The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Google) Google announces important AI and XR news at Google I/O This Google I/O has seen immersive realities back to the menu. During the keynote, CEO Sundar Pichai and his collaborators announced interesting features both for AR and VR. All without leaving your editor.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

In these 2 days (October, 19-20th), in Nanchang, China, it is held the first edition of the World Conference on VR Industry (WCVRI) , a very important event to talk about virtual and augmented reality. The city is full of references to Virtual Reality, and so it is like a paradise for us VR enthusiasts.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 3, 2023

On the last day, I tried many interesting technologies, but I selected two for this summary, which are the first two that I’ve tried: the new Leap Motion Controller by Ultraleap and the AR technology by LetinAR. Testing Ultraleap on Digilens glasses I then tested it on top of the Digilens AR glasses.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 15, 2016

I’m an early-stage VC focused on virtual and augmented reality, so I pieced this together based on the forward-thinking pitches and demos I’ve been lucky enough to see through my work, plus a lifetime of burning through sci-fi and video games. Neural plugins: The Matrix (film). Total Recall (film). Avatar (film).

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. Authors’ opinions are their own. It’s been called the AR Cloud by many, the Magicverse by Magic Leap, the Mirrorworld by Wired, the Cyberverse by Huawei, Planet-scale AR by Niantic and Spatial Computing by academics.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

There’s been a strong hype about this, and I’ve already seen porting of Tilt Brush to AR (HoloLens) and WebXR; I’ve seen a new free version appearing on SideQuest; someone has also created a prototypical multiplayer version of it. The Sundance Film Festival has just kickstarted. This is a piece of great news.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Earlier this summer, we open sourced the design for Project North Star , the world’s most advanced augmented reality R&D platform. Several creative developers and open hardware studios are propelling open source efforts, working together to create a simplified headset based on the North Star design.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 31, 2019

With new community-created headsets appearing in Tokyo and New York , Project North Star is a compelling glimpse into the future of AR interaction. As you can imagine, this requires a high degree of calibration and alignment, especially in AR. Any one of these factors alone can hamper the illusion of augmented reality.

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Road to VR

APRIL 20, 2018

Keiichi Matsuda went from being a dystopian filmmaker to becoming the Vice President of Design at hand-tracking company Leap Motion. Leap Motion recently announced their open source AR HMD reference design called Project North Star , which has a 95° wide by 70° high field of view with 65% stereo overlap & 1,600 × 1,440 per eye.

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Tech Trends VR

OCTOBER 30, 2018

This year’s Raindance Film Festival in London showcased an amazing selection of immersive stories. Here’s what got Tech Trends really excited: Raindance is a very well-established and well-respected independent film festival, but it isn’t a particularly flashy one. Yet that lack of over-the-top glamour actually suits it very well.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 17, 2020

The main mission was to democratize VR and AR around the world. And we actually tried to tackle this problem with the help of major headset manufacturers – Oculus, HTC, Leap Motion, Intel — and they supported us to create VR/AR labs around the world. They reach to us after hearing about VR/AR.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 17, 2020

The main mission was to democratize VR and AR around the world. And we actually tried to tackle this problem with the help of major headset manufacturers – Oculus, HTC, Leap Motion, Intel — and they supported us to create VR/AR labs around the world. They reach to us after hearing about VR/AR.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 17, 2020

Today, we're speaking with Ferhan Ozkan, the co-founder of XR Bootcamp, a platform to teach professionals how to create VR and AR applications, and support companies to bridge their skills gap in XR development through an intensive onsite program, cutting edge curriculum, and industry renowned lecturers with a focus on industry portfolio projects.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Ambarish Mitra is the CEO and co-Founder of #Blippar one of the first billion dollar “Augmented Reality” Startup from India, being a pioneer, early mover brings its own pro’s & lots of Con’s. Most people know Xu due to his dispute with American virtual reality company Magic Leap. 1- Ambarish Mitra. 8- Eddie Lou.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

Every week there are pieces of news on how the coronavirus is changing the plans of us in the AR/VR ecosystem. This has enormous implications for augmented reality and 3D reconstruction , since with the addition of a depth sensor, the iPad Pro will be able to perform these operations much better.

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