The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

Microsoft announces Mesh, an XR collaboration platform. Alex Kipman promised us a Microsoft Ignite conference with an amazing level of immersion , and he kept his word. But since Microsoft owns one of those studios (and using it costs around $100K/day if I remember well!), You are all fantastic! Here you are my flower for you!

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

I hope to see your there, physically or virtually . A report on Bloomberg informed us all that Magic Leap is exploring a sale of the company. You know how much I love Varjo : I think it is one of the most innovative startups in the VR landscape because they’re taking an original approach to Virtual Reality. Who knows….

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

More info Jim Ryan hints at a possible PlayStation metaverse The court documents related to the FTC vs Microsoft trial related to the acquisition of Activision contain a very interesting piece of information related to what Sony may be working on. This would be great for having a more natural interaction on Quest 3.

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Bernard Marr

AUGUST 8, 2022

But beyond it being a term for the digital, persistent, and highly immersive virtual worlds we will become used to, what it actually is – or will be – is up for debate! Huge companies like Facebook and Microsoft are throwing vast sums of money at their attempts to build, and therefore define, the metaverse. Virtual reality (V.R.)

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

There are quite a handful of platforms that allow you to develop virtual reality and augmented reality apps and content, but it is not easy to find an offline virtual reality school or academy with which to train for those interested in developing AR and VR apps. (Image courtesy RAEng Publications via Pixabay.).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

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. Microsoft Flight Simulator is adding VR support, but…. Microsoft Flight Simulator is launching on August, 18th, without support for virtual reality.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

Some reports by Business Insider and The Information talk about the current situation of Magic Leap, that seems always more complicated. Well, it is not a problem of virtual reality, but of the whole tech sector , that has seen its investments decreasing a lot in 2020. Unreal Engine 4.25 Other relevant news.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

All these pieces of hidden information have some analysts thinking that Snapchat is paving the way for a possible augmented reality device while training a prime demographic to expect their friends to sometimes wear a puppy face filter. Newly Formed Getty Images Virtual Reality Group Wants to Put You Inside Stock Photos.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

I would like to try it first, or at least hear the informed opinion of a competent journalist like Ben Lang of Road To VR. In Korea, a TV documentary has used virtual reality to make a mother meet again her daughter Nayeon , who died of blood cancer some months before. Good luck to Lynx. Other relevant news. Great post.

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VRWorld

JULY 19, 2017

The SDK supports Microsoft HoloLens and Universal Windows Platform (UWP), which will represent the default form for Windows Mixed Reality , Windows 10 Creator’s Edition applications. The goal is to bring the clothing to market in time for Mixed Reality devices, all of which are coming in the fourth quarter of 2017.

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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. Facebook and Microsoft publish two interesting research projects for VR. First of all, no one has ever heard about Deca before. News from partners (and friends).

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HaptX

MARCH 6, 2018

When one finds out that she worked at Microsoft in the early days of Encarta Encyclopedia and World Atlas , it starts to make sense. She created an internal team at Microsoft to manage these complex issues across the entire company. “All Her time working at Microsoft led her to the IGDA.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

So we were very early adopters of virtual reality already in that period. We’ve had quite a few ups and downs in virtual reality. And virtual reality/augmented reality proves to be very efficient there. And by ’99, the hardware was there, so you can start running this on PCs.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

So we were very early adopters of virtual reality already in that period. We’ve had quite a few ups and downs in virtual reality. And virtual reality/augmented reality proves to be very efficient there. And by ’99, the hardware was there, so you can start running this on PCs.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

HTC has finally unveiled some information on the Vive Cosmos. This is very intriguing: Oculus has just finished announcing its full line of first generation Virtual Reality headsets (Go, Rift, Quest) and now it has to start talking about its next generation. Top news of the week. Image by Upload VR).

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

So we were very early adopters of virtual reality already in that period. We've had quite a few ups and downs in virtual reality. '99 And virtual reality/augmented reality proves to be very efficient there. And by '99, the hardware was there, so you can start running this on PCs. We work with regions.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In his 1984 classic Neuromancer, characters entered a virtual reality world called “the matrix” (inspiration for the 1999 film of the same name by the Wachowskis). What virtual avatars, creatures, information layers or interactive components are here. “Cyberspace” was coined by SF author William Gibson.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

All the 3 major VR runtimes (Oculus, SteamVR, Microsoft) are now compatible with OpenXR , and this means that on the runtime layer on PC, now OpenXR has been fully integrated. This means that if you develop an experience using OpenXR, you can run it on Oculus, SteamVR, and Microsoft runtimes with no modification. Learn more.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

This could actually be quite beneficial for Meta, Microsoft, and Magic Leap. If you consider virtual reality over the last few years, there has been increasing traction in the enterprise. This will lead to more money invested in research and development (R&D) to make a lighter-weight glass for the AR experience.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

He wanted to write on my blog his opinion on this device to inform the community and of course I accepted, because I’m more than happy to host another one of his super-detailed articles. After receiving the tracking information for my Pimax Crystal shipment, I looked forward to what would be my first time using a Pimax VR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

For instance, as Mathew Olson reports on The Information, Instagram influencer Majimbo has received one device and made some posts and stories for its 2.4M This lets me continue my job as a blogger so that I can keep informing all of you of the XR communities with detailed articles and roundups! Yes, you’ve read everything well.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

The Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications (FIT) together with various partners from industry including Apple, Ericsson, Huawei, Intel, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and Son y has confirmed the release and official adoption of H.266/Versatile Not a great evolution from Microsoft. H266 video standard can pave the way to 8K video streaming.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

This is the first post in a series of technical posts in which we will be covering the bare bones of a Virtual Reality API (Application Programming Interface) and coding a few examples using it. Go Mati, show us all what you’re capable of! You may be saying “Come on! Introduction to OpenVR.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

Because most VR developers know well Unity or Unreal, and WebVR languages like A-frame are based on Javascript, that is very different from the usual programming flow of the game engines. Microsoft has released the news that it is increasing the availability of HoloLens 2 and that tens of thousands of units have been shipped to date.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

Image by The Information). That’s why this week we had a serious amount of articles that got shared that added no information about what we already know but got popular anyway. Other relevant news. We have lots of non-news about Apple’s XR efforts. Some others, like Niantic, will probably join soon.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

With features like the Vive trackers on the horizon, we’re expecting plenty of juicy tidbits of information here, and you should be looking for some vital knowledge on getting ready for Vive Year Two, too. Refocusing On VR Innovation: Can Standards Simplify Cross-Platform Virtual Reality Development? Room 3022, West Hall.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

He’s formerly held top product leadership positions at Microsoft and Nokia. At Nokia, Niko led a product program team in 2006-2007, and together with researchers from Nokia Research Center, his team developed the basis for the optical technology that later became the Microsoft Hololens. Today we have Niko Eiden, CEO of Varjo.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

He’s formerly held top product leadership positions at Microsoft and Nokia. At Nokia, Niko led a product program team in 2006-2007, and together with researchers from Nokia Research Center, his team developed the basis for the optical technology that later became the Microsoft Hololens. Today we have Niko Eiden, CEO of Varjo.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

He's formerly held top product leadership positions at Microsoft and Nokia. At Nokia, Niko led a product program team in 2006-2007, and together with researchers from Nokia Research Center, his team developed the basis for the optical technology that later became the Microsoft Hololens. Today we have Niko Eiden, CEO of Varjo.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

And it's not only this, it's vision processing, it's neural networks, it's parallel computing, it's virtual reality and 3D graphics. I think Microsoft is calling them "world anchors" and I think Google has called them "VPS points" or-- everybody has a solution for it today or is a solution for it. And I think that's good.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

And it's not only this, it's vision processing, it's neural networks, it's parallel computing, it's virtual reality and 3D graphics. I think Microsoft is calling them "world anchors" and I think Google has called them "VPS points" or-- everybody has a solution for it today or is a solution for it. And I think that's good.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 2, 2019

Now, we’ve talked a lot about virtual reality content. Are you seeing this type of thing with augmented reality as well? So, I mean, our solution is compatible with all of them, because it’s based on Unity and Unreal and basically on the game engine. Alan: Absolutely. That’s a big limitation.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 2, 2019

Now, we’ve talked a lot about virtual reality content. Are you seeing this type of thing with augmented reality as well? So, I mean, our solution is compatible with all of them, because it’s based on Unity and Unreal and basically on the game engine. Alan: Absolutely. That’s a big limitation.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

And it's not only this, it's vision processing, it's neural networks, it's parallel computing, it's virtual reality and 3D graphics. I think Microsoft is calling them "world anchors" and I think Google has called them "VPS points" or-- everybody has a solution for it today or is a solution for it. And I think that's good.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But first and foremost is getting this information and resources out there so people can start to learn about this technology, what is out there, what their options are for multiple different use cases. But then you look at Unreal. We look to move them into 3D interactive experiences on the website and that'll be launched in 2021.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But first and foremost is getting this information and resources out there so people can start to learn about this technology, what is out there, what their options are for multiple different use cases. But then you look at Unreal. We look to move them into 3D interactive experiences on the website and that'll be launched in 2021.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2020

After having read this post, I think that people at Unity and Unreal Engine should do something to fix this issue. Watch Microsoft Office in XR. Patreon money helps me in keeping my platform alive and inform the community about what is happening in the AR/VR landscape.

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