The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

I’m trying to keep expectations in place not because I want to be negative about VR (I’m a strong believer in the tech), but because in the past I’ve already seen that trend of setting unrealistic expectations and then writing “VR is dead” the day after when the market of course haven’t reached those results.

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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! But of course, the technology is still not there: the Oculus Quest is still uncomfortable, we can’t read texts in it, and so on.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 28, 2023

With the Varjo XR-4 series, the tech leader aims to offer a more affordable and diverse alternative to upcoming headsets like the Apple Vision Pro. This aligns it with the prices for competing solutions like the Apple Vision Pro and Microsoft HoloLens 2.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

And it also makes me super-happy that no one is about Facebook and Apple… I was getting pretty bored in writing newsletters only about these two companies! Of course, it doesn’t exist in the real world, but your ownership is certified by the blockchain and you can make with it many social posts that will amaze your followers.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

This won’t be the year of AR : exactly as I said for virtual reality, let’s not hype the technology and think that this is the year when mainstream adoption of wearable AR glasses is going to happen. Facebook and Apple will jumpstart the smartglasses ecosystem. Concept of a future AR glass by Apple (Image by iDropNews).

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 15, 2024

They can automatically scale performance to different devices and wearables, giving you room to grow. Since Apple’s VisionOS kit focuses on mixed reality, I’ll leave that solution out. Apple ARKit Apple’s ARKit is one of the most popular augmented reality kits available, particularly for developers focusing on mobile AR apps.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

However, some of the underlying technologies, principles and potential paint for a very interesting picture on how a country with over a billion people could have access to consumer grade wearable computing. Connect to your smartphone, with split rendering of visuals via an affordable, light weight wearable glass that’s on you.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2020

And we tried to get-- to make a wearable that is, well, doing exactly this -- so touch in VR -- but was also affordable for every professional use case. We said, "Yes, of course we can." So somebody built a link between Unity and the Airpods, so they can turn their head, and it turns the 3D model in the screen.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2020

And we tried to get-- to make a wearable that is, well, doing exactly this -- so touch in VR -- but was also affordable for every professional use case. We said, "Yes, of course we can." So somebody built a link between Unity and the Airpods, so they can turn their head, and it turns the 3D model in the screen.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2020

And we tried to get-- to make a wearable that is, well, doing exactly this -- so touch in VR -- but was also affordable for every professional use case. We said, "Yes, of course we can." So somebody built a link between Unity and the Airpods, so they can turn their head, and it turns the 3D model in the screen.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The incumbents have an advantage with existing mapping such as Google Maps, Earth, Street View, Apple Maps and the Indoor Maps Program, and Bing Maps but there are also significant geographic data players such as Foursquare and OpenStreetMap. In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Of course, all the community is interested in them, because they could mean a revolution in augmented reality, that is currently based on devices that have a tiny FOV window, or that have a wide FOV but unsatisfying quality of the visuals. Will a little startup be able to beat the big behemoths like Apple and Facebook?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

It’s funny because it’s quite a known car, of course — they only make 100 of series, like how the Pagani Huayra Roadster, I believe there were only 100 made. This one is, of course, flipped to VR and especially screens, because a lot of the clientele will want to use it on screens. Barry: Yeah, that’s true.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

It’s funny because it’s quite a known car, of course — they only make 100 of series, like how the Pagani Huayra Roadster, I believe there were only 100 made. This one is, of course, flipped to VR and especially screens, because a lot of the clientele will want to use it on screens. Barry: Yeah, that’s true.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

And in that way, we have an SDK for Android, an SDK for iOS, and then also an SDK for Unity, which you can use to deploy cross-platform that will allow you to interpret and read data from the sensors to do things like recognize gestures. For all three platforms, we have native gestures, support for of course, head nod. Shake, negative.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

And in that way, we have an SDK for Android, an SDK for iOS, and then also an SDK for Unity, which you can use to deploy cross-platform that will allow you to interpret and read data from the sensors to do things like recognize gestures. For all three platforms, we have native gestures, support for of course, head nod. Shake, negative.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

And in that way, we have an SDK for Android, an SDK for iOS, and then also an SDK for Unity, which you can use to deploy cross-platform that will allow you to interpret and read data from the sensors to do things like recognize gestures. For all three platforms, we have native gestures, support for of course, head nod. Shake, negative.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

A new report from CCS Insight, instead, predicts that this year will be sold 7 million standalone VR headsets , and of course Oculus Quest and Go should make a great part of these devices. Apple moves top executive to AR glasses team. According to a report, Apple has just moved Kim Vorrath to the AR glasses team.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 23, 2019

So, it’s more like a Dropbox use case, if you will, for all the phases of product development, where a 3D artist needs to iterate with his colleagues and coworkers — and of course, none of them have 3D software to open any of the 3D designs. We were launching partners of Apple for USDZ and we’re working on it.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 23, 2019

So, it's more like a Dropbox use case, if you will, for all the phases of product development, where a 3D artist needs to iterate with his colleagues and coworkers -- and of course, none of them have 3D software to open any of the 3D designs. We were launching partners of Apple for USDZ and we're working on it. So we will, yes.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 23, 2019

So, it’s more like a Dropbox use case, if you will, for all the phases of product development, where a 3D artist needs to iterate with his colleagues and coworkers — and of course, none of them have 3D software to open any of the 3D designs. We were launching partners of Apple for USDZ and we’re working on it.

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