The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

In the interview with me, he talked about many topics, like the rumors he heard on Apple Glasses, on the Oculus Quest 2 , the America vs China war, XR entrepreneurship, Tesla, and more! As John Riccitiello (CEO of Unity) said some years ago , the VR market won’t be interesting enough until it will reach the 10 million users mark.

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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 addition to comfort, AR glasses should have intuitive controls and user-friendly interfaces.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

So now a retailer has a one-stop-shop to do a lot of the things that maybe was being done by several firms. If I'm a retailer and I sell something, how would it work through your system? Because if you're a small retailer, a lot of times these solutions are just completely out of reach. Alan: That's incredible.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

So now a retailer has a one-stop-shop to do a lot of the things that maybe was being done by several firms. If I'm a retailer and I sell something, how would it work through your system? Because if you're a small retailer, a lot of times these solutions are just completely out of reach. Alan: That's incredible.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

So now a retailer has a one-stop-shop to do a lot of the things that maybe was being done by several firms. If I'm a retailer and I sell something, how would it work through your system? Because if you're a small retailer, a lot of times these solutions are just completely out of reach. Alan: That's incredible.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 15, 2024

They can include features for everything from photo-realistic rendering to physics controls, animations, camera effects, and more. Apple’s RealityKit and ARKit tools are probably the best-known examples. Since Apple’s VisionOS kit focuses on mixed reality, I’ll leave that solution out. Let’s dive into the options.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash of 1992, the internet has been superseded by the Metaverse, a multi-person shared virtual reality with both human-controlled avatars and system “daemons”. 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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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

Magic Leap has decided to put on sale its remaining units of the Magic Leap 1, its previous device, for just $550 , which is something like a -75% discount on its standard retail price. Apple may unveil RealityOS at WWDC. Apple may unveil RealityOS at WWDC. Let’s see if this is finally the right time for a reveal….

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

Tracey Wiedmeyer and Alan discuss a few ideas, from browsing the catch of the day in a VR tropical wonderland, to using VR and AR to test out retail layouts before you build them. So maybe you can just talk about InContext Solutions and what you’re doing for retailers. Alan: Today’s guest is Tracey Wiedmeyer.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

Tracey Wiedmeyer and Alan discuss a few ideas, from browsing the catch of the day in a VR tropical wonderland, to using VR and AR to test out retail layouts before you build them. So maybe you can just talk about InContext Solutions and what you’re doing for retailers. Alan: Today’s guest is Tracey Wiedmeyer.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. ” You know what, go learn Unity and coding and figure out how to actually make it. And it was for me as well; I’ve been a Unity user forever. It’s amazing.” ” Paul: [laughs] Right.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. ” You know what, go learn Unity and coding and figure out how to actually make it. And it was for me as well; I’ve been a Unity user forever. It’s amazing.” ” Paul: [laughs] Right.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

Headsets with waveguides are retailing in the $3000 to $5000 range. In addition, a tethered Android smartphone serves as a 3DoF controller to laser-point at icons and reposition app windows as you want them in 3D space. What about Apple Glass? I was very critical of this approach with the Apple Watch?—?it

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. You know what, go learn Unity and coding and figure out how to actually make it. And it was for me as well; I've been a Unity user forever. Alan: And then they ask their tech teams and they're like, "does anybody know Unity?"

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

So, I opened a chain of retail computer stores in the 90s, I ran a fairly large chain in Oregon with five computer stores and then in 2000 I started working in Silicon Valley doing electronics and engineering… and eventually, I got into doing consumer products. Tilt Five glasses and controller, on the board (Image by Tilt Five).

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

FedEx, I think, had two flights which had crashed due to a cockpit filled with smoke conditions that prevented the pilots from being able to properly control the plane. Think of retail, for example, where everything’s moving around. Apple, when it comes out with its product, will create another silo.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

FedEx, I think, had two flights which had crashed due to a cockpit filled with smoke conditions that prevented the pilots from being able to properly control the plane. Think of retail, for example, where everything’s moving around. Apple, when it comes out with its product, will create another silo.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

But soon, Arash Keshmirian saw the writing on the wall that XR’s current usefulness was better-suited to the worlds of industry, retail, and journalism. Apple featured it a whole bunch of times. I mean, it gives people a totally different experience using their phone as the controller and running around the room. Arash: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

But soon, Arash Keshmirian saw the writing on the wall that XR’s current usefulness was better-suited to the worlds of industry, retail, and journalism. Apple featured it a whole bunch of times. I mean, it gives people a totally different experience using their phone as the controller and running around the room. Arash: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

But soon, Arash Keshmirian saw the writing on the wall that XR’s current usefulness was better-suited to the worlds of industry, retail, and journalism. Apple featured it a whole bunch of times. I mean, it gives people a totally different experience using their phone as the controller and running around the room. Arash: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

If you know that there are less than two people per day coming into a retail shop to actually buy a car, you have to take it a little bit more step-by-step approach.” The one thing that created that image now, in the streets, that I would have expected like XR to do; it’s those air pods from Apple.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

If you know that there are less than two people per day coming into a retail shop to actually buy a car, you have to take it a little bit more step-by-step approach.” The one thing that created that image now, in the streets, that I would have expected like XR to do; it’s those air pods from Apple.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 23, 2019

I think people were all moving towards glTF, and then Apple decided, “hey, we got our own file format, USDZ” — how do you manage a hundred different…? We were launching partners of Apple for USDZ and we’re working on it. So let’s talk about retail, then. So we will, yes. Alan: Perfect.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 23, 2019

I think people were all moving towards glTF, and then Apple decided, "hey, we got our own file format, USDZ" -- how do you manage a hundred different.? We were launching partners of Apple for USDZ and we're working on it. So let's talk about retail, then. Let's just take it, for example, in comparison to YouTube. Alan: Perfect.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 23, 2019

I think people were all moving towards glTF, and then Apple decided, “hey, we got our own file format, USDZ” — how do you manage a hundred different…? We were launching partners of Apple for USDZ and we’re working on it. So let’s talk about retail, then. So we will, yes. Alan: Perfect.

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VRScout

JULY 17, 2016

Boldly equating Magic Leap to a “baby Apple” (a reference to their end-to-end approach making not only the hardware but also software, chips, sensors, UI, electronics, etc.) Unity Technologies, developer of the massively popular Unity cross-platform game engine, raised $181M in their Series C round. MONEY MOVES & FUNDING.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

I got to look in retail. If you show up to a– pick your favorite large industrial customer and you show up with a great computer vision SDK and Unity and you say, “listen, we can go build anything.” That is the foundational computer vision SDK that you would use most of the time with Unity. Alan: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

I got to look in retail. If you show up to a– pick your favorite large industrial customer and you show up with a great computer vision SDK and Unity and you say, “listen, we can go build anything.” That is the foundational computer vision SDK that you would use most of the time with Unity. Alan: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

I got to look in retail. If you show up to a-- pick your favorite large industrial customer and you show up with a great computer vision SDK and Unity and you say, "listen, we can go build anything." That is the foundational computer vision SDK that you would use most of the time with Unity. I got to look in retail.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

The documentation was the same as before, if not for the fact that in the page about headset Input page, there was also a reference to “Oculus Jedi” controllers. Even the modified one with the header file talking about controllers just leaks the constant of their name. Something like the Valve Index controllers.

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