The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2022

Google starts testing its AR glasses in the wild. Google has announced that it is going to start to test the prototypes of its AR glasses in the wild. What is relevant about this piece of news is that Google has just confirmed its strong commitment to augmented reality. More info (Google testing AR glasses?—?Official

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ARVR

JUNE 16, 2021

Virtual Reality: A New Age of Learning Science Virtual reality is not a new, hot-off-the-press concept. The term “ virtual reality” was first used in 1987 by Jaron Lanier, who was researching goggles that could display digital creations (Lowood, 2018). n.d.). , n.d.).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2022

Qualcomm’s new reference design is wireless. Qualcomm has released its latest reference design for AR glasses and it features an important new feature. If all the previous reference designs were about smartphone-tethered glasses, this new one is totally wireless. Google launches “Immersive Stream for AR”. Check it out!

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

This was a bit the philosophy of Google Daydream View, that was the first headset employing this kind of materials. Since in China Facebook is blocked, and so is Google, it is hard to connect the headset to its required services and it is even harder to download and use its companion app. Specifications.

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VRScout

JULY 19, 2016

On March 25th, 2014, many people were left scratching their heads: why did Facebook spend 2 billion dollars to acquire a Kickstarter funded virtual reality company called Oculus. Virtual reality has taken the world by storm. Here is a summation of all things virtual reality as we currently know it.

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Road to VR

MARCH 13, 2017

A recently published Google’s patent application describes an ‘ Integrated mobile device packaging and virtual reality headset ’. Google introduced Cardboard, their inexpensive VR solution to the world in 2014, producing a VR viewer enclosure for smartphones made from Cardboard.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 17, 2017

” This is the tagline accompanying the shadowy image of a brand new virtual reality headset that was unveiled today from the manufacturers of the popular Vive VR system: HTC. Just pick it up, put it on and be fully immersed in your new reality.” “No Phone. Standalone VR.” HTC VIVE (@htcvive) May 17, 2017.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Image by Google). Google is reportedly working on an AR operating system. In some of my past newsletters, I warned you that we shouldn’t forget about Google/Alphabet in the race to our mixed reality future. Now we have finally an official confirmation of the fact that Google is working on an AR device. Tilt Brush).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 24, 2017

Google’s JUMP team is announcing a new, virtual reality camera today that is smaller and lighter than its predecessors. It is known as the YI Halo and Google is referring to it as the “next generation” for its JUMP platform. This new camera was built in partnership with YI technologies.

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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.

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2016

At Google’s I/O event in San Francisco today, they’ve announced that in Android N, they’re including a complete platform and ecosystem built entirely for virtual reality. He also alluded to new reference VR headset, coming later this year in the Fall along with a new motion controller.

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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. We also see Google’s new VR controller reference design in action, which allows gesture-based interactions within the virtual world.

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Road to VR

MAY 23, 2017

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information, and so they’ve been long-time advocates for the open web. At Google I/O last week, the company announced that they’ll soon be shipping Google Chrome for Android with WebVR , and that they’re going to start experimental builds for WebAR.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

We are at the beginning of March and I just realized that I haven’t written yet a post with my predictions for augmented and virtual reality for this year. 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.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Efforts to construct and expand the Metaverse were sparked by Meta Platform’s major pivot in October, which saw Microsoft, NVIDIA, HTC VIVE, Qualcomm, Google, Varjo, and dozens of other tech giants enter the race for prime positioning to build the virtual and connected world. Virtual Reality.

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Tech Trends VR

MAY 21, 2018

Google harnesses the power of photos and street view to deliver simplified VR development for teachers and students. Whereas now we tend to refer to the physical and digital worlds as separate entities, we are inexorably moving towards a blending of the two.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 1, 2020

I used to refer to this list each time I came across a term, but didn’t remember what it meant exactly. refers to any 3D model. Augmented Reality (AR) ?—?a refers to the accumulation of potential motion tracking error. Top 10 Movies that Got Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Righ Edit-time ?—?when

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Two of the biggest names in XR—headset maker Meta and chip maker Qualcomm—today announced a “multi-year broad strategic agreement” to collaborate on “customized virtual reality chipsets” for future devices.

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InstaVR

JULY 8, 2019

There’s two ways to publish to Android — In-House (self-distribute) or Store (via Google Play). The latter requires an Android Developer Account, which can be procured for less than $100/year, though you will need your app to be approved by Google for publishing on Google Play.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

Further references. Further references. Further references. Further references. Further references. Futher references. There are also some rumors about Half-Life: Alyx coming for PSVR 2, but nothing has been officially announced in this sense. With the Vive Tracker, this setup can become much more compact.

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VRScout

MAY 18, 2016

Google has unveiled Daydream, their new VR platform to become the Android of virtual reality. The first day of Google’s annual I/O developer conference kicked off this morning with Clay Bavor, Vice President Virtual Reality, taking the stage to announce Google’s push beyond Cardboard into virtual reality.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 9, 2017

Google’s team at Daydream Labs have been prototyping ways of animating objects and characters in Blocks , the company’s recently released VR modelling tool. Olson references the creative app Mindshow that embraces this ‘puppeteering’ technique, due to launch into open beta soon.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

This is huge news because all the most popular XR headsets that are on the market are based on Qualcomm’s reference designs, so here we are talking about a technology that will pave the way to the next generation of XR headsets. It seems the journalist liked them. In this game you can… basically pop everything!

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ARVR

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Interactivity here refers to the process when photographers take photos, the audience can also actively participate in the creative process. was originally published in AR/VR Journey: Augmented & Virtual Reality Magazine on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Tilt Brush is Google’s first VR app to launch on the Oculus Rift , and I had a chance to catch up with Tilt Brush product manager Elisabeth Morant. I also asked about privacy in VR, but Google has yet to disclose any information about what information they may or may not be capturing from VR users.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 14, 2018

As I’ve promised in my latest newsletter , I’m going to briefly summarize the most interesting AR/VR news from last week’s Google I/O 2018. Google ARCore reaches version 1.2 This way, the two users were able to share a common AR experience together , because the devices had a common reference system.

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VRScout

MAY 10, 2019

For quick reference, the release order looks like this: “ Enter North Korea ,” – May 9. “ CNNVR was originally launched in 2017, and has since “ produced over a hundred 360-degree virtual reality segments, ” Within states in its press release. An Ordinary Day in North Korea ,” – May 23. Toro Bravo ,” – July 6.

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ARVR

MAY 13, 2021

BigQuery from Google Cloud has many powerful features that allow users to view their data in real-time, providing continual up-to-date information to help guide business decisions. It integrates seamlessly with the Google Cloud AI platform and other tools like Data Studio. The device uses Google’s Cloud Healthcare API.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 3, 2016

A lot of virtual reality game developers would be VERY happy to have a user spend that much time in their game. I feel like I could just stop writing now, that pointing at these videos is enough to make at least a few people out there [hello Google] pause and say “Huh. Tilt Brush (Google). type of one shot experiment.

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Peter Graham

APRIL 7, 2020

In 2018, Nexus Studios in collaboration with Google Spotlight Stories created the first virtual reality (VR) Google Doodle in the form of Back to the Moon. Bringing Back to the Moon into AR means the Google Doodle has now starred across most formats, VR, 360-degree video and 2D.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

this one about Holoride and this about Lynx-R1 ), but many will come in the following days! After I will be back in Italy, on the 20th, I will also be a speaker at Virtual Reality Day , the 24h-conference about VR held by Bob Fine. You can read some of my hands-on articles on my blog (e.g. Top news of the week.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Generally, “the cloud” refers to remote servers that do work off of a device. According to NVIDIA , “CloudXR lets you leverage NVIDIA RTX-powered servers with GPU virtualization software to stream stunning augmented and virtual reality experiences from any OpenVR application. But, what is the cloud anyway?

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2021

The sentence, as highlighted by Road To VR, may be a reference that it will be an enterprise headset. HTC loves playing with the words, so “get down to business” can be a reference to the fact that it is a “business headset”. Is Google collecting the pieces for an XR headset? Not much, honestly.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 6, 2020

Mixing these two kinds of lenses and having the screen being not a traditional one, but a special laser-emitting screen , the result is the one of a virtual reality headset that is very thin, light, and comfortable. And the speed gain is impressive : a full-resolution reference scene that would take 140.6 milliseconds!

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The 3D maps of the terrain below you are very accurate, and people can so see in VR a realistic view of the cities from the above, and this is breathtaking scenery in virtual reality. They have created this reference design of a smart-glass that is very lightweight and fashionable. Of course, no. News worth a mention.

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ARVR

MARCH 16, 2023

Paraphrasing, he said that advertising on Facebook is like advertising at a party… while advertising on Google is like advertising at a store. Google has natural advantages with both. But Google isn’t alone… a handful of other players enjoy high user intent. Ready’s reference to computer vision is a key element.

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AllThingsVR

MAY 19, 2016

Yes, Google is Making its Own Daydream VR HMD The long-rumoured new mobile VR HMD from Google was MIA at the I/O developer conference this week, but the company has at least now confirmed it’s coming. Google’s VP of Virtual Reality, Clay Bavor, confirmed as much towards the end of the ‘VR at Google’ talk on the conference’s second day.

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