Tech Trends VR

AUGUST 8, 2018

Magic Leap finally materializes into a product some of us can actually buy, yet the real test will be whether developers take the bait. There are plenty of players like Microsoft HoloLens and DAQRI which consistently deliver not only cool demos, but real use-cases for holographic Mixed Reality Click To Tweet.

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Tech Trends VR

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

The Venture Reality Fund , which invests primarily in immersive applications and games, has just released its latest quarterly update covering Q1 and Q2 of 2019. The US Army’s $479M contract with Microsoft Hololens in late 2018 is the biggest validation of enterprise value of AR Click To Tweet. Mobile AR 2.0 is coming Click To Tweet.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

HTC advertises it as a headset for relaxation and productivity because it wants to position it as a different product than a gaming machine like Oculus Quest 2. Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap 2 has been teased. Chipset : Qualcomm Snapdragon XR1 Display Type : LCD Display resolution : 3.2K Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Magic Leap has just organized its first developers’ event, dubbed “L.E.A.P.” It is the first event of this kind organized by Magic Leap: we can say that LEAP Con is like the Oculus Connect of Magic Leap and will probably become always more important, year after year, exactly as it has happened to Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

If the 10th is the wrong date, then all my bets are on the 19th of October because on that date by chance already two games are launching : The Wizards Dark Times Brotherhood and the 7th Guest. It’s strange that two games decided to launch on the same date, so there is a chance this is a magical date.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

You know well that I’ve been at SXSW , but, shame on me, I haven’t stayed a few days more to attend the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. It has been interesting to watch the reportages of Alex VR and Skeeva from the show floor , where they met many game studios and had meaningful interviews with them.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

This means that when some VR indie devs write me an e-mail asking for a review of a game of theirs, I usually answer “I don’t know if I have the time” and in the latest times what happens most frequently is that later on I never manage to find the time to review it.

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ARPost

JUNE 8, 2022

Magic Leap VP Product Marketing and Developer Programs, Lisa Watts, presented the Auggie for Best Enterprise solution to Avataar. Best Game or Toy. Chicken Waffle CEO, Finn Staber, presented the Auggie for Best Game or toy, saying “Games are so important to us. Best Enterprise Solution. Best Interaction Product.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 15, 2023

The online platform promotes interactive social and immersive gaming worlds with rich branding and content creation opportunities. Spatial Hits Big at GDC 2023 In March, at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2023 in San Francisco, Spatial announced the platform’s new Unity Creator Toolkit is entering its beta stages.

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ARPost

MAY 12, 2022

Of course, companies don’t need to have a keynote to say something interesting. Magic Leap. Of course, we don’t know yet exactly what the announcement will be, but later the same day Pearlman and Sherman are joined by Ferhan Ozkan of XR Bootcamp to talk about “How to Build Strategic XR Talent Pipelines,” so we can guess.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 8, 2019

nReal has been sued by Epic Games for the name too similar to Unreal and by Magic Leap that claims that nReal CEO Chi Xu has stolen the technology of the American company while working there. No one from Magic Leap or nReal is authorized to talk about this topic, so I won’t address it here.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Microsoft and Zoom have also released their respective apps into the Vision Pro this week. The Future of Magic Leap After Ross Rosenberg was appointed Magic Leap’s CEO in October 2023, the company has since focused on its enterprise roadmap for 2024; targeting its XR devices towards enterprise and industrial clients.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 9, 2019

I got immediately hyped about this: we are all dreaming about AR glasses like Magic Leap or HoloLens 2 , but what if the future was made of AR contact lenses? Me doing a duck face with a pair of Magic Leap on. Of course, you can look through. What is the current status of the project?

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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! Of course, some people from all over the world made some tricks to buy it anyway. There is even Microsoft Word!

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

With a tweet on its account, Valve has announced that the most awaited VR game of the year, Half-Life: Alyx is going to be released on March, 23rd. The game will be available only on Steam, but it will be compatible with all PC VR headsets. The price is €50, but the game is free for Index owners. I’m hyped, and you?

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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.

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Tech Trends VR

AUGUST 13, 2018

When I tried Microsoft Remote Assist with the HoloLens back in May at Microsoft Build I was able to “repair” a complex electrical panel in a matter of minutes. Of course it was a staged demo scenario, but the principle stands. Much of this growth is expected to be driven by B2B segments including distribution and manufacturing.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 17, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Valve) Valve confirms it is working on a VR headset Speaking with the Korean magazine This Is Game, Valve’s product designer Greg Kumar has answered the explicit question about their work on a VR headset with the following sentence: “Still, I can tell you for sure that we’ve been working on a VR headset lately.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

It’s a good read , full of interesting anecdotes, like when it is written that Beat Saber became the testbench for the tracking of the Quest controllers , or that Asgard’s Wrath, in the beginning, was a tower defense game. Niantic has just teased the game Urban Legends, another geolocalized game, but this time with more emphasis on AR and 5G.

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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. This has of course nothing to do with gathering data from the biggest number possible of people. Read about Microsoft’s Ignite conference. Absolutely Not.

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2017

. “While there was clear demand coming primarily from technology enthusiasts, what became readily apparent were the use cases for enterprise users across multiple verticals and for consumers with gaming and content consumption. billion in 2021. Meanwhile, VR headsets grow from $2.1 billion in 2016 to $18.6

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

And once you decide to sell a premium product, of course, the price becomes super-high and unaffordable for all normal people. 72 Hz may not be useful for your app and you should activate it only if you think that your game can run at that frequency (so the graphics should be simple, for instance). Oculus is going to found big games.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 28, 2023

Dynamic generative applications The lightbulb in my brain powered on by reminding my interview with the amazing John Gaeta (when he still was at Magic Leap). When people talk about “developing a game with ChatGPT” or something like that, usually it is about using ChatGPT to generate the logic of the game while inside Unity.

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Upload VR

JUNE 9, 2023

Google chickened out , Microsoft got distracted , and it's totally understandable if you lost interest in VR when they did. Lets balance that legitimate concern by examining where Apple is and what the company potentially loses by leaving controller-based VR and even traditional gaming experiences out of Vision Pro's picture.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Case Western Reserve University, a world-renowned medical institution, joined the event to reveal how it leveraged Microsoft’s MR tools by combining them with its educational software platform. The company explored 3D modelling and printing, and later, Microsoft debuted its first-generation HoloLens at the time.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Image courtesy Microsoft. The hope of course is that AR Headsets will eventually shrink enough to be rightfully called AR glasses, but in the meantime, don’t let anyone try to sell you “AR glasses” which are really just smartglasses. Examples of AR Headsets: Microsoft HoloLens. Magic Leap One.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 30, 2019

More info (Road To VR review) More info (Ars Technica comparison with other devices) More info (Polygon review) More info (Playing Oculus games with the Knuckles) More info (Orders backlog) More info (Valve Index fitting guide) More info (Wireless Index) More info (All games compatible with Index) More info (Gabe Newell talking about the Index).

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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

JULY 7, 2019

Others can’t make most games to run on the PC because the 120/144Hz mode is too demanding. These can be games, applications, marketing experiences or whatever the developer wants. Microsoft is shipping Azure Kinect. Microsoft is finally shipping its Azure Kinect devkits. Some people are even already returning the Index!

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 13, 2018

We are in the days of the Magic Leap hype : developers that have bought it are posting videos everywhere and every one of us is trying to understand if the device is valuable or not. So, here you are my editorial regarding Magic Leap. So, here you are my editorial regarding Magic Leap.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The 10-week course instructed aviation staff on using its Manifest platform. Trainees could use Microsoft HoloLens 2 and Magic Leap headsets, as well as tablets and smartphones for the platform. This will become a real possibility with airlines offering immersive movies and games for long-haul flights.

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Road to VR

MARCH 18, 2018

Held annually in San Francisco, Game Developers Conference has undeniably been a focal point for VR the industry, and as augmented reality continues to heat up, we expect it to be increasingly important for AR as well. Don’t Expect Valve’s VR Games or Knuckles. Continued on Page 2: Sony, Magic Leap, LG & Microsoft ».

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

This is a simpler mechanism than the waveguides employed by Microsoft HoloLens 2 or by Magic Leap, and while it may provide a bit less immersive holograms, it is the only way to provide affordable wide-FOV glasses at the moment. If you like photonic lightfield chips (whatever this means), buy a Magic Leap One.

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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. Over the course of the three-day media tour in Tokyo, the company presented me with a litany of those ideas in an almost overwhelming fashion.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2019

I’m here to attend the WCVRI , a very big event about Virtual Reality in China, where I am exhibiting HitMotion: Reloaded , the mixed reality fitness game of my agency New Technology Walkers ( contact us if you need some VR development!). Leap Motion) on the same headset. Our booth at the exhibition… isn’t it cool?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

They promise us wonderful connections between the digital and physical worlds, and games where we can chase cartoon characters through our own furniture. Ellsworth: I’m another huge Star Trek nerd, and Star Wars of course. Above: CastAR wants you to play tabletop games in mixed reality. Here’s an edited transcript of our panel.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

This week we had anyway the confirmation that Fast Travel Games is working on two titles for this headset. And Sony will give a “Sneak peek” of PSVR 2 games at its upcoming State Of Play event on June 2nd at 3 PM PT. According to the leaker, the game was playable, but the overall quality was not that good. Image by Magic Leap).

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