The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

It avoided adding an external box that the user has to wear on this pants , but included all the required hardware into the HoloLens headset. I think that in industrial environments, where the HoloLens is having great success, the less the cables and the worn hardware, the better for the workers. Design and comfort. Image by Reddit).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

The idea of Leap Motion is going against the current trend of augmented reality glasses, that is mostly based on expensive devices that have closed ecosystems (e.g. HoloLens or Magic Leap One ), but to create a headset that is: Affordable; Completely open, both from a software and hardware standpoint.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2021

With Pumori.io , I had created 6 Unity apps that demo UI/UX concepts on the Project North Star headset. However, I had to manually switch between unity packages to demo different apps which led me to taking on and off the headset constantly. . Is this the only supported programming language or devs can also use Unity and Unreal Engine?

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Upload VR

MAY 4, 2024

VR hardware has seen some significant developments recently. 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. After the biggest VR stories?

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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. Innovative cinematographic hardware used by John Gaeta. And what you are doing at Magic Leap to create these experiences for people? ( Magic Leap glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 16, 2022

I have just returned back home to Turin (Italy) after my trip to Laval and Paris, and as usual when I attend an event, here I am reporting to you the impressions of some of the hardware and software I have tried there. But no, the demo was not that fun, it was just a simple Unity scene.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

This time we don’t have more info about the hardware, but about the software. Of course, this option is hidden from all of us, so probably the secret user is a beta-tester of this functionality that leaked it. Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap has sold units of its first device for $550. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

And the number is also that big because Facebook had no hardware department, so it had to create everything from scratch (i.e. Apple already made hardware, so it already had the infrastructure to build it and just added XR people on top of this infrastracture, while Facebook could not). Absolutely Not.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

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. Tilt Five of course needs this board made in a special reflective material to work, and y ou can see 3D elements only where is this board. the FOV is very little).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Google can count on the acquisition of North, the experience he has matured by producing Google Glass and investing in Magic Leap, and the fact that it owns the most-used mobile operating system. Magic Leap will meet its fate. Duck Face, Magic Leap One, and me. What about Magic Leap ?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

Of course, I also expect full fingers tracking. We’re talking about the native SDK, of course; Beat Saber announces to have sold more than 2M of copies , with projected earnings of around $67M. Unity is offering 3 months of Free Learning so that you can sharp your development skills. Something like the Valve Index controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Magic Leap plans dev days and dev programs. We all know that Magic Leap is in big trouble, and it seems that one of the paths it is trying to follow to exit the quicksands is trying to get more developers onboard. New SteamVR devkit aims at making custom hardware easier. More info (Use Google Translate).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 29, 2020

With rumors of upcoming Apple glasses surging, and the investment made in Magic Leap that until now has been unfruitful, for sure Google is looking for an alternative to build its AR strategy. Unity Learn Premium is permanently free. Do you want to learn Unity for your next big AR/VR app? Take your course on Unity now!

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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. Basically, they are: Hyper-optimization : since this is a standalone headset, Oculus has been able to optimize the hardware and software for VR usage. Oculus announces Hardware Reports.

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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. Find out more details, dynamics and submission guidelines here. .

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

O He contacted me and of course I asked him to have an interview with me regarding his job in LBAR. What are the software and hardware platform used by HADO? Software-wise, we use Unity, Vuforia, and OpenCV. Well, after that article, I discovered that the CTO of MeLeap , the company behind HADO, is one of my readers! :O

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

But of course, the technology is still not there: the Oculus Quest is still uncomfortable, we can’t read texts in it, and so on. 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. Why can’t it be Facebook, or Magic Leap ?

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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. I hope that the prices of hardware come down and become more available, because that’s where we really need to start.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

Computing Unit: Weight : 170g Hardware Platform : Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 Operating System : Android. 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. Computational Power.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

He said that Facebook still believes in the tech and will continue investing a lot in it, and this delay may even be an advantage for FB : since Facebook was not a hardware company, the fact that VR will take longer than expected means that the company will have more time to learn about hardware manufacturing.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 9, 2021

Of course, some of these developers have leaked info to the press, and so now we have some more info about the VR headset and its related content. Talking about the hardware, we have confirmation about the 2K x 2K per eye resolution and the eye-tracking used for foveated rendering. But there are some other factors to consider.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 8, 2023

And of course, something about either GTA San Andreas or Assassin’s Creed VR would be much appreciated. Zapbox features a 100° FOV and is going to launch with a Unity SDK to create content for it. This shows well why it is so difficult to have games with compelling visuals on Quest hardware. Not 2x or 3x, but 26x.

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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. Magic Leap flopped, HoloLens is dead, and even Nreal, with its affordable Light glasses, has not taken off. The irony is that over the years, glass-based AR struggled to find its place, too.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

Google is also hiring high-profile people for it, like Bernard Kress, principal optical architect on Microsoft’s HoloLens team, and Paul Greco, the previous CTO of Magic Leap. Of course, the FTC will have to analyze this deal before it can be finalized. You can see something about it in the trailer, which is of course hilarious.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 30, 2019

The new Oculus Plugin for Unity introduces some interesting features. nReal answers to Magic Leap. In a preset PR statement, nReal answers the Magic Leap claims defining them “False and anticompetitive”. In a preset PR statement, nReal answers the Magic Leap claims defining them “False and anticompetitive”.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

This option gives you a headset plus $500 credit for Microsoft Azure , a three-month free trial of Unity Pro , and the PiXYZ plugin — giving you all the necessary tools to test, create, and launch enterprise apps for the HoloLens 2. Of course, Microsoft didn’t get rid of voice command with the HoloLens 2.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The news of course has attracted a lot of funny comments, like “these dogs have better hardware than me”, or the invention of new terms like “Dogmented Reality”, or “AR Doggles”. Someone has made a WebAR exporter for Unity. This means that, even with many limitations, you’ll be able to create WebAR experiences from within Unity.

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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

JUNE 27, 2022

Of course, its FOV was restricted because there are not in the market displays with so many pixels and such a big size For HDR there was Starburst, an HMD able to deliver 20,000 nits , much more than the 1,000 ones of a commercial HDR TV. These scholarships will be offered by XR Bootcamp, which already offers high-quality courses about XR.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

They may be AR glasses or smartglasses, but what is sure is that Niantic is working to support AR hardware within its platform. And I’m not only talking about the hardware, but also the software. I suggest you exploit this opportunity, of course. Mathew Olson from The Information (subscribe to his awesome newsletter !)

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ARPost

JUNE 6, 2023

Zappar’s Zapbox , DigiLens’ ARGO , Sony’s PlayStation VR 2 , the Magic Leap 2 , XREAL (previously Nreal) Air , and the Varjo XR 3 Focal Edition were all in the running, but the prize went to the HTC VIVE XR Elite. We’re just so happy. The award went to Verizon for The Future of Training , an XR upskilling program.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 4, 2018

While it’s only been released on the Vive Focus so far, Western audiences may soon have access to Beat Reality and/or similar visualizer apps with the proliferation of MR passthrough cameras on standalone headsets, similar to features we’ve seen on hardware such as Magic Leap One Creator Edition, Oculus Quest and the Lenovo Mirage Solo.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

Some weeks ago, I teased you that Meta was going to change its plans about hardware, because the recent drop in revenues forced it to be a bit more cautious with its spending for “the metaverse”. More info (Report on new directions for hardware at Meta) More info (Meta smartwatch canceled) More info (Portal will be aimed at B2B).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Apple’s take on immersive technologies will also test the future of XR hardware solutions and their roles in the broader XR community through rigorous use cases. This could actually be quite beneficial for Meta, Microsoft, and Magic Leap. Apple is behind the ball here, with the advancements in spatial and mixed reality AI.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Of course, all the community is interested in them, because they could mean a revolution in augmented reality, that is currently based on devices that have a tiny FOV window, or that have a wide FOV but unsatisfying quality of the visuals. The official computational unit runs Android. All APIs have a plain C version.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

The promise of Augmented Reality hardware has been immense, but so have been the number of misses. Can Jio’s next hardware play be any different? Reliance Jio’s foray into mixed reality started in 2019 when they acquired majority stake in deep-tech startup Tesseract which has a few hardware products in XR space.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

The newest Steam Hardware Survey shows how Rift S has now more or less 8% of the market. A new report from CCS Insight, instead, predicts that this year will be sold 7 million standalone VR headsets , and of course Oculus Quest and Go should make a great part of these devices. The Index is at less than 2 %, if you are curious.

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