The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

I am a bit sad no one gave an award to The Unity Cube , though… I would have loved to get a “Worst Application Award 2021” from Road To VR…. The result is that many big brands are canceling their presence at CES: Google, Intel, Microsoft, Meta, Lenovo, and many others, have decided not to go , and maybe provide their news virtually.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Affected companies include Meta Platforms, Amazon, and the global cryptocurrency community. Multinational XR firms like Lenovo, ByteDance’s Pico Interactive, HTC VIVE, Varjo, and Microsoft are leading the charge for immersive transformations. According to IDC data, VR headset shipments are expected to increase 42.88

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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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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

All the 3 major VR runtimes (Oculus, SteamVR, Microsoft) are now compatible with OpenXR , and this means that on the runtime layer on PC, now OpenXR has been fully integrated. This means that if you develop an experience using OpenXR, you can run it on Oculus, SteamVR, and Microsoft runtimes with no modification.

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Cats and VR

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Unity announced that it has hired Dr. Danny Lange as VP of AI and Machine Learning. As head of machine learning, Lange will lead Unity’s efforts around AI (Artificial Intelligence) and Machine Learning. Previously, Lange was General Manager of Amazon Machine Learning -- an AWS product that offers Machine Learning as a Cloud Service.

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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

JANUARY 22, 2021

Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). Of course, Microsoft and Amazon are observing the situation: in my opinion, Microsoft will wait a bit , considering its focus on AR enterprise with HoloLens, while Amazon could improve its already existing offering of glasses connected with Alexa. Sounded good.

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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. This week, Microsoft announced that MRTK will migrate to an independent GitHub account and that the project will be supported by a consortium including Microsoft, Magic Leap, and Qualcomm.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 31, 2024

Apple has said significant companies like Microsoft and Disney will be producing apps for the system, but there isn’t much information about these apps on Apple’s site so far. Apple also works with Microsoft on solutions like Teams for the Apple Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

He has a very interesting working story, having worked for great companies like Microsoft and Fast Company. As John Riccitiello (CEO of Unity) said some years ago , the VR market won’t be interesting enough until it will reach the 10 million users mark. Amazon and Tesla could be two outsider of the XR ecosystem instead.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The same element can so be compatible both with Unreal Engine, and Unity, but also Roblox and Minecraft. The reason is that the newest Microsoft laptops feature a neural processing unit (NPU) that improves processing power and battery efficiency when running AR experiences. A Creator Platform for next-gen to ‘Socialize.’

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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

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! Johnson has worked at Microsoft and Qualcomm before, and she is a very respected executive. Amazon is opening its AR Beauty Salon.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 1, 2024

More info (Logitech MX Ink now available) More info (My hands-on with the device) The end of HoloLens 2 Microsoft has officially announced the end-of-life of the Microsoft HoloLens 2: the company is now selling the last stock and will slowly discontinue the headset. A Creator Platform for next-gen to ‘Socialize.’

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Sometimes VR without a headset can be cool too More info (U2 concert in the dome / 1) More info (U2 concert in the dome / 2) More info (U2 concert in the dome / 3) Microsoft launches Mesh For Enterprise In Beta After many years of working on it, finally, Microsoft has finally released a preview of Microsoft Mesh dedicated to the enterprise sector.

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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%). These are stocks picked by Matthew Ball, author of the metaverse manifesto.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

After the report of last week by Insider, in which Alex Kipman was accused of improper behavior at work, especially towards women, Alex Kipman has resigned from Microsoft. 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.

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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. That’s why even Microsoft took Epic’s stances : Microsoft uses UE4 to develop some products also for Apple devices, and this decision hurts also its business.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

If these Facebook features proved to be popular, more developers would use them, and finally, Facebook could have more power on the VR development tools , after the failed acquisition of Unity. affiliate link) More info (Quest on Amazon? affiliate link) More info (Quest on Amazon?—?affiliate affiliate link).

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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

However, with 2024 shaping up to be a monumental year for XR, with Microsoft, NVIDIA, Amazon, and Apple all putting major stakes and investments into the space, what companies do today could greatly influence the future of work. The firm is rolling out the features starting in early December this year for free.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

There will be a new launcher, improved graphics, improved in-game camera, production-ready Unity SDK for the creators, improved full-body VR, and much more. First of all, the Web3 VR platform has announced version 3.0 which is releasing this autumn with a massive update in which basically everything will be improved.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

” Rival firm Microsoft bought Activision Blizzard to expand its portfolio of solutions in a historic $68 billion deal. This has greatly expanded Microsoft’s future ambitions for metaverse technologies such as cloud computing, digital avatars, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and others.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2022

Respawn Entertainment and Unity. Following a successful experience with Unity Hybrid Scaling for Apex Legends, Respawn decided to work with Unity once again on its new immersive experience. Unity helped with everything from matchmaking in VR, to voice communications for the development of the new game.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The incumbents like Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft or Snap already own global social graphs, but perhaps looking to unseat them could be the multiplayer gaming behemoths like Sony, Activision Blizzard or EA, or 3D-specific ideas like Aura’s “avatar as a service”.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

This event, sponsored by market-leading vendors like Unity and Qualcomm, provides attendees with a unique opportunity to discover the latest cutting-edge technologies in the immersive space. Participants can even register to take part in workshops, tutorials, demonstrations and more.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 1, 2023

We’re already seeing aspects of spatial computing emerge in everything from collaborative platforms like Microsoft Teams to smartphones. Foremost cloud leaders like AWS and Microsoft offer access to spatial computing solutions, such as Amazon Sumerian, for 3D scene creation. With a projected value of $544.6

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

Image by Microsoft). Microsoft has released more specifications for its upcoming XBOX Series X, and from these data is clearly possible to see that it will be compatible with VR headsets. 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. Learn more.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 4, 2023

Developers can create AR and VR applications for a range of devices by utilising Unity SDK frameworks. Moreover, XMS leverages Amazon Lex and Microsoft Azure AI to integrate conversational AI avatars to provide instant feedback during training scenarios.

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Cats and VR

MAY 1, 2017

Built in Unity , the title has added a new single-player AI mode and supports multiplayer matches. The mobile AR version is available for iOS and Android on both Amazon and the HappyGiant website for $24.99 Next gen AR and VR platforms, including but not limited to Microsoft HoloLens and Google Tango are also being explored.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

For me this is not a fortunate sentence: this is what Alex Kipman said about the HoloLens, a few weeks before the whole Microsoft Mixed Reality division was disbanded and he was fired from the company. One of these people was Andrew Bosworth, which has rebuked the report , saying “not to believe everything you read”.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

More info Jim Ryan hints at a possible PlayStation metaverse The court documents related to the FTC vs Microsoft trial related to the acquisition of Activision contain a very interesting piece of information related to what Sony may be working on. This would be great for having a more natural interaction on Quest 3. Wait, what???

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

We’re already seeing aspects of spatial computing emerge in everything from collaborative platforms like Microsoft Teams to smartphones. Foremost cloud leaders like AWS and Microsoft offer access to spatial computing solutions, such as Amazon Sumerian, for 3D scene creation. With a projected value of $544.6

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

The third major change came from Unity which recently announced that it will now be serving AR ads on mobile. Unity has one of the world’s largest mobile ad serving businesses and at the end of last year they partnered with Fossil to pilot this new ad format in mobile games. Virtual humans are getting more and more real.

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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. March 2016. November 2016.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 17, 2023

With partners like Unity, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Intel, the GDC event showcases some of the latest technologies in the XR world from the biggest businesses. This year, leading names like Deborah Oyeyinka from Unity Technologies , and Kristofor Mellroth of Xbox are set to attend.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Microsoft Hololens is a key player in the MR market. It has the ability to create a cross platform code where users can create their projects in either JavaScript, Unity, Xamarin, and Cordova. It has applications for creating digital advertisements, visualization etc. Mixed Reality (MR)  — It is a combination of both AR and VR.

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