The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

Maybe Marc will finally be able to track legs on Quest thanks to this… This new Tracker has currently no name, and no associated release date or price tag. More info NVIDIA revealed news about AI and XR at GTC NVIDIA GTC has just finished and there NVIDIA unveiled a lot of interesting pieces of news about XR, AI, IoT, and the Cloud.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Gorilla Tag is coming to the Quest Store! The ultra-popular indie game Gorilla Tag is finally coming to the Quest Store! Jensen Huang spoke with VentureBeat and highlighted the importance of AI generative tools for the future of the metaverse. AI with XR is going to be an explosive mix. Prepare to return to monke.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

More info (Hands tracking video) More info (Official blog post) News worth a mention Meta Quest gets foveated rendering, hands interactions, and more The Meta Quest family just got a slew of interesting updates. As a big fan of openness I’m very happy about this happening. I will leave you the link to do that below.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2023

All of us have memories of Altspace, also because it was one of the first applications paving the way to social VR: I remember Altspace being one of the first applications reviewed on my blog. Altspace is sunsetting on March, 10th. This is fun. This is the exception, instead. Let’s not forget it. I will leave you the link to do that below.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Legs won’t instead be available on the own avatar of the user, because they don’t represent the real pose of the user’s legs, but only an “AI-driven reconstruction of a reasonable pose”, so they would look unrealistic. Users will be able to see the legs of the other users, and also their own legs when looking themselves into a mirror.

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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

JULY 5, 2021

Datasets are fundamental to train AI systems and these indoor environments will be useful to train robots or AR assistants that have to understand how an environment around them is made. The most viral video of the week is the one by startup Brickit, which made an application that uses AI+AR to make sense of a mountain of LEGO.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

And the prediction that AI is going to shrink the game studios’ size, making a per-seat model less efficient, has driven the management to go for this business model. The posts on social media and on the blogs of gaming studios and platforms (including SideQuest) in which people express their disappointment are countless.

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CraneMorley

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Back to Blog Page. Integrations can include AI to create custom messages with user’s name and all. But the last phase will feature a QR/embedded code into the tag of the physical clothing. Azure Object anchors might even make product tags obsolete where everything will be virtual. New York Fashion Week!

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Before getting into the interesting XR news of the week, I invite you all to attend the new Awe Nite that Cecilia Lascialfari and I are organizing for this Thursday (29th) at 6 pm CET that will be about XR and AI with very interesting speakers like Rafael Brown. It’s free, so you have no excuses not to attend!

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

In an announcement on their blog , Experiment 7 revealed that they’ve penned a partnership with legendary game publisher Wizards of the Coast and Dungeon Chess is the first project born of that collaboration. Tagged with: Dungeon Chess , Dungeons & Dragons , experiment 7 , Magic Table Chess.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

This is important to do experiments not only with mixed reality but also with AI and object recognition Soon people will be able to “reserve” a headset for free , without leaving any kind of deposit. I like what Somnium is doing: on paper, it is very cool. In a few weeks, there will be a free alpha test open on SteamVR. who’s there?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

In an interview with the fantastic blog The Ghost Howls (I don’t know if you have ever heard of it), Kura Technologies’s CEO/CTO Kelly Peng has revealed some interesting info about their upcoming AR glasses. More info (Both videos in this Twitter thread). Other relevant news. Image by Kura Technologies). Some news on content.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

You can read some of my hands-on articles on my blog (e.g. Together with the area update, this means for instance that two teams of four people can play inside a warehouse a laser tag game in VR. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

More info (HCI of the future) More info (AI for videos). NVIDIA CEO and founder, Jensen Huang, will in fact host renowned AI pioneers Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun. Gorilla Tag and its side effects Funny link. If you want to support my work (and my lack of sleep), please consider donating on Patreon for my blog.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Meta Connect has been the big event of the week, and as it is a tradition of this blog , I’m going to write today for you a super article where you can find inside ALL the news announced during the event! Adobe to bring its apps on Quest Pro (Upload VR) All work-related updates of Meta Connect (Oculus blog). B2B ecosystem.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2022

It’s interesting that Chris Pruett also stressed that “there are apps on App Lab today that have generated over a million dollars in revenue” : I guess Gorilla Tag is one of them. Palmer Luckey has published a blog post on his own website to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Oculus, the company he founded. Road To VR). Other news.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 31, 2020

The brain data of the pig, whose sensor was installed in the motor area, was streamed to a phone where an AI algorithm was able to correctly predict the pose of the limbs of the animal without having any other data. The device can connect via Bluetooth to a phone, where the data of the brain can be analyzed. This is a very interesting result.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2023

It is a great mix of Gorilla Tag and Rocket League! Learn more Some XR fun This hurts Funny link The resemblance is striking Funny link Donate for good Like last week, also this week in this final paragraph I won’t ask you to donate for my blog, but to the poor people that are facing the consequences of the war.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Or watch Maria Korolov’s State of the Metaverse presentation here: She also gave a talk about how generative AI will change content creation and coding. The grid numbers may also be another attempt by Ferraris, who also runs a blog about several other things including cryptocurrencies, to market his grid.

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VRWorld

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Did you maybe, but just maybe noticed that you are tagged in some of the photos on Facebook your friend took? Even though you told them not to tag you because you’re drunk as hell and you don’t want your little sister to see it? Well, don’t take on your friend so soon.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2019

In a long article on its tech blog, Facebook Reality Labs details how it has partnered with UCSF University to work on a research project that could lead in the end to having a non-invasive Brain-Computer-Interface that could make people using their XR devices using just their thoughts.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

XR developers can leverage features like spital audio, RT3D graphics, and even AI to immerse a headset user. In our latest blog post, we explored the rise of hand-tracking technology in VR devices and the price drop of VR headsets that support this feature.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

XR developers can leverage features like spatial audio, RT3D graphics, and even AI to immerse a headset user. In our latest blog post, we explored the rise of hand-tracking technology in VR devices and the price drop of VR headsets that support this feature.

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