The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

The same luck has not happened to employees at Niantic at Unity. Unity, instead, is firing 4% of its employees, and this may seem weird considering that in the last months it has proceeded to hundred-millions-dollars acquisitions. A thing I have appreciated about Meta is that it has canceled projects, but it has not fired anyone.

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MAY 27, 2024

However, there were also some exciting announcements for those interested in the extended reality landscape. If you’ve been waiting with bated breath for a new set of Google Augmented Reality glasses or even more advanced AR features in Google apps, you’re in luck.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The technology’s similarity to pre-existing systems enables the easy integration of XR within a range of business environments, such as construction and healthcare, helping drive the adoption of immersive solutions and devices. The Unity integration also enables the OEP to integrate other related solutions into the product.

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ARPost

APRIL 17, 2023

Even the immersive industry needs a real-life environment to discover gadgets and try AR/VR content. This is one of the most comprehensive fairs for professionals, stakeholders, and tech enthusiasts focused on immersive technologies. This year, it is made even better by one of the top AR/VR events: AWE USA.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

Some of the news coming from there have been: NVIDIA announced new Grace Hopper chips to empower AI algorithms on server machines , and AI workbench to allow everyone to play around with AI models. This is how we learn to do proper content for what is going to be the next trend in XR.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The past week has been a pretty interesting one for the tech world: between Microsoft Ignite, Unity Unite, and the OpenAI drama, there has been a lot to follow. Unity 6 takes back the original way of specifying engine versions and abandons the confusing one that bound a new Unity version to the year it was released.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Augmented reality is a technology that allows us to superimpose digital information into the real-world environment. 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.

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ARPost

MAY 14, 2020

The Finalists for Best Campaign Are: Portal – an immersive clothing shopping experience that works with Nreal’s anticipated XR technology to “turn your room into a boutique.”. The Finalists for Best Consumer App Are: Five Nights At Fredy’s AR Special Delivery – the augmented reality version of the viral jump-scare game.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

The free to attend showcase features women-led businesses in immersive technology (XR) and is hosted by the WXR Fund, a venture fund dedicated to amplifying female founders and XR startups committed to gender equality. Here are the eight female Founders of the 1st WXR Cohort: Vivian Tan // Beast, Inc.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 9, 2023

Disciplines will include research and development (R&D) for AI, machine learning (ML), quantum information, blockchain, and data science. The Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Association (VRARA)’s Central Florida Chapter took centre stage with Full Sail University in late March.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Snap, one of the world’s top camera software firms, has revealed major updates to its augmented reality (AR) platform, Snap Lens. Snap Lens studio incorporated Ray Tracing for developers in April last year to boost immersion and realism for AR content. This year’s instalment is set to take place on 19 April.

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ARVR

JULY 6, 2021

Photo by Sigmund on Unsplash Augmented Reality is all set to create a more immersive world that will encompass most of our daily life. Introduction This project is originally a part of my university curriculum, I essentially came up with the idea to build something unique as most projects were based on Machine learning.

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ARVR

JUNE 22, 2021

Ensure repeatability thanks to the digital format of the learning support. ? Ensure learning consistency thanks to the digital support. ? Increase user retention through increased immersion and gamification techniques. Haptics can enhance user immersion during the execution of the training content. Skills transfer.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The French startup headed by Stan Larroque is developing passthrough AR glasses with eye-tracking and hands tracking that can offer a new paradigm to augmented reality. For instance, Rebecca Minkoff, a very famous stylist, has decided to showcase her new creations in augmented reality.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

If you want to experiment with XR cloud rendering , you won’t need to buy a powerful workstation and experiment with the settings anymore: you just buy a dedicated EC2 machine on AWS supplied by NVIDIA and everything is ready out of the box. You activate the machine, pay for its usage and you can have cloud rendering. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 5, 2023

The use of eye, hand, and voice interactions make the interface with the headset natural and easy to be learned. Yes, this one has passthrough, 4K screens, etc… but still, it’s a very old and very not-immersive use case. We have not seen much about this headset, but the basic interactions seem made the right way.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 4, 2024

Azad Abbasi, the Founder & CEO of GeniusXR, added: The Volumetric Capture Studio represents a significant leap forward in the world of immersive content creation. We’re dedicated to leveraging cutting-edge technologies, including Artificial Intelligence, to create immersive storytelling experiences in the metaverse.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 17, 2020

or just meet and talk about immersive realities. He started working in the field many years before me , and he has seen all the transition from old-school VR to the modern devices kickstarted by Palmer Luckey, and so has a great knowledge on immersive realities and many other related technologies.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 15, 2024

Augmented reality kits seem to be everywhere, from well-known options like Apple’s ARKit and Google ARCore to Apple’s new collection of AR development tools. billion in 2023 , the AR market is now growing at a CAGR of 39.8%, thanks to evolving smartphone technology, Augmented smart glasses, and intuitive developer tools.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 28, 2024

Reality Composer Pro: The new Reality Composer Pro tool supports Apple Vision Pro app development with an environment fir editing and designing 3D content. Unity integration: Unity offers comprehensive support for Apple Vision Pro developers, including a visionOS template which forms the foundation of spatial experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

Sentences like “With eye-tracking (ET) and a few well-placed sensors, they’ll learn our unconscious reactions to anything we see. Holoride has now announced that it is working with Unity and Pico to release its Elastic SDK and offer devkits to let developers create experiences for the Holoride store , that will also be powered by blockchain.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 19, 2017

Over the last several years the long-running SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference served as an important marker of immersive computing’s march toward mainstream. Panels and presentations will also be offered allowing visitors to learn more about the projects. Neurable: Brain-Computer Interfaces for Virtual and Augmented Reality.

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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. Simple WebXR” aims at bringing WebXR to Unity. On GitHub has appeared a new project called “Simple WebXR” aimed at letting you develop WebXR experiences inside Unity. Learn more.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Alan: Hey, everyone, I'm Alan Smithson, and today we're speaking with John Martin, the CEO and co-founder of BUNDLR, an augmented reality platform company empowering training, learning, and development innovators with on-demand and mobile immersive experiences. They want immersive tools. They want on-demand.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Alan: Hey, everyone, I'm Alan Smithson, and today we're speaking with John Martin, the CEO and co-founder of BUNDLR, an augmented reality platform company empowering training, learning, and development innovators with on-demand and mobile immersive experiences. They want immersive tools. They want on-demand.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Alan: Hey, everyone, I'm Alan Smithson, and today we're speaking with John Martin, the CEO and co-founder of BUNDLR, an augmented reality platform company empowering training, learning, and development innovators with on-demand and mobile immersive experiences. They want immersive tools. They want on-demand.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

And extended reality is the term that we are using at Accenture, and I think across the industry others are also using this term “XR” to include virtual reality, augmented reality, 3D experiences; all different types of experiences that blend the digital and physical worlds, and work on extending your reality.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

And extended reality is the term that we are using at Accenture, and I think across the industry others are also using this term “XR” to include virtual reality, augmented reality, 3D experiences; all different types of experiences that blend the digital and physical worlds, and work on extending your reality.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Officially he is a VR angel investor, but he is much more than this: he is also an immersive technologies enthusiast and an influencer that can really foster healthy debates about the main questions that we all have around these technologies. The original idea of Virtualitics is to immerse yourself within the data.

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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. It has just announced that it will release a new tool to create virtual worlds for the platform based on Unity. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 31, 2022

The system is capable of quintillions of operations per second and it is able to speed up the machine learning process from 3x to 20x with regard to the previous supercomputer cluster architecture in use by Meta. Image by Unity). Unity acquires Ziva Dynamics to build the avatars of the future. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Unity support for OpenXR is still in early beta , and so it’s not reliable yet to develop an OpenXR-compliant application in Unity. 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 ). 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. They could make AR enter a new immersive phase that leads towards mainstream adoption. It’s like 2 years (!!) What is Kura’s story? The official computational unit runs Android.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

Now the full stack of the platform has been made opensource, and it will be easy for tech-savvy people to install it on whatever machine they want. More info Mozilla Hubs changes its plans Mozilla has announced an update to the pricing plans of the open WebXR social platform Mozilla Hubs.

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ARVR

JUNE 3, 2021

How Augmented Reality (AR) is Reshaping the Food Service Industry 3. The roll-out of 5G technology and Wi-Fi 6 and rising technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data analytics is feeding virtual reality market extension globally. How VR could bring transhumanism to the masses 2.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

Before leaving you to the best news of the week, I would like to highlight two notable things about my work: My crazy trolling game “The Unity Cube” has been featured in a video by Upload VR! Holoride raises $10M to develop immersive automotive entertainment. Learn more. You don’t even know how this made me happy!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Today Tilt Five is launching its Kickstarter campaign for its innovative augmented reality glasses for tabletop gaming. I know it’s not your first rodeo with augmented reality…) ( 0:36 ). That’s where I got started with augmented reality. Here you are the full video of the interview. The Vive Wands.

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