UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 5, 2017

Unity Technologies and Epic Games are in a grudge match for the hearts and minds of game developers. I interviewed both John Riccitiello, CEO of San Francisco-based Unity, and Tim Sweeney, CEO of Raleigh, N.C.-based The Unity-based games reached a billion new devices since GDC 2016. Ditto with Google and ditto with Microsoft.”.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 17, 2023

The Oculus store features a dedicated section for “Oculus for Work”, where companies can access a partnership with Microsoft to bring not only Microsoft Teams but various Office apps into their VR environments. Microsoft also has its own developer environment where people can build their experiences for Mixed Reality.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

So markerless AR is powered not only by depth sensors and other positioning data, but also by ML algorithms on top of this data. LOCATION-BASED AR When users enter a particular location, AR applications can use that data to accurately display virtual content. Apps like Pokemon Go utilize markerless AR.

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VRScout

MARCH 12, 2018

Apple CEO Tim Cook said last year that “AR will change everything” and make the iPhone “even more essential,” while Microsoft has been revamping its computing around VR and AR, or what it calls “mixed reality.” For instance, retail staff could wear the HoloLens to see how something has been selling.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The alliance also called on companies, researchers, governments, and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to join forces to collaborate and share data on the emerging technology. Unity has also begun exploring the full capabilities of artificial intelligence with its generative AI (GenAI) solutions, Unity Muse and Unity Sentis.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 26, 2017

He was on stage at last year’s Unity Vision Summit explaining how the organization was using Microsoft’s HoloLens to help ground crews communicate with astronauts and operate machinery in outer space. Norris was the face and voice of NASA’s mixed reality projects for some time now. It’s not the perfect choice now.”.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 28, 2023

There is not only the problem of the timezone but also the unknown of the internet connection and the inability of reaching Western websites like Google. While still in Italy, I verified that Microsoft Teams, Unity, and Github were accessible from China. I tried using the VPNs, and I managed to connect to the servers.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 5, 2023

ChatGPT uses machine learning (ML) to aggregate data from the internet, generating content such as images, sound, documents, and chat texts. Numerous firms such as NVIDIA, Meta, Microsoft, Google, Unity, and many others have incorporated versions of GPT on their own solutions to increase content development dramatically.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In addition to these performance benefits, AR offers ways for brands to capture data on what customers like and dislike. This can be valuable in optimizing campaigns through targeted advertising, and “retargeting” services like Facebook Pixel, Google Ads, landing pages, or wish lists. Caveat Emptor. Caveat Emptor.

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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. The purpose of the group is of course the one of fighting the duopoly of Apple Maps/Google Maps. I wonder if this data could be useful also for building the AR Cloud.

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VRScout

MAY 30, 2017

To make matters murkier, there’s also the recently-announced partnership between Google and HTC Vive to create new standalone mobile headsets for all Google Daydream-ready Android phones. Air New Zealand is one airlines provider that is testing how the Microsoft Hololens can help improve in-flight customer service.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

On the server-side, it is being integrated with Microsoft Azure, and it is also coming in the future for Google Cloud and Tencent Cloud. NVIDIA DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) will be natively supported for HDRP in Unity 2021.2. Google is hiring waveguide developers for AR. I hope to see many more in the future!

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

And I’m also worried about using a Facebook account for everything XR related, because Facebook has a long history of obscure practices with the data of its users , apart from the standard “personalized ads” business. Facebook already had full control of my Oculus and Facebook accounts, so it had already my XR data.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

All these data together make me a bit skeptical about the capabilities of this company: developing such kind of a high-quality headset requires a lot of expertise, while the company is very small and features no known expert in the field. Facebook and Microsoft publish two interesting research projects for VR.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Julia Winter // Alchemie (Troy, MI) – immersive chemistry curriculum learning tools for higher education, providing real-time assessment via machine learning and data analytics to bridge the knowledge and communications gap between students and professors.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In 2022, the Immerse Global Summit featured speakers from some of the world’s best-known brands, including Amazon, Meta, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and Unity, and demonstrations of some of the most exciting metaverse technologies. Unity shared how digital twins were helping its customers unlock new levels of innovation.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

More info (Use Google Translate). When I interviewed Facebook’s Sean Liu , he told me that 2019 was an inflection point for VR, and the data around us seems to confirm this statement. Google Chrome now supports WebAR. More info (Google Chrome 81 supports AR) More info (Nicolò Carpignoli’s initiative). Image by Microsoft).

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Bernard Marr

AUGUST 8, 2022

Huge companies like Facebook and Microsoft are throwing vast sums of money at their attempts to build, and therefore define, the metaverse. Basically, if the metaverse is the new internet, then everyone wants to be the new Google - holding the keys to the huge amounts of money to be made from selling advertising there.

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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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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. Their partnership with Unity will get them there quickly. I’m looking forward to learning more about RealityKit and Reality Composer.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

As a long-time AR enthusiast, and one of the first to have tried Google Glass in Italy, I have to admit that I will consider AR mainstream only when it will be on glasses that we will wear all day , when we’ll live in a completely shared mixed reality world (the AR Cloud). Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). Sounded good.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

Image by Microsoft). Microsoft has released more specifications for its upcoming XBOX Series X, and from these data is clearly possible to see that it will be compatible with VR headsets. This reinforces my belief that Microsoft in 2021–2022 will add VR support to it , to fight the PSVR when the market will be riper.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Meta announces at Connect Quest Pro and a partnership with Microsoft. There have been a few key announcements at Connect: Meta has launched Quest Pro , its new premium headset, for $1500 Meta announced its focus on a new vertical, productivity Meta has partnered with Microsoft and Accenture to tackle the XR enterprise world.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The firm’s first XR headset is due soon, and with it comes a spatial computing ambition that draws similarities and differences to Lenovo, Microsoft, Meta, HTC VIVE, and other XR headset vendors. Earlier this month, reports highlighted how Google and Samsung face a “ great fear ” when Apple releases new products.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Michael is a CTO and co-CEO of Visualix and has a computer science/teleinformatics background, he worked as a data and software engineer and founded many companies before. So we use the mobile only as a sensor to really get the data in terms of data we get on the phone. Like very, very unexpected use cases sometimes.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Michael is a CTO and co-CEO of Visualix and has a computer science/teleinformatics background, he worked as a data and software engineer and founded many companies before. So we use the mobile only as a sensor to really get the data in terms of data we get on the phone. Like very, very unexpected use cases sometimes.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. Microsoft Hololens is a key player in the MR market. Computer Vision uses SLAM to receive visual data from our physical world and use this visual input to understand and interact with the environment.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The World Map in this world therefore isn’t a 2D street map like we have with Google Maps or Open Street Map, nor is it a 3D map with terrain and building volumes. Accompanying this will be persistent, stateful geographic Assets and Data, some static, others interactive with behaviors of their own.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Michael is a CTO and co-CEO of Visualix and has a computer science/teleinformatics background, he worked as a data and software engineer and founded many companies before. So we use the mobile only as a sensor to really get the data in terms of data we get on the phone. Like very, very unexpected use cases sometimes.

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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. The Evolution of Consumer Data.

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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. All the 3 major VR runtimes (Oculus, SteamVR, Microsoft) are now compatible with OpenXR , and this means that on the runtime layer on PC, now OpenXR has been fully integrated.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

Mozilla updates its Unity WebVR exporter. Two years ago, I reviewed on this blog a Unity plugin that Mozilla had released in beta to let you create WebVR experiences from your Unity projects. Thanks to this exporter, every Unity developer can create a WebXR experience by just building the Unity project for HTML5!

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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. 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. “He has one million cars collecting data of the world.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

Intel Vaunt was canceled for risks involving data privacy. Let me quote the article: “We were giving away the hardware but making money on the data,” he said. For every dollar of hardware, we were making three dollars on software and data sales.” Microsoft Maquette gets discontinued.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 5, 2023

Bloomberg has reported that Sony’s new PlayStation VR2 Headset is projected to sell 270,000 units as of the end of March, based on data from IDC. Earlier this year , I wrote about how Microsoft and other companies have pulled back on their VR and AR plans. In mid March , Google announced the end of Google Glass Enterprise.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

In this first post we will be describing what OpenVR is, what it may be useful for and finally, we will go through a little OpenVR application to demo some of the core functionality of the API in what respects to interacting with a VR system (get connected devices, get tracking data, etc). You may be saying “Come on!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

From time to time, I like to look at the adoption graph of XR shown by John Riccitiello (the CEO of Unity) in 2017 , where you can see that the real acceleration of immersive technologies should start around 2022-2023. Yes, it’s a lot of time, but these are realistic projections.

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