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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ARVR

OCTOBER 6, 2021

How to Make an AR App?—?Tips, This is because AR is compatible with the devices we’ve been using for a long time?—?smartphones. In addition, AR offers practical everyday use, is considered less restrictive than VR, and does not distract the user from the real world. Let’s start by taking a look at how AR works.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

More info (Samsung prototype headset leaked — Upload VR) More info (Samsung prototype headset leaked — XR Daily News) Other relevant news (Image by Meta Reality Labs) Meta’s first AR glasses will be just for internal use A new report by The Information talks about the AR glasses that Meta is building.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Niantic has just launched its Lightship SDK to offer every developer the same toolset Niantic is using to build its geolocalized AR experiences like Pokemon Go. It is basically an SDK to build outdoor shared experiences that exploit the AR Cloud. So if you are not successful, you don’t have to pay. Qualcomm has announced Spaces.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

XR devices are all over the headlines this month; the release of the Apple Vision Pro has brought spatial computing/mixed reality wearables to the forefront of emerging workplace and consumer-based digital solutions. Bingo Wu AR glasses offer immense potential across various B2B applications.

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2018

Today Magic Leap has launched the Lumin SDK, the toolkit which allows developers to build AR experiences for Lumin OS, the operating system that powers the Magic Leap One headset. Use of Unreal Engine 4’s desktop and mobile forward rendering paths. Eye tracking. Gesture and hand tracking. Room scanning and meshing. Spatialized audio.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2020

Hi I’m Daniel Beauchamp, and I head up AR / VR for Shopify (not Spotify!). Can you share here what are the three ones that you love the most and maybe comment them a bit? My favourite is probably the hair cutting simulator because it was so fun to build, and the end result was hilarious. Hair simulations!

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

There are quite a handful of platforms that allow you to develop virtual reality and augmented reality apps and content, but it is not easy to find an offline virtual reality school or academy with which to train for those interested in developing AR and VR apps. You also give 5% of net revenues per quarter although its free to use.

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ARPost

JULY 13, 2022

Inworld AI is a company building a tool to create brains that experience creators can put into virtual bodies to populate the metaverse – whether that’s games, simulations for enterprise and education, embodied chatbots in immersive retail environments, or whatever else you can think of. What is Inworld AI ? A Bigger, Better, Metaverse.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In this blog post, we will go over the key steps you need to take in order to create your own farming and life simulation game. Stardew Valley is a farming and life simulation game that allows players to build and manage their own farm, as well as interact with the game’s NPCs and complete various quests.

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ARVR

MAY 10, 2021

a Starter Pack (Dipping your toes into the world of AR development, with a little VR overlap by default) by Alexis Zerafa Are you interested in augmented reality development? Much like an oil painter needs their paints and turpentine, AR creators need a myriad of tools as well! What is Social AR? —?if XR Programs?—?a

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

RT3D engines have emerged as one of the most valuable tools for designing immersive AR/MR/VR experiences. Essentially, the engine is a software package built for simulating interactive or passive RT3D experiences. Simulation: Via simulation, it’s possible to use RT3D engines to reduce risks and challenges in various environments.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Talon Simulations was making great strides in the location-based entertainment industry, until COVID-19 hit. He's the CEO and co-founder of Talon Simulations. They are a provider of virtual reality experiences, but not just any virtual reality experiences. They have full motion simulators for entertainment and training.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Talon Simulations was making great strides in the location-based entertainment industry, until COVID-19 hit. He's the CEO and co-founder of Talon Simulations. They are a provider of virtual reality experiences, but not just any virtual reality experiences. They have full motion simulators for entertainment and training.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

For November’s batch of free VR experiences, we have everything from a VR board game experience and collaborative design tool to an old-school DJ simulator. The following VR games and apps are available now on the Oculus (Meta) Quest 2 100% free of charge via the Oculus Quest Store, App Lab, and SideQuest: COUCH.

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Bernard Marr

JUNE 8, 2023

If there are three “buzzword” topics that have certainly been responsible for a fair amount of hype over the past few years, they would be digital twins, generative AI, and the metaverse. Since then, game developers, using tools like Unity and Unreal Engine, have pushed the boundaries when it comes to creating realistic, simulated worlds.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 22, 2023

RT3D developmental engines such as Unreal, Unity, and Omniverse also leverage genAI to optimize developmental workflows, notably for budding XR content creators. GenAI can simplify XR content creation and allow more individuals to design AR/VR/MR services.

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VRScout

JUNE 9, 2017

Apple finally talks about VR while taking a (very solid) swing at AR, Walmart will use virtual reality to train employees, you can grow better weed with AR + AI, and Q1 VR headset sales…. Apple, humble as always, announced that their ARKit made iOS the largest AR platform in the world…overnight. APPLE ACTUALLY TALKS ABOUT VR.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

I wonder if this will have any consequences… More info News worth a mention (Image by Xiaomi) AR and VR were great at MWC XR analyst Anshel Sag wrote a great article highlighting all the most important hardware showcased at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. You can discover more on the dedicated Linkedin post that I’m sharing below.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

I am a bit sad no one gave an award to The Unity Cube , though… I would have loved to get a “Worst Application Award 2021” from Road To VR…. This has been possible thanks to the mix of computer vision tracking, AI, and body physics simulation that ensures that the detected pose is physically accurate. Some news on content.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Talon Simulations was making great strides in the location-based entertainment industry, until COVID-19 hit. He's the CEO and co-founder of Talon Simulations. They are a provider of virtual reality experiences, but not just any virtual reality experiences. They have full motion simulators for entertainment and training.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The device also features an RGB camera, so that to provide color passthrough AR. The great news from this week is that the company has brought Niantic Lightship VPS into its engine, so now it is possible to use VPS from a web AR application. The headset is also very small and lightweight thanks to the use of pancake lenses.

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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. Unreal Engine 5 may change the rules of game development. Other relevant news.

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ARPost

JUNE 1, 2020

The AR Cloud. The AR cloud is the complex idea of a digital world that maps to our physical world, allowing advanced spatial computing. Building the AR cloud is an ongoing project and there is much disagreement as to who will bring it about and how. The next step is going to be building a “semantic understanding” of that cloud.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Oculus” name was a problem because AR/VR is so huge that its related product should have fallen under the main brand of the company, to make it clear whose are those products. Unity has built this nice demo using the Presence Platform. And so it happened. And in fact, now it happens that everything Oculus becomes Meta.

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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. NVIDIA is using its program Folding@Home to help research centers in doing their research and simulations on the new coronavirus. invested in AR and VR companies.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2022

And yes, he told me that at the end of the day, the result is quite similar to Virtual Desktop , because what the company does is streaming the rendered scene from a computer to an AR or VR headset. It exploits the graphical power of Unreal, streamed with cloud rendering so it can run on all platforms via the browser.

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Upload VR

JUNE 6, 2022

Last year Gurman , The Information , and supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo released reports claiming Apple is working on a premium headset for VR and AR with high resolution color passthrough. RealityKit also handles networking for multiplayer AR apps, meaning developers won’t need to be network engineers to develop shared AR experiences.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Snap, one of the world’s top camera software firms, has revealed major updates to its augmented reality (AR) platform, Snap Lens. Snap Lens studio incorporated Ray Tracing for developers in April last year to boost immersion and realism for AR content. This year’s instalment is set to take place on 19 April.

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Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2018

Along with the updates to their tracking technology, Leap Motion is also releasing improvements to their developer tools, including newly updated Unity and Unreal Engine integrations, and deprecating some older APIs. Updated Tracking. Improved Developer Tools. The company details the developer-level changes on their blog here.

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Hypergrid Business

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

. “The release of ARKit validates the belief that augmented reality will be a technology that we all use and engage with in one form or another,” David Nedohin, president of the AR startup Scope AR, told Hypergrid Business. Scope AR also has its own AR application, Remote AR , which also supports ARKit.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 29, 2024

IDC Predicts Surge in AR and VR Headset Shipments According to IDC , the shipments of AR and VR headsets are expected to increase significantly due to the rise of MR. Although the shipments for AR and VR headsets decreased by 23.5 By the end of 2028, VR headsets are set to reach 24.7 per cent to 9.7

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

This one is the last AR/VR news roundup for this summer! We don’t know when these glasses will release and for what price , but the fact that such a big consumer-oriented giant has got interested in glasses is a positive sign that we are on the right (long) road towards the release and adoption of consumer-oriented AR glasses.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As real-time 3D (RT3D) production becomes commonplace alongside the rise of extended reality (XR) services, solutions to accelerate and democratise the production of RT3D assets are starting to increase. RT3D engines such as Unity and Unreal significantly streamline XR production pipelines with easy-to-use tools.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

As real-time 3D (RT3D) production becomes commonplace alongside the rise of extended reality (XR) services, solutions to accelerate and democratise the production of RT3D assets are starting to increase. RT3D engines such as Adobe Substance, Unity, and Unreal significantly streamline XR production pipelines with easy-to-use tools.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 19, 2024

Osso Health simulates medical training workflows to suit two standard orthopaedic procedure use cases, such as carpal tunnel release and total knee replacement. Microsoft Teams for Mobile Gains AR Features The Microsoft Teams mobile application receives new XR features via AR instructional annotations this week.

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Peter Graham

JULY 15, 2019

There are a number of ways to create your own virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) app/videogame. The most popular tend to be videogame engines such as Unity and Unreal Engine which have been fine-tuned over many years.

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