The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). I’m Chen, General Manager and Chief Editor of VRTUOLUO , also a senior media expert who has dug and studied deeply the XR industry since 2014.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 25, 2024

One leading XR streaming solution provider is Innoactive, which leverages RT3D engines from Unreal, Unity, and NVIDIA to promote the adoption of workplace XR services – allowing clients to distribute XR applications directly to a range of end-devices with the compute processing happening remotely on the cloud.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 9, 2017

In 2014, 2015 and 2016 The Proto Awards were held to recognize some of the groundbreaking efforts pushing forward the emerging medium of VR content. Apple’s eye-catching ARKit is on the verge of release alongside a series of Microsoft-backed VR headsets.

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AR Insider

JUNE 30, 2021

These include video, social media, mobile apps and games (just ask Unity). To put some numbers behind that, 75 percent of apps in Apple’s App Store’s first year were paid apps — similar to VR today. That figure declined to 15 percent in 2014 and about 10 percent today.

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TechCrunch VR

JULY 8, 2021

These include video, social media, mobile apps and games (just ask Unity). To put some numbers behind that, 75% of apps in the Apple App Store’s first year were paid apps — similar to VR today. That figure declined to 15% in 2014 and hovers around 10% today.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Series A round led by Atomico, along with Speedinvest, Y Combinator (of which the company is an alumnus), Dawn Capital, and notable individuals such as the founder of Unity and the former VP of engineering at Netflix and YouTube. Bitmovin announced a $10.3M REAL-TIME FACES: PINSCREEN’S STEALTH $1.8M. SEED TO INSITE VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. ” You know what, go learn Unity and coding and figure out how to actually make it. And it was for me as well; I’ve been a Unity user forever. It’s amazing.” ” Paul: [laughs] Right.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. ” You know what, go learn Unity and coding and figure out how to actually make it. And it was for me as well; I’ve been a Unity user forever. It’s amazing.” ” Paul: [laughs] Right.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. You know what, go learn Unity and coding and figure out how to actually make it. And it was for me as well; I've been a Unity user forever. Alan: And then they ask their tech teams and they're like, "does anybody know Unity?"

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Unity Technologies just went public. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started. Alex: I guarantee that most of Unity's investors are not going into the engine to build their own demos. Alex: Huge news.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Unity Technologies just went public. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started. Alex: I guarantee that most of Unity's investors are not going into the engine to build their own demos. Alex: Huge news.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Unity Technologies just went public. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started. Alex: I guarantee that most of Unity's investors are not going into the engine to build their own demos. Alex: Huge news.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 13, 2020

And so when ARKit popped up from Apple and they said surprise, now everybody with an iPhone 6 and above and use augmented reality, it really changed the game. Alan: You’ve been doing this a while longer than myself, but I’ve been in early VR since 2014. You need somebody who understands Unreal or Unity.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 13, 2020

And so when ARKit popped up from Apple and they said surprise, now everybody with an iPhone 6 and above and use augmented reality, it really changed the game. Alan: You’ve been doing this a while longer than myself, but I’ve been in early VR since 2014. You need somebody who understands Unreal or Unity.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 13, 2020

And so when ARKit popped up from Apple and they said surprise, now everybody with an iPhone 6 and above and use augmented reality, it really changed the game. Alan: You've been doing this a while longer than myself, but I've been in early VR since 2014. You need somebody who understands Unreal or Unity. We do projects on the Go.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

An internal email reportedly sent by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to senior executives offers a glimpse into the strategic thinking behind the company’s feet-first leap into XR following the 2014 acquisition of Oculus. Facebook turned heads across the tech industry and beyond when it acquired Oculus for some $2 billion in 2014.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 19, 2019

He's been focused on growing and supporting the virtual reality industry since early 2014 at UploadVR, where he established coworking spaces in L.A. It's been sort of, like you're saying, since early 2014, with this third wave of VR kicking off. Taylor is a serial founder in the media and immersive technology space.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

I work in the XR field since 2014 , and I’ve been able to follow almost all of its hype cycle. The XR field is now growing, and the long-term outlook is also great, with the upcoming release of the Apple mixed reality headset which is for sure going to re-ignite the hype for immersive realities again.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Apple Vision Pro is a very impressive fusion of hardware and software, but it's by no means perfect. Apple Vision Pro Specs, Features & Details Apple officially revealed the full Vision Pro specs when opening preorders today. And Apple did not send UploadVR a review unit, we bought our own. But does it deliver?

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 29, 2020

With rumors of upcoming Apple glasses surging, and the investment made in Magic Leap that until now has been unfruitful, for sure Google is looking for an alternative to build its AR strategy. Apple adds spatial audio to AirPods. Brick after brick, Apple is building its full AR ecosystem in front of our eyes. More info.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

” And at the time — that was at 2013, 2014 — there was no scalable way to do that. Dirk: That’s like the Apple strategy, right? Oh, I need 10 people with Unity skills. Yes — I played a lot around with the Apple pencil. Alan: I live in Canada; we’re a country of fast follow.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

” And at the time — that was at 2013, 2014 — there was no scalable way to do that. Dirk: That’s like the Apple strategy, right? Oh, I need 10 people with Unity skills. Yes — I played a lot around with the Apple pencil. Alan: I live in Canada; we’re a country of fast follow.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 10, 2024

I started working in VR in 2014, and if you asked me what the XR landscape could have been in 2024 , I would have totally missed the predictions. All the elusive XR analysts have almost guessed nothing, and they were not even able to predict the launch of the Apple Vision Pro until the date got pretty close. licensing).

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

And at the time -- that was at 2013, 2014 -- there was no scalable way to do that. Dirk: That's like the Apple strategy, right? Oh, I need 10 people with Unity skills. But it is like that, coming back to what we what we discussed earlier; you need to have that Netflix and Apple experience to have a good work result.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

PSVR 2, Apple XR visor) and games, will be fundamental to understand its evolution and its potential. A leaked image from the Oculus team shows that the company is working to implement body tracking inside the Oculus Unity SDK. References to Apple RealityOS have been leaked. Leaks about Apple are intensifying over the weeks.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2021

The rumors of an Apple XR headset are making everyone excited. And here we are, almost two years later, that we have done together massive virtual events like SXSW 2021 or the concert of Jean-Michel Jarre for which I have been even mentioned by Unity itself on its website. The amazing Unity Cube. Don’t give up.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

One day Apple will come out and say a new feature. And doing activations so we can import any Unity scene. Alan: I started in VR in 2014, but one of the things that stuck with me I was listening to– actually it was Kent Bye’s Voices of VR podcast. And then Google came out with a new feature.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

One day Apple will come out and say a new feature. And doing activations so we can import any Unity scene. Alan: I started in VR in 2014, but one of the things that stuck with me I was listening to– actually it was Kent Bye’s Voices of VR podcast. And then Google came out with a new feature.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

One day Apple will come out and say a new feature. And doing activations so we can import any Unity scene. Alan: I started in VR in 2014, but one of the things that stuck with me I was listening to-- actually it was Kent Bye's Voices of VR podcast. And then Google came out with a new feature.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

I entered VR in 2014 after having tried an Oculus Rift DK2 : it was the startup Oculus that made me love virtual reality. Unity has built this nice demo using the Presence Platform. Meta also stated that it is “working with game engine developer Unity to help people gain the skills they need to create incredible AR and VR content.”.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Apple launched the Vision Pro It costs a kidney, though (Image by Apple) Apple, probably the most important consumer-oriented technology company, has released this year its first XR headset: the Apple Vision Pro. If Apple launched the Vision Pro, it means it thinks about dominating the AR/MR market in the next 10 years.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

It will also be a defensive move against Apple. Apple could announce its headset. Apple could announce its headset. Concept render of the upcoming Apple headset (Image by Antonio DeRosa). And there is still the possibility that Apple cancels the project, something that wouldn’t be new to it.

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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. The time has come and finally Apple will implement a depth back camera in its upcoming iPad Pro. And probably the Android world will follow Apple’s steps soon and will adopt depth sensors as well in the upcoming months.

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