’s Henry Emmy win, NASA training astronauts with virtual reality gloves, Snapchat flirting with augmented reality, HTC Vive trying to go wireless, and iPhone laying potential plans for VR/AR.

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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. What more would we expect from Apple?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 26, 2020

MetaVRse One App: Our unique One App solution unlocks Augmented Reality by installing a small utility application (16mb). With the One App, creators have access to the full power of ARCore and ARKit for the best possible AR experiences. ( Apple Store ) ( Play Store ).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2022

A major vendor for gaming companies with an interest in Augmented Reality experiences, Apple has been investing consistently in the XR space for some time. Similar to Apple, Google wants to ensure developers and gaming companies can introduce the most exciting and immersive mobile apps for their users.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Snap is one of the biggest tech companies in the world, and one of the most committed to augmented reality. HTC doesn’t want to lose the VR train, so it has just found a creative way of competing with Meta Quest Pro. VR modder Praydog has just announced a “Universal VR injector” for Unreal Engine. Some news on content.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

There are quite a handful of platforms that allow you to develop virtual reality and augmented reality apps and content, but it is not easy to find an offline virtual reality school or academy with which to train for those interested in developing AR and VR apps. (Image courtesy RAEng Publications via Pixabay.).

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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. In education & training, AR glasses can facilitate highly interactive learning experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

French startup Lynx has finally unveiled the R1, the first mixed reality standalone headset. 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.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 9, 2023

Google, and Apple all have their own unique toolkits, designed to simplify the process of creating immersive content. Here are just some of the other major vendors innovating in this space: 1. Platform developers can import captures into an Unreal project, and begin presenting the digitised object immediately.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2021

This has not been the most interesting week in AR, VR, but I think that in the next times we’ll see some shots fired: in some days there will be the F8, the official shipment of the Vive Pro 2, then the Apple WWDC conference! Unreal Engine 5 gets released in Early Access. VR diversity training may be less effective than you think. “VR

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

While many people online continue saying that “3DOF is not VR” or that “We don’t need 3DOF”, as a consultant I can tell you that there are sectors where it is still relevant: education, psychology, training, storytelling. Enhance offers you brain training in VR. I myself am discussing a job of this kind these days.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

storytelling), education, training, etc… XR is not profitable in the short term : only 22% of products are already profitable or will be so soon. And i ts 2021+ timeline for XR makes me wonder if Huawei plans to release its headset around that date … that is more or less the same that we predict for Apple glasses. That is huge.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

MAY 26, 2023

However, there will most likely be a changing wave of opinion after Apple announces its presumably killer consumer XR device. Apple appears to be very close to announcing an immersive product, with the leading computing firm prompting AR/VR/MR outlets to cover the event.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

I think that this update, together with the last ones, marks the beginning of a mixed reality ecosystem that is being built by Oculus. It’s not a far stretch to think that in some updates we’ll get to an Oculus runtime offering multitasking 2D windows in augmented reality, inside which you can do everything using your hands.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2021

We were all expecting this since AR and VR are a bit in a transitional moment and the biggest brands (like Facebook and Apple) have their events through which they’ll announce their new devices, but for me, this lack of news was worse than the expected. We had a few interesting news, but nothing truly disruptive. Lenovo ThinkReality A3.

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VRScout

JULY 11, 2017

With that end in mind, Google is making it super simple for anyone to create 3D objects with their hands (instead of complex programs that use 2D screens, a mouse that is limited to a flat x/y axis of movement, and require specialized training). APPLE IS HIRING FOR VR/AR POSITIONS. AUGMENTED REALITY ON YOUR FEET.

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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. For instance, since I work on a VR fitness game , I’m thinking about all the new training experiences that will become now possible. References to Apple RealityOS have been leaked. Other relevant news. Learn more. Cognitive 3D.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Today I am very happy to host on my blog Kura Technologies , one of the most interesting augmented reality startups out there. Will a little startup be able to beat the big behemoths like Apple and Facebook? I think we’ll discover it in some months… (You can imagine my excitement in publishing this interview.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

AR is being applied in training and education, healthcare, heads-up wayfinding and navigation, tourism, retail, field service, real estate sales, design and architecture. An Apple AR headset has been a mainstay of the rumor mills for several years, and we expect Facebook to be creating an AR Oculus device.

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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Mark Zuckerberg has been talking a lot about augmented reality and investing a lot, too. ” Facebook already has internal plans for the next five years and most of these new plans, and excitement, are about augmented reality. Back to the augmented reality devices that Zuckerberg is promising.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Unreal Engine and Photoshop), as it happens in Google Docs when many people edit the same document at the same time. It seems that after 3–4 weeks of training, the dog gets used to using AR. There are also two simple 6DOF controllers through which you can interact with the augmentations. News from partners (and friends).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 17, 2023

More info News worth a mention (Image by Meta) Meta CTO talks about the Quest 3 launch Andrew Bosworth has spoken about the launch of the Quest 3, stating that actually, Meta has not changed its plans for the launch because of the upcoming announcement of the Apple Vision Pro. But I hope this is going to happen relatively soon.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

They could build together something that could seriously compete with Facebook and Apple: let’s keep an eye on them. Bank Of America to use VR training. VR training solutions are so successful that their adoption is not even news, but I think that this time I have to make an exception.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

I didn’t know that the name of that thing was “augmented reality”, but it impressed me a lot. For who wasn’t doing AR at that time: Metaio had an amazing SDK for phone-based AR, but then it got acquired by Apple and it disappeared from the market. A virtual teapot added to a real scene in a video stream.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Talking about augmented reality, Zuck has said that Meta is following two different approaches: On one side, they are taking the small form factor of everyday glasses and see how much technology they can put in it. He was clearly referring to Apple and its new recent restrictions about privacy of apps on the App Store.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Unreal is already compatible with the framework, so in 2021 we’ll soon have also the tools ready to create OpenXR cross-compatible platforms. This year, the dream of developing once, build once, and deploy everywhere can become reality. …unless Apple arrives and creates its own standard again…. More info. Learn more.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Hosted by the Summit’s President and Founder Nathan Pettyjohn, Virtual and Augmented Reality Association’s (VRARA) Kris Kolo, and many others from the IGS and VRARA teams, the organisation’s latest iteration rallied some of the tech industry’s most prized companies, thought leaders, and experts.

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