The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Multiplayer shooter Solaris is the game of the week. The game is very different from its predecessor, and it is less a realistic combat simulator and more an adrenaline multiplayer game, like Unreal Tournament or Quake Arena. The game is fun to be played and has a great user experience.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 23, 2024

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Some of the most common myths and misconceptions surrounding VR include the following: it always causes motion sickness and virtual reality is solely applicable to games. Although gaming is certainly a great use case and example of what immersive VR experiences can deliver, the possibilities are endless,” said Vindevogel.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 1, 2023

Here’s how the alliance describes their new OpenUSD inititive: Created by Pixar Animation Studios, OpenUSD is a high-performance 3D scene description technology that offers robust interoperability across tools, data, and workflows. We look forward to fostering its growth into a broadly adopted standard.”

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ARPost

JULY 4, 2022

NVIDIA joined Meta , Epic Games, Khronos Group, Avataar , Microsoft, Unity, XR Association , and many other founding members to lead the development of interoperability standards to drive the growth of the metaverse. The Forum will facilitate various projects such as open-source tooling and hackathons. The Future is Now.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

I’ve very limited time, but luckily this week has not been very relevant for the ecosystem, so I’m managing to write this newsletter anyway Top news of the week (Image by Microsoft) AltspaceVR shuts down In one of the saddest moments of the latest years in VR, AltspaceVR has closed its doors. I’m pretty excited about that!

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 24, 2022

One such platform, the Microsoft Reactor meetup, has united many thought leaders, tech giants, and organisations as a guiding compass for the growing community of technology enthusiasts, developers, journalists, and even senior executives. Excellent @Microsoft Reactor #meetup in #London with @VR2AR , Alexander Karim, and @seanmtracey.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 2, 2022

It features full colour passthrough, a Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2+ chipset, and productivity and security tools for workers. The Dublin-based IT consultancy has outlined a Metaverse Continuum Group to facilitate digital transformations for businesses. The company’s plans may lead to further innovation with the Meta Quest Pro.

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VRScout

JANUARY 9, 2020

The Educational Games Expo kicked-off this week in Washington, DC. Now in its seventh annual year, this free and public conference hosted by the US Department of Education showcases the best educational learning games and technologies to date. Are you ready for some game-based learning? It's #EDGamesExpo week!

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ARPost

AUGUST 3, 2022

The following year it launched on Steam and the year after that, it was purchased by Microsoft in a bid to expand their mixed reality portfolio which has always been a kind of awkward collection. Initially, the purchase by Microsoft didn’t mark many major changes. The biggest benefits to the VR version are related to tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

Image by Epic Games). Sony invests $250M in Epic Games. Sony has announced that it has made a big investment of $250M in Epic Games through one of its subsidiaries. The long-term results of these partnerships are unforeseeable, but we can still play the speculation game. Rockstar is working on AAA VR open world game.

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VRScout

JULY 21, 2019

This capability is game changing for divers who usually work in zero visibility conditions – it essentially gives them sight again through real time data and sonar,” said Allie Williams, DAVD team lead engineer. Image Credit: United States Army. Featured Image: US Navy / NASA.

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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. Going Beyond Gaming. A virtual concert hosted in ‘Fortnite’ drew tens of millions of users last year | Image courtesy PCGamesN.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Because it is true to say that, to date, it is the gaming consumer that has driven the success and growth of VR. Johannes Stettmeier, Business Development Manager for AR/VR Technologies at Lenovo , also took the stage to explain how some of the most fruitful use cases for XR exist in the enterprise, not in consumer or gaming.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Notably, Jake Rowland explored new trends in combining XR and unified communications (UC) tools to create shared virtual spaces without needing a headset, therefore bringing value to major companies – “absolutely [a] big crossover” across technologies and that “companies [were] getting a lot of value from it,” remarked Rowland.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

At a special launch event today, Niantic announced it’s opening up the Lightship AR Development Kit (ARDK) platform, a software development kit with the kinds of tools the company uses to make Pokémon Go’s ‘ world-scale’ gameplay possible. Image courtesy Niantic.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Soon there will be tools to let people who don’t know how to code train their AI models. You can have a group chat with your friends and tag Meta AI so it will answer to all the group. One interesting use case of Augments is to put the trophies you win in XR games in your room as if they were real trophies.

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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. For years now, gaming companies have been experimenting with XR as a way of strengthening connections with their target audience, and unlocking new experiences. Tender Claws and Google ARCore.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 28, 2023

Groups like Microsoft are leveraging a collapsing military contact to keep its IVAS device lineup alive for further funding, and HTC VIVE took note to explain the importance of enterprise end-users in discussion with the World Economic Forum. Microsoft Begin IVAS 1.2 Testing Microsoft may be fighting for Hololens.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

Meta Quest Gaming Showcase is coming on April, 20th. Meta is back with its Gaming Showcase, and this year, it is going to be aired on April, 20th at 10 am PT. Last year, it was still called Oculus Gaming Showcase, and it featured important updates on games like Pistol Whip, The Climb 2, I Expect You To Die 2, and Resident Evil 4 VR.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

So if you just want to play VR games, you had better buy a Quest 2 or a Pico 4. all the games, the integration with an external keyboard, the passthrough, the runtime updates, etc…), and the level of polish it offered, was much superior. This is not a device for gamers. It is not a device for consumers. Adobe and Autodesk.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

A Multi-Device Networked Multiplayer Shooter Game Post-Mortem HoloLens Live Image We were tasked to make a multi-device networked multiplayer game for the mini-capstone in Game Development Advanced Programming Post Graduate Course at Sheridan College. There were four groups of two and one group of three students.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Numerous companies such as Meta Platforms , Microsoft, Decentraland, Epic Games, Unity, Pico Interactive, NVIDIA, and even Autodesk are developing platforms to facilitate the Metaverse. Their new tools are set to offer enterprises an immense number of business use cases. The Role of NFTs, Crypto, and Blockchain.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 5, 2022

For most people, gaming represented the ultimate “initial” market for the extended reality landscape. Ever since the early days of exciting new concepts like Pokémon Go , games developers and entertainment companies have been doubling down on their investments into immersive experiences. The Potential for XR in Gaming.

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ARPost

MAY 12, 2022

Also, the founder and managing partner of AR funding group Super Ventures , Inbar’s talks are always full of insight, passion, and a few laughs. As one of the leading tools for 3D content creation, Unity is also one of the engines driving XR content and experiences. Panel Discussions.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The airline is a joint venture between a Middle East investment firm and SIMDI Group – a Maldivian hospitality company. In addition to our existing and ever-growing library of inflight content such as movies and games, Beond will showcase stunning resort destinations and activities in the Maldives.

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AR Insider

MARCH 22, 2021

It found that content delivered in this format produced greater memory retention than a control group. But what other signals validate VR’s efficacy as a training tool? Post-training performance also grew 230 percent for the VR group versus 17 percent for the control group. Source: PwC. Medical Training.

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Road to VR

MAY 2, 2017

The keynote from Unity’s Vision VR/AR Summit yesterday showcased just how far Unity is reaching into non-gaming content when it comes to augmented and virtual reality. New Unity Tools Bring Interactivity and Real-time CGI to 360 Video, Now in Beta. Microsoft Shows Windows in VR, Gives Acer VR Headset to Vision Summit Audience.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2023

If you want to start playing around with these tools, of course, you need a Mac , and if you are a Windows guy like me, you are SOL (S**t Out of Luck). Unity has already sent an email to all of us to say that the distribution of the Beta will start next month (July) and will be gradual starting from a small group of developers.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

This week, Microsoft continued its roadmap of introducing emerging workplace tools to its worldwide lineup of clients; most recently, the firm distributed AI tools across Siemens’ workforce. The move deepens the partnership between Microsoft and Siemens with a purpose-built Siemens Industrial Copilot solution.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 24, 2022

While virtually every industry is discovering new uses for XR in the realms of education, collaboration, and even wellbeing, the gaming landscape still remains one of the most valuable ecosystems for immersive technologies. For gaming companies, XR represents an entirely new platform through which to connect with players.

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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. Mark Zuckerberg has been incredibly smart in entering this field before all the others, so now he already has a strong headset with a great content catalog around gaming.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Actually, this week, Microsoft’s new mixed reality VP Scott Evans said that Microsoft is carrying on many innovations in various technological fields, and it is expecting the right time to release an update of the HoloLens. Resolution Games had its company event. Pico games sale. Blaston is becoming free to play.

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Road to VR

MARCH 12, 2020

Here’s a look at a handful of companies building remote collaboration VR tools and platforms for a range of use-cases. We offer a virtual meeting room with collaboration and presentation tools, manipulated by the participants; pointing, discussing, marking and deleting with up to 12 other team members using virtual reality headsets.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 27, 2023

Users are discovering that virtual reality isn’t just a powerful tool for entertainment. Pimax Focused on the gaming and enterprise landscape, Pimax delivers futuristic VR headsets built with high-fidelity screens and enhanced optical capabilities. Demand for virtual reality is expanding at an incredible rate.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Sony ‘Ups Its Game’ in Metaverse Technologies. Players can use the novel tools to buy and sell in-game content and identify metadata, ownership, and other key details for immersive content. ” Rival firm Microsoft bought Activision Blizzard to expand its portfolio of solutions in a historic $68 billion deal.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 6, 2022

The global business community is increasingly moving to isolate Russia for the war it's waging in Ukraine, and video games are no exception. Here's a rundown of what we've seen so far from key players in the video game space as efforts to isolate Russia have snowballed in the midst of Ukraine's calls for the industry to take action.

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