The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

Niantic has finally launched its VPS (Visual Positioning System), a solution that will allow developers to create AR applications that are persistent and shared in various locations in the world with centimeter accuracy. VPS is a technology that implements the AR Cloud and creates a bridge between the real and the virtual world.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

With this operation, Facebook secures another amazing development studio (after Beat Games), making sure that it will be able to provide high-quality games for its headsets in the future, and protecting itself from hostile acquisitions of other companies (like Sony acquiring Insomniac). Facebook acquires Sanzaru Games. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

(Answer: probably just the possibility of the same community visiting different worlds together may be enough) Is monetization beneficial to virtual worlds? Answer: if people go to a platform just to make money, that platform is not going to succeed) Are today’s virtual worlds so different from Second Life?

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In the future, users will access the Metaverse, a unified space integrating multiple virtual worlds on an interoperable platform. Regarding technologies, the Metaverse will incorporate artificial intelligence (AI), virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR), the internet of things (IoT), and hand and eye tracking tools.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2022

For the past two years, it featured a virtual world made in VRChat by us of VRrOOm, and this year, the virtual world was still there in parallel with the physical one. I’ve personally met and had a chat with people from Unity and Epic Games, Roblox, The Sandbox, HTC Vive, Microsoft, Rec Room.

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ARPost

JUNE 6, 2023

The Auggie Award went to Delta Reality for The Museum of Digital Life. The massive multi-user art exhibit includes everything from 2D photographs to 3D objects and virtual worlds. She also presented the winner with a 15.6in Sony Spatial Reality Display.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

My favorite ones have been: Sony Interactive Entertainment has revealed that the next PSVR headset will be called PSVR 2 and will feature 2K x 2K per eye, up to 120 Hz framerate, and 110° FOV. from PC) to join its virtual worlds , too, so that to increment the user base. Disney is working on glasses-free virtual installations.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Lessons Learned From A Thousand Virtual Worlds. Refocusing On VR Innovation: Can Standards Simplify Cross-Platform Virtual Reality Development? Tom Bruckbock (SIEA), Seth Luisi (Impulse Gear), Greg Koreman (Impulse Gear), Richard Marks (Sony Interactive Entertainment). Liz Mercuri (Unity).

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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). In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal. “Cyberspace” was coined by SF author William Gibson.

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VRWorld

MAY 27, 2016

We received word from WorldViz that they are putting the finishing touches on a Virtual Reality expansion for their PPT (Precision Position Tracking) system. With Virtual Reality – the need for three-dimensional controllers is greater than ever. meters i.e. 26,910 sq. feet are covered with a single device.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Unity talked about PlayStation VR 2 at GDC. Unity had a talk about developing for PlayStation VR 2 at GDC 2022. More info (Foveated Tracking boost inside PSVR 2) More info (Full Unity talk at GDC). Doing marketing in virtual worlds can be valuable. Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

As always in January I like to play the speculation game and make my personal predictions for augmented and virtual reality for the new year (2022, in this case). My favorite one is “interoperability” : you shoud be able to go through all virtual worlds carrying with you what you have got in one into the other ones.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Most people know Xu due to his dispute with American virtual reality company Magic Leap. Mr. Ceo & Founder of Bigscreen one of the biggest VR platforms in the world, with millions of users on popular VR headsets. However, in June 2020, a U.S. federal court threw out the case as #MagicLeap failed to make any viable claim.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

Unity is offering 3 months of Free Learning so that you can sharp your development skills. Regarding the compatibility of older PS4 titles (including VR ones), Sony has clarified that most of titles will be compatible, but some of them won’t work on Day 1. Greg Madison is a genius working on AR/VR UX at Unity Labs.

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