The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

And this may be the reason for the removal: from my experience as a consultant, there is still space for 3DOF headsets in 2020 (for marketing, education, etc…), so there are companies interested in buying big batches of 3DOF viewers. Unity changes how it handles XR Plugins. More info (GDC Survey) More info (ISFE and Ipsos Survey).

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

OCTOBER 31, 2023

To mark the shift towards a positive end of 2023, following a shaky start to the year, AWE brought together firms such as Meta, Lenovo, and HTC VIVE to highlight the forecasted industry upturn. That gives you, as the enterprise, the security that you’re not investing in a one-way road – without an exit strategy.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

MAY 16, 2022

Delta Reality is creating extended reality (XR) immersive experiences for global brands to accelerate virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) adoption and assist firms in developing modern marketing strategies. Delta Reality listed its Museum of Digital Life (MoDaL) as a piece of NFT real estate worth roughly 8.88

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Previously, the Unity-based social virtual world was only available for desktop clients. Now, users who own an Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, or a Windows Mixed Reality headset can explore the platform in immersive virtual reality. Instead, creators need to use the Unity 3D interface, which has a steeper learning curve.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

This latest acquisition is another piece in a secretive strategy: over the past few years Snapchat has quietly acquired a couple of other potentially augmented reality-related companies as well as talent. The Seebright SDK also supports Unity and Unreal engines and is compatible with both iOS and Android.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

A bizarre strategy, that doesn’t surprise me anymore, though. The VR route is instead being pursued by HTC (with its VEC event happening soon) and IEEE. Unity’s HDRP is now VR-compatible. Unity High Definition Rendering Pipeline is now compatible with Virtual Reality projects. Varjo XR-1 adds chroma-keying feature.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

We’re looking for a Unity dev for a freelance gig lasting 1–2 months, ideally from Italy or a nearby country (for easier management). 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. Unity Reflect its a great XR tool for enterprise customers.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The only company not much affected by it is HTC, that manufacturers its headsets in Taiwan and not in Mainland China. HTC Vive releases Cosmos Elite, two models of Vive Pro Eye and creates some confusion. This is a piece of great news to help the creation of educational content about heritage.

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VRWorld

JULY 12, 2017

Confirmed speakers are as follows: Rikard Steiber, President Viveport and SVP Virtual Reality, HTC. Tony Parisi, Global Head of VR/AR, Unity Technologies. Marcus Kühne, Strategy Lead, Immersive Techologies, AUDI. Dan Ferguson, Co-Founder / EVP Digital Interactive Strategy, Groove Jones. Maureen Fan, CEO, Baobab Studios.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

As always, they’re doing a great job not only with the product but also with the communication strategy. 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 HTC Vive). Funny link.

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AR Insider

MAY 1, 2020

XR Talks is a series that features the best presentations and educational videos from the XR universe. In any case, VR holds far greater capabilities than video calls according to HTC’s David Sapienza in his recent talk. Meanwhile, HTC is working out some of the kinks on software levels. We all know this.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2018

And so here we are again: Oculus vs HTC, America vs China, Hugo Barra vs Alvin Wang Graylin. HTC has also been smart because every time someone says “Focus” during some VR event, he’s doing some hidden advertisement for its product. The never-ending story. Vive Focus has just a single 3 DOF controller.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

In the end, I still believe in the old predictions of Unity CEO John Riccitiello: Look at this graph shown by Mr. Riccitiello in 2017: the purple line is the one of the analysts, while the white one is the one forecasted by him. HTC will focus more on the enterprise market.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

I think Meta hopes to reinvigorate the sales with the new headset… let’s see if this strategy is going to pay off. More info News worth a mention Information leaks on Vive’s inside-out Tracker There is a new leak about the inside-out tracked Vive Tracker that HTC teased a few months ago.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 24, 2021

Thanks to HTC that has kindly provided me a loaner device, I have been able to test in the last days the Vive Focus 3 Business Edition. The latest standalone headset from HTC was announced a month ago, and it generated a lot of buzz in the community for its premium features associated with a high price. Are you ready? (PS

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

I can’t think about an AR-app that is actually popular : many have tried to make AR games, AR educational experiences, AR sports… but they all ended up being tech demos or gimmicks. There are vaiours solutions to also export Unity XR projects to the web (Image by Mozilla). WebAR will start to exploit its potential.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Our VP of Marketing and Strategy, Alex Colgan, will turn the tables and interview me on what happened in 2020 and what we can expect from 2021. Yeah, it's been an exciting year just in change of educating and learning. So I'm opening up a can of worms when it comes to education, because there's so many things that need to change.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Our VP of Marketing and Strategy, Alex Colgan, will turn the tables and interview me on what happened in 2020 and what we can expect from 2021. Yeah, it's been an exciting year just in change of educating and learning. So I'm opening up a can of worms when it comes to education, because there's so many things that need to change.

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Machine Learning Education Apple Technology 78

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Delivering VR experiences and support for trainees, including service support, certification training, and operation instructions streamlined educational modules to fully prepare learners for their jobs. Additional use cases included educational purposes, where avatars could interact with real-time language translations. ExplodedView.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Our VP of Marketing and Strategy, Alex Colgan, will turn the tables and interview me on what happened in 2020 and what we can expect from 2021. Yeah, it's been an exciting year just in change of educating and learning. So I'm opening up a can of worms when it comes to education, because there's so many things that need to change.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Cameron Ayres from Sector 5 Digital discusses strategies for maximizing that ROI. His primary role is developing the strategy and implementation of emerging technology, to best enhance digital projects. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. I mean, I was making notes, here. Cameron: Absolutely.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Cameron Ayres from Sector 5 Digital discusses strategies for maximizing that ROI. His primary role is developing the strategy and implementation of emerging technology, to best enhance digital projects. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. I mean, I was making notes, here. Cameron: Absolutely.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Cameron Ayres from Sector 5 Digital discusses strategies for maximizing that ROI. His primary role is developing the strategy and implementation of emerging technology, to best enhance digital projects. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. I mean, I was making notes, here. Cameron: Absolutely.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Cameron Ayres from Sector 5 Digital discusses strategies for maximizing that ROI. His primary role is developing the strategy and implementation of emerging technology, to best enhance digital projects. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. I mean, I was making notes, here. Cameron: Absolutely.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2020

What is worrisome the most is that it is unclear what will happen to all the other amazing XR projects that Mozilla was managing like the WebXR framework A-frame or the WebXR exporter for Unity. The HTC Cosmos Play will be an enterprise headset. Now HTC has changed its mind, and the Play has become an enterprise headset.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2020

Scrum’s strategies, like having a standup every morning help a lot in being coordinated. If with AR/VR you can offer remote education, assistance, training, and telepresence of any kind , then companies may be interested in your services. Your conferences won’t happen.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

Strategy Analytics highlights in his survey that mobile headsets like Daydream, Gear VR and Cardboard are continuously losing importance and revenue shares. The winner of this analytics is the Playstation VR, with a revenue share of 30% of the total VR market , compared with Oculus’s 25% and HTC’s 22%. The low price policy is paying off.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 17, 2020

And we actually tried to tackle this problem with the help of major headset manufacturers – Oculus, HTC, Leap Motion, Intel — and they supported us to create VR/AR labs around the world. Ferhan: It is quite interesting, because we talk with institutions not only in educational, but government institutions.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 17, 2020

And we actually tried to tackle this problem with the help of major headset manufacturers – Oculus, HTC, Leap Motion, Intel — and they supported us to create VR/AR labs around the world. Ferhan: It is quite interesting, because we talk with institutions not only in educational, but government institutions.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Michael: And this is why I’ve been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building — there’s VRTK for Unity… there’s just all these tools. Unity is always my top one. As someone who grew up as a game designer and player, I definitely side towards Unity.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Michael: And this is why I’ve been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building — there’s VRTK for Unity… there’s just all these tools. Unity is always my top one. As someone who grew up as a game designer and player, I definitely side towards Unity.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Michael: And this is why I've been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building -- there's VRTK for Unity. Unity is always my top one. As someone who grew up as a game designer and player, I definitely side towards Unity. But we're -- right now -- in the point where it's ready to scale.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 17, 2020

And we actually tried to tackle this problem with the help of major headset manufacturers - Oculus, HTC, Leap Motion, Intel -- and they supported us to create VR/AR labs around the world. Ferhan: It is quite interesting, because we talk with institutions not only in educational, but government institutions.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

He heads the institute’s efforts to evangelize its education by incorporating emerging technologies & platforms, through development labs setup in partnership with global technology giants. Kai holds several International Business director positions in VR educational companies and VR, AR hardware companies. 7- Alvin Graylin.

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