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

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. Google and Samsung Prototype of the Samsung XR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

This means that if you are in Google Earth VR in a green room where there is a friend of yours, you can see the city that you are visiting all around you, and the real image of your friend being there with you. More info (Camera Path and Google Drive backup) More info (Sketchfab exporting). Google MediaPipe can now track 3D objects.

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Cats and VR

AUGUST 26, 2019

Ramen VR has steadily been releasing the stretch goals details, and is now revealing the final goal of $250,000 which unlocks a “Zenith Level Editor” using Unity that allows the Zenith community to create and publish their own custom levels on the Zenith platform. Fans can access the game’s main theme track on SoundCloud.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2019

So, here we are, entering 2019 with me fulfilling my promise to Lenovo and closing this series of “should you buy it?” On the left side, there is the Daydream logo, that reminds the user that this is a product whose software has been offered by Google, and the Lenovo logo, because this hardware has been manufactured by Lenovo.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Epic Games is a prominent member of the Khronos Group working alongside a host of industry pros including Oculus, HTC, Valve, Microsoft, Google, AMD, NVIDIA, and Unity. ” The store will first launch with a set of games curated by Epic for PC and Mac, and then allow other games and “open platforms” throughout 2019.

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ARVR

JUNE 29, 2020

Source: [link] When it debuted in 2013 the Google Glass was the first of its kind. 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.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Because of the time difference and distance, we communicated through Facebook messenger, kept all our assets on a shared google drive folder, and built the game using Unity’s collab version control system.”. The next boot camp will take place in late June 2019. Screenshot of VR adventure title ‘Chrysalis.’

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AR Insider

MARCH 20, 2020

2019 was a “table-setting” year for our spatial future as momentum builds. To synthesize where we are and where we’re going, our research arm ARtillery Intelligence recently presented findings from its report, Spatial Computing: 2019 Lessons, 2020 Outlook. billion AR ad revenue in 2019, growing to $2.6

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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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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Before 2019, headsets were largely tethered to PCs, and Qualcomm helped to ‘cut the cord’ and enable the next evolution of standalone devices. With it, experts can see what you see to guide professionals with step-by-step work instructions via a micro display similar to Google Glass or Vuzix.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

As a long-time AR enthusiast, and one of the first to have tried Google Glass in Italy, I have to admit that I will consider AR mainstream only when it will be on glasses that we will wear all day , when we’ll live in a completely shared mixed reality world (the AR Cloud). Or is it just a talk about glasses?

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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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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

There’s a rumor going around that Nintendo is making a VR headset in partnership with Google. Well, it was a pretty awesome experiment when it was first released in 2019. Having seen how far the technology has come though, it raises a question: why hasn’t Nintendo made a VR headset yet?

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 11, 2023

It’s often thought of as the Chinese equivalent of Google. It includes scientific, demographic, geographic and economic data and is similar to the one used by Google to present facts alongside its search results. Baidu is currently on version 3 of Ernie, with version two having been developed back in 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Between that, I worked on consumer cloud software with Google for five years… managing engineering teams for Gmail, Japanese mobile, Google Labs, and social (Blogger etc.) As of 2019, we are an expanding private company with about 40 people based in Japan and funded by Japanese venture capitalists. teams for Japan.

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AR Insider

JUNE 30, 2021

These include video, social media, mobile apps and games (just ask Unity). across Google’s display ad network. VR Global Revenue Forecast, 2019-2024. The opportunity is also supported by historical evidence that VR could follow a path towards ad monetization. This effectively precludes any meaningful ad revenue.

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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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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

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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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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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

This is why companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Meta are exploring similar technologies. For others, they might be a way of selling ads, Dr. Bautista said. […] In 2018, Intel shut down the Vaunt project, before selling many of its patents to North, the start-up acquired by Google. A game no one had ever hyped online.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

In the meanwhile, its adoption is getting better, too: the popular Unity game engine promises the first implementations of OpenXR for the end of the year with a complete implementation coming in 2021, and Microsoft has already completely switched to an OpenXR runtime. More info (Using Google Translate).

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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

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. We’re looking at you, Google Glass. You can see it in action below: [link] Why build on Android?

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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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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

This was a bit the philosophy of Google Daydream View, that was the first headset employing this kind of materials. 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. We all know Oculus SDK since a lot of years.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

While discussing the earning calls for Q3 2019, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has admitted that VR is taking longer than expected to become successful. From 2018, 2019 sales of VR headsets has jumped only by a 16% factor in the consumer market, but by a 69% on the enterprise market. Google Chrome adds supports for WebXR.

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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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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. But Google said no, he claimed.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The sentence in Chinese say something like: “explore the world, there are a lot of interesting things” I think it is some kind of word pun, since searching the last three characters on Google Translate, I actually found “Focused” as the translation and the device is the Vive Focus. Thanks to Miss S. Availability.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

I think that, after a year, its specifications don’t sound exceptional anymore and maybe it is better that LG jumps directly to a second generation or that enters the standalone market (as it seems, since there are some rumors about a new revolutionary headset screen developed by Google and LG). Google AR apps.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

High-precision 6DOF tracking, eye tracking, gesture inputs, with dedicated input controllers The SDK will support Unity , with Unreal coming Soon. More and more vendors will target consumers, both with full-fledged AR glasses and with devices more like Google Glass for information display (e.g. All APIs have a plain C version.

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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. Google-owned Owlchemy Labs is the studio behind both games, which are currently available on Meta Quest, PlayStation VR, SteamVR, and even Pico headsets. and Vacation Simulator will be priced $29.99

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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. They can’t look nerdy like Google Glass did. Yes, they use similar tools, if not the same tool, as AR developers use: like Unity. They must “look cool.”

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 28, 2021

Unity CEO predicts in 2030 XR headsets will be as popular as gaming consoles. Unity CEO John Riccitiello has made new predictions on AR and VR , and this time he talked about the projections for XR headsets in 2030. Icosa Gallery is the new Google Poly. More info (ENGAGE raises $10M) More info (VRChat raises $80M).

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