The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2018

Maybe reading these lines you have in your head the same thought that came into mine when going to Lenqiy website: “But… ahem… Space Draw is a clone of Google Tilt Brush and Space Block is a clone of Google Blocks… ehm… why have you developed them??” Then I asked if he had questions for me.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Google releases the Objectron dataset. If you are a researcher in computer vision or machine learning, you’re always looking for datasets including high-quality photos and videos, with related ground truth data , that you can use to train your ML systems. am: Gianluigi Perrone, VR storytelling (Italy) 11.30am?—?12pm:

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This week, the company has announced it is going to hire additional 10,000 people to help in developing the m verse , and all these new hires will happen in the Europen Union , and in particular, inside Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, the Netherlands and Ireland . VR training goes big with Accenture and Bank of America.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 1, 2022

We really want to train up and teach people how to use it. We had the president and the vice president of Women in Film and TV from Italy. YI HALO Camera (Image by Google). You are going to be using these tools more and more. We set up this masterclass. Last year was the first year. It’s 60 hours. It sold out.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2021

More info (Use Google Translate). The decision comes after the dismissal of Google Poly, a service deeply used by Wave, which would require the company to invest time and money to find and integrate a substitute. Some numbers about VR training. Axon Park has written on its blog a very long and detailed article on VR training.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2021

I foresee a market for this kind of glasses since they are beautiful to be worn and so they could be used outdoor to watch media (maybe on a plane or a train), but I think the price will be a determining factor to decide their success. Google AR Cloud Streaming. Read more about this news on Google Blog. Pollen Robotics.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

The latest phones produced by Google and Samsung are still compatible with Daydream View and Gear VR headsets, but there has not been any new release of a mobile VR headset. The first VR theme park in Italy has shut down, for instance. Mobile headsets. Mobile headsets are dying. Producers are just guaranteeing compatibility.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The document is divided into nine parts: I will report them here, as a small summary of mine, together with the full text translated with Google Translate (so, RIP English), if you want to read it. It can also be an opportunity to get to know what each country should try obtaining in the next years for what concerns virtual reality.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

If you will be in Italy, please come visiting me! Image by Google). Google completely opensources Cardboard. With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard. Google has already abandoned all its VR projects (e.g. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

As a long-time AR enthusiast, and one of the first to have tried Google Glass in Italy, I have to admit that I will consider AR mainstream only when it will be on glasses that we will wear all day , when we’ll live in a completely shared mixed reality world (the AR Cloud). The answer is not so trivial. Smartglasses.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2020

As for me, I’ve been flooded by worldwide requests asking how I am here in Italy. The coronavirus outbreak is getting worse here in Northern Italy. We have more difficulties in going to Milan, that is the economical heart of Italy, and now a red zone with all its region. and fostering the creation of Virtual ones.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Italy won the Tennis Davis Cup, and that was pretty cool to see (the match between Sinner and Djokovic was just incredible). This may be one of the potential names for either the upcoming mixed reality headset that Samsung is developing with Google or the name of future AR glasses. Will we meet there?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

Or better, I can imagine who can be the names and they are all the big monoliths: Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon , etc… Only companies of this size could afford selling a good headset under cost and at the same time attract enough developers to publish VR games on their own new stores. VR headsets will become MR ones.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

We work both with the area of productivity increase, predominantly using augmented reality, but also with learned trade; training using virtual reality. We’ve just done one in Bologna in Italy. Alan: So basically what you’ve done is you’ve templatized the creation of virtual and augmented training.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

We work both with the area of productivity increase, predominantly using augmented reality, but also with learned trade; training using virtual reality. We’ve just done one in Bologna in Italy. Alan: So basically what you’ve done is you’ve templatized the creation of virtual and augmented training.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

We work both with the area of productivity increase, predominantly using augmented reality, but also with learned trade; training using virtual reality. We've just done one in Bologna in Italy. Alan: So basically what you've done is you've templatized the creation of virtual and augmented training. I'll give you an example.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

Years later, in 2014, my previous classmate Gianni Rosa Gallina called me because he wanted to create a startup about all the fancy things we were discussing in that period, in particular Google Glasses and my obsession about seeing virtual objects on top of the real world. This is how I got started with Virtual Reality development.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2018

This is also an answer to Lenovo Mirage Solo, that lets you directly install apps from Google Play. This resembles a lot a feature that Google was researching and that was shown by Road To VR… so it seems that sooner or later all 3 DOF controllers will become 6 DOF ones. And Vive Controllers? Other news.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2020

If with AR/VR you can offer remote education, assistance, training, and telepresence of any kind , then companies may be interested in your services. There are lots of grants around, and here we can participate in some research grants offered by Italy or European Union. Some countries are more “infected” than others.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

HTC doesn’t want to lose the VR train, so it has just found a creative way of competing with Meta Quest Pro. How will the “Google Analytics” of the metaverse be? Moved by curiosity, I wanted to give this world a look, but downloading the experience from Italy was too slow and I had to give up.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 1, 2023

Our AI had to face requests like: “Can you make something like Google, but in VR?” Only a 60-year-old woman with personality issues or a badly trained AI could have chosen this. For instance, we chose Italy as the home country of the virtual being because it is distant from all the main technological XR hubs.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

Jokes apart, before starting, let me send a big hug to all of you that are in quarantine because of the coronavirus and thank all the people that in these days have cared about me after having heard the sad news about Italy (Simon, David, Daniel, Suzie, Mark… John that has been so kind… Sebastian, and many others!). Yes, Android, Google.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

I’ve preordered my basic $299 one (€349 in Italy) and it will arrive on October, 15th. Imagine the people wearing Aria like the guys wearing Google Maps backpacks inside museums of campuses: they go around and collect data to build some maps. And what about the ongoing training? Who decides what is legit and what not?

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