The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

Or that Microsoft is working on a new reference design that fixes the issues of the first one? This week, a rumor spread among XR communities: next-gen PSVR will be announced at a press conference to be held by Sony on February, 5th. Unity changes how it handles XR Plugins. PSVR 2 could be revealed next month. Learn more.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Produced by the VR/AR Association , the Immerse Global Summit is one of the world’s most exciting technology conference series. Hosting virtual and in-person conferences across the United States and Europe, the event encapsulates the VR/AR Association’s quest to facilitate innovation in the immersive technology space.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 24, 2016

This project uses Kinect depth cameras to the fuse virtual and the real to produce real-time mixed reality footage with no green screens required, all using Microsoft’s depth camera Kinect. No mean feat. You can read in detail all about the project over at the team’s YouTube channel here.

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 8, 2023

Along with NVIDIA, Unity and Epic Games, the world’s largest gaming engines, have also joined efforts to build the industrial metaverse. The big reveal rocked the industry following Monday’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). NVIDIA is leading the charge on this with its Omniverse and digital twin solution platform.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

In the latest invitation to WWDC 2021 , the yearly Apple developers’ conference, there is a picture of an animoji wearing glasses in front of a Mac. Microsoft signs a $22B deal with the US Army. It seems that this test has been a success, and so now Microsoft has won now a bigger contract to carry on the project: $21.88B (!!)

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). We are organizing the Future Business EcoLink Conference 2022 and the 7th Golden Gyro Award.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Revealed at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), the Apple Vision Pro has sparked both praise and criticism from the global XR community. This could actually be quite beneficial for Meta, Microsoft, and Magic Leap. The reveal that Apple will be using Unity to bring 3D applications and games to Vision Pro was exciting.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Matsuda himself subsequently began working in AR following the film's release, leading design teams at both Leap Motion (now Ultraleap) and Microsoft. For certain implementations, Psychic is using geographic data provided by the Japanese government for development uses cases like this. I started making it in 2013. And that's great.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The Game Developers Conference , a big event where there have been in the past many announcements about VR, has been canceled after all the major brands withdrew from it , leaving the organizers with no choice. Image by Microsoft). This is one of the weirdest rag-doll experiments in Unity. What a time to be alive. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

We had at the same time the Game Developer Conference (the GDC) and the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) by NVIDIA, so we had lots of announcements about 3D technology in general and also about XR. 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

AUGUST 1, 2020

He has a very interesting working story, having worked for great companies like Microsoft and Fast Company. As John Riccitiello (CEO of Unity) said some years ago , the VR market won’t be interesting enough until it will reach the 10 million users mark. “He has one million cars collecting data of the world.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 5, 2023

Bloomberg has reported that Sony’s new PlayStation VR2 Headset is projected to sell 270,000 units as of the end of March, based on data from IDC. Earlier this year , I wrote about how Microsoft and other companies have pulled back on their VR and AR plans. It’s all Zoom, Zoom, Zoom, and occasionally Microsoft Teams.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

This means that while you have the Quest on, your microphone data will be always listened by the device, and you can imagine my profound happiness in knowing this. 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.

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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.” Conferences are returning to digital. Microsoft Maquette gets discontinued.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

A series of announcements from Amazon, Crytek, Epic Games and Unity Technologies showcase an evolution among their respective game engines into VR world creation toolsets. For example, Lumberyard from Amazon is released for creating games and VR experiences, while both Unity and Epic reveal in-VR tools to speed up the development process.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Varjo exited stealth mode with an investment, a prototype that journalists have tried during a press conference, and announcing only one single technology (the double-displays stuff) for a device targeted at the enterprise (and so, l ittle volumes at high prices , something manageable by a little company).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

But, in the early days of this industry, it is the developer conferences, the places where creators come together to share knowledge and reveal breakthroughs, that are the really exciting events to cover. There’s no better time of the year to do that than at the Game Developers Conference (GDC). Liz Mercuri (Unity).

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

As the pioneer of utilizing AR for industry support and training, Scope AR are partnered with technology leaders such as Google and Microsoft. He's shared his knowledge and spoken about some of the most innovative uses of AR at several leading conferences, including South by Southwest, Augmented World Expo, Unity Vision Summit, and XRDC.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

They have to know that everything they put into that building is actually based on facts, or based off a photograph, or based off satellite data. What are those conversations inside the conference room and what does all that look like? And not everybody is gonna be in the conference room with you. How is news made?

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

They have to know that everything they put into that building is actually based on facts, or based off a photograph, or based off satellite data. What are those conversations inside the conference room and what does all that look like? And not everybody is gonna be in the conference room with you. How is news made?

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Gaming Magic Leap Industry Retail 78

XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

At the first AWE conference back then, I think there was 300 people in total. Because with products like 6D.ai, you’re now being able to — and we’ll unpack this in a second — but you’re able to create a point cloud map of the real world, overlay the data, and make annotations on that in real time.

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AR Technology Industry Augmented Reality 78

XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

At the first AWE conference back then, I think there was 300 people in total. Because with products like 6D.ai, you’re now being able to — and we’ll unpack this in a second — but you’re able to create a point cloud map of the real world, overlay the data, and make annotations on that in real time.

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AR Technology Industry Augmented Reality 78

XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

As the pioneer of utilizing AR for industry support and training, Scope AR are partnered with technology leaders such as Google and Microsoft. Alan: Well, I got to try something similar at the LiveWorx Conference. And it’s kind of funny, because a few years ago these teams were basically Unity developers. Unscrew this.”

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

As the pioneer of utilizing AR for industry support and training, Scope AR are partnered with technology leaders such as Google and Microsoft. Alan: Well, I got to try something similar at the LiveWorx Conference. And it’s kind of funny, because a few years ago these teams were basically Unity developers. Unscrew this.”

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Twelve months ago I put a prediction on LinkedIn saying that I thought -- based on some of the things that we're seeing coming out of Unity -- that Unity was going to go public within the next 12 months. I got to go to their conference when we had-- [chuckle] pre-COVID, when we had real conferences. That was a year ago.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Twelve months ago I put a prediction on LinkedIn saying that I thought -- based on some of the things that we're seeing coming out of Unity -- that Unity was going to go public within the next 12 months. I got to go to their conference when we had-- [chuckle] pre-COVID, when we had real conferences. That was a year ago.

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Machine Learning Education Apple Technology 78

XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

They have to know that everything they put into that building is actually based on facts, or based off a photograph, or based off satellite data. What are those conversations inside the conference room and what does all that look like? And not everybody is gonna be in the conference room with you. How is news made?

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Gaming Magic Leap Industry Retail 60

XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

At the first AWE conference back then, I think there was 300 people in total. Because with products like 6D.ai, you’re now being able to — and we’ll unpack this in a second — but you’re able to create a point cloud map of the real world, overlay the data, and make annotations on that in real time.

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AR Technology Industry Augmented Reality 60

XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Twelve months ago I put a prediction on LinkedIn saying that I thought -- based on some of the things that we're seeing coming out of Unity -- that Unity was going to go public within the next 12 months. I got to go to their conference when we had-- [chuckle] pre-COVID, when we had real conferences. That was a year ago.

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Machine Learning Education Apple Technology 60

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.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

And you’re doing this through virtual/augmented reality, and the metrics that you’re able to collect, keep maps, and where people are looking and the amount of data that you’re able to collect from users in a digital world versus a physical world is actually really quite amazing. And in VR, it took six months. Alan: Why?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

And you’re doing this through virtual/augmented reality, and the metrics that you’re able to collect, keep maps, and where people are looking and the amount of data that you’re able to collect from users in a digital world versus a physical world is actually really quite amazing. And in VR, it took six months. Alan: Why?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

He’s formerly held top product leadership positions at Microsoft and Nokia. At Nokia, Niko led a product program team in 2006-2007, and together with researchers from Nokia Research Center, his team developed the basis for the optical technology that later became the Microsoft Hololens. Today we have Niko Eiden, CEO of Varjo.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

He’s formerly held top product leadership positions at Microsoft and Nokia. At Nokia, Niko led a product program team in 2006-2007, and together with researchers from Nokia Research Center, his team developed the basis for the optical technology that later became the Microsoft Hololens. Today we have Niko Eiden, CEO of Varjo.

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AR Examples Latency Training 78

XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

He's formerly held top product leadership positions at Microsoft and Nokia. At Nokia, Niko led a product program team in 2006-2007, and together with researchers from Nokia Research Center, his team developed the basis for the optical technology that later became the Microsoft Hololens. Today we have Niko Eiden, CEO of Varjo.

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AR Latency Examples Training 60

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 12, 2022

Rev Lebaredian, Vice President of Omniverse and Simulation Technology at NVIDIA , said his company’s next milestone was to “make USD performant for real-time, large-scale virtual worlds and industrial digital twins” for global character sets, geospatial coordinates, and internet of things (IoT) data streaming.

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