ARPost

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Last week at Oculus Connect 6 there were major AR and VR announcements made. The VR company revealed that some of their headsets are getting some pretty sweet upgrades in upcoming months. There’s also important AR-related news coming out of OC6 as well. Oculus Quest and Rift News. Oculus Quest and Rift News.

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Road to VR

JULY 23, 2021

Facebook announced today that an upcoming update to the Quest development SDK will include experimental support for a Passthrough API which will allow Unity developers to build AR experiences and features into apps on Quest 2.

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VRScout

MARCH 6, 2020

High fidelity hand tracking lets you pinch, grab, and zoom in AR. If you own a set of Nreal Light’s AR glasses or you’re a developer, one of your first questions regarding native hand tracking is how much of an impact this feature will have on battery life. Image Credit: Nreal). Image Credit: Nreal).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 8, 2019

It is something that I say since the beginning of 2019 : nReal is one of the most interesting AR startups out there. The idea of nReal is producing the first consumer AR headset , that, when you wear it, you really look like wearing a pair of normal glasses. nReal glasses are designed to be the closest possible to regular sunglasses.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The interactive fabrication system combines AR CAD editing with precise robotic control. In the video provided, Huaishu wears an Oculus Rift headset outfitted with an Ovrvision stereo camera as he designs a 3D model of a teapot in a 3D space using a pair of slightly-altered Oculus Touch controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

These augmented reality devices are manufactured by Chinese company Realmax and are characterized by a very wide field of view. While many other AR glasses (like Nreal Light or HoloLens 2 ) have a Field Of View in the 50° ballpark, RealMax glasses have always had ones above 100° , for a more immersive augmented experience.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

It’s the beginning of 2019, and this means that this is that time of the year when we all make predictions for this year in AR and VR! Jokes apart, what has happened in AR in 2018… and what can you expect to happen in 2019? More or less AR in 2018 has gone as I predicted in 2017. Magic Leap.

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VRScout

JULY 2, 2019

Magic Leap, Disney, and Epic Games are bringing their A-game to the annual tech conference. Among these 48 offerings are four never-before-seen projects from some of the prominent names in entertainment and immersive technology. Neural AR: Immersive Augmented Reality With Real-Time Neural Style Transfer.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

But for now, let me do a recap of the best news of the past week in AR and VR! This configuration is interesting because: 6 cameras in those positions allow for a very big tracking cone for the controllers ; The two front cameras are in the same position of the eyes and this will allow mixed reality applications using the SRWorks framework.

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Road to VR

MARCH 18, 2019

OpenXR is a royalty-free standard for cross-platform VR and AR development. It’s backed by many of the biggest names in the VR and AR industries and has been in development by the consortium for two years now, organized by Khronos Group. The group today announced the ratification of OpenXR 0.9,

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

On this sunny day, let me tell you the most interesting AR/VR news from the past week…. Probably the idea is to create a new system to let users interact in an easy way with future AR glasses by not only using the hands but also the intentions or the feelings of the user read by EEG. Magic Leap 2 bridges AR and VR.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Tilt Five is a startup working on eponymous AR glasses that are focused on board games. It has been founded by Jeri Ellsworth , a former Valve employee that worked directly with Michael Abrash in the lab that was experimenting with AR and VR before Oculus was even a thing. Tilt Five launch video. the FOV is very little).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Vive Flow is a 6DOF headset that works with your Android phone as a 3DOF controller (hands tracking is coming in the future). HTC advertises it as a headset for relaxation and productivity because it wants to position it as a different product than a gaming machine like Oculus Quest 2. Image by Magic Leap).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Magic Leap has just organized its first developers’ event, dubbed “L.E.A.P.” It is the first event of this kind organized by Magic Leap: we can say that LEAP Con is like the Oculus Connect of Magic Leap and will probably become always more important, year after year, exactly as it has happened to Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap pivots to enterprise, lays off 1,000 employes. With a long post on Magic Leap’s blog, in the end Rony Abovitz has admitted that the company is not going that well, and has announced a new course, that should eventually lead to Magic Leap 2. Top news of the week.

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Road to VR

JULY 29, 2019

OpenXR, a widely supported initiative which aims to streamline AR/VR development across headsets and platforms, has reached its 1.0 It’s a major milestone, according to Khronos Group which has overseen development of the standard by a consortium of many of the biggest names in the AR/VR sector. release today. The post OpenXR 1.0

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Upload VR

APRIL 15, 2024

Wolvic is the open-source successor to Firefox Reality , which was a web browser for early standalone headsets like Oculus Go, the original Oculus Quest, Vive Focus, and HoloLens 2. Today Wolvic is available on Meta Quest, Pico, Magic Leap 2, and Huawei VR Glasses. It first launched on Oculus Go’s store in 2018.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Facebook has started today enforcing the “Facebook login” rule , asking Oculus users to merge their Facebook and Oculus accounts. So I imagine a Quest 2 where you can avoid having a Facebook account, but you can’t use the Oculus Store, or all the most important apps and games , and so you are de facto forced to use it.

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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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

The Oculus Connect 6 is approaching. Next week, on 25th and 26th, Oculus will hold its main yearly event , and as always, it will talk about the milestones reached by the company and then it will show future hardware and software. What will Oculus announce? This is where the next chapter for AR and VR begins.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

So, are you ready? HTC has finally revealed the price of the Vive Pro : it will cost $799 just to have the headset (no controller and no base stations, so you must already have a Vive 1 kit) and will be available for pre-orders since April, 5th. Oculus Go showcased. The Oculus Go (Image by Oculus).

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Completing your weekly chores can be an absolute drag, but doing repetitive tasks like vacuuming the house might not always be so boring when VR and AR come into the mix. Still, it may be a bit too soon for such a game to come to either VR or nascent AR app stores near you.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Three main eXtended Reality (XR) interaction toolkits/platforms are: ?? Supported AR/VR devices ? 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 WebXR Toolkits ? A web framework for building 3D/AR/VR experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

Peggy Johnson is the new CEO of Magic Leap. Magic Leap has finally a new CEO: Peggy Johnson. Johnson will have the not easy task of deciding a clear route for Magic Leap, making the company become profitable in the enterprise market after so many failures in the consumer one. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 5, 2020

Some companies have already teased or revealed what they are going to announce, while others are just waiting the right moment to surprise people. But as far as I know, nothing disruptive for the industry : Oculus has already shots all its bullets, and HTC for the first time isn’t announcing anything. Image by Oculus).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

More info (Jon Prosser’s video) More info (Apple’s proprietary QR Codes) More info (Steve Jobs AR glasses). Image by Oculus). Oculus Quest becomes 1 year old, and Facebook makes many announcements. The Oculus Quest is now one year old. Happy birthday, Oculus Quest! We’ll see…. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 30, 2019

I will let you know soon about my adventures here… for now let’s just talk about the most important news of this week in AR and VR! Image by Ars Technica). Considering that WMR devices now owns 11% of the market and that HP and Acer are launching the next-gen Reverb and OJO 500, I bet on the second one. Top news of the week.

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ARPost

JUNE 28, 2021

Spatial was on our list of AR remote work platforms. The platform works on just about any device, from HoloLens and Magic Leap to desktop and mobile, and even an Nreal beta. They can also interact with some in-world assets and with platform controls via mouse or touchpad. Get In and Look Around.

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Road to VR

MARCH 18, 2018

GDC is here once again, all next week we’ll have boots on the ground bringing you the latest VR/AR news. Held annually in San Francisco, Game Developers Conference has undeniably been a focal point for VR the industry, and as augmented reality continues to heat up, we expect it to be increasingly important for AR as well.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

This week has mostly been in the sign of Oculus, with many news and updates from the brand controlled by Facebook. Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap 2 is coming in Q1 2022. Even if most of this roundup will be about Oculus, I have decided to put another brand on top of it and it is Magic Leap.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

The Reverb was already a very good headset (as you can read in my hands-on impressions ) with good comfort and an astonishing resolution, but it had some problems with the display (mura, red smearing) and with the controllers (classical mediocre WMR tracking). Preorders are open now in the US, and will open worldwide in June/July.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 8, 2023

T he event will be presented by Oculus Studios Executive Producer Ruth Bram like last year, but introduce new pre-event and post-event sessions. A wand with a dedicated pattern on it is used as the 6DOF controller. Zapbox is basically a plastic cardboard for augmented reality Zappar is working on since many years.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2022

It was able to provide an SDK and various templates to make companies create easily robust AR experiences that ran directly from the web, without forcing the user to download an app, as it happens for AR applications made with ARCore/ARKit. Image by Magic Leap). First previews show Magic Leap 2 qualities.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

10,000 people are working on XR at Facebook. Zuck has released an interview to The Information and inside it, we can find the interesting information (pun intended) that now more than 10,000 people are working on AR/VR at Facebook. In September, the new Facebook Avatars will come and substitute the current Oculus avatars.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 31, 2022

Meta has a huge AI expertise, and it uses it for many tasks, including the tracking of XR headsets, objects recognition, video analysis, and AR tracking. Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap 2 to feature dynamic dimming. To be exact, the eye box is twice as large as the one in Magic Leap One. Upload VR).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

This fall promises to be very interesting for AR and VR, and in this first week of September we had many interesting XR news that are going to heat up the competition in the space! Rumors hint to Oculus discontinuing the current Quest and selling the new one at $299 and $399. I promise you won’t be disappointed.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Oculus devices will require a Facebook login. The enormous piece of news of the week is tha t Facebook has communicated that from October, 20th, all people that want to use an Oculus device for personal use will have to use their personal Facebook account to log in. Top news of the week. Image by Tweakanalogy). The same on Twitter.

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