ARPost

MAY 12, 2022

Immediately following Inbar’s welcome address is the Unity keynote by Unity Technologies CEO John Riccitiello. As one of the leading tools for 3D content creation, Unity is also one of the engines driving XR content and experiences. See Also: ITIF Releases Report on Moderating Multi-User Immersive Experiences.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 10, 2022

As this article was being written, Varjo further expanded its cloud with Unreal and Unity engine integrations. The RealWear Cloud also allows data analysis across headsets. Handling this data for an individual on an individual headset is possible but, again, becomes unbearable at scale sans cloud. CloudXR From NVIDIA.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

That’s the consensus that seems to emerge from “Top 2020 Trends: Enterprise AR & VR” a report published today by Unity Technologies, where 15 industry experts (yours truly among them) outlined how Mixed Reality (or XR depending on what flavor acronym you favor) will supercharge and transform the world of work. Look no further!

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

Some of them have been brainstormed with Lorenzo Cappannari with whom I wrote an article a few months ago and who I thank for the collaboration ). Contextual AI is on the rise Couldn’t I write a tech article in 2024 without mentioning AI? Of course not. AI is very good for increasing the productivity of a team.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

A leaked image from the Oculus team shows that the company is working to implement body tracking inside the Oculus Unity SDK. New info on Microsoft abandoning the Hololens 3. Last week we all heard the news about Microsoft abandoning the HoloLens 3, and the denial of it by Alex Kipman and Microsoft itself.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 14, 2023

[link] pic.twitter.com/2rZok2BWYs — Margrethe Vestager (@vestager) June 14, 2023 Such actions could marginalise rival advert exchanges, violating Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU. Google’s latest row with European regulators comes as the company rolls out its Geospatial Creator for Unity platform.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

So markerless AR is powered not only by depth sensors and other positioning data, but also by ML algorithms on top of this data. LOCATION-BASED AR When users enter a particular location, AR applications can use that data to accurately display virtual content. Apps like Pokemon Go utilize markerless AR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 28, 2023

While still in Italy, I verified that Microsoft Teams, Unity, and Github were accessible from China. When I wrote my first article here from the Shanghai airport, I had to login via WordPress.com, for instance. Whenever I’ll mention VPNs in the remainder of the article, I’m always referring to these ones.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

Or that Microsoft is working on a new reference design that fixes the issues of the first one? More info (Review on Road To VR) More info (Review on Upload VR) More info (Porting to PSVR and Quest incoming) More info (Gameplay article) More info (Gameplay video). Unity changes how it handles XR Plugins. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

This has of course nothing to do with gathering data from the biggest number possible of people. As I’ve reported to you last week, Microsoft’s latest Ignite conference, where Microsoft Mesh was announced, was a true marvel, an example of how a truly immersive keynote should be held. Absolutely Not. NVIDIA launches GTC 2021.

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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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ARVR

JULY 23, 2021

Trending AR VR Articles: 1. These use cases are where Medical device manufacturer Medtronic, with the help of Re’Flekt and Unity, has implemented AR. Instead, Microsoft HoloLens guides surgeons while they’re using the equipment. To truly connect devices and digitize our data, we need a transformative approach.

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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. Microsoft signs a $22B deal with the US Army. It seems that this test has been a success, and so now Microsoft has won now a bigger contract to carry on the project: $21.88B (!!) Well played, Microsoft.

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ARVR

JULY 13, 2021

Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Toyota leans on various technologies to deliver these improvements, which is why the automaker was an early adopter of 3D data and AR-guided processes. Unpacking that a bit, Toyota’s virtual pipeline starts by importing vehicle data into Unity using Pixyz. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Trending AR VR Articles: 1. It offers a full-fledge Unity SDK to develop games and support virtual reality. Meta (ex-Facebook) and Microsoft have already announced their plans to create a metaverse. They also have to compete with industry giants like Facebook and Microsoft. ExpiCulture?—?Developing Somnium Space?—?It

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The article talked about a headset shipping without controllers and aiming at the sweet price point of $200. As for the review, since I’m crunching these weeks, probably I will just write a quick hands-on article and delay a more detailed review for next month. This would be great for having a more natural interaction on Quest 3.

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Road to VR

MAY 27, 2016

First of all, there are going to be a number of different privacy issues, like the biometric data that could be collected from virtual reality technologies including eye tracking, attention, heart rate, emotional states, body language, and even EMG muscle data or EEG brainwaves. — Andy Durdin (@adurdin) May 24, 2016.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). Since Meta made the acquisition and took over Oculus, VRTUOLUO began to write original and in-depth articles on the XR industry.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2022

If you are not going, well, expect to read some articles on mine about the hardware that I will try there, so you will feel as if you have been there, too… and I will also eat and review some delicious pasteis de nata for you :D. Meta announces at Connect Quest Pro and a partnership with Microsoft. Top news of the week. Image by Meta).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

In this article, I’m going to tell you everything I know about this new headset , plus I will give you my thorough hands-on review on its 6 DOF Controllers , that I have tried with the 6 DOF devkit. It must be put on the Focus so that the headset can get the data of the two controllers. Do you want to know more?

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Bernard Marr

AUGUST 8, 2022

Huge companies like Facebook and Microsoft are throwing vast sums of money at their attempts to build, and therefore define, the metaverse. A computer science degree will teach you programming, as well as the fundamentals of data and database management, how hardware works, and networking.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

Image by Microsoft). Microsoft has released more specifications for its upcoming XBOX Series X, and from these data is clearly possible to see that it will be compatible with VR headsets. This reinforces my belief that Microsoft in 2021–2022 will add VR support to it , to fight the PSVR when the market will be riper.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 15, 2024

There is so much to say that I could probably write a book about it, but for today I will just put the most important takeaways in a very long article (let’s say a small book). This may influence your decisions a lot as well. Talking about coding, for instance, what people should do before coding? What are the coding guidelines?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

So for today’s article, let me focus mainly on the non-CES-related news about AR and VR. Intel Vaunt was canceled for risks involving data privacy. Let me quote the article: “We were giving away the hardware but making money on the data,” he said. When will the “Metaverse is dead” articles come out?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). 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.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

This means that while you have the Quest on, your microphone data will be always listened by the device, and you can imagine my profound happiness in knowing this. All the 3 major VR runtimes (Oculus, SteamVR, Microsoft) are now compatible with OpenXR , and this means that on the runtime layer on PC, now OpenXR has been fully integrated.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

In this article, we will discuss on augmented reality. Microsoft Hololens is a key player in the MR market. Computer Vision uses SLAM to receive visual data from our physical world and use this visual input to understand and interact with the environment. It had started gaining interest in the metaverse trend ever since.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Welcome to this new edition of the XR Week Peek, which this week will be a bit special because I will summarize here what happened during the Meta Connect, the event during which Mark Zuckerberg launched the Quest 3, the Ray-Ban Meta smartglasses, and new techniques for data harvest… cough cough I mean, new AI services.

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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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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. Microsoft too had to lose $10B to let Xbox enter the gaming console market and compete with PlayStation. Image by Microsoft).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Today I host another great article by Rob Cole , who writes again about his experience with the Pimax Crystal headset. Here are my findings since the first article was published, starting with a subject close to my heart. If you want to read his previous post, you can find it here.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Everyone loves Beat Saber, and if the game offered a free multiplayer mode just requiring a Facebook login, many people would use that, and so Facebook could gather the data of all these players. The article talks about a Russian experiment to improve the mood of cows. Microsoft now sees VR as a high priority for Flight Simulator.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

Let’s say that talking about a device the users put directly on their faces when your company is being challenged about the data it collects wouldn’t have been the smartest of the decisions. Furthermore, Microsoft 365 apps such as Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint, will be connected with Omniverse Project Mellon has been unveiled.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. The incumbents have an advantage with existing mapping such as Google Maps, Earth, Street View, Apple Maps and the Indoor Maps Program, and Bing Maps but there are also significant geographic data players such as Foursquare and OpenStreetMap.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

And are also good for data harvesting cough cough cough. Every week I share with you the very rare articles that say something interesting about the metaverse, and this week I want to propose two posts by the smart PhD Kim Nevelsteen that talk about the definitions of “the metaverse” according to science and what XR experts think about it.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

You may remember his name because he has read and commented a lot of articles on this website. We can deploy to a vast of platforms using game engines like Unity, Unreal Engine, the more recent Godot engine or any of the other engines out there, which have all started to add VR features”. You may be saying “Come on!

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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. Microsoft Capture Studio is offering such services scanning celebrities and performers for entertainment and education purposes.

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