The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

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. So, forget about an Apple headset that is going to enter the mainstream , as I already sold in this previous article. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

Apple glasses are coming in 2021–2022 and they are incredibly sleek. Apple glasses are coming. The glasses are expected to run a new operating system, rOS (or reality OS), and Apple is exploring touch panels, voice activation, and head gestures as a means of control. Apple is really good at selling stuff.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Built from the ground up for Mixed Reality (MR), my goal is to make a game that turns any room in your house into a laser obstacle course. To try and overcome these challenges, having good room-emulation tools that enable quick level design iteration is essential. For the past year I’ve been working on a new game called Laser Dance.

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Upload VR

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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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

We’re looking for a Unity dev for a freelance gig lasting 1–2 months, ideally from Italy or a nearby country (for easier management). It is in Italian, but basically it says that we’re looking for a Unity dev with preferred experience with VR and/or multiplayer games. You can read the Job description here. We have still to be patient.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

Image by Apple). Apple has not announced any glasses at WWDC. Every year, we have the same ritual: we wait for an event by Apple, hoping to hear some news about an upcoming XR device, then nothing happens in this sense, we are disappointed and so we hope for a new reveal next year. Top news of the week. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

We were all waiting for an Apple announcement, hoping that it could bring back some enthusiasm into the field, and it seems that the Vision Pro is having some beneficial effects , indeed. Apple showed investors that XR is not a fad, and even if it is still in its early stages, it is going to stay. appeared first on The Ghost Howls.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 6, 2017

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney thinks Apple’s upcoming iOS 11 update, arriving this fall, will be a huge boost to the emerging AR industry. I believe this is truly the start of the mainstream VR and AR revolution that we at Epic have been striving for, and building for, over the course of many years.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2023

After having announced some of the features and the price just before the launch of the Apple Vision Pro, now the company formerly known as Facebook is already working towards the launch of the device. If you are a Unity developer like me, don’t forget to subscribe to the Unity 2022 Beta dedicated to Vision OS.

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AR Insider

JUNE 3, 2020

Know your tools. Since the emergence of AR on smartphones, tablets, and AR glasses, a new breed of authoring tools has emerged to accommodate the needs of these new “mobile” devices. We all like free tools and the good news is that there is lots of free authoring software out there. Know your resources.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 14, 2023

Of course, AI has been the star of the show , with the public release of Google Bard and the announcement of a new language model, but there have been also interesting pieces of news about XR. It is already integrated into Unity and Adobe Aero , so content creators can use it within the tools they already use today to develop AR content.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The past week has been a pretty interesting one for the tech world: between Microsoft Ignite, Unity Unite, and the OpenAI drama, there has been a lot to follow. Unity 6 takes back the original way of specifying engine versions and abandons the confusing one that bound a new Unity version to the year it was released.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Top news of the week Meta is shipping the Quest 3 The news of the week is of course that Meta is shipping its new Quest 3 headset and its many accessories. Apple is still working on a cheaper Vision Pro Meta is not the only company working on a cheaper device. More info — Use Google Translate!

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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. Renowned for its ingenuity, Apple has continuously pushed the boundaries of what is possible with its rich tech ecosystem, namely amid increasing competition with Microsoft. Demand for virtual reality is expanding at an incredible rate.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 4, 2020

T he biggest advancement in AR in 2020 was arguably Apple’s iPhone LiDAR camera. LiDAR has mostly been touted by Apple as enhancing iPhone photography — a big competitive differentiator and marketing focus for smartphone players these days. In fact, it was featured in Apple’s keynote to unveil the new camera.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 9, 2023

Amazing Platforms Democratising XR Content Creation Democratising XR content creation means providing companies throughout the modern landscape with the tools they need to build and deliver immersive experiences, regardless of skill shortages. Zappar’s Zapwork’s platform provides a similar solution.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Although Unity 3D is undoubtedly the most common and trained standards for developing and deploying augmented and virtual reality application for both beginner or expert developer, it is cannot be employed for developing content for some headsets. Those wishing to receive a certificate at the end of the course can pay $29.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

Of course for some ad-based tech companies, the current economic situation is not the only problem, but there is another big one which is Apple and its new privacy features embedded into iOS. The same luck has not happened to employees at Niantic at Unity. This is of course the base technology needed for foveated rendering.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 7, 2020

Brand spending on sponsored mobile AR lenses is a bright spot, as is Apple AR glasses rumors. Apple Glasses Don’t Arrive in 2020. For example, AR developer tools will be a leading source of enterprise AR spending, including authoring AR experiences. But there are also confidence signals. AR Wins With “Training Wheels”.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

Then the wish to compete with Apple may not become a reality: when the Vision Pro was announced, Samsung didn’t expect such cool features from it, so it delayed the announcement of the headset to have the time to increase its capabilities. That’s fantastic news for all Unity XR developers!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Microsoft) Microsoft lays off 10,000 employees and shuts down its mixed reality projects This is seriously a bad period for the tech industry in general, and of course also for mixed reality. The new report regards other devices in the work at Apple. But this is something that we already knew.

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AR Insider

MARCH 20, 2020

Confidence signals include Brand spending on sponsored lenses and indicators for Apple’s eventual AR glasses. Apple’s AR Fate. Starting with the first prediction, the thing on everyone’s mind is the if and when of Apple’s rumored AR glasses. Apple’s Quick Look is evolving in the same direction.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

In 2015 my girlfriend came with a Cardboard and with no experience with Unity I created my first 360 photo which I’ve shown to my manger. This is where we did all the experiments to find a way to work in a more cost-efficient way while also developing environmentally friendly tools to reduce the carbon footprint. An Innovation center.

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ARPost

MAY 5, 2021

Headsets as a Learning Tool. See Also: You Can Take a Free Coursera Course on XR from the University of Michigan. The price of VR headsets and experiences also means that these powerful learning tools are not available to everyone in the ways that most of us want education to be.

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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

JULY 9, 2023

There is a lot of hype around the Apple Vision Pro. Video review I made a video of mine where I show you my full hands-on experience with the Quest Pro application that emulates the Apple Vision Pro menu and then give you my detailed opinion on it, highlighting the pros and cons. Eeeeh… not exactly. Let’s see why.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

This, together with 5G and Wi-fi 6, could help the spread of cloud rendering; Omniverse, the collaboration tool for artists, enters open beta. The news of course has attracted a lot of funny comments, like “these dogs have better hardware than me”, or the invention of new terms like “Dogmented Reality”, or “AR Doggles”.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

With ARKit you can also track your face, and some developers have started also using it as an animation tool. Feature comparison between ARCore, ARKit and the Unity Handheld AR SDK (Image by Unity). “Decent” to be a devkit, of course. Of course, it will exploit the already awesome Microsoft platform.

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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. A leaked image from the Oculus team shows that the company is working to implement body tracking inside the Oculus Unity SDK. References to Apple RealityOS have been leaked. Leaks about Apple are intensifying over the weeks.

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Hypergrid Business

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

Apple has lagged behind in the virtual and augmented reality race so far. ” Apple software and services could gain $9 billion in revenue by 2020 as a result of operations related to augmented reality because there will be about 3.6 ” Apple itself featured four AR applications in its annoucement.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

It was too early for Unity, but they taught me about C++, C#, Java, OpenCV, OpenGL and other fancy development stuff. 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. Since I loved gaming (who doesn’t love gaming?),

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

There are anyway other tools that can help in configuring it properly. In my case, the controllers weren’t detected in any app, not even in Unity when developing for VR. Of course, this didn’t work for me. Of course, no luck. To enter SteamVR Beta, open Steam and Select Library -> Tools.

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VRScout

MAY 3, 2017

Demonstrated live on-stage during the Unity Vision Summit, you can already try it out for yourself in the Unity 2017 beta. In a possible direct move against their upstart competitor, Facebook has announced their Camera Effects suite with two major tools. APPLE HIRES AUGMENTED REALITY EXPERT FROM NASA.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

But I hope you’ll enjoy this newsletter coming from the world of the undead anyway… Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Apple starts accepting applications for Vision Pro devkits Apple has started accepting applications from interested developers to get a Vision Pro to develop XR experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 10, 2019

Just a quick rewind for everyone: ARCore is Google’s answer to Apple ARKit, a framework that lets people enjoy augmented reality from their smart p hones without using external hardware or markers. Of course, Google itself is very interested in this. Well, it is very easy if you use an online coding tool called Glitch.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Apple Vision Pro is a very impressive fusion of hardware and software, but it's by no means perfect. Apple Vision Pro Specs, Features & Details Apple officially revealed the full Vision Pro specs when opening preorders today. And Apple did not send UploadVR a review unit, we bought our own. But does it deliver?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

If you are wondering why we should listen to the words of Avi Bar-Zeev, well… he helped in shaping the HoloLens, recently worked on XR glasses prototypes at Apple… and also Facebook wanted to hire him to lead its AR program. Of course, there are also some concerns. He’s someone that knows well what XR is. News worth a mention.

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