The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

Image by Google). Google performs interesting AR news at I/O conference. At Google I/O, no executive of the company has talked about the M-word, but they have anyway showed interesting AR updates, which will be relevant for our future M-world. Another cool announcement has been the one of Immersive View for Google Maps.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

And every day I read articles about how AI can disrupt the metaverse, how ChatGPT and metaverse are the perfect match, and especially about how the fact that if your XR company doesn’t have an AI strategy, it is already old and ready to die a terrible death. I have my point of view on all of this, and I would like to tell to you.

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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 ). The last cycle before this one was the Quest one, which started to make virtual reality known to the mainstream audience for what concerns games and fitness.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2022

Meta starts offering monetization tools in Horizon Worlds, but with a big toll. Meta has started offering some beta monetization tools inside Horizon Worlds. accessories or customizations) inside Horizon Worlds, to jumpstart its creators’ economy. Other relevant news. Image by Meta). In total, 52.5%

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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! It’s not been the most exciting week ever for XR, but there is still some interesting piece of news here below for you to enjoy.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

Eight year ago, when I first launched Hypergrid Business , virtual worlds offered a unique set of compelling features. There was presence, and immersion, and the ability to create your own virtual environments. At that time, virtual worlds were the only visible path to an interconnected metaverse of virtual environments.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Image by Google). Meta and Google announce layoffs. This week we had the announcement of both Meta and Google laying off people. It has just announced that it will release a new tool to create virtual worlds for the platform based on Unity. News worth a mention. Rec Room announces Rec Room Studio.

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 9, 2024

Image courtesy Google.) Yup, Google’s Gemini 1.5 The tech companies already have preliminary models that can do most of this, including that Google AI I just mentioned. Third — and this is the key part of it — the next generation of generative AIs will be able to simulate the world. TopAI has 70.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The hype for the Apple Pro is starting to deflate and it is possible to see that from some cues: for instance, there are more critics of the headset and fewer articles are talking about it. Honestly, I’m glad about that, I was getting bored from reading only articles about it.

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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. from PC) to join its virtual worlds , too, so that to increment the user base. 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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ARVR

MAY 10, 2021

I want to put together this brief (maybe not so brief) and digestible little article, to help anyone new to this space understand all (some) of the programs flying around that enable XR creation and development! Much like an oil painter needs their paints and turpentine, AR creators need a myriad of tools as well! What is Social AR? —?if

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

Luckily there is AR that is still strong, and we can hope to wear Google AR glasses soon… ah no, they are dead too. Answer: probably just the possibility of the same community visiting different worlds together may be enough) Is monetization beneficial to virtual worlds? Ah no, not even that because also Twitter is dead.

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Apple is constantly improving its ARKit solution, adding always more features, and also Google is (slowly) updating ARCore. The purpose of these companies is to give people the tools to record a 3D version of a friend or of themselves so that it can then be inserted into a video or a virtual experience. Image by Volograms).

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ARVR

APRIL 27, 2022

As this area deserves a dedicated article, I’ve tried to briefly share some of the metaverse related blockchain applications at the end of the article. So, you will hop into the metaverse for a business meeting at 12pm and be able to catch up with an old friend for a virtual coffee chat right afterwards.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 19, 2023

I used to think that the path to the metaverse started with screen-based virtual worlds then expanded to virtual reality. First, until the resolution of a virtual world is as good as real life, there will be an advantage to working the old-fashioned way, especially when you’re in a graphics-heavy profession.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

and you found this article for whatever reason, first of all, welcome to the club! Then, I link you here below some resources that may be useful to get you started with virtual reality and with Oculus Quest 2 in particular. and if you get your Quest for Christmas…. … I like this approach. Some shower of realisms on the Metaverse.

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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. Having haptic sensation on the palm is very important to increase the sense of presence when you are holding a tool in your hand.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Just like it sounds, it’s AI that can create, from words and images to videos, music, computer applications, and even entire virtual worlds. We’re used to using AI-powered applications and tools in our everyday lives. With a little practice, we can even use them to build our own AI-powered apps and tools.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Synthesizing these factors, one of AR’s battlegrounds will be in augmenting the world in location-relevant ways. That could be wayfinding with Google Live View , or visual search with Google Lens. As you can tell from the above examples, Google will have a key stake in this “Internet of Places.” But it’s not alone.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

In this article, we will discuss on augmented reality. Image credits SCAND Blog Virtual Reality (VR)  — It teleports the user into a completely immersive world that replaces the physical world. Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

You can read some of my hands-on articles on my blog (e.g. this one about Holoride and this about Lynx-R1 ), but many will come in the following days! After I will be back in Italy, on the 20th, I will also be a speaker at Virtual Reality Day , the 24h-conference about VR held by Bob Fine. More info.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 28, 2022

All abroad another “metaverse” article! Flash’s downfall left a gap in tools and platforms available for easily creating web-based interactive content, leaving creators struggling to adapt to the new era: Enter WebGL. With these components already available, why aren’t we living in the virtual world? Let’s dive into it.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

It’s Chinese Single Day and I wish the best to all the single people that are reading this article: I hope you are all on Taobao or Aliexpress buying super-discounted items! Image by Google). Google completely opensources Cardboard. Google has already abandoned all its VR projects (e.g. Top news of the week.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Since that article, Luckey’s “tinkering” has expanded into a full-blown technological revolution, earning him a whopping 2.3 When asked about why he focuses more on AR, Vermeulen says , “I don’t want to completely escape reality, I don’t want to be in a complete virtual world. I just want to augment my world.”.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 17, 2022

It is becoming always more difficult for a new company entering the field: the key hardware suppliers of displays and other components are all being bought by Meta, Apple, Snap, Google, and other big players. Some weeks ago, I have published an article about VR and its “kids issue”. Many great XR games are controlled by Meta.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Specifically, the people running OpenSim-based virtual worlds — because I think that OpenSim is a great role model of how to create an interconnected, open-source metaverse. Just think of how much change we’ve seen in the past couple of decades — the Internet, the World Wide Web, smartphones.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

But before talking about it, let me invite you once more to visit the Venice VR Expanded virtual worlds that we did in VRChat for the Venice Film Festival. Remote XR collaboration tool Spatial ( read here my review about it ) has just released its 1.7 Google releases a tool for body tracking on your phone.

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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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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. What virtual avatars, creatures, information layers or interactive components are here. 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.

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ARVR

AUGUST 19, 2021

They are using it for creating virtual tours of places, designing and collaborating on 3d models, games, entertainment, shopping, marketing, learning, visualizing, everything. Imagine putting all your thoughts into one space and building your virtual world, sounds cool right? Trending AR VR Articles: 1. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Empowering users should always be the primary focus of the metaverse and virtual worlds. Our open-source project aims to develop a user-generated content platform that allows users to easily create, modify, and share high-quality content to support applications that have real-world impact.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

But you have hands and feet controllers to move in the virtual world, so according to the manufacturers, you have 1.5DOF more (whatever it means). VR animation tool Quill has proved to be an interesting tool for creators these years. Yes, you’ve read everything well. It has 4.5DOF. and just rotating your head.

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ARVR

AUGUST 15, 2020

Trending AR VR Articles: 1. The First No-Headset Virtual Monitor 3. I’ve been thinking a ton about ways to facilitate connection and truly engaging experiences in virtual worlds. Problems with Current Tech that Gets in the Way of Connection Popular tools and tech aren’t that good. which we are now on!

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ARVR

JANUARY 11, 2021

This is achieved using a headset that completely fills the users field of view in combination with body tracking to map the players body into the virtual world. Augmented Reality combines aspects of virtual reality with the real world around you in a way that enhances the real world experience.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

MARCH 6, 2023

Many revealed new use cases for XR technologies, impressive virtual worlds, and upcoming enterprise solutions. The following recaps highlight the top news articles from last week. Personnel and staff from major Fortune 500 firms, including Apple, Google, Raytheon, and others, also use it to upskill for their daily operations.

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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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