The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Image by Google). Google is reportedly working on an AR operating system. In some of my past newsletters, I warned you that we shouldn’t forget about Google/Alphabet in the race to our mixed reality future. Now we have finally an official confirmation of the fact that Google is working on an AR device. Tilt Brush).

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AR Insider

JANUARY 6, 2021

It’s also naturally monetizable and Google is highly motivated to make it happen. As background, visual search has several meanings including reverse-image search on Google desktop. It takes form so far in Google Lens. It applies similar computer vision and machine learning to help users navigate.

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AR Insider

JUNE 11, 2021

After Google I/O, Facebook F8 and Snap Partner Summit comes the O.G. event: Apple’s WWDC. Though this year won’t see the revolutionary smartglasses unveiling that the AR world is waiting for, Apple continues to make evolutionary moves. It seems digital/physical augmentation is in the bloodstream at Apple.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

The Quest 2 is a great gaming machine offered at a ridiculous price, and it has totally crushed the competition. Just to make an example, I was there when there was the Netscape vs Internet Explorer war, but now the leading web browser is Google Chrome. Render of the possible upcoming Apple device (Image by Antonio DeRosa).

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ARPost

OCTOBER 20, 2021

In the last couple of years, AR has experienced tremendous growth and popularity as big technology giants like Google, Amazon, Apple have adopted the technology. The leading OEMs such as Samsung and Apple are expected to contribute to manufacturing more AR devices. The concept of augmented reality is no longer new.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 9, 2021

Talking about the hardware, we have confirmation about the 2K x 2K per eye resolution and the eye-tracking used for foveated rendering. It is also to understand how it can work: Valve has built all its hardware and software around its Steam platform, so it is unlikely that they will go for a completely different Android ecosystem.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

It wants to create an ecosystem , where most probably all the devices can work together (like it happens today with Apple devices); The report also claims that Facebook may be building its own operating system to encompass all these devices. Apple is working on Micro-OLED displays. Another week, another rumor about Apple’s XR efforts.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The tech industry is looking to replace the smartphone — and everybody is waiting to see what Apple comes up with. I n 2007, Apple unveiled the iPhone. Apple didn’t invent the smartphone — companies like Palm and Blackberry had been selling them for years. But Apple’s not the only company working on these products.

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ARPost

JULY 16, 2019

As software, hardware, and applications improve, so do the mental health and medical fields. Being able to just pick up a piece of hardware, put it on, and get started is amazingly helpful in actually getting people to use your application.” . Technology improves over time. The report has lots of interesting use cases for AR and VR.

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CraneMorley

AUGUST 1, 2023

It is a combination of virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), (MR) mixed reality, the internet of things (IoT), AI (Artificial Intelligence), machine learning and edge computing. Enhanced safety: The industrial metaverse can help to improve safety by providing workers with a safe and controlled environment to learn and work in.

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Ryan Schultz

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Also, this is the first of what I suspect will be many blogposts about the Apple Vision Pro spatial computing headset, which I am eager to get my hands on as soon as I can! Accordingly, I have created a new blogpost category, called Apple Vision Pro. I have a second blog post on that project, which I hope to publish very soon.

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ARVR

JANUARY 21, 2022

APPLE ARKIT 5 The latest version of Apple’s open source mobile augmented reality development toolset, ARKit 5 , offers significant improvements from ARKit 4. This past year, Google introduced a few new features for ARCore such as recording and playback APIs. These enable developers to record video footage with AR metadata.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 9, 2022

We can so expect a price of $1000+ for the device, which at this point is clearly aimed at professionals, the same target of people of the upcoming Apple headset. Google acquires Raxium. The news about Google being willing to acquire Raxium had been leaked a few weeks ago, but now it has become official. News worth a mention.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 2, 2019

As always, Apple’s lead will be followed by hardware commoditization by third parties, and falling hardware component costs that engender ubiquitous penetration. Apple could open up its platform in the manner of iOS, and tvOS. Image Source, Apple, Inc. Then it’s all about the apps and use cases that develop.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MARCH 4, 2024

The Vision Pro bring Apple’s branding into the space and, with it, many eyes. Major Firms Enter the XR Market During a launch event at MWC 2024, Samsung showcased a new XR headset developed in collaboration with Google and Qualcomm. MWC 2024 was a valuable insight into the mainstream XR market.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Some hardware accessories have been announced for this headset, like a fitness 3DOF tracker for the feet, and a dedicated router for wireless streaming. Image by Google). Meta and Google announce layoffs. This week we had the announcement of both Meta and Google laying off people. News worth a mention.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 5, 2024

Ultraleap’s computer vision and machine learning models also enable low-cost hand-tracking integration for enterprise end users. Ultraleap also notes how hand tracking is becoming a “mandatory feature” of major available and upcoming headsets from firms including Microsoft, Meta, and Apple.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

This year for sure we’ll have two headsets of this kind launching: Lynx R-1 and Meta Project Cambria, with the elephant in town being the possible release of the first Apple headset. And of course, if Apple releases something, it will create a tsunami in the whole ecosystem. On the hardware side, additional sensors on phone (e.g.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

The industry has been experiencing a boom in recent years with hundreds of startups and heavy investment from tech giants including Google, Apple, Samsung, and Facebook. Despite all the activity, AR/VR hardware remains relatively crude. The technique is substantially gentler on our eyes, and on the hardware.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

Well, if the rumor becomes reality, this would mean that all next Apple devices will have both front and back depth cameras, for high-precision Augmented Reality and 3D reconstruction. Well played Apple. Let’s see if Facebook will be a worthier opponent than Google. Other relevant news. Image by Acer).

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AR Insider

AUGUST 14, 2019

Apple took us on a surreal walk through San Francisco, looking at digital art on an iPhone . — Apple is investing in augmented reality, a technology its CEO has called “big and profound.”. — AR uses cameras and machine learning technology to place digital graphics in the real world. Key Points.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

At the same time, Facebook could have an approach similar to the one that Google has with Android: theoretically you can use an Android phone without a Google account, but good luck in doing it : since my phone is Chinese, I don’t have Google services and I can assure you that it is a true pain in the a**. Image by Google).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

In the end, it has not been Apple or Facebook, but Snap to make its first move in the AR glasses space. Google unveils Starline communication solution. At Google I/O, Google has announced Project Starline, an interesting project it has worked on for five years. Top news of the week. Image by Snap).

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. Projection based  — Directly overlays digital projections onto the physical world by making use of varied machine vision technology, often by combining visible light cameras with 3D sensing systems such as depth cameras.

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AR Insider

JULY 15, 2021

Machine learning algorithms for avatars will use tracking data from our eyes, mouths, and bodies. FWIW, Google had also partnered with Luxottica but never shipped a more fashionable version of Glass.]. What they need to learn is how to make the eventual consumer glasses cheaper and more power-efficient for all-day use.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Reading the specs of Pimax Reality, every VR enthusiast can only go in awe: there are integrated all the features we have always wanted in a VR headset: amazing visuals, comfort, eye tracking, full-body tracking, hybrid functioning mode, etc… It just needs an integrated coffee maker machine to be perfect. Google is still into XR.

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ARVR

AUGUST 11, 2020

Even though I don’t have the hardware (i.e My thoughts As someone who knows Android Development, Unity Development, and AR/VR Development, I believe the capabilities of this device will be enhanced with Machine Learning integration using libraries like Firebase MLKit or OpenCV. The Vuzix Blaze Smart Glasses is one such example.

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Robert Scoble

JUNE 28, 2022

One that learns faster than anything most humans could imagine. It learns so fast that you only need to show it a few times how to do something and it’ll do that thing from then on. Is your happiness and income coming from you pushing a button on a machine? I had helped my parents and brothers hand build hundreds of Apple II.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 5, 2024

This week saw Microsoft, Google, Samsung, Qualcomm, Meta, and Sony move to optimize their product offerings and business operations. Qualcomm is positioning the XR2+ Gen 2 as a tipping point in XR hardware design and innovation due to its breakthrough features and specs combined with its launch partners.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

And its ads business is under a crossfire attack: on one front, Apple with its new data policy is limiting how much data the Facebook app can collect about its users, and on the other one, the EU is trying to enforce its regulation about European people’s data not allowed to be sent to Facebook’s US servers. Image by Apple).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

It showed what is its vision for the long-term future: AR glasses that are intelligent enough to learn about your behavior and to examine the context you are in so that to be able to already provide you suggestions about what they can do to help you. Google halves its revenues on the Play Store. Learn more. Some XR fun.

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ARPost

APRIL 29, 2021

The company offers free trials and platform support comes through three price tiers including a free price tier with limited functionality, so how you use XMReality can scale with the size and technical hardware investment of your company. TeamViewer Pilot. Smart glasses are supported, but not required. Holo4Labs and Holo4Med.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

Google’s investment for a 7.7% Google-Jio joint venture to develop an Android-based platform for an affordable 5G phone. Read about Google experiments with AR and wearables. A very interesting article on CNET highlights some of the experiments that Google has made with 1D glasses, smart tattoos and other cool stuff.

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NVidia VR

MARCH 18, 2024

We’re going to train it with multimodality data, not just text on the internet, we’re going to train it on texts and images, graphs and charts, and just as we learned watching TV, there’s going to be a whole bunch of watching video.” “We need even larger models,” Huang said. The Blackwell platform is built to meet this challenge.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

I think the battle with Apple has just begun. This can be extremely useful to implement indoor navigation ; Vuforia Spatial Toolbox, that lets you integrate AR augmentations with industrial machines. Of course, the hardware you use must provide access to this software solution. Google Glass can help Autistic kids.

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Building the Metaverse

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Read on to learn more about how you should interpret the various layers of the value-chain used to organize this chart, as well as what generative AI for virtual worlds so complicated. In my market map of the metaverse, this is mostly packaged hardware products such as AR/VR devices. Here’s version 1.0

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Meta has not explained why it was removed: some people suspect it was because it could have been used “to see through some clothes”, but I don’t know if the truth is actually some software/hardware incompatibility. Unless Apple kills it, of course… Productivity ecosystem.

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