The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

Image by Epic Games). Sony invests $250M in Epic Games. Sony has announced that it has made a big investment of $250M in Epic Games through one of its subsidiaries. The long-term results of these partnerships are unforeseeable, but we can still play the speculation game. Rockstar is working on AAA VR open world game.

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AR Insider

JUNE 21, 2021

This week, we look at Snap’s latest lens craze, Niantic’s next AR gaming title, new XR funding and more Facebook/Oculus acquisitions. Let’s dive in… E3, the big trade event for the video game industry, concluded this week. The games industry is now bigger than movies and music combined. Who’s next?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 6, 2020

Until recently, Brian Kane has been highlighting more experiential demos - like one that puts a porthole to the ocean in your living room - to highlight the power of the Magic Leap, and of spatial computing in general. Magic Leap is one of these Magic Leap devices, you put it on, and your whole world is spatial computing.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 8, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Meta) Meta Quest Gaming Showcase is back on June, 1st The Meta Quest Gaming Showcase is back! The first one is that since the Gaming Showcase is happening on June, 1st, it seems positioned in a way to make Meta perform some announcements right before the Apple WWDC.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

He has joined Rony Abovitz at Magic Leap and now he’s there, trying to build the MagicVerse as the SVP of Creative Strategy of the Florida company. One of the colleagues of mine of that time was Kim Libreri, that is now the CTO of Epic Games and he created the optical flow for the paint effect for What Dreams May Come.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Funds will be used to expand to more gaming platforms. The goal of the company is to translate the most popular and classic real-world games into immersive VR experiences for all ages. The first game to be released on the Oculus Store will be called ForeVR Bowl in 2021. See his books here. Roblox acquires Loom.ai

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ARPost

APRIL 12, 2021

While VIVE didn’t dive into the metrics they used, they did include names from a number of different locations and languages as well as different professional fields including writers, podcast hosts, presenters, and game streamers. Most of the entries in VIVE’s list are game streamers and YouTube celebrities. YouTubers and Streamers.

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AR Insider

JULY 5, 2021

The free VR social world has exploded since adding game consoles and Apple devices. Magic Leap CEO Peggy Johnson tells Venture Beat’s Dean Takahashi how they’re getting traction with their enterprise pivot. See his books here. Rec Room To Add Android App. The Android release should further accelerate it’s growth.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 9, 2021

If you really want to understand the putative metaverse, listen to this conversation with Viacom/CBS futurist Ted Schilowitz and Magic Leap founder Rony Abovitz. 5 ways to build the mobile gaming metaverse. See his books here. Natural syncs with your intention, so you no longer go to apps, apps come to you.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 11, 2021

A year later Magic Leap ran out of cash and laid off half the company. And Sony’s investment in Epic Games values the maker of Fortnite at $17 B (China’s Tencent invested in 2012 and owns 50% of the company). The games industry made over $120 B last year, bigger than movies, music, and streaming combined. Unity’s IPO.

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TechCrunch VR

APRIL 3, 2023

As part of our Kickstarter campaign in 2013, one of the price tier perks was 50 Ready Player One books signed by Cline. And then we did a small event in Austin with Cline signing the books. “Funnily enough, [he] lives in Austin,” says Goetgeluk. “As We had a wooden prototype at the time.”

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Tech Trends VR

MARCH 7, 2018

Given the considerable hype that has been building up around Virtual and Augmented Reality, you might expect more publishers to have dedicated resources to these technologies, whereas the reality is that much of what we’ve seen so far has been limited to variations of Augmented Reality books.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

For sure, as someone pointed out on Reddit, that number includes people in every kind of role, from game developers to customer support not to mention researchers. Luckily, some smart devs have been approved and every week we have new games coming to light on App Lab. More info (App Lab team) More info (New games on App Lab).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2024

There will be a lot about Apple in this newsletter, but don’t miss also the other important news, and the giveaway of keys for the amazing game Retropolis 2! We already knew about some of them, like the game Super Fruit Ninja, but we started to get information about the others, too. There is even Microsoft Word!

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

It’s a new month, we’ve reached level 6 of this Jumanji game that is 2020. Keep in mind that this device has a pixel density far superior even to the one of the Valve Index, so it is perfect not only for gaming but also for prototyping, design and architecture. Rony Abovitz steps down from Magic Leap CEO. Image by HP).

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AllThingsVR

MAY 12, 2016

After exploring virtual reality gaming in Ready Player One, Cline adds long-range drone combat using a virtual reality game to the mix in his second page-turning bestseller. Hollywood is adapting both of these Random House books into big screen adventures. You’ve been gung-ho about VR with your books. It’s amazing.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The problem is that new cars are incredibly expensive, and most people don’t feel comfortable picking a vehicle based exclusively on two-dimensional images and whatever data they can pull up on the Kelley Blue Book website. Consumers don’t want to go into dealerships, either, so they end up delaying their purchases for as long as possible.

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TechCrunch VR

DECEMBER 8, 2020

When Chi Xu left Magic Leap and returned to China, he had big ambitions. Attendees stand in line to try out the new Oculus Quest Virtual Reality (VR) gaming system at the Facebook F8 Conference at McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California, on April 30, 2019. Magic Leap sucked all the air out of the room.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

The Upload Summer Showcase brought news about VR games. Like last year, also this year the Upload Summer Showcase has brought some interesting news about VR games. As usual, this event hasn’t delivered any mind-blowing announcements, but a big series of small news about VR games. Meta launches its Roblox competitor.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2019

Charlie is also a book author and after the success of his previous book Metaverse , now he’s launching his new book, “Convergence” , that is all about the present and the future of augmented reality. I’ve not been able to read the book yet (I’m preparing for the VEC !),

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2018

I don’t know if you know David Foster Wallace, he was like a nerd super-hero for a while here, he wrote a book called Infinite Jest and in that book, a lot of people get completely obsessed by VR experience to the point their whole life becomes the virtual one. Magic Leap glasses. Everything would be possible.

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The AR Show

JUNE 16, 2020

She’s a lover of music, and the author of the “Sound and AR” chapter in the book Convergence: How the World Will Be Painted With Data. Rebecca Barkin is the VP of Immersive Experiences at Magic Leap, where she served as Executive Producer of Tónandi—a visceral, interactive audio-visual experience made in partnership with the band Sigur Rós.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Charlie Fink is a Forbes columnist and an author of two AR-enabled books – Charlie Fink’s Metaverse: A Guide to VR and AR, and Convergence: How the World Will Be Painted with Data. First of all I want to congratulate you on the launch of your new book Convergence, an AR-enabled book about AR.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Charlie Fink is a Forbes columnist and an author of two AR-enabled books – Charlie Fink’s Metaverse: A Guide to VR and AR, and Convergence: How the World Will Be Painted with Data. First of all I want to congratulate you on the launch of your new book Convergence, an AR-enabled book about AR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 5, 2020

Superdata analyzes the market of VR games. It is possible to read very interesting data on AR/VR from the latest SuperData report on Gaming. In comparison, PC VR games only earned $86M AR games are mostly only Pokemon Go. Its alternatives like Harry Potter Wizards Unite only earn 1% of this game’s turnaround.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2023

Notwithstanding the small size, the glasses are meant for SteamVR gaming, and in particular for people that spend so much time in SteamVR that need a comfortable and lightweight headset. Of course, they are not meant for XR playing, but for e-book reading. Shiftall MeganeX provides 2,560 × 2,560 per eye via two independent 1.3-inch

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 1, 2023

” He explained that XR had become a thriving industry , transforming verticals such as healthcare, entertainment, education, and gaming. In his talks, the icon discussed the progress of the platform, citing examples from his book ‘Snow Crash.’ Such tools had “the potential to shape the future of humanity.”

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Robert Scoble

JULY 19, 2019

I just spent an hour talking with a computer vision engineer at Magic Leap about how computers will “see” and “process” our world. As Irena Cronin and I write a book about this stuff I realize that I’m struggling to 1. Blew my mind. Same for our culture. Same for our learning. Google gets it.

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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

It isn’t alone, we know of many companies that are spending billions on same, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sony, Magic Leap, Huawei, and others. You can see this in today’s AR products (and despite what Microsoft or Magic Leap call their devices, they really are augmented reality devices that you wear on your face).

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

I read a large range of books and papers on urban planning, technology, game design and gamification, locative media and governance. Apple is working on hardware but it is reportedly delayed yet again, and Magic Leap seems to have lost its flame before being able to enlarge enough its consumer base.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

In the early 90s, it no doubt felt “a bit like looking up the Wright Brothers and taking their original prototype out for a spin,” as the book describes. The year the book was published, Sega announced a VR peripheral for the Genesis. The demo described in the book finds the user riding a motorcycle down a Brooklyn street.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 26, 2018

This year was awesome for VR gaming, but 2019 is looking even brighter with a slew of highly polished titles coming to PSVR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Developer : Insomniac Games. Developer : Hipfire Games. Developer : InnerSpace VR, Vertigo Games. Developer : Squanch Games. Developer : Rovio , Resolution Games.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It’s been called the AR Cloud by many, the Magicverse by Magic Leap, the Mirrorworld by Wired, the Cyberverse by Huawei, Planet-scale AR by Niantic and Spatial Computing by academics. Find out more details, dynamics and submission guidelines here. . Who Will Own the Metaverse? by Marko Balabanovic.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

A new, portable, gaming device that will interact with this 3D world. As they spin the lasers inside “cut up” the world into little virtual voxels (volumetric pixels, think of them as virtual cubes that you can see with Augmented Reality glasses — sort of like how Minecraft or, really, any video game works).

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

And we (the content creators) are not competing with some dude who just bought a Gear360 and is filming his dog’s first steps – we’re competing for eyeballs with Game of Thrones , Peaky Blinders , Taylor Swift, Snapchat, and Instagram. Chris has said before that VR is not a game. they look like your arms). And it’s not a movie.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

He has also recently written together with Irena Cronin “The Infinite Retina” , a great book about the technologies of the future, like XR, AI, and autonomous vehicles. Why can’t it be Facebook, or Magic Leap ? And if Apple is already testing the devices in the wild, it means that they are close.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 30, 2019

Alan – and XRIgnite — isn’t the only XR shepherding game in town! She’s a board member of the New York VR Expo and South by Southwest Pitch, and has been on the judging panel for the Games of Change Festival and the AWE Auggie Awards. Alan: So, Samantha, you wrote the book Marketing New Realities.

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