The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

During all these months, I had the occasion of reading on Linkedin about all his cool prototypes and enterprise solutions that he and his colleagues have developed inside the company, ranging from 360 videos to hand-tracked training solutions with the Quest, not to mention XR entertainment solutions for airplane passengers.

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2018

I had a chance to walk the showroom floor of VRLA 2017 with Root where he took me on a guided tour through the history of VRLA, his thoughts on AR, using VR for film production, the future of privacy in AR/VR, as well as why he is interested in seeing where eSports in VR is headed. VRLA is happening this year on May 4th and 5th.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 8, 2022

The solution involved creating a 3D, configurable version of the incredible Arksen 85 yacht, powered by Unity. The tools included VR apps built for Oculus headsets which help to train team members to deal with complex guest situations. Qualcomm, Skylights and Alaska Airlines. Huspi and the Chornobyl App.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

These are the days of the Venice Film Festival, one of the most important movie festivals in the world. While you have no possibility of using C# in VRChat, you have still 100% of Unity power in the Editor. Unity editor scripts are very useful to produce some automation for you. Venice VR Expanded.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

I’m honestly not that convinced by this feature , having seen similar features for PCVR headsets (Oculus Rift Home, SteamVR Home) never gaining ground, but maybe with Quest will be different. Tribeca Film Festival is going to happen also in VR. More info (LensList contest) More info (DANGEN Entertainment grant).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2018

Today has been another interesting day: it has started with us running to try to enter the Cyberpunk 2077 booth (but with no luck) and has finished playing with an Oculus Go. In the entertainment area of Gamescom, NVIDIA has put some RTX graphics cards on the desks of some booth of partner companies , like ASUS and Microsoft.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

A market where Oculus has almost no earning s from the hardware sales, though, so it’s a weird situation. Tyler of VNN has decompiled the Unity code of The Lab (something that is pretty easy to do) and in the DLLs has found all the code of a shooter game that features various characters from Half Life. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

People knew it was not possible to do that: the film resonated because only in a simulation, only in virtual reality you can cheat time and space. ” The early bullet-time effect was something a bit like quick-time-VR, but a much higher level… you know, it is impossible to cheat time and space with a camera.

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VeeR VR

JUNE 24, 2018

As someone who studied film and media in college, how has your education shaped your career? Film school always felt like studying history: the rules were written by these folks (mostly white men), way back then. I explore this a bit in my upcoming neuroscience experience for Oculus Rift, NeuroExplorer VR. Viva La Evolución!

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 21, 2017

These are realistic places you can explore in your Oculus Rift or HTC Vive. You can either get immersive stuff by building on top of Unity or Unreal, but you’re stuck in a videogame world. But the tracking volume is still limited compared to other VR experiences made using graphic engines like Unity or Unreal.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Previously to joining Insta360, Michael led the Business Development Team for DJI — that’s the crazy drone company in North America — where he was instrumental in moving the company into the public spotlight through a series of strategic partnerships with entertainment, sports, and enterprise verticals. Alan: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Previously to joining Insta360, Michael led the Business Development Team for DJI — that’s the crazy drone company in North America — where he was instrumental in moving the company into the public spotlight through a series of strategic partnerships with entertainment, sports, and enterprise verticals. Alan: Yeah.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In virtual reality, you have to do this reprojection, Oculus calls it timewarp, and that means that your video card and your computer has to be running at a really high frame rate to correct for your head motion and we’ve rolled that all into the headset. That’s where I got started with augmented reality. The Vive Wands.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Previously to joining Insta360, Michael led the Business Development Team for DJI -- that's the crazy drone company in North America -- where he was instrumental in moving the company into the public spotlight through a series of strategic partnerships with entertainment, sports, and enterprise verticals. You see Facebook with Oculus.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But with that, we also saw the pandemic itself wipe out an entire category of this entire industry, so location based entertainment just disappeared. So you avoid the original location based entertainment. If you were location based entertainment, not so much. Alex: RIP, LBE. chuckles] Alan: [laughs] Exactly! Alex: Mm-hm.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But with that, we also saw the pandemic itself wipe out an entire category of this entire industry, so location based entertainment just disappeared. So you avoid the original location based entertainment. If you were location based entertainment, not so much. Alex: RIP, LBE. Alan: [laughs] Exactly! Sounds like a rap song.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But with that, we also saw the pandemic itself wipe out an entire category of this entire industry, so location based entertainment just disappeared. So you avoid the original location based entertainment. If you were location based entertainment, not so much. Alex: RIP, LBE. Alan: [laughs] Exactly! Sounds like a rap song.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Sector 5 Digital helps companies transform their brands by creating brilliant digital content for marketing, communications, sales, and entertainment. There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Sector 5 Digital helps companies transform their brands by creating brilliant digital content for marketing, communications, sales, and entertainment. There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Sector 5 Digital helps companies transform their brands by creating brilliant digital content for marketing, communications, sales, and entertainment. There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Sector 5 Digital helps companies transform their brands by creating brilliant digital content for marketing, communications, sales, and entertainment. There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 24, 2021

HTC is a very practical company and doesn’t give you the pleasant unboxing experience typical of Oculus. You can also clearly spot the 4 tracking cameras in positions that are similar to the ones of the Oculus Quest. Most people don’t care but I have a fetish for headsets that have a box designed in an original way.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

As it is tradition of this little blog, I will write a full round-up of the Oculus Connect 5 , the very important Oculus event that has been held in San Jose on 26th and 27th of September (2018). Oculus Quest. Oculus Quest has been the rockstar of this event. Specifications. There is also a 3.5mm jack for earphones.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

We’ll eventually have digital objects on top of reality, but I think there’s a lot of innovation that’s happening, at least in the storytelling around, where when I go to these different film festivals, I kind of see what the storytelling potential is with these mediums. And I think we’re still very early in that era.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

Raj has spent the last four years of his tenure on building business opportunities, use cases, experiential marketing with partnerships in location-based entertainment, museums, education and other commercial XR segments. We also had Oculus participate, which was great. So what we want to do is increase the pipe, right?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

Raj has spent the last four years of his tenure on building business opportunities, use cases, experiential marketing with partnerships in location-based entertainment, museums, education and other commercial XR segments. We also had Oculus participate, which was great. So what we want to do is increase the pipe, right?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

We'll eventually have digital objects on top of reality, but I think there's a lot of innovation that's happening, at least in the storytelling around, where when I go to these different film festivals, I kind of see what the storytelling potential is with these mediums. I mean, I will say that with Oculus Quest that's changing for me.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

We’ll eventually have digital objects on top of reality, but I think there’s a lot of innovation that’s happening, at least in the storytelling around, where when I go to these different film festivals, I kind of see what the storytelling potential is with these mediums. And I think we’re still very early in that era.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

Raj has spent the last four years of his tenure on building business opportunities, use cases, experiential marketing with partnerships in location-based entertainment, museums, education and other commercial XR segments. We also had Oculus participate, which was great. So what we want to do is increase the pipe, right?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

Her consulting bridges the gap between entertainment and technology. Anne is actively engaged in the entertainment industry at the intersection of music, arts, gaming, and tech. So we have our own app on the Oculus store. Is there any way that they can download the app on the Oculus store and enjoy one of these concerts at home?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

Her consulting bridges the gap between entertainment and technology. Anne is actively engaged in the entertainment industry at the intersection of music, arts, gaming, and tech. So we have our own app on the Oculus store. Is there any way that they can download the app on the Oculus store and enjoy one of these concerts at home?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

Her consulting bridges the gap between entertainment and technology. Anne is actively engaged in the entertainment industry at the intersection of music, arts, gaming, and tech. Alan: Stack of phones charging while you're swapping it out, whereas if you're using something like an Oculus Go, you've got to take the whole machine away.

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VRScout

MAY 4, 2017

When it comes to changing the game for XR, Unity Technologies just can’t stop. Vision Summit 2017— Unity’s VR/AR-centric industry conference held this Monday and Tuesday at the Loews Hotel in Hollywood—doubled down on this push in a dramatic way. “We Google Tango with Unity. Mars 2020 Rover by NASA JPL.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Co-founder & CEO of #VeeR, A leading VR entertainment company with the mission of bringing cinematic VR content to the mass audience. Founded in 2016, VeeR is a leading VR entertainment platform available worldwide, across all major VR headsets? Eddie has Dir/Prod India’s 1st Award Winning- Stereoscopic VR Short Film-CRACKLE.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 7, 2017

Beyond the well-known gaming experiences, immersive reality impacts a collection of entertainment industries by way of ads, live event broadcasts, news shows, and more. 10:15 am – 10:45 am | Keynote: The World’s Most Compelling New Experiences (Unity). Tony Parisi | Head of VR/AR Strategy, Unity.

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