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AWE 2022 Day One: An AR-Heavy Day Focusing on Presence

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Unity, Qualcomm, and the XR Association (XRA) followed Inbar’s welcome address with keynotes of their own. He also said that AWE offered free expo space to Ukrainian companies – three made it, though many more were unable to attend because of the ongoing conflict with Russia. Unity Keynote. Opening Day Keynotes.

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Famous musician Jean-Michel Jarre to host a live VR concert on VRrOOm on Sunday

The Ghost Howls

“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 VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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Flight attendants can wear the AR device and, through facial recognition technology, can access flight user data like destination, loyalty status, allergies, when they received their last in-flight snack or beverage… and even assess your mood. Russia-based company Antilatency has raised a $2.1M Apparently the $1.4B

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The XR Week Peek (2020.10.12): Quest 2 is launching, dogs use AR, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Contrary to the news about cows using VR in Russia, this news is real and it is also accompanied by a pending patent. This week some outlets have reported that startup “Humane” has received $30M of funding to create some new technology, dubbed as “the next iPhone”. Someone has made a WebAR exporter for Unity. This is so cool!

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Eido Inoue tells us everything we need to know about HADO and location based augmented reality

The Ghost Howls

Software-wise, we use Unity, Vuforia, and OpenCV. Don’t get me wrong, they’re great technologies , but they weren’t designed to do what we do; The software platform has to be robust enough so that it provides a true competitive sports experience. The technology that you wear while playing HADO (Image by Meleap). †

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.12.02): Facebook acquires Beat Games, Valve gets the Index sold-out and is maybe working on Left4Dead VR, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

If these Facebook features proved to be popular, more developers would use them, and finally, Facebook could have more power on the VR development tools , after the failed acquisition of Unity. But it also shows that VR is not exploding next year and that the consumer use of the technology will only represent 37% of the whole market.

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Alone Together: What I have learned organizing a big VR concert

The Ghost Howls

I can say that I have been very lucky to work with a group of talented people from many countries (Italy, Russia, France, etc…) on this project. And all of this using Unity, the tool that I already use every day. Part of the stage of the experience inside the Unity editor. Super cool, isn’t it? Yes, it was!

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