The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 23, 2023

I remember one day at Immersive Architecture with Enea Le Fons in 2018 when we played around with the Focus, and then at a certain point, he was walking with us in the central plaza of Venice (Italy) with the headset on. Everyone was looking at him like a weird guy, it was very funny.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 17, 2020

“Virtual or augmented realities can be to the performing arts what the advent of cinema was to the theatre, an additional mode of expression made possible by new technologies at a given time,” predicts Jarre. . Also involved in the project are tech startups such as SoWhen? You should see it.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 15, 2021

August, 15th is a special day in Italy: it is called “Ferragosto”, and people go out with their friends and families and grill some BBQ in the parks, have picnics, or just chill together. Almost no one works, and people are focused on enjoying good food and good company. Internet is beautiful.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 15, 2022

As you’ve read in my other article written today , this is a special day for this blog… but it is also Monday, so I won’t skip writing a new amazing roundup of AR/VR news So, wishing you a happy Ferragosto (the name of today’s holiday in Italy), I leave you to the best XR news of the week! Top news of the week. Image by NVIDIA). Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2022

In the long and troublesome travel back to Italy from AWE, I’ve lost the last flight and so I’m currently here writing my newsletter from the lobby of the hotel where I spent the night :|. Hello all from L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, the small town of the Barcelona airport.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Plus there is this sense of perceived “stasis” of the technology. As I said a few months ago , we are in the middle of a paradigm change: the cycle that started with the Quest is arriving at an end, and a new cycle driven by new technologies (mixed reality headsets) and new players (Apple, Google) is starting.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Holo-Light has also just announced to have become the first AR/VR streaming provider to be named Unity Verified Solutions Partner. I had already tried NVIDIA CloudXR with an on-premise server, and I already knew how remote rendering technologies are already advanced (and most probably if you have tried Virtual Desktop you know that as well).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Probably I should tell you that I was busy with VR projects, but the truth is that I have been celebrating a lot lately, especially the recent victory of Italy in the Euro 2020 soccer championship. Or us of New Technology Walkers , that in our fitness game HitMotion: Reloaded ( download it !) Join them by clicking the link here below!

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 19, 2021

It’s a nice summer day here in Italy, and I hope things for all of you are going well. Facebook knew it, so it planned to use a technology that used infrared light to analyze brain oxygen levels. A total disaster, even using invasive technology, that is drilling the skull. Top news of the week. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

Another busy week has passed by, and here in Italy we just got the news that lockdown measures will start to loosen from next week, but the road to go out as we wish is still long. We’re looking for a Unity dev for a freelance gig lasting 1–2 months, ideally from Italy or a nearby country (for easier management).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

HoloLens 2 availability has been expanded to 15 new regions : Italy (YESSS!), The HoloLens 2 Development Edition will become available in 10 additional countries by the end of the year: Canada, Germany, France, UK, Ireland, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, and Italy. Donate to the Ghost Howls on Patreon!

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 22, 2022

I’m back in Italy, but I have left a piece of my heart in Austin, where I had an unforgettable experience both on the personal and professional side at SXSW (you can read more about my experience here ). Micro-LEDs are an important technology, especially for building AR glasses. More info (Ethereum hack). Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2022

The Pico Neo 3 has this special technology thanks to which it doesn’t connect via USB to become a PCVR headset (like the Quest 2 and Focus 3 ), but it does that via DisplayPort. Ultraleap has just announced today an accessory for Pico Neo 3 headsets , enabling the use of the best hands-tracking technology on the market on Pico devices.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The whole world has been built under the always passionate direction of Louis Cacciuttolo ( VRrOOm ), the strong support of Maud Clavier , the creative magic of Lapo Germasi and Victor Pukhov ( MID Studio ), and the “I have no idea what I’m doing” technical and development support offered by me ( New Technology Walkers ).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

After a few days where we thought we were all living in a big oven, here in Italy we’re having the first taste of Autumn, with the temperatures going down and a lot of rain falling from the sky. That’s fantastic news for all Unity XR developers! in the reviews!

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

In particular, it envisions: XR headsets (especially AR ones) being tethered to the smartphone now; XR headsets wirelessly connected to the smartphone (via Wi-fi or similar technologies) in 1–4 years; Fully standalone lightweight XR headsets, connected via 5G, in 5–10 years. Unity launches MARS tools. Tower Tag launches on Steam!

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2022

As a Unity developer, I am a bit envious of all of this. I am in the team organizing On|Metaverse Summit 2022, the first international B2B summit on metaverse and virtual transformation in Italy. The CEO of Sketchfab has tried it and said that it works quite well. News from partners (and friends). Join the On|Metaverse summit.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Coronavirus is back in Italy and from yesterday we’re having new restrictions like a night curfew, some kind of shops closed, etc… I hope that you and the people you love are safe. This year, I’m just watching the conference from home The conference has been interesting, and it has been the usual mix of technology and politics.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

The article ends with Facebook claiming that it cares about privacy, and wants to discuss the topics of privacy, security, and safety of this technology with all the community. More info (Volu official website) More info (The technology behind Volu). Learn more (XR Collaboration) Learn more (Unity College). Image by Microsoft).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 5, 2023

It will have tools for building for it, and aside from the usual Apple tools, developers can use Unity to create content for it. Terms Tim Cook has clearly called the technology “Augmented Reality”, so Apple did not invent any fancy names for it. Which is good news. It’s so high that most people can’t afford it.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 10, 2020

Another great IP is now being bond with virtual reality, and this will be highly beneficial for the technology. It was a very interesting project, even if she, like me with Immotionroom , was too ahead of times and the technology was not ready yet). And it will also be awesome for its players. Some principles of UX in VR.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

I remember many people laughing at me when we of New Technology Walkers released a fitness game for the Vive Focus Plus ( HitMotion: Reloaded ) because they said it was a big and overpriced headset. The technology is still at the research stage, but it is very promising. There is no competitor in the consumer market at the moment.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

Today in Italy it should be the day when we go pic-nicking… but given the fact that we are in lockdown, I’ll just eat a lot at home While I send you a lot of good vibes, let’s see together what have been the best pieces of AR/VR news of this week, that has been incredibly interesting! (My Learn more. Learn more. Some XR fun.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The damn coronavirus has arrived in my city in northern Italy, but I’m still alive and kicking, reporting you the most interesting XR news of the week! This weekend I’ve also organized together with SIDI a big VR workshop on new technologies (XR, AI, neural links, etc…). StageCraft is a new technology for shooting films.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

This means that someone made some predictions that were totally wrong and this made lots of companies bet on a technology that was not ready enough, creating huge losses and so the general consensus that VR is not taking foot and so it is a dead technology. So, I see a light at the end of the tunnel. Standalone headsets. Enterprise.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

It was too early for Unity, but they taught me about C++, C#, Java, OpenCV, OpenGL and other fancy development stuff. I thought developing everything VR-related in native code, but while researching how to develop for VR, I discovered that many people abandoned de nerd C++ wei to use a more visual program called Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

We too of New Technology Walkers made a porting of HitMotion: Reloaded for Pico Neo 3 Link, even if it is not available in the store, yet. This means that if you have developed your application using Unity XR and Unity XR Interaction Toolkit, you can port your application that already runs on Quest to Pico Neo in just a few hours.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The damn coronavirus continues to impact all our lives: the fact that many countries are applying restrictions on flights to and from Italy is, for example, creating various nuisances to my job. I guess this technology may also have interesting applications for AR in the future. More info (The8thWall) More info (Danilo Pasquariello).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2018

The typical development environment that they use is Unity, but if the customer requires Unreal because wants a better graphical quality, they can develop using UE4, too. And if there is a school that can teach that using a new technology, this is even better for them and more parents will choose that school. Image by Know your meme).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

I am back in Italy! Mark Zuckerberg, but also Unity CEO John Riccitiello) that should mark the beginning of the serious adoption of new technology. That’s why 10M is such an important threshold: because it marks the beginning of the serious growth of a technology.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Italy won the Tennis Davis Cup, and that was pretty cool to see (the match between Sinner and Djokovic was just incredible). These technologies are so important and have so much business potential (see the success of OpenAI services) that companies can not stop pursuing them because there is too much money at stake.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2022

Ten days ago, I revealed to you that I was going to Austin, Texas to attend the SXSW, one of the most important events about creativity and technology in the USA. Today, while I’m packing my stuff up to go back to Italy, I want to tell you a few words about my experience there, and if I think it has been worth going. Going SXSW.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Now it’s time to make some forecasts about its companion technology, that is augmented reality! This won’t be the year of AR : exactly as I said for virtual reality, let’s not hype the technology and think that this is the year when mainstream adoption of wearable AR glasses is going to happen. Sounded good.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

I expect all these trends to continue in 2021, for a year that will see the growth of the technology on all its sides (software and hardware). We all know that AR and VR will merge in a single glass sooner or later, and the trend of mixing the two technologies has already started more than one year ago.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

It’s been said on this show before; XR doesn’t have a technology problem, it has an adoption problem. And we started thinking how can this technology be used to solve big problems? As you know, technology is a big killer of jobs, but also big creator of jobs. We’ve just done one in Bologna in Italy.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

It’s been said on this show before; XR doesn’t have a technology problem, it has an adoption problem. And we started thinking how can this technology be used to solve big problems? As you know, technology is a big killer of jobs, but also big creator of jobs. We’ve just done one in Bologna in Italy.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

It's been said on this show before; XR doesn't have a technology problem, it has an adoption problem. And we started thinking how can this technology be used to solve big problems? As you know, technology is a big killer of jobs, but also big creator of jobs. We've just done one in Bologna in Italy. Dan: So, you're right.

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