The Ghost Howls

APRIL 1, 2019

I work in virtual reality since 2014, when I have fallen in love with this technology after having tried an Oculus DK2. First of all, it highlighted what are the principal uses of virtual reality today. I have accepted the fact that VR is a fad and so I have decided to shut down this useless VR blog.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

One-year price performance for MSFT, AAPL, GOOGL, SNE, and NVDA According to the latest report from Statista , the global augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) markets are rapidly growing and are forecast to reach a total of $72.8 How Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) can transform Education 3.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Augmented reality ( AR ) and virtual reality ( VR ) are slowly but surely creating a mass market for designers, everyday consumers and fashionistas to experience fashion in a whole new way. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. How AR/VR Are Transforming the Real Estate Industry 2.

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ARVR

JUNE 13, 2022

Now time for Oculus Integration, as explained earlier in my previous blog following all the steps. How I converted my room into a Virtual reality Game? I used sites like UnityAsssets , sketchfab , free3d and CGTrader. Placed it in right place and try playing it in Unity. I have my kit ready.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

I so started reading all that I could find about the game, like this very well-written article about all that we know on the game that you can find on Ars Technica. All tech journals are talking about this: not only the VR ones but all of them. The gaming community is gaining awareness of virtual reality, and of its importance.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

As it is a tradition of this blog , I’ve prepared a big roundup of the best news in XR from this year’s CES! I was afraid that at this CES wouldn’t have been many pieces of news about AR and VR, but actually, we had quite a few interesting ones. With the Vive Tracker, this setup can become much more compact.

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VRScout

APRIL 10, 2018

The company reveals plans to release their prototype design for a $100 hand-tracking AR headset. If you’re looking to add accurate hand-tracking technology to your VR or AR experience, there are few options outside Leap Motion technology. “We ended up with something roughly the size of a virtual reality headset.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

It has become viable that even businesses and corporates are using it to increase sales, and transform the way humans interact with computers and visualize contents. The first AR experience was developed in 1968 at Harvard when a computer scientist named Ivan Sutherland created a special head-mounted AR display system.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Of course, after the announcement, a lot of questions started coming to my mind , especially regarding the use of these new graphics cards with regard to VR and AR. You can refer to this Microsoft blog post , with a final link to the SDK and tutorials on Github to have more info about it.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

And to you non-American friends, that you did great shopping for this Black Friday and Cyber Monday Here you are the news of the week, in a condensed format. Meta’s XR spending is mostly for AR glasses. But these statements are very different from reality (pun intended). Top news of the week. Image by Meta).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2021

Today I have the pleasure of publishing an interview I had with Graham Atlee , a very smart guy that has developed the Triton Project, a DIY affordable AR headset with wide FOV and natural hands interactions! For the past 3 years I’ve been working on various AR/VR projects like Pumori.io Triton AR headset (Image by Graham Atlee).

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

One of the most important updates to arrive in Chrome 81 is the ability to use web-based AR apps. Debuted in Chrome 79 at the end of 2019, WebXR Device API came to devices without AR support. Regardless of the degree of augmentation or virtualization, the application flow is the same. Image courtesy Google.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2023

You can access it at this link: [link] ) Top news of the week (Image by Microsoft) Microsoft kills Windows Mixed Reality Microsoft has decided to pull the plug on the Windows Mixed Reality platform , the one of the WMR headsets by Acer, Asus, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung which were the first to introduce inside-out tracking in the VR ecosystem.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 5, 2024

More info (Meta and LG’s partnership — Road To VR) More info (Meta and LG’s partnership — Upload VR) Other relevant news (Image by Meta) A prototype of Meta AR glasses to be showcased at Connect A report from Business Insider claims that Meta is going to show the first version of its AR glasses this year at Meta Connect.

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Ryan Schultz

JANUARY 19, 2023

Photo by Jordan Ladikos on Unsplash When I started this blog in July of 2017, I had never intended to become a Second Life blogger. There were hundreds of other bloggers out there who were doing a far better job than I could of covering Second Life, and they still are! I often joke that I got my Ph.D.

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Road to VR

JUNE 25, 2018

Virtual Virtual Reality is a VR gem which launched first on mobile VR headsets and recently came to the Rift. As a game which demonstrated an intricate understanding of VR interaction design and freeform narrative, Virtual Virtual Reality turned out to be one of mobile VR’s most immersive titles to date.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The use case is similar to other systems that are becoming popular now: give the user a big virtual display in front of him. Learn more Just Hoops in MR My friends at Just Hoops added a new mixed reality mode for the game on Quest 3! This is for sure going to be something interesting to read.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 29, 2018

For sure this is the case of Rob Farquarson-Cole , that you surely know because he comments a lot on this and other VR blogs under the nickname “R FC” He’s not only a VR enthusiast but a professional Industrial Designer that works on “Exploration of Immersive Computing” at Proof Research and Development in London, UK.

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EON Reality

JUNE 4, 2020

Augmented and virtual technologies are now ready to solve the number 1 dilemma in the classroom both online and offline – Lesson creation. Upload your own interactive 3D models or pick one from the world’s largest digital library of more than one million digital assets to create an immersive lesson in AR and VR mode.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2021

Today I want to answer a question that from time to time people ask me: is it possible to make a living out of AR and VR? Yes, it is possible to live by working in the AR and VR fields. There are many people that earn enough in the AR and VR field and that don’t need to have another job. The short answer is yes.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2018

I’m not as important as other people you interviewed … I am just like a kid in the candy shop trying to eat some of the candies, enjoying AR and VR while I also have a daily job. In early 2016, I run into a paper from a professor at Caltech that was talking about data visualization in virtual reality and that blew my mind.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2022

The heat hasn’t killed me yet, so this week I can still write a new roundup of interesting news about AR and VR. Google starts testing its AR glasses in the wild. Google has announced that it is going to start to test the prototypes of its AR glasses in the wild. More info (Google testing AR glasses?—?Official Upload VR).

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EON Reality

JUNE 5, 2020

EON Reality is unlocking plug and play virtual reality learning experiences with the Vault. For the first time in the company’s 21 year history, we are providing unprecedented access to a library of more than 1,200 virtual reality applications.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 2, 2021

Player 22 games are designed to improve cognitive performance, concentration, reaction times, coordination and control. Rokid’s kickstarter for the Rokid Air, 4K AR Glasses with Voice Control AI Fully Funded in An Hour. The new Rokid Air seems remarkably similar to the Nreal Light AR glasses. Both are Chinese companies.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2023

It is a tradition of this blog to have a long roundup of the best XR news from CES every year. So here you are a collection of the best news in immersive realities from the CES 2023, with many links to go deeper! Resolution and color are very good in VR, and also in passthrough AR. Of course not.

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ARPost

MARCH 21, 2022

This week, Snap rolled out the long-awaited “Custom Landmarkers” developer tool for creating AR experiences anchored to geographic locations. The following year at the 2020 Snap Partner Summit , the company released “Local Lenses” which were among the first multi-user real-time AR effects. The Road to Custom Landmarkers.

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VRPlayin

MAY 11, 2023

One of the most exciting developments in recent years is the emergence of virtual reality (VR) as a powerful tool for fostering collaboration, communication, and connection among team members. Here are some of the ways VR is revolutionizing the team building experience: 1. REACH OUT !

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AUGray

MAY 21, 2023

As technology continues to disrupt traditional sales methods, industries such as construction and mining equipment sales are taking note and adopting new strategies to keep up. In this blog, we’ll explore how XR is transforming the sales process in the construction and mining equipment industry. Here are a few examples: 1.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 23, 2016

According to multiple market analysts , the virtual reality industry will grow into a business worth hundreds of billions of dollars by 2020, and we’ve already seen a massive uptick in VR developer jobs in recent years. billion inhabitants with around 3 billion employed, according to The Guardian Data Blog. .”

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2021

And if this CES has been a bit of a disappointment in general, this holds even more for AR and VR, for which we have no crucial announcement. It is a perfect recreation of visual reality, and of course, it solves all the issues that current AR/VR headsets may have (like the vergence-accommodation problem). Senseglove Nova.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 6, 2023

In an alternate version, Meta will offer a smartwatch with the neural detection incorporated, so if the user is used to having a smartwatch, doesn’t have to sacrifice it to wear the neural wristband Real AR glasses , with 3D objects in the scene, virtual avatars, and such, are now slated for 2027 I want to just say two things about this roadmap.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

You can read some of my hands-on articles on my blog (e.g. this one about Holoride and this about Lynx-R1 ), but many will come in the following days! After I will be back in Italy, on the 20th, I will also be a speaker at Virtual Reality Day , the 24h-conference about VR held by Bob Fine. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

Project Iris is the codename of Google’s AR glasses. According to a report on The Verge, Google is working on AR glasses. The AR headset is codenamed Project Iris , and it should be a standalone headset resembling ski goggles that is able to perform mixed reality. The 8th Wall partners with Emodo for AR ads.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

Meta delays its plans for AR glasses. Meta has not officially answered this report, but Andrew Bosworth, the CTO of the company, has indirectly commented on it: “ We’re going to ship wrist wearables and AR glasses that bring completely new tech?—?like Other relevant news. Image by Meta). like EMG?—?to This is anyway good news.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 15, 2023

Today my blog becomes 7 years old. Instead here I am, some years after, with this blog still up and running, and with lots of new friends I have only thanks to this platform , which helped me a lot in connecting with the other people in our community. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Every year, it is dead.

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ARVR

JANUARY 13, 2023

Virtual reality mentally takes you on an adventure, yet there is no guide for beginners Photo by Ashley Huffman using Midjourney Ahead of every flight you take, there’s a trusty pre-flight video that covers everything you need to know about enjoying the miracle of flight as a passenger. This is what’s missing from virtual reality!

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ARVR

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Products are at the consumers’ eye reach, and brands are not taking advantage of this. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. How Augmented Reality (AR) is Reshaping the Food Service Industry 3. Enterprise AR: 7 real-world use cases for 2021 Product packaging is underrated. Augmented Reality for milk packaging.

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