The Ghost Howls

MAY 14, 2023

Of course, AI has been the star of the show , with the public release of Google Bard and the announcement of a new language model, but there have been also interesting pieces of news about XR. It is already integrated into Unity and Adobe Aero , so content creators can use it within the tools they already use today to develop AR content.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Top news of the week Meta is shipping the Quest 3 The news of the week is of course that Meta is shipping its new Quest 3 headset and its many accessories. More info Samsung Galaxy Ring may have been delayed Samsung Galaxy Ring, t he smart ring that could also be used to interact with Samsung XR glasses, has been delayed.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

And then, of course, there is SuperData , that someone has already renamed “SuperGuess”, that has released its estimates of VR sales for Q4 2019. Interviewed by OnMSFT, CD PROJEKT Red’s John Mamais has answered many questions about the upcoming game, and of course, he has talked also about VR. Samsung Odyssey+ is now at $230.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

I have to admit that at least Zuck tried to do this in the best way possible : he has taken full responsibility for the problems in a video call where he announced the layoffs and has offered a good severance package for people going away. Dean Takashi has interviewed Neal Stephenson about the metaverse , his book, and, of course, Meta.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2023

You can access it at this link: [link] ) Top news of the week (Image by Microsoft) Microsoft kills Windows Mixed Reality Microsoft has decided to pull the plug on the Windows Mixed Reality platform , the one of the WMR headsets by Acer, Asus, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung which were the first to introduce inside-out tracking in the VR ecosystem.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

During all these months, I had the occasion of reading on Linkedin about all his cool prototypes and enterprise solutions that he and his colleagues have developed inside the company, ranging from 360 videos to hand-tracked training solutions with the Quest, not to mention XR entertainment solutions for airplane passengers.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 22, 2023

We see evidence of augmented experiences on social media through 360-degree photos and videos. Google now supports numerous Android smartphones such as Asus, Lenovo, LG, Moto, Motorola, OnePlus, Samsung, Sony, Vivo, Infinix, Tecno, Sharp, and Xiaomi. Augmented reality (AR) is becoming increasingly common in everyday life.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

He promised us all to show images and videos on his social media profiles. Is it for some patents on video streaming? 10 minutes of Youtube video have been enough to make all game developers hype. He says that Apple AR glasses will come in 2021 and that he has seen them. I find this pretty funny. Yes, Airpods.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

I think that the upcoming release of Quest 3, and the increasing rumors about Samsung are going to improve our situation even more. 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. Let’s all hope so. Great job, Magnopus!

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 27, 2024

For instance, earlier this year, Google introduced updates to the Geospatial Creator platform that allows users to create and adjust anchors at scale within the Unity Editor using C#. Of course, there’s no guarantee that Google is working on a new set of AR glasses. What About Project Astra?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

Image by Samsung). Anyway, officially, both Samsung and Oculus have continued at least to support it. But at the presentation of the latest Samsung Note 10, for the first time after the Note 4, Samsung has dropped support for Gear VR in its latest flagship device. And Samsung is not abandoning XR for sure.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Of course, there are some little issues, like for instance: There is a little latency for positional tracking and tracking of controllers (even if it is hardly noticeable); Sometimes you can spot some artifacts , especially if you move very fast; The images do not appear as crisp as on the Rift S , because of the compression stuff.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Of course its goal is to give importance to Steam, not to the hardware. More info (TESTED video on Half-Life: Alyx) More info (Summary of most important points of the video by Upload). Then, you can create MR applications, and so code in Unity and at the same time see the preview of your 3D game in 3D in front of you.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

This doesn't much matter for watching traditional video content, as most of it is in widescreen aspect ratio anyways. That’s reason #1 that Vision Pro can't be practically used outdoors, and why the videos you see of people doing this are influencers chasing clout, not honestly depicting a practical use case.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2019

Inside, the content has no special arrangement : there is just the headset, plus a little box that contains some accessories: an instructions book, the charger, USB-C cable, earphones, a marvelously useless warranty & safety little book and of course the controller. Right view: here you control the audio of your experience. User Inteface.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

Some examples of this category of glasses: Intel Vaunt (project abandoned); North Focals; Vuzix Blade; Snap Spectacles v2 (they are just cameras to share videos); Bose AR glasses (these are not for visual, but for audio augmented reality). The video regarding the UX attached to the hands has become viral pretty fast. Leap Motion.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The New York Times distributes more than 1 million Google Cardboard phone VR viewers to subscribers with the launch of The Displaced , a 360-degree video project focusing on children driven from their homes by war. Samsung starts off the month debuting its VR Internet browser for Gear VR, becoming the first to offer a VR browser.

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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…). Of course, Mister President Alvin Graylin will be there, too (Image from VRTUOLUO) Why should people attend this event?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

A leaked image from the Oculus team shows that the company is working to implement body tracking inside the Oculus Unity SDK. It’s not clear on what platforms this functionality will be working on, but if I had to guess, I would say Project Cambria, since its body tracking was already revealed in a video some months ago. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

It feels slightly heavier than the Go, especially on the forehead and it is also heavier than Rift: since the headset has to contain all the processing units and the batteries, of course it has to be heavier than the Rift. We are at the same level of Vive Focus or Vive Pro… probably the display is the same made by Samsung.

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Hypergrid Business

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

Their phones can be used for some low-end VR, via the Cardboard platform from Google, but they haven’t had anything of their own to match the higher-end Samsung Gear VR and Google Daydream View headsets. The developer kit works on Unity, Unreal, and Scenekit engines. It works on Android, iOS, Windows and Tango.

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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. Supported phones: Samsung: S8, S8 plus, Note 8, S9, S9 plus, Huawei: Mate 10, Mate 10 Pro, P20, P20 pro. Unity-based SDK supporting Windows and Android. Currently, we provide demo codes, and also some video viewing experience. HTC: 10, U11.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

Samsung has also teased to be interested in releasing a new AR/VR standalone device. The only exception to this rule seems to be the Samsung Odyssey+, that offers features somewhat comparable to the ones of the Vive Pro, but costs only $500. And then, of course, there is Beat Saber. Samsung will do the same.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

It will be possible to shoot 4K videos of the augmented applications, body tracking has been improved , and the system will be able to perform better environment understanding The new ARKit features will be used by a new tool provided by Apple for all its iPhone users: RoomPlan. Qualcomm wants to challenge Apple’s chips.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 8, 2018

I’m very interested in this device, that’s why I dedicated various articles to it, like the tutorial on how to get started with Go on Unity , how to stream the headset content to an external screen and my comparison with the Vive Focus. The headset. The controller. The Go has a predicted battery life of 2-2.5

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

If we talk about compatible devices, we all have a smartphone that can do AR, we all have watched on some social media short video selfies with some AR effects on. This commercial video about Google Glasses led me to immersive realities. There are vaiours solutions to also export Unity XR projects to the web (Image by Mozilla).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2019

Instead, it is not for people wanting: An affordable device ( Rift S is much better in this sense); A portable device ( Oculus Quest or Vive Focus Plus are the way to go); A super-big screen resolution ( Varjo VR-1 or HP Reverb are better in this sense); An easy-to-use headset (again, Rift S or WMR devices like the Samsung Odyssey are better).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

They also make promotional videos that are a mix of futurism and a healthy dose of WTF, like this one: nReal has still a big strategic advantage , though. We have no price info on this device, but we can expect it to be around $700-$800 (for the headset only, of course). Samsung AR glasses. Ok Samsung, you have our attention.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

You can watch me unboxing it in this Youtube video. There are various videos and tutorials out there showing you how to exactly wear the Quest, because it is not easy to find the right way to wear it so that you feel perfectly ok with it. 2 x 3.5mm audio jacks Connectivity: USB, Wi-fi, bluetooth connection. USB should have OTG enabled.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

Of course, the device that is reaching (or has already reached) this magical number is the Oculus Quest 2 , which has literally taken VR out of its quicksands, becoming the first mainstream device. Another brand I’m very curious about is Samsung : sooner or later, it should announce something, either in VR or in AR.

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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. With Gear VR, you use your phone to experience VR apps, but your phone is a device that has to do a bazillion things (handle calls, messages, videos, VR, etc…), so it has to be good for lots of use.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

In the end, I still believe in the old predictions of Unity CEO John Riccitiello: Look at this graph shown by Mr. Riccitiello in 2017: the purple line is the one of the analysts, while the white one is the one forecasted by him. But I don’t see WebXR becoming more important than standalone apps yet.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 20, 2021

Of course, the community reacted pretty badly to this piece of news. I’m not putting ads on my Youtube channel at the moment to not annoy my viewers, but recently Google has written me that it may decide to put banners on my videos and earn money from them without even asking. If I don’t agree, I can close my account.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 23, 2019

If YouTube is the world’s compendium of videos of cute cats and unboxings, then the Sketchfab platform is well on its way to becoming the equivalent cultural database of user-generated 3D objects. Either regards to presentations, or it could be to build video games. So maybe there’s three or four types of video files.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

So with this LiDAR that Apple is pushing pretty hard -- I'm pretty sure Google is going to follow suit pretty quickly, probably one year behind, and then they're going to have LiDAR on their top end phones, probably coming to Samsung -- but try-on is going to be made really possible, try-on of suits. Alan: That's crazy. Ben: Well, let's see.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

So with this LiDAR that Apple is pushing pretty hard -- I'm pretty sure Google is going to follow suit pretty quickly, probably one year behind, and then they're going to have LiDAR on their top end phones, probably coming to Samsung -- but try-on is going to be made really possible, try-on of suits. Alan: That's crazy. Ben: Well, let's see.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

So with this LiDAR that Apple is pushing pretty hard -- I'm pretty sure Google is going to follow suit pretty quickly, probably one year behind, and then they're going to have LiDAR on their top end phones, probably coming to Samsung -- but try-on is going to be made really possible, try-on of suits. Alan: That's crazy. Ben: Well, let's see.

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