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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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

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. Now all these groups of people do not have a house anymore: some of them will migrate to other social VR platforms (e.g.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 31, 2017

This is combined with eye-tracking technology from German firm SMI, which may have just been acquired by Apple. What followed was a brief training session where a group of objects floated in front of me — a train, ball and block among them. I did so a number of times for several of the objects, all successful.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 9, 2023

There is a lot of hype around the Apple Vision Pro. One of the things that got people excited the most is its interface that works only by using eye tracking and hand pinching , which according to the journalists that underwent the demo, is fantabulous. Eeeeh… not exactly. Let’s see why.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 1, 2024

Here are some of the VR vendors making waves in the industry as of 2024: RealWear Meta Apple Goertek Pimax Pico HP HTC Vive Samsung Varjo Lenovo Valve Index Vrgineers RealWear Exploring various aspects of the immersive technology landscape, RealWear produces sensors, apps, and hardware for the XR space.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Image by Khronos Group). Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. An eye-tracking accessory built for Vive should work with Rift as well, and so on. Top news of the week.

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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

JANUARY 2, 2019

With ARKit you can also track your face, and some developers have started also using it as an animation tool. Both systems also track images, and so you can use ARKit and ARCore as you used Vuforia before. Feature comparison between ARCore, ARKit and the Unity Handheld AR SDK (Image by Unity). Apple glasses.

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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. Body tracking leaked from Quest SDK documentation. A leaked image from the Oculus team shows that the company is working to implement body tracking inside the Oculus Unity SDK. Other relevant news.

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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

JUNE 27, 2022

Mirror Lake includes holographic lenses, reverse passthrough (people can see your eyes when you wear it), varifocal, and eye-tracking in a single very lightweight device. We have lots of non-news about Apple’s XR efforts. For every one of the four main themes, a headset solving it has been shown in the video.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Battery life seemed to be around 3-4 hours (eye tracking uses more power), with the spare battery swapped in seconds to provide power for longer sessions. Arguably the most important update, and something long awaited by the non-Beta community, was the activation of eye tracking. Happy anniversary , Pimax!

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Road to VR

APRIL 17, 2024

Facilitated by the standards body Khronos Group, OpenXR is a royalty-free standard that aims to standardize the development of VR and AR applications, making for a more interoperable ecosystem. Image courtesy Khronos Group Following the OpenXR 1.0 release in 2019, this week’s release of OpenXR 1.1 “OpenXR 1.1

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

Although, an emerging presence in the development space is hand and eye tracking. AR/VR/MR headsets are increasingly equipped with hand and eye tracking technology. Previously, commercial XR devices like the Meta Quest had experimented with hand-tracking features which improved as the device matured.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

Although, an emerging presence in the development space is hand and eye tracking. AR/VR/MR headsets are increasingly equipped with hand and eye tracking technology. Previously, commercial XR devices like the Meta Quest had experimented with hand-tracking features which improved as the device matured.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

The advantage of using 72 Hz is that everything appears smoother, plus the display becomes brighter and the colors warmer ; Fixed foveating : we all know what foveated rendering is and we all know that to be implemented it requires eye tracking. But we also know that when in VR, most people just look forward with their eyes.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

In the end, I still believe in the old predictions of Unity CEO John Riccitiello: Look at this graph shown by Mr. Riccitiello in 2017: the purple line is the one of the analysts, while the white one is the one forecasted by him. OpenXR standardization project (Image by Khronos group). Blurring of the line between AR and VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

Martin is also part of the Khronos Group, an organization working on the open standards for spatial web and 3D world. And then the Apple guys came with a brilliant ARKit, and it worked beautifully. So you're also part of the Khronos Group, which is an organization working on the open standards of the 3D Web. Martin: Okay.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

Martin is also part of the Khronos Group, an organization working on the open standards for spatial web and 3D world. And then the Apple guys came with a brilliant ARKit, and it worked beautifully. So you're also part of the Khronos Group, which is an organization working on the open standards of the 3D Web. Martin: Okay.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

Martin is also part of the Khronos Group, an organization working on the open standards for spatial web and 3D world. And then the Apple guys came with a brilliant ARKit, and it worked beautifully. So you're also part of the Khronos Group, which is an organization working on the open standards of the 3D Web. Martin: Okay.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

From time to time, I like to look at the adoption graph of XR shown by John Riccitiello (the CEO of Unity) in 2017 , where you can see that the real acceleration of immersive technologies should start around 2022-2023. I also imagine them trying to add enterprise-oriented features like eye-tracking in all their devices.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Eye-tracking startup Eyefluence, which raises $14 million this month, is acquired about a year later by Google. A series of announcements from Amazon, Crytek, Epic Games and Unity Technologies showcase an evolution among their respective game engines into VR world creation toolsets. December 2015. Palmer Luckey.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So a group called SPACES -- out of LA -- and they had locations all over the world. And so Apple bought them shortly thereafter. So SPACES was acquired quietly by Apple this year. So now Apple has the rights to 360 stream or VR stream sports, so that's pretty cool. If you were location based entertainment, not so much.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So a group called SPACES -- out of LA -- and they had locations all over the world. And so Apple bought them shortly thereafter. So SPACES was acquired quietly by Apple this year. So now Apple has the rights to 360 stream or VR stream sports, so that's pretty cool. If you were location based entertainment, not so much.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So a group called SPACES -- out of LA -- and they had locations all over the world. And so Apple bought them shortly thereafter. So SPACES was acquired quietly by Apple this year. So now Apple has the rights to 360 stream or VR stream sports, so that's pretty cool. If you were location based entertainment, not so much.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

And there’s a nice integration of other standardization groups which are also, in their own right, trying to create some uniformity with development. Apple, when it comes out with its product, will create another silo. You mentioned Unity, and Tony Parisi has been working in the WebAR space forever, and really pushing forward.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

And there’s a nice integration of other standardization groups which are also, in their own right, trying to create some uniformity with development. Apple, when it comes out with its product, will create another silo. You mentioned Unity, and Tony Parisi has been working in the WebAR space forever, and really pushing forward.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The Jena, Germany-based firm has also collaborated with the Khronos Group and Metaverse Standards Forum along with some of the world’s top tech firms. Such platforms provided live data for face tracking, including facial expressions, eye movement, and other features.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

I’m sure that after April, 20th, the Meta Quest ecosystem will appear even richer than it is now , creating a wider gap with other companies that may think about competing with the Quest, that is Pico, HTC, and even Apple. Unity talked about PlayStation VR 2 at GDC. Unity had a talk about developing for PlayStation VR 2 at GDC 2022.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

There were portals and search engines and blog rolls and discussion groups. Late last month, the industry group rolled out new standards for VR ads. Neither is in-world payments, though both Apple and Google have in-app payments for mobile game developers, and mobile is the single most popular platform for VR by a wide margin.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 13, 2020

And so when ARKit popped up from Apple and they said surprise, now everybody with an iPhone 6 and above and use augmented reality, it really changed the game. The next step is for our eyes. And then finally, we really rely on a group of engineers to do 3D scanning, volumetric and photogrammetry capture, project management and QA.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 13, 2020

And so when ARKit popped up from Apple and they said surprise, now everybody with an iPhone 6 and above and use augmented reality, it really changed the game. The next step is for our eyes. And then finally, we really rely on a group of engineers to do 3D scanning, volumetric and photogrammetry capture, project management and QA.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 13, 2020

And so when ARKit popped up from Apple and they said surprise, now everybody with an iPhone 6 and above and use augmented reality, it really changed the game. The next step is for our eyes. And then when our shoulders get tired, eventually Apple and others will sell us this integrated with a pair of glasses that don't look too nerdy.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 20, 2021

Connecting people, making you joining a group, making you have new friends… is only what it does (very well) to keep you hooked to the platform, so that it can analyze your data and sell you better ads. Do you remember the leaked letter written by Zuckerberg when he wanted to acquire Unity? The tech world domination.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

It will also be a defensive move against Apple. Apple could announce its headset. Apple could announce its headset. Concept render of the upcoming Apple headset (Image by Antonio DeRosa). And there is still the possibility that Apple cancels the project, something that wouldn’t be new to it.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Zuckerberg unveiled that what was teased by all the rumors of these weeks, a headset with passthrough-AR, inside-out tracking controllers, more comfort, face, and eye-tracking, pancake optics, high display resolution, etc… is actually coming, but it won’t be a Quest, but a headset compatible with Quest content. Cloud Backup.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

For sure the announcement at FC and the release date in 2021 have been studied to put some pressure on Apple , which seems to be the only rival to Facebook for what concerns the AR future. I’m a developer, where is Unity, where is Visual Studio? It has also on a LED to tell people when it is recording, for privacy reasons.

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