VRScout

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Last year, the inaugural VR On The Lot brought together major players from Hollywood, Silicon Valley, Europe, and China for a two-day exploration of the intersection between entertainment and technology. Tony Parisi , Global Head of VR/AR at Unity Technologies. LIFE VR, Unity, Unreal Engine, VRC and DTS (an Xperi company).

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

IBM predicts that AI will unlock the next generation of interactivity for XR experiences, describing in the 2021 Unity Technology Trends Report that the maturity of AI will play a key role beyond hand tracking, and into the world of voice. The open-sourced Watson Unity SDK can be found on GitHub. NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

On the server-side, it is being integrated with Microsoft Azure, and it is also coming in the future for Google Cloud and Tencent Cloud. NVIDIA DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) will be natively supported for HDRP in Unity 2021.2. Google is hiring waveguide developers for AR. HTC is going to launch its headset on May, 11th.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

As it had promised on my blog last year , its cool Nreal Light AR glasses have finally arrived in Europe. It’s good to see this cool product finally arriving in Europe, not anymore as a devkit, but as a full-fledged product. Google halves its revenues on the Play Store. Learn more (XR Collaboration) Learn more (Unity College).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Hosting virtual and in-person conferences across the United States and Europe, the event encapsulates the VR/AR Association’s quest to facilitate innovation in the immersive technology space. Unity shared how digital twins were helping its customers unlock new levels of innovation.

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ARPost

MAY 5, 2021

The event was attended by representatives from over 70 universities in the United States, Europe, and Asia, and was attended by representatives from dozens of companies providing VR and AR education solutions. You’re not seeing the stores in the same way that Apple and Google have their app stores,” said Moynihan.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 10, 2022

VIVE Mars CamTrack is open for purchase in the United States, Canada, and Europe, with plans to launch in China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Australia over the next few months. Learn more: [link] #VIVEMARS #SIGGRAPH2022 #trackedonmars #virtualproduction pic.twitter.com/uNTI9bH6hs. — HTC VIVE (@htcvive) August 8, 2022.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

But it is still his fault for having driven the company to this point with the massive hirings of the previous months (do you remember he wanted to hire 10,000 people in Europe?) The console can also be inserted in a special case (a much improved version of Google Daydream View) to become a VR headset.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 24, 2023

People can also view YouTube 360 videos, Google Street View, as well as the enterprise’s bespoke 360 web browser. Leveraging its Igloo Core Engine (ICE), the company has curated a host of content in its viewing spaces, including building information modelling (BIM), metaverse worlds, 360-degree video, game engine demos, and many others.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Between that, I worked on consumer cloud software with Google for five years… managing engineering teams for Gmail, Japanese mobile, Google Labs, and social (Blogger etc.) We also have a small office and a couple of people overseas in Europe and America. Software-wise, we use Unity, Vuforia, and OpenCV. teams for Japan.

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Tech Trends VR

AUGUST 7, 2018

The company has attracted a range of high profile investors and advisors such as Google/Alphabet Chairman Eric Schmidt, who wrote: “I predicted that 90% of computing would eventually reside in the web based cloud…Otoy has created a remarkable technology which moves that last 10% – high-end graphics processing – entirely to the cloud.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2018

The typical development environment that they use is Unity, but if the customer requires Unreal because wants a better graphical quality, they can develop using UE4, too. Of course, he said that after having tried Google products, they also took inspiration to improve their ones to try to keep pace, but this was surely a bad news for them.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Some months ago, we all read that letter where Zuckerberg claimed wanting to get complete control of the hardware and software stack so that Facebook shouldn’t depend on external companies, like Google or Apple for the SO, or phone manufacturers for the hardware. Unity releases the XR Interaction Toolkit. I hate this.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

More info (Use Google Translate). Google Chrome now supports WebAR. More info (Google Chrome 81 supports AR) More info (Nicolò Carpignoli’s initiative). There you can discover more the VR landscape of Northern Europe, make community, and get to listen to the talks of people from Nokia and Hugo Boss! News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Pico 4 is going to launch initially only in selected countries in Europe and Asia , so Meta can keep its leadership in the US, but the situation may change fast, so it’s better for Meta to tease a Quest 3 pretty soon. Image by Google). Meta and Google announce layoffs. News worth a mention. Rec Room announces Rec Room Studio.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

If this may interest to you, here you are the link for the form to be filled (note: I’ve provided you the link for Europe… if you’re from UK, just substitute “eu” with “uk” in the address; if you are from US, use “us”, etc…). Google AR apps. Vive Trackers 2.0 now on sale.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

XR Europe will be awesome! This is one of the weirdest rag-doll experiments in Unity. Facebook acquires Sanzaru Games. With a surprise move, Facebook has acquired Sanzaru Games, the company behind the best VR game of 2019, Asgard’s Wrath. The details of the deal are unknown. News from partners (and friends). Learn more. Some XR fun.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 6, 2017

AWE also has events in Europe and Asia. These event brings together a mix of CEOs, CTOs, designers, developers, creative agencies, futurists, analysts, investors, and top press in a fantastic opportunity to learn, inspire, partner, and experience first hand the most exciting industry of our times.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2022

By the way, today I travel to Lisbon to attend AWE Europe, where I will be the moderator of a panel about sustainability in XR and Web3. Google Starline starts real-world testing. Google Starline, the booth for realistic remote one-on-one meetings, has started being deployed in “early access” inside some selected companies.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

As a long-time AR enthusiast, and one of the first to have tried Google Glass in Italy, I have to admit that I will consider AR mainstream only when it will be on glasses that we will wear all day , when we’ll live in a completely shared mixed reality world (the AR Cloud). Or is it just a talk about glasses?

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

Pico launches Neo 3 Link in Europe. More info (Pico Neo 3 Link now available in Europe) More info (Pico Neo 3 Link launched at Laval Virtual). Google Imagen is an impressive AI system able to create images just from text descriptions. Horizon World is releasing in Europ… ah no. Other relevant news. Image by Pico).

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 2, 2019

He did not stay in research for long, because he founded a startup and then raised $200,000 and it fails — we’ll get into that — but he worked at a company called Innogy, the largest energy utility company in Europe. He used to work on Google Earth. And so that’s how in 2017, Visualix was born.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 2, 2019

He did not stay in research for long, because he founded a startup and then raised $200,000 and it fails — we’ll get into that — but he worked at a company called Innogy, the largest energy utility company in Europe. He used to work on Google Earth. And so that’s how in 2017, Visualix was born.

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ARPost

JUNE 17, 2021

The company PhotonLens was announced in November of 2020 to bring consumer AR to the world, specifically the Americas and Europe. Pan also pointed to the largely failed Google Glass as an example of why mass-adopted AR hardware may not come from one of the places we expect. “At More on Software and Content.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Unity support for OpenXR is still in early beta , and so it’s not reliable yet to develop an OpenXR-compliant application in Unity. We Unity developers have still to use the current Unity tools that make us develop once, but then build for every different platform (like the ones I describe in this article ).

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 2, 2019

He did not stay in research for long, because he founded a startup and then raised $200,000 and it fails -- we'll get into that -- but he worked at a company called Innogy, the largest energy utility company in Europe. But they've got a beautiful map of the whole world that you can go in VR and travel around in it, and Google Earth VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

This is why companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Meta are exploring similar technologies. For others, they might be a way of selling ads, Dr. Bautista said. […] In 2018, Intel shut down the Vaunt project, before selling many of its patents to North, the start-up acquired by Google. But it’s not the best PCVR game of 2021).

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

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? So the traditional way to do it is to use Unreal or Unity. Maybe I guess the Unity asset store would be the same. It stands for effortless. Affordable.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

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? So the traditional way to do it is to use Unreal or Unity. Maybe I guess the Unity asset store would be the same. It stands for effortless. Affordable.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

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? So the traditional way to do it is to use Unreal or Unity. Maybe I guess the Unity asset store would be the same. It stands for effortless. So that's the first one.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2022

Even if it is not so famous in Europe, the SXSW (South by SouthWest) has always been one of the events to be in the United States. I’ve personally met and had a chat with people from Unity and Epic Games, Roblox, The Sandbox, HTC Vive, Microsoft, Rec Room. Going SXSW. SXSW Logo (Image by SXSW).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The sentence in Chinese say something like: “explore the world, there are a lot of interesting things” I think it is some kind of word pun, since searching the last three characters on Google Translate, I actually found “Focused” as the translation and the device is the Vive Focus. Thanks to Miss S.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 10, 2024

Yes, we knew about Google’s Deepmind, yes we all got the news about the OpenAI foundation, but when ChatGPT came out, the tech world was shaken by surprise. The conflict in Ukraine has created new economic problems in Europe, and inflation has skyrocketed at a certain point. And our field, too. licensing).

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Might think about things like GDPR we have in Europe, which you do not have. Oh, I need 10 people with Unity skills. And even then, you probably do it in a few countries or with a few users before you do that globally. It’s a big thing, to do that you have a lot of different requirements. And the same in the States or in Asia.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Might think about things like GDPR we have in Europe, which you do not have. Oh, I need 10 people with Unity skills. And even then, you probably do it in a few countries or with a few users before you do that globally. It’s a big thing, to do that you have a lot of different requirements. And the same in the States or in Asia.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 25, 2020

And I don’t like to just think in Canadian terms, because you and I deal with very different things that are happening in the United States, that are dealing with Europe, that are countries like Uganda, all over the world. Alan: –into Siri, Google, whatever, Amazon. And that one little thing– Julie: She was so frustrated. It was crazy.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 25, 2020

And I don’t like to just think in Canadian terms, because you and I deal with very different things that are happening in the United States, that are dealing with Europe, that are countries like Uganda, all over the world. Alan: –into Siri, Google, whatever, Amazon. And that one little thing–. Julie: She was so frustrated.

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