The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Top news of the week. Image by Khronos Group). Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. Header image by Khronos Group). OpenXR is now ready for prime time. More info.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 29, 2023

It added that onboarding , immersive developer support groups, and software developer kits (SDKs) would also boost XR services. Numerous gaming engines, including Unity Technologies and Epic Games , have become a mainstay for developing real-time 3D (RT3D) content. Many immersive education applications now exist on the market.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

At the same time, hardware hackers have built their own versions of the AR headset, with new prototypes appearing in Tokyo and New York. But the most surprising developments come from North Carolina, where a 19-year-old AR enthusiast has built multiple North Star headsets and several new demos.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 19, 2017

In this solution for multi-user interactions, a group can share the same augmented environment and interact in the same animated story through a third-person POV. Based in Prague, the Czech Republic, the group brings to SIGGRAPH 2017 their new Digital Playgroundz augmented reality platform for large-scale applications.

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In 1980 New York, three young men faced this mind-blowing reality. Just like that, they were national news and local celebrities, even scoring a cameo in Madonna's 1985 movie Desperately Seeking Susan. Then, a third comes out of the woodwork.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 6, 2017

FIVARS is a presentation of VRTO – Toronto’s virtual reality meetup group and think tank. FIVARS is the first Canadian festival of its kind featuring many world premieres and in our preview screenings and events, audience responses are consistently full of contemplation, surprise, delight, controversy and wonder.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The educational testimony of this mini-doc features speeches from New York politicians, Senator Zellnor Myrie and Assemblywoman Diana C. Protests were taking place in many parts of New York City on Juneteenth but as a Brooklyn native, I wanted to broadcast the voices in my community.”

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Prior to Accenture, Rori was Global Head of Digital Strategy and executive vice president at Havas Media Group, where she led and managed strategic planning worldwide, with a focus on digitally-integrated marketing communications and innovation. There’s a lot of groups. Rori: Yeah, absolutely.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Prior to Accenture, Rori was Global Head of Digital Strategy and executive vice president at Havas Media Group, where she led and managed strategic planning worldwide, with a focus on digitally-integrated marketing communications and innovation. There’s a lot of groups. Rori: Yeah, absolutely.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The New York Times distributes more than 1 million Google Cardboard phone VR viewers to subscribers with the launch of The Displaced , a 360-degree video project focusing on children driven from their homes by war. In fact, developers using Unity and SteamVR start effectively standardizing this mixed reality capture method.

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ARPost

AUGUST 19, 2019

Tripp Derrick Barnes is a New York City-based multi-media artist. Most of his available works are paintings, but in the last few years, he’s found a new favorite medium: VR experiences. Barnes manages the challenges of the new medium by working with a coder who helps him handle the technical aspects. “I

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Unity renderer implementation of foveated rendering, on the other hand is much rougher, and in multiple Unity apps I saw very obvious and harsh artifacts, particularly on text. Given this only happens in Unity Full Space apps, I suspect this can be solved in future software.

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VRScout

MARCH 23, 2017

Bye will be delivering a keynote at SVVR, as will Nonny de la Peña, CEO of Emblematic Group, Tony Parisi, Head of VR and AR at Unity Technologies, and Rikard Steiber, SVP of VR at HTC. Unlike many trade shows, SVVR emphasizes building a space where attendees actually have time and space to try out demos and engage with each other.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

He's shared his knowledge and spoken about some of the most innovative uses of AR at several leading conferences, including South by Southwest, Augmented World Expo, Unity Vision Summit, and XRDC. And it's kind of funny, because a few years ago these teams were basically Unity developers. Scott, welcome to the show.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

He’s shared his knowledge and spoken about some of the most innovative uses of AR at several leading conferences, including South by Southwest, Augmented World Expo, Unity Vision Summit, and XRDC. And it’s kind of funny, because a few years ago these teams were basically Unity developers. Scott, welcome to the show.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

He’s shared his knowledge and spoken about some of the most innovative uses of AR at several leading conferences, including South by Southwest, Augmented World Expo, Unity Vision Summit, and XRDC. And it’s kind of funny, because a few years ago these teams were basically Unity developers. Scott, welcome to the show.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 24, 2020

Gabo Arora — who’s directed stuff for UN and The New York Times — directed the DDI piece. We just worked with Unity, building augmented reality projects. Did this big group call, because they really wanted to do VR. Because in New York, legally you have to. We work with amazing directors.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 24, 2020

Gabo Arora — who’s directed stuff for UN and The New York Times — directed the DDI piece. We just worked with Unity, building augmented reality projects. Did this big group call, because they really wanted to do VR. Because in New York, legally you have to. We work with amazing directors.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 24, 2020

Gabo Arora -- who's directed stuff for UN and The New York Times -- directed the DDI piece. We just worked with Unity, building augmented reality projects. Did this big group call, because they really wanted to do VR. Because in New York, legally you have to. We work with amazing directors. Cortney: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 10, 2019

We think that actually long term, even shorter, it just makes a lot more sense that if I own this iconic building in the middle of New York, that actually I should have a say over what content gets served on it. Other companies are creating AR twins of the world and then selling those for a tenth or an eighth or whatever.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 10, 2019

We think that actually long term, even shorter, it just makes a lot more sense that if I own this iconic building in the middle of New York, that actually I should have a say over what content gets served on it. Other companies are creating AR twins of the world and then selling those for a tenth or an eighth or whatever.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 10, 2019

We think that actually long term, even shorter, it just makes a lot more sense that if I own this iconic building in the middle of New York, that actually I should have a say over what content gets served on it. Other companies are creating AR twins of the world and then selling those for a tenth or an eighth or whatever.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Michael: And this is why I’ve been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building — there’s VRTK for Unity… there’s just all these tools. Unity is always my top one. As someone who grew up as a game designer and player, I definitely side towards Unity.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Michael: And this is why I’ve been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building — there’s VRTK for Unity… there’s just all these tools. Unity is always my top one. As someone who grew up as a game designer and player, I definitely side towards Unity.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Michael: And this is why I've been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building -- there's VRTK for Unity. Unity is always my top one. As someone who grew up as a game designer and player, I definitely side towards Unity. Literally from Sydney, Australia to New York, L.A.,

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

But if you’re trying to look and have a group conversation with five different people about a 3D object, maybe you want to have that in AR — especially if you’re co-located with each other in the same room — so you can have all the affordances of body language and communication that we all have. But once the WebXR 2.0

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

But if you're trying to look and have a group conversation with five different people about a 3D object, maybe you want to have that in AR -- especially if you're co-located with each other in the same room -- so you can have all the affordances of body language and communication that we all have. Alan: Yeah, it falls apart.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

But if you’re trying to look and have a group conversation with five different people about a 3D object, maybe you want to have that in AR — especially if you’re co-located with each other in the same room — so you can have all the affordances of body language and communication that we all have. But once the WebXR 2.0

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

This week’s episode goes all the way back to last year’s Curiosity Camp, when Alan shared a ride with Unity Lab’s Timoni West and Vapor IO CEO Cole Crawford, recording a podcast along the way. Timoni: Director of XR in Unity Labs. Alan: Director of XR at Unity Labs, and Cole Crawford, CEO of Vapor IO. Cole: Yeah, yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

This week’s episode goes all the way back to last year’s Curiosity Camp, when Alan shared a ride with Unity Lab’s Timoni West and Vapor IO CEO Cole Crawford, recording a podcast along the way. Timoni: Director of XR in Unity Labs. Alan: Director of XR at Unity Labs, and Cole Crawford, CEO of Vapor IO. Cole: Yeah, yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

This week’s episode goes all the way back to last year’s Curiosity Camp, when Alan shared a ride with Unity Lab’s Timoni West and Vapor IO CEO Cole Crawford, recording a podcast along the way. Timoni: Director of XR in Unity Labs. Alan: Director of XR at Unity Labs, and Cole Crawford, CEO of Vapor IO. Cole: Yeah, yeah.

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