The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

As I said a few months ago , we are in the middle of a paradigm change: the cycle that started with the Quest is arriving at an end, and a new cycle driven by new technologies (mixed reality headsets) and new players (Apple, Google) is starting. They are Apple AR glasses!” I have this impression for a few reasons.

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Road to VR

APRIL 17, 2024

The standard has been in development since April 2017 and over time has become supported by virtually every major hardware, platform, and engine company in the VR industry, including key AR players—but notably, not Apple. release in 2019, this week’s release of OpenXR 1.1 Image courtesy Khronos Group Following the OpenXR 1.0

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

OpenXR includes all the major companies in the space such as Meta, Sony, Valve, Microsoft, HTC, NVIDIA, and AMD – but notably not Apple. It officially released in 2019. Even if the Unity integration supported OpenXR, there are other barriers to releasing VR apps to other stores.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 7, 2020

This post is adapted from ARtillery Intelligence’s report, Spatial Computing: 2019 Lessons, 2020 Outlook. 2019 was more of a “table-setting” year for our spatial future and there’s momentum building. Brand spending on sponsored mobile AR lenses is a bright spot, as is Apple AR glasses rumors.

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AR Insider

MARCH 20, 2020

2019 was a “table-setting” year for our spatial future as momentum builds. Confidence signals include Brand spending on sponsored lenses and indicators for Apple’s eventual AR glasses. Apple’s AR Fate. Until that point, Apple is doing a lot to pave the roads for glasses’ arrival.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

Plus it’s even weirder that HTC needed 2 years to bring it to the market (it was announced in 2019). Apple already made hardware, so it already had the infrastructure to build it and just added XR people on top of this infrastracture, while Facebook could not). Apple AR headset may have been delayed to 2025. It’s believable.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Here's what you may have missed: To call this VR's biggest week since Rift launched might be an understatement thanks to Apple Vision Pro. As for Apple Vision Pro games , we learned about Synth Riders , Puzzling Places , Game Room , Soul Spire and more. The Events At Unity Farm is now available on Viveport.

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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. Unity now supports Vulkan for Oculus Quest. Vuforia won’t drop Unity support. Image by Oculus).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 15, 2024

Moreover, RT3D development services like Autodesk VRED, Blender, Godot, NVIDIA’s Omniverse, StereoKit, Unreal Engine, and Unity support OpenXR integration. The new stereo-foveated rendering improves eye-tracking features, and the feature is widespread – already finding a home on Unity, Unreal, and NVIDIA Omniverse.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

There’s plenty of great software available for developers who want to build impressive virtual worlds, like the Unity and Unreal kits. However, developers can overlay real-world images with virtual assets using software SDKs and toolkits from companies like Unity. Despite being released in 2019, it’s still an impressive device.

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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. For who wasn’t doing AR at that time: Metaio had an amazing SDK for phone-based AR, but then it got acquired by Apple and it disappeared from the market. Since I loved gaming (who doesn’t love gaming?),

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Regarding the glasses, I have not big hopes for true AR glasses, but I think that thanks to Facebook and Apple, finally we’ll have some important smartglasses entering the market , making the mainstream think about wearing something on their face to enjoy notifications from the phone. Phone AR will be always more popular.

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ARVR

JUNE 29, 2020

The Smart-Accessory Revolution A Pew Research Center survey conducted at the beginning of 2013 showed that only 51% of adults in the United States owned a smartphone, 6 years after the launch of the 1st-generation Apple iPhone. Another survey conducted mid-June 2019, 4 years since the debut of the Apple Watch, showed that roughly 1-in-5 U.S.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Alice Bonasio (@alicebonasio) February 2, 2019. Although they haven’t deployed on Magic Leap yet, they’re hopeful that because every platform out there is investing in enabling Unity compatibility which enables them to develop cross-platform more easily. UploadVR (@UploadVR) February 20, 2019. pic.twitter.com/UMhQbxgH1g.

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VRScout

MARCH 3, 2020

Castle Smurthenstein (Image Credit: Apple II Bits ). VentureBeat reported that PUBG Mobile, a popular mobile version of the original PC release, surpassed $1bn in revenue in 2019. Meanwhile, Neilson’s SuperData tracking reports that Fortnite made $1.8bn in 2019. . Blade And Sorcery mod The Outer Rim (Image Credit: WarpFrog).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

This year, I’m not going to make an exception, also because my predictions for 2019 performed pretty well. 2019, after a false start, has been a very good year for VR , and we had the arrival on the market of very interesting VR devices that have driven adoption. Every year, I cast some predictions for the new year in AR and VR.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 26, 2020

The demand for easy-to-use 3D creation tools is growing rapidly as demonstrated by a report by Hired that showed demand for VR/AR engineers grew by 1400% in 2019. With the One App, creators have access to the full power of ARCore and ARKit for the best possible AR experiences. ( Apple Store ) ( Play Store ).

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VRScout

DECEMBER 23, 2018

Cool gadgets such as the Oculus Quest (due in Spring of 2019), GoPro Hero 7, Beyerdynamic Amiron wireless headphones , and a Litter Robot that helps clean up after you cat does their business, are just a few of the examples found in this year’s gift guide. We didn’t give anyone any direction other than to make something,” said Fridman.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Apple AR glasses may be released in 2022–2023. Apple remains committed to AR, it still believes it is the technology that will supersede smartphones , but the technology is not ready to create something that is worth the Apple logo now. More info (Apple glasses delayed to 2022) More info (Apple glasses delay).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

It’s the beginning of 2019, and this means that this is that time of the year when we all make predictions for this year in AR and VR! Jokes apart, what has happened in AR in 2018… and what can you expect to happen in 2019? Feature comparison between ARCore, ARKit and the Unity Handheld AR SDK (Image by Unity).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

I’m sure that after April, 20th, the Meta Quest ecosystem will appear even richer than it is now , creating a wider gap with other companies that may think about competing with the Quest, that is Pico, HTC, and even Apple. Unity talked about PlayStation VR 2 at GDC. Unity had a talk about developing for PlayStation VR 2 at GDC 2022.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 10, 2019

Google I/O 2019 has just finished and has all been about new augmented reality features. Just a quick rewind for everyone: ARCore is Google’s answer to Apple ARKit, a framework that lets people enjoy augmented reality from their smart p hones without using external hardware or markers. Isn’t it cool? ARCore Scene Viewer.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Well, it was a pretty awesome experiment when it was first released in 2019. To boot, Labo VR actually has Unity support , meaning third-party developers can create games and experiences for it; the fact is the headset and slot-in Switch form-factor just isn’t built for long-term play like a standalone or PC VR headset though. .”

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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. VR Global Revenue Forecast, 2019-2024. That figure declined to 15 percent in 2014 and about 10 percent today.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2020

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the supply chain of headsets has been hurt , so in Q1 2020 there have been fewer sales than in Q4 2019 (and this confirms my impression of the spike in Steam not being due to 1M new headsets) and this trend will continue also in this quarter. More info (Preview facilities in Unity) More info (Dynamic FFR).

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

For the 2019 edition of Night Terrors: Bloody Mary, the studio has included a bunch of new features such as Evil Siri (for iOS users), ASMR Sound, Noise Limit Recognition, Voice Recognition, Gyro-Dependent Content Triggering, Immersive 360-degree Mixed Media Scenes, New Content-Paired Unity Effects and more.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

Lone Echo 2 has been the “Duke Nukem Forever” of VR, and it has been constantly delayed from the expected 2019 release period. It got popular during CES 2019, and then, even if it had not new PR stunts, it kept working under the hood on its products and now it is ready to release its devkit and its SDK.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

Reliance Jio’s foray into mixed reality started in 2019 when they acquired majority stake in deep-tech startup Tesseract which has a few hardware products in XR space. What about Apple Glass? I was very critical of this approach with the Apple Watch?—?it

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

We’re looking for a Unity dev for a freelance gig lasting 1–2 months, ideally from Italy or a nearby country (for easier management). It is in Italian, but basically it says that we’re looking for a Unity dev with preferred experience with VR and/or multiplayer games. Unity Reflect its a great XR tool for enterprise customers.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Some months ago, we all read that letter where Zuckerberg claimed wanting to get complete control of the hardware and software stack so that Facebook shouldn’t depend on external companies, like Google or Apple for the SO, or phone manufacturers for the hardware. Unity releases the XR Interaction Toolkit. I suggest you give it a read.

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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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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

A Unity sign-up page confirmed two of the best-selling VR games are coming to Apple Vision Pro: Job Simulator and Vacation Simulator. USD on Apple Vision Pro. Its port to the Apple Vision Pro will make it one of the biggest titles to date on Apple's platform. UploadVR confirmed Job Simulator will be priced $19.99

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

Is this really what Apple wants? (Thanks Robert Scoble for this news!). 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.

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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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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

One VR, one AR, and that will become clearer over time, and trying to force the two together, like Zuckerberg and I were doing is causing massive confusion as we wait for Apple, and others, to ship usable augmented reality devices. Yes, they use similar tools, if not the same tool, as AR developers use: like Unity.

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