The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

Image by Apple). Apple has not announced any glasses at WWDC. Every year, we have the same ritual: we wait for an event by Apple, hoping to hear some news about an upcoming XR device, then nothing happens in this sense, we are disappointed and so we hope for a new reveal next year. Top news of the week. Other relevant news.

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ARPost

JANUARY 27, 2022

People of all ages found meaningful experiences in the virtual world and managed to fight off the negative impacts of isolation caused by stay-at-home mandates. Companies like HTC, Oculus (Meta), and Apple will continue to innovate and launch devices equipped with the latest technological developments. 360 Degree Marketing .

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ARPost

JUNE 21, 2023

Niantic is one of XR’s big world-builders using computer vision and scene understanding to realistically augment the world. The winner used generative AI to create the environment that replaced the sky through a recent tool developed by 8th Wall. Internally, we’ve seen a 95-97% reduction in time to create [with AI tools].”

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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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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 21, 2017

Educators are using virtual worlds, but not in the way they had used them in the past, and not in the same numbers. The Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education conference is a good example that showcases this work. Better crowd control tools available such as management of voice, text, and regions.

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Ryan Schultz

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

HOUSEKEEPING NOTICE: Yes, I know this blogpost is somewhat off-topic for a blog about “news and views on social VR, virtual worlds, and the metaverse,” but hey, my blog, my rules. Accordingly, I have created a new blogpost category, called Apple Vision Pro.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 7, 2023

Apple’s new visionOS operating system is easily one of the most anticipated new solutions announced at WWDC this year. For years, Apple fans have been left to scour the rumor mill for news about an impending Apple headset. Now we finally have not just one Apple VR/AR announcement, but multiple. What is Apple visionOS?

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

Eight year ago, when I first launched Hypergrid Business , virtual worlds offered a unique set of compelling features. There was presence, and immersion, and the ability to create your own virtual environments. At that time, virtual worlds were the only visible path to an interconnected metaverse of virtual environments.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 24, 2024

Mesh for Teams, an Overview Mesh for Teams is a set of tools that enterprise clients can use to create virtual immersive spaces ready to meet specific business needs, such as employee events, tours, product showcases, and training. However, competitors can say the same, with Apple and Meta having deep enterprise connections.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Yet, with all the hope promised by the “metaverse,” not only do these events fail to optimally leverage the innovation of VR, but they also fall short in using music to help create immersive social spaces for people to gather virtually where they feel connected to each other and their humanity. Audiences and Artists Still Adjusting.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

And it’s not over on the content side: they are going to launch the Pico Video app with 600+ videos on day 1 , and are partnering to have immersive concerts with Wave. Pico Worlds will be the official social VR application. Pico is also going to have its first exclusive title: Just Dance VR, a popular game good for all ages.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

More info Apple Vision Pro offers an incredible hand segmentation A leaked screenshot from an Apple Vision Pro devkit shows how the Vision Pro is able to show almost perfectly the hand of the user above virtual content. This would show the level of polish of the upcoming Apple headset.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2022

All these tools look amazing also for the creation of very realistic VR experiences, but actually, we should hold our enthusiasm: both Nanite and Lumen are not available for VR yet, and Epic has not announced any kind of improvement of the workflow for development for Oculus Quest 2, either. Image by Apple). News worth a mention.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Avalon is a global, remotely-operated gaming studio staffed by some of the world’s top video game industry executives. Didimo’s Popul8 tool allows world-building firms to create hundreds of unique characters in a fraction of the time and cost needed to do so.

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AR Insider

MAY 24, 2021

Starline promises telepresence technology to reimage video conferencing as we’ve never seen. It looks so real because the video participants are being scanned in 3D. Epic tried to establish that Apple is an “essential utility,” meaning infrastructure that can be uncompetitively withheld, like a bridge, but it just wasn’t landing.

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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. 3D scanning an volumetric videos.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

My favorite one is “interoperability” : you shoud be able to go through all virtual worlds carrying with you what you have got in one into the other ones. It will also be a defensive move against Apple. Apple could announce its headset. Concept render of the upcoming Apple headset (Image by Antonio DeRosa).

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VRScout

MARCH 12, 2018

Between 360 video, virtual reality, and augmented reality, I think augmented reality has much bigger opportunities,” Asher said. It’s a great hybrid between the real world and the virtual world.”. billion in revenue in 2017, is seizing on the opportunity to provide the tools. “We

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The Use of VR in the Field of Education Vindevogel goes on to say that VR will be a useful tool in the field of education. More Accessible Developer Tools VR solutions are becoming more popular in commercial settings and it’s expected that developing such solutions will become simpler in the coming years.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2022

Many journalists wrote bad things about Meta’s M-word efforts: they said that Meta invested $10B just to have this cringy virtual world. More info (Lenovo Legion VR700 launched) More info (Lenovo Legion VR700 launch video). Apple releases new interesting research on Nerf. It’s very cool, and I invite you to read about it.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Launch video of Pico 4. It is the first headset that implements the ski-goggles design and it looks incredibly polished from the available images and video. PICO OS has been deeply optimized for VR games, audio and video, and interactive operations to make the experience of using virtual reality devices simpler and smoother.”

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Meta’s Oculus team have already partnered with leading companies like Sony Music to give fans an immersive way to explore music videos and unique content. Meta’s new digital landscape is sure to pave the way for endless new virtual concerts and online experiences in the years to come.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Xiaomi , one of the biggest smartphone and wearables manufacturers in the world, has announced its smartglasses. 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.

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Upload VR

AUGUST 23, 2022

Ready Player Me will “build avatar content creation tools to enable developers, brands and individual artists to create and sell avatar customization assets that work across thousands of virtual worlds,” wrote Ready Player Me Co-Founder and CEO Timmu Tõke in an emailed answer to UploadVR.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Meta Quest Pro announcement video. Don’t expect the passthrough to be like your normal vision, though… it is a bit like seeing reality through a video (washed-out colors, a bit of blurred resolution, etc…). Unless Apple kills it, of course… Productivity ecosystem. Meta Quest Pro. Adobe and Autodesk.

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Road to VR

JULY 18, 2018

In the VR realm, the new version brings native mixed reality video compositing for VR applications, and an update to a much newer Oculus SDK. adds supports for Apple’s ARKit 2.0 Up to this point, mixed reality video compositing has generally required third-party programs and game implementations. On the AR front, UE 4.20

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 2, 2023

For years, Apple has teased XR audiences with hints at a revolutionary immersive device which may flip the technology sector on its head, similarly to the iPhone’s effect on the mobile phone sector. But how will Apple affect this busy market? How is Apple Directing its Focus Towards XR?

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Road to VR

JULY 17, 2017

Apple’s ARKit has been out for developers since it was announced last month. Because of the mind-boggling number of iPhones and iPads capable of running ARKit, the new tool is already spreading its augmented reality wings across the Internet thanks to a diverse set of developers. 7 – Volumetric Video in AR.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2024

Of course we can not exactly predict the future , but I think that apart from the predictions, the answers by Alvin can give you some new tools through which understand how the future technological evolutions may be and how they can influence all sectors of our lives. It’s also in the Apple bookstores today.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 23, 2023

ITV news report on the burglary at our centre on Xmas day Watch the video here – [link] Make a difference here – [link] Thank you everyone for donating, sharing & supporting us. VR simulations allow patients with limited mobility to enter virtual worlds to fly, swim with dolphins, and space travel, among others.

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Building the Metaverse

JANUARY 18, 2023

Let’s look at a couple of the ways that generative artificial intelligence taps into your creativity: ChatGPT as a Virtual Engine There are a number of ways to conceptualize a large language model like ChatGPT; but one is that it is actually a virtual world engine. It had persistent, virtual worlds called campaigns.

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ARPost

JANUARY 29, 2020

Many major tech organizations such as Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are currently working on different types of smart glasses or headsets which are more affordable and widely available to consumers, which will eventually change how we view and interact with the world around us. Infotainment Trends.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 23, 2024

The Apple Vision Pro brought expected eyes to the technology, and late last year, Meta launched its Quest 3, which introduced its brand of MR at an affordable price following its Quest Pro launch. MR headsets are facing increased interest this year. However, MR has room to grow.

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Bernard Marr

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

It’s about moving beyond flat web pages, images and videos to create experiences that are more engaging, as well as conducive to shared interaction and collaboration. It will include technologies such as augmented reality (AR and virtual reality (VR).

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Tech Trends VR

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

As another year hurtles inexorably towards Christmas, it’s an opportune time to take stock of how far XR has come so far, and what 2020 might hold in stock for building a virtual world we might actually want to live in. . If there’s an elephant in this virtual room, its name is Apple. Training and Education.

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VRScout

JANUARY 30, 2018

But I also remember doing that for the first time in a crowded Apple store, with no real intention of buying the first-generation iPhone I was playing with. One of the surprising arguments that Bailenson puts forward seems to be that by living more of our lives in virtual worlds we can help save the real one.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

PSVR 2, Apple XR visor) and games, will be fundamental to understand its evolution and its potential. It’s not clear on what platforms this functionality will be working on, but if I had to guess, I would say Project Cambria, since its body tracking was already revealed in a video some months ago. Other relevant news.

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