The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Google is reportedly working on an AR operating system. In some of my past newsletters, I warned you that we shouldn’t forget about Google/Alphabet in the race to our mixed reality future. Now we have finally an official confirmation of the fact that Google is working on an AR device. Will this story change with AR glasses?

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

Depth sensors and RGB cameras may help also in doing object detection in the future (hopefully) There are some studios making content with this headset: Meta has teased Gravity Sketch in AR, and games by Resolution Games and Schell Games. Google performs interesting AR news at I/O conference. Other relevant news.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

To design in virtual reality, we need the high resolution of the Varjo device. With this high resolution there is a seamless transfer between the real world and the virtual world,” said Jan Pflueger, Coordination Augmented & Virtual Reality at Audi, in an official release.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2018

: actually, he was in my city (Turin, Italy) because here there is an epic guy that is living 30 days inside virtual reality! Everything started some time ago, when Mister president Alvin Wang Graylin predicted that someone would have stayed 30 days inside virtual reality. Enea Le Fons. Isn’t it cool? Yes, it is.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

PanguVR works with two amazing technologies like virtual reality and artificial intelligence , so I was really interested in talking with him. We agreed that we would have met virtually so that I could discover more about his company anyway. I’ve seen many companies working on interior design and virtual reality.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

We are providing an entry-level guide to understanding Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality applications, the differences between each, and how all of these experiences, when enabled, form what is known as mixed reality. First things first, let’s define the term virtual. What is Virtual Reality?

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

German extended reality (XR) firm has recently released a virtual reality (VR) film with tools from an industry-leading gaming engine. The Hanover, Germany-based company develops virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) content using real-time 3D (RT3D) content.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

this one about Holoride and this about Lynx-R1 ), but many will come in the following days! After I will be back in Italy, on the 20th, I will also be a speaker at Virtual Reality Day , the 24h-conference about VR held by Bob Fine. It is basically an SDK to build outdoor shared experiences that exploit the AR Cloud.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

German extended reality (XR) firm has recently released a virtual reality (VR) film with tools from an industry-leading gaming engine. The Hanover, Germany-based company develops virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) content using real-time 3D (RT3D) content.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 4, 2023

This Monday, Luma AI debuted a plugin for NVIDIA NeRF, a volumetric capture and immersive content creation suite which enables developers to run their designs on Unreal Engine 5 as a real-time render. The update allows Unreal developers to run Luma AI volumetric renderings locally.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2021

This has not been the most interesting week in AR, VR, but I think that in the next times we’ll see some shots fired: in some days there will be the F8, the official shipment of the Vive Pro 2, then the Apple WWDC conference! Unreal Engine 5 gets released in Early Access. Lumus Maximums shows an impressive AR prototype.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 5, 2023

Virtual reality hasn’t caught on with American teens, according to a new survey from Piper Sandler released on Tuesday. According to IDC, both consumer and enterprise interest in virtual reality fell last year. Earlier this year , I wrote about how Microsoft and other companies have pulled back on their VR and AR plans.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Ok, enough with football… let’s get back to AR and VR…. French startup Lynx announced some months ago a quite interesting headset featuring pass-through augmented reality , hands tracking, eye tracking, and an innovative lens design. Sam & Max: This Time It’s Virtual has been released on the Oculus Quest. Image by Lynx).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

You probably have heard about Leap Motion’s Project North Star , that should be able to offer people affordable augmented reality. There are some typical questions that arise in the mind of the AR enthusiasts of the world: how is it? And being no developers, there are almost no apps. Is it good?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2022

This week, Xiaomi actual unveiled the real hardware that should make that vision become real: dubbed Mijia AR Glasses , these glasses have a nice set of features. Anyway, if you are in China and you want to look ??, More info (Mijia AR Glasses?—?Road Road To VR) More info (Mijia AR Glasses?—?Input Have fun with them.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In the first instance, a creator familiar with Unity and 3D modelling softwares can create an XR scene and then upload to STYLY through our Unity Plugin , where a multiformat version of the scene will automatically be created and hosted, allowing anyone to view the scene using a VR HMD, AR smartphone or even WebXR through their browser.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2022

If it is true, it confirms that Apple has no mainstream plans for this device, and it will bet on true AR glasses for the mainstream. Anyway, we’ll see… these are all speculations. Shopify’s internal prototype shows the power of diminished reality. Documentary “We Met In Virtual Reality” to release on HBO.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

Object tracking : Hyperion allows the Leap Motion Controller 2 camera to track AR Markers (also known as fiducial markers) enabling tracking of any object. But it is thanks to research projects like this that in the next years, we will arrive at having AR glasses we can wear every day. The whole indie VR community will appreciate that.

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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. He has a special interest and focus on emerging technologies including #VR #AR #MR #AI. However, in June 2020, a U.S.

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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

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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. You know how much I love Varjo : I think it is one of the most innovative startups in the VR landscape because they’re taking an original approach to Virtual Reality.

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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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Building the Metaverse

JANUARY 18, 2023

Let’s look at a couple of the ways that generative artificial intelligence taps into your creativity: ChatGPT as a Virtual Engine There are a number of ways to conceptualize a large language model like ChatGPT; but one is that it is actually a virtual world engine. It had persistent, virtual worlds called campaigns.

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ARVR

JUNE 12, 2020

Source Designing Memorable Virtual Experiences. As companies and brands are seeking to translate physical experiences such as town halls, conferences and art shows into the virtual world, what opportunities does the digital space offer to touch, move and inspire? Trending AR VR Articles: 1.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 17, 2023

Lucovsky was before working on a similar effort at Meta, where he was developing an operating system for AR glasses, but he left after one of the many scandals of that company. left Google because of “the recent changes in AR leadership and Google’s unstable commitment and vision”. Kudos to him. Business: supporting a European Web 4.0

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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. Announcements. The Auggies. Best Consumer App.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 20, 2023

Today, we’re looking at some of the leading vendors in the extended reality ecosystem, producing solutions targeted at the Arts and Entertainment market. Creal Exploring the possibilities of the AR and mixed reality landscape, Creal develops light-field display technology, to combine digital assets and content with the real world.

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VRScout

MAY 23, 2020

The Scotts ’ cover art was designed by prominent AR artist Kaws (Brian Donnely).To To experience “The Scotts” in AR download the Acute Art app here. Lately, we’ve focused on Facebook’s and Apple’s recent acquisitions of VR startups, but are major label acquisitions of immersive technology startups on the horizon?

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 22, 2021

I think there is a lot of confusion in the communities about it… Omniverse is a simulator of 3D virtual worlds. To use an analogy, Omniverse Nucleus – the platform’s collaboration engine – is like the ‘Git’ of 3D assets and these virtual worlds. What are its advantages? Who is using it?

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 16, 2020

Thanks to the WeChat group XR Story I got to know Gianluigi Perrone, a very talented movie director that works a lot with virtual reality , and that also teaches cinema at the Beijing Film Academy. Hello Gian, introduce yourself and your book “Dogma VR – Storytelling in Virtual Reality”!

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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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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2022

In Ready Player One, all the population of the world is inside the Oasis. The Oasis is a fully digital world where everyone can meet and interact with everyone else, in one vs one or many vs many experiences. In the current virtual worlds, though, this is not possible because the networking architectures are not able to support that.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 23, 2024

Horizon is also the immersive framework behind the firm’s Worlds metaverse platform. The firm seeks to drive socially connected virtual worlds ready for cross-platform delivery on headsets, phones, and desktops. of its OpenXR API to help developers create more efficient cross-platform AR/VR/MR applications.

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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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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Then, I link you here below some resources that may be useful to get you started with virtual reality and with Oculus Quest 2 in particular. This has been thanks to its massive growth: according to Rec Room’s Shawn Whiting, in March 2021 the total number of users was 2 million, while now they are 37. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2024

This will make them less interested in developing applications that exploit the new computational power or the new mixed reality capabilities of Quest 3, possibly slightly slowing down the evolution of the technology. First of all, it revealed that, according to analyst firm IDC, XREAL owns 51% of the augmented reality market.

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Bernard Marr

AUGUST 8, 2022

But beyond it being a term for the digital, persistent, and highly immersive virtual worlds we will become used to, what it actually is – or will be – is up for debate! This is simply because the idea and concepts are still emerging. Degree in Virtual/ Augmented/ Extended Reality. Virtual reality (V.R.)

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