Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

That’s the consensus that seems to emerge from “Top 2020 Trends: Enterprise AR & VR” a report published today by Unity Technologies, where 15 industry experts (yours truly among them) outlined how Mixed Reality (or XR depending on what flavor acronym you favor) will supercharge and transform the world of work. Look no further!

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

You can imagine that after it has been released through two official blog posts, an enormous backlash from the community started to happen. Facebook already had full control of my Oculus and Facebook accounts, so it had already my XR data. Sideloading will still be permitted in all cases because it is an Android feature.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

This week, Microsoft announced that MRTK will migrate to an independent GitHub account and that the project will be supported by a consortium including Microsoft, Magic Leap, and Qualcomm. That’s fantastic news for all Unity XR developers! in the reviews! I will leave you the link to do that below.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

As pointed out in one of the Unity Developers’ blog posts , aside from the exponential rise of development businesses, we’re also seeing more developer tools, such as the Unity and Unreal engines, becoming more accessible. These collaborations are also a result of the need to create an open and interoperable metaverse.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

There will be a new launcher, improved graphics, improved in-game camera, production-ready Unity SDK for the creators, improved full-body VR, and much more. I wonder if this data could be useful also for building the AR Cloud. If John Carmack complained about the efficiency of Meta, I think he had good reasons.

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HaptX

MARCH 6, 2018

When one finds out that she worked at Microsoft in the early days of Encarta Encyclopedia and World Atlas , it starts to make sense. She created an internal team at Microsoft to manage these complex issues across the entire company. “All Her time working at Microsoft led her to the IGDA. Haptic Gloves for Data Visualization.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

All these data together make me a bit skeptical about the capabilities of this company: developing such kind of a high-quality headset requires a lot of expertise, while the company is very small and features no known expert in the field. Facebook and Microsoft publish two interesting research projects for VR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 17, 2023

Microsoft and Autoliv China Autoliv China, a manufacturing innovator, collaborated with Microsoft and DataMesh to implement digital twin technology, 3D data visualization, and artificial intelligence in their operations. Trainees also get to practice in real-life scenarios that would be dangerous to access in the real world.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MAY 27, 2022

Debates on Metaverse ethics have reached headlines across global media, namely amid the rise of major tech firms such as Meta Platforms and Microsoft, who aim to protect online users from harmful content. We also support token authentication that allows developers to set their encryption mode and keys and own the authentication of users.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

These are all great news for the ecosystem, but someone in the communities pointed out that we should beware of companies claiming vague data about sales without absolute numbers (for instance, it may also be that previous headsets sold worse than we thought). Microsoft signs a $22B deal with the US Army. Well played, Microsoft.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

More info Jim Ryan hints at a possible PlayStation metaverse The court documents related to the FTC vs Microsoft trial related to the acquisition of Activision contain a very interesting piece of information related to what Sony may be working on. I’ve also interviewed him a few times on my blog. Learn more Join the Pico Dev Jam!

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

This has of course nothing to do with gathering data from the biggest number possible of people. Read about Microsoft’s Ignite conference. As I’ve reported to you last week, Microsoft’s latest Ignite conference, where Microsoft Mesh was announced, was a true marvel, an example of how a truly immersive keynote should be held.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

More info (Announcement link) More info (News on my blog) More info (Error in one of the screenshots). When I interviewed Facebook’s Sean Liu , he told me that 2019 was an inflection point for VR, and the data around us seems to confirm this statement. Image by Microsoft). I’m hyped, and you? Other relevant news. Image by MWC).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

Image by Microsoft). Microsoft has released more specifications for its upcoming XBOX Series X, and from these data is clearly possible to see that it will be compatible with VR headsets. This reinforces my belief that Microsoft in 2021–2022 will add VR support to it , to fight the PSVR when the market will be riper.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2018

In the entertainment area of Gamescom, NVIDIA has put some RTX graphics cards on the desks of some booth of partner companies , like ASUS and Microsoft. While at Microsoft booth there was a premium RTX 2080 Ti , that I’ve been able to take in my hands so to make a video where you can see it from all angles.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 15, 2024

For instance, we use a slightly modified version of Microsoft guidelines for C# for the coding phase, and every code is reviewed during the pull request stage Try to ask for high standards from everyone. This may influence your decisions a lot as well. Talking about coding, for instance, what people should do before coding?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Meta announces at Connect Quest Pro and a partnership with Microsoft. There have been a few key announcements at Connect: Meta has launched Quest Pro , its new premium headset, for $1500 Meta announced its focus on a new vertical, productivity Meta has partnered with Microsoft and Accenture to tackle the XR enterprise world.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

But this has not been the case: with a brief post on its blog, Sony has announced that there will be a “next-generation” VR device that will work with PS5, but that it will simply not be released this year. Unity support for OpenXR is still in early beta , and so it’s not reliable yet to develop an OpenXR-compliant application in Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

Let’s say that talking about a device the users put directly on their faces when your company is being challenged about the data it collects wouldn’t have been the smartest of the decisions. Furthermore, Microsoft 365 apps such as Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint, will be connected with Omniverse Project Mellon has been unveiled.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

Mozilla updates its Unity WebVR exporter. Two years ago, I reviewed on this blog a Unity plugin that Mozilla had released in beta to let you create WebVR experiences from your Unity projects. Thanks to this exporter, every Unity developer can create a WebXR experience by just building the Unity project for HTML5!

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Image credits SCAND Blog Virtual Reality (VR)  — It teleports the user into a completely immersive world that replaces the physical world. Microsoft Hololens is a key player in the MR market. It has the ability to create a cross platform code where users can create their projects in either JavaScript, Unity, Xamarin, and Cordova.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

Intel Vaunt was canceled for risks involving data privacy. Let me quote the article: “We were giving away the hardware but making money on the data,” he said. For every dollar of hardware, we were making three dollars on software and data sales.” Microsoft Maquette gets discontinued. Metadonation.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2021

The most interesting insight of the week comes from analyst Mark Mahaney, that, among other things has analyzed Facebook’s Virtual Reality business, and has reported very interesting data. Microsoft too had to lose $10B to let Xbox enter the gaming console market and compete with PlayStation. Image by Microsoft). Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Welcome to this new edition of the XR Week Peek, which this week will be a bit special because I will summarize here what happened during the Meta Connect, the event during which Mark Zuckerberg launched the Quest 3, the Ray-Ban Meta smartglasses, and new techniques for data harvest… cough cough I mean, new AI services.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

Today on my blog I’ll host a guest post by Matias Nassi , a great XR developer from Uruguay. We can deploy to a vast of platforms using game engines like Unity, Unreal Engine, the more recent Godot engine or any of the other engines out there, which have all started to add VR features”. You may be saying “Come on!

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Eye Tracking Apart from sessions a few years ago using the HTC Vive Pro Eye and Microsoft Hololens, I didn’t have any experience with eye tracking. It is also very useful in commercial and enterprise work, where it provides biometric data allowing for actionable insights into user behavior.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Firms such as Virbela, Meta Platforms, ENGAGEXR, Spatial, Arthur, NVIDIA Omniverse, Microsoft, Pico Interactive, Varjo, HTC VIVE, and UPWorlds are all working to build these platforms. These firms have teamed up with Epic Games and Unity — two of the world’s largest gaming engines.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

Late to the party after Oculus and Microsoft already released prototypical implementations, but finally Valve has implemented OpenXR into its runtime SteamVR. Also because you have to consider that with 170M users using this camera-based app, it won’t be that difficult for Snap to gather data to build the AR Cloud. Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

And are also good for data harvesting cough cough cough. The company has not posted real photos or footage from the glasses, just a promo video with an accompanying blog post detailed some of their characteristics. Eye-tracking could also be used for foveated rendering, letting the Quest 2 Pro having a sharper display.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

All these data can be very precious for many research centers and industries (just think about how heart rate could be used to verify how calm you can be during a dangerous situation), and so this headset will surely be bought by many companies. The consumer store also features good VR games like Superhot VR, Red Matter, and Synth Riders.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

This is what we need: a healthy dialogue about privacy with Facebook, to convince them to remove the mandatory Facebook login and let us decide exactly what data to share with them. More info (New features of OpenXR) More info (OpenXR in Unity) More info (OpenXR in Microsoft products). AMD releases its new RX6 graphics cards.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

Matt is renowned as one of the world’s AR industry leaders, and through his influential blog posts and persona around the world. Matt: The other one — this sort of thing is the stuff that isn’t obvious to people — but the other big one that I think is a big deal is the Microsoft Dynamics 365 apps.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

Matt is renowned as one of the world’s AR industry leaders, and through his influential blog posts and persona around the world. Matt: The other one — this sort of thing is the stuff that isn’t obvious to people — but the other big one that I think is a big deal is the Microsoft Dynamics 365 apps.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

Matt is renowned as one of the world’s AR industry leaders, and through his influential blog posts and persona around the world. Matt: The other one — this sort of thing is the stuff that isn’t obvious to people — but the other big one that I think is a big deal is the Microsoft Dynamics 365 apps.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

He wanted to write on my blog his opinion on this device to inform the community and of course I accepted, because I’m more than happy to host another one of his super-detailed articles. It sends tracking data back to the host PC running Steam VR, as well as eye-tracking, foveated rendering, wireless connectivity, and other functions.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 4, 2023

They are dubbed “Meta Touch Plus”, and they work (as I predicted last week) by fusing the data of IMU, IR LED tracking, and hand tracking together. This is great news because MRTK 3 introduces better compatibility with Unity standard tools than its previous version. Its controllers have no ring and no onboard cameras.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

edge detection); Eye-tracking sensors (accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer); A battery system ; A 5Ghz radio communication antenna to make the lens communicate with an external unit; An ARM0 processor , that acts as a “traffic cop” for the data. Unity talked about PlayStation VR 2 at GDC. News worth a mention. Funny link.

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