XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 15, 2023

Spatial Hits Big at GDC 2023 In March, at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2023 in San Francisco, Spatial announced the platform’s new Unity Creator Toolkit is entering its beta stages. For example, Spatial’s Unity Creator Toolkit beta model powered the 2023 Metaverse Fashion Week on Spatial between 28 to 31 March.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 31, 2024

Apple Vision Pro apps, coming to Apple’s latest spatial computing experience, will ensure individuals and teams can make the most of their new headset. Initially, Apple didn’t reveal much information about the apps available on the Vision Pro. Think of things like the Apple iCloud and Wallet apps.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

A Unity sign-up page confirmed two of the best-selling VR games are coming to Apple Vision Pro: Job Simulator and Vacation Simulator. USD on Apple Vision Pro. Its port to the Apple Vision Pro will make it one of the biggest titles to date on Apple's platform. They are built like video game controllers."

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The drama about Unity’s new pricing models has set the whole game development community on fire, while we had an unexpected leak about the Pico 5 and some updates on the Apple Vision Pro. In the case of Unity Personal, the thresholds are 200,000 downloads and 200,000 in revenues, and the fee is $0.20 per install. And this $0.2

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 5, 2023

I just watched the full keynote of Apple at WWDC , where the company in Cupertino announced the Apple VisionPro headset. The official video with the full announcement What I was looking for If you are a reader of my weekly newsletter, you know what I was looking for in this announcement. UX : Can Apple make XR usable?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 30, 2023

This week, Apple dropped VisionOS, a set of XR design tools to entice immersive content creators to start designing for its upcoming headset before its release. On the other hand, Unity is introducing tools that leverage AI to simplify XR content creation processes. ” Apple Launches Vision Pro SDK, but What Do Audiences Think?

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ARPost

JUNE 8, 2023

Both Apple and Meta revealed highly anticipated headsets in the last seven days. Meta’s seemingly hasty announcement of the Quest 3 seems to have been timed to come out before Apple’s announcement of the Vision Pro. Apple reported over 10 million pixels per eye, but did not release familiar resolution metrics or field-of-view.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 9, 2023

There is a lot of hype around the Apple Vision Pro. Video review I made a video of mine where I show you my full hands-on experience with the Quest Pro application that emulates the Apple Vision Pro menu and then give you my detailed opinion on it, highlighting the pros and cons. Eeeeh… not exactly.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2022

Apple to launch a second “more affordable” headset in 2025. Since the rumors about the upcoming Apple headset were not enough, the famous Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has thought well to release rumors about the next-generation headset. Other relevant news. Image from the web). Anyway, we’ll see… these are all speculations.

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VRScout

JUNE 5, 2017

Apple’s new iMacs are now powerful enough to support VR. Apple unveiled macOS High Sierra during WWDC. Apple Embracing Virtual Reality. Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering Craig Federighi took the stage and confirmed that “Valve is bringing SteamVR to Mac.”

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AR Insider

MAY 17, 2021

This week, the Epic/Apple saga continues, HTC doubles down on enterprise AR Niantic enters the AR platform race, and Spatial leans in to NFTs. Let’s dive in… Apple – Epic Smackdown, part deux. As the trial drags on, Epic’s case against Apple may be losing its edge. What about Roblox? More from AR Insider….

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

In the interview with me, he talked about many topics, like the rumors he heard on Apple Glasses, on the Oculus Quest 2 , the America vs China war, XR entrepreneurship, Tesla, and more! If you don’t have 2 hours, don’t worry, here below I have extracted the most interesting tidbits of the videos for you to enjoy!

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Upload VR

JANUARY 15, 2024

Leaked videos reveal more details about Quest 3's upcoming 'Augments' feature. Last week a technical filmmaker posted two videos to their Vimeo account showcasing Quest 3 augments, one from a user perspective and the other from a developer perspective. Augments were announced at Connect 2023 by Mark Zuckerberg when launching Quest 3.

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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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VRScout

DECEMBER 14, 2017

View your 360° video projects in realtime on a HTC Vive. During Apple’s June developer conference, we finally got a glimpse of what we’ve all been patiently waiting for—Apple embracing VR. And with the launch of the new iMac Pro today, Apple is positioning it as the ideal machine for VR development. Final Cut Pro X 10.4

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 5, 2017

With ARKit already baked into the mobile operating system of “ hundreds of millions of iPhones and iPads, ” the massive potential install base means there’s plenty of reasons for developers to start making new augmented reality apps for Apple’s App Store.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

More info Some news about Apple Vision Pro The news and rumors about Vision Pro never end. In these two weeks, we got to discover that Apple is planning to organize demo sessions of Vision Pro inside the Apple Store venues and that in the beginning, the only way to buy a Vision Pro will be going to an Apple Store.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

I have to admit that at least Zuck tried to do this in the best way possible : he has taken full responsibility for the problems in a video call where he announced the layoffs and has offered a good severance package for people going away. Apple is working on some sort of metaverse, and its headset is entering mass production.

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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

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Samsung is one of the most important smartphone brands, and probably one of the few brands in the world that can try to compete with Apple. But this headset looks to me arriving a bit too late and already chasing the Vision Pro, so probably Apple will win the first round. This means that iPhone users can not enjoy WebXR yet.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 15, 2022

New connectors are in development and finally also popular software like Unity and Blender will be able to connect with Omniverse. Apple MR headset may cost $2000+. The rumors about the Apple headset have started to intensify and converge on what they suggest. Tools to supercharge graphics workflows with machine learning.

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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2017

At Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference today, the company made a major shift in their embrace of virtual reality with several new VR announcements during the event’s opening keynote. Today marks a major shift in Apple’s public support for virtual reality. Photo courtesy Apple.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 3, 2023

Today, reports are emerging, sparking speculation over Apple’s Vision Pro production plans. Recent reports are highlighting how Apple’s hardware and manufacturing partners are reducing forecasts surrounding the assembly of Vision Pro devices.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 19, 2024

Big vendor news this week, Admist start-ups and fresh ideas; this week, big names like Meta, Microsoft, Google, and Apple took the headlines due to each firm’s optimisation of its XR product portfolio. Meanwhile, Osso VR has launched its Healthcare XR training service for the Apple Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

For every one of the four main themes, a headset solving it has been shown in the video. This has been also confirmed by TESTED, which has been able to go hands-on with the headset and offer a very meaningful video about them (which I advise you all to watch). We have lots of non-news about Apple’s XR efforts. Useless news.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 15, 2023

If you missed it, don’t worry: you can still enjoy a video recording at this link. Some selected developers have received the Apple headset. Could this really be the year of the Apple headset? Unity adds OpenXR hand integration package. This is just the first event, many others hopefully will come. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Apple MR headset may feature iris detection and legs tracking. A new week, a new set of rumors about the Apple headset. Ahah I love the nonsense of the rumors about Apple! More info (Report about Apple visor?—?Mac Mac Rumors) More info (Report about Apple visor?—?Upload Other relevant news. Image from the web).

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Upload VR

JULY 5, 2023

You can try Apple Vision Pro's eye tracking based interface on your Quest Pro with this sideloadable recreation. Supernova Technologies built the recreation with its Nova UI framework for Unity to promote the middleware. Quest Pro's eye tracking seems to be more than good enough for this demo, as long as you perform calibration first.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Back at WWDC 2017 Apple finally embraced VR, announcing that it had been working with Valve to bring SteamVR and the HTC Vive to MacOS , along with a number of other announcements about how the company would support VR as part of its ecosystem. SEE ALSO Report: Apple Acquired VR Headset Startup Vrvana for $30 Million.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

It makes changes to the hand tracking UX, adds support for iPhone-captured spatial videos, improves the microphone quality, adds support for multiple mixed reality room setups, improves multitasking, improves Quest Link, adds Facebook live streaming and YouTube Live Chat, and adds support for gamepads on the web. Version 62 is a huge update.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Earlier this year, Apple debuted its Vision Pro XR headset to provide an immersive productivity tool to act as a technology leap forward following the firm’s Mac laptop and desktop portfolio. Users can then view their iPhone-captured 3D spatial recordings via Apple’s Vision Pro MR headset as an AR visualisation.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

First of all, one of the leakers affirms having found the info from a Chinese video on BilliBilli, but then some Chinese people saw the same video and said that it said nothing that was contained in the leak. There is also a new render about the upcoming elite strap and a lot of videos about its high-quality passthrough in action.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

Apple glasses are coming in 2021–2022 and they are incredibly sleek. Apple glasses are coming. The glasses are expected to run a new operating system, rOS (or reality OS), and Apple is exploring touch panels, voice activation, and head gestures as a means of control. Is it for some patents on video streaming?

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Road to VR

JUNE 3, 2019

At the company’s annual WWDC developer conference today, Apple revealed ARKit 3, its latest set of developer tools for creating AR applications on iOS. Apple also introduced Reality Composer and RealityKit to make it easier for developers to build augmented reality apps. Video recording in AR Quick Look. People occlusion.

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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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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Many people are analyzing the Apple Vision Pro… including the ones at Meta Here you are with the usual huge roundup of news about the Apple Vision Pro (a roundup in a roundup). This week both Zuck, the CEO of Meta, and Boz, the CTO of Meta, expressed their opinions on the Apple Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

We were all waiting for an Apple announcement, hoping that it could bring back some enthusiasm into the field, and it seems that the Vision Pro is having some beneficial effects , indeed. Apple showed investors that XR is not a fad, and even if it is still in its early stages, it is going to stay. appeared first on The Ghost Howls.

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