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! Oculus is selling refurbished Quest for $199. Among the top 5 news I have chosen, only 1 is about VR. Even if they are just concept videos, they are a massive piece of news anyway.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

Last Oculus Quest update shows hints of an Oculus MR ecosystem. Facebook is continuously updating the Oculus Quest , its most successful device, and this week it has rolled out the runtime v16. I think that this update, together with the last ones, marks the beginning of a mixed reality ecosystem that is being built by Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

But I hope you’ll enjoy this newsletter coming from the world of the undead anyway… Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Apple starts accepting applications for Vision Pro devkits Apple has started accepting applications from interested developers to get a Vision Pro to develop XR experiences.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 11, 2017

It released with the launch of the HTC Vive in early 2016 and Facebook’s Oculus Touch controllers for Rift late in the year. It didn’t take them long to decide their legacy project, a 2D puzzle game called Fantastic Contraption that relied on creative thinking to build machines, could be adapted to VR. Learning New Skills.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Oculus has also partnered with Virtuclear to offer prescription lenses for the Quest 2 for $80. All the 3 major VR runtimes (Oculus, SteamVR, Microsoft) are now compatible with OpenXR , and this means that on the runtime layer on PC, now OpenXR has been fully integrated. And yes, I use sarcasm a lot: “Hey Facebook, thanks for this”.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Alan: So, would the things like computer vision and machine learning, would that fit? Accenture has different groups, like a group headed dedicated to artificial intelligence, things like cloud computing, and machine learning is a part of artificial intelligence. Would you bundle those under XR as well? Alan: Incredible.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Alan: So, would the things like computer vision and machine learning, would that fit? Accenture has different groups, like a group headed dedicated to artificial intelligence, things like cloud computing, and machine learning is a part of artificial intelligence. Would you bundle those under XR as well? Alan: Incredible.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Unity Technologies just went public. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started. Alex: I guarantee that most of Unity's investors are not going into the engine to build their own demos. Alex: Huge news.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Unity Technologies just went public. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started. Alex: I guarantee that most of Unity's investors are not going into the engine to build their own demos. Alex: Huge news.

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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. It has the ability to create a cross platform code where users can create their projects in either JavaScript, Unity, Xamarin, and Cordova. It has applications in training and educational use cases.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2020

This is why we praise so much the Oculus Quest (1M+ of engaged users) and not the Cardboards (20M devices, almost unused). This money includes all the revenues not related to the main business of Facebook (advertisement), but Facebook has clearly specified that this big increment is mostly related to Oculus hardware and software.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Unity Technologies just went public. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started. Alex: I guarantee that most of Unity's investors are not going into the engine to build their own demos. Alex: Huge news.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Is Apple partnering with Valve on AR? A report by DigiTimes claims that Apple is partnering with Valve for the production of its AR glasses. The news would be incredible: Apple is a company that knows how to create something usable and cool to see, while Valve has a long expertise in experimenting with AR and VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

We will learn today how they're using digital twins to add real business value. We started working really early on with the DK-1 from Kickstarter, testing, playing around with Unity, seeing what we could do, up to now where we're easily 200+ commercially funded, brand funded XR experiences. Daniel, welcome to the show, my friend.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

We will learn today how they're using digital twins to add real business value. We started working really early on with the DK-1 from Kickstarter, testing, playing around with Unity, seeing what we could do, up to now where we're easily 200+ commercially funded, brand funded XR experiences. Daniel, welcome to the show, my friend.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

We will learn today how they're using digital twins to add real business value. We started working really early on with the DK-1 from Kickstarter, testing, playing around with Unity, seeing what we could do, up to now where we're easily 200+ commercially funded, brand funded XR experiences. Daniel, welcome to the show, my friend.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 9, 2021

I’m overly happy to announce to you that today we of New Technology Walkers have launched our VR fitness game HitMotion: Reloaded on Oculus App Lab ! Regarding the controllers, we know that they are similar to the Oculus Touch but with force-feedback triggers and more nuanced haptic sensations. Is Oculus Quest killing PCVR?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And to everybody who worked on this: Walid [Abdelaty], our CTO; Paul [Konieczny], our chief product officer; Jonathan [Moss], our chief commercial officer, who takes us and brings it to enterprise; and Julie [Smithson], our chief learning officer. Yeah, it's been an exciting year just in change of educating and learning. Thank you.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And to everybody who worked on this: Walid [Abdelaty], our CTO; Paul [Konieczny], our chief product officer; Jonathan [Moss], our chief commercial officer, who takes us and brings it to enterprise; and Julie [Smithson], our chief learning officer. Yeah, it's been an exciting year just in change of educating and learning. Thank you.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And to everybody who worked on this: Walid [Abdelaty], our CTO; Paul [Konieczny], our chief product officer; Jonathan [Moss], our chief commercial officer, who takes us and brings it to enterprise; and Julie [Smithson], our chief learning officer. Yeah, it's been an exciting year just in change of educating and learning. Thank you.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

It has a dual camera system: one camera does inside-out tracking , so it just tracks your position around the table, so there’s no sensors that you have to put in the room; the other one is used for pure machine vision , we can do hand tracking , so you can reach into this virtual space and move stuff around. The Vive Wands.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

To learn more about the work he’s doing at Bose, you can visit developer.bose.com. But I really wanted to have a forcing function to teach myself a program for Android, learn Eclipse, etc. And if you have a Bose AR-enabled device, you can download that for either the Google Play store or the Apple App Store.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

To learn more about the work he’s doing at Bose, you can visit developer.bose.com. But I really wanted to have a forcing function to teach myself a program for Android, learn Eclipse, etc. And if you have a Bose AR-enabled device, you can download that for either the Google Play store or the Apple App Store.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

To learn more about the work he's doing at Bose, you can visit developer.bose.com. But I really wanted to have a forcing function to teach myself a program for Android, learn Eclipse, etc. And if you have a Bose AR-enabled device, you can download that for either the Google Play store or the Apple App Store. Michael: Absolutely.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

You can learn more about InContext Solutions at www.incontextsolutions.com. Alan: The Oculus Quest is coming out next week at [Facebook] F8, and it’s full six degrees of freedom. You can build in Unity, it’s the same thing. You nailed it by saying computer vision and machine learning. Alan: My pleasure.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

You can learn more about InContext Solutions at www.incontextsolutions.com. Alan: The Oculus Quest is coming out next week at [Facebook] F8, and it’s full six degrees of freedom. You can build in Unity, it’s the same thing. You nailed it by saying computer vision and machine learning. Alan: My pleasure.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

He’s designed and developed Paint Space AR, named by Apple as one of the best apps of 2017 and currently works full time at Google as an AR Interaction designer. Alan: If you’re looking to learn more about Austin, you can visit his website at austastic.com. Unity is a tool that we use a ton, and it’s cross-platform.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

He’s designed and developed Paint Space AR, named by Apple as one of the best apps of 2017 and currently works full time at Google as an AR Interaction designer. Alan: If you’re looking to learn more about Austin, you can visit his website at austastic.com. Unity is a tool that we use a ton, and it’s cross-platform.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

He's designed and developed Paint Space AR, named by Apple as one of the best apps of 2017 and currently works full time at Google as an AR Interaction designer. Alan: If you're looking to learn more about Austin, you can visit his website at austastic.com. Unity is a tool that we use a ton, and it's cross-platform.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

You can learn more about the great work that Anne and her team are doing at theboolean.io. Anne: One other thing is we learned very early on is that if we want to make it the best we possibly can, we have to collaborate with people who are from different backgrounds. One day Apple will come out and say a new feature. Anne: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

You can learn more about the great work that Anne and her team are doing at theboolean.io. Anne: One other thing is we learned very early on is that if we want to make it the best we possibly can, we have to collaborate with people who are from different backgrounds. One day Apple will come out and say a new feature. Anne: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 19, 2019

Jacki and Taylor from Axon Park; if you want to learn more, visit axonpark.com. So those two areas were very early in setting the pace for virtual reality as a learning mechanism. Alan: It's really incredible to learn how long they've been working on this technology. And the original learning was all in the world; it was 3D.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

You can learn more about the great work that Anne and her team are doing at theboolean.io. Anne: One other thing is we learned very early on is that if we want to make it the best we possibly can, we have to collaborate with people who are from different backgrounds. One day Apple will come out and say a new feature. Anne: Yeah.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

I can’t guarantee that these predictions will come out to be true (I always joke about the fact that I miss many of the predictions about Meta/Oculus), but I think they will be worth reading anyway to understand what can be the trends to look for in this new year. Me wearing my branded Oculus Quest 2. So… let’s start!

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Is Founder CEO of consulting company Global Mindset focused on leveraging globalisation & digitisation for Learning & Working. Learn more about what it means to be a creative in the VC world. He has been covered across Forbes, USA Today, MIT Tech Review, TED and has numerous patents and publications to his name. 23- Kathryn Yu.

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