XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The cutting-edge immersive experience will celebrate the heritage of Black and diverse artists, creators, and musicians using a host of emerging technologies. It will also offer a showstopping performance from critically acclaimed fusion band Phony Ppl, using a host of emerging technologies.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

who first immigrated to Japan over 25 years ago. teams for Japan. As of 2019, we are an expanding private company with about 40 people based in Japan and funded by Japanese venture capitalists. Software-wise, we use Unity, Vuforia, and OpenCV. Hello Eido, introduce yourself to my readers!

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Having seen how far the technology has come though, it raises a question: why hasn’t Nintendo made a VR headset yet? ” Granted, the technology has changed a great deal since 2014, the same year Oculus Rift DK2 came out. And so I have a little bit of uneasiness with whether or not that’s the best way for people to play.”

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VRScout

MAY 30, 2017

THE STANDALONE MOBILE HEADSET THAT HTC IS KEEPING IN JAPAN. HTC has announced a mobile headset called Link — which will only be available in Japan, works with HTC’s new U11 smartphone, and is not affiliated with HTC Vive. Keeping the separation between HTC and HTC Vive in mind, this story perhaps makes slightly more sense.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 16, 2020

This “new normal” will for sure mean a broader adoption of technology , and especially of those technologies that make you connect with people remotely, the ones that make you “defy distance” (ok, actually Mister President hasn’t quoted Facebook, but the meaning was the same). Some relevant points.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Tim Cook always said he’s not interested in the M-world, but the only truth is that he doesn’t want to say that word , while actually he’s super interested in the technology, and this job listing proves that. If you want to watch an amazing ad about VR, watch this one by Meta Japan! Vooiage Technologies. News worth a mention.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 10, 2022

VIVE Mars CamTrack is open for purchase in the United States, Canada, and Europe, with plans to launch in China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Australia over the next few months. Learn more: [link] #VIVEMARS #SIGGRAPH2022 #trackedonmars #virtualproduction pic.twitter.com/uNTI9bH6hs. — HTC VIVE (@htcvive) August 8, 2022.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

That’s why when I had the opportunity to interview Kevin Joyce from the company, I immediately exploited it to ask him not only about Styly and his creators, but also something more about Japan and the M-word. However, if you’re unfamiliar with Unity you can use STYLY Studio to build your scene through a no-code solution.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2023

This is an interesting mix of tradition and technology. It’s interesting to read about the many different technologies that Qualcomm makes available to OEMs and how this open ecosystem compares to the closed Apple’s one. For instance, there are VR Churches where people gather together to pray.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

This is an enormous number: this means that now 15–20% of the total Facebook workforce is on immersive technologies, even if XR is currently a very little revenue stream for the social media giant. Facebook is working on next-gen technologies for XR. 10,000 people mean at least 1.2B spent every year on XR, just for the workforce.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Though the film is the better part of a decade old, it remains relevant to modern discussions on how we conceptualize use cases for emerging virtual and augmented reality technologies. The film was heavily circulated, covered extensively across media and news outlets when it released.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

HTC VIVE’s Ultimate Trackers will offer next-generational motion-capturing (mocap) technologies for avatars and real-time 3D (RT3D) content development. The new tracking technologies will not require base stations to operate, allowing people to receive full-body tracking with minimum gear and multiple points of reference.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

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. In Japan, new PSVR bundles will include an adapter in the box, while in the West the adapter won’t be included, but it will be given for free to existing PSVR users.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 23, 2017

Before Presence, Mahajan was the founder and chief technology officer of MyMiniLife (which Zynga acquired) and the founder and CEO of Toro (which Google grabbed). While at Zynga, he co-created the hugely popular game FarmVille and served as the CTO of Zynga Japan. Image Credit: Presence Capital.

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ARPost

JULY 22, 2021

Light&Shadows for “ Stipple ,” a point cloud editor plug-in for Unity. Geometry Ogilvy Japan for “ Shibuya Virtual Halloween.” EVOKE Studios , a creative technological production studio. The finalists are: Cleanbox Technology. Geometry Ogilvy Japan for “ Shibuya Virtual Halloween.”. Make Real Ltd.

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Road to VR

JULY 28, 2016

With Fove tightening down on ergonomics, which they say is an effort to bring eye-tracking to virtual reality “while remaining a lightweight VR headset,” it certainly feels like the Japan-based company is inching closer to a launch date. The technology is generally considered a necessary ‘next step’ for VR headsets.

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VRWorld

JULY 19, 2017

” According to the company, Xenoma’s Software Development kit (SDK) enables development of apps using Java SDK, Visual C# and Unity Engine. Xenoma’s e-skin and software developer’s kit (SDK) supports application development using Java SDK, Visual C# and Unity. US office was created to support content creators worldwide.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

The price tag seems a bit too steep given the current situation of the company unless behind the curtains they have some secret technology and some Carmack-style talents. Unity’s HDRP is now VR-compatible. Unity High Definition Rendering Pipeline is now compatible with Virtual Reality projects. Support the Skarredghost.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Among this free content, the real interesting stuff is $500 in free Azure credits , while the other things are highly questionable (like 3 months of Unity Pro license… it is more a free trial than a real added value!!). It is free to use and I recommend it to people looking for a doctor. Donate to the Ghost Howls on Patreon!

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 18, 2017

By revolutionizing the way we perceive reality-altering solutions, the technology that stands behind HoloLens is as fascinating as it is complex. This technology has been revealed to the world as “mixed reality.” When using Unity, it is extremely important to set the near clipping plane to no less than 0.85m.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 28, 2018

There I’ve been received by Sam , a very smart man that has worked in the VR field for 20 years and that has spent various years of his life in the Silicon Valley, so he has been in the two most technologically advanced places in the world: China and US. This ensures an optimal environment for the requirements of the customer.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

I am a bit sad no one gave an award to The Unity Cube , though… I would have loved to get a “Worst Application Award 2021” from Road To VR…. Then, it guarantees that there is an open-source alternative to Unity and Unreal, so if in the future Meta wants to build its own engine, it could start doing that by forking Godot.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Plus, it is already delivering , selling in some markets (Korea, Japan, Spain, and Germany) its AR glasses to consumers for a price of around $1000. It shows how the streaming giant is always more interested in games and new technologies. Nreal has started a trend, and many companies are following its design. Learn more.

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VRScout

JANUARY 16, 2019

The consortium brings together several major Japanese companies with the intention of coordinating various activities aimed specifically at the development of the virtual reality business within Japan. Image Credit: CNET Japan.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

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. 10 million is the magic number indicated by some key figures in our ecosystem (e.g.

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ARVR

MARCH 11, 2021

The Best VR Events and Concerts Planned for 2021 Example of applying images to materials on the Unity editor. The limits to the free models I can download are also why I could only represent parts of cultures like those in Asia (I promise I know China and Japan aren’t the only countries there). Enter The Monarchy 3.

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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. Some days ago, I have had the enormous pleasure of speaking with Eduardo Siman.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Date: October 16th, 2017 Venue: Stewart Hotel, New York City, New York, USA Follow this event on social media: New York Virtual Reality Expo (NYVR) Date: October 25-27, 2018 Venue: Jacob Javits Center, New York City, NY, USA Follow this event on social media: VRevolution Date: November 15, 2017 Venue: Union Fare, New York, NY, USA Follow this event (..)

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Road to VR

JANUARY 31, 2017

The experience was created in honor of the upcoming Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale (2017) film, and will be first made available in Japan and Korea starting January 31 with availability ending July 31, 2017. If you’re in either Japan or Korea, you can download the experience here or visit.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Diver-X Half Dive is an interesting headset from Japan. We don’t know when these glasses will release and for what price , but the fact that such a big consumer-oriented giant has got interested in glasses is a positive sign that we are on the right (long) road towards the release and adoption of consumer-oriented AR glasses.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

The third major change came from Unity which recently announced that it will now be serving AR ads on mobile. Unity has one of the world’s largest mobile ad serving businesses and at the end of last year they partnered with Fossil to pilot this new ad format in mobile games.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Getting Psychic Air Race X was just one facet of a dazzling display of technology, concepts and in-development projects presented to me by Psychic VR Lab during a three-day media tour last week – our second visit to the company. In 2019 we noted that Psychic was a incredibly bullish company when it came to the future of VR and AR.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

We’ve also seen smartphones with depth cameras, for instance from Lenovo and Asus with Google’s pre-ARCore Tango technology. In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal. On the device we expect some kind of real-time Run-Time Platform to power AR Cloud applications.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Yuka Kojima, co-founder and CEO at FOVE says “We believe that eye-tracking capability is the next big milestone in the VR industry and we’re excited to be at the forefront of that technology.” FOVE however is all about the eye-tracking, and with its 120fps infrared eye-tracking system, it proves to be extremely accurate.

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VRScout

MARCH 23, 2017

Bye will be delivering a keynote at SVVR, as will Nonny de la Peña, CEO of Emblematic Group, Tony Parisi, Head of VR and AR at Unity Technologies, and Rikard Steiber, SVP of VR at HTC. ” In service of making this cross-pollination, SVVR included representation from VR communities from Japan, Korea, and China.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2021

This week has been pretty crazy: It all started with Facebook approving my silly The Unity Cube application (an application with just a cube) on App Lab. Dysonics was a startup working with 3D audio positioning and binaural sounds , and its technology could be used at first for the Pixel Buds, and then in future AR glasses. Learn more.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

His primary role is developing the strategy and implementation of emerging technology, to best enhance digital projects. or, to do it just because the technology's cool. What is that low-hanging fruit for businesses to get involved, and just start with this technology? And how can we use emerging technology to do that?

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