The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

Niantic has finally launched its VPS (Visual Positioning System), a solution that will allow developers to create AR applications that are persistent and shared in various locations in the world with centimeter accuracy. VPS is a technology that implements the AR Cloud and creates a bridge between the real and the virtual world.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 23, 2019

But it is very interesting , because it will touch a lot of hot topics, like: Data visualization in XR; Magic Leap; Being a woman working in XR; How is XR in Asia. Today the interview will cover the first two topics: dataviz in VR thanks to BadVR solution and Magic Leap. and many other interesting stuff!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

As it is tradition of this little blog, I will write a full round-up of the Oculus Connect 5 , the very important Oculus event that has been held in San Jose on 26th and 27th of September (2018). Oculus Quest. Oculus Quest has been the rockstar of this event. Specifications. There is also a 3.5mm jack for earphones.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Business leaders gathered at this year’s Seattle based IMMERSE Summit ( previously Sea VR ) to explore how VR/ AR and Mixed Reality is transforming manufacturing, design, education, health and medicine and much more. Road to VR: Last year, this event was called SEA VR and it was focused mainly on virtual reality.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

See Also: Redefining the Future of Location-Based Entertainment With HTC VIVE Focus 3 and The Park Playground “Virtual reality is often perceived as being limited to the world of gaming. That’s because VR is capable of creating such immersive, interactive, and social experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 7, 2023

When we VR people talked in the communities, our common statement was “We’re doing everything we can to survive” Now the situation is totally different, and many companies can live by just doing immersive realities project s. Think about what happened to VR: we had the Oculus devkits, which interested only us developers.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Image by Oculus). Oculus Quest may have sold only 400,000 units. The latest report on virtual reality by SuperData doesn’t offer us great news on the VR landscape. The Quest is selling well, and Oculus itself didn’t expect billions of sales. Oculus starts its Halloween sale. Top news of the week.

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Road to VR

JUNE 23, 2016

The timing for this event comes on the heels of an announcement that ILMxLab have been collaborating with Magic Leap , a company shrouded in secrecy that is promising revolutionary augmented reality technology. Where: VRChat to join live with Oculus Rift, HTC Vive or monitor. billion in funding. billion in funding.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

The NBA on TNT VR app is intended to change the viewing experience from, “passive to immersive’” said David Aufhauser, Managing Director, Strategy and Product for Intel Sports, during an interview with VRScout. The NBA seems to be making a concerted effort to embrace immersive viewing. It’s different,” he said.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2023

So here you are a collection of the best news in immersive realities from the CES 2023, with many links to go deeper! Everyone I spoke with talked about an interesting event to attend for us XR people, and this shows that immersive realities are now in a quite mature status… to be niche technologies. Of course not.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

Google is also hiring high-profile people for it, like Bernard Kress, principal optical architect on Microsoft’s HoloLens team, and Paul Greco, the previous CTO of Magic Leap. At this moment, 300 people are secretly working on it, under the supervision of Clay Bavor, but many more will be hired in the upcoming months.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

They should guarantee better tracking both for the headset and the controllers; The controllers are smaller and seem a mix between the Oculus Touch and the WMR 1 controllers. I don’t see this device stealing the scene from Oculus, since Oculus is cheaper, but I’m quite sure this new headset will be able to grab a good market share.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It’s been called the AR Cloud by many, the Magicverse by Magic Leap, the Mirrorworld by Wired, the Cyberverse by Huawei, Planet-scale AR by Niantic and Spatial Computing by academics. An Apple AR headset has been a mainstay of the rumor mills for several years, and we expect Facebook to be creating an AR Oculus device.

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Tech Trends VR

JANUARY 1, 2019

That said, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that in the next few years we’re going to see more people becoming “Virtual Reality Refugees.” By which I mean that immersive technologies will provide increasingly attractive alternatives for those wishing to escape the dreamlike madness that has overtaken our real world.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 29, 2018

For sure this is the case of Rob Farquarson-Cole , that you surely know because he comments a lot on this and other VR blogs under the nickname “R FC” He’s not only a VR enthusiast but a professional Industrial Designer that works on “Exploration of Immersive Computing” at Proof Research and Development in London, UK.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Researchers at the National University of Singapore first showed us how face electrodes can simulate food in virtual reality– and now they are bringing wind and heat to your virtual world. The notoriously secretive mixed reality company Magic Leap has acquired parts of Dacuda , a B2B computer vision software company.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

I think that Gartner was not referring to the consumer market, where VR is still unripe (even if devices like the Oculus Quest and the Vive Focus Plus are helping it in becoming more widespread), but at the B2B one, where VR is already helping companies to spare money (e.g. thanks to a better training). Considering that companies like 6d.ai

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

I just know about Neal Stephenson because he was “Chief Futurist Wizard” at Magic Leap and that the company with him as a Wizard has gone close to bankruptcy (probably he made the wrong spell as a wizard). One common misconception of the metaverse is that it is a fully virtual world. The fluffverse.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2022

Another interesting thing is that Pico is not copying Meta or Magic Leap in proposing inside-out tracked controllers : these ones still have a tracking ring. Some people switched to other virtual worlds like Neos. You can now try games on the Oculus Store. Some news on content. Other news.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Officially he is a VR angel investor, but he is much more than this: he is also an immersive technologies enthusiast and an influencer that can really foster healthy debates about the main questions that we all have around these technologies. The original idea of Virtualitics is to immerse yourself within the data. Magic Leap glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2022

They have already managed to attract interesting titles like Superhot, Walkabout Minigolf, Demeo, Sam&Max: This Time It’s Virtual, and many others. It lacks all Oculus Exclusive titles like Beat Saber and Population One, but its store is becoming anyway interesting. 10 Years of Oculus. So the Quest is still a gaming console.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

Microsoft will for sure keep pushing for immersive realities and “the metaverse”, but in a completely different way. I truly hope they can create a serious blockchain that can be the foundation for ownership and payment systems in virtual worlds. Mastercard now lets you buy NFTs without requiring you to own cryptocurrencies.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

This is a cool video of me unboxing the Nreal Light Devkit: I have to say that I loved unboxing this headset : while Nreal has not reached the mastery of packaging that Oculus has, it has done a great job: the external box is in a very elegant silver color, and the case of the glasses is small and beautiful.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2018

There had been some sexual harassment scandals in VR/AR (UploadVR, Magic Leap), and, as more women are going into developing for VR, one of them drew our attention to the fact that there were many oversexualized female models on 3D marketplaces. What do you think of 3D models creation inside VR, like Google Blocks or Oculus Medium?

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Most people know Xu due to his dispute with American virtual reality company Magic Leap. In June 2019, Magic Leap accused Xu of stealing AR glasses technology when he was an engineer working at the firm. However, in June 2020, a U.S. federal court threw out the case as #MagicLeap failed to make any viable claim.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

It’s really full immersion; a bit like we have seen in the Ready Player One movie. Oculus Quest is coming out. The Oculus Quest is a great device that is coming — very polished by Oculus, it will be quite cheap, only $400. You can have haptic feedback. So you can [feel] hot, cold.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

It's really full immersion; a bit like we have seen in the Ready Player One movie. I can see one in military training, where you're in a virtual world, you're in a hostile environment, and maybe something explodes behind you -- a piece of shrapnel hits you -- and maybe it vibrates. Oculus Quest is coming out.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

It’s really full immersion; a bit like we have seen in the Ready Player One movie. Oculus Quest is coming out. The Oculus Quest is a great device that is coming — very polished by Oculus, it will be quite cheap, only $400. You can have haptic feedback. So you can [feel] hot, cold.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

All these different people who are making these 3D objects in these CAD programs, there’s just something that you can make design decisions lot faster when you’re actually immersed into this space. But to be also embedded into a context that is mimicking what the real world situation is. Alan: Oh, I can’t wait.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

They want you to look at the television or the PC monitor in front of you and completely immerse you. AR, you can have your friends and family around and share an experience that’s blended with your world. GB: Magic Leap is a big presence in the AR discussion. VR is inherently isolating. Beliaeff: It’s going very fast.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

All these different people who are making these 3D objects in these CAD programs, there's just something that you can make design decisions lot faster when you're actually immersed into this space. But to be also embedded into a context that is mimicking what the real world situation is. Kent: Yeah, there's all sorts of thresholds.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 16, 2019

You can do it with an Oculus Quest. You’ve got great stores with the Oculus Store, and Steam, and VIVE. It’s really hard to tell them, “hey, think about developing AR, MR, and immersive theater. I do think with the pending release of the Oculus Quest, I think it’s going to change a lot of things.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 16, 2019

You can do it with an Oculus Quest. You’ve got great stores with the Oculus Store, and Steam, and VIVE. It’s really hard to tell them, “hey, think about developing AR, MR, and immersive theater. I do think with the pending release of the Oculus Quest, I think it’s going to change a lot of things.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 16, 2019

You can do it with an Oculus Quest. You've got great stores with the Oculus Store, and Steam, and VIVE. It's really hard to tell them, "hey, think about developing AR, MR, and immersive theater. I do think with the pending release of the Oculus Quest, I think it's going to change a lot of things. Security training issues.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

All these different people who are making these 3D objects in these CAD programs, there’s just something that you can make design decisions lot faster when you’re actually immersed into this space. But to be also embedded into a context that is mimicking what the real world situation is. Alan: Oh, I can’t wait.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 31, 2019

Alan: So does it work with the Oculus Go? We actually have a pretty good relationship with the folks at Oculus. They are fully immersed in the content that you want to deliver to them. Their 17,000 Oculus Go activations across every single Walmart across America. Being able to store ourselves in the virtual world.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 31, 2019

Alan: So does it work with the Oculus Go? We actually have a pretty good relationship with the folks at Oculus. They are fully immersed in the content that you want to deliver to them. Their 17,000 Oculus Go activations across every single Walmart across America. Being able to store ourselves in the virtual world.

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