The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The choice of the magazine is not casual: Apple keeps pushing to show that its device is not a nerdy thing that isolates people, but it is a trendy thing that augments reality while you can still interact with other people. It has been on the cover of Vanity Fair, with a very carefully studied picture.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

After the latest Unite event, Unity has released in Open Beta the tools to develop applications for the Apple Vision Pro. The development packages are usable only by people having Unity Pro or Enterprise, but the documentation is publicly available for everyone to see. PC), it can be built and deployed on all other platforms (e.g.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The drama about Unity’s new pricing models has set the whole game development community on fire, while we had an unexpected leak about the Pico 5 and some updates on the Apple Vision Pro. In the case of Unity Personal, the thresholds are 200,000 downloads and 200,000 in revenues, and the fee is $0.20 per install. And this $0.2

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

During the Snapdragon Summit, the company unveiled its latest piece of technology, the AR2 Gen 1 platform, which will be a key component for the next generation of slimmer and more fashion-friendly augmented reality (AR) glasses. For reference, the Quest Pro features 10 cameras; five inside and five outside.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

A Basic Understanding of Extended Reality. Extended Reality, also called XR, refers to all real-and-virtual world environments that are generated by computer graphics. It is also the umbrella term used to refer to AR and VR. Platforms like GitHub can be quite useful for building your portfolio.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 1, 2020

I used to refer to this list each time I came across a term, but didn’t remember what it meant exactly. refers to any 3D model. Augmented Reality (AR) ?—?a a direct or indirect live view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are “augmented”(or enhanced) by computer-generated perceptual information.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 19, 2021

Talking about the actual implementation, are there any libraries and plugins already available for Unity/UE4 that can give indie studios accessibility solutions already ready out-of-the-box? Here you are some: Open XR: [link] UI Accessibility Plugin (Unity): [link] Set Color Deficiency Type (Unreal Engine): [link].

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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. Getting Started The initial tech stack for this was Flutter, Unity AR, and Firebase, but we soon had to switch to using the ar_core_flutter plugin and Appwrite for the backend. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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ARVR

JULY 29, 2021

During the last few years, web developers have tried to integrate virtual reality experiences on websites, starting in 2016 with the first WebVR API, but leaving aside the important segment of augmented reality, which is why WebXR was born. How Augmented Reality (AR) is Reshaping the Food Service Industry 3.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 24, 2019

More than one year ago, I published a post entitled “ How to create an Augmented Reality app for the Vive Focus in Unity “, where I shared with everyone a plugin to develop AR applications on the Vive Focus, that is actually a VR headset.

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ARVR

MAY 10, 2021

a Starter Pack (Dipping your toes into the world of AR development, with a little VR overlap by default) by Alexis Zerafa Are you interested in augmented reality development? Refer to my medium article?—? How Augmented Reality (AR) is Reshaping the Food Service Industry 3. XR Programs?—?a What is Social AR? —?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Yes, this is the passthrough version of The Unity Cube! The only way to perform that is that every time a user starts the AR experience, he has to perform a calibration stage to calibrate the real world reference system to the virtual world reference system.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 22, 2023

Augmented reality (AR) is becoming increasingly common in everyday life. We see evidence of augmented experiences on social media through 360-degree photos and videos. The Unity-powered platform also offers visualisations of over 2,500 cities in 49 nations containing “comprehensive 3D geo datasets.”

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Road to VR

JUNE 3, 2019

Apple also introduced Reality Composer and RealityKit to make it easier for developers to build augmented reality apps. This would break the illusion of augmented reality by showing conflicting depth cues. Faster reference image loading. Similar tech is used for real-time body tracking in ARKit 3.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 5, 2022

Oculus Spatial Anchors in Unity: video tutorial. I have made a huge video tutorial on Oculus Spatial Anchors, where you can see me create from scratch an application implementing them in Unity. Let’s start by creating a Unity project. Let me tell you everything you need to know about them! Yes, it is worth watching it.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

Niantic teased it is working on a reference design for AR glasses with Qualcomm, and they are specialized for outdoor usage (so people can play Pokemon Go XR on the streets), while most of the current AR glasses are dedicated to being used indoors. AI is very good for increasing the productivity of a team. Photoshop is doing the same.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

But this opens another debate: if it uses 4 cameras, does it mean that it won’t be based on WMR reference design anymore ? Or that Microsoft is working on a new reference design that fixes the issues of the first one? Unity changes how it handles XR Plugins. Unluckily, we have not the answers to all these questions….

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ARVR

JUNE 22, 2020

Our jobs as Augmented Reality designers and developers is to enhance that environment with virtual content that can prove useful for the user. Through a Smartphone’s camera or Augmented Reality Headsets. Build your first HoloLens 2 Application with Unity and MRTK 2.3.0 Here is the link to Unity MARS.

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AR Insider

MAY 27, 2021

I’ve been writing about it for over a year, and working on related products at Unity for much longer. From upper funnel to purchase, brands are increasingly turning to Augmented Reality to market their products and services online,” was the tale I spun a year ago. Tony Parisi is Head of XR Ad Innovation at Unity Technologies.

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ARVR

MAY 6, 2021

In this post, I’ll be discussing the development of our avatar’s flight capabilities, using the Nvidia PhysX engine in Unity. Building our butterfly avatar’s flight capabilities in Unity based on our simplified flight model A note to readers: as before, I’m embedding some short video clips of the avatar’s flight capabilities in action?—?but

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ARVR

JULY 19, 2021

Learning retention refers to the process by which new information is transferred from short-term memory to long-term memory. How Augmented Reality (AR) is Reshaping the Food Service Industry 3. It can be easily explained by data from a case study made by Innoactive , Unity , and Volkswagen. Trending AR VR Articles: 1.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Association (VRARA) is hosting the IGS 2022 Europe from September 28 to 30 in Savoy Palace At Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal, marking the VRARA’s return to in-person events in the EU, along with an accompanying online event portal for at-home attendees. What’s Next?

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Hypergrid Business

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

Apple has lagged behind in the virtual and augmented reality race so far. Its latest phones — iPhone X , iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus — support its new augmented reality platform ARKit. And according to IDC , augmented reality market will account for 10 percent of the 81.2 million units sold by 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The Verge started referring to them as the new “Glassholes”, the term that was invented to describe people wearing Google Glass in public, when that device was popular. I understand the fun of doing stuff with passthrough: when the Vive Focus came out, I did some stuff like that, too. There are many other examples of that.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 19, 2021

This is confirmed also by a previous prediction by the CEO of Unity, which foresees that in 2030 VR headsets will be as popular as gaming console: that is mainstream, but still not as TV, for instance. I think it’s highly improbable that FRL is working on a successor of the Rift DK2, so may this be a reference to the Quest 3?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2018

I first tried looking the FOV of the Unity Camera: when you run the program into the emulator, it immediately becomes 80 , so I thought that the FOV of ML would be 80 degrees. Unity has to be discarded. Then I got another idea: why couldn’t I move a very small object along the X-axis and see when it disappears from the view?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Tyler McVicker of Valve News Network has found some references to a new game, codenamed “Citadel”, that could make people in VR fight against people with a 2D screen. Notwithstanding the name, “Citadel” shouldn’t refer to the Half-Life franchise , and Road To VR suggests it could be in the “Team Fortress” one.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 17, 2023

End-users can design first on Procreate or Photoshop and then transfer a reference design to Da Vinci Eye to print an image on a wall in their office or a large-scale mural. Also, the service provides artists with a tool for copying reference designs. The application can help users copy images.

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VRScout

MARCH 3, 2020

As the VAR (virtual and augmented reality) industry grows—searching for a grassroots approach to consumer adoption, modders are sitting comfortably on a gold mine of innovation and creative solutions. . One widely-known mod is a game mode referred to as “battle royale.”

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

1” is not the new name of a son of Elon Musk, but it is the (questionable) name of a new opensource AR headset by Combine Reality, based on Leap Motion’s North Star reference design. It seems a clone of the Vive Focus Plus, and this is because actually it is based on a reference design provided by HTC. Unity launches MARS tools.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 4, 2023

” XR devices can provide hands-free immersive content such as guides, manuals, and CADs as assistive references while an on-site worker performs tasks such as repair and maintenance operations. Also, in augmented reality, you can actually train someone while they’re doing the work.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

confirmed with the company that it may not be a Niantic-branded pair of glasses, but a reference design that Niantic is building with Qualcomm since 2019. This pairs well with a piece of news from mid-2020, where Niantic said that it intended to build a reference design, but not its own Pokemon Go glasses. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

Qualcomm releases XR2 5G reference design. Qualcomm has finally released the reference design for AR/VR headsets based on the XR2 chipset (a special version of the Snapdragon 865 for XR headsets), and it will pave the way for the standalone headsets of the future. This is one of the weirdest rag-doll experiments in Unity.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

I’m looking forward to learning more about RealityKit and Reality Composer. The reveal that Apple will be using Unity to bring 3D applications and games to Vision Pro was exciting. They will need to witness and experience augmented reality, extensively and firsthand, in order to build apps and content for it.

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VRScout

MAY 3, 2017

Demonstrated live on-stage during the Unity Vision Summit, you can already try it out for yourself in the Unity 2017 beta. followups to their $30K reference camera blueprints that they released a bit over a year ago. APPLE HIRES AUGMENTED REALITY EXPERT FROM NASA. INTEL TEAMS UP WITH STANFORD AND CARNEGIE MELLON.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 23, 2021

???! These days are pretty hot here, but this doesn’t stop me from enjoying virtual reality. What I’ve not enjoyed is that SideQuest has removed The Unity Cube from its listing, stating that there were too many cubes there. Always remember that immersive realities encompass all five senses.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

OpenXR has arrived at the first version of the standard, and now it has been implemented by all the major vendors : Microsoft has implemented it for HoloLens and WMR; Oculus for Rift and Quest; Valve has implemented it in SteamVR; etc… Talking about game engines, Unreal Engine now already offers it, while Unity is still lagging behind.

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