The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

Niantic teased it is working on a reference design for AR glasses with Qualcomm, and they are specialized for outdoor usage (so people can play Pokemon Go XR on the streets), while most of the current AR glasses are dedicated to being used indoors. AI is very good for increasing the productivity of a team. Photoshop is doing the same.

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AR Insider

MAY 27, 2021

I’ve been writing about it for over a year, and working on related products at Unity for much longer. It’s not a casual group; these folks are oriented toward action. Tony Parisi is Head of XR Ad Innovation at Unity Technologies. Four Myths About AR Advertising. by Tony Parisi. It’s not a fad — it’s here to stay. Here’s why.

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Leapmotion

MAY 7, 2016

With our latest Unity Core Assets release , we’re excited to unveil full support for the Unity 5.4 And in some cases, we’re adding features to the Core Assets to support upcoming Unity Modules. You can assign a name for your new model pair so you can refer to it at runtime. appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 28, 2023

For instance, I’m very grateful that everyone on the team has been very tolerant these days when I had some small network glitches during the group calls Take with you everything that is needed for an international trip (e.g. While still in Italy, I verified that Microsoft Teams, Unity, and Github were accessible from China.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

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. These may be upcoming features or possible features Oculus is experimenting with a selected group of beta testers.

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VRScout

MARCH 3, 2020

One widely-known mod is a game mode referred to as “battle royale.” It’s a fast-acting group of problem solvers from which the VAR industry, startups, and tech giants alike can learn a great deal. ” Players drop into an open-world environment and battle it until only one player (team) remains.

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ARVR

JULY 29, 2021

Latency, which refers to the delay in communications between a user’s movement and what they see, has to be as low as possible, to create the illusion of reality. WebXR Examples WebXR Room I recently created this simple application using the WebXR Device API developed by Mozilla on the Unity video game engine.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Qualcomm invests in reference XR devices like smartglasses or headsets, providing a “perfect blueprint” for building leading immersive experiences. The firm is also part of the Khronos Group, that champions openXR standards and practices. What’s Next?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 23, 2021

What I’ve not enjoyed is that SideQuest has removed The Unity Cube from its listing, stating that there were too many cubes there. If you like what I do, and you want to support me as well in informing the XR community, click the link here below and join my Patreon group! Audio AR allows for interesting applications.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2023

Now the result is that even if you go to Mars in VR, you can’t escape the notifications of the annoying Whatsapp Groups… More info News worth a mention (Image by Apple) Karl Guttag analyzes the Apple Vision Pro One of the most shared articles of the week has been the analysis on the Apple Vision Pro by Karl Guttag.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

I think that for a small startup that is shipping its first product, it may make a lot of sense: for a company of that size, it is better to handle a smaller group of high-paying customers than doing the opposite. Also the price is getting closer to that plan, with the device now expected to retail for $1300.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

Well, during 2018, Leap Motion has announced the North Star reference design : a cheap augmented reality connected to PC, that is able to detect your hands very well thanks to Leap Motion’s sensor. Feature comparison between ARCore, ARKit and the Unity Handheld AR SDK (Image by Unity). Leap Motion.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The startup is pretty new, in fact, and its owner group is Megadodo, another unknown company that is working on an MMO game about which is difficult to find any information. Simple WebXR” aims at bringing WebXR to Unity. It looks very interesting, and as a Unity developer, I want to experiment with it. Doug Lombardi, Valve.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

A leaked image from the Oculus team shows that the company is working to implement body tracking inside the Oculus Unity SDK. References to Apple RealityOS have been leaked. Some days ago, two developers have found references to “RealityOS” both in the Apple Store logs and in an opensource repo by Apple.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

The reveal that Apple will be using Unity to bring 3D applications and games to Vision Pro was exciting. Another core target group for this version of the device is also developers. Their partnership with Unity will get them there quickly. Apple will use Unity to bring 3D applications and games to Vision Pro.

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Road to VR

APRIL 17, 2024

Facilitated by the standards body Khronos Group, OpenXR is a royalty-free standard that aims to standardize the development of VR and AR applications, making for a more interoperable ecosystem. Image courtesy Khronos Group Following the OpenXR 1.0 release in 2019, this week’s release of OpenXR 1.1 “OpenXR 1.1

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VRScout

MAY 3, 2017

Demonstrated live on-stage during the Unity Vision Summit, you can already try it out for yourself in the Unity 2017 beta. followups to their $30K reference camera blueprints that they released a bit over a year ago. THE STREAMING SERVICES BATTLE IT OUT IN VR: CRACKLE ANNOUNCES THEIR PLANS.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Google Daydream VR platform is set to launch in fall 2016, but only a select group of developers will be able to publish Daydream apps. This is the reference platform for Google’s Daydream VR platform. For more information on Google Daydream and Unity Support, read our previous article.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

In 2015 my girlfriend came with a Cardboard and with no experience with Unity I created my first 360 photo which I’ve shown to my manger. Participants used a wayfinding app on two VR headsets (Oculus Go with a hand controller and Samsung Gear VR), as well as on a smartphone which was the reference condition. No headphones were used.

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AIXR

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Oculus has changed the name of their devices to Meta, much documentation and applications are still referred to as Oculus. If you are a developer however you can now jump straight into a game engine like Unity and build / demo apps directly from your headset. A quick note before we continue. How do you enable developer mode? .

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Road to VR

APRIL 6, 2018

VRChat has the most advanced friend-finding features of any Social VR experience, but they also have the user experience of traversing between virtual worlds with a group of people by dropping in-world portals. SEE ALSO 'VRChat' Virality Runs Its Course After 3M Installs, Healthy Concurrent Usership Remains.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 21, 2017

It handles enabling and disabling objects as needed, as well as sending parameter changes to the group via events. In the Unity scene hierarchy, each sculpture object needs to have a collection of components. In the Unity scene hierarchy, each sculpture object needs to have a collection of components.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

If you make a custom device for VR only, you can design it from day zero to be optimal to do only VR : this means that even if the Go is based an old VR 821 reference design, it has more power than a Gear VR mounting an S7 phone (and dissipates better the heat); The Oculus Go headset and controller (Image by Road To VR).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 29, 2020

For now, you can refer to the official Quick Start Guide. This was our little group before the event started. Why not a Unity exporter? Unity WebXR exporter is a powerful tool for all us Unity developers (Image by Mozilla). I hope for both: number 1 would make developers happy, number 2 would make creatives happy.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

All sort of innovations were happening in that studio, so my group of friends pulled me there and I got a job in the camera department. We can see them as running at different layers, divided by their sector of reference. Within a year, I was already shooting scenes with a running camera.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Following this announcement, we partnered with Unity and Audi and for a US roadshow that brought us from Los Angeles to San Francisco. A while ago you announced a partnership with Pico and Unity. We’ve offered a number of game studios an exclusive sneak peek of the original title that we’re currently working on with Schell Games.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

In May of 2017, Unity CEO John Riccitiello forecasted two things : That harsh times with people saying that VR is a fad would have come. I hope that we will start seeing some of the results of the work of the Khronos group. OpenXR standardization project (Image by Khronos group). It’s 2019. Standardization.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

I had a few friendly chats with him since he’s a nice guy… and quite soon I started Italianizing his name into “Cirillo” : this is how I will refer to him for the remainder of this article. I think that this could become a powerful thing in our mixed reality future that someone references with the M-word.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

However, for a growing group of people, the current wave of XR is humanity’s best (and last) chance of a true digital utopia—an extra life we didn’t know we had. In addition to this, work is being created by different artists and disciplines, from “classic” (flat) filmmakers to game developers, groups of hackers, and digital artists.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

In the end, I still believe in the old predictions of Unity CEO John Riccitiello: Look at this graph shown by Mr. Riccitiello in 2017: the purple line is the one of the analysts, while the white one is the one forecasted by him. And it has an associated reference design that will define the next-gen XR headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Last Monday, there has been some hype in some of the XR groups I’m in for the Kura glasses. According to MacRumors, internal builds of the iOS 13 operating systems already contain references to AR functionalities and AR glasses. It is intriguing that there are various references to and AR device dubbed “ Garta ”. Image by Kura).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

While we wait for the OpenXR initiative by Khronos Group (working together with some of the biggest companies in the VR scene) to be released, we developers have very few options to develop multi-platform VR applications on PC. But that’s just how Unity works, and this post isn’t about Unity, so let’s move on. Ok, and now what?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

Daniel: So, Happy Finish -- or HF, as we're now more commonly referring to ourselves -- we're really in the space of creating content and experiences for grand clients, right from the very beginning. And alongside Hill+Knowlton Strategies, one of the WPP [Group] PR and strategy agencies. You've done all sorts of things. I'm a cyclist.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

Daniel: So, Happy Finish -- or HF, as we're now more commonly referring to ourselves -- we're really in the space of creating content and experiences for grand clients, right from the very beginning. And alongside Hill+Knowlton Strategies, one of the WPP [Group] PR and strategy agencies. You've done all sorts of things. I'm a cyclist.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 9, 2023

Luckily, a few days ago, I found a post on Upload VR telling that the team behind the Nova UI plugin for Unity created a demo in this sense to promote its package on the Unity Asset Store. I’ll leave you the tweet here below as a reference. It’s the longest I’ve ever worked on a single effort.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

From time to time, I like to look at the adoption graph of XR shown by John Riccitiello (the CEO of Unity) in 2017 , where you can see that the real acceleration of immersive technologies should start around 2022-2023. The Qualcomm XR2 reference design has been a great innovation for XR in general (Image by Qualcomm).

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Leapmotion

JUNE 1, 2016

In rebuilding our Unity developer toolset from the ground up , we started by rearchitecting the interfaces that receive data from the Leap Motion device. Moving up the tech stack, we then refactored most of the mid-level Unity scripts that pair the Leap hand data with 3D models and manages those representations.

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