XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 27, 2023

IGS 2023 wrapped up last week, tipping off a monumental event filled with XR innovation across a series of industries. Major firms like Microsoft, Valve, and Apple are continuing to build immersive product portfolios leading towards the dawn of 2024. As important industry events occur, the sector continues to progress.

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AR Insider

MARCH 20, 2020

XR Talks is a series that features the best presentations and educational videos from the XR universe. It includes embedded video, as well as narrative analysis and top takeaways. Confidence signals include Brand spending on sponsored lenses and indicators for Apple’s eventual AR glasses. Apple’s AR Fate.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 24, 2024

XR enterprise end users can select from various pre-built immersive environments ready on the Mesh platform and personalize those spaces using no-code/Unity tools, allowing end-users to create a meeting room template that the entire organization can access and edit.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

More info Apple Vision Pro may have a very slow start The same Ming-Chi Kuo, who probably woke up with a lot of pessimism that day, has also expressed doubts about the widespread success of the Apple Vision Pro. This would mean that Apple’s XR offering should rely for 3 years on a very expensive headset with very low sales.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 14, 2021

This week we had another report from supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, that is said to very reliable in rumors about Apple (even if he only made wrong predictions about Apple Glasses, but this is none of my business). More info (Report by Kuo) More info (Report about Apple Glasses). Apple announces minor XR news at WWDC 2021.

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Voices of VR

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here is the announcement video teaser that was the first video shown during the briefing. […] I got consent from Qualcomm to publish Hugo Swart's press briefing that he gave to journalists a week ahead of Meta Connect 2023 where he announced the new XR2 Gen 2 and AR1 Gen 1 chips for the first time.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2022

On Reddit, I have also been able to watch the video of an indie developer showcasing its game Cradle Of Sins made with UE5, and another developer publishing a tutorial on how to get started with UE5 for PCVR. As a Unity developer, I am a bit envious of all of this. Image by Apple). Apple WWDC is back in June.

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ARVR

JULY 15, 2020

Apple seems to be cornering the popular entertainment industry, with the acquisition of NextVR, as industry rivals such as Magic Leap focus on enterprise solutions. With the Starboard UI and Apple Glasses release anticipated for Q4 2020/Q1 2021, the world is eagerly awaiting the next generation of extended reality (XR) standards.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 8, 2023

The first one is that since the Gaming Showcase is happening on June, 1st, it seems positioned in a way to make Meta perform some announcements right before the Apple WWDC. Apple WWDC is where the Apple Reality headset may be announced, and it is taking place on June, 5th. The price is going to be very cheap: only £79.99.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

And these experiments about wireless headsets make us think that Valve is investigating the possibility of making the Index wireless (or even better, standalone), a feature that many users have asked for. (Thanks Ilja Z for the tip!). Volu lets you take volumetric videos with your smartphone. Nreal Light is on sale in Germany.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Everyone has seen the video of the whale in the gym and Magic Leap is one of the XR companies having obtained more money. Apple AR glasses may be released in 2022–2023. More info (Apple glasses delayed to 2022) More info (Apple glasses delay). This is a sign of big internal troubles.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

With a lot of sadness, I’m here watching the photos and the videos of WCVRI , the big Chinese conference about VR that is held every year in Nanchang. Tips & Tricks for the Quest 2! Simple WebXR” aims at bringing WebXR to Unity. It looks very interesting, and as a Unity developer, I want to experiment with it.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Some months ago, we all read that letter where Zuckerberg claimed wanting to get complete control of the hardware and software stack so that Facebook shouldn’t depend on external companies, like Google or Apple for the SO, or phone manufacturers for the hardware. Unity releases the XR Interaction Toolkit.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

New rumors on Apple and Meta devices. I know it may sound weird to you, but we have new rumors on Apple headsets and also about the future Meta Project Cambria and Quest 3. Regarding Apple, the super-reliable analysts have stated that the headset may feature three displays because just two are for losers. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

It was too early for Unity, but they taught me about C++, C#, Java, OpenCV, OpenGL and other fancy development stuff. It talked about SIFT features and how the inventor used this kind of features to add 3D model of rabbits and teapots on top of a desk and over the hand in a camera video stream. From it, ARKit has born, I guess.

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ARVR

JUNE 29, 2020

If you don’t want to read all of this I’ve posted a video at the bottom of the page, however below goes into a bit more depth. Build your first HoloLens 2 Application with Unity and MRTK 2.3.0 This time I am using a black fine tip marker to add in some details that were missed by the breakdown layers, but are in the original picture.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

Of course, Epic is completely against Apple and its vision of its own walled garden. Epic also announced a few interesting things, like a tool to record facial animations for MetaHumans that run on an iPhone; and Fab, the Unreal version of the Unity Asset Store, where the developers can find many tools and multimedia elements put on sale.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 15, 2024

Apple ARKit Apple’s ARKit is one of the most popular augmented reality kits available, particularly for developers focusing on mobile AR apps. However, you’ll need an Apple Annual Developer Program account to deploy and publish apps for sale, which costs $99 per developer license. Let’s dive into the options.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The company has not posted real photos or footage from the glasses, just a promo video with an accompanying blog post detailed some of their characteristics. 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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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Internal iOS 13 code seems to point at Apple AR glasses. It is not a secret that Apple is working on a pair of AR glasses (even if someone still thinks that the project has been abandoned). What we don’t know is what Apple is creating and when it will be released. So, it is not something for the present, but more for the future.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

You have video that you’re doing; maybe think about how 360 video could enhance the experience, or bring it a step further. I don’t ask this — I’m going to start asking this is a regular question — when do you think that tipping point is going to be? And now video is very commonplace.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

You have video that you’re doing; maybe think about how 360 video could enhance the experience, or bring it a step further. I don’t ask this — I’m going to start asking this is a regular question — when do you think that tipping point is going to be? And now video is very commonplace.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

It seems that it is more complicated than they initially thought (I wonder if the problems are only technical or also privacy-related), and so it is being delayed; A video on a dev blog article released by Facebook shows what seems to be a redesign of the toolbar of the Quest interface. This could be The Unity Cube 2.0.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

Especially the first feature made most people go in awe : volumetric videos are very expensive, so they’re typically not used during XR events. Recorded or not, the result was so cool that videos of Ignite conference became viral in all the XR community. they had no problems in using it. But we’ll get there.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

Thanks Davy Demeyer for the tip). The project is opensource on GitHub and he’s asking for donations to carry it on. The most probable explanation is that they don’t even know what it is about: VR must be tried to be understood, and watching Youtube videos isn’t enough. Unity details its MARS solution.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Here you are the full video of the interview. Some of my toy projects… I did a ton of these toys joysticks that you plug into a television and have a bunch of video games built in. Yeah, I don’t know if you’ve seen any of the videos …yeah a lot of these features are already prototyped and we’re demonstrating them all.

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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. Thanks Ivan Aguilar for the tip!). Other relevant news. Image by The Information).

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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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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

More info (No Gear VR support on Note 10) More info (Object scanning on Note 10+) More info (Video of object scanning on Note 10+). And i ts 2021+ timeline for XR makes me wonder if Huawei plans to release its headset around that date … that is more or less the same that we predict for Apple glasses. Thanks David for the tip).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

After so many years, finally VR is reaching its tipping point where one platform will reach the 10 million sold units, which is considered as a magic number for a healthy ecosystem. It will also be a defensive move against Apple. Apple could announce its headset. Apple could announce its headset.

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