The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

The main one regards the 4 devices we were waiting for this year , which in our opinion should have changed everything: Quest 3, Apple Vision Pro, Google-Samsung Headset, and PSVR 2. The Unity Beta to develop for the Vision Pro is still not available, so many devs like me can’t even play with the emulator.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 22, 2023

As companies search for more immersive ways of connecting with their clients in a digital world, AR represents one of the most accessible forms of extended reality. With this technology, we can all create and enjoy more immersive experiences. Additionally, beginners can reference the guides to launch their immersive environments.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2019

Instead, it is not for people wanting: An affordable device ( Rift S is much better in this sense); A portable device ( Oculus Quest or Vive Focus Plus are the way to go); A super-big screen resolution ( Varjo VR-1 or HP Reverb are better in this sense); An easy-to-use headset (again, Rift S or WMR devices like the Samsung Odyssey are better).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

My impression is that in the best case, this Deca is the new Pimax, a company with great ambitions, a good spirit, but no idea on how to execute, and this will lead to delays, confusion in the logistics, higher prices than expected, etc… And this is just the best case. Sony has answered this question in the weekend.

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ARVR

AUGUST 28, 2020

Startups like Osso VR, make it possible to train doctors on highly realistic, immersive VR platforms with hand based interactions. How to use subtle AR filters to survive your Zoom meetings? If you want to get started with some VR programming the best place to start would be to get familiar with a gaming engine like Unity.

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VRScout

APRIL 29, 2019

Her first VR creation, Cardboard City , earned an award at the Samsung Gear Indie Milk VR contest in 2016. While searching her imagination for ideas, all Benzing could tap into was how people in the Digital Age tend to habitually walk around with smartphones and tablet computers. “ We’re working with Unity on this project.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

If Apple successfully leverages its product ecosystem alongside its new MR headset, the firm could be in a unique position to offer an immersive device with a launch-ready lineup of compatible and familiar software and hardware – that users may already own – that could push usability and adoption rates. XR Comes to iOS!

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

I mean, all UE developers, we Unity developers felt like being in a party where everyone is making out and you’re just there sipping a coke. Valve is also releasing all the sources of the maps of the game as references for the devs to understand how to create their levels. Samsung terminates its XR services.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). Some of the headsets you will be able to try at the FBEC event (Image by VRTUOLUO) How can people attend it and at what cost?

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2016

Apelab has developed a series of a Spatial Story platform on top of Unity in order to handle this type of gaze-triggered, interactive narrative. Emilie says that in some Unity scenes that there are over 150 different triggers and both subtle local agency flavorings of control, but also decisions that send you off into different scenes.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The hands tracking is already available inside the Oculus SDK and Oculus has also released a demo that helps people in understanding how to use it. Then, you can create MR applications, and so code in Unity and at the same time see the preview of your 3D game in 3D in front of you. Unity releases the XR Interaction Toolkit.

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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. But it is for sure a feature that will enable not only more immersive social VR interactions (which I guess are the main goal for Meta), but also new kinds of VR experiences. (Image leaked from Meta firmware).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

After having tried the headset for some days, having written what it is and what are its features, the comparison between it and the Vive Focus Plus , having taught people how to start developing with it , I think tha t I’m ready to let you know my impressions on the first 6 DOF standalone headset by Facebook. Left side of the device.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

More info (Sam Altman returns as CEO of OpenAI) More info (The Q* algorithm could be the reason why Altman was fired) News worth a mention Samsung trademarks “Samsung Glasses” Samsung has filed a trademark for “Samsung Glasses” in the UK. Thanks to Davy Demeyer for the tip!)

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

I also doubt that a startup can carry many innovations, given the high costs of R&D in immersive technologies, but I would be happy to be surprised! This gives you the dimension of what AAA studios think about immersive realities… and having talked with Ubisoft, some months ago, I can confirm that this is exactly their vision.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Alan: Hey, everyone, I'm Alan Smithson, and today we're speaking with John Martin, the CEO and co-founder of BUNDLR, an augmented reality platform company empowering training, learning, and development innovators with on-demand and mobile immersive experiences. They want immersive tools. Nobody knows how to use those damn things.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Alan: Hey, everyone, I'm Alan Smithson, and today we're speaking with John Martin, the CEO and co-founder of BUNDLR, an augmented reality platform company empowering training, learning, and development innovators with on-demand and mobile immersive experiences. They want immersive tools. Nobody knows how to use those damn things.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Alan: Hey, everyone, I'm Alan Smithson, and today we're speaking with John Martin, the CEO and co-founder of BUNDLR, an augmented reality platform company empowering training, learning, and development innovators with on-demand and mobile immersive experiences. They want immersive tools. Nobody knows how to use those damn things.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

And that means that every time you go to use Vision Pro you have to consciously think about how to best position this 353 gram anchor, around double the weight of a typical smartphone, and how to keep the cable out of the way of your left arm. Apple Vision Pro lets you stand up, yes, but it does not allow full room-scale VR.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Alon Or-bach (Samsung Electronics), Kaye Mason (Google). It’s not often you get both Oculus and Valve together days, let alone Google and Samsung, with bonus helpings of Epic Games, Owlchemy Labs, and Sensics. Finding out how to best use it will be in the interest of a lot of developers as it starts to roll out later this year.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

But if I have to look at the numbers, some kind of AR is already mainstream : yes, the smartphone doesn’t provide immersive AR and people using it maybe don’t even know that it is called AR (maybe they call it just “filters”), but it is anyway augmented reality and it is of very common use now.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

On one side, many of these games have a huge multiplayer component and acquiring Activision Blizzard, Microsoft gains a lot of expertise in how to manage virtual worlds that host many thousands (if not millions) of players at the same time. Samsung Exynos 2200 introduces ray tracing on mobile. Thanks Marco Giammetti for the tip).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 8, 2018

I’m very interested in this device, that’s why I dedicated various articles to it, like the tutorial on how to get started with Go on Unity , how to stream the headset content to an external screen and my comparison with the Vive Focus. I found the UI very neat and I immediately learned how to use it.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

We are at the same level of Vive Focus or Vive Pro… probably the display is the same made by Samsung. This is the same chip of the Samsung S8 and it is not the latest available for VR: Qualcomm has already released the 845 VR reference design. But at this point your hand is not tracked at all… so how to do that?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

So that way, I guess I met some of the teams that I work with now and we’re looking at how to solve all these problems and to bring it to audiences around the world. So we did 18 live immersive concerts over four days. was about Sleep No More and how it’s everything that VR should be. Alan: Let’s unpack that.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

So that way, I guess I met some of the teams that I work with now and we’re looking at how to solve all these problems and to bring it to audiences around the world. So we did 18 live immersive concerts over four days. was about Sleep No More and how it’s everything that VR should be. Alan: Let’s unpack that.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

So that way, I guess I met some of the teams that I work with now and we're looking at how to solve all these problems and to bring it to audiences around the world. And one of the problems that a lot of VR experiences have is how do you reach audiences around the world with live performance, and also how do you reach a large scale audience?

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 20, 2021

This is typical of every big corporate, that has many marketers that think about how to propose something in the best way possible. Do you remember the leaked letter written by Zuckerberg when he wanted to acquire Unity? Facebook always speaks with a very positive attitude (Image by Facebook). Even if another company (e.g.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

VeeR acquires, produces, and distributes best-in-class immersive stories and light-weight interactive experiences. Eddie is also the founder and director of Sandbox Immersive Festival, China’s first VR/immersive media festival which the well acclaimed first edition was held in June in the city of Qingdao. web, and mobile.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

I mean, we have not even agreed if it is “the” metaverse or “a” metaverse (I believe in the former, btw)… how can we produce and how can we bring to success something that we don’t even know what it is? No one has an idea on how to build it. This meme says it all.

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