The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Some people are migrating to Unreal Engine or Godot. More info Apple unveils new details about the Vision Pro ecosystem At the recent Apple Event, the Vision Pro was not the main focus, but many interesting pieces of news about it have been announced. Others have stopped using Unity Ads, Unity’s main source of revenue.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2023

More info Samsung is still on track to deliver its headset Samsung’s president of mobile experience, TM Roh, has spoken with CNET about the XR strategy of the company. Then he talked about the ecosystem and the fact that Samsung wants to create an open ecosystem around XR where many partners can operate in.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Facebook could sell all its devices undercost now, subsidizing the cost of the hardware with software and data collection, so that to compete with brands like Samsung and XiaoMi. The most viral news of the week has for sure been the one about MetaHuman Creator, a new software for Unreal Engine. Epic Games presents MetaHuman Creator.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

Unreal Engine is not exactly the most friendly game engine when it comes to Android development, and that’s why Oculus has just released some facilities to help UE4 developers in iterating Oculus Quest applications faster. According to Samsung, it should come in 2028. Not a great evolution from Microsoft. 6G is coming to 2028–2030.

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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. The Oculus Rift and Touch, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR (PSVR), Google Daydream, Samsung Gear VR, and so many other headsets are all available for purchase. It’s a crazy time to be alive.

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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

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). Stanford and Samsung create a super-high-resolution display. Learn more.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

But, in the early days of this industry, it is the developer conferences, the places where creators come together to share knowledge and reveal breakthroughs, that are the really exciting events to cover. Alon Or-bach (Samsung Electronics), Kaye Mason (Google). State Of Unreal: Epic Games’ Opening Session.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Wedged somewhat inconsiderately at the very start of every year (it’s OK CES organisers, no one in the tech industry have families they want to spend time with), the annual Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas is still the biggest event for hardware in the world. CES 2013 / 2014: The Early Years. The HTC Vive Pre at CES 2016.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2021

Digital events are still less intriguing than physical ones, and this is especially true for CES, an event that is usually all about journalists going around enormous venues interviewing people and especially trying and reviewing new and innovative devices. We had a few interesting news, but nothing truly disruptive.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

Let’s see: Google is still working with Qualcomm and Samsung on a mixed-reality headset. VRTO , one of the leading virtual reality events, is back. We already saw this problem happening when HTC departed from the Steam platform to build its Viveport store because hardware sales were not enough to have an ambitious business.

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2016

The first time that I experienced Sequenced , I had no idea that my gaze directions might have been triggering different branches or small events within the story. Road to VR previously reported that their 10-episode season is due to “arrive on HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR and Google Cardboard starting in early Q4 2016.”

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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. Renato Andrade, Senior XR Product Designer, Samsung R&D Institute (SIDIA) , posted his thoughts on the changes, gaining him over 20,000 impressions on LinkedIn.

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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

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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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This week has been the week of the Oculus Connect 6 , the biggest yearly event by Oculus where the VR company announces all its most important news, both on hardware and software sides. “Events”, that will let you organize meetings in VR, or multiplayer matches with other players.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Mr. Graylin is a sought after speaker and thought leader in the areas of VR/AR, AI, Entrepreneurship, and doing business in China by events and media globally. Before his entrepreneurial work, Mahajan was an engineer at Epic Games on the Unreal Engine and Gears of War. Advisor for Betting & Gaming vertical in Samsung Harman.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Samsung, Nokia entered with their OZO, Jaunt — which recently just got sold to Verizon — they had their Jaunt One camera. We worked with a psychologist in New York City who is using exposure therapy to help cure people of PTSD, phobias and other traumatic events that happen in their lives.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Samsung, Nokia entered with their OZO, Jaunt — which recently just got sold to Verizon — they had their Jaunt One camera. We worked with a psychologist in New York City who is using exposure therapy to help cure people of PTSD, phobias and other traumatic events that happen in their lives.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Samsung, Nokia entered with their OZO, Jaunt -- which recently just got sold to Verizon -- they had their Jaunt One camera. We worked with a psychologist in New York City who is using exposure therapy to help cure people of PTSD, phobias and other traumatic events that happen in their lives. And it wasn't realistic enough.

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