Road to VR

AUGUST 1, 2023

Today, big tech companies including Apple, Pixar, Adobe, Autodesk, and NVIDIA, announced the formation of the Alliance for OpenUSD ( AOUSD ), which is dedicated to promoting the standardization and development of a 3D file protocol that Apple says will “help accelerate the next generation of AR experiences.”

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ARPost

JUNE 8, 2023

Both Apple and Meta revealed highly anticipated headsets in the last seven days. Where previous Quest headsets were announced at last year’s Connect – Meta’s biggest annual event – the Quest 3 was announced through a relatively low-key social media campaign on the morning of the Meta Gaming Showcase.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 5, 2023

I just watched the full keynote of Apple at WWDC , where the company in Cupertino announced the Apple VisionPro headset. UX : Can Apple make XR usable? Use cases : Can Apple make XR useful? Partnership : Who’s onboard with Apple in this journey? Terms : Will Apple invent new words to define XR?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). You are organizing an event in China on the 24th… can you tell us something more about it? What can the attendees expect from it?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 15, 2022

Every year the SIGGRAPH is an event where companies showcase the best technologies they have for 3D content. Jensen Huang and its executives have performed many announcements regarding NVIDIA technologies, and the most relevant are: A new platform for creating avatars, NVIDIA Omniverse Avatar Cloud Engine. Top news of the week.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Apple is set to debut its Vision Pro mixed reality (MR) headset in March next year, Bloomberg reported on Monday. Apple successfully built its own processors, but the company’s in-house technologies team has a lot more to design, including cameras and screens.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The drama about Unity’s new pricing models has set the whole game development community on fire, while we had an unexpected leak about the Pico 5 and some updates on the Apple Vision Pro. In the case of Unity Personal, the thresholds are 200,000 downloads and 200,000 in revenues, and the fee is $0.20 per install. And this $0.2

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

A new cycle of XR The Apple Vision Pro launch has been a disruptive moment for our industry (Image by Apple) As I said in a popular post a few months ago , I think we have entered a new cycle for immersive realities. Huawei and Pico are rumored to be working on an Apple Vision Pro competitor).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Don’t forget to register on the AWE Live website and then to attend the event on November, 17th at 6 pm CET (9 am PT). 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. It is going to be suuuuuuper interesting!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 15, 2023

This is just the first event, many others hopefully will come. Some selected developers have received the Apple headset. Could this really be the year of the Apple headset? Unity adds OpenXR hand integration package. Vooiage Technologies. Top news of the week. Meta starts the discontinuation of Quest 1. Lynn Eades.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

According to the Korean outlet JoongAng (which we all read every day), Samsung headset is codenamed “Infinite” and will be announced at a Samsung Unpacked event happening in the second half of 2024. Samsung is one of the most important smartphone brands, and probably one of the few brands in the world that can try to compete with Apple.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 13, 2022

In the advertising industry, the rise of new and disruptive technologies can be an incredible way to unlock new levels of audience engagement. Meta is one of the market leaders in the technology environment right now, particularly in regard to XR, advertising, and the metaverse.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

We at VRrOOm are hiring to do our innovative XR events, check the “Friends” section of this newsletter if this opportunity can interest you! Image by Apple). Apple has not announced any glasses at WWDC. And regarding this… would you be interested in working with me? Top news of the week. Other relevant news. Image by Meta).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

More info (Ultraleap teasing a new device) More info (Maybe a new sensor is coming) Has Palmer Luckey tried the Apple headset? This week we had the usual articles about the Apple headset speculating its upcoming launch for June, 5th and stressing how Apple is launching for the first time a product that has not a clear market.

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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.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Soon, Meta will host its Connect 2023 event, whereby the firm will announce innovations in its XR product portfolio. Meanwhile, the immersive industry is coming closer to a potential paradigm shift in 2024, as big technology brands plan to make a mark on the emerging sector.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 24, 2024

According to Microsoft, the immersive Mesh meeting spaces foster various enterprise use cases such as employee onboarding, town halls, brainstorming sessions, team socials, and networking events. The no-code suite comes with organizer tools that give unprecedented control of a Mesh event to its operators.

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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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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

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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 17, 2023

The NBA will reportedly join Apple’s upcoming Vision Pro headset for a massive collaboration for sports matches, media reports have revealed. The Apple Vision Pro has made headlines across the media after the Apple Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) in early June. An XR Future for Apple?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Plus there is this sense of perceived “stasis” of the technology. As I said a few months ago , we are in the middle of a paradigm change: the cycle that started with the Quest is arriving at an end, and a new cycle driven by new technologies (mixed reality headsets) and new players (Apple, Google) is starting.

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 27, 2023

IGS 2023 wrapped up last week, tipping off a monumental event filled with XR innovation across a series of industries. The event concluded just in time for the launch of AWE this week, which equally sees the XR community unite to promote marketplace developments and innovation. through the new ecosystem of technologies.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 5, 2017

Unity Technologies and Epic Games are in a grudge match for the hearts and minds of game developers. I interviewed both John Riccitiello, CEO of San Francisco-based Unity, and Tim Sweeney, CEO of Raleigh, N.C.-based The Unity-based games reached a billion new devices since GDC 2016.

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ARPost

JUNE 11, 2021

The event , which streamed early on the morning of June 10 for American viewers, highlighted the changes to the XR market during the pandemic, as well as the future of XR going forward. Of course, XR markets and technologies didn’t arrive during the pandemic – they were already here. Adapting Existing Technology.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

More info At SIGGRAPH there was much attention toward VR and AI SIGGRAPH has always been a very relevant event for all of us in the 3D space, and this year VR and AI were among the most relevant technologies showcased there. The road toward widespread AR glasses is still very long and complicated.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

These are the improvements it applied: Changes in prices will start with the next Unity 2023 LTS, so existing applications will not be affected, at least while the use previous Unity versions Unity Personal will still be free (now up to 200K of revenues) and applications made with it will be subject to no fee at all.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 14, 2023

Last week, Google delivered its most important event of the year, the Google I/O. Let me briefly tell you what have been in my opinion the 5 top pieces of XR news to keep an eye on from this event. But its technology will be reused in another product meant for realistic connection with remote people, maybe inside AR or VR glasses.

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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. It’s the most definitive event marking the move to high-end technology that will power a new generation of world-class experiences transcending games and storytelling.

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ARPost

MAY 5, 2021

The virtual event, which included networking rounds, panel discussions, and expert presentations, was attended by hundreds of educators and solution providers. According to event organizers Kris Kolo and Carlos Ochoa, the event is “the largest VR/AR event in education.” Debating the Importance of Headsets.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Apple is gearing up for the Vision Pro debut. However, a key difference and benefit that Apple has over some of its competition is the already-established iOS ecosystem of products and software. On the other hand, Apple is not the only XR firm pushing for interoperability and cross-pollination of hardware and software.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 18, 2024

At the Ignite 2023 event last year, Microsoft announced core updates to its Dynamics 365 platform. Moreover, at the event, Microsoft announced that it would introduce new avatars to its popular Teams application, with the avatars reaching general availability in January 2024. Microsoft is helping to lead the GenAI and XR race.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 28, 2023

Today I want to take you on a journey on one of the coolest prototypes I’ve ever worked on, which is about creating Unity applications that can dynamically modify their logic at runtime depending on the user’s needs thanks to generative artificial intelligence. So I thought it was time to get my hands dirty with the technology.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

JULY 26, 2023

The Apple Vision Pro has made sensational headlines across global media outlets, leading to renewed interest in virtual, augmented, mixed, and extended reality (VR/AR/MR/XR) technologies. Doing so will also provide greater interoperability with additional platforms such as Unity and Xcode, among others.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JUNE 9, 2023

This week has circled Apple, the legacy consumer hardware innovator shocked audiences in many ways when it debuted the Vision Pro, fairly stealing headlines as hyped ramped during the event’s leading months. Apple Debuts Vision Pro This week the news finally broke. Perhaps Apple will go the way of Meta’s reputation.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

I’m having fun, listening to interesting talks, meeting new people… basically everything I always do at these events! The last days of AltspaceVR have seen many events happening in the platform where people said farewell not only to the platform, but also to the communities and the groups they were part of.

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