The Ghost Howls

MAY 14, 2023

I guess this line has been added to the keynote speech because Apple is going to announce its device very soon at WWDC (at least according to the rumors), and Google wanted to show that it’s part of the game, too. It lets you create geolocation-based augmented reality content by positioning it directly into a 3D version of Google Maps.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

In 2013, San Francisco-based software company Niantic launched Ingress , a cutting-edge location-based AR mobile game that had players choose one of two factions and battle others in a geocaching game of capture the flag. Ingress Prime is available now on the Apple App Store and on Google Play. Image Credit: Niantic .

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 23, 2023

After this update, Cix Liv and other VR people (like the usual Brad) said that the rumor in town is actually not that Bytedance is closing Pico, but that Pico will focus mostly on MR to chase Apple with its Vision Pro and will shut down its VR business. There are many other examples of that.

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VRScout

APRIL 16, 2018

San Francisco based startup, Wavy , is looking to help musicians enhance their music videos with AR. Available now on the Apple app store as a free download, Wavy morphs the world around you into an AR concert lightshow that transforms the way you’ll listen to music on your phone.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 4, 2023

With offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York, IW Group is a marketing agency dedicated to implementing Web3 and metaverse technologies for massive brands worldwide. The company has worked with Disney, Warner Bros, Apple TV, Netflix, Wells Fargo, Sony Pictures, Walmart, and many others.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 6, 2022

The hype for the Apple visor is very high, and everyone is waiting for it as a kid waits for Christmas. I was thinking about this topic this morning, and I want to share with you my stream of thoughts about Apple making VR mainstream, especially highlighting my doubts about it. Is now everyone already using an XR headset?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 9, 2016

San Francisco-based Occipital is one of the many companies that wants to bring inside-out tracking to mobile VR, but its means of doing so stands apart from others. Rather than modding existing headsets with extra cameras, Occipital today announced Bridge, its own mobile headset designed for use with Apple’s iPhone 7, 6, and 6s.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

And while Portland is by no means a backwater, it’s still not a major tech or immersive content hub like LA or San Francisco either. For starters, they’re based in Oregon as opposed to Silicon Valley.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Apple now lets add you add “buy” button to AR Quick Look. A piece of simple news, but a very important one, has hit the AR industry this week: Apple now lets companies add custom buttons (usually the “Buy” one) to AR Quick Look. This expertise is also paid very well , with high salaries in cities like London or San Francisco.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Game Developers Conference (GDC) - VRDC@GDC Date: March 19-23, 2018 Venue: Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA, USA Check their passes and pricing for more information. IEEE Virtual Reality Conference Date: March 18-22, 2018 Venue: Stadthalle Reutlingen, Reutlingen, Germany Check here for pricing.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Unity Technologies just went public. If you're living in, let's say, Toronto and you're pitching somebody in San Francisco and you make VR, how do you put their head in there and make sure they're in there? And Unity's, I think started. So I think there's a huge boom there. Alex: Huge news. Alan: Huge. Alan: 100 percent.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Unity Technologies just went public. If you're living in, let's say, Toronto and you're pitching somebody in San Francisco and you make VR, how do you put their head in there and make sure they're in there? And Unity's, I think started. So I think there's a huge boom there. Alex: Huge news. Alan: Huge. Alan: 100 percent.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York City, and Seattle?—?for Apple may unveil RealityOS at WWDC. At the upcoming WWDC, Apple may unveil its operating system for XR glasses, dubbed RealityOS. More info (RealityOS trademark) More info (Robert Scoble’s take on Apple’s reveal strategy). or no reason?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Unity Technologies just went public. If you're living in, let's say, Toronto and you're pitching somebody in San Francisco and you make VR, how do you put their head in there and make sure they're in there? And Unity's, I think started. So I think there's a huge boom there. Alex: Huge news. Alan: Huge. Alan: 100 percent.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

We know mostly nothing about it, and we just have the image of its front view (semi-obscured) and the info that it will be revealed in San Francisco at Photonics West event. Unity now supports Vulkan for Oculus Quest. Unity has finally implemented Vulkan support for the Oculus Quest, in Unity 2019.3.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

So with this LiDAR that Apple is pushing pretty hard -- I'm pretty sure Google is going to follow suit pretty quickly, probably one year behind, and then they're going to have LiDAR on their top end phones, probably coming to Samsung -- but try-on is going to be made really possible, try-on of suits. "By Alan: Oh, how cool is that.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

So with this LiDAR that Apple is pushing pretty hard -- I'm pretty sure Google is going to follow suit pretty quickly, probably one year behind, and then they're going to have LiDAR on their top end phones, probably coming to Samsung -- but try-on is going to be made really possible, try-on of suits. "By Alan: Oh, how cool is that.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

So with this LiDAR that Apple is pushing pretty hard -- I'm pretty sure Google is going to follow suit pretty quickly, probably one year behind, and then they're going to have LiDAR on their top end phones, probably coming to Samsung -- but try-on is going to be made really possible, try-on of suits. "By Alan: Oh, how cool is that.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

In April, we opened the doors to the first Upload Collective in San Francisco, a hub for VR and AR startups, development, co-working, education, meetups and even live broadcasting. With over 40 member companies in San Francisco, The Upload Collective has quickly grown both in size and in scope.

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VRScout

JULY 25, 2017

Hardware infrastructure and software developer tools from big players like Apple (ARKit) and Facebook (Camera Effects platform) directly contributed to a huge surge in interest in augmented reality. San Francisco-based Leap Motion has raised a $50M Series C for their hand- and finger-tracking technology. and just a few more….

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

I was flying from Toronto to San Francisco, and I just happened to sit beside a guy who we started talking about AR and I pulled out the North Glasses. And if you have a Bose AR-enabled device, you can download that for either the Google Play store or the Apple App Store. Thanks for having me. I’m super excited.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

I was flying from Toronto to San Francisco, and I just happened to sit beside a guy who we started talking about AR and I pulled out the North Glasses. And if you have a Bose AR-enabled device, you can download that for either the Google Play store or the Apple App Store. Thanks for having me. I’m super excited.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

I was flying from Toronto to San Francisco, and I just happened to sit beside a guy who we started talking about AR and I pulled out the North Glasses. And if you have a Bose AR-enabled device, you can download that for either the Google Play store or the Apple App Store. Thanks for having me. I'm super excited.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

For example, if you’re in downtown San Francisco, and you’re calling an Uber, you’re going to have to manually place on the Google map where you are almost every time, because it’s going to be off by half a block or more as to where your real location is. GPS is supposed to be accurate to roughly 4.9

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

For example, if you’re in downtown San Francisco, and you’re calling an Uber, you’re going to have to manually place on the Google map where you are almost every time, because it’s going to be off by half a block or more as to where your real location is. GPS is supposed to be accurate to roughly 4.9

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VRScout

JULY 17, 2016

Now it looks like the 600-person company, based in an old Motorola factory in Fort Lauderdale (yes that’s in Florida, guys – not a neighborhood in San Francisco), is finally breaking their vow of silence. Unity Technologies, developer of the massively popular Unity cross-platform game engine, raised $181M in their Series C round.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Series A round led by Atomico, along with Speedinvest, Y Combinator (of which the company is an alumnus), Dawn Capital, and notable individuals such as the founder of Unity and the former VP of engineering at Netflix and YouTube. Bitmovin announced a $10.3M REAL-TIME FACES: PINSCREEN’S STEALTH $1.8M.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 19, 2019

and San Francisco that have been home to over 150 VR and AI startups. One that I love is when we were doing VR development training with Unity back two years ago. We had two classrooms -- one in [San Francisco], one in L.A. -- and we were basically teaching people the foundational skills to build VR experiences using Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

New amazing content is coming, like Assassin’s Creed VR or GTA San Andreas, and some very popular VR titles like Population One or Beat Saber, are exclusive to its standalone platform. It will also be a defensive move against Apple. Apple could announce its headset. Apple could announce its headset.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

One day Apple will come out and say a new feature. And doing activations so we can import any Unity scene. And we’d love to do– we’re looking at the West Coast tour from San Francisco to Los Angeles for early 2020. And then Google came out with a new feature. Alan: That sounds amazing.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

One day Apple will come out and say a new feature. And doing activations so we can import any Unity scene. And we’d love to do– we’re looking at the West Coast tour from San Francisco to Los Angeles for early 2020. And then Google came out with a new feature. Alan: That sounds amazing.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

One day Apple will come out and say a new feature. And doing activations so we can import any Unity scene. And we'd love to do-- we're looking at the West Coast tour from San Francisco to Los Angeles for early 2020. And then Google came out with a new feature. And those two features alone will wipe out 100 startups.

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AR Insider

JUNE 11, 2021

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. This was in full force at WWDC including new AR navigation in Apple Maps, visual search features, and 3D Object Capture. AR Guidance. Object Capture.

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