The Ghost Howls

MARCH 22, 2022

I’m back in Italy, but I have left a piece of my heart in Austin, where I had an unforgettable experience both on the personal and professional side at SXSW (you can read more about my experience here ). After many pressures from the community and the media, Meta has finally decided to introduce new parental control tools in Quest 2.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2022

Anyway, today should be a vacation in Italy, but here I am writing this roundup for you, so if you want to show your appreciation, don’t forget to make a donation on Patreon ! Meta starts offering monetization tools in Horizon Worlds, but with a big toll. Meta has started offering some beta monetization tools inside Horizon Worlds.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 29, 2021

Simply said, VisionAR is the first augmented reality safety glasses in the world. The first glasses which allow augmented reality to enter effectively into the industrial and professional world, integrating the AR function with the safety function, which is more and more essential for any industrial application.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Italy won the Tennis Davis Cup, and that was pretty cool to see (the match between Sinner and Djokovic was just incredible). More info Rokid is now a unicorn Chinese manufacturer Rokid , who produces augmented reality glasses, just received a huge investment round of $112M to help the development of its XR products.

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ARPost

JANUARY 12, 2022

See Also: Experience Famous Artworks in Augmented Reality With “Museum From Home”. You may not be able to travel to Italy to see it in person, but thanks to detailed VR museum tours organized by Musei Vaticani, you can see each fresco in crisp detail. See Also: The Best VR Art Creation Tools You Can Try.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 15, 2022

As you’ve read in my other article written today , this is a special day for this blog… but it is also Monday, so I won’t skip writing a new amazing roundup of AR/VR news So, wishing you a happy Ferragosto (the name of today’s holiday in Italy), I leave you to the best XR news of the week! Top news of the week. Image by NVIDIA).

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EON Reality

JULY 7, 2023

EON Reality’s prominent partner in Italy extends partnership to provide AI-powered XR solutions to their teachers and students. IRVINE, CA, July 7, 2023 – EON Reality, Inc. (“EON This unique application allows for the virtuous use of data from BIM files, aided by graphics and augmented reality applications.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2023

More info Ready Player Me launches monetization tools for developers This has been in my opinion one of the biggest news of the week. Ready Player Me, the startup offering cross-platform and cross-application avatars, has just announced the release of its monetization tools in beta. appeared first on The Ghost Howls.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

Well, if the rumor becomes reality, this would mean that all next Apple devices will have both front and back depth cameras, for high-precision Augmented Reality and 3D reconstruction. Why is this a big deal? If you’re wondering what the heck am I talking about, it is quite easy to be explained. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

After a few days where we thought we were all living in a big oven, here in Italy we’re having the first taste of Autumn, with the temperatures going down and a lot of rain falling from the sky. Since MRTK was used especially for AR applications, it is natural that these three giants of augmented reality are interested in keeping it alive.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2023

So the next 2–3 weeks are going to be crazy for me, so sorry if I will make the comments on the newsletter a bit shorter than usual. On the personal side, I’m a bit devasted by the flood that happened in central Italy. It will start as a very closed beta, and be released to the general public later this year.

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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. At first, we had good news: Unity finally revealed its first two AI tools: Muse, which lets you create assets (textures, animations, code) directly in the editor using textual queries.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Around the world, ecommerce and retail companies are beginning to discover the unique benefits XR technologies can bring to augmenting both traditional and online experiences. XR in the retail and ecommerce space isn’t just a great tool for sales, it can also be a fantastic solution for marketing products to potential customers.

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JANUARY 3, 2023

The augmented reality (AR) headset manufacturer gained $450 million from the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund (PIF). Magic Leap debuted its device internationally in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, Singapore, and Saudi Arabia. More on the Magic Leap 2, Before Saudi Arabia’s Investment.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2023

If you want to start playing around with these tools, of course, you need a Mac , and if you are a Windows guy like me, you are SOL (S**t Out of Luck). On social media, people have already started sharing images from the simulator , which gives you a quick glimpse of how the device will be. appeared first on The Ghost Howls.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

I’m back to Italy after my trip to Helsinki! More info A Universal Unity VR injector may be in the works, or maybe not Raicuparta has just added an old simple Universal Unity VR Mod tool to its Rai Pal tool. Is snow following me? Anyway, let’s have a look at the most relevant XR news of the past week!

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 13, 2022

Magic Leap has announced on Tuesday the release window for its sophomore augmented reality (AR) headset. Hardware distributor Insight is handling the release of the Magic Leap 2 and in September, the device will drop globally in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and Saudi Arabia.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 18, 2018

I’m very happy to talk about a very important event that will take place very soon in my city of Turin (Italy): the VIEW Conference. Virtual and Augmented Reality. Where we speak about virtual reality, we immediately think about visuals. All these talks are focused on: Computer Graphics. Visual Storytelling.

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EON Reality

JUNE 2, 2020

Along with EON Reality’s earlier announcement of the removal of the paywall on the AVR Platform as a means to assist schools, governments, and businesses struggling through this difficult time, the AVR Platform’s rapid growth both in content and users has helped to complete its transformation into an industry-defining tool.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

If you will be in Italy, please come visiting me! But the partnership seems pretty weird : the two companies have very different visions of the world, and it is not clear how they could partner in that, also because they both have their own store (Apple Store and Steam) that for sure they want to take to augmented reality.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

I’m still here in the US for some days after having attended AWE, planning to meet some interesting people before heading back to Italy. These are the five pillars or Reality Engine (copy-pasted from its website): Reality Application Runtime ?—?8th You can read some of my hands-on articles on my blog (e.g. Spatialized UI ?—?Automatic

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

This will be a newsletter written on the road: I’ve prepared the material in Italy, I’m currently writing these words from the Frankfurt airport (Germany), I will keep writing on the plane across the ocean and I will finalize everything in Sunnyvale (California, USA). I will leave you the link to donate for these two causes below.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

French startup Lynx has finally unveiled the R1, the first mixed reality standalone headset. While with other VR headsets like the Vive Focus Plus it is already possible to do some kind of augmented reality , this is the first standalone headset that can provide both good quality AR and VR on the same device. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 5, 2023

It will have tools for building for it, and aside from the usual Apple tools, developers can use Unity to create content for it. Terms Tim Cook has clearly called the technology “Augmented Reality”, so Apple did not invent any fancy names for it. Which is good news.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 1, 2022

It was a really powerful tool to tell these stories. Using these tools, what are you working on lately? I can’t say too much because it hasn’t come out yet, but it’s using virtual reality as well as augmented reality to let audiences play with the story. What is it about? It’s 60 hours.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

It has created tools to improve geolocation, multiplayer, and also to deliver more realistic AR experiences (e.g. Giving great tools to creators is important to create a new ecosystem: see what has happened after creators had the opportunity of creating AR filters. making real objects occlude the virtual ones).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Flipside , the famous VR tool through which you can record people performing in VR just got a big update that empowers creators and lets them connect better with their communities. Learn more Discover Discqualified Discqualified is an indie game that lets you play with a virtual frisbee against a local opponent in mixed reality.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2020

While in Italy we get ready for the “Phase 2” of the lockdown, I write the best AR/VR news of the week just for you! Mozilla Hubs is an opensource online VR meeting tool, that lets you meet other people using whatever device by just clicking on a single link. Top news of the week. Image by Road To VR). Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

Inflation here in Italy is ramping up, and the impression I have is that we are entering into a recession phase. We are still waiting for in-device tools, though. Register to it and try to create in one month the best augmented reality experience for glasses. HTC releases its “metaverse phone”. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

Jokes apart, before starting, let me send a big hug to all of you that are in quarantine because of the coronavirus and thank all the people that in these days have cared about me after having heard the sad news about Italy (Simon, David, Daniel, Suzie, Mark… John that has been so kind… Sebastian, and many others!). Top news of the week.

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EON Reality

OCTOBER 11, 2018

With a focus on how the AVR Platform can best be used in the education world, EON Reality’s discussion, ‘Augmented and Virtual Reality in Education: The Shift to Classroom 3.0,’ highlighted Wednesday’s offerings with a full presentation and hands-on demos of the new tools in Creator AVR.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

Developers can develop AR experiences with Zappar using the tool they like the most : Unity, native Javascript, A-frame, C++. Unity launches MARS tools. After many months of teasing them, Unity has finally launched the MARS tools, a suite of tools to build easily Augmented Reality experiences in Unity without knowing how to code.

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EON Reality

AUGUST 6, 2019

EON Reality’s new Industry 4.0-inspired inspired partnership based around the use of Augmented and Virtual Reality (AVR) tools will help build the respective futures of GARC’s technology roadmap and EON Reality Bologna. Communicating a project well is mission-critical to the business.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 27, 2020

If not, well, let me make a recap: startup Lynx opened the preorders some months ago about a new standalone headset all focused on having both virtual reality and passthrough augmented reality , and featuring amazing capabilities like eye tracking, hand tracking, a new lens design, and 5G connectivity (through an add-on).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 4, 2023

This tool is not available to creators, yet, but Meta is launching in preview a game made with them, called Titanborne. This is great news because MRTK 3 introduces better compatibility with Unity standard tools than its previous version. I guess the company wants to test the waters, to see if the community likes this kind of content.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

I didn’t know that the name of that thing was “augmented reality”, but it impressed me a lot. We so started working on some prototypes for virtual events by using the VRChat SDK and by trying the many tools that the VRChat community had created and shared for free. Start learning VR, start doing VR.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Here in Italy we were not used to celebrating it when I was a kid, but children now have fun dressing up and asking for some sweeties from their neighbors. Hello everyone and Happy Halloween to whoever celebrates it! 1 hour of a standing ovation for having highlighted this. More info.

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