The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

When Magic Leap One was revealed, Rony Abovitz stated he was already working on Magic Leap Two and Three, for instance; Facebook believes a lot in having avatars that truly represent ourselves in XR , and it is a field in which they will invest a lot. Absolutely Not. News from partners (and friends). Learn more.

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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. My suggestion is to not preorder it and wait to see if this company can actually deliver.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Morgan Mercer // Vantage Point (Los Angeles, CA) – immersive training tools for corporate HR departments who are aiming to effectively train their employees on how to prevent and solve workplace issues like sexual harassment. This program provides strategic alliances and entrepreneurial guidance over 10 weeks.

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

New statistics data on VR from Steam, SuperData, and DigiCapital. This week, we had a bunch of new analytics data on the VR market. Magic Leap, Niantic, etc…) and by two big countries (USA and China). Magic Leap releases new tools for developers. I want to highlight 3 reports: Steam Hardware survey.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

On the client side, the system will become compatible with iOS devices, and a Magic Leap client has also been developed. A company like BMW is using it to create a digital twin of one of its factories to understand how to properly build it to increase its efficiency. This is no good if you are trying to upgrade your PC for VR.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

These are all great news for the ecosystem, but someone in the communities pointed out that we should beware of companies claiming vague data about sales without absolute numbers (for instance, it may also be that previous headsets sold worse than we thought). How you look with your tethered headset on Funny link. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Instagram has a very popular creation tool called SparkAR , which can be easily used by all creators without knowing how to code, and has seen a spike in usage in 2020. And even if Google harvests data exactly as Facebook, it has been targeted by fewer scandals, so it is a brand people like more. Magic Leap will meet its fate.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

So we have something we call the VR Innovation Academy, and we train local resources how to develop and deploy virtual reality and generate local IP. 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?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

So we have something we call the VR Innovation Academy, and we train local resources how to develop and deploy virtual reality and generate local IP. 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?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Unity Technologies just went public. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started. Alex: I guarantee that most of Unity's investors are not going into the engine to build their own demos. Alex: Huge news.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Unity Technologies just went public. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started. Alex: I guarantee that most of Unity's investors are not going into the engine to build their own demos. Alex: Huge news.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

So we have something we call the VR Innovation Academy, and we train local resources how to develop and deploy virtual reality and generate local IP. 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? Affordable.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Unity Technologies just went public. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started. Alex: I guarantee that most of Unity's investors are not going into the engine to build their own demos. Alex: Huge news.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Moreover, Apple is also pushing its Vision Pro SDK to support its first-party and Unity-supported third-party immersive applications, again in a bid to create a sophisticated piece of hardware with a system-selling lineup of integrated applications and hardware.

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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

JULY 5, 2021

The most interesting insight of the week comes from analyst Mark Mahaney, that, among other things has analyzed Facebook’s Virtual Reality business, and has reported very interesting data. and also why the $2+B investment in Magic Leap was not enough to bring it to success.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

More info (Post on Road To VR) More info (Post on Upload VR explaining how to enable OpenXR). Also because you have to consider that with 170M users using this camera-based app, it won’t be that difficult for Snap to gather data to build the AR Cloud. More info (OpenHMD project) More info (How to donate for OpenHMD).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Then why Magic Leap hasn’t delivered a solid product with 2B?) Other magazines, like Road To VR, are instructing on how to maximize the privacy on your Quest , and Kent Bye has released an amazing podcast episode where he openly talks about privacy with a Facebook representative. Other relevant news.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

We're going to dig into using Magic Leap and Hololens and mixed reality headsets as a tool for business. And so we got-- our main first break as Extality was leveraging some of our game connections and things like that, to get close to Magic Leap. How do we make that a richer, more interesting experience?

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

We're going to dig into using Magic Leap and Hololens and mixed reality headsets as a tool for business. And so we got-- our main first break as Extality was leveraging some of our game connections and things like that, to get close to Magic Leap. How do we make that a richer, more interesting experience?

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

We're going to dig into using Magic Leap and Hololens and mixed reality headsets as a tool for business. And so we got-- our main first break as Extality was leveraging some of our game connections and things like that, to get close to Magic Leap. How do we make that a richer, more interesting experience?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

Why would a company need some sort of augmented reality, where it’s capturing the world’s data? But most people don’t realize that it’s the camera that’s capturing as much or more data around the world to create this conceptualized data. Terry: Yeah. They think, “oh, I can watch a movie on my phone.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

Why would a company need some sort of augmented reality, where it’s capturing the world’s data? But most people don’t realize that it’s the camera that’s capturing as much or more data around the world to create this conceptualized data. Terry: Yeah. They think, “oh, I can watch a movie on my phone.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Adding objects is already hard because they have to appear fixed in the real world while the user is moving, but the action of overlaying a virtual image onto the frame of the real world is something quite “easy” But how the heck can you remove something that exists?? How to identify the object. How to hide the object.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

Broadly, the important tiers are: Infrastructure : The data the connects your glass Hardware : Does the glass work? Apps & services : Third-party developer adoption Content : The things that keep you coming back for more How close are we to realizing this? Devices such as the Magic Leap and the Hololens rely on Waveguide optics.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

And Jonathan was very instrumental in helping us understand the connections of really how to leverage that digital twin to fit seamlessly within an L&D team's typical process of how they would go through and engage their employees on doing things like how to interact with different customer personas. Jamie: Yes, exactly.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

And Jonathan was very instrumental in helping us understand the connections of really how to leverage that digital twin to fit seamlessly within an L&D team's typical process of how they would go through and engage their employees on doing things like how to interact with different customer personas. Jamie: Yes, exactly.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

He has a background with telco, gaming, automotive, and data science, and interactions with CRMs being the major thread in his career. Next to data, I like storytelling. HTC did something with Batman; that Game of Thrones thing; some of the demos that Magic Leap had really. I kind of like that. Okay, we’re good.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

He has a background with telco, gaming, automotive, and data science, and interactions with CRMs being the major thread in his career. Next to data, I like storytelling. HTC did something with Batman; that Game of Thrones thing; some of the demos that Magic Leap had really. I kind of like that. Okay, we’re good.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

And Jonathan was very instrumental in helping us understand the connections of really how to leverage that digital twin to fit seamlessly within an L&D team's typical process of how they would go through and engage their employees on doing things like how to interact with different customer personas. Jamie: Yes, exactly.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Many products showcased at the conference included flagship releases of VR headsets and solutions such as the Meta Quest Pro, Magic Leap 2, Lenovo ThinkReality A3, and AT&T’s Volumetric Video Photo Booth, among many others. This avoided fully redesigning content and combining old and new data.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2018

It is one of those places where people look for 3D models , alongside other marketplaces like the Unity Asset Store, Google Poly or Turbosquid. How to make a 3D model that sells well? Do you think that services that sell good 3D models for a low price as the Unity Asset Store or Google Poly are hurting the profitability of 3D models?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

Learn more on: Babel Tech Reviews (What is VRSS + hands-on) Upload VR (What is VRSS + Supported games) Upload VR (How to activate VRSS). Yeah, the 3D model of the trainer seems taken from the Unity Asset Store… Samsung has not talked about the glasses, not even revealing the name, or the specifications. Samsung AR glasses.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But at the same time, for those companies that do have that and really want to bring things in-house, what are some of the tools that you're seeing -- besides ARKit, ARCore, and Unity -- that are standing out to you? It's not something that every company will do.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But at the same time, for those companies that do have that and really want to bring things in-house, what are some of the tools that you're seeing -- besides ARKit, ARCore, and Unity -- that are standing out to you? It's not something that every company will do.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 10, 2019

And what I mean by that is, we had this proof of concept, we were really passionate about doing this, we understood the benefits, but we didn’t really go hire anyone that had Unity experience, or didn’t hire anyone that had 3D modeling experience. I have some trainers that are really good at teaching how to coach, or how to lead.

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