The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

It will be possible to shoot 4K videos of the augmented applications, body tracking has been improved , and the system will be able to perform better environment understanding The new ARKit features will be used by a new tool provided by Apple for all its iPhone users: RoomPlan. News worth a mention. Image by Meta).

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MARCH 17, 2023

Industry events are one of the best ways for professionals or consumers to expand their knowledge, network with thought leaders, and discover new solutions. Attendees will have a chance to experiment with some of the latest tools and wearables on the market, as well as explore learning opportunities.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

This reminds me of a similar error HTC made in the past of mixing signals of a pro device and consumer content It has RGB passthrough cameras with three times the resolution of Quest 2 cameras. Unity is a very important company for many AR/VR creators, so this is not a good piece of news. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

First of all, the market is growing with a good rate of 30% year-over-year , and this is great news especially for the developers that want to make a living out of Steam content. The more the users, the more the market is interesting, the more the content that will be generated, and this is beneficial for everyone.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Furthermore, at that time, VR was something devoted to nerds, enthusiasts, and innovators, and there was not even much content that could have been interesting for kids. The fact that now there are many kids entering the VR space is in my opinion also an opportunity to experiment with different kinds of content.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 1, 2022

Mary, I know that you’re a great content creator, you’re an award-winning storyteller, but there are still some people that don’t know about you, so can you please introduce yourself to my readers? It was a really powerful tool to tell these stories. Using these tools, what are you working on lately?

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Ryan Schultz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

I have written before on this blog about artificial intelligence (AI) applications, such as the image manipulation and animation tools WOMBO and Reface , the text-to-art creation programs DALL-E 2 , Midjourney , and Stable Diffusion , and most recently, the AI-powered chatbot Replika and the text-generation app ChatGPT. So please stay tuned.

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Bernard Marr

MAY 26, 2023

After all, as Andrej Karpathy, former head of AI at Tesla and now working for ChatGPT creator OpenAI, puts it, "the hottest new programming language is English." Generative AI tools – particularly those that are capable of creating text, computer code, and graphics – are causing a great deal of excitement (and a fair bit of worry) right now.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 30, 2023

I’ve read a lot of articles and XR news this week, but actually, at the end of the day, nothing relevant has happened, except for the usual rumor about Apple… so you can close this roundup now… no ok, I’m kidding! This would be super cool, because would immediately enable a huge ecosystem of creators to develop content for the new device.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

As it is a tradition of this blog , I’ve prepared a big roundup of the best news in XR from this year’s CES! I hope that this way, even if you lost the announcements from CES, you can catch up with all the most important ones by just reading a single article. — VR Nima (@NimaZeighami) January 5, 2022.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 15, 2024

We started this project from scratch in July 2022, and in this one year and a half, we have built a lot and obtained remarkable results: we collaborated with important artists like Armani White and Jean-Michel Jarre, won some awards, and one day we even reached the top place of the Pico Store. The answer, in most of the cases, is no.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 29, 2021

I’ve had the immense pleasure of interviewing Marcus Kuehne from Holoride, one of the most interesting and original XR startups out there : they provide in-car entertainment via VR headsets, with the VR content that has the movements synchronized with the actual movements of the car. Concept image of Holoride (Image by holoride).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 17, 2022

PlayStation VR2 is not confirmed for 2022, yet. PSVR 2 is one of the most awaited headsets of 2022. While we were all considering a 2022 release as a given, when asked directly about the matter, Sony declined to answer. All this uncertainty is what is preventing Sony from announcing a sure 2022 release date.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

But it is anyway great news and makes us hope for a great 2022 for the whole XR ecosystem. and you found this article for whatever reason, first of all, welcome to the club! More info (Getting started with VR) More info (Best 5 Quest games to start with). All the above cues are proof that Quest 2 sold well this Christmas.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Responsible, forward-looking employers will increasingly think about navigating this change by enabling workforces to fully leverage the new tools that are available to them. Another exciting field to watch is synthetic content. The Future Internet (Metaverse). But the default won’t always be a smartphone.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 31, 2022

I hope this new lunar year is going to bring you the best possible outcomes! It’s called AI Research SuperCluster (RSC) and it will be the fastest AI supercomputer in the world when it will be fully built out in mid-2022. This could be also useful as an educational tool for very low-budget schools. Happy Chinese/Lunar new year!

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 9, 2024

If you build worlds — or want to get into the world-building business, either as a game designer, artist, or writer, or OpenSim creator — here are three ways generative AI will change everything. That was in 2022. link] What does this mean for creators? Today, I’m going to talk about AI and world building.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2022

With an unexpected move, Niantic has acquired the 8th Wall , one of the best (if not the best) providers of developer tools to create WebAR experiences. The reviewers talk about a very good device, and CNET even defines it as the best AR glass up to now. Some news on content. Top news of the week. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Ok, after these pieces of news you probably didn’t care about at all (but let me believe you did), let’s start with the actual roundup of the best AR and VR news of the past week! Facebook rebrands Horizon and offers grants to creators. According to the first users, this is one of the best features of this new social world.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

But before leaving you to the best pieces of AR/VR news of the week, let me tease you that in the upcoming days I will publish an article I’m sure you will all love… it’s a hands-on preview on… you’ll discover it! It has created tools to improve geolocation, multiplayer, and also to deliver more realistic AR experiences (e.g.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2021

My silly app The Unity Cube is now in 20th place among the best-rated applications on App Lab ! With a lot of enthusiasm because of these three things, let me tell you about the best AR/VR news of the week! NVIDIA is keeping working on Omniverse, its solution that is a bit a collaboration tool, a bit a simulator, a bit an engine.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2021

More info (Lumus Maximus glasses) More info (In-depth article on Lumus Maximus by Karl Guttag). The tracking of the controllers and the headset has been improved a lot, and there is also great content like Synth Riders and Red Matter to play with. Discover some cool reviews! I’m very curious about this…. (Of But is it effective?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

From time to time, I like to look at the adoption graph of XR shown by John Riccitiello (the CEO of Unity) in 2017 , where you can see that the real acceleration of immersive technologies should start around 2022-2023. Notice how it moves smaller in the first years, but then… (Image by Road To VR).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

and so I’m here writing you this roundup of the best AR and VR news to keep you informed about what is happening in our ecosystem. By the way, this new lunar year has begun in the best way possible for me, with two great people, Eduardo and Alan, joining my Patreon, so I guess that the red socks I bought on AliExpress to bring me luck worked!

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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! The best of them comes of course from Facebook. If it keeps this pace, it could go beyond the 10M mark in 2022. Haaaappy February, amazing XR community! Subscribe to my newsletter to be notified when it will be released.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 11, 2021

Inside there is everything I’ll write in this article, including a step-by-step tutorial in which I show the creation of a Unity experience integrating Application SpaceWarp from scratch. Probably I’m not super-enthusiast in this video (sorry, I’m quite tired lately), but I think I put inside a lot of interesting content.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

We need to support many metaverse platforms as well as a robust ecosystem of content commerce and applications.” Every week I try to share with you some relevant posts on the M-world, and this time I propose you an article from Time that tries to analyze the phenomenon of people buying virtual land in worlds like Decentraland or The Sandbox.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

Unity had a talk about developing for PlayStation VR 2 at GDC 2022. Some articles on the metaverse. At the end of last year, there was the idea of making a physical version of E3 in 2022, then because of the Omicron variant and the new surge of Covid cases, the organizing entity announced the event was set as a digital one.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2022

Pico aims at having 200 pieces of content at launch , and it is actively seeking interesting applications, not necessarily in the gaming field. If the beta program will be a success from now to September 2022, Pico will consider the next steps. Meta starts offering monetization tools in Horizon Worlds, but with a big toll.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Meta Connect has been the big event of the week, and as it is a tradition of this blog , I’m going to write today for you a super article where you can find inside ALL the news announced during the event! This way, by reading this article, you are sure you have not missed any one of the announcements made there.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

You can read some of my hands-on articles on my blog (e.g. 8th Wall is probably the best paid engine for building WebAR solutions, and it has just become even better with the just-announced Reality Engine. Instant application of an environment to ground 3D content in space when the experience is accessed on computers and VR devices.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

I think that in 2022 we’ll mostly see in AR the growth of the same trends that we saw in the second half of 2021. AR is already mainstream in this sense, and it has also already its creators economy, its marketplaces, its success stories. Mobile AR is now totally mainstream, and this trend is going to consolidate in 2022.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

As always in January I like to play the speculation game and make my personal predictions for augmented and virtual reality for the new year (2022, in this case). This is still the situation in this first part of 2022. This meme says it all. No one has an idea on how to build it. And this is what they are getting: money and not users.

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

"We were severely under-appreciated, understaffed, underfunded," she sighs, "and lacked a lot of tools that could have made our work great and potentially grown the business." We were severely under-appreciated, understaffed, underfunded, and lacked a lot of tools that could have made our work great and potentially grown the business.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

It is interesting to underline that Zuck wants to keep selling ads also in the metaverse, but he has bigger plans: he also wants to dominate the metaverse creators’ economy. He stressed many times how he wants to empower creators, and how he wants to provide free tools for content creators and cheap hardware for the users.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

I wish you the best for your life! Regarding me, I will probably publish a first impression article after some hours into the game, and then a full-fledged review when I’ll finish playing it. I think that we’ll have more info at OC7, with maybe a launch in 2021/2022. Top news of the week. Image by Valve).

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