The Ghost Howls
JANUARY 23, 2023
Top news of the week (Image by Microsoft) Microsoft lays off 10,000 employees and shuts down its mixed reality projects This is seriously a bad period for the tech industry in general, and of course also for mixed reality. For sure, not having Microsoft backing it will slow down a lot of its development.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
JUNE 30, 2023
On the other hand, Unity is introducing tools that leverage AI to simplify XR content creation processes. Unity Muse, Sentis to Tap AI-Powered Content Creation This week, two AI tools, Unity Muse and Sentis , were released to assist creatives in designing immersive worlds and XR content.
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The Ghost Howls
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
The past week has been a pretty interesting one for the tech world: between Microsoft Ignite, Unity Unite, and the OpenAI drama, there has been a lot to follow. I’ll try to summarize all of that, especially for what concerns the announcements related to our XR space.
XR Today - VR Headsets tag
MAY 27, 2022
Debates on Metaverse ethics have reached headlines across global media, namely amid the rise of major tech firms such as Meta Platforms and Microsoft, who aim to protect online users from harmful content.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
MARCH 5, 2017
Unity Technologies and Epic Games are in a grudge match for the hearts and minds of game developers. I interviewed both John Riccitiello, CEO of San Francisco-based Unity, and Tim Sweeney, CEO of Raleigh, N.C.-based The Unity-based games reached a billion new devices since GDC 2016. Ditto with Google and ditto with Microsoft.”.
The Ghost Howls
JANUARY 27, 2020
Or that Microsoft is working on a new reference design that fixes the issues of the first one? This week I have read the results of two very interesting surveys: GDC, as every year, has asked VR developers what platform they’re currently interested in. More info (GDC Survey) More info (ISFE and Ipsos Survey).
ARPost
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
As pointed out in one of the Unity Developers’ blog posts , aside from the exponential rise of development businesses, we’re also seeing more developer tools, such as the Unity and Unreal engines, becoming more accessible. We’re already seeing key metaverse players coming together in the collaboration between Meta and Microsoft.
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