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. Enjoy your time with the people you love, with or without VR.

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Road to VR

JULY 4, 2016

Eva Hoerth is a VR design researcher & community organizer, and she enjoys recording videos of people as they’re immersed within a VR experience. She shot a video of of her co-worker in VR trying out the latest Leap Motion Orion update, and tweeted it out saying “This is the future.”

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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. Check out the bottom of this post for a list of VR inspiration. Body movement.

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

With Pokémon Go recently breaking a financial milestone – reaching one billion USD in revenue , it may finally be time to say that Augmented Reality (AR) is now reaching mainstream acceptance and acknowledgement. The $18-million-a-day peak earnings we saw shortly after its release are now closer to $2.5 billion to $50.65

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2019

Are you ready for immersing into Taiwan? When I tell people that I have been in Taiwan, the first questions that I get are “How is Taiwan?” But the more you stay there, the more you notice that there are differences. Taiwanese people are more chill and more open towards the West. XR Experiences.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Both projects are very different from each other. With Paper Plane , we studied the basic features of Leap Motion using fairly simple mechanics. What was it like incorporating Leap Motion into your Unity workflow? What types of tools or building blocks have helped you create a sense of immersion?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Today, we are taking the spatial computing industry to yet another level as we announce the availability of the full 6DoF developer kit for the Vive Wave open ecosystem, and a host of new 6DoF content and technologies to more easily bring users into fully immersive virtual worlds. The last two ones are the one that I like the most.

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Delight XR

AUGUST 7, 2022

Motion tracking is either done by the smartphone’s sensors or built-in headset sensors; thus, there are no cables hindering free movement. The great thing is, one can start for as cheap as fifteen bucks with the simplest headset from Google (Cardboard). Google Daydream View. Google Cardboard. Google Daydream.

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

A step up from an Oculus Go for those that want more power, much better tracking for immersive games and experiences. As of right now, all of these details are NOT confirmed and subject to change as Santa Cruz is still very much in the prototype phase. Google Cardboard ($15) . Google Daydream View ($99).

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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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Delight XR

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Motion tracking is either done by the smartphone’s sensors or built-in headset sensors; thus, there are no cables hindering free movement. The great thing is, one can start for as cheap as fifteen bucks with the simplest headset from Google (Cardboard). Google Daydream View. Google Cardboard. Google Daydream.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Google makes Tilt Brush opensource. Google has just announced that the VR painting program Tilt Brush has been put opensource on GitHub. The bad news is that this means that Google has abandoned it. Google is becoming well-known for abandoning the interesting project it creates. This is both bad and good news.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 31, 2020

It will be the conference through which Facebook will talk about its most innovative products and research about immersive realities and beyond. All the people that were working on AR/VR inside Facebook now have a new group they belong to: “Facebook Reality Labs”. Other relevant news. Image by Facebook).

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VRScout

JULY 25, 2017

Lenovo’s new AR concept headset & Disney partnership, all the VR/AR goodies at Comic-Con, Steven Spielberg’s trailer for Ready Player One is finally here, new industry landscape shows 60% increase in enterprise augmented reality, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… 1. LENOVO KEEPS GETTING MORE IMMERSIVE.

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Leapmotion

MAY 15, 2015

At a recent Designers + Geeks talk , Jody Medich and Daniel Plemmons talked about some of the discoveries our team has made (and the VR best practices we’ve developed) while building VR experiences with the Oculus Rift and the Leap Motion Controller. There are two types of products emerging: minimum viable products (e.g.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2021

I don’t have followers, I have friends, supporters, and mentors… and I’m glad to have met so many fantastic people during my journey in immersive realities. Apart from this, we had a few important announcements, like for instance: GTA San Andreas coming to Quest 2 Project Cambria : a hybrid AR/VR headset arriving next year.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Most people know Xu due to his dispute with American virtual reality company Magic Leap. In June 2019, Magic Leap accused Xu of stealing AR glasses technology when he was an engineer working at the firm. VeeR acquires, produces, and distributes best-in-class immersive stories and light-weight interactive experiences.

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VRGuy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Acer, NVIDIA, Valve, Ubisoft, Leap Motion and many others joined the ecosystem. VR peripherals increase immersion and bring more senses into play. In a PC environment, there are many ways to achieve the same task. Augmenting Reality Market trends Most existing consumer-level devices are virtual reality devices.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

I mean, it is quite impossible that in a documentation updated to support a new headset with new controllers, the only things that get shown are the headset name and the controllers’ name and nothing else (not even if the controllers support fingers tracking, for instance). Yes, Android, Google. And I’m sure that it will be a success.

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