Hypergrid Business

APRIL 5, 2023

In mid March , Google announced the end of Google Glass Enterprise. In 2021 and 2022, Reality Labs — its metaverse division — reported a total loss of nearly $24 billion. I watched the Game Developers Conference presentations from Nvidia , Unreal Engine , and Unity. Image courtesy Unreal Engine.)

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

RT3D engines such as Unity and Unreal significantly streamline XR production pipelines with easy-to-use tools. NVIDIA Instant NeRF NVIDIA debuted Instant NeRF in April 2022, and the software creates digital twins based on 2D images of real-world objects, people, and entire environments.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2022

Similar to Apple, Google wants to ensure developers and gaming companies can introduce the most exciting and immersive mobile apps for their users. ARCore works seamlessly with a range of other tools, including the Unity and Unreal environments so that developers can bring all of their most valuable software together.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The Immerse Global Summit (IGS) 2022 took place in Miami 5 to 7 December, and concluded its final days in the sunny backdrop of Miami Beach’s historic Fontainebleu Hotel. It develops immersive experiences based on knowledge across verticals such as entertainment, tourism, culture, sports, and others.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 17, 2023

Google Google’s AR environment is designed to work on various qualified Android devices and solutions, so companies can build augmented reality into virtually any tool they choose. The solution also integrates with Unity, Unreal, and even the iOS environment in some cases.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The Immerse Global Summit 2022 Miami concluded on Wednesday, where some of the biggest players in the tech industry gathered to explore the future of Web3 technologies. XR Today: What have been your biggest takeaways from the IGS 2022 Miami? Brian Vogelsang : My biggest takeaway has been the excitement across the industry.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 23, 2023

Web3 and the Metaverse were 2022’s significant tech trends. As of September 2022 , NIKELAND has roughly 7 million users across 223 countries. RT3D engine providers from leaders like Unreal and Unity are providing enterprise end-users with an accessible Web3 and Metaverse content creation method with an incredible low-skill curve.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 21, 2023

In 2021, US technology giant Nvidia announced it was starting its journey into the cloud streaming world with help from the Google Cloud. Companies can stream the same data to multiple devices simultaneously and leverage potentially infinite storage, processing, and computing power without hardware restrictions.

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Ryan Schultz

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Helios , an Unreal-based social VR platform which actually came and went before I even had a chance to add it to the spreadsheet! However, two other social VR platforms using HiFi’s codebase, Vircadia and Overte are still up and running, at least, the last time I checked!

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Image by Google). Google is reportedly working on an AR operating system. In some of my past newsletters, I warned you that we shouldn’t forget about Google/Alphabet in the race to our mixed reality future. Now we have finally an official confirmation of the fact that Google is working on an AR device. Tilt Brush).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

Image by Google). Google performs interesting AR news at I/O conference. At Google I/O, no executive of the company has talked about the M-word, but they have anyway showed interesting AR updates, which will be relevant for our future M-world. Another cool announcement has been the one of Immersive View for Google Maps.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

Apple glasses are coming in 2021–2022 and they are incredibly sleek. This week, the analysts Ming-Chi Kuo has teased that Apple Glasses are coming in 2022 at the earliest (2022–2023 timeline). The rumors also talk about a headset coming in 2022 with AR/VR and another one coming in 2023 as a smartglass.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2021

The plan for the end of 2022 is to integrate everything in an even smaller form factor so that the lightfield can fit inside standard frames. The environment where she has performed in was made in Unreal Engine and the modeling and the shading was so good that for a moment I thought it was a real studio. Google AR Cloud Streaming.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

But it is anyway great news and makes us hope for a great 2022 for the whole XR ecosystem. The headset is expected for Q4 2022 , with no preorders available. CES 2022 is going to be less cool than expected. Some months ago, it was announced that CES 2022 would have had a physical edition again. This is great.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

This move resembles the one that Google had with TiltBrush: instead of killing the program, it is returning it back to the community, and this is for sure a good decision. Yes, you’ve read everything well. It has 4.5DOF. Watch a Quest 2 getting watercooled.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

I think that from the results of this battle, which will happen most probably in 2022, we will understand the trends that will drive the VR gaming market in all the upcoming years. Unreal is already compatible with the framework, so in 2021 we’ll soon have also the tools ready to create OpenXR cross-compatible platforms.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Mark Rabkin showed a whole slide about Unreal Engine and announced camera access. I already had my travel plans figured out for Unreal Fest Seattle, where my company was giving several talks , followed by a Star Wars convention in Orlando, where we’d be exhibiting our open source recreation of the Galactic Starcruiser.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

But it seems that Meta is also working on other broader options, and we will know about them in 2022. Considering that Quest supports multitasking for 2D apps, this is great to use the Quest as a tool to work: you could have Slack in one Window, and Google Doc in another, and work on a document together with your team.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The expected sales of these devices are around 3M units in 2023 for the first generation (to be launched at the end of 2022) and around 10M in 2024 for the second generation. It is a big showcase demo for its Unreal Engine 5, and I have to say it is pretty impressive. Epic Games releases Matrix Resurrections tie-in experience.

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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). Both Facebook and Google have decided to double down on AR effects inside calls. AR users to reach 800M by the end of the year. billion) and ARkit (1.25

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The company blames the chip shortage and says in a blog post that the headset now can’t cost less than $700, plus it must be delayed until the end of 2022. The short-term goal is to provide better tools to professional video creators , so Unity can compete better with Unreal Engine, which is already used in Hollywood productions.

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Building the Metaverse

APRIL 12, 2022

Whether we create something in Roblox, Unity or Unreal; architect an immersive space in VR; or build a decentralized application?—?we Will an oligopoly rule the identity systems of the future, much as “Login with Google” and “Login with Facebook” have done in the current generation of technology? Composability is Compound Interest?

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