The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

It is in Italian, but basically it says that we’re looking for a Unity dev with preferred experience with VR and/or multiplayer games. Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap pivots to enterprise, lays off 1,000 employes. Image by Epic Games). Top news of the week. Let me briefly tell you my thoughts.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

This week has mostly been in the sign of Oculus, with many news and updates from the brand controlled by Facebook. Before leaving you to the best news of the week, I would like to highlight two notable things about my work: My crazy trolling game “The Unity Cube” has been featured in a video by Upload VR! Image by Magic Leap).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 19, 2020

Oculus Go price cut down to $150. Facebook has permanently cut down the price of the Oculus Go to $150 , the same price that made it sell incredibly well on Amazon during the Cyber Monday. More info (Oculus Go price cut) More info (Xiaomi laying off the team dedicated to Go). Magic Leap and nReal are trying to find an agreement.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

He has joined Rony Abovitz at Magic Leap and now he’s there, trying to build the MagicVerse as the SVP of Creative Strategy of the Florida company. One of the colleagues of mine of that time was Kim Libreri, that is now the CTO of Epic Games and he created the optical flow for the paint effect for What Dreams May Come.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 9, 2021

If you really want to understand the putative metaverse, listen to this conversation with Viacom/CBS futurist Ted Schilowitz and Magic Leap founder Rony Abovitz. HTC, a strategic partner and shareholder of VR Education, has also started selling its ENGAGE-based product, VIVE Sessions, in China. “We

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 31, 2022

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap 2 to feature dynamic dimming. At Photonics West, Magic Leap’s VP of Optical Engineering Kevin Curtis has revealed some new interesting details on the upcoming Magic Leap 2. To be exact, the eye box is twice as large as the one in Magic Leap One.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

With a tweet on its account, Valve has announced that the most awaited VR game of the year, Half-Life: Alyx is going to be released on March, 23rd. The game will be available only on Steam, but it will be compatible with all PC VR headsets. The price is €50, but the game is free for Index owners. I’m hyped, and you?

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ARPost

JULY 16, 2019

XRDC interviewed 5 innovators in art, science, game development and design, education, and R&D. This year, new standalone headsets from Oculus and Vive debuted. Consequently, AI is improving as well, which makes it easier for developers and studios to make games and applications that benefit different fields.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Some of the most common myths and misconceptions surrounding VR include the following: it always causes motion sickness and virtual reality is solely applicable to games. Although gaming is certainly a great use case and example of what immersive VR experiences can deliver, the possibilities are endless,” said Vindevogel.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 19, 2019

Starting at the top, most developers are working on games (59 percent) followed by non-gaming entertainment (38 percent) followed by education (33 percent), enterprise (22 percent) and brand experiences (18 percent). Magic Leap isn’t far behind, growing from 7 percent of current projects to 12 percent of future interest.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 17, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Valve) Valve confirms it is working on a VR headset Speaking with the Korean magazine This Is Game, Valve’s product designer Greg Kumar has answered the explicit question about their work on a VR headset with the following sentence: “Still, I can tell you for sure that we’ve been working on a VR headset lately.

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TechCrunch VR

DECEMBER 8, 2020

When Chi Xu left Magic Leap and returned to China, he had big ambitions. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips are used almost exclusively by serious players, from Facebook’s Oculus Quest in the U.S. Use cases by China’s educators have particularly impressed Zhao. Magic Leap sucked all the air out of the room.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Instead of creating bespoke worlds and games for its users, Neos VR thinks of itself as more of an ‘operating system for virtual reality’, focusing largely on providing its usersbase with a set of maker tools which lets you to create your own unique worlds one piece at a time without the need of a seperate game engine or coding ability.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

EX-HEAD OF SONY PLAYSTATION LONDON FORMS CROSS-PLATFORM VR GAME STUDIO. A hot spot for development, London has birthed a new VR-focused game studio – but not just any game studio. The notoriously secretive mixed reality company Magic Leap has acquired parts of Dacuda , a B2B computer vision software company.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

In the interview with me, he talked about many topics, like the rumors he heard on Apple Glasses, on the Oculus Quest 2 , the America vs China war, XR entrepreneurship, Tesla, and more! But of course, the technology is still not there: the Oculus Quest is still uncomfortable, we can’t read texts in it, and so on.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 28, 2023

Dynamic generative applications The lightbulb in my brain powered on by reminding my interview with the amazing John Gaeta (when he still was at Magic Leap). When people talk about “developing a game with ChatGPT” or something like that, usually it is about using ChatGPT to generate the logic of the game while inside Unity.

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ARVR

JULY 15, 2020

With the world reeling from COVID-19, changes to consumer experience across numerous industries, from live sports and entertainment to education, are inevitable. Apple seems to be cornering the popular entertainment industry, with the acquisition of NextVR, as industry rivals such as Magic Leap focus on enterprise solutions.

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VirtualiTeach

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Before I start sharing new AR and VR Education content again (regularly I promise) I wanted to just take a moment to explain the absence, the changes to the site, share a few brief insights into things that have happened in the world of immersive technology over the last few months and answer a few common questions I get asked. Bought two.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 1, 2023

” He explained that XR had become a thriving industry , transforming verticals such as healthcare, entertainment, education, and gaming. Speaking on the upcoming Apple Reality Pro headset, he explained how Lucky Palmer, Founder, Oculus said Apple’s device was “excellent.”

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

Today we’re speaking with Dan Lejeskar, founder and chairman of EON Reality , a world leader in virtual/augmented reality based knowledge transfer for industry and education. And we had to move our business from industry and education to defence because we had September 11th. So this was before Oculus.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

Today we’re speaking with Dan Lejeskar, founder and chairman of EON Reality , a world leader in virtual/augmented reality based knowledge transfer for industry and education. And we had to move our business from industry and education to defence because we had September 11th. So this was before Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Minecraft Earth was a game that had the potential of competing with Pokemon Go, but its shutdown has been announced some weeks ago because the lockdown has hurt its launch and adoption. while we have seen the complicated life of Oculus hands-on booths at Best Buy. Sounded good. Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft).

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The one thing obviously that is already clearly missing from this mix, is the word Oculus. For those that are outside of the Middle East region, just for context, Oculus has next to no presence in the Middle East at all. So-- Alan: You are the VR-- You're the VR education guy! I mean, I was a distinguished educator.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

And we (the content creators) are not competing with some dude who just bought a Gear360 and is filming his dog’s first steps – we’re competing for eyeballs with Game of Thrones , Peaky Blinders , Taylor Swift, Snapchat, and Instagram. Chris has said before that VR is not a game. they look like your arms). And it’s not a movie.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

Today we're speaking with Dan Lejeskar, founder and chairman of EON Reality , a world leader in virtual/augmented reality based knowledge transfer for industry and education. And we had to move our business from industry and education to defence because we had September 11th. So this was before Oculus. We work with regions.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Game of the Year. Education Experience of the Year. The virtual experience will be compatible with the following headsets: Oculus Quest, via Chromium. Magic Leap, via the Hello browser. Oculus, VIVE, Pico, and HoloLens via Mozilla’s Firefox Reality browser. Multi-User Experience of the Year.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2021

I am super happy about it, it’s like a dream coming true… On Wednesday 7th at 11:15–11:30 am CEST I will (remotely) speak together with Massimiliano Ariani at the famous Laval Virtual event , in the fitness track, where we will speak about HitMotion: Reloaded (btw download our game now !) The revenue from the sold headsets is so around $2.4B

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

New 3D services for things like music, fitness, education, and more. A new, portable, gaming device that will interact with this 3D world. Just this week Niantic , the largest AR company who did the Pokemon-Go game, announced such a map/platform. Eventually a new car service itself. A new OS for wearable, on face, computers.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The one thing obviously that is already clearly missing from this mix, is the word Oculus. For those that are outside of the Middle East region, just for context, Oculus has next to no presence in the Middle East at all. Alan: You are the VR-- You're the VR education guy! I mean, I was a distinguished educator.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

Four years later, Nintendo followed up the wild and enduring success of the Game Boy with Virtual Boy, a headset/console built around (very red) stereoscopic vision. In the 90s, virtual reality was the future of entertainment, gaming, socialization and work. Palmer Luckey, co-founder of Oculus VR Inc.,

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

Huge, huge gaming conference. One my the reasons I started looking at VR again in 2016 was because of that video gaming interest. When you ask me my best experiences right now, I’m going to kind of… I’m thinking about some of the early games that that I played, that gave me that “woah” moment.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

Huge, huge gaming conference. One my the reasons I started looking at VR again in 2016 was because of that video gaming interest. When you ask me my best experiences right now, I’m going to kind of… I’m thinking about some of the early games that that I played, that gave me that “woah” moment.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

Today’s guest got his start in the world of game development. We're going to dig into using Magic Leap and Hololens and mixed reality headsets as a tool for business. So we built Extality out of a long, 10 year experience in the games industry, building mobile games. It was one of the 2017 games of the year.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

Today’s guest got his start in the world of game development. We're going to dig into using Magic Leap and Hololens and mixed reality headsets as a tool for business. So we built Extality out of a long, 10 year experience in the games industry, building mobile games. It was one of the 2017 games of the year.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It’s been called the AR Cloud by many, the Magicverse by Magic Leap, the Mirrorworld by Wired, the Cyberverse by Huawei, Planet-scale AR by Niantic and Spatial Computing by academics. An Apple AR headset has been a mainstay of the rumor mills for several years, and we expect Facebook to be creating an AR Oculus device.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

Huge, huge gaming conference. One my the reasons I started looking at VR again in 2016 was because of that video gaming interest. I'm thinking about some of the early games that that I played, that gave me that "woah" moment. The prices might still be a little bit high, but the quality of the gaming was there already.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

And we provide more than 10,000 immersive videos and features, over more than 500 4K high resolution videos, and more than 30 games in various genres, such as sports, and shooting, horror, and rhythm action. And the interesting thing is that many Korean customers are more satisfied with videos, rather than games.

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