The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Google owns the best search engine (Google), all the data of the outdoor part of the world (Google Maps), the most used mobile operating system (Android), an AR framework (ARCore), and is strategically acquiring some startups that may be useful for building future AR glasses (North). News from partners (and friends).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

A lot of data that will be very useful to Facebook to create its Live Maps functionality. Anyway, WebVR experiences won’t have access to hands-tracking data, but the hands’ data will be converted to two emulated fake controllers. I had forecasted it in my predictions for augmented reality in 2020 : AR Cloud wars are starting.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

We also have a small office and a couple of people overseas in Europe and America. In Europe, there are venues in Britain, Spain, France, Serbia (by raw play stats it’s the most popular area in the EU; don’t ask me why), and Russia. We celebrated our 5th anniversary as an incorporated company last month.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2022

This collaboration also lets me offer you one special bonus: if you live in the EMEA area (Europe, Middle East, Africa), if you register for the GTC event using my referral code [link] , you can have a chance to win an NVIDIA RTX3080 Ti (worth $1200)! For these reasons, photorealism and physical accuracy are important goals.

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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? There’s one, you need to get data in somehow, right? So the traditional way to do it is to use Unreal or Unity. First of all, we’re getting data in.

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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? There’s one, you need to get data in somehow, right? So the traditional way to do it is to use Unreal or Unity. First of all, we’re getting data in.

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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? There's one, you need to get data in somehow, right? So the traditional way to do it is to use Unreal or Unity. First of all, we're getting data in. Affordable.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

This means that while you have the Quest on, your microphone data will be always listened by the device, and you can imagine my profound happiness in knowing this. Unreal is already compatible with the framework, so in 2021 we’ll soon have also the tools ready to create OpenXR cross-compatible platforms.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 24, 2022

I just got back from Lisbon, where I attended AWE Europe. Unity should anyway be the first engine partner, something that doesn’t surprise me considering the litigation between Apple and Epic Games, the company behind Unreal Engine. VR looks incredibly stunning with Unreal Engine 5 features like Nanite and Lumen. Other news.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Data miner Bast564 discovered it and shared a video about it online. Here you are some interesting articles about the metaverse that I found this week: Gorilla ITR has written a long report about how it is difficult to gather data and make data analysis of the experiences that people do in the metaverse. Some news on content.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Some people say that Facebook threatens to leave Europe, but I think this is never happening. Personally, I think that this trend that every country wants to keep its data inside its boundaries in understandable, but it risks also creating a collection of walled gardens, as it is happening with USA vs China).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

To obtain it, Facebook had to use some CV magic that uses data on the cameras and the 3D data of the point cloud of the world detected by the device. And as you complete your tour of duty across Europe, you’ll collaborate with the French Resistance, working to sabotage Nazi operations from behind enemy lines.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 17, 2020

Especially in Europe, in Germany, what we have observed, the most successful startups — or startup leaders, let’s say — is coming directly from the heart of the enterprise, because they know how these big corporates work. So you can select one of them. And the first batch, it will be in Berlin.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 17, 2020

Especially in Europe, in Germany, what we have observed, the most successful startups — or startup leaders, let’s say — is coming directly from the heart of the enterprise, because they know how these big corporates work. So you can select one of them. And the first batch, it will be in Berlin.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 17, 2020

Especially in Europe, in Germany, what we have observed, the most successful startups -- or startup leaders, let's say -- is coming directly from the heart of the enterprise, because they know how these big corporates work. So you can select one of them. And the first batch, it will be in Berlin.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Before his entrepreneurial work, Mahajan was an engineer at Epic Games on the Unreal Engine and Gears of War. Pankaj Raut is currently the board member and active CEO of AjnaLens (Dimension NXG), a leading AI-powered Mixed Reality company serving the Defence, Fortune 100 clients across Asia, Europe and America. 14- Kai Liang.

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