The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

Or that Microsoft is working on a new reference design that fixes the issues of the first one? But of course, I hope for a full reveal . This makes us clearly understand that gamers are still not really into VR, and confirms the thesis by Microsoft that is not adding VR to Xbox. Unity changes how it handles XR Plugins.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

There will be a new launcher, improved graphics, improved in-game camera, production-ready Unity SDK for the creators, improved full-body VR, and much more. It has basically created a whole ecosystem of its own through strategic investments : I’m very curious to see what is the final goal of this strategy. More info (Somnium Space 3.0

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 28, 2023

While still in Italy, I verified that Microsoft Teams, Unity, and Github were accessible from China. And I have to say that this strategy is paying off. The first days I was thinking about putting the desk with the computer in the toilet, just to convey the idea Think about problems and plan Bs.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 28, 2023

This aligns it with the prices for competing solutions like the Apple Vision Pro and Microsoft HoloLens 2. Of course, companies looking to leverage the most advanced passthrough features will need to pay a little more. Users can access over 100 third-party applications and engines, including Unreal Engine and Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

More info (Vive Cosmos Elite launch) More info (New offerings of Vive Pro Eye) More info (Ben Lang’s editorial on HTC’s strategy) More info (Vive Sync launch). Of course I’m talking about a potential AR glass, the iGlass , that could so exploit the computational power of the phone without needing a cable to be connected to it.

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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…). For example, we invited senior executives from HUAWEI, JBD, HTC, Alibaba, iQIYI, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and so on.

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HaptX

MARCH 6, 2018

“I’ve known people in the game industry who have backgrounds in ethnomusicology, physics, history, and of course, geography. When one finds out that she worked at Microsoft in the early days of Encarta Encyclopedia and World Atlas , it starts to make sense. Her time working at Microsoft led her to the IGDA.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

For larger companies looking to connect their entire team with HoloLens 2 headsets, Microsoft is offering a package that includes Dynamic 365 Remote Assist on each MR headset at the cost of $125 per user – per month. If you’re a developer working on your own, Microsoft offers the HoloLens 2 Development Edition.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 15, 2024

Of course, when designing your MVP, imagine also what should be the next steps after it, so a roadmap at least for 6-12 months. For instance, we use a slightly modified version of Microsoft guidelines for C# for the coding phase, and every code is reviewed during the pull request stage Try to ask for high standards from everyone.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Of course, this doesn’t mean that VR is mainstream yet, because we have to verify what have been the actual sales numbers and also what will be the retention of these new users in 3–6 months. I am a bit sad no one gave an award to The Unity Cube , though… I would have loved to get a “Worst Application Award 2021” from Road To VR….

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

This acquisition signs a new course for Facebook strategy in XR: after having just partnered with external studios for the development of its top-notch exclusive titles (e.g. The consumer spending will increase and the dominant form of media consumed will be games, of course. I really hope so….

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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. Of course, indies won’t be super-happy of this decision, but unluckily this is how business works. The SDK offers native APIs, but also supports popular game engines like Unity and Unreal 4.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Florian: Sure, of course. So I'm assuming you're streaming this down from the cloud, using probably Unity or something= Florian: Yeah. Florian: [laughs] Without ISAR, of course not. Why not just use it, bring that application you have -- at the moment, a Unity application you have -- on the server or on premise or in cloud.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Florian: Sure, of course. So I'm assuming you're streaming this down from the cloud, using probably Unity or something=. Florian: [laughs] Without ISAR, of course not. Why not just use it, bring that application you have -- at the moment, a Unity application you have -- on the server or on premise or in cloud. Of course!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). Of course, Microsoft and Amazon are observing the situation: in my opinion, Microsoft will wait a bit , considering its focus on AR enterprise with HoloLens, while Amazon could improve its already existing offering of glasses connected with Alexa. Sounded good.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

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. This sale showed that (of course) at a reasonable price, AR headsets have the potential to sell well in tech communities. The “metaverse” was not a key topic inside “Microsoft Build”.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Meta) Meta launched Quest 3 The main piece of news of the week is of course the launch of the Meta Quest 3 at the Meta Connect. The last big feature is of course mixed reality: Zuckerberg defined the Quest 3 as the first consumer mixed reality headset.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 2, 2019

And with this, we hope to either substitute a large part of the beacon deployments, or of course enrich beacon deployments by creating continuous digital twins that can be used for documentation as well as other things. So Microsoft, as you know, we support ARKit- and ARCore-enabled devices. Alan: That’s incredible. Yes, exactly.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 2, 2019

And with this, we hope to either substitute a large part of the beacon deployments, or of course enrich beacon deployments by creating continuous digital twins that can be used for documentation as well as other things. So Microsoft, as you know, we support ARKit- and ARCore-enabled devices. Alan: That’s incredible. Yes, exactly.

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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. 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. VR technology is still not ready today to fulfill this need.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 2, 2019

And with this, we hope to either substitute a large part of the beacon deployments, or of course enrich beacon deployments by creating continuous digital twins that can be used for documentation as well as other things. So Microsoft, as you know, we support ARKit- and ARCore-enabled devices. Alan: That's incredible. Yes, exactly.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And once that starts to catch steam, every company in the world is going to have to have an exit strategy. And then, of course, a year or two years ago, you had this kind of crazy blockchain crypto space where everybody and their brother was doing an ICO, and you billions of dollars being raised from nothing.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And once that starts to catch steam, every company in the world is going to have to have an exit strategy. And then, of course, a year or two years ago, you had this kind of crazy blockchain crypto space where everybody and their brother was doing an ICO, and you billions of dollars being raised from nothing.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

We were so blessed to find literally the man that wrote the book on Unity [chuckles] Joe Hocking, to join the team. So you probably know the terms, PI, Package Inserts, and-- Alan: Of course. Versus dealing with a company that, you know, I'm not trying to be in any way offensive by saying they're laggers -- that's just their strategy.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

We were so blessed to find literally the man that wrote the book on Unity [chuckles] Joe Hocking, to join the team. Alan: Of course. Versus dealing with a company that, you know, I'm not trying to be in any way offensive by saying they're laggers -- that's just their strategy. John: Exactly. And Lewis Gardner on our CMS.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

The third major change came from Unity which recently announced that it will now be serving AR ads on mobile. Unity has one of the world’s largest mobile ad serving businesses and at the end of last year they partnered with Fossil to pilot this new ad format in mobile games. Virtual humans are getting more and more real.

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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

DECEMBER 18, 2019

John Riccitiello -- the CEO of Unity -- was one of the first to point out that there was going to be this great sort of gold rush of people who were going to overhype VR and its potential, and then we're going to see this gap of a disappointment where the early reality didn't match up with the hype and a lot of people were going to bail on it.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And once that starts to catch steam, every company in the world is going to have to have an exit strategy. And then, of course, a year or two years ago, you had this kind of crazy blockchain crypto space where everybody and their brother was doing an ICO, and you billions of dollars being raised from nothing.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

We were so blessed to find literally the man that wrote the book on Unity [chuckles] Joe Hocking, to join the team. Alan: Of course. Versus dealing with a company that, you know, I'm not trying to be in any way offensive by saying they're laggers -- that's just their strategy. John: Exactly. And Lewis Gardner on our CMS.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

Image by Microsoft). Microsoft is acquiring Activision Blizzard for $68.7B. The biggest news of the week has been the acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft for $68.7B. With it, Microsoft acquires many popular games like Overwatch, Starcraft, Call of Duty, and even Candy Crush. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 4, 2023

Of course, this theory has its problems, too: TVs can be watched by many people together… but spending 12,000$ to make a family of 4 people watch TV together seems a bit too much. Of course, no one has tried this headset, yet, so we should wait before judging it, but on paper, it looks incredibly interesting.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

Because people go, “of course, that’s the way it’s supposed to work. Of course, my rabbit should hide behind the couch.” Matt: The other one — this sort of thing is the stuff that isn’t obvious to people — but the other big one that I think is a big deal is the Microsoft Dynamics 365 apps.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

Because people go, “of course, that’s the way it’s supposed to work. Of course, my rabbit should hide behind the couch.” Matt: The other one — this sort of thing is the stuff that isn’t obvious to people — but the other big one that I think is a big deal is the Microsoft Dynamics 365 apps.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Our VP of Marketing and Strategy, Alex Colgan, will turn the tables and interview me on what happened in 2020 and what we can expect from 2021. Of course, we've always had the JavaScript editor on there and you can wrap code in five different languages into this. We saw Burning Man go online this year. So, Alex, welcome to the show.

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