The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Another week has just passed by and it was a cool one with many news and articles to talk about! MREAL S1 is a passthrough mixed reality headset: it features two high-definition front cameras through which is possible to have augmented reality and augmented virtuality. Haaaappy February, amazing XR community!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

This week I have been pretty busy working on our mixed reality fitness game that is very close to launch and in preparing some amazing articles for next week (I will publish a review of the Valve Index and a super-amazing interview to Jeri Ellsworth, the creator of TiltFive augmented reality glasses!),

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

It seems cool, but I would like to try it to believe in it: all the times that someone promised me some kind of sensory magic, it never turned out so good as they told me (like with the phantom touch sensation that Leap Motion told me about ). Image by Microsoft). News worth a mention.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. 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. Authors’ opinions are their own. Who Will Own the Metaverse?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2019

And there are booths of many important companies : Lenovo, Microsoft, HP, Huawei, GoPro, etc… so this event has cool stuff to showcase. Markers can be used to define where to show virtual elements, and in the demo that I tried were used to show virtual Chinese artworks in a room; Leap Motion device on Realmax glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

This means that if you employ 4 for tracking, you can still use two for instance for eye-tracking and one for lips tracking; Be able to finally offer passthrough augmented reality with appropriate resolution and framerate. This is for sure great for giving people awareness of what AR is good at, and Microsoft can be happy about it.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

More info (Google Starline announcement) More info (Google Starline article on Wired). Plus, all this metaverse buzz may lead to an exploding bubble in the future; Jesse Damiani has written an amazing article about the future of music and live events by interviewing some Roblox executives.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

It is also working on creating its own hardware : a previous report highlighted that it could build its own chips in the future, and this article shows how the company is working also in acquiring hardware parts markers. When I read it, I was very happy about it: finally, AR is becoming mainstream!

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I read the articles that you write, and they’re very insightful. You’ve seen it from pre-DK1 days — where [it was] probably a cobbled-together a collection of flat screens, wires, and duct tape — and what it is today, where you have real consumer-grade virtual reality that’s not even connected to computers.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I read the articles that you write, and they’re very insightful. You’ve seen it from pre-DK1 days — where [it was] probably a cobbled-together a collection of flat screens, wires, and duct tape — and what it is today, where you have real consumer-grade virtual reality that’s not even connected to computers.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I read the articles that you write, and they're very insightful. You've seen it from pre-DK1 days -- where [it was] probably a cobbled-together a collection of flat screens, wires, and duct tape -- and what it is today, where you have real consumer-grade virtual reality that's not even connected to computers. They're very factual.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I read the articles that you write, and they’re very insightful. You’ve seen it from pre-DK1 days — where [it was] probably a cobbled-together a collection of flat screens, wires, and duct tape — and what it is today, where you have real consumer-grade virtual reality that’s not even connected to computers.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Alan: With Facebook now working on AR, and you've got Magic Leap, and Microsoft's Hololens. And, you know, Magic Leap-- people are going to expect when they walk around holograms, they stay put. They're not thinking of the full tech stack that's required for real pervasive augmented reality in the world.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Alan: With Facebook now working on AR, and you've got Magic Leap, and Microsoft's Hololens. And, you know, Magic Leap-- people are going to expect when they walk around holograms, they stay put. They're not thinking of the full tech stack that's required for real pervasive augmented reality in the world.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

Alan: With Facebook now working on AR, and you've got Magic Leap, and Microsoft's Hololens. And, you know, Magic Leap-- people are going to expect when they walk around holograms, they stay put. They're not thinking of the full tech stack that's required for real pervasive augmented reality in the world.

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