The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

Ben Lang from Road To VR and Ian Hamilton from Upload VR will be able to attend the event in person. And luckily, it is continuing this tradition: during an investor presentation event, the company announced that in the first month after launch, PSVR 2 had sold 450K units, which became 600K after two more weeks.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Soon, Meta will host its Connect 2023 event, whereby the firm will announce innovations in its XR product portfolio. This also open the door for Epic and their Unreal Engine to shine and capture the entire XR development market. Each firm is working with Microsoft to leverage the firm’s emerging industrial Metaverse ecosystem.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 10, 2022

“Varjo Reality Cloud is our platform that will allow the ultimate science fiction dream – photo-realistic teleportation – to come true,” CTO Urho Konttori said in a launch event last summer. As this article was being written, Varjo further expanded its cloud with Unreal and Unity engine integrations. CloudXR From NVIDIA.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 13, 2017

The CEOs of reality creation tools Unity and Unreal have perhaps the best insight anywhere into the state of the industry and both John Riccitiello and Tim Sweeney see investment accelerating significantly over the next year. Even if the AR and VR industry is still in its infancy, it is about to hit a growth spurt.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

I’m having fun, listening to interesting talks, meeting new people… basically everything I always do at these events! Microsoft has killed it (after having basically abandoned it) because it had to perform a spending review given the bad economic conditions. Spatial or VRChat), while others will simply get lost.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Epic Games, Unity Technologies and Microsoft’s Game Stack team have all issued statements announcing their withdrawals from March’s Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2020. . Over on Unreal Engine’s Twitter account , the company said: “Here at Epic we were excited about participating in GDC 2020.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

The Mixed Reality Toolkit (MRTK) by Microsoft is an open-source toolkit that has been around since the HoloLens was first released in 2016. Microsoft-driven MRTK-Unity is a suite of components and capabilities used to speed the creation of cross-platform MR applications in Unity. Understanding the MRTK-Unity Toolkit for MR Developers.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

At the event, Jon Li said that AI has “really infiltrated everybody’s mindshare,” explaining that various enterprise end-users, from healthcare to security, can benefit from the emerging technology. However, these leading firms flipped the year’s mainstream narrative for XR, building 2024 up as a landmark year for XR.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The Superbowl is the most important sports event of the year in the United States, and airing an ad during the match is super-expensive, but also super-effective. Meta has organized two important initiatives to exploit this important event: A short ad to be aired on TV to get the attention of many potential buyers in the consumer market.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

Microsoft announces Mesh, an XR collaboration platform. Alex Kipman promised us a Microsoft Ignite conference with an amazing level of immersion , and he kept his word. Especially the first feature made most people go in awe : volumetric videos are very expensive, so they’re typically not used during XR events. Image by OceanX).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 3, 2023

With the need to innovate industries, many speakers at the online event will showcase groundbreaking approaches to creativity in XR content creation, building information modelling (BIM), entertainment, filmmaking, and other disciplines. XR Today: Regarding XR, what was the focus of your presentation to audiences at the event?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 8, 2017

This year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is unique in that the general public was allowed to purchase tickets to gain entrance to the event. Previously it has remained as an industry-only event reserved for developers, publishers, PR, press, and other folks related to the video game industry.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 26, 2023

With GrooveJones, teams can build branded apps and events, as well as digital pop-up experiences. The company works with leading companies around the world to develop unique experiences for customers in the metaverse. The company works with leading companies around the world to develop unique experiences for customers in the metaverse.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Worlds are created, people collaborate with others, events are held, digital meetings are organized?—?just Large companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Valve, Epic Games, Roblox as well as smaller startups are working on creating products for the Metaverse as we speak. just with avatars instead of real people.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

MAY 19, 2023

Meanwhile, XR brands worldwide are striving to establish themselves as leads in entertainment, collaboration, and wearables via events, product launches, and rebranding. Apple’s upcoming MR headset is expected to be a high-end device that will compete with headsets from Meta and Microsoft.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Whether you’re attending the show or just scoping out the news and events from home, we’ve got you covered. Last time, GDC was just before the launch of the Rift itself, so we had a good idea of what we were getting, but this year the event is mostly shrouded in mystery. What to Expect from Microsoft. Robo Recall.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

The typical summer week has passed by, with some interesting XR news, but mostly no amazing event to talk about. Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. Top news of the week.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

XR Today spoke to Brian Vogelsang, AR Product Leader at Qualcomm , on the sidelines of the event about ongoing updates with its latest product release, the Snapdragon AR2 platform. Other devices from Magic Leap and Microsoft’s HoloLens headsets offer deeper levels of immersion.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

More info (My summary of the event) More info (HTC’s 2-minutes video of the event) More info (HTC’s vision of the office of the future) More info (Actual prototype of the office of the future) More info (Qualcomm teasing new XR2 standalone headsets). Facebook and Microsoft publish two interesting research projects for VR.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Last week, Augmented World Expo EU (AWE) 2023 hosted its yearly event highlighting recent innovations in enterprise-grade AR/VR/MR solutions, as well as related emerging technology such as genAI, digital twins, and geospatial tech. He cited ARtillery data, highlighting how, in 2023, XR will become a “$38 billion” industry.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 26, 2023

The omniverse solution is available as a platform-as-a-service offering, running on Microsoft Azure. Cavrnus Otherwise known as Cavrnus VR, Cavrnus is a Metaverse builder platform , designed to help every creator share their vision of a metaverse on the internet.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

As September moves along, Meta is prepping its immersive product portfolio for a refresh showcase during the event later this month. As showcase events like those delivered by Meta and Apple bring more eyes to XR technology, the power of immersive technology is spread to enterprise auidences. Connect is the news of the month.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

The company switched to an enterprise model , but apart from a rebranding and an assistance service it is not clear what it actually means, especially if compared with the enormous enterprise offering that Microsoft is giving with HoloLens (Azure services, integration with Teams, etc…). Unreal Engine 4.25 adds many XR features.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Do you want to know the best XR events of 2020? Dejan Gajsek has written a very long and detailed post on all the most important AR and VR events for this year. At the same time, this week, SXSW has also announced the lineup of immersive content that will be exhibited at this important event. Great post. Learn more. Some XR fun.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Here are just some of the tech stocks many are looking at right now (in no particular order): Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) For the people who brought you the Hololens 2, probably the most sophisticated pair of mixed reality smart glasses out there to date.

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Road to VR

JULY 9, 2020

Sony Corporation announced today that it will invest $250 million in Epic Games, the company well known for its hit game Fortnite and the Unreal Engine game engine that powers it. Unreal Engine is the second most popular game engine for building VR content, and has powered PSVR games like Farpoint , Moss ,and Firewall: Zero Hour.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

They teased a lot of interesting features and services of the device, and left the remaining technical details to some technical sheets on Microsoft website. But Microsoft, thanks to innovative 2K displays, has managed to keep the same high-quality pixel density of the HoloLens 1, that is 47 PPD (pixels per degree). Resolution.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Magic Leap has just organized its first developers’ event, dubbed “L.E.A.P.” It is the first event of this kind organized by Magic Leap: we can say that LEAP Con is like the Oculus Connect of Magic Leap and will probably become always more important, year after year, exactly as it has happened to Oculus.

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

The announcements came earlier this week at SOLIDWORKS World , a popular event for those working in the field of 3D CAD. The company also presented the HP VR Launch Kit for Unreal Engine, a system co-developed with Epic Games, that is intended to “dramatically stream[line] VR development for design visualization.”.

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HaptX

MARCH 6, 2018

When one finds out that she worked at Microsoft in the early days of Encarta Encyclopedia and World Atlas , it starts to make sense. She created an internal team at Microsoft to manage these complex issues across the entire company. “All Her time working at Microsoft led her to the IGDA.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In the meanwhile, if you want, you can attend an Awe Nite event about gaming on 30th September I have been invited to speak at. Apple Event was not about AR, like, at all. Actually, there was no news about XR at all, and AR was visible only for 20 seconds in the whole 80 minutes of the event. Top news of the week. It has 4.5DOF.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

E.den members are given access to a Microsoft HoloLens headset running Enklu’s AR platform that they can use to create open-floor mixed reality experiences. Image Credit: Enklu. For less frequent visitors, $20 will give you a single experience pass that grants access to multiple experiences throughout a single day. Image Credit: Enklu.

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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. The SDK offers native APIs, but also supports popular game engines like Unity and Unreal 4.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

Furthermore, Microsoft 365 apps such as Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint, will be connected with Omniverse Project Mellon has been unveiled. It is a lightweight Python package capable of harnessing the heavyweight power of speech AI (NVIDIA Riva) and large language models (LLMs) to simplify user interactions in immersive environments.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

What is interesting the most of this announcement is that in the invitation to the event it is stated “Join us to begin a new chapter of virtual and augmented reality”. nReal has also been sued by Epic Games for its name that is too close to “Unreal”. Yes, you’ve read it well. Augmented Reality. We’ll discover it in the upcoming times.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Following the event, several global executives from the immersive tech industry weighed in on the device. This could actually be quite beneficial for Meta, Microsoft, and Magic Leap. It will also find early success among corporate entities, such as companies and event organizers. Brian Meaney , Head of Product, Alteon.io

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

Because of the damn coronavirus, always more events will be held online. Apart from the AWE that has become an online event, as I’ve highlighted in my intro, also Oculus Connect 7 and Gamescom will transition to a fully digital version for 2020. Basically, projects that give value to the device and to Microsoft in general.

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