The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The image above, clearly an homage to the legendary Unity Cube , demonstrates the position and orientation of optical sensors across different surfaces of the object… this would ensure that sensors are always available as the object is turned or moved. Reviewed in the United States on 27 December 2019. Image by Rob Cole).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

With a surprise move, Facebook has acquired Sanzaru Games, the company behind the best VR game of 2019, Asgard’s Wrath. According to Tipatat Chennavasin, 106 games have made more than $1M in revenue, and half of these titles have come out in 2019. In 2019 AR startup Daqri has shutdown. Facebook acquires Sanzaru Games.

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ARVR

JUNE 29, 2020

Compare that number with another survey conducted in February 2019, the percentage of adults who own a smartphone jumped to 81%. Another survey conducted mid-June 2019, 4 years since the debut of the Apple Watch, showed that roughly 1-in-5 U.S. Build your first HoloLens 2 Application with Unity and MRTK 2.3.0

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

The third major change came from Unity which recently announced that it will now be serving AR ads on mobile. Unity has one of the world’s largest mobile ad serving businesses and at the end of last year they partnered with Fossil to pilot this new ad format in mobile games. The Evolution of Out of Home and Product Placement.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 25, 2023

“A Gemba masterclass is entirely interactive — it’s 3D, immersive, and we use the same software that 90% of video games are created in ( Unity ),” Gemba CEO Nathan Robinson told TechCrunch. Indeed, the company delivered its first VR enterprise training in 2019, with its masterclasses kicking off the following year.

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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

AUGUST 14, 2019

” Alan: In my last interview, we were talking about 2019 as that year where it goes from, “you’re doing VR — you’re ahead of the game, you’re a future company,” to, “you’re not using VR? Amazon Sumerian. Unity is always my top one. Michael: It would depend on your use case.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

” Alan: In my last interview, we were talking about 2019 as that year where it goes from, “you’re doing VR — you’re ahead of the game, you’re a future company,” to, “you’re not using VR? Amazon Sumerian. Unity is always my top one. Michael: It would depend on your use case.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Alan: In my last interview, we were talking about 2019 as that year where it goes from, "you're doing VR -- you're ahead of the game, you're a future company," to, "you're not using VR? Michael: And this is why I've been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building -- there's VRTK for Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

And then, of course, there is SuperData , that someone has already renamed “SuperGuess”, that has released its estimates of VR sales for Q4 2019. Having sold 317K units in Q4, the Quest has so sold around 710K units in 2019. Amazon promises “single-digit latency” XR streaming. Unity now supports Vulkan for Oculus Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

The super-interesting eye tracking device Droolon F1 by 7Invensun is now in preorder on Taobao , with Amazon listing coming soon. More info (VR Awards intro video) More info (VR Awards 2019 winners). Oculus and Unity partner for a course on VR. Oculus and Unity have just released a free course on virtual reality.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

The Oculus Quest boundary passthrough is really handy when you want to have a quick drink in VR pic.twitter.com/1hrCszntot — Mike – VRO (@vr_oasis) May 3, 2019. The same Unity plugin is able to serve all Oculus devices and this helps a lot in developing cross-platform titles. We all know Oculus SDK since a lot of years.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

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. The report also highlights that one of the regions where VR may grow more in 2019–2023 is Western Europe. affiliate link).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Oculus Link will be available in beta in November 2019. "Lil' Lenovo" #OculusRiftS #OculusQuest #OC6 pic.twitter.com/4kUliZChNR — Damo9000 (@Damo90001) September 26, 2019. Later this year, we’ll expand our Vulkan support on Quest to include Unity and Vulkan validation layers for easier debugging.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

We all know that the Vive Cosmos should release very soon since HTC revealed me that the release date would have been in Q3 2019 and Q3 ends at the end of the month. I know about this technology because I remember my friend Scott Hayden having tried some glasses using the same technology (LetinAR) at MWC 2019.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Unity renderer implementation of foveated rendering, on the other hand is much rougher, and in multiple Unity apps I saw very obvious and harsh artifacts, particularly on text. Given this only happens in Unity Full Space apps, I suspect this can be solved in future software. This is a watershed moment for VR-style headsets.

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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

It isn’t alone, we know of many companies that are spending billions on same, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sony, Magic Leap, Huawei, and others. Yes, they use similar tools, if not the same tool, as AR developers use: like Unity. The tech industry is gearing up for a new paradigm shift. Yes they think in 3D.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

From time to time, I like to look at the adoption graph of XR shown by John Riccitiello (the CEO of Unity) in 2017 , where you can see that the real acceleration of immersive technologies should start around 2022-2023. Me trying Huawei VR glasses at WCVRI 2019. I can’t imagine what company can steal Facebook’s thunder.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Amazon sold me a moulded nylon grip for an AR-15 airsoft rifle… it was time to start work building my first development “Mule”. The name was of course inspired by “The Unity Cube” application (Image by Rob Cole). Why had they settled on this shape? Why not try something different, how about a gun grip? The Guncube.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 28, 2019

Do you remember when the Valve Index was finally launched and some lucky people got it immediately while the other ones could only preorder it with an estimated shipping date of September 2019? Amazon Prime Video comes to Oculus mobile devices. Amazon streaming services come to VR. Well, this is now history.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

This is a trend that started in 2019 (with the Quest, Vive Focus, and Lenovo Mirage Solo… yes, the Lenovo Mirage Solo, who else remembers about it?) was already in passthrough AR in 2019 on the Vive Focus Plus , so that to guarantee the safety of the users that could play our fitness game by being aware of their surroundings.

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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. from 2019. Greg Madison is a genius working on AR/VR UX at Unity Labs. There are porn websites like Pornhub or Sex Like Real offering a free month of Premium so that you can “enjoy your time” during quarantine. It seems fun.

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