The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

Let’s be honest: no one made correct predictions for 2020. But hey, let me play this game anyway, so here you are my predictions for virtual reality in 2021 based on the trends and the anticipations that we had at the end of 2020! 2021 won’t be the year of VR. I know, we all feel like this.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Today at GTC 2020, NVIDIA has released three very interesting news that we in the XR sector should care about: New enterprise NVIDIA RTX A6000 and NVIDIA A40 graphics card have been released; Cloud XR servers are now available on AWS; Omniverse, the collaboration tool for artists, enters open beta.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

In a prepared statement, the social media declared: “we’re exploring many ways to accelerate VR, and 2020 is going to be an incredible year for VR game launches and announcements. 20 AR trends to follow in 2020. This big event about enterprise AR and VR will be hosted in London on 28–29 April, 2020. It is a must read.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Instagram has a very popular creation tool called SparkAR , which can be easily used by all creators without knowing how to code, and has seen a spike in usage in 2020. There are vaiours solutions to also export Unity XR projects to the web (Image by Mozilla). million AR effects on Facebook and Instagram. What about Magic Leap ?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2021

I have also tried Firefox Reality (there is a build from December 2020), and I have verified that the headset is WebXR compatible. This means that if you have developed your application using Unity XR and Unity XR Interaction Toolkit, you can port your application that already runs on Quest to Pico Neo in just a few hours.

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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 Brand Ambassadors.

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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. IDC publishes new forecasts for 2020. A new forecast by IDC shows how 2020 will still be a transition year for AR and VR.

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Building the Metaverse

JANUARY 18, 2023

For people who couldn’t realize their creativity in a sandbox or walled-garden — platforms like Unreal and Unity enable the creation of real-time, immersive worlds that simulate reality. you can use orchestration technologies like Kubernetes and Amazon ECS to rapidly deploy a large number of virtual machines to service demand.

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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

JANUARY 11, 2022

Apple and Unity aren’t going to continue making this mistake, because they have done the kinds of human factor research I have. While in the family room, I keep track of who has a state-of-the-art 2020 or newer TV or audio system? Unity, alone, is going to make a HUGE play for this space. Personalization beats quality.

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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. Qualcomm told me that by the end of 2020 we will see a ton of them announced (Qualcomm makes the core technology that Facebook’s Oculus Quest uses. Yes they think in 3D.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

Someone found confirmation on this rumor by the fact that the invitation to WWDC 2020 shows a Memoji with a person wearing glasses. I mean, all UE developers, we Unity developers felt like being in a party where everyone is making out and you’re just there sipping a coke. The last date will be September, 30th 2020.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Probably I should tell you that I was busy with VR projects, but the truth is that I have been celebrating a lot lately, especially the recent victory of Italy in the Euro 2020 soccer championship. Amazon Lumberyard becomes opensource. Amazon has launched some years ago its 3D engine called Lumberyard, derived from Crytek’s Cryengine.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

According to the same report, the glasses should be released around Q2 2020 , and Taiwan’s ODMs Quanta Computer and Pegatron should handle the assembly job. Shipping to consumers is expected for 2020. (BTW, If you’re a company and want to implement AR for marketing or productivity, feel free to contact me and I will help you for sure!).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Starting from early next year (2020), in beta for consumers and developers, it will be possible to use your bare hands within the Oculus Quest. I’m developing a MR game with it , and I can assure you that doing MR on a standalone is pretty cool, so I hope that Oculus will release a MR SDK in 2020. Oculus Quest running Go apps.

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AR Insider

JULY 21, 2020

This goes back to the principle of building blocks, examined in a recent ARtillery Intelligence report and in its 2020 spatial computing predictions. Examples include Unity, Adobe Aero and 8th Wall. They were built to support the applications of Amazon and Google. But then it realized that it can be its own platform.

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AR Insider

MARCH 24, 2020

This post is adapted from ARtillery Intelligence’s report, Spatial Computing: 2019 Lessons, 2020 Outlook. As we roll into 2020, that leaves the question of where we are now? This category also includes developer tools such as Unity and AR democratization tools such as Amazon Sumerian or Adobe Aero.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 28, 2024

As soon as I put on the Quest 3S, turned it on, and the Meta logo appeared, I went like Are we back to 2020? And yes, there is also my Unity Cube. You can purchase it on the Meta website or on authorized resellers like Amazon. Visuals Visuals are the sector where I felt more the downgrade from the Quest 3.

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 25, 2023

.” Despite this, the DoJ accused Google of antitrust violations in October 2020 and is scheduled for trial in September. The news comes as the US Government cracks down on Big Tech companies such as Meta Platforms, Amazon, and Apple, among others. Lawsuits have taken place under both the Biden and former Trump administrations.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

This week’s episode goes all the way back to last year’s Curiosity Camp, when Alan shared a ride with Unity Lab’s Timoni West and Vapor IO CEO Cole Crawford, recording a podcast along the way. Timoni: Director of XR in Unity Labs. Alan: Director of XR at Unity Labs, and Cole Crawford, CEO of Vapor IO. Ridiculous. Cole: Correct.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

This week’s episode goes all the way back to last year’s Curiosity Camp, when Alan shared a ride with Unity Lab’s Timoni West and Vapor IO CEO Cole Crawford, recording a podcast along the way. Timoni: Director of XR in Unity Labs. Alan: Director of XR at Unity Labs, and Cole Crawford, CEO of Vapor IO. Ridiculous. Cole: Correct.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

This week’s episode goes all the way back to last year’s Curiosity Camp, when Alan shared a ride with Unity Lab’s Timoni West and Vapor IO CEO Cole Crawford, recording a podcast along the way. Timoni: Director of XR in Unity Labs. Alan: Director of XR at Unity Labs, and Cole Crawford, CEO of Vapor IO. Ridiculous. Cole: Correct.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

It was rumored until 2020… who knows if they are still building it… Hardware technology. Epic has implemented it, and Unity is doing that too. I am a Unity developer, and I can tell you that now Unity.XR Lightweight headsets. Shiftall MeganeX (Image by Shiftall).

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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. A new analysis of IDC on the shipments of XR headsets reveals that this 2020 will have a very bad start. Q2 2020 will see a year-over-year decrease in shipments of more than 24%. Greg Madison is a genius working on AR/VR UX at Unity Labs.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

— David Heaney (@Heaney555) September 16, 2020. Pepperidge Farm remembers when people wearing Google Glasses were called “Glassholes” and kicked out of shops (a nice prize for having spent $1500 on a new device) and Facebook wants to see if in 2020 there could be similar problems (“Ariassholes” sounds good).

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