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

JULY 24, 2023

But I hope you’ll enjoy this newsletter coming from the world of the undead anyway… Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Apple starts accepting applications for Vision Pro devkits Apple has started accepting applications from interested developers to get a Vision Pro to develop XR experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The headset is already selling well, and it is currently the most-sold gaming console on Amazon. More info (Vive Focus Vision hands-on) More info (Vive Focus Vision teardown) Unity launches Unity 6 Unity has finally launched its new version: Unity 6. It should cost 15000 yuan, which equates to circa $2100.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

We were all waiting for an Apple announcement, hoping that it could bring back some enthusiasm into the field, and it seems that the Vision Pro is having some beneficial effects , indeed. Apple showed investors that XR is not a fad, and even if it is still in its early stages, it is going to stay. appeared first on The Ghost Howls.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Regarding the glasses, I have not big hopes for true AR glasses, but I think that thanks to Facebook and Apple, finally we’ll have some important smartglasses entering the market , making the mainstream think about wearing something on their face to enjoy notifications from the phone. Phone AR will be always more popular.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

More info (Ultraleap teasing a new device) More info (Maybe a new sensor is coming) Has Palmer Luckey tried the Apple headset? This week we had the usual articles about the Apple headset speculating its upcoming launch for June, 5th and stressing how Apple is launching for the first time a product that has not a clear market.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2023

After having announced some of the features and the price just before the launch of the Apple Vision Pro, now the company formerly known as Facebook is already working towards the launch of the device. If you are a Unity developer like me, don’t forget to subscribe to the Unity 2022 Beta dedicated to Vision OS.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

But things on the consumers’ side may not be going as well: according to some data scrapped from Amazon, the Quest 2 outsold the Quest 3 by a factor of 3:1 in the last 30 days. This would show the level of polish of the upcoming Apple headset. If all the existing flatscreen Unity games could become VR-compatible, that would be huge.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 10, 2022

As this article was being written, Varjo further expanded its cloud with Unreal and Unity engine integrations. While almost all non-Apple mobile devices run Android, it is also the backbone of many XR headsets.). Likewise, AutoDesk offers its XR cloud services through a partnership with Amazon. CloudXR From NVIDIA.

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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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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

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Apple’s end goal is the one of building lightweight AR glasses that people wear all day, too, so it’s pretty normal that people at Cupertino are concerned about the work that Meta is doing (this is one of the positive side effects that I envisioned about the reveal of Orion , and in fact, it came true).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 26, 2020

With the One App, creators have access to the full power of ARCore and ARKit for the best possible AR experiences. ( Apple Store ) ( Play Store ). With other game engines already available, both on standalone (Unity, UE4) and web (Sumerian), why did you feel the need to create a new one? You can try it here (Image by MetaVRse).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Amazon promises “single-digit latency” XR streaming. Amazon has announced some weeks ago “Wavelength”, a new offering of its AWS services, that should provide “single-digit latency” over 5G networks. Unity now supports Vulkan for Oculus Quest. Unity has finally implemented Vulkan support for the Oculus Quest, in Unity 2019.3.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Someone invokes saviors like Google and Amazon, but even if they managed to succeed, they are other data-harvesting companies , so in any case, we are f**ked. Apple threatens future support in Unreal Engine. All Apple software, SDKs, APIs, and developer tools ?—?Pre-release Image by Epic Games).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 5, 2017

Unity Technologies and Epic Games are in a grudge match for the hearts and minds of game developers. I interviewed both John Riccitiello, CEO of San Francisco-based Unity, and Tim Sweeney, CEO of Raleigh, N.C.-based The Unity-based games reached a billion new devices since GDC 2016. Ditto with Google and ditto with Microsoft.”.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

An Amazon ad appearing on the streaming platform Peacock shows the Meta Quest 3 and Quest 3S and the caption: “Meta Quest, starting at $299.99”. Regarding the actual release date, we have also a rumor: someone spotted on the Australian Amazon page an entry about the Quest 3S and the availability date being October, 16.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Apple Vision Pro is a very impressive fusion of hardware and software, but it's by no means perfect. Apple Vision Pro Specs, Features & Details Apple officially revealed the full Vision Pro specs when opening preorders today. And Apple did not send UploadVR a review unit, we bought our own. But does it deliver?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

Another leak regarded the release date: an Amazon listing put the availability date of the Quest 3 starting from October, 10th. That’s fantastic news for all Unity XR developers! More info Is Apple working on the Vision Pro since 2007? 2018 is 5 years ago, which is coherent with the 7-years timespan rumored for this device.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

More info Apple Vision Pro may have a very slow start The same Ming-Chi Kuo, who probably woke up with a lot of pessimism that day, has also expressed doubts about the widespread success of the Apple Vision Pro. This would mean that Apple’s XR offering should rely for 3 years on a very expensive headset with very low sales.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Considering the leaks on Amazon and MediaMarkt, the device will probably be available starting from October, 10th, 2023. The “Applification” The Apple Vision Pro Since Meta is scared by Apple, I’m sure that Zuck will try to copy the same use cases Apple showed for its Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Unity support for OpenXR is still in early beta , and so it’s not reliable yet to develop an OpenXR-compliant application in Unity. We Unity developers have still to use the current Unity tools that make us develop once, but then build for every different platform (like the ones I describe in this article ).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

More info (Leaked pictures of Quest 3s shell) More info (Quest 3s passed FCC certification) Samsung MR headset is close, but the endgame may be AR glasses It’s not a secret that Samsung is working with Google and Qualcomm on a new mixed reality headset that could rival Apple Vision Pro and that should be released this year.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JUNE 9, 2023

This week has circled Apple, the legacy consumer hardware innovator shocked audiences in many ways when it debuted the Vision Pro, fairly stealing headlines as hyped ramped during the event’s leading months. Apple Debuts Vision Pro This week the news finally broke. Perhaps Apple will go the way of Meta’s reputation.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Apple AR glasses may be released in 2022–2023. Apple remains committed to AR, it still believes it is the technology that will supersede smartphones , but the technology is not ready to create something that is worth the Apple logo now. More info (Apple glasses delayed to 2022) More info (Apple glasses delay).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The author of the video has used a free app available on the Apple Store and with it, it was able to scan 3D objects with a quality and a speed never seen before. Someone has made a WebAR exporter for Unity. This means that, even with many limitations, you’ll be able to create WebAR experiences from within Unity.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 29, 2024

Meta is reportedly optimistic about the release of Apple Vision Pro, seeing itself as the future Android of the market. The Wall Street Journal cites "people familiar with their thinking" as saying that Meta executives believe Apple's entry into the market will "validate Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble and draw more consumers".

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ARVR

JUNE 29, 2020

The Smart-Accessory Revolution A Pew Research Center survey conducted at the beginning of 2013 showed that only 51% of adults in the United States owned a smartphone, 6 years after the launch of the 1st-generation Apple iPhone. Another survey conducted mid-June 2019, 4 years since the debut of the Apple Watch, showed that roughly 1-in-5 U.S.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The incumbents have an advantage with existing mapping such as Google Maps, Earth, Street View, Apple Maps and the Indoor Maps Program, and Bing Maps but there are also significant geographic data players such as Foursquare and OpenStreetMap. In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2018

It is one of those places where people look for 3D models , alongside other marketplaces like the Unity Asset Store, Google Poly or Turbosquid. Not to mention how 3D technologies are being adopted and developed by major companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

From time to time, I like to look at the adoption graph of XR shown by John Riccitiello (the CEO of Unity) in 2017 , where you can see that the real acceleration of immersive technologies should start around 2022-2023. Yes, it’s a lot of time, but these are realistic projections.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 1, 2023

While spatial computing isn’t an entirely new concept, major market leaders like Apple believe it will shape the future of our digital interactions. This includes the development of more comfortable, lightweight, and powerful wearable headsets, like the impeding Apple Vision Pro.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

While spatial computing isn’t an entirely new concept, major market leaders like Apple believe it will shape the future of our digital interactions. This includes the development of more comfortable, lightweight, and powerful wearable headsets, like the impeding Apple Vision Pro.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

It has the ability to create a cross platform code where users can create their projects in either JavaScript, Unity, Xamarin, and Cordova. ARKit  — ARKit is one of the powerful AR SDK released by Apple on 2017 to build AR solutions using iOS devices. Types of AR Following are the types of AR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Furthemore, the platform is compatible with most gaming engines, including Unity, Unreal Engine, and others. This also includes Amazon Polly, Mixamo, Apple’s ARKit, and many more. It also uses batch content creation and editing to permit users to command hundreds of characters for immersive spaces.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

A series of announcements from Amazon, Crytek, Epic Games and Unity Technologies showcase an evolution among their respective game engines into VR world creation toolsets. In fact, developers using Unity and SteamVR start effectively standardizing this mixed reality capture method.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

Is this really what Apple wants? (Thanks Robert Scoble for this news!). 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. This is one of the weirdest rag-doll experiments in Unity. More info Buy it now!

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