The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Tilt Five is a startup working on eponymous AR glasses that are focused on board games. The idea behind Tilt Five is creating a pair of glasses that are not general-purpose ones, like HoloLens or Magic Leap : Jeri knows the technology is not ready yet. The board and the controller necessary to play Tilt Five games.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 28, 2023

Today I want to take you on a journey on one of the coolest prototypes I’ve ever worked on, which is about creating Unity applications that can dynamically modify their logic at runtime depending on the user’s needs thanks to generative artificial intelligence. Something so cool I could try and fail big. And then I had an idea.

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ARPost

MAY 12, 2022

Immediately following Inbar’s welcome address is the Unity keynote by Unity Technologies CEO John Riccitiello. As one of the leading tools for 3D content creation, Unity is also one of the engines driving XR content and experiences. Of course, companies don’t need to have a keynote to say something interesting.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Day Two Day two only has one proper keynote scheduled, this time with Magic Leap. Last year, the company’s Head of Product Management, Jade Meskill, took the stage to talk about the Magic Leap 2 and “augmented enterprise.” Following that is a “Fireside Chat” with Unity CEO John Riccitiello.

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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

JANUARY 31, 2022

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap 2 to feature dynamic dimming. At Photonics West, Magic Leap’s VP of Optical Engineering Kevin Curtis has revealed some new interesting details on the upcoming Magic Leap 2. To be exact, the eye box is twice as large as the one in Magic Leap One.

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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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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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Upload VR

MAY 4, 2024

VR gaming saw two major announcements - Batman: Arkham Shadow and Alien: Rogue Incursion. EA Sports WRC got PC VR support, Dungeons of Eternity launched the spring update , C-Smash VRS has a new mode , Walkabout added a Venice course and Pistol Whip revealed the Voidslayer Collection. Pavlov released the minor update 30.1

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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. More info (App Lab team) More info (New games on App Lab).

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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

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

The Unity Beta to develop for the Vision Pro is still not available, so many devs like me can’t even play with the emulator. This information shows us that Apple is playing a long-term game. The Quest 2 was sold as a quite affordable gaming console, and many games have been released for it over the years (a few hundred).

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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 6, 2024

But this should surprise no one: all the previous expensive AR/MR headsets that have been initially targeted at consumers, like Magic Leap or HoloLens, ended up being used mostly in enterprise sectors. I’ve tried looking for “HitMotion” and our game “HitMotion: Reloaded” appeared. This week, Meta has fulfilled its promises.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Game developers are also preparing for it: popular games like SuperHot, Red Matter , and Arizona Sunshine will publish new updates to take in count the new horsepower of the Quest 2. One of these data is very interesting: 15% of the game players have played it in VR. Many people are getting ready to receive their new toy.

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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

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

When I interviewed Kevin Williams , an expert in the LBVR market, he said that there are also some experiments with location-based augmented reality and he mentioned a Japanese arcade AR game called HADO. O He contacted me and of course I asked him to have an interview with me regarding his job in LBAR.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

(Image by Cloudhead Games). Pistol Whip is going to be the next great VR game. Pistol Whip, the new game by Cloudhead Games, is slated for release on November, 7th for Oculus Quest, Rift and SteamVR. On the same day, an arcade version of the game will be released in LBVR locations through Springboard VR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 8, 2022

.” She also cited a paper noting that students also retained information 40 percent to 50 percent more than with traditional learning methods, even eight months after the virtual course. She concluded: “It’s not going to be only for gaming or entertainment. IGS and the Future of XR Training.

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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. Realmax has an SDK that is compatible with Unity 2017 and Unity 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2018

One great way to do it is giving speeches about how to use AR and VR in e-commerce : e-commerce is of course very important for our customers at Intradeco and AR and VR are my passion and are very relevant for the future of e-commerce. Duck Face, Magic Leap One on and I’m ready to make lots of girls to fall in love with me.

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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

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

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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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

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. Real world spaces, such as Shibuya Crossing, will have augmented 'layers' – social, music, game and art layers, for example – that the user will be able to switch between like channels on a TV.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 14, 2018

Of course, if you need more features, you have to go for an expensive HoloLens. Unity-based SDK supporting Windows and Android. But for developers that have not the money to buy a HoloLens or a Magic Leap (when it will come out, maybe in 3018), Dreamglass can be an interesting opportunity. HTC: 10, U11.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

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. I also commended the focus on gaming and entertainment for the device. Their partnership with Unity will get them there quickly.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2018

And the app is great because it doesn’t only guide you in the assembly process, but in all the experience from the unboxing to the Aryzon-compatible games download. After that, I decided to try some cool AR games. Here I was trying a little maze game. It just needs 15 seconds of your time.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Minecraft Earth was a game that had the potential of competing with Pokemon Go, but its shutdown has been announced some weeks ago because the lockdown has hurt its launch and adoption. Magic Leap will meet its fate. Duck Face, Magic Leap One, and me. What about Magic Leap ? Sounded good.

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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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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

Of course, you can’t expect from it multiple depth planes or things like that. Of course the actual battery time may vary depending on what you are doing with the device. But again, this is an early devkit, so this is part of the game. Being the lens transparent, you can see through it both the real and virtual world.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

So you don’t know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. Alan: So how do you then get people to learn how to do Unreal and Unity without teaching them? And then, of course, you need to manage. So the traditional way to do it is to use Unreal or Unity. Maybe I guess the Unity asset store would be the same.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

So you don’t know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. Alan: So how do you then get people to learn how to do Unreal and Unity without teaching them? And then, of course, you need to manage. So the traditional way to do it is to use Unreal or Unity. Maybe I guess the Unity asset store would be the same.

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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. In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal. Who Will Own the Metaverse? by Marko Balabanovic.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Today Tilt Five is launching its Kickstarter campaign for its innovative augmented reality glasses for tabletop gaming. Some of my toy projects… I did a ton of these toys joysticks that you plug into a television and have a bunch of video games built in. Using actual props in the game with Tilt Five (image by Tilt Five).

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

So you don't know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. Alan: So how do you then get people to learn how to do Unreal and Unity without teaching them? And then, of course, you need to manage. So the traditional way to do it is to use Unreal or Unity. Maybe I guess the Unity asset store would be the same.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The most anticipated keynote speakers are obviously John Hanke (CEO, Niantic), and Bob Murphy (Cofounder, Snap), along with top execs from Qualcomm, Unity, Magic Leap, HP, Lenovo, Meta, and many more. Tell us some important names that are going to join the event this year!

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