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. Image by Magic Leap). Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 28, 2023

Today I want to take you on a journey on one of the coolest prototypes I’ve ever worked on, which is about creating Unity applications that can dynamically modify their logic at runtime depending on the user’s needs thanks to generative artificial intelligence. This is the logical succession of events, in this exact order.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 22, 2021

Last year it was held in a completely digital version, and its event inside Altspace VR was a blast , with all people in the VR communities talking enthusiastically about it. I interviewed Colette Crespin from the Burning Man Project and asked her about the amazing event that she and her team are working on.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2022

Peggy Johnson, Magic Leap’s Chief Executive , joined an interview in the Metaverse for a new online university programme on the role of spatial technologies in supporting the global economy. The course also offers a Magic Leap case study on the company’s shift from consumer to enterprise solutions.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

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! The event is free, and I invite you to register for it here … thanks! Image by Magic Leap). Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2022

Here it’s being amazing for me: together with VRrOOm’s Maud Clavier we are going around for the SXSW event meeting interesting new people and trying some XR experiences! I will write a little report soon, in the meanwhile, you can enjoy a video of me riding a mechanical bull shot by Charlie Fink: [link]. Image by Magic Leap).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 8, 2023

T he event will be presented by Oculus Studios Executive Producer Ruth Bram like last year, but introduce new pre-event and post-event sessions. There are two interesting speculations happening about this event. Zapbox features a 100° FOV and is going to launch with a Unity SDK to create content for it.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Magic Leap plans dev days and dev programs. We all know that Magic Leap is in big trouble, and it seems that one of the paths it is trying to follow to exit the quicksands is trying to get more developers onboard. This week there will be a big event about education in VR, all in VR! Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

Rony Abovitz steps down from Magic Leap CEO. This was a very good thing and attracted many people to Magic Leap. I hope that Magic Leap will benefit from it and will recover pretty soon. Road To VR) More info (Qualcomm’s Wi-fi 6 chips?—?Upload Upload VR). In the end, it has happened. CR Deck Mk.1”

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

Someone has already received it and has already shared on the social media videos of the Air Link in action. NVIDIA has had its annual GTC event, and while there it hasn’t announced new graphics cards, it has anyway provided some interesting pieces of news. NVIDIA doubles down on Cloud Rendering and Omniverse at GTC 2021.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

With a lot of sadness, I’m here watching the photos and the videos of WCVRI , the big Chinese conference about VR that is held every year in Nanchang. Do you remember that viral video where someone using a smartphone was able to take a picture of an object and then paste it into Photoshop by just framing the PC with Photoshop with the phone

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

In the meantime, Bloomberg published a report saying that Apple is going to launch its XR headset in the “next several months” (a timeline that goes from now to 2023, I guess), and that it is probably waiting until there could be physical events again before doing it. Viveport users get access to Sansar events for free.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 1, 2023

Ori Inbar, Founder, Super Ventures and Co-founder and CEO, AWE kicked off the event with a ChatGPT-powered avatar presentation. This week ,we heard that the market leader is not staying idle and is coming up with a better, faster Quest 3 with Snapdragon XR2+ inside as its number one improvement, better video passthrough.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

As with every big event, I’m writing a post to try to summarize the most important news that have come out from the GDC 2018 … so that if you have lost something, you just need to read this post to get in par with the rest of the world. Magic Leap releases its SDK. So, are you ready? Let’s start!

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

We at VRrOOm are hiring to do our innovative XR events, check the “Friends” section of this newsletter if this opportunity can interest you! As usual, this event hasn’t delivered any mind-blowing announcements, but a big series of small news about VR games. And regarding this… would you be interested in working with me?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

A video that got popular this week has a bit shocked me: in it, you can see a user pointing its Lidar-powered iPad towards some objects and in like 2 seconds being able to reconstruct an exact clone of that 3D object, fully meshed and textured. Someone has made a WebAR exporter for Unity. This is so cool! Learn more. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2018

The interview is very long, and I’ll provide you both as a video (here below) and a transcription containing a summary of all the answers. As always, every question will have a link to the related part of the video, so that you can listen to the original answers only of the questions that you are interested in the most.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

And it’s not over on the content side: they are going to launch the Pico Video app with 600+ videos on day 1 , and are partnering to have immersive concerts with Wave. The annual GTC event for NVIDIA has been a blast. Pico is also going to have its first exclusive title: Just Dance VR, a popular game good for all ages.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

JULY 26, 2023

Doing so will also provide greater interoperability with additional platforms such as Unity and Xcode, among others. Due to the immense secrecy of the Vision Pro, many had to wait until after the big reveal at the annual event. This could lead to new forms of interacting with sports events.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Air Race X was the project furthest along the bold vision to (virtual) reality pipeline, concluding with an in-person event in Tokyo's Shibuya district. It's notable that this vision of augmented reality layers is also very similar to one shared by the earlier days of Magic Leap, before the company laid off many of its workers.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

And Sony will give a “Sneak peek” of PSVR 2 games at its upcoming State Of Play event on June 2nd at 3 PM PT. Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap has sold units of its first device for $550. The company has just filed a trademark for it, and this may mean that it will unveil its name at its upcoming event.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Moreover, Apple is also pushing its Vision Pro SDK to support its first-party and Unity-supported third-party immersive applications, again in a bid to create a sophisticated piece of hardware with a system-selling lineup of integrated applications and hardware.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

It’s been 2 hours full of cool insights and you can watch all of them in the video here below: if you have the time, I assure you you won’t regret watching it! If you don’t have 2 hours, don’t worry, here below I have extracted the most interesting tidbits of the videos for you to enjoy! PRNewsfoto/BadVR).

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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 !) Brickit is the dream app for all LEGO fans.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

NReal Light Devkit Video Review. For everyone of you that doesn’t want to read thousands of words, I’ve prepared a very nice review video about this device. The NRSDK is Nreal’s SDK that lets you develop applications using the popular Unity game engine. Are you ready? Nreal glasses and the Oreo.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Here you are the full video of the interview. Some of my toy projects… I did a ton of these toys joysticks that you plug into a television and have a bunch of video games built in. Yeah, I don’t know if you’ve seen any of the videos …yeah a lot of these features are already prototyped and we’re demonstrating them all.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 29, 2020

With rumors of upcoming Apple glasses surging, and the investment made in Magic Leap that until now has been unfruitful, for sure Google is looking for an alternative to build its AR strategy. Unity Learn Premium is permanently free. Do you want to learn Unity for your next big AR/VR app? Take your course on Unity now!

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

This hands-free video communication system allows technicians to connect remotely with experts operating on PCs or mobile devices in real-time for on-the-spot support. The HoloLens 2 takes a magical leap in the right direction for Microsoft, as well as MR, AR, and VR technology in general.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

The most probable explanation is that they don’t even know what it is about: VR must be tried to be understood, and watching Youtube videos isn’t enough. They don’t want VR because they can’t understand the potential from just videos from inside and outside. Unity details its MARS solution. That’s fascinating. Cannes XR goes VR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The event also kicked off a series of stellar keynote speeches, workshops, product demos, and other feature presentations for the global tech industry. He stated rooom also aimed to offer products across verticals, rather than salespeople showcasing devices at physical events.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

Michael is a technologist, futurist, strategist, product leader, and developer platform expert who loves to operate on the bleeding edge of what’s possible, and is a frequent keynote speaker at events around the world. Alan: I don’t know if you’ve tried to Magic Leap. Michael: Well that’s an option.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

Michael is a technologist, futurist, strategist, product leader, and developer platform expert who loves to operate on the bleeding edge of what’s possible, and is a frequent keynote speaker at events around the world. Alan: I don’t know if you’ve tried to Magic Leap. Michael: Well that’s an option.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The New York Times distributes more than 1 million Google Cardboard phone VR viewers to subscribers with the launch of The Displaced , a 360-degree video project focusing on children driven from their homes by war. Magic Leap kicks off the month with the announcement of an enormous $794 million fundraising round, backed by Alibaba.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

Of course, when you go to environments where there is a lot of people at one place — a coliseum sporting event, or a shopping mall, or– Alan: Coachella. And certainly, if everybody’s trying to uplink a live video stream of something that’s going on, then it becomes even more overwhelming. Terry: Yeah, exactly.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

Of course, when you go to environments where there is a lot of people at one place — a coliseum sporting event, or a shopping mall, or– Alan: Coachella. And certainly, if everybody’s trying to uplink a live video stream of something that’s going on, then it becomes even more overwhelming. Terry: Yeah, exactly.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And then even Magic Leap, I’ve heard rumors that they’re going to be introducing an enterprise division, or an enterprise something. And here he was trying to enter the video game business with the XBox back in 2000. I don’t know about Magic Leap yet. Or… it’s Oculus for Business.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And then even Magic Leap, I’ve heard rumors that they’re going to be introducing an enterprise division, or an enterprise something. And here he was trying to enter the video game business with the XBox back in 2000. I don’t know about Magic Leap yet. Or… it’s Oculus for Business.

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