The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

I’m trying to keep expectations in place not because I want to be negative about VR (I’m a strong believer in the tech), but because in the past I’ve already seen that trend of setting unrealistic expectations and then writing “VR is dead” the day after when the market of course haven’t reached those results.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

It can be used as an overall term to describe other technologies similar to, but different from, an actual Virtual Reality experience. It includes Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR) technologies. VR is the most widely known of these technologies. Trending AR VR Articles: 1.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 3, 2023

As enterprise and consumer expectations evolve, as should the surrounding technology. Enterprise technology solutions are changing massively year-on-year to solve prevailing and newfound challenges. In the report, the WEF found that emerging technologies are most likely to affect workplace change. It will change everything.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2023

As the Chrome team explains “WebGPU is a new API for the web, which exposes modern hardware capabilities and allows rendering and computation operations on a GPU, similar to Direct3D 12, Metal, and Vulkan. It has developed a proprietar y High-Performance Quantum Dot (HPQD) technology to make very small, very bright, very efficient RGB pixels.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

At the event, Jon Li said that AI has “really infiltrated everybody’s mindshare,” explaining that various enterprise end-users, from healthcare to security, can benefit from the emerging technology. Xreal and AI Despite a lack of AI on the Xreal portfolio, the firm has previously dealt with the emerging technology.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 15, 2023

Watch now on YouTube: [link] pic.twitter.com/l6KBAoxgCz — VITURE (@getviture) February 8, 2023 This week, Co-Founder and Chief Executive of VITURE David Jiang sat down with XR Today to discuss the new device and how his firm reacted to current marketplace trends to debut an effective XR consumer device. First is the micro OLED.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Meanwhile, the immersive industry is coming closer to a potential paradigm shift in 2024, as big technology brands plan to make a mark on the emerging sector. XR Today recently marked this period with an XR Trends series, which brought together some of the best minds in the industry to share AR/VR/MR insights.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2021

I’m super-late with this newsletter because we of New Technology Walkers are working on some cool stuff for our game HitMotion: Reloaded! The following paragraph is directly quoted from one of these job descriptions: Our team is building the software components that control and manage the hardware on our Augmented Reality (AR) products.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 6, 2021

There are three leading technologies for linking digital content to objects in the real world: Location-bound AR? —?An At the moment, this is the most advanced technology. Integration with Unity and Unreal Engine. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Integration with Unity and Unreal Engine. in the early 2010s. Vuforia ?—?This

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

HTC is teasing the launch of a new hardware. More info (HTC is going to launch a new hardware) More info (Second tweet from HTC) More info (Third tweet from HTC). Chinese VR manufacturer Pico has just got a big round of financing of 242M yuan (circa 37 million dollars) to continue developing its hardware and software platforms.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

And it was all surprisingly lifelike for something rendered in the Unreal Engine, led by a motion captured performance of Marshmello behind the turntable. Such an experience is already possible with today’s VR technology. You can watch it below. You aren’t looking through a window: you’re there.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Last week, Augmented World Expo EU (AWE) 2023 hosted its yearly event highlighting recent innovations in enterprise-grade AR/VR/MR solutions, as well as related emerging technology such as genAI, digital twins, and geospatial tech. Time and time again, we have seen how important businesses have been to scale that technology adoption.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

PanguVR works with two amazing technologies like virtual reality and artificial intelligence , so I was really interested in talking with him. The aim in developing the PanguVR engine was to equip content producers to create immersive and interactive content, in UE4 (Unreal VR Engine), automatically meaning without any learning curve.

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Road to VR

JULY 13, 2016

Unity Technologies has announced a $181 million Series C investment led by DFJ Growth, a venture capital firm with the likes of Twitter and Tesla in their portfolio, in order to continue their dominance of the game engine market. See Also: Unreal Engine and Unity to get NVIDIA’s New VR Rendering Tech. billion, thanks to over 5.5

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

One-year price performance for AAPL as of 2/3/20 Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Google has incorporated AR/VR technology in many of its offerings, including adding a VR mode in YouTube and an AR mode in Google Map, and has made sure that its Google Pixel smartphones are all AR-compatible and include Google Lens functionality.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

That trend disappeared for the better part of 2010s, until Nvidia came out with VR Funhouse. Regardless of which technology vendor you support, no one can argue that VR Funhouse is not one of the best experiences on Steam VR and HTC’s Vive headset. However, we were wrong.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

And the price of the wireless add-on is even more suspicious: speaking with a hardware manufacturer, they told me that ONLY THE ANTENNAS of a Wi-Gig connection for VR streaming (like the one of the Vive Pro) costs around $100… so how can the whole wireless streaming device cost just $50?? The trend of virtual concerts is not stopping.

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ARPost

JUNE 1, 2023

AWE USA 2023 saw a blossoming industry defending itself from negative press and a perceived rivalry with other emerging technologies. Stephenson then commented that the last five years or so have seen the emergence of the core technologies necessary to create the metaverse, though it still suffers from a lack of compelling content.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 23, 2023

Web3 and the Metaverse were 2022’s significant tech trends. Meanwhile, in 2023 technology like Chat GPT has taken some of the attention away from immersive content distribution and services. Many solutions providers are leveraging Web3 and Metaverse technology to provide consumer and enterprise-grade solutions going into 2023.

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Building the Metaverse

JANUARY 18, 2023

Although one feature of the holodeck — manipulating physical force fields — may remain the domain of science fiction — just about everything else is rapidly becoming technological reality (just as Star Trek foresaw so many other things, like mobile phones, voice recognition and tablet-based computers). Image from Unreal Engine 5.1

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

The promise of Augmented Reality hardware has been immense, but so have been the number of misses. Can Jio’s next hardware play be any different? Reliance Jio’s foray into mixed reality started in 2019 when they acquired majority stake in deep-tech startup Tesseract which has a few hardware products in XR space.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 19, 2023

In 2023, the Metaverse is a massively trending topic in today’s technology landscape. Alongside emerging AI and IoT technologies, Metaverse service providers are scrambling to innovate to provide enterprise and consumer solutions. What are the Core Technologies of the Metaverse? What is the Metaverse?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 1, 2023

Over the last few months, the open metaverse has seen a resurgence in media coverage and technological developments. Conversely, at the enterprise level, Lamina1, Croquet, Siemens, Unity, Meta, Ready Player Me, and others have leveraged their technologies at the grassroots level.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Scroll through time to see the graph change and provide insights into data trends. Leap Opticals lets you swipe through a number of different eyewear options, along with facial mapping technology so you can preview your new look. HoloData is a VR visualization tool that lets you experience three-axis graph data over time. Build away!”.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 23, 2023

platform at the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2023. joins Project Aurora to develop a “full hardware and software stack” for distributing XR solutions across public and private networks. NVIDIA announced on Thursday the release of its CloudXR 4.0 Additionally, CloudXR 4.0 NVIDIA’s Greg Jones on CloudXR 4.0

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

Since I was getting an audience, I started looking online how I could manage my social media channels better , and I also kept an eye on the social trends of XR, so that to understand what worked well and what not. My suggestion to them is to start first of all to learn Unity and C#, or Unreal and C++. The first SkarredGhost logo.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And so he created the hardware and wrote the software to make 360 truly a consumer product. They’ve created amazing hardware, but they failed on the delivery of the actual experience, from the hardware to the software, out to how people actually want to use it. Well, yeah, we hardware’s useless with software.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And so he created the hardware and wrote the software to make 360 truly a consumer product. They’ve created amazing hardware, but they failed on the delivery of the actual experience, from the hardware to the software, out to how people actually want to use it. Well, yeah, we hardware’s useless with software.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And so he created the hardware and wrote the software to make 360 truly a consumer product. They've created amazing hardware, but they failed on the delivery of the actual experience, from the hardware to the software, out to how people actually want to use it. Well, yeah, we hardware's useless with software.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Paul has been a software developer and technology consultant since 1997 – since before the interwebs! At Magic Leap, Paul recognized the lack of accessible tools for non-game developers that was hindering widespread adoption of immersive and spatial computing technologies. To learn more about Torch, you can visit torch.app.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Paul has been a software developer and technology consultant since 1997 – since before the interwebs! At Magic Leap, Paul recognized the lack of accessible tools for non-game developers that was hindering widespread adoption of immersive and spatial computing technologies. To learn more about Torch, you can visit torch.app.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Paul has been a software developer and technology consultant since 1997 - since before the interwebs! At Magic Leap, Paul recognized the lack of accessible tools for non-game developers that was hindering widespread adoption of immersive and spatial computing technologies. To learn more about Torch, you can visit torch.app. Paul: Yeah.

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VRScout

APRIL 21, 2021

It’s about the technology that connects film with XR, enhancing partnerships and fostering business opportunities,” explained Esmoil, adding, “There will be conference sessions about distribution, filming, and virtual production, also covering the creation of synthetic content, game engines, and even digital humans.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

The idea of Leap Motion is going against the current trend of augmented reality glasses, that is mostly based on expensive devices that have closed ecosystems (e.g. HoloLens or Magic Leap One ), but to create a headset that is: Affordable; Completely open, both from a software and hardware standpoint.

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Building the Metaverse

APRIL 12, 2022

In this article, I will cover: What composability means, with examples of composability in nature, art and technology Why we are are the forefront of a new era of the internet in which all aspects of the metaverse value-chain ?—?from Underneath it all is something deeper than the technology: a social and cultural evolution.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

I had the pleasure to sit down with Conor Russomanno, the CEO , and talk with him about the new product they’re building, dubbed Galea, that is being marketed not only as a disruptive innovation for BCIs but also as a product that has been specifically designed to work with XR technologies. On what hardware will it work?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

And you really go deep into the technology of it, the listeners of this podcast are more maybe in the business, maybe they’re not really into VR. So I feel like one of the big trends that’s happening right now is that with spatial computing, it’s becoming a lot more natural and lot more intuitive.

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