The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

This trend will continue in 2021 : the new LiDAR sensor, which is rumored to be installed in all future iPhones, will for sure be copied also by Android phones (Samsung?) There are vaiours solutions to also export Unity XR projects to the web (Image by Mozilla). and I can expect more realistic filters with depth occlusion to come soon.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

Image by Samsung, taken from Upload VR). Samsung may launch a next-gen Samsung Odyssey. A recent filing at the Chinese IP offices makes us speculate on a new PC VR headset in the works by Samsung. Unity changes how it handles XR Plugins. That said, let’s have a look at this interesting week in AR and VR.

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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

JUNE 19, 2023

We all joked about Samsung waiting for the Apple Vision Pro announcement to copy it, but according to some rumors, this is exactly what is happening. But having these new displays is a huge undertaking, and the production may only start later this year. Anyway, these are all rumors, so take them with a big grain of salt.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2024

The first call I had with Ohto Pentikainen, the CEO, and Jamin Hu, the CTO, happened in 2022… it’s a while since this company has been working on creating innovative interfaces thanks to the use of smartwatches.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In the anime Sword Art Online, November 6th, 2022 is the day in which the VRMMORPG goes public. Samsung is still working on AR glasses and its new internal prototype seems to be called SM-I120. Mindport helps you in building your Unity VR experiences. We can say that Pimax has launched Nintendo Switch and Labo 2.0 Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

Samsung Exynos 2200 introduces ray tracing on mobile. Samsung has just announced its new Exynos 2200 mobile chipset , powered by AMD RDNA 2 architecture. With this simple tool, it is possible instead to make some quick tests in play mode , because the pose of the headset is streamed from the headset to Unity. Some XR fun.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

A leaked image from the Oculus team shows that the company is working to implement body tracking inside the Oculus Unity SDK. Microsoft is keeping pursuing AR, and in fact, part of the resources that were devoted to HoloLens 3 are now dedicated to what is known as project Bondi, which is the AR glasses that Microsoft is building with Samsung.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

Rumors already talk about a new AR headset produced by Microsoft in collaboration with Samsung that should substitute it, but we have no sure info about it. Things are going great lately, and for this, we are going to hire different figures including: Unity developers 2D/3D artists UI/UX designers Project Managers. Apply for this job!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

This means that probably we’ll need to wait at least for CES 2021 or 2022 to see again something that will truly amaze us. Samsung AR glasses. Probably the true surprise of the whole show has been Samsung, that during its press conference has teased some AR glasses. Ok Samsung, you have our attention.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

I see 2020 as a good year of consolidation, where VR will grow linearly before the expected explosion around 2022. In the end, I still believe in the old predictions of Unity CEO John Riccitiello: Look at this graph shown by Mr. Riccitiello in 2017: the purple line is the one of the analysts, while the white one is the one forecasted by him.

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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. Microsoft and Samsung may be partnering for an AR device.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Top news of the week (Image by Android Authority) Google is adding XR support to Play Store in preparation for the launch of the Samsung headset A report from Android Authority highlights that XR support is being added to the Google Play Store. Someone in the community already built a Unity plugin for it. It was incredibly reliable.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

We are at the same level of Vive Focus or Vive Pro… probably the display is the same made by Samsung. This is the same chip of the Samsung S8 and it is not the latest available for VR: Qualcomm has already released the 845 VR reference design. For instance, in Unity, the Oculus Utilities plugin is the same for PC, Go and GearVR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

As always in January I like to play the speculation game and make my personal predictions for augmented and virtual reality for the new year (2022, in this case). This is still the situation in this first part of 2022. I think that in a good part of 2022 we will just see the VR market growing because of the huge growth of the Quest 2.

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