The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

This is a period with many tech announcements: we had Meta telling about its Horizon OS, yesterday OpenAI unveiled the new GPT-4o, and today Google will hopefully unveil its Android XR operating system. What a time to be alive!

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

This week in XR has seen the launch of the first standalone MR headset, plus a lot of interesting news and articles about immersive realities. Let’s see how Apple and Google will answer. Google Glass 2 is now available for direct purchase. Do you want to discover them with me? Top news of the week. Image by Lynx).

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Their site also posts educational and informative articles relating to the world of MR, AR, and VR technology. This year’s 70+ person judging panel included academic professors and researchers as well as representatives from Google, HTC, HP, Deloitte, NVIDIA, Apache, and others. VR Film of the Year. This offered little surprise.

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ARVR

JULY 15, 2020

Trending AR VR Articles: 1. For example, the Google Cardboard headset is only $20 !!! Google has a cardboard cutout template that you can follow at [link] Pro Tip: when making homemade lenses seal two pieces of plastic to create a biconvex shape with glue and use a needle syringe to fill it with water until there are no bubbles left!

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Unreal Engine 4 is also an industry standard although it has a steeper learning curve than Unity. Google VR SDK is popular for building virtual reality applications for Android and iOS. WebVR is also becoming a formidable force for those who love HTC Vive, Oculus Rift or Google Cardboard, in a web browser.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

And since our love is for immersive realities, let’s celebrate it with this roundup of the most interesting XR news of the week! Facebook keeps working to become a leader in immersive technologies. The most viral news of the week has for sure been the one about MetaHuman Creator, a new software for Unreal Engine.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

More info (Report by Bloomberg) More info (UploadVR’s article on the news). Using a person equipped with a special helmet and special AR glasses, the company can scan many environments and then let you navigate them at home in streaming using your phone (in the same way you use Google StreetView). Unreal Engine 4.25

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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! elements of web3 such as decentralized and blockchain gaming, and the challenges around creating immersive multi-user experiences. design, mixed reality (M.R.),

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 15, 2023

While virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) applications are just beginning to be used in industry, gamers have been using headsets to enter fully immersive worlds for years. The video game industry is a source of constant innovation, with many of its breakthrough technologies being adopted by the business world.

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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 Between that, I worked on consumer cloud software with Google for five years… managing engineering teams for Gmail, Japanese mobile, Google Labs, and social (Blogger etc.) teams for Japan.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In its upcoming 5-year development plan, there should be measures to favor the growth and the spread of Immersive Realities. Viveport is improving a lot, and now HTC is also launching the Vive XR Suite , which will be distributed thanks to the support of a strong network of partners like HP, NVIDIA, Baidu (the Chinese Google), and Accenture.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 14, 2020

And while Unreal Engine already supports OpenXR, Unity is a bit lagging, but support is coming in 2021. There is not a VR mod for it, but of course, the VR community is doing everything to play it in VR , so let me link here below various guides on how you can play it inside a VR headset , to have better immersion. I can’t wait.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

And it’s not over on the content side: they are going to launch the Pico Video app with 600+ videos on day 1 , and are partnering to have immersive concerts with Wave. Image by Google). Meta and Google announce layoffs. This week we had the announcement of both Meta and Google laying off people. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

I think that, after a year, its specifications don’t sound exceptional anymore and maybe it is better that LG jumps directly to a second generation or that enters the standalone market (as it seems, since there are some rumors about a new revolutionary headset screen developed by Google and LG). Google AR apps.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

It comes out from the passion of someone that has just discovered how immersive realities are beautiful, or maybe from the mind of a student that has just finished the university and wants to find a dream job in AR or VR. I will briefly highlight all my recent story and how I got started with every new role I covered in the immersive field.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2021

We all like to shoot videos and screenshots of the VR experiences we play : sometimes to me it is a necessity because I need content to insert inside my articles for my blog, but in general, we all love to save some great moments we had in VR, in the same way we feel the need to take a picture when something interesting is happening in real life.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

Alex Kipman promised us a Microsoft Ignite conference with an amazing level of immersion , and he kept his word. The result was the one of having Alex Kipman as if he was really in front of you , a fantastic immersive feature for an XR event. Top news of the week. Image by OceanX). Not bad at all for an expensive enterprise toy.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2022

As a full disclaimer, this is a paid article that I’m writing for a recent collaboration I started with NVIDIA to help them promote GTC , NVIDIA’s flagship event, that this year will be held online on March 21st-24nd. You can discover more about the GTC and some of its cool XR sessions in the remainder of this article.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

We Unity developers have still to use the current Unity tools that make us develop once, but then build for every different platform (like the ones I describe in this article ). Unreal is already compatible with the framework, so in 2021 we’ll soon have also the tools ready to create OpenXR cross-compatible platforms.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

Google’s investment for a 7.7% Google-Jio joint venture to develop an Android-based platform for an affordable 5G phone. In its personal crusade against Microsoft, optics expert Karl Guttag has listed in 4 articles all the defects of the HoloLens 2. Read about Google experiments with AR and wearables.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. The World Map in this world therefore isn’t a 2D street map like we have with Google Maps or Open Street Map, nor is it a 3D map with terrain and building volumes. In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2019

At Immersive Computing (see his Instagram account ) he carries on this interest, exploring the technology always starting from the human perspective, putting the human at the centre of his experiments and analysis. Valve Index box (Image by Immersive Computing). The material of the various tests (Image by Immersive Computing).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

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. Varifocal feature supported. It has 4.5DOF.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

For a good Mixed Reality experience, the degree of immersion is key in making you believe what’s in front of you is the real deal. We’re looking at you, Google Glass. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. To compensate for the significant loss of light the lenses are very dark, similar to wearing sunglasses indoors. That’s not all.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

They could make AR enter a new immersive phase that leads towards mainstream adoption. High-precision 6DOF tracking, eye tracking, gesture inputs, with dedicated input controllers The SDK will support Unity , with Unreal coming Soon. It’s like 2 years (!!) The official computational unit runs Android. All APIs have a plain C version.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

So things like Uber or Google Maps and directions were native to the phone, that were kind of useless on the PC. 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. platform for creating even more immersive–?

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

So things like Uber or Google Maps and directions were native to the phone, that were kind of useless on the PC. 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. platform for creating even more immersive–?

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

So things like Uber or Google Maps and directions were native to the phone, that were kind of useless on the PC. 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. platform for creating even more immersive–?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So really, the lessons that we learned out of XR Collaboration is this new, immersive, remote way of connecting digitally online. But the future is really taking a plunge into these immersive collaboration platforms and really honing in on that word, collaboration. But then you look at Unreal. just, Google it. 30 percent."

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So really, the lessons that we learned out of XR Collaboration is this new, immersive, remote way of connecting digitally online. But the future is really taking a plunge into these immersive collaboration platforms and really honing in on that word, collaboration. But then you look at Unreal. just, Google it.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So really, the lessons that we learned out of XR Collaboration is this new, immersive, remote way of connecting digitally online. But the future is really taking a plunge into these immersive collaboration platforms and really honing in on that word, collaboration. But then you look at Unreal. just, Google it.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2023

In case you missed all my previous articles and you are too lazy to read them, the “long story short” you should know is that Amaze VR is dedicated to the production and sale of high-quality VR concerts. I remember reading some articles about it years ago, and a quick Google search brought me to 2020.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

While the program was principally incubated by Crytek, students working in VR First labs tend use Unity (48%), followed by Unreal (20%) and then CRYENGINE (14%). Update 04/13/2017: the article was updated to clarify that VR First initially incubated under Crytek, but is now a fully independent program. . image courtesy VR First.

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Building the Metaverse

APRIL 12, 2022

That is the subject of this article: composability in the metaverse. In this article, I will cover: What composability means, with examples of composability in nature, art and technology Why we are are the forefront of a new era of the internet in which all aspects of the metaverse value-chain ? Composability is Compound Interest?

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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. But I guess there were some legal reasons for that.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Emily Friedman is a New York based enterprise immersive, wearable and emerging technology advocate, journalist and facilitator. Emily: Ok, I wish I were productive enough to write multiple articles a week. It was 2015, right after Google Glass, quote/unquote failed. And there were all these headlines, “Glasshole” articles.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Emily Friedman is a New York based enterprise immersive, wearable and emerging technology advocate, journalist and facilitator. Emily: Ok, I wish I were productive enough to write multiple articles a week. It was 2015, right after Google Glass, quote/unquote failed. And there were all these headlines, “Glasshole” articles.

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