The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

Anyway, with the end of the life of Quest 2, this cycle finished and a new one started with Quest 3, Apple Vision Pro, Google and Samsung announcing their own headset, and other companies chasing them (e.g. Huawei and Pico are rumored to be working on an Apple Vision Pro competitor). This is the moment of the truth for Meta.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

We at VRrOOm are hiring to do our innovative XR events, check the “Friends” section of this newsletter if this opportunity can interest you! Meta delays its plans for AR glasses. And regarding this… would you be interested in working with me? Top news of the week. Image by Apple). Apple has not announced any glasses at WWDC.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

More info (Sam Altman returns as CEO of OpenAI) More info (The Q* algorithm could be the reason why Altman was fired) News worth a mention Samsung trademarks “Samsung Glasses” Samsung has filed a trademark for “Samsung Glasses” in the UK. The Vision Pro seems to be sold with a margin over the components cost.

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2017

At VRLA 2017, Unity CEO and games industry vet John Riccitiello dumped a little cold water wisdom on the hype surrounding the red-hot VR industry. John Riccitiello is the CEO of Unity Technologies , one of the world’s leading game engines. billion in 2016 alone. Photo courtesy VRLA. I’m going to assume we agree on that.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

The main one regards the 4 devices we were waiting for this year , which in our opinion should have changed everything: Quest 3, Apple Vision Pro, Google-Samsung Headset, and PSVR 2. They are Apple AR glasses!” Google and Samsung Prototype of the Samsung XR headset. Long story short: things are not good.

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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. There are some important pieces of news to know about and you are in the right place to read them! per install. And this $0.2

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Gears are turning as the mid-year crossover is in full effect. Soon, Meta will host its Connect 2023 event, whereby the firm will announce innovations in its XR product portfolio. XR Today recently marked this period with an XR Trends series, which brought together some of the best minds in the industry to share AR/VR/MR insights.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 27, 2024

Google I/O 2024 is one of the tech giant’s most exciting annual events for a few reasons. If you’ve been waiting with bated breath for a new set of Google Augmented Reality glasses or even more advanced AR features in Google apps, you’re in luck. In 2024, the focus was on Google’s increasing investment in AI.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Google) Google killed its AR glasses Project Iris Do you remember the name Project Iris? It was our hope for Google entering the AR race together with Meta and Apple. It seems that more than 300 people worked on the project, which was headed by Clay Bavor, the head of AR/VR efforts at Google.

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2018

John Root co-founded VRLA with Cosmo Scharf in 2014 , and it has organically grown into a thriving VR event with over 10,000 attendees at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The Biggest Immersive Tech Event of the Year Returns May 4-5, Exploring “A New Reality.”. VR/AR expert and futurist Charlie Fink.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

First of all, let me wish a nice rest to anyone who has participated in the Global Game Jam, especially the ones that have proposed some AR/VR games! A final stats: AR/MR headset hardware and consumer software are set to earn a combined $6.7B With mixed reality, it means that it should be able to do both AR and VR.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 7, 2017

Beyond the well-known gaming experiences, immersive reality impacts a collection of entertainment industries by way of ads, live event broadcasts, news shows, and more. Different markets are catering to these new experiences to varying degrees and New York continues to make significant efforts. for 360 and VR solutions.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

MAY 16, 2022

Delta Reality is creating extended reality (XR) immersive experiences for global brands to accelerate virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) adoption and assist firms in developing modern marketing strategies. event this March, hosted by its Immerse Global Summit division. ETH (approximately £14809) in September last year.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

I was very pleased to have a chat with him about his work, because I think that it could be interesting to understand why AR and VR are used by a big enterprise company (KLM, in this case) and how these technologies are implemented in the production processes. There started to grow the use of interactions in 360 videos.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

But Huawei is not only in the VR market: it is also releasing a new version of its AR smartglasses called Huawei EyeWear 2, made in collaboration with the fashion brand Gentle Monster. Stanford and Samsung create a super-high-resolution display. Simple WebXR” aims at bringing WebXR to Unity. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Microsoft and Samsung may be partnering for an AR device.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Don’t forget to register on the AWE Live website and then to attend the event on November, 17th at 6 pm CET (9 am PT). Red6 made Charlie Fink try AR on a plane. Snap and Amazon partner to offer AR preview of shopping items. Samsung is still working on AR glasses and its new internal prototype seems to be called SM-I120.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

According to the Financial Times, “In June, AR, VR, and mixed reality start-ups in the US raised $208 million, almost as much as the previous three months combined ”. I think that the upcoming release of Quest 3, and the increasing rumors about Samsung are going to improve our situation even more. Let’s all hope so.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 24, 2023

The week saw major technology events like NVIDIA GTC and GDC 2023 introduce a wealth of new XR solutions and products. Major cooperations are building upon 2022’s technology innovations to provide reliable XR SAAS platforms, giving developers space to leverage immersive solutions across the workplace.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 17, 2023

Da Vinci Eye is an AR smartphone application for artists, amateurs, and professionals that leverages immersive visualisations to project guides onto real-world surfaces allowing users to trace or copy images. The newest edition to Da Vincis’ lineup allows AR artists to design murals on walls the size of buildings.

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VRScout

APRIL 13, 2018

The world’s largest VR & AR conference is back again May 4-5 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Part industry event and part immersive tech festival, VRLA is a place where seasoned veterans can catch up on their latest updates while newcomers experience VR for the first time. VR/AR expert and futurist Charlie Fink.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

He says that Apple AR glasses will come in 2021 and that he has seen them. Is it for a future AR/VR headset? There are two things you must be aware of: Apple is surely making various prototypes , so we don’t know what Jon has actually seen. Samsung terminates its XR services. Apple is really good at selling stuff.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

As with every big event, I’m writing a post to try to summarize the most important news that have come out from the GDC 2018 … so that if you have lost something, you just need to read this post to get in par with the rest of the world. So, are you ready? Let’s start! Vive Pro price and release date.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 1, 2023

Ori Inbar, Founder, Super Ventures and Co-founder and CEO, AWE kicked off the event with a ChatGPT-powered avatar presentation. ” The Year of AR and VR The real-life speaker then explained that new headsets would offer a wider range of options, including “smaller, better, [and] cooler” headsets and wearables.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

A leaked image from the Oculus team shows that the company is working to implement body tracking inside the Oculus Unity SDK. The Superbowl is the most important sports event of the year in the United States, and airing an ad during the match is super-expensive, but also super-effective. Meta is hosting an event about AI.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Facebook is reportedly working on its AR glasses (made with Luxottica) that should be released in 2023. Facebook is investing billions for hardware creation, and it is going to move 4,000 employes working on AR hardware in a new venue just built in California. The possible applications are endless. Top news of the week.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 6, 2017

There are many VR events, conferences, expos and film festivals worth attending, and we've handpicked the best ones with agenda & venue, as well as social media information attached. VR/AR/MR Conferences, Expos, Festivals & Summits SXSW (South by Southwest) - VR/AR Date (for VR/AR events only): March 10.

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VRScout

APRIL 29, 2019

Her first VR creation, Cardboard City , earned an award at the Samsung Gear Indie Milk VR contest in 2016. So I guess what I was thinking of was a form of AR where people could actually walk through the animations, ” Benzing told me as she explained how she crossed the wire from traditional theater to immersive technology, way back in 2015.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

This is not a tweet, it is a #metaverse message… #VirtualReality #VR #AR pic.twitter.com/f9aDJ2mbc3 — TonyVT SkarredGhost (@SkarredGhost) July 25, 2021. Networking libraries, VR hardware, AR glasses, common standards… nothing is ready to build the metaverse in the short term. So… let’s start!

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NVidia VR

MARCH 2, 2022

That’s what audiences will see in the virtual world of The Green Planet AR Experience , an interactive, augmented reality experience that blends physical and digital worlds to connect people with nature. Natural, Immersive AR Over 5G — It’s a Stream Come True. And with CloudXR, we could create robust connections to mobile handsets.”.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

Every year, I cast some predictions for the new year in AR and VR. So, here you are how I envision this 2020 in virtual reality! (I’ll I’ll leave AR for another post, register to my newsletter to not miss it). Blurring of the line between AR and VR. Me wearing the Oculus Quest.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

But, in the early days of this industry, it is the developer conferences, the places where creators come together to share knowledge and reveal breakthroughs, that are the really exciting events to cover. Alon Or-bach (Samsung Electronics), Kaye Mason (Google). What to Pack: Exploring VR & AR With Daydream and Tango.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

In April, we opened the doors to the first Upload Collective in San Francisco, a hub for VR and AR startups, development, co-working, education, meetups and even live broadcasting. UploadVR.com also expanded its editorial coverage throughout the year to deliver the very latest news, reviews, features and editorials covering VR and AR.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This week has been the week of the Oculus Connect 6 , the biggest yearly event by Oculus where the VR company announces all its most important news, both on hardware and software sides. The external area of the frame is getting huge compression (Image by Ars Technica). So you won’t be able to develop AR apps for the Quest, yet.

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NVidia VR

MARCH 2, 2022

That’s what audiences will see in the virtual world of The Green Planet AR Experience , an interactive, augmented reality experience that blends physical and digital worlds to connect people with nature. The AR experience runs on a custom, on-premises GPU edge-rendering stack powered by NVIDIA RTX 8000 professional GPUs.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Moreover, Apple is also pushing its Vision Pro SDK to support its first-party and Unity-supported third-party immersive applications, again in a bid to create a sophisticated piece of hardware with a system-selling lineup of integrated applications and hardware. Already, Apple iPhone and iPad products come with many AR features.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

Some companies have failed or abandoned VR : this year, IMAX has closed all its VR centers because they were not profitable; the StarVR consortium is in big troubles; Jaunt has abandoned VR to focus on AR; Upload has shut down its coworking spaces. Samsung has also teased to be interested in releasing a new AR/VR standalone device.

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