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. I’ve found on the web a long article about the haptics devices available , or on which there are experimentations. Some good roundups of creative immersive experiences. Great post.

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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. However, other cloud services continued to grow, including Nvidia's GeForce Now and Microsoft's Xbox Cloud Gaming.

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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! Huge companies like Facebook and Microsoft are throwing vast sums of money at their attempts to build, and therefore define, the metaverse. BSc, and even Ph.D.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

You know, I’m here for the Sandbox Immersive Festival that will begin tomorrow and I’m ready to tell you all my experience here! More info (Official announcement) More info (UploadVR article) More info (Respawn teaser). nReal has also been sued by Epic Games for its name that is too close to “Unreal”. Magic Leap is suing nReal.

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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. David Heaney has also published a very interesting article on how the Quest 2 is more powerful than a Quest 1 and how it compares to a VR-ready PC. The anger for the Facebook Login policy is not stopping.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

More info (Report by Bloomberg) More info (UploadVR’s article on the news). Unreal Engine 4.25 update, Unreal Engine has added many features that may be useful in crafting XR experiences. Microsoft presents VROOM, a solution that mixes AR and robotics to let you have a telepresence robot with your AR avatar during meetings.

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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. Already, they have a VR publishing library hosting thousands of 3D and 360 degree environments and assets which those willing to either immerse into for exploration or to learn VR, can browse and enjoy. Both are free to download and try.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

They teased a lot of interesting features and services of the device, and left the remaining technical details to some technical sheets on Microsoft website. But Microsoft, thanks to innovative 2K displays, has managed to keep the same high-quality pixel density of the HoloLens 1, that is 47 PPD (pixels per degree). Resolution.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

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. This means that if you develop an experience using OpenXR, you can run it on Oculus, SteamVR, and Microsoft runtimes with no modification. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

Furthermore, Microsoft 365 apps such as Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint, will be connected with Omniverse Project Mellon has been unveiled. It is a lightweight Python package capable of harnessing the heavyweight power of speech AI (NVIDIA Riva) and large language models (LLMs) to simplify user interactions in immersive environments.

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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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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

The SDK offers native APIs, but also supports popular game engines like Unity and Unreal 4. We’re delighted to be able to share that we’re teamed up with @magicleap as an early access dev partner to explore spatial computing on the immersive web! — Mozilla MR (@mozillareality) March 19, 2018.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

The Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications (FIT) together with various partners from industry including Apple, Ericsson, Huawei, Intel, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and Son y has confirmed the release and official adoption of H.266/Versatile Not a great evolution from Microsoft. H266 video standard can pave the way to 8K video streaming.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal. Some recent acquisitions include AltspaceVR (Microsoft), and Escher (Niantic). Authors’ opinions are their own. Who Will Own the Metaverse? by Marko Balabanovic.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

Without HDR, you are conscious that you are seeing the world through a screen, while with actual HDR, you can feel the proper lighting of a scene, and it immediately becomes real and immersive. That’s why this week we had a serious amount of articles that got shared that added no information about what we already know but got popular anyway.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2019

I hoped that in this period all VR people were in vacation, so that I could relax a bit… instead this week there have been tons of interesting news and articles… even more than usual! video) More info (Unreal Engine with Octane Renderer) More info (Wi-fi is not enough for VR streaming). Top news of the week. Image by ACM).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

They could make AR enter a new immersive phase that leads towards mainstream adoption. We started talking with other professionals in the field, and they always kept saying to us “If Microsoft can’t do it, how can you do it?”. It’s like 2 years (!!) But we were motivated, so we started studying the problem.

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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. This has 3 main components to it, dictated by hardware: Wait, how is this different from things like Microsoft’s Hololens? Trending AR VR Articles: 1. That’s not all. How similar?

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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. platform for creating even more immersive–? So Microsoft said, “hey, let’s make it out-of-the-box useful. Or use your 6D.ai

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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. platform for creating even more immersive–? So Microsoft said, “hey, let’s make it out-of-the-box useful. Or use your 6D.ai

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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. platform for creating even more immersive–? So Microsoft said, “hey, let’s make it out-of-the-box useful. Or use your 6D.ai

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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. You look at Epic. 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. You look at Epic. 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. You look at Epic. just, Google it.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

The game is very different from its predecessor, and it is less a realistic combat simulator and more an adrenaline multiplayer game, like Unreal Tournament or Quake Arena. Microsoft has acquired Zenimax for $7.5B. In-between the console wars, Microsoft has bought Bethesda’s parent company, Zenimax, for $7.5B. Let’s dream!).

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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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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. Microsoft and Samsung may be partnering for an AR device.

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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. And there were all these headlines, “Glasshole” articles. But there’s a lot going on. Alan: Oh, those are great.

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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. And there were all these headlines, “Glasshole” articles. But there’s a lot going on. Alan: Oh, those are great.

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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. And there were all these headlines, “Glasshole” articles. But there's a lot going on. Time really is money in business.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Zuck’s announcement has been reported everywhere, and this has been a very powerful endorsement for immersive technologies. Everyone with an internet connection has got to know that one of the most important companies in the world has even changed its name to focus on immersive realities and this thing called “the metaverse”.

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