The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

From time to time, I like to look at the adoption graph of XR shown by John Riccitiello (the CEO of Unity) in 2017 , where you can see that the real acceleration of immersive technologies should start around 2022-2023. Yes, it’s a lot of time, but these are realistic projections. VR headsets will become MR ones.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Here you are the integral interview that I had with Kelly Peng, asking her everything from Kura to the differences between the US and China (Kelly comes from Xi’an), not to mention her life as a startupper. Also, people in entertainment, medical, automotive, military training, and other enterprise sectors are interested in our glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

All the 3 major VR runtimes (Oculus, SteamVR, Microsoft) are now compatible with OpenXR , and this means that on the runtime layer on PC, now OpenXR has been fully integrated. This means that if you develop an experience using OpenXR, you can run it on Oculus, SteamVR, and Microsoft runtimes with no modification. The Verge).

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

We started working really early on with the DK-1 from Kickstarter, testing, playing around with Unity, seeing what we could do, up to now where we're easily 200+ commercially funded, brand funded XR experiences. Now, that same asset -- that same 3D model -- can be used for training your team on the features of that product.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

We started working really early on with the DK-1 from Kickstarter, testing, playing around with Unity, seeing what we could do, up to now where we're easily 200+ commercially funded, brand funded XR experiences. Now, that same asset -- that same 3D model -- can be used for training your team on the features of that product.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

We started working really early on with the DK-1 from Kickstarter, testing, playing around with Unity, seeing what we could do, up to now where we're easily 200+ commercially funded, brand funded XR experiences. Now, that same asset -- that same 3D model -- can be used for training your team on the features of that product.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). Of course, Microsoft and Amazon are observing the situation: in my opinion, Microsoft will wait a bit , considering its focus on AR enterprise with HoloLens, while Amazon could improve its already existing offering of glasses connected with Alexa. Sounded good. Smartglasses.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

In the meanwhile, its adoption is getting better, too: the popular Unity game engine promises the first implementations of OpenXR for the end of the year with a complete implementation coming in 2021, and Microsoft has already completely switched to an OpenXR runtime. AMD releases its new RX6 graphics cards.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 24, 2023

Instead, he has concentrated his journalistic efforts on a stereotypical dystopia of avatars and social media white elephants from a caricatured Meta, Microsoft AltSpaceVR, and Decentraland. Yes, the media has documented failures among the consumer-facing metaverse, which includes Meta, JP Morgan, Decentraland, Microsoft, and others.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Microsoft ships HoloLens 2, nReal gets ready to do the same with its glasses. After a long wait, finally Microsoft is shipping its HoloLens 2 headset. The first one is called Almalence and is a Unity plug-in (already available on the store) that should improve the clarity of images inside the Vive Pro Eye.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And XR Collaboration introduces that way of thinking, that way of training each other, and mentoring each other, and using that technology to express our creativity. We also saw a growth of AR glasses, not in America and not North America, not the rest of the world, but in China. Right now, China is kind of leading the way.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And XR Collaboration introduces that way of thinking, that way of training each other, and mentoring each other, and using that technology to express our creativity. We also saw a growth of AR glasses, not in America and not North America, not the rest of the world, but in China. Right now, China is kind of leading the way.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And XR Collaboration introduces that way of thinking, that way of training each other, and mentoring each other, and using that technology to express our creativity. We also saw a growth of AR glasses, not in America and not North America, not the rest of the world, but in China. Right now, China is kind of leading the way.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

Unity talked about PlayStation VR 2 at GDC. Unity had a talk about developing for PlayStation VR 2 at GDC 2022. More info (Foveated Tracking boost inside PSVR 2) More info (Full Unity talk at GDC). In the last few days, we already heard about: Osso VR raising $66M for its surgical XR training solution LIV securing $8.5M

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

And one of the… I don’t know how many names I should name, but there’s definitely a large company here in KC that uses VR for training employees. I worked at their technology headquarters, and we did technology training for the employees. ” Michael: Yeah, exactly. One example is retail employees. Alan: okay.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

And one of the… I don’t know how many names I should name, but there’s definitely a large company here in KC that uses VR for training employees. I worked at their technology headquarters, and we did technology training for the employees. ” Michael: Yeah, exactly. One example is retail employees. Alan: okay.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

I don't know how many names I should name, but there's definitely a large company here in KC that uses VR for training employees. It might be two months out before the store's built, but they want to hire their people two months early and give them two months of what's essentially hands-on training before their physical store even exists.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The ongoing impact of Covid, huge demand for electronics, labour shortages, power cuts in China leading to 3-day-working in factories, and the ongoing container shipping lottery have broken many “just in time” supply lines. This training course cost about $3,000 and was mandatory for anyone wanting to use SteamVR. Image by Rob Cole).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

If developers of PC games want to invest more time to create a VR version of them (like it happened for No Man’s Sky, or Microsoft Flight Simulator, for instance), this could help a lot the PCVR market. Epic has implemented it, and Unity is doing that too. I am a Unity developer, and I can tell you that now Unity.XR

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Over the years i have seen a few lists of Top 50 XR Influencers, but the curators of those list always overlooked China/India/Asia's XR Industry. Just for Context the worlds current population is 7 Billion, India & China's Collective population is 2.7 4- Kshitij Marwah. Ceo-Founder Tesseract/#Jio Glass. 7- Alvin Graylin.

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Ryan Schultz

AUGUST 23, 2022

In chapter 5 (Networking), Ball uses popular games such as Microsoft Flight Simulator to explain concepts such as network bandwidth and latency, and how game and metaverse companies work around such limitations. Chapter 8 addresses the thorny issue of metaverse interoperability and standards (i.e.,

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