Upload VR

MAY 4, 2024

Originally built for Quest, it now supports "any platform capable of providing skeletal hand tracking data." Unity, the leading engine for VR game development, appointed Matthew Bromberg as its new CEO. Trace is a new AR startup founded by three former Magic Leap developers that aims to create location-based AR experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

It states, among other things, that “The company used its data advantage to create superior market intelligence to identify nascent competitive threats and then acquire, copy, or kill these firms”. More info (Kickstarter page) More info (Article on Upload VR). More info (Read the article plus the comments to my tweet).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

All these data together make me a bit skeptical about the capabilities of this company: developing such kind of a high-quality headset requires a lot of expertise, while the company is very small and features no known expert in the field. As soon as I’ll know something about it from my Chinese friends, I’ll let you know.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

New statistics data on VR from Steam, SuperData, and DigiCapital. This week, we had a bunch of new analytics data on the VR market. Magic Leap, Niantic, etc…) and by two big countries (USA and China). Magic Leap releases new tools for developers. I want to highlight 3 reports: Steam Hardware survey.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Well, after that article, I discovered that the CTO of MeLeap , the company behind HADO, is one of my readers! :O Software-wise, we use Unity, Vuforia, and OpenCV. Thus Google controlled almost the entire stack that the client web software used — right down to the hardware in the data centers.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

All in all, I found the article a nice read, but I don’t like that it looks very corporate and bleached out. Two years ago, the company had won a $480M deal with the army to produce the first evaluation units (beating Magic Leap in this contest and condemning it to a sad fate) that should have increased soldiers’ efficiency and lethality.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

For sure, Facebook will repeat a bazillion times that they care about privacy and I think that in the beginning, this will be mostly true: we have seen with Oculus how Facebook takes its time and boils its users slowly like the famous frog, adding over time features to get more data for targeted ads. Magic Leap will meet its fate.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Unity Technologies just went public. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started. Alex: I guarantee that most of Unity's investors are not going into the engine to build their own demos. Alex: Huge news.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Unity Technologies just went public. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started. Alex: I guarantee that most of Unity's investors are not going into the engine to build their own demos. Alex: Huge news.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Unity Technologies just went public. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started. Alex: I guarantee that most of Unity's investors are not going into the engine to build their own demos. Alex: Huge news.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2021

The most interesting insight of the week comes from analyst Mark Mahaney, that, among other things has analyzed Facebook’s Virtual Reality business, and has reported very interesting data. More info (Link to original article) More info (Article on this report not behind a paywall).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 24, 2023

Many of the articles emerging from this are purporting the death of the Metaverse. One of the most salient articles catching the attention of the XR community is the pedantic Business Insider article , “RIP Metaverse, We Hardly Knew Ye.” The Death of the Consumer Metaverse?

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. The third major change came from Unity which recently announced that it will now be serving AR ads on mobile. Streem combines augmented reality, remote video and uses contextualized data to help brands power an exceptional customer experience.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

Also because you have to consider that with 170M users using this camera-based app, it won’t be that difficult for Snap to gather data to build the AR Cloud. On the occasion of CVPR 2020, Facebook has just published online a very long list of computer vision-related articles , many of which include also artificial intelligence features.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

At Tilt Five, we designed a really clever system that only works on tabletop experiences but it has features that are just leaps and bounds above what the big Magic Leap or HoloLens type AR systems are. If a family can afford spending the money for 4 Magic Leap Ones, they can play this board game together (Image by Road To VR).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Then why Magic Leap hasn’t delivered a solid product with 2B?) As I reported last week, people are exploring class actions, or are switching to other devices, and I even found on Kotaku (a popular indie gaming magazine) a very angry article about this topic. All these pieces of news make us think of a positive future for OpenXR.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

This week, Upload is marking the start of its third year and this post is exactly article number 3,000 published for the site. Magic Leap kicks off the month with the announcement of an enormous $794 million fundraising round, backed by Alibaba. Unity raises a massive $181 million round to grow its ambitions.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

Broadly, the important tiers are: Infrastructure : The data the connects your glass Hardware : Does the glass work? Devices such as the Magic Leap and the Hololens rely on Waveguide optics. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Operating System : What does ambient computing look like? The First No-Headset Virtual Monitor 3.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 19, 2018

changing in the illumination of the room); Have some other complementary data. If you have other cameras and sensors installed in the room, you can use their data to fill the holes. In this article, researchers made a ball disappear in a video made against a completely white wall. A wild Oculuso Go appears in front of my eyes!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

As it is a tradition of this blog , I have read everything I could about the AR and VR technologies showcased there, and I’ve condensed all the news in a single article , that you can skim fast until you find a topic you are interested in. And in fact, Neon reminds me a bit too much Magic Leap’s Mica project.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

Alan: It’s interesting; I wrote a whole article called “The First Killer App for Augmented Reality,” and it was all about virtual try-ons. The tools are pretty [new], and Unity and things, you need to invest a fair bit of time and effort to build something. Whether it’s makeup, shoes, watches, glasses, clothing.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

Alan: It’s interesting; I wrote a whole article called “The First Killer App for Augmented Reality,” and it was all about virtual try-ons. The tools are pretty [new], and Unity and things, you need to invest a fair bit of time and effort to build something. Whether it’s makeup, shoes, watches, glasses, clothing.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 10, 2019

And what I mean by that is, we had this proof of concept, we were really passionate about doing this, we understood the benefits, but we didn’t really go hire anyone that had Unity experience, or didn’t hire anyone that had 3D modeling experience. Have you been featured in any learning articles, or media? Jonathan: Exactly.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

Alan: It’s interesting; I wrote a whole article called “The First Killer App for Augmented Reality,” and it was all about virtual try-ons. The tools are pretty [new], and Unity and things, you need to invest a fair bit of time and effort to build something. Whether it’s makeup, shoes, watches, glasses, clothing.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 10, 2019

And what I mean by that is, we had this proof of concept, we were really passionate about doing this, we understood the benefits, but we didn’t really go hire anyone that had Unity experience, or didn’t hire anyone that had 3D modeling experience. Have you been featured in any learning articles, or media? Jonathan: Exactly.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

Anyway, I will keep you posted about that in a dedicated article! These are the most important data contained in the report: Oculus is now the leading platform for developers. Valve publishes a deep dive article on the speakers of Valve Index. Oculus publishes a deep dive article on ASW 2.0. Top news of the week.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

And once we did that, we were thinking a lot about this idea of IOT and products broadcasting information about themselves in the form of digital data. If you show up to a– pick your favorite large industrial customer and you show up with a great computer vision SDK and Unity and you say, “listen, we can go build anything.”

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

And once we did that, we were thinking a lot about this idea of IOT and products broadcasting information about themselves in the form of digital data. If you show up to a– pick your favorite large industrial customer and you show up with a great computer vision SDK and Unity and you say, “listen, we can go build anything.”

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

And once we did that, we were thinking a lot about this idea of IOT and products broadcasting information about themselves in the form of digital data. If you show up to a-- pick your favorite large industrial customer and you show up with a great computer vision SDK and Unity and you say, "listen, we can go build anything."

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

This is done by extracting some features from the four camera streams of the environment, mixing these data together and creating a sparse point cloud of the space around the device. Furthermore using IMU data from non-tracked controllers could help in faking movement detection in these situations. I don’t feel so happy about it.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

This week’s episode goes all the way back to last year’s Curiosity Camp, when Alan shared a ride with Unity Lab’s Timoni West and Vapor IO CEO Cole Crawford, recording a podcast along the way. Timoni: Director of XR in Unity Labs. Alan: Director of XR at Unity Labs, and Cole Crawford, CEO of Vapor IO. Cole: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

This week’s episode goes all the way back to last year’s Curiosity Camp, when Alan shared a ride with Unity Lab’s Timoni West and Vapor IO CEO Cole Crawford, recording a podcast along the way. Timoni: Director of XR in Unity Labs. Alan: Director of XR at Unity Labs, and Cole Crawford, CEO of Vapor IO. Cole: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

This week’s episode goes all the way back to last year’s Curiosity Camp, when Alan shared a ride with Unity Lab’s Timoni West and Vapor IO CEO Cole Crawford, recording a podcast along the way. Timoni: Director of XR in Unity Labs. Alan: Director of XR at Unity Labs, and Cole Crawford, CEO of Vapor IO. Cole: Yeah.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Well, your favorite ghost has just done it for you in this article! It is the console business model: selling the hardware undercost so that subsidize it with exclusive software, and your data in this case. The device will almost always capture all the data it can , so that it can be studied later on by Facebook engineers.

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