The Ghost Howls

APRIL 16, 2020

Thanks to the WeChat group XR Story I got to know Gianluigi Perrone, a very talented movie director that works a lot with virtual reality , and that also teaches cinema at the Beijing Film Academy. Hello Gian, introduce yourself and your book “Dogma VR – Storytelling in Virtual Reality”!

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2016

You can now register to attend Oculus’ 3rd ‘Connect’ conference, an event dedicated to all things Oculus from Rift to Touch and is focused primarily on developers and VR development. Photo courtesy Oculus VR, LLC. Explore the endless possibilities for VR across 360 video, film, art, and education.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

It has just announced that it will release a new tool to create virtual worlds for the platform based on Unity. There will be also a way to enjoy the conference in Horizon Worlds. When virtual reality has the wrong kind of haptics… Funny link. Rec Room announces Rec Room Studio. Other news. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

The situation looks uncertain, and probably we will hear about Magic Leap’s plans at the next LEAP Conference. This is also used to substitute workshops and speeches usually employing Youtube Videos or Youtube Live Streams ; VR events , made in virtual reality in platforms like ENGAGE, Somnium Space, Mozilla Hubs, VIRBela, etc….

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

Google performs interesting AR news at I/O conference. At Google I/O, no executive of the company has talked about the M-word, but they have anyway showed interesting AR updates, which will be relevant for our future M-world. The problem of moderation inside virtual worlds. Other relevant news. Image by Google).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2021

This has not been the most interesting week in AR, VR, but I think that in the next times we’ll see some shots fired: in some days there will be the F8, the official shipment of the Vive Pro 2, then the Apple WWDC conference! Unreal Engine 5 gets released in Early Access. I hope for some juicy news… and you? Top news of the week.

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VRWorld

MAY 8, 2017

GPU Technology Conference 2017 is premier, NVIDIA just announced first set of VR news coming from the conference. So lets recap all that came to our knowledge today: VRWorks is a comprehensive suite of APIs, libraries, and engines that enable application and headset developers to create amazing virtual reality experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

this one about Holoride and this about Lynx-R1 ), but many will come in the following days! After I will be back in Italy, on the 20th, I will also be a speaker at Virtual Reality Day , the 24h-conference about VR held by Bob Fine. You can read some of my hands-on articles on my blog (e.g. Top news of the week.

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ARPost

JUNE 1, 2020

See Also: XR Technology Conference AWE Goes Live. The Unreal Engine General Manager Marc Petit announced new tools on the Epic Online Services platform to help developers create scaling multiplayer experiences. The Nextant Awards are separate from the Auggies and are presented by the Virtual World Society at AWE.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 15, 2016

In part one the outspoken founder of Epic Games warned us how dangerous collectivization could be for virtual reality; in part two he gave us our best look yet at how much Oculus is spending to fund VR content and now, in part three, Sweeney is setting his sights on the Internet’s champion himself: Elon Musk.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

One of the best moments ever at View Conference 2018 , has been when I was able to interview John Gaeta. Now, this genius that has revolutionized cinema has landed in the mixed reality ecosystem , to try to improve it as well. He was obsessed with Virtual Reality. Innovative cinematographic hardware used by John Gaeta.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Unreal is already compatible with the framework, so in 2021 we’ll soon have also the tools ready to create OpenXR cross-compatible platforms. Anything World makes you create virtual worlds with your voice. You know that I like talking with you about cool XR experiments, and Anything World is one of them.

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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). Room 134, North Hall.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

Probably Leap Motion had this great idea for an affordable AR headset with natural interactions that could democratize augmented reality, but didn’t have the means (money, etc…) to put it on the market and make it succeed , so it gifted the project to the community hoping that the community could help it in growing.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 27, 2019

This year we had the launch of two amazing 6 DOF all-in-one Virtual Reality headsets : the Oculus Quest and the HTC Vive Focus Plus. When I returned to the initial point in the virtual world, my position in the real world was slightly different. On Unreal Engine, the Wave SDK for the Vive Focus has lots of issues.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

I’ve not been there, but as always, I have read tons of materials, so that to provide you a satisfying summary of the most important news from that conference (but this time I promise you I won’t write as much as for the Oculus Connect 5 !). PixelStrikeInc brace yourself…the memes are coming. pic.twitter.com/MbJZV8aOdf.

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HaptX

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Our team took over the Ready Player One livestream on Twitch at the 2018 South by Southwest Conference. The same principle guided the software team to the first customer-facing SDK release, sporting plugins for Unreal Engine and Unity that instantly, intuitively, and effectively enhance customer projects with haptics.”.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Apple’s Vision Pro triggered new discourse on the future of virutal, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR). Revealed at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), the Apple Vision Pro has sparked both praise and criticism from the global XR community. Apple has missed that this is possible today, not tomorrow.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

And so I felt like one of the best ways to do that was to go to these different conferences, and to talk to the people who were on the front lines of creating these different experiences. Alan: I had the honor of being interviewed by you at one of these conferences. See what the power of this new medium is.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

And so I felt like one of the best ways to do that was to go to these different conferences, and to talk to the people who were on the front lines of creating these different experiences. Alan: I had the honor of being interviewed by you at one of these conferences. See what the power of this new medium is.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

And so I felt like one of the best ways to do that was to go to these different conferences, and to talk to the people who were on the front lines of creating these different experiences. Alan: I had the honor of being interviewed by you at one of these conferences. See what the power of this new medium is.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We saw a world go into lockdown. And we're not going back to the old world, the way it was. So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. But then you look at Unreal. I got to go to their conference when we had-- [chuckle] pre-COVID, when we had real conferences.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We saw a world go into lockdown. And we're not going back to the old world, the way it was. So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. But then you look at Unreal. I got to go to their conference when we had-- [chuckle] pre-COVID, when we had real conferences.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We saw a world go into lockdown. And we're not going back to the old world, the way it was. So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. But then you look at Unreal. I got to go to their conference when we had-- [chuckle] pre-COVID, when we had real conferences.

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