The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Tencent should start selling the headset beginning in late 2024 , with Meta getting most of the device revenue, while Tencent most of the content revenue. Samsung is one of the most important smartphone brands, and probably one of the few brands in the world that can try to compete with Apple. This is hugely disappointing.

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Road to VR

JUNE 8, 2023

Apple unveiled Vision Pro on Monday, its long-awaited standalone headset capable of both virtual and augmented reality. Apple’s launch of Vision Pro is still a good bit away—it’s coming first to the US in early 2024 at the hefty price of $3,500.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Developers can already access a preview of the development environment for native, Unity, WebXR. As for Project Moohan, details are very scarce: it seems like a mix of the Quest Pro and the Apple Vision Pro: it has an external battery, high-definition displays, and a very detailed passthrough. million units, down from 7.7

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This rumor mentions a thing we already heard from other sources, which is that Meta is working on a new cheap device for 2024, aiming at a price tag of $199. Apple is still working on a cheaper Vision Pro Meta is not the only company working on a cheaper device. But this article goes a bit more in detail about this topic.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Top news of the week Ray-Ban Meta sold 2 million devices EssilorLuxotticas CEO Francesco Milleri during the companys Q4 2024 earnings call this week praised the Ray-Ban Meta glasses for having been a big success. It feels good to have 15 minutes of celebrity sometimes And with all this happiness, lets dig into the best XR news of the week!

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

My feed on social media is full of posts about the Apple Vision Pro, which has just been released a few days ago. So, as you can expect, a big part of this newsletter will be about Apple’s device, but actually there are also a few interesting pieces of news that regard other products and other companies.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 31, 2024

AWE EU 2024 continues to highlight the leading XR announcements and advancements. The Fusion Sticky Notes solution aims to enable seamless enterprise collaboration within MR workspaces that users can view on various devices, such as an Apple Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

This is a very useful resource for all of us XR developers that are going very soon going to experiment with Mixed Reality applications on a headset by Meta, Apple, or one of their competitors. More info Immersed VISOR to support hand tracking and eye tracking It seems that Immersed truly wants to compete with Apple with its VISOR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

More info Some news about Apple Vision Pro The news and rumors about Vision Pro never end. In these two weeks, we got to discover that Apple is planning to organize demo sessions of Vision Pro inside the Apple Store venues and that in the beginning, the only way to buy a Vision Pro will be going to an Apple Store.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 31, 2024

Apple Vision Pro apps, coming to Apple’s latest spatial computing experience, will ensure individuals and teams can make the most of their new headset. Initially, Apple didn’t reveal much information about the apps available on the Vision Pro. Think of things like the Apple iCloud and Wallet apps.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

We have lots of non-news about Apple’s XR efforts. The hype around Apple glasses is huge , and everything that gets shared about Apple and XR gets many views. We already knew that Tim likes AR and “what we have to offer” may also be a potato with an Apple brand costing $400. Other relevant news. Image by The Information).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 15, 2023

We plan to continue maintaining the system software with critical bug fixes and security patches until 2024. Some selected developers have received the Apple headset. Could this really be the year of the Apple headset? Unity adds OpenXR hand integration package. We won’t be delivering new features to Quest 1.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

These are the improvements it applied: Changes in prices will start with the next Unity 2023 LTS, so existing applications will not be affected, at least while the use previous Unity versions Unity Personal will still be free (now up to 200K of revenues) and applications made with it will be subject to no fee at all.

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Upload VR

MARCH 14, 2025

The new capability was announced at Meta Connect 2024 in September as coming this year. The exception was that on visionOS 2, Apple is gives enterprise companies raw access to Vision Pro's passthrough cameras for non-public internal apps, but this requires a special licence from Apple and is restricted to "in a business setting only".

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Now, I don’t want to sound like a balloon popper, but VRChat basically lets you use Unity for the development, so most of the content that can be developed in Unity and that does not require low-level features like reading files or connecting with custom servers can be done in VRChat.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Last week’s Unite 2023 event saw a massive amount of updates from Unity, the world’s largest real-time 3D (RT3D) gaming engine company. The Unite 2023 event, a meeting of minds for Unity developers, solution providers, and executives, explored the latest updates on the leading platform.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

More info Apple Vision Pro offers an incredible hand segmentation A leaked screenshot from an Apple Vision Pro devkit shows how the Vision Pro is able to show almost perfectly the hand of the user above virtual content. This would show the level of polish of the upcoming Apple headset.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Many people are analyzing the Apple Vision Pro… including the ones at Meta Here you are with the usual huge roundup of news about the Apple Vision Pro (a roundup in a roundup). This week both Zuck, the CEO of Meta, and Boz, the CTO of Meta, expressed their opinions on the Apple Vision Pro.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 2, 2024

Effective May 15, 2024, Unity is introducing Matthew Bromberg as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer, President, and member of the Unity Board of Directors as the firm moves towards deploying its engine as an enterprise-grade RT3D design and collaboration – namely for game development and creating XR applications.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

More info Discover Quest 3 and Apple Vision Pro cost estimations A Chinese firm has tried to estimate the cost of the components of both the Quest 3 and the Apple Vision Pro. The second one is that the Apple Vision Pro is so next-gen that one of its displays costs just a bit less than all the components of Quest 3!

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Shortly after Apple Vision Pro launch in early 2024 developers will gather for VisionDevCamp to work on app ideas for the new headset. The event is unaffiliated with Apple and will be held in the San Francisco area shortly after the U.S. launch of Apple Vision Pro early in 2024. "In

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Recently, XR Today released its State of XR 2024 report which spoke to leaders in the broad immersive technology industry to consolidate expert insights and data related to the current state of AR/VR/MR in business environments. The XR industry is in a very exciting place in 2024. That XR reach is global!

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Quest headsets have long been great for playing immersive games, but not so great for the kind of basic ‘desktop productivity’ that Apple’s Vision Pro excels at. That’s been supported by heaps of tools that developers rely on to build, iterate, deploy, and update those apps—all made for developing flatscreen apps.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 18, 2020

billion last year to $21 billion by 2024. We call this category “AR as a Service,” and it includes companies of all sizes — from Adobe to Unity to 8th Wall. billion by 2024. million units in 2024. The wild card here is Apple’s rumored market entrance in 2022. units by 2024. billion in 2020.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The device is a pair of advanced haptic gloves that will be available for pre-order until November 30, 2024, at €3,900. The XR revolution is coming, with new AR/VR/MR solutions debuting throughout 2024. Following the pre-order window, WEART will sell the TouchDIVER Pro package for €4,900.

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MAY 3, 2024

This is partly due to the Apple Vision Pro, which led to XR having another mainstream moment. Numerous large-scale industry showcases are due later in the year by way of Apple’s WWDC and Meta Connect events – as these moments arise, new trends and industry shake-ups will come with it. Now, the noise is starting to subside.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2023

To a request for further explanations by Upload, Microsoft answered that the future release of Windows that will remove the software will happen in late 2024. Speaking with the journalist Alex Heath, Boz claimed that Meta will unveil a very expensive prototype for AR glasses already in 2024. And that “ As of Nov.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Apple is set to debut its Vision Pro mixed reality (MR) headset in March next year, Bloomberg reported on Monday. Apple successfully built its own processors, but the company’s in-house technologies team has a lot more to design, including cameras and screens.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Announced in December 2024 , Android XR marks the beginning of a unified ecosystem that will power countless devices, from VR headsets and mixed reality glasses, to augmented displays (like those on your standard smartphone). What is Android XR? Beyond that, developers will be able to take advantage of other toolkits.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2023

Mark Gurman in his latest update confirmed that Apple will announce its Reality Pro headset in Spring , give more details about its development practices during WWDC, and then release the device during the autumn. The new report regards other devices in the work at Apple. But this is something that we already knew.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 3, 2023

Today, reports are emerging, sparking speculation over Apple’s Vision Pro production plans. Recent reports are highlighting how Apple’s hardware and manufacturing partners are reducing forecasts surrounding the assembly of Vision Pro devices.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Meanwhile, eye tracking is a core part of its pinch selection interface in Apple Vision Pro. At AWE in 2024, we tried out the AirMouse with its natural interface tying together with eyewear. Meta HorizonOS works without eye tracking being necessary, and neither Quest 3 nor 3S include eye or face tracking sensors.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2024

What started as a quiet continuation of July soon became a busy month of leaks, rumours, device debuts, and far more as vendors look to eye up the lucrative end-of-year holiday season and Meta Connect 2024 industry hype wave. However, Meta cancelled La Jolla due to the cost of the competitive OLED display technology.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 12, 2023

It appears that Apple is very much getting ready to release its Vision Pro device. Following its announcement earlier this year, Apple has been cautious about confirming a specific release date for the Vision Pro. However, with the currently available information, Apple is aiming for a March 2024 window.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 24, 2023

2024 is the year of body-tracking. In the wake of Apple’s spatial computing showcase, which unveiled the Vision Pro, a device that doesn’t include a controller and opts for hand-tracking input, many firms are doubling down on support for the next generation of XR input.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Apple is gearing up for the Vision Pro debut. However, a key difference and benefit that Apple has over some of its competition is the already-established iOS ecosystem of products and software. On the other hand, Apple is not the only XR firm pushing for interoperability and cross-pollination of hardware and software.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 15, 2024

Here, I’ll introduce you to the benefits of AR kits and the top options you can explore in 2024. The Top Augmented Reality Kits in 2024 As the augmented reality market continues to grow, new development kits, SDKs, and solutions are emerging all the time. What are Augmented Reality Kits? This all simplifies the development journey.

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