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. Unity 6 takes back the original way of specifying engine versions and abandons the confusing one that bound a new Unity version to the year it was released.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

More info (Varjo launches XR-4 headset) More info (Varjo’s launch on Road To VR) More info (Varjo opens up waiting list for consumers) Other relevant news Quest 3 is selling well, but Quest 2 much better Quest 3 sales are not going bad, and the headset, after Black Friday , has now already 5% of the shares of devices on the SteamVR survey.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Recent technological advancements have pushed the envelope of what modern technologies are capable of. Furthermore, these innovations have greatly changed the way users interact with such technologies. Unfortunately, such beliefs stem from a misunderstanding of the technology and how it works.

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AR Insider

MAY 27, 2021

I’ve been writing about it for over a year, and working on related products at Unity for much longer. A just-released report by Snap and Deloitte sees the technology moving to ubiquity by 2025 and promises unprecedented business outcomes, citing a staggering 94% conversion rate on purchases in some cases. by Tony Parisi. Here’s why.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

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. The true takeaway is that the Quest is getting the most interest ; ISFE and Ipsos MORI’s GameTrack surveyed gamers, asking them what features they are most interested in for the future.

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ARPost

JULY 10, 2020

One Nissan execution used to showcase its Pro Pilot technologies resulted in 8 times higher engagement than rich media benchmarks, 5.8 See Also: 63% of Advertising Creatives Struggle with AR Technology Adoption, Unity Survey Finds. The user isn’t a passive receiver of advertisement, but an active participant.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

XR data analytics firm CORTEXR has launched its platform on Tuesday to standardise virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) technologies as well as the Metaverse. Eye, gaze, and hand-tracking were also key to learning user behaviours and interactions with immersive content, the survey continued.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 3, 2023

As enterprise and consumer expectations evolve, as should the surrounding technology. Enterprise technology solutions are changing massively year-on-year to solve prevailing and newfound challenges. In the report, the WEF found that emerging technologies are most likely to affect workplace change. It will change everything.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 16, 2022

The Washington, DC-based XR Association announced recently it had formed its Education Working Group (EWG) tasked with developing immersive technologies and solutions for academic environments. Exposing youth to tools they will find in the workplace is essential to growing the workforce and the economy.

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ARPost

JULY 9, 2019

We knew we had a killer story and a killer moment for us to reach a broader audience with new technology,” Poe said. See Also: 63% of Advertising Creatives Struggle with AR Technology Adoption, Unity Survey Finds. Documentaries reach a certain audience that wants to enjoy the narrative.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The report surveyed respondents from September last year to June to discuss findings across some of the world’s top firms, including Unity Technologies, HTC, manufacturers such as Jaguar Land Rover, and media firm Yahoo, among many others. What’s the Deal on Data?

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ARVR

JUNE 29, 2020

Recent advances in computer hardwares and AI assistants are charting a path for AR devices to to re-emerge into a more technology-savvy generation. Compare that number with another survey conducted in February 2019, the percentage of adults who own a smartphone jumped to 81%. Trending AR VR Articles: 1.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

The report, titled “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: 2016 Mobile and VR Games Year in Review,” is a compilation of information Super Data and Unity Technologies, though we clarified with Unity that they did not contribute to the estimates for VR headset data in the report. The report estimates 4.5

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ARVR

AUGUST 28, 2020

Creating remote MR productions VR for rehabilitation of cognitive and psychological disorders (Source: Kurt Othmer, Youtube) A recent survey has narrowed down to the fact that every minute of the day, there is a vehicle related accident. If you are a game developer in unity or even just a beginner do give VR development a try!

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JUNE 21, 2022

Tim also complimented technology innovation led by Chinese application developers. In the chat with China Daily Reporter Ma Si , Tim explained: I am incredibly excited about AR as you may know, and the critical thing in any technology, including AR, is putting humanity at the center of it. That is what we focus on every day.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 19, 2021

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. It’s too risky, it’s not satisfying enough, and the technology is not ready. Long story short, nothing worked as they expected.

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TechCrunch VR

MARCH 1, 2022

“We are excited we will be working together on hardware, software and technology roadmaps to enable the ecosystem for people,” Rubo Liang, ByteDance’s CEO, remarked remotely via video. of the global VR headset usage in January, according to Steam’s survey.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Or us of New Technology Walkers , that in our fitness game HitMotion: Reloaded ( download it !) Now, in what seems a desperate move to become relevant in a field dominated by Unity and Unreal Engine, it has made this engine opensource with the name Open 3D Engine. When your survey is a bit confusing Funny link. Some XR fun.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

I’m pretty excited to receive this headset because I want to see the clarity of the images everyone is talking about and I also want to play around with mixed reality, a technology I am a big fan of. More info Steam VR stats have been pretty negative in September The Steam hardware survey for September 2023 was very negative for VR.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Last week, Augmented World Expo EU (AWE) 2023 hosted its yearly event highlighting recent innovations in enterprise-grade AR/VR/MR solutions, as well as related emerging technology such as genAI, digital twins, and geospatial tech. Time and time again, we have seen how important businesses have been to scale that technology adoption.

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AR Insider

MARCH 20, 2020

The underlying technology and consumer readiness aren’t there, and Apple is rarely first to market. That’s everything from retailers to brands to entertainment companies using AR tools like Unity, 8th Wall and Adobe Aero. They likely won’t come in 2020 as many initially believed. VR’s Steady Gains.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 27, 2023

The Internet of Behaviour (IoB) is a technology trend with significant opportunities and benefits for extended reality (XR). Our Unity plug-in is now live so users can easily add IoB to projects. It adds a layer of psychology to the Internet of Things (IoT) to interpret ‘digital dust’ linked to behavioural patterns.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 14, 2020

VR has gone from an experimental technology to something that’s transforming the way enterprises work. A Grid Raster survey this spring found that 56 percent of executives said they had already implemented virtual or augmented reality, and 27 percent had fully deployed their solution and were looking to scale it up.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 10, 2020

The latest Steam Hardware Survey showed some interesting trends happening in the PC VR market (at least the Steam VR market, since we have no info on the Oculus Store market). Another great IP is now being bond with virtual reality, and this will be highly beneficial for the technology. Top news of the week. Register now.

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HaptX

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The HaptX SDK provides SteamVR support, plug-ins for Unreal Engine and Unity, and a C++ API, along with a trove of haptic effects, templates, and demos, making it easy to create haptic VR experiences for HaptX Gloves. The prototype is built with Unity, integrating ArcGIS Maps SDK and the HaptX SDK.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Apple is already working on future technologies for its headset, and one of the rumors that popped out is that it is working on a next-generation technology to ensure a long duration of the battery of its device. Senior Unity Developer Join our Unity team and be at the forefront of innovation in the global VR video streaming ecosystem.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

1 billion of this money is planned in Germany, with €500 million for a new Technology Campus in Erlangen. The new campus is meant to become global development and manufacturing hub and nucleus for technology activities for the industrial metaverse. Let me copy-paste for you what it is about: AR/VR creators, this survey is for you.

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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

DECEMBER 29, 2021

I’m responsible for securing some of the core components of our technology for future competitiveness and enabling together with my co-founders Nils and Daniel our rockstar team to keep developing amazing XR applications for moving vehicles. I’m 46 years old and an avid car-, tech- and games- enthusiast. Let’s talk about holoride.

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

We are in the peak of inflated expectations of the Gartner life cycle , and I guess that in some months we will enter the Trough of disillusionment, where people will understand that 5G is not the technology that solves everything. I want to highlight 3 reports: Steam Hardware survey. Oculus Quest may have an assistant soon.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The first one is the usual SteamVR hardware survey. Apart from highlighting that the Rift S is expanding its size and that the Valve Index is now selling well, the survey shows that VR users on Steam are continuously growing. Unity now supports Vulkan for Oculus Quest. Vuforia won’t drop Unity support. I would like to.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 25, 2022

As companies like Meta Platforms, Unity, and Epic Games build interconnected world-building platforms, gaming has found a new home with immersive technologies. In a recent survey , 59 percent of industry experts said gaming would dominate VR investments for the next few years. Metaverse Gaming Concerns.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 5, 2023

Virtual reality hasn’t caught on with American teens, according to a new survey from Piper Sandler released on Tuesday. And virtual reality continues to be a technology in search of a problem to solve. I watched the Game Developers Conference presentations from Nvidia , Unreal Engine , and Unity. million units.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

They are obtained thanks to a new lens technology, that is “pinhole effect” optics, that features little mirrors scattered on the surface of the lenses that reflects on the eye the images created by the projectors. More info (Kura Gallium product page) More info (Noah Zerkin’s endorsement).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

So, exploiting this statistic and knowing that due to the various distortions, usually, the peripheral regions of the rendered images are the one made employing more pixels, Oculus has decided to apply a Fixed Foveating technology. This is Oculus’s answer to Steam Hardware & Software Survey. Magic Leap releases its SDK.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2022

If you mix this with the previous statements about Steamdeck technology being useful also for VR… I mean… how many other hints do you need? Powered by NeRF technology, t he application lets you scan an object easily with your phone. StandableVR is a plugin developed by a young dev to offer full-body VR via IK in Unity.

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