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The XR Week Peek (2020.10.26): DecaGear is an intriguing VR headset, HTC is working on a new device, and more!

The Ghost Howls

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. While Oculus is getting all the glory for the Quest, its competitors are not sleeping.

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Interview to Eduardo Siman: virtual reality makes data visualization fun, we should all work together to make AR and VR to succeed

The Ghost Howls

It started with big data , and I started blogging about that at the end of 2015 basically because I couldn’t find anyone to talk about it with (laughs). In early 2016, I run into a paper from a professor at Caltech that was talking about data visualization in virtual reality and that blew my mind.

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5th International VR Awards Finalists Announced

ARPost

Haggai Goldfarb Consulting for “ Project Origami: The Magic of Flight ,” a panoramic video experience coming to the Oculus browser. Light&Shadows for “ Stipple ,” a point cloud editor plug-in for Unity. Geometry Ogilvy Japan for “ Shibuya Virtual Halloween.” Geometry Ogilvy Japan for “ Shibuya Virtual Halloween.”.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.03.16): HTC launches Tracker 3.0, Facebook has 10,000 people working on XR, and more!

The Ghost Howls

In September, the new Facebook Avatars will come and substitute the current Oculus avatars. This has of course nothing to do with gathering data from the biggest number possible of people. My friend Giambattista De Giorgis has published a book about learning how to develop AR/VR applications in Unity. Absolutely Not. Funny link.

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STYLY makes creation and distribution of cross-platform XR content easy

The Ghost Howls

That’s why when I had the opportunity to interview Kevin Joyce from the company, I immediately exploited it to ask him not only about Styly and his creators, but also something more about Japan and the M-word. However, if you’re unfamiliar with Unity you can use STYLY Studio to build your scene through a no-code solution.

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‘Google Earth VR’ Launches For Free To Let You Fly Around The World

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

In the blink of an eye the world around me dissolves and the restaurants of East Fourth Street are replaced by the brilliant purple face of Japan’s Mt. The group has spent the better part of a decade collecting and cataloging an obscene amount of visual data from all over the planet.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.11.22): Quest maybe has sold 10 M units or maybe not, Roblox goes VR, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Going on the stage at an investor event, Qualcomm CEO and President Cristiano Amon has revealed that Oculus Quest 2 (now Meta Quest 2) has sold 10 million units worldwide. Roblox CEO has said in the past that he was intrigued by the Oculus Quest, and now it seems that the whole company is betting more on virtual reality.

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