The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2019

We all dream of the Metaverse , a fantastic online virtual world where we can all hang out with other people and do whatever we want. And even worse, these virtual worlds are like silos: they don’t talk to each other, they are separate the one from the others, they are not connected in any way. What is your job?

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

During the Google Developer Day presentation at GDC 2018, Product Manager Clementine Jacoby and Engineering Lead Patrick Donelan at Google Maps presented the team’s progress in bringing their technology and data to game developers. Building large virtual worlds is costly and time-consuming when done by hand.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

The Oxymore musical VR experience we of VRrOOm have organized with Jean-Michel Jarre went great; someone posted a tweet where he shows he finished our game HitMotion: Reloaded ; and one of my readers made an amazing meme about my tutorials. Image by Google). Project Iris is the codename of Google’s AR glasses. What about yours?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2021

I’m super-late with this newsletter because we of New Technology Walkers are working on some cool stuff for our game HitMotion: Reloaded! Image by Google). Google is reportedly working on an AR operating system. Now we have finally an official confirmation of the fact that Google is working on an AR device. Tilt Brush).

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VRScout

JUNE 28, 2017

When YouTube channel Nat and Friends toured Google VR, we were honestly expecting to see experiments from Google’s Daydream Labs that we’ve already seen. Projects we’ve reported on like Google’s headset removal or last year’s social VR experiments have been some of our favorites. Putt-Putt Google Earth VR.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 22, 2022

It was even featured on Google News. Image by Google). Google acquires micro-LED startup Raxium. This week Google has performed another strategic move towards the development of its future XR glasses. Exit Games finally announces Photon Fusion. More info (Quest 2 new parental controls?—?Road Upload VR).

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ARPost

MARCH 8, 2022

With more and more business and sales being conducted in virtual worlds, one digital marketing agency with physical offices in California is expanding its services into the metaverse. With partners like Google, Salesforce, and Shopify, high-tech trends like big data analytics and online retail are not new to the company. “We

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

The last cycle before this one was the Quest one, which started to make virtual reality known to the mainstream audience for what concerns games and fitness. Especially Apple and Google, which are the dominant players in the smartphone industry, are both launching headsets this year.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 21, 2017

Educators are using virtual worlds, but not in the way they had used them in the past, and not in the same numbers. The Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education conference is a good example that showcases this work. Those educators that remain in virtual worlds are leveraging them to create better experiences.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

Eight year ago, when I first launched Hypergrid Business , virtual worlds offered a unique set of compelling features. There was presence, and immersion, and the ability to create your own virtual environments. At that time, virtual worlds were the only visible path to an interconnected metaverse of virtual environments.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

You largely have to imagine the expressions of people as they interact with a virtual world. Google, however, showed off some impressive research that takes the technology to the next level. This work is the result of an “ongoing collaboration” between Research, Daydream Labs and the YouTube teams at Google.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Synthesizing these factors, one of AR’s battlegrounds will be in augmenting the world in location-relevant ways. That could be wayfinding with Google Live View , or visual search with Google Lens. As you can tell from the above examples, Google will have a key stake in this “Internet of Places.” But it’s not alone.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 25, 2022

Meta announced interesting games at its Quest Gaming Showcase. On April, 20th, Meta had its Quest Gaming Showcase , an online event where it announced the most important upcoming games for Quest for the next 12 months. Half-Life 3 for Quest) and not even updates on the most awaited games for Quest (e.g.

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Road to VR

JULY 6, 2017

Google wants to make it easier for VR/AR app developers to create 3D objects with its new app revealed today called Blocks, a program designed to let you build assets for the immersive mediums from within the VR headset itself. image courtesy Google. image courtesy Google. image courtesy Google. image courtesy Google.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 1, 2016

RalphVR announced that their award winning multiplayer VR game Daydream Blue is coming to Google Daydream. Our mission is to connect people together and help foster smiles in virtual reality. Connect with your friends from around the world online in Daydream Blue multiplay. But you don’t have to do it alone!

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2016

Google’s newly announced ‘Daydream’ promises to raise the bar for virtual reality on Android compared to Cardboard. In the video (above) we get the first glimpse of the Daydream ‘home’ space where users will be able to launch games and apps.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Niantic flipped the mobile gaming world upside down back in 2016 when they launched their AR mobile app Pokémon GO and started a global craze that still maintains a loyal player base to this very day. LinkBuds have an odd donut shape that creates an incredible audio experience without shutting out the real world.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

A broadcast used AR overlays to show the yellow yard lines on TV for an NFL game. In 1994, the term Mixed Reality was coined from a research paper that explored the idea of a virtuality continuum (more on that in the next section). Mixed reality is a blending of the physical and virtual worlds.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Combining spatial computing with the Internet, the Metaverse seeks to seamlessly connect the digital and physical worlds and transform online interactions. Evan Gappelberg, Chief Executive and Founder of Nextech AR , said in an interview with XR Today that metaverse solutions would “bridge virtual, hybrid, and in-person experiences.”

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

The first one of these is Google: ChatGPT is able to give me an answer to everything in a human-readable way without me having to look on Google. And this is the reason why Google has rushed to launch Bard: for the first time in many years, there is a chance that Google sees its business disrupted.

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ARPost

JULY 7, 2023

That is, until you remember that the metaverse isn’t just a collection of virtual worlds – it also means augmenting the physical world. Digital Twins as a User Interface “If you have a virtual representation of a thing, you can run software on that representation as though it was running on the thing itself.

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VRScout

JULY 1, 2016

Deadmau5 has partnered up with Absolut Labs to create a VR gaming experience based on the electronic musician’s nightly lifestyle. ” The VR experience combines 360° live-action footage, like being in the recording studio or standing on stage for a live performance, along with motion captured game experiences. .”

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

When you hear the term “VR,” you might think of entertainment, social media, or the exploration of virtual worlds; perhaps the last thing you’d ever think of is the healthcare industry. Does this sector of the world actually use VR and does it really bring with it any unique benefits? Augmented Medical Records.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Pico is also going to have its first exclusive title: Just Dance VR, a popular game good for all ages. I invite you all to see the video I’m linking below to see how this can be cool to give a new life to many old games. The game will also be released on Steam so that to please the current PCVR fanbase of Stress Level Zero.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2022

The gaming landscape stands as one of the most versatile and compelling areas for the development of extended reality technology. Promising a new and improved way for gamers to connect with the worlds they love, XR could represent a new frontier for entertainment. Tender Claws and Google ARCore. Respawn Entertainment and Unity.

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ARPost

JULY 29, 2022

Meta Horizon Home has been launched as an update to the Quest 2 headset, joining Meta Horizon Worlds – another VR app for socializing focused on playing games and attending concerts and sports events. In Rec Room, you can also build games, not only play existing ones. with your best friends and family members.

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Cats and VR

MAY 10, 2017

Google has made an interesting play to solidify it's VR lineup for the future. Welcome Owlchemy Labs to Google. They've created award-winning games like Job Simulator and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality. Now the team takes a huge leap by possibly becoming Google's go to VR dev team for some interesting IP.

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 9, 2024

A starting frame for a platform video game generated by Genie. Image courtesy Google.) Today, I’m going to talk about AI and world building. Can AI build worlds? Yup, Google’s Gemini 1.5 But Google, the company making Gemini, has all of YouTube to train it on. Generative AI is bad.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 8, 2018

It’s notoriously difficult to transmit exactly what’s happening in a VR game without actually strapping on a headset yourself. In effect, this lets you walk around the VR user’s virtual environment and freely take in the scene at any practical perspective while the VR user goes about playing the game.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

We already know that Google, Samsung, and Qualcomm are working on a competitor of the Vision Pro, which should be based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR Gen2+ and cost around $2000. So at the beginning of next year, we may have huge players like Apple, Google, and Meta battling for the high-end XR sector.

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ARPost

JULY 13, 2022

If you’ve played any video games at all – particularly open-world RPGs – you know that getting NPCs right can be hard. So, if we’re going to have a metaverse for games, shopping, business, etc., Gelfenbeyn was a co-founder of API.AI, which was purchased by Google and now exists as Dialogflow.

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Cats and VR

MAY 11, 2017

Today, Ubisoft ® announced that Hungry Shark ® VR, the seventh installment in the successful mobile franchise developed by Future Games of London, is available on Google Daydream. Hungry Shark VR offers two new exciting game modes, allowing players to test their abilities and explore the vast landscape.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

On day two, Pico’s Elaine Wong will also sit on a panel discussion, “This is How We Play: The Role of Gaming in the Metaverse.” Among others, Wong will be joined on the panel by Zilliqa Head of Metaverse and NFTs Sandra Helou representing the Metapolis virtual world. Microsoft, Google, the XRA – and That’s Just One Talk.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2022

There is only one big problem: the form factor is terrible , they look super-dork, even worse than Google Glasses. Nowadays in social VR worlds like VRChat you can have a maximum of 50–100 people together in the same room. They managed to put 4,000 bots simulating 4,000 connected clients in the same WebXR virtual world.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

Niantic has finally launched its VPS (Visual Positioning System), a solution that will allow developers to create AR applications that are persistent and shared in various locations in the world with centimeter accuracy. VPS is a technology that implements the AR Cloud and creates a bridge between the real and the virtual world.

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ARPost

APRIL 6, 2021

However, AR is no longer just for fun and games. An app called Spotselfie has been using augmented reality to enhance the online experience by blurring the divide between the real and virtual world. Many social media users see AR as a fun and engaging tool that brings us cute photo filters and interactive games.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2022

This is a great deal, that lowers even more the barrier of cost to enter virtual reality. Google launches “Immersive Stream for AR”. Google has launched a new cloud service based on Stadia technology: dubbed “Immersive Stream for AR”, it lets you perform cloud rendering for augmented reality applications for mobile phones.

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