The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

Here you are my recap of the most interesting XR news of the week! Apple has killed its AR glasses project… maybe. If the report were true, this would mean that Apple doesn’t believe in AR anymore and this would be terrible news for all the immersive realities ecosystem. Oculus is working on 2nd gen VR. So, don’t panic.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Happy Holidays , my dear AR/VR community! Even if these should be holidays, my will to inform you is not in vacation, so here you are my roundup of the best AR/VR news for this week. Microsoft Flight Simulator releases VR patch. Asobo and Microsoft have worked hard for this and on 22nd, the VR patch has been released.

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2018

I had a chance to walk the showroom floor of VRLA 2017 with Root where he took me on a guided tour through the history of VRLA, his thoughts on AR, using VR for film production, the future of privacy in AR/VR, as well as why he is interested in seeing where eSports in VR is headed. VR/AR expert and futurist Charlie Fink.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

(Image by Microsoft). According to Reuters, Microsoft’s executive vice president Harry Shum took the stage at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai and said that the HoloLens 2 will be released sometime in September of this year. PS Contact me if you need someone to develop for you some AR enterprise applications!).

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

This week, we look at XR treatments of the Perseverence Mars landing, Rebecca Minkoff’s new AR collection and other happenings from the spatial universe. Realworld is based on the Microsoft version of Google Earth. Tickets are $30-45 and are available here. Baby Hands is in Oculus Labs for the Quest.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 30, 2021

Venice VR Expanded, the VR section of the Venice Film Festival, opens to the public online on Tuesday, September 1st, and will run through the 19th of September. TikTok Testing TikTok Effects Studio, which will allow its users to create AR effects and filters. These are stocks picked by Matthew Ball, author of the metaverse manifesto.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The very first Vision VR/AR Summit was home to keynote addresses from established leaders in the emerging industries, leaders such as Gabe Newell of SteamVR, Palmer Luckey of Oculus, and Dr. Richard Marks of PlayStation VR. This second Vision Summit will be the debut of the official Vision VR/AR Awards – Asia.

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InstaVR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

VR, AR, MR, XR — those are just a few of the acronyms used to talk about exciting new immersive technologies. But how do you know when you should be creating VR apps instead of the other options like AR? Interestingly, the same department within a company may use AR and VR for similar but very different purposes.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 2, 2021

If I had known people could like it, I would have not made it in 5 minutes with Microsoft Word, lol. Vivek Sharma, head of Facebook Gaming, will lead Facebook Horizon, while Jason Rubin, who has been head of AR/VR content, will lead the group’s content team. I guess we’ll hear more about it in the upcoming months. News worth a mention.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Extended reality, in the form of AR, VR, and MR, has shown significant potential for this landscape. The flexible Oculus environment has already become the platform for a range of virtual museum, gallery and concert experiences hosted around the globe.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

The AR startup is in big troubles : after having overhyped its device for years and having collected billions of investments, it just delivered a HoloLens clone. Valve Index and Oculus Quest were on sale again. This week the Valve Index and the Oculus Quest have been put back in stock. Other relevant news. This is so sad.

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VRScout

JULY 15, 2018

As major film studios and marketing firms continue to see the value in VR and AR technology as a promotional tool for original programming, you can be sure VR & AR experiences will begin to dominate these interactive categories. Image Credit: Adult Swim.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

On this special day, let’s all talk about AR and VR! In this big phone exhibition, usually, companies also exhibit AR and VR devices and considering that this year the trend is the one of AR and VR devices connected to the phone , I bet that this year’s edition would have been very interesting for us all (in fact I was planning to go there).

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Cats and VR

JANUARY 15, 2019

Los Angeles-based AR studio ARwall has expanded with the addition of senior-level talent and entertainment industry advisors well known for their expertise in design, engineering, and XR. Mosco has held notable positions at Apple, Facebook, and Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 21, 2021

We all know that Microsoft too is waiting before introducing VR for the Xbox because the VR market is too little for them, and Sony seems to follow a similar strategy, not investing too much until next year. Oculus Quest introduces multi-tasking in Runtime v30. The update pace of the Oculus Quest is impressive.

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VRScout

JUNE 19, 2017

As it turns out, the trek was worth the hike—Varjo’s Human-Eye Resolution technology made me realize something I’d only known in a general sense prior: current visual fidelity in VR/AR has a long way to go. Comparison shot of Varjo Bionic display and Oculus Rift display. Comparison shot of Varjo Bionic display and Oculus Rift display.

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VRScout

MAY 7, 2017

Now, let’s consider the key takeaways related to AR, VR and 360 ° content and review how they will influence the mass market adoption of those immersive technologies. That’s what the slide said, but what is important to note is that they are making the camera the first mainstream AR platform. Augmented Reality.

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Cats and VR

JULY 10, 2018

ARVORE, the immersive storytelling VR/AR company today announced the final launch date and 20% pre-order discount for the long-awaited virtual reality game Pixel Ripped 1989. The game, which will be available on PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, will arrive for download on July 31st, 2018. USD off the $24.99

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 9, 2016

This year’s Oculus Connect brought us some really big news for the rising VR industry. Over two hours long keynote session with key executives from Facebook and Oculus covered everything from prices, release dates, new stuff brought into the VR, and more hardware and software news.

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Road to VR

JUNE 13, 2016

As HoloLens filters its way into more developers’ hands, we’re beginning to see some of the true potential in Microsoft’s ‘Holographic’ augmented reality headset. “The HoloLens is a revolutionary device, it’s rotational & positional tracking are amazingly robust. .

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 8, 2022

The train company wanted to add something different to their launch experience, so they worked alongside Visualise to build a 360-degreer immersive film, intended to give people a full view of what it feels like to be on one of these trains. Microsoft and Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Today's guest, Lance Anderson of Lance-AR, got tired of seeing so many XR providers only help clients achieve their stated ROI goals, then leaving them to their own devices to scale. Late 2018 I left Vuzix and started Lance-AR, because I was just frustrated. That's why Lance-AR came about. Those two are dichotomous.

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AllThingsVR

MAY 12, 2016

and Universal Pictures is adapting Armada for a film adaptation, based on a script written by Cline. Ready Player One has become required reading at Oculus VR, literally. What are your thoughts about the future of AR? AR is like having your phone super imposed over everybody at all times. It’s amazing.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

With regards to talent, Snapchat has been acquiring there in a big way as well, hiring people from Oculus, Hololens, Qualcomm, as well as a few designers who have created glasses for names like Michael Kors and Lady Gaga. Their facial tracking modification technology eventually enabled the popular “Lenses” feature.

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VRScout

MAY 3, 2017

Although Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has publicly been dismissive of the VR/AR medium as anything other than a vehicle for video games, actions should speak louder than words: Netflix is now working on an app for the Hololens. NETFLIX LOOKS TO GET AUGMENTED. ICYMI: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW FROM FACEBOOK’S F8 CONFERENCE.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Side note that AR will be much bigger than VR, in both the diversity of use cases and market size (analysts predict $30B for VR versus $90B for AR by 2020), but I still believe that most homes will have a dedicated VR space for total immersion. Neural plugins: The Matrix (film). Total Recall (film). Avatar (film).

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Focused on harnessing immersive technologies to deliver groundbreaking VR, AR, Animation, DOOH, VFX and 360 degree video projects for some of the world’s largest brands including Sony, BBC, Red Bull, Microsoft and Lexus. Road to VR is a proud media sponsor of Develop:VR 2016.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

March has just started… I hope it will be an amazing day for you and for all the AR/VR ecosystem! Oculus has also partnered with Virtuclear to offer prescription lenses for the Quest 2 for $80. This means that if you develop an experience using OpenXR, you can run it on Oculus, SteamVR, and Microsoft runtimes with no modification.

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VRWorld

JULY 12, 2017

There’s no doubt that the announcements made on this conference might be the clearest direction where VR/MR/AR are heading as an industry, as it will happen after Microsoft Windows 10 Mixed Reality launches, as well as seeing the first sales results of next generation Oculus Rift headset.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Jeri has been in the R&D of Valve Software when Abrash was still there, so she knows a lot about AR and VR. After Valve, I started an AR company called CastAR where we were doing augmented reality very similar to the technology we’ll be talking about today. So what is this is TiltFive AR headset? ( The Vive Wands.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

VR also dominated the pop culture, featuring prominently in films like “Johnny Mnemonic,” “Lawnmower Man” and “Virtuosity.” It’s easy to see how, in the early 1960s, such a system could be viewed as a logical next step beyond the film and television of the day.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 1, 2019

During Oculus Connect 6 in San Jose, CA, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled that the Oculus Quest would allow for hand and finger tracking without the need of any hand controllers, and of course, I couldn’t wait to try it. The moment you put on the Quest headset, your hands are instantly in front of you. ” Image Credit: Facebook.

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VRScout

JULY 19, 2017

This week we can expect VR and even AR experiences from Marvel, The Tick, Blade Runner, Legion, Stranger Things, and The Black Eyed Peas. The Mummy Prodigium Strike VR – A new location-based experience by VR pioneer Starbreeze Studios, in conjunction with NBC Universal, based on the recent Universal Studios 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. Who will profit?

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Road to VR

MAY 27, 2016

See Also: Facebook-like ‘Code of Conduct’ Governs Voice Communication in Oculus Social Alpha. Microsoft Research’s Kate Crawford sees that discussions that jump straight to ‘SkyNet’ can make practical, nuanced discussions difficult.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Today’s guest, Lance Anderson of Lance-AR, got tired of seeing so many XR providers only help clients achieve their stated ROI goals, then leaving them to their own devices to scale. Late 2018 I left Vuzix and started Lance-AR, because I was just frustrated. That’s why Lance-AR came about. Those two are dichotomous.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Today’s guest, Lance Anderson of Lance-AR, got tired of seeing so many XR providers only help clients achieve their stated ROI goals, then leaving them to their own devices to scale. Late 2018 I left Vuzix and started Lance-AR, because I was just frustrated. That’s why Lance-AR came about. Those two are dichotomous.

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