The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Introduced in March 2021, Vive Tracker 3.0 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. Image by Rob Cole).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

This reinforces my belief that Microsoft in 2021–2022 will add VR support to it , to fight the PSVR when the market will be riper. Blogger Tom Ffiske, that writes on Virtual Perceptions, has decided to write a very good book about AR and VR technologies and it is becoming pretty popular on Amazon. 100+ games have exceed $1M revenue.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 27, 2023

Gartner predicted in 2021 that 40 percent of the world’s population will face at least one IoB programme in 2025 across verticals such as from marketing, healthcare, and manufacturing. IoB connects AR and VR devices to cloud services like Amazon Web Services (AWS). Our Unity plug-in is now live so users can easily add IoB to projects.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal. But we’d also expect to see the existing edge providers such as Cloudflare, Fastly, Akamai, the big cloud providers like Amazon, Google, Microsoft and a host of open-source tools for automation, deployment, caching, federated learning, serverless computing and so on.

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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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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The VR ecosystem can end 2021 with a big smile on its face. This has been thanks to its massive growth: according to Rec Room’s Shawn Whiting, in March 2021 the total number of users was 2 million, while now they are 37. A look back at 2021. It’s the end of the year, and it’s time to look back at what has happened in 2021.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

They “will incorporate some of the key features found in the DualSense wireless controller, along with a focus on great ergonomics”; There will be a “new generation” of games and experiences for it; It is still under development and won’t launch in 2021. MWC Shanghai 2021 showcased some XR technologies. More info (Qualcomm AR Viewer?—?Road

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

Apple glasses are coming in 2021–2022 and they are incredibly sleek. He says that Apple AR glasses will come in 2021 and that he has seen them. Out of nowhere, Epic Games has teased the next version of Unreal Engine, Unreal Engine 5, due to be released in 2021. Standalone 5G headsets are coming in 2021. Yes, Airpods.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

Before leaving you to the best news of the week, I would like to highlight two notable things about my work: My crazy trolling game “The Unity Cube” has been featured in a video by Upload VR! It will be released to selected partners in Q4 2021 and to the general public in Q1 2022. Chip shortages are going to continue throughout 2021.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

According to the same report, the company will start taking developers onboard in 2021, for the release of a first mixed reality device in 2022 and an AR glass in 2023. The super-interesting eye tracking device Droolon F1 by 7Invensun is now in preorder on Taobao , with Amazon listing coming soon. Droolon F1 is now on sale in China.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 30, 2021

Ball is a former Amazon strategy executive turned investor. The fund’s top five holdings are Nvidia (8.93%), Microsoft (4.91%), Roblox (4.85%), Tencent, majority shareholder of Epic Games (4.80%) and Unity (3.99%). NVIDIA researchers won Best in Show award at SIGGRAPH 2021 for their real-time digital avatar technology.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2021

This week has been pretty crazy: It all started with Facebook approving my silly The Unity Cube application (an application with just a cube) on App Lab. This Quest-Focus-Neo mix will be launched in China on May, 10th 2021. The Rift S was already “a dead headset walking”, but now it is officially dead.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

The global pandemic has changed the rules for everything, and the situation is so confusing and so rapidly evolving that any prediction for 2021 is completely unreliable, too. 2021 won’t be the year of VR. Well, let’s be honest, this won’t happen in 2021, either.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

Oculus Quest 2 has disappeared from all Amazon EU websites. Kudos to Shachar Weis for discovering this: he told me about this news, and I have verified that it has disappeared completely from Amazon Italy and Amazon France, while some Redditors confirmed that the same holds for Amazon UK. This could be The Unity Cube 2.0.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Lynx will start this Kickstarter campaign in September 2021 and expects to ship its consumer device in February 2022 (but remember that delays with Kickstarter are very frequent). 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 15, 2021

This can be a fantastic feature for concierge services for hotels, restaurants, or similar structures (it reminds a bit of what Amazon Sumerian tried to offer some months ago, and that my friend Eloi exploited well ). Unity has bought Weta Digital for 1.6B. Unity has just bought Weta Digital for 1.6B.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

that should be released around 2021 should add support for VR devices. And i ts 2021+ timeline for XR makes me wonder if Huawei plans to release its headset around that date … that is more or less the same that we predict for Apple glasses. Amazon thinks using AR for its delivery agents. Thanks David for the tip). That is huge.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

This is not a tweet, it is a #metaverse message… #VirtualReality #VR #AR pic.twitter.com/f9aDJ2mbc3 — TonyVT SkarredGhost (@SkarredGhost) July 25, 2021. If it manages to enter the European market, it means that Meta can sell many millions of headsets more than in 2021. Epic has implemented it, and Unity is doing that too.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Upload hypothesizes that maybe a 2-year partnership with Lenovo forces them to do so until May 2021. Facebook is going to launch a pair of smartglasses in 2021. This long partnership will start with the first product, that will be shipped in 2021: a pair of fashionable smart glasses under the Ray-Ban brand.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

I think that we’ll have more info at OC7, with maybe a launch in 2021/2022. Unity is offering 3 months of Free Learning so that you can sharp your development skills. Greg Madison is a genius working on AR/VR UX at Unity Labs. Oculus has made its GDC announcements. Stay safe, stay at home and enjoy your time with VR! from 2019.

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