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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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.

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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. If you want to watch it, it’s a very interesting 2-hour-long video and you can find it here [link] together with a summary of the key points he said. More info (Reveal video) More info (5 things we know about it).

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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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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. Facebook and Microsoft publish two interesting research projects for VR. This week, Facebook and Microsoft have released two interesting works from their R&D department.

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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. Passengers can use the system to watch films, play video games, meditate, and send messages on social media.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

More info (Lynx R1 Launch post on Road To VR) More info (Lynx R1 Launch post on Upload VR) More info (Some more info on its special lenses) More info (Launch keynote) More info (Video that explains this kind of lenses) More info (Feedback on this kind of lenses) More info (Stan Larroque talking about the success of the sales). Let’s hope so.

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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. Stettmeier added: People have realised you can interact via video conferencing.

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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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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

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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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

JUNE 23, 2019

The most important info shared Friday is a (weird) video with the external new design of the device. 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”. Yes, you’ve read it well. Augmented Reality. More info.

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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. The company has not posted real photos or footage from the glasses, just a promo video with an accompanying blog post detailed some of their characteristics. Apple Event was not about AR, like, at all.

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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. I think it’s very good because it can finally give full-body VR to many Quest and Vive XR Elite users. Of course, Epic is completely against Apple and its vision of its own walled garden.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

H266 video standard can pave the way to 8K video streaming. The Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications (FIT) together with various partners from industry including Apple, Ericsson, Huawei, Intel, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and Son y has confirmed the release and official adoption of H.266/Versatile News worth a mention.

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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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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Thanks to the vaccines and the pandemic that seemed more or less under control, this seemed a possible scenario, and in-person successful events like AWE 2021 confirmed this hypothesis. There is proof everywhere about that: The Oculus app on the iOS App Store has been at the #1 place among the most downloaded app of the day on Christmas.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 5, 2022

One such company, Improbable , has developed the impossible with a breakthrough metaverse solution designed to facilitate massive-scale, concurrent user-based experiences for virtual events and gaming. Microsoft acquired Blizzard Activision in an unprecedented $68.7 Microsoft acquired Blizzard Activision in an unprecedented $68.7

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

We can deploy to a vast of platforms using game engines like Unity, Unreal Engine, the more recent Godot engine or any of the other engines out there, which have all started to add VR features”. You may be saying “Come on! You’re welcome! so it’s not essential for the task of retrieving positions and we will not detail it here.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 25, 2017

It's adopted by industry leading graphics engines such as Unreal Engine 4 , Unity 5 and Amazon’s Lumberyard to provide developers an easy path to take amazing in-game shots. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a 2015 action role-playing video game developed and published by CD Projekt. What's Nvidia Ansel? Watch Dogs 2.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

MAY 26, 2023

Apple appears to be very close to announcing an immersive product, with the leading computing firm prompting AR/VR/MR outlets to cover the event. New updates to Microsoft Mesh allows remote workers to add immersive experiences to private previews on the platform.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So anybody who had a reasonable platform for video conferencing and events and things like this skyrocketed. But if you happened to have a video chat thing and-- we saw this with SPACES. You are talking about a game engine that makes video games on phones and computers, that's worth 40 billion dollars. Alex: Mm-hm.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So anybody who had a reasonable platform for video conferencing and events and things like this skyrocketed. But if you happened to have a video chat thing and-- we saw this with SPACES. You are talking about a game engine that makes video games on phones and computers, that's worth 40 billion dollars. Alex: Mm-hm.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So anybody who had a reasonable platform for video conferencing and events and things like this skyrocketed. But if you happened to have a video chat thing and-- we saw this with SPACES. You are talking about a game engine that makes video games on phones and computers, that's worth 40 billion dollars. Alex: Mm-hm.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2020

Oculus Venues, in case you forgot, is that VR experience that lets you enjoy some important event (like an NBA match) in a big auditorium together with many other VR users. After having read this post, I think that people at Unity and Unreal Engine should do something to fix this issue. Watch Microsoft Office in XR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 19, 2024

Big vendor news this week, Admist start-ups and fresh ideas; this week, big names like Meta, Microsoft, Google, and Apple took the headlines due to each firm’s optimisation of its XR product portfolio. They can share their views and place spatial annotations in a user’s video feed.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 13, 2020

John is an award winning 28 year veteran of the digital industry, creating interactive experiences across augmented reality, virtual reality, video games, mobile apps and numerous high volume websites. HP and Microsoft, they’re running huge departments in this, just because they were early and learned how to do it. John: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 13, 2020

John is an award winning 28 year veteran of the digital industry, creating interactive experiences across augmented reality, virtual reality, video games, mobile apps and numerous high volume websites. HP and Microsoft, they’re running huge departments in this, just because they were early and learned how to do it. John: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 13, 2020

John is an award winning 28 year veteran of the digital industry, creating interactive experiences across augmented reality, virtual reality, video games, mobile apps and numerous high volume websites. HP and Microsoft, they're running huge departments in this, just because they were early and learned how to do it. John: Thanks, Alan.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

Before starting with the summary of the news of this amazing week, let me invite you all to subscribe to the FREE Awe Nite Florence Event that will happen this Thursday at 5 pm CEST and that will feature amazing hosts like Pico, VisionAR, and JoinPad! Here you are the link to the event, subscribe now! Kudos to Snap for it.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Billion & mind you i haven't added the overall population of #asia.Ignore us at your own risk #facebook #microsoft & the curators of those lists. Nreal is one of the most popular companies in the field, having won over several well-known investors like Qualcomm, short video app Kuaishou, video streaming app iQiyi, and GP Capital.

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VRGuy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Many game engines – such as Unity, Unreal and SteamVR- immediately support it. Augmented reality tools detect objects in video feeds. They rely on the operating system to convert mouse data into the double-click event. For example, DAQRI integrated a plugin that detects objects in a video stream.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

For every piece of news, I have prepared a short summary and some links to go deeper… this way you are sure you haven’t missed any important piece of news from this important event. The event has not featured any important hardware announcement, because it was all focused on declaring the new shift of focus of Facebook. Are you ready?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

BrainXchange, we started out as a boutique events company, and we just happened to enter augmented reality at the right time. So today we provide events, content, and other services all related to facilitating enterprise XR. Emily: Well, as for AWE, I think it’s a very important benchmarking event. What are you seeing?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

BrainXchange, we started out as a boutique events company, and we just happened to enter augmented reality at the right time. So today we provide events, content, and other services all related to facilitating enterprise XR. Emily: Well, as for AWE, I think it’s a very important benchmarking event. What are you seeing?

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