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. Unity Reflect its a great XR tool for enterprise customers.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

It unites the power of white-labeled versions of ENGAGE, VRChat, Museum Of Other Realities, Virbela, and of the own Vive Sync to offer a complete suite of tools that lets companies organize VR gatherings of every kind , from concerts to work meetings, not to mention workshops. Upload VR) More info (Microsoft’s haptic research).

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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. New research is carried on about haptics. He’s someone that knows well what XR is. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

It will be the first consumer headset with eye-tracking and foveated rendering, and also the first one to feature haptics directly on the headset. The expected price is around $900 There has been a lot of talk around the OWO haptic vest, a very lightweight T-shirt able to provide vibrational and electrical feedback directly on your skin.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 1, 2024

But the release of the Apple Vision Pro proved to Valve employees that people are fine with having an all-in-two device with two units connected by a cable. The Controllers can track the five fingers and have very strong haptic vibrations. It seems that Valve is going to introduce a new term to define its virtual reality: Cyberspace.

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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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The new DRIVE Thor superchip aimed at autonomous vehicles, which companies will be able to use from 2025 Omniverse Cloud , which lets companies use Omniverse completely via cloud rendering even on non-powerful machines A connector to let you use Omniverse with Unity. Rec Room announces Rec Room Studio. Some news on the metaverse.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 15, 2024

Augmented reality kits seem to be everywhere, from well-known options like Apple’s ARKit and Google ARCore to Apple’s new collection of AR development tools. billion in 2023 , the AR market is now growing at a CAGR of 39.8%, thanks to evolving smartphone technology, Augmented smart glasses, and intuitive developer tools.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 1, 2023

While spatial computing isn’t an entirely new concept, major market leaders like Apple believe it will shape the future of our digital interactions. This includes the development of more comfortable, lightweight, and powerful wearable headsets, like the impeding Apple Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

Inside-out tracking was expected after having seen the controllers, but the haptic feedback on the head is a very welcome surprise. Having tried the bHaptics facial haptics interface , I can tell you that being headshot in a game and feeling a vibration on your face is very fun. This could be The Unity Cube 2.0.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

It has feet controllers, haptic feedback for hands, vibrational feedback for the hand, and other cool features that are missing in the most common headsets. Apple VR headset may feature a 3000PPI microOLED display. This week we had a new rumor about the XR headset Apple is working on. Apple Event was not about AR, like, at all.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Although spatial technology has existed for some time, companies like Apple have spawned new interest. To invest in a complete spatial computing solution, you’ll need tools that support: Sensing: The ability of computers to sense the environment around us is a crucial part of spatial computing. billion by 2032.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

While spatial computing isn’t an entirely new concept, major market leaders like Apple believe it will shape the future of our digital interactions. This includes the development of more comfortable, lightweight, and powerful wearable headsets, like the impeding Apple Vision Pro.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2022

Hand and eye tracking tools, capable of sensing the movements, gestures, and gaze of a user, can take XR experiences to a new level. These tools open the door for everything from completely hands-free XR user interfaces to intelligent foveated rendering. Unity and Magic Leap.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

I think the battle with Apple has just begun. This would be amazing because Oculus could prove that its social tool (currently in closed alpha stage) works very well even for important events and can fulfill the mission of “defying distance”. Mozilla updates its Unity WebVR exporter. Why does this matter? This is massive.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

people walking around), so I don't have an apples-to-apples comparison against Santa Cruz. The SDK offers native APIs, but also supports popular game engines like Unity and Unreal 4. The inside-out tracking was more "swimmy" on Focus, but I tried it in an environment with a lot of dynamic features (i.e.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 4, 2023

I need to rush out this newsletter episode because otherwise tomorrow Apple launches its headset and no one will read my articles: everyone will be too busy reading “The top 5 features of the Apple headset” or “The 7 reasons why the Apple headset can revolutionize peeling potatoes”. How is Apple going to sell this headset?

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2020

Mozilla Hubs is an opensource online VR meeting tool, that lets you meet other people using whatever device by just clicking on a single link. At the same time, Apple having always mediocre graphics cards on its laptops and its closed ecosystem have not helped much either in keeping this VR support alive. Other relevant news.

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 1, 2020

8agora provides creative teams, individuals, and groups with customizable virtual reality avatars that they can use to attend meetings and events, three-dimension high definition graphics, instant chat, simultaneous translation from any language, and many other business-oriented tools. (Image courtesy 8Agora.). Image courtesy AltspaceVR.).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 24, 2023

Meta Platforms is named so because it was one of the first big tech firms to market itself as a builder of tools, hardware, software developer kits (SDKs), and infrastructure for the Metaverse. I would even say that Meta’s biggest error is building the Metaverse using social media tools and failing to leverage the right markets.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

We captured the transition from a couple companies shipping development tools to hobbyists into a fast-moving industry driven by some of the world’s largest tech companies, each of which is selling increasingly sophisticated systems directly to consumers. Unity raises a massive $181 million round to grow its ambitions.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

Moreover, Apple recently made a huge splash in the XR market with the Vision Pro, an XR device which leverages eye and hand tracking for its spatial computing input system. The device does not use controllers at all, instead, Apple believes that with the XR revolution comes increased usability and accessibility via hand/eye-based inputs.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

In addition to hand tracking, UltraLeap is investing in mid-air haptics, which can create tactile feedback, providing a more realistic and engaging experience when interacting with XR content. For example, companies want to be able to deliver great VR training experiences where users hold tools like welding torches or spray paint cans.

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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. Yes, it’s a lot of time, but these are realistic projections. Pico Neo Eye 2 and controllers.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: I’ve tried some haptics gloves. It sounds really awesome, and it is — it’s really fun and exciting — but what it really gets down to it is they’ve shown the increased sales by 25-150 percent using just web-based interactive tools. So, you think Apple Apple would do this?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: I’ve tried some haptics gloves. It sounds really awesome, and it is — it’s really fun and exciting — but what it really gets down to it is they’ve shown the increased sales by 25-150 percent using just web-based interactive tools. So, you think Apple Apple would do this?

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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. It is now implemented in all the most important browsers and developers have now tools like A-Frame 1.0

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: I've tried some haptics gloves. It sounds really awesome, and it is -- it's really fun and exciting -- but what it really gets down to it is they've shown the increased sales by 25-150 percent using just web-based interactive tools. Do you think Apple is going to come out with their glasses in the next five years?

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

And building those back-end tools, coding, setting up standards and everything, up to 2011. Alan: So how is IKEA using these tools now? And then the Apple guys came with a brilliant ARKit, and it worked beautifully. And then they hired me to do all development for that company, IKEA Communications. Martin: Okay. Martin: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

And building those back-end tools, coding, setting up standards and everything, up to 2011. Alan: So how is IKEA using these tools now? And then the Apple guys came with a brilliant ARKit, and it worked beautifully. And then they hired me to do all development for that company, IKEA Communications. Martin: Okay. Martin: Yeah.

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Building the Metaverse

JANUARY 18, 2023

But more recently, tools have helped dematerialize the experience and make it more easy to conduct your campaign online. Generative AI tools have also helped dungeon masters create imagery to share with their groups. But beyond some simple haptic feedback, it may not be great to get slammed by force fields. exaflops (10¹⁸) 1.5

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: I’ve tried some haptics gloves. It sounds really awesome, and it is — it’s really fun and exciting — but what it really gets down to it is they’ve shown the increased sales by 25-150 percent using just web-based interactive tools. So, you think Apple Apple would do this?

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

And building those back-end tools, coding, setting up standards and everything, up to 2011. Alan: So how is IKEA using these tools now? And then the Apple guys came with a brilliant ARKit, and it worked beautifully. And then they hired me to do all development for that company, IKEA Communications. Martin: Okay. Martin: Yeah.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

It was our hope for Google entering the AR race together with Meta and Apple. More info (Meta Quest+ gaming service) More info (Cross-buy available for Meta Quest+ games) Unity announces AI tools when Valve stops AI games This week has been an emotional rollercoaster for games (VR and not) made with the support of artificial intelligence.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Apple headset will not be focused on gaming. A new report seems to suggest that the upcoming Apple headset won’t be focused on gaming at all. In fact, at launch, it won’t even be possible to create Unity content for it. Other relevant news. Image by The Information). Meta is under heavy pressure. Meta releases Movement SDK.

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VRScout

JULY 25, 2017

Inside, the show combined haptics (swivel chairs and synced Subpac vests) with a Gear VR to virtually transport you on a journey down storm drains to come face-to-face with the infamous evil clown Pennywise. UNITY ADDS MAP FUNCTION, SO LOCATION IS OFFICIALLY FOUNDATION FOR VR/AR GAMES. via The Venture Reality Fund.

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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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