The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

We’re looking for a Unity dev for a freelance gig lasting 1–2 months, ideally from Italy or a nearby country (for easier management). It is in Italian, but basically it says that we’re looking for a Unity dev with preferred experience with VR and/or multiplayer games. Unity Reflect its a great XR tool for enterprise customers.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

Image by HTC Vive). HTC launches Vive Focus 3 and Vive Pro 2. In the end, the rumors were correct and HTC launched two headsets at VIVECON: the Vive Pro 2 and the Vive Focus 3 Business Edition. But this device got also some criticism: first of all , HTC has not released new controllers and still sells it with the old Wands.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

In 2015 my girlfriend came with a Cardboard and with no experience with Unity I created my first 360 photo which I’ve shown to my manger. In 2018 we did a case study where people were invited to use virtual reality in a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) fashion. There started to grow the use of interactions in 360 videos.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

There is a lot at stakes, because if these two companies won’t settle (and I think that they are just firing big shots before finding an agreement), Unreal Engine developers won’t be able to develop properly for Apple XR devices, and they will have all to migrate to Unity. The same on Twitter. Other relevant news. Image by Epic Games).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2022

Today, to provide an insight into the opportunities for XR in the gaming landscape, we’re going to be looking at some of the most impressive case studies from the last few years. The “TendAR” augmented reality experience creates a virtual fish for players, capable of interacting with the real world through the user’s camera.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

Given its great expertise in image analysis and its big user base, Snap is another company to keep an eye on for the future of augmented reality. Cubism is a great case study for hand tracking UX. Microsoft signs a $22B deal with the US Army. I really hope that this is going to happen. What puzzles me is why this partnership.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

We studied theoretical physics in Tyrol. And as a theoretical study -- especially on physics -- also, the study is extremely theoretical. It's the Augmented Reality Engineering Space. And the technology who enables everything is ISAR: Interactive Streaming for Augmented Reality. I could picture it!

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

We studied theoretical physics in Tyrol. And as a theoretical study -- especially on physics -- also, the study is extremely theoretical. It's the Augmented Reality Engineering Space. And the technology who enables everything is ISAR: Interactive Streaming for Augmented Reality. I could picture it!

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2021

This week has been pretty crazy: It all started with Facebook approving my silly The Unity Cube application (an application with just a cube) on App Lab. Image by HTC Vive). HTC is teasing a new headset. HTC is teasing a new piece of hardware again, and this time most probably it will be a VR headset. Not much, honestly.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

If this happens , Facebook is going to disrupt completely the market, because it would be a headset offering so much for so little price, destroying the competition with Pico and HTC. HTC ecosystem conference brings news in eye-tracking and positional tracking solutions. But this is just a speculation at this time. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Today I am very happy to host on my blog Kura Technologies , one of the most interesting augmented reality startups out there. But we were motivated, so we started studying the problem. Hello Kelly! Can you introduce yourself? I’m Kelly Peng, founder and CEO/CTO of Kura. I’m an electrical/optical/software engineer.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

Ok, of course, I’m kidding, but, you know, the possibility of saying the wrong name is so high that my proposal actually starts making sense… Top news of the week (Image by HTC Vive) HTC reveals inside-out-tracked Tracker With a totally unexpected move, HTC has revealed a new kind of Tracker.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Mark Zuckerberg, but also Unity CEO John Riccitiello) that should mark the beginning of the serious adoption of new technology. Now the design has been used also by other companies, like HTC that has just launched its Vive Flow headset. Plus Huawei headset is compatible only with Huawei phones, while HTC is more open.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

If these Facebook features proved to be popular, more developers would use them, and finally, Facebook could have more power on the VR development tools , after the failed acquisition of Unity. The pictures only show one cow, while for a similar study many would be required. Red 6 brings AR to the USAF.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Today, we’re looking a little more closely at the benefits of XR in the construction industry, by exploring some of the most innovative case studies published by market-leading vendors. HTC VIVE and CannonDesign. Unity and DPR Construction. What’s more, these tools can also pave the way for safer operations in the AEC space.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

More info News worth a mention Information leaks on Vive’s inside-out Tracker There is a new leak about the inside-out tracked Vive Tracker that HTC teased a few months ago. It is also possible to create your custom spaces to use in Mesh either with a no-code editor or by using Unity to create more personalized and complex scenes.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

You’ve seen it from pre-DK1 days — where [it was] probably a cobbled-together a collection of flat screens, wires, and duct tape — and what it is today, where you have real consumer-grade virtual reality that’s not even connected to computers. You’ve written countless articles on virtual and augmented reality.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

You’ve seen it from pre-DK1 days — where [it was] probably a cobbled-together a collection of flat screens, wires, and duct tape — and what it is today, where you have real consumer-grade virtual reality that’s not even connected to computers. You’ve written countless articles on virtual and augmented reality.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2022

I’ve personally met and had a chat with people from Unity and Epic Games, Roblox, The Sandbox, HTC Vive, Microsoft, Rec Room. During the event, I was able to see (in streaming) Mark Zuckerberg live for the first time. There was a keynote by Neal Stephenson. I saw that there were people from Sony Interactive Entertainment.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

You've seen it from pre-DK1 days -- where [it was] probably a cobbled-together a collection of flat screens, wires, and duct tape -- and what it is today, where you have real consumer-grade virtual reality that's not even connected to computers. You've written countless articles on virtual and augmented reality. Dean: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

You’ve seen it from pre-DK1 days — where [it was] probably a cobbled-together a collection of flat screens, wires, and duct tape — and what it is today, where you have real consumer-grade virtual reality that’s not even connected to computers. You’ve written countless articles on virtual and augmented reality.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

Today’s guest is Michael Ludden, global head of developer advocacy and principal augmented reality advocate at Bose Technologies. You’ve done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. and one of my friends who I just made by being nerdy, worked for a company called HTC. I really did.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

Today’s guest is Michael Ludden, global head of developer advocacy and principal augmented reality advocate at Bose Technologies. You’ve done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. and one of my friends who I just made by being nerdy, worked for a company called HTC. I really did.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Alan: Today's guest is Cameron Ayres, the director of innovation at Sector 5 Digital, a digital agency specializing in augmented reality and virtual reality applications for the enterprise. That's where virtual reality, and augmented reality, and a lot of other different media come into play.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Alan: Today's guest is Cameron Ayres, the director of innovation at Sector 5 Digital, a digital agency specializing in augmented reality and virtual reality applications for the enterprise. That's where virtual reality, and augmented reality, and a lot of other different media come into play.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

Today's guest is Michael Ludden, global head of developer advocacy and principal augmented reality advocate at Bose Technologies. You've done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. And I just found that was really the point of inflection in my life where I studied musical theater in college, I went to UCLA.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Alan: Today's guest is Cameron Ayres, the director of innovation at Sector 5 Digital, a digital agency specializing in augmented reality and virtual reality applications for the enterprise. That's where virtual reality, and augmented reality, and a lot of other different media come into play.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Alan: Today's guest is Cameron Ayres, the director of innovation at Sector 5 Digital, a digital agency specializing in augmented reality and virtual reality applications for the enterprise. That's where virtual reality, and augmented reality, and a lot of other different media come into play.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

Neutral Digital is an aviation-focused content creation house at the cutting edge of immersive interaction solutions; they deliver augmented reality, virtual reality, digital design, architectural visualization, in-flight entertainment solutions, and apps and websites for the aviation industry. Just just a quick overview.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Hosted by the Summit’s President and Founder Nathan Pettyjohn, Virtual and Augmented Reality Association’s (VRARA) Kris Kolo, and many others from the IGS and VRARA teams, the organisation’s latest iteration rallied some of the tech industry’s most prized companies, thought leaders, and experts.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

Neutral Digital is an aviation-focused content creation house at the cutting edge of immersive interaction solutions; they deliver augmented reality, virtual reality, digital design, architectural visualization, in-flight entertainment solutions, and apps and websites for the aviation industry. Just just a quick overview.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

Various reports indicated it as the internal codename in Google for a project meant to build augmented reality glasses. We already saw this problem happening when HTC departed from the Steam platform to build its Viveport store because hardware sales were not enough to have an ambitious business.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2020

What is worrisome the most is that it is unclear what will happen to all the other amazing XR projects that Mozilla was managing like the WebXR framework A-frame or the WebXR exporter for Unity. The HTC Cosmos Play will be an enterprise headset. Now HTC has changed its mind, and the Play has become an enterprise headset.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

HTC discounts its headsets. HTC has started a good discount on its headsets that will last until the end of the month. With this simple tool, it is possible instead to make some quick tests in play mode , because the pose of the headset is streamed from the headset to Unity. A little tool that can help many VR devs that use Mac.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2018

The project evolved over time and when in 2016 HTC released the Vive, they immediately thought about integrating VR into their solution. Think how it is massive: while we are discussing how VR can be useful, in China in three years all schools will use virtual reality for the education of the students.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

” Kent: Well, first of all, virtual and augmented reality as a medium is a new paradigm of computing: spatial computing. Alan: Well, that speaks to exactly what you were saying; design work and collaboration and higher level work collaboration in augmented reality.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

Kent: Well, first of all, virtual and augmented reality as a medium is a new paradigm of computing: spatial computing. Alan: Well, that speaks to exactly what you were saying; design work and collaboration and higher level work collaboration in augmented reality. Being able to actually look somebody in the eyes in VR.

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