The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

This is huge news because all the most popular XR headsets that are on the market are based on Qualcomm’s reference designs, so here we are talking about a technology that will pave the way to the next generation of XR headsets. The book is coming in March, 2024, but can already be preordered on Amazon. SteamVR 2.0

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

If you want to know more, you can refer to the official pages of the A6000 and A40. For more info, you can refer to NVIDIA’s official post on the matter. Check with OEM vendors for details on availability. Support for NVIDIA virtual GPU software, including Quadro Virtual Workstation, will be available early next year.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Recently, Engage announced it wanted to build Engage Link (previously referred to as Engage Oasis), a professional social VR world , where important universities and companies could have their permanent hub. The framerate in the artistic district was poor , and probably the space should have been optimized more, or split into smaller worlds.

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AR Insider

MARCH 24, 2020

Often, the term is used in reference to industrial uses. This category also includes developer tools such as Unity and AR democratization tools such as Amazon Sumerian or Adobe Aero. Enterprise AR, particularly in industrial settings, has been positioned as AR’s saving grace while consumer adoption lingers.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The image above, clearly an homage to the legendary Unity Cube , demonstrates the position and orientation of optical sensors across different surfaces of the object… this would ensure that sensors are always available as the object is turned or moved. Finally, it’s common to see some “firmware” references in the JSON.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

Qualcomm releases XR2 5G reference design. Qualcomm has finally released the reference design for AR/VR headsets based on the XR2 chipset (a special version of the Snapdragon 865 for XR headsets), and it will pave the way for the standalone headsets of the future. This is one of the weirdest rag-doll experiments in Unity.

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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.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Foremost cloud leaders like AWS and Microsoft offer access to spatial computing solutions, such as Amazon Sumerian, for 3D scene creation. Companies like Unity also create tools to make eye and gaze tracking more accurate.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Foremost cloud leaders like AWS and Microsoft offer access to spatial computing solutions, such as Amazon Sumerian, for 3D scene creation. Companies like Unity also create tools to make eye and gaze tracking more accurate.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2025

Goertek, one of the main manufacturers of XR devices, proposed new reference designs for smart glasses and AR glasses, and this will make even more companies release products of this kind. Apart from the Amazon top classification, last week I also reported about the Meta Horizon companion app for phones topping the Apple App Store.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

The reference to the tether is a clear statement about the fact that Sony aims at offering quality, and it is not interested in the casual gamers that are the target of the Quest (for now). Unity support for OpenXR is still in early beta , and so it’s not reliable yet to develop an OpenXR-compliant application in Unity.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

I remember years ago — I think it was probably, I want to say about five years ago — we had a Unity session in our office, where we did Unity development basics, and we invited a lot of companies from the area in Austin to come to our office, and we would run a Unity training session around 2D/3D asset development.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

I remember years ago — I think it was probably, I want to say about five years ago — we had a Unity session in our office, where we did Unity development basics, and we invited a lot of companies from the area in Austin to come to our office, and we would run a Unity training session around 2D/3D asset development.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

I remember years ago -- I think it was probably, I want to say about five years ago -- we had a Unity session in our office, where we did Unity development basics, and we invited a lot of companies from the area in Austin to come to our office, and we would run a Unity training session around 2D/3D asset development.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

I mean, all UE developers, we Unity developers felt like being in a party where everyone is making out and you’re just there sipping a coke. NVIDIA is a strong partner of Qualcomm and surely this solution is made to be used with the future standalone headsets that will be powered by XR2 Reference Design.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

Your construction model becomes your reference from which you build, and it becomes truly stocked when you connect it to the data of the building, and so you can visualize all about your building in real time. And some of them are built on Unity, others are built on Unreal. In it you do asset management, every door has an asset tag.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

Your construction model becomes your reference from which you build, and it becomes truly stocked when you connect it to the data of the building, and so you can visualize all about your building in real time. And some of them are built on Unity, others are built on Unreal. In it you do asset management, every door has an asset tag.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

The same Unity plugin is able to serve all Oculus devices and this helps a lot in developing cross-platform titles. The SDK is also very well documented and it is easy to find the solution to your problems also in Oculus and Unity forums since the Oculus dev community is far from being little. Specifications.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

Your construction model becomes your reference from which you build, and it becomes truly stocked when you connect it to the data of the building, and so you can visualize all about your building in real time. And some of them are built on Unity, others are built on Unreal. In it you do asset management, every door has an asset tag.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

I think this may also have negative effects on the XR ecosystem in general: now the biggest headset producer has a strong partnership with the company making all the reference designs for all the XR headsets… and it seems that Meta’s competitors can launch their headsets only a few months after Meta, because they can not do it before.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

According to MacRumors, internal builds of the iOS 13 operating systems already contain references to AR functionalities and AR glasses. MacRumors report references to Starboard, that seems the menu to start the applications in augmented reality (Springboard is the name of the home screen of iPhone devices, as Upload reminds us).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

Lumus Maximus proves to be one of the most interesting reference designs for AR glasses. Amazon now offers the possibility to try-on shoes in AR on its app. 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. Other news.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2021

This week has been pretty crazy: It all started with Facebook approving my silly The Unity Cube application (an application with just a cube) on App Lab. The sentence, as highlighted by Road To VR, may be a reference that it will be an enterprise headset. Not much, honestly.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

But they claim having also seen a Unity experience running from it (maybe it will be possible to develop for Horizon with Unity, as it is possible with VRChat), so developers may still be able to create more complex stuff. Unity GPU We recently enabled Unity’s GPU Profiler on Quest and Go. Developer tools.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

This review will reference some of those specs, but it is primarily about the actual experience of using the product. The Unity renderer implementation of foveated rendering, on the other hand is much rougher, and in multiple Unity apps I saw very obvious and harsh artifacts, particularly on text.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

What is even more important is that with the new Focus 3 update, different headsets can share the same area: that is multiple players can play in the same space using the same reference system. Unity has bought Weta Digital for 1.6B. Unity has just bought Weta Digital for 1.6B. Qualcomm announces Spaces SDK.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 26, 2019

They refer to something called a digital twin. And even the ability to just do an Amazon Go-like transaction is actually a spatial transaction. In the Internet of Things sort of industry 4.0 Are you familiar with this term? Alan: Actually, I am. It can be sent. Gabriel: That’s right.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 26, 2019

They refer to something called a digital twin. And even the ability to just do an Amazon Go-like transaction is actually a spatial transaction. In the Internet of Things sort of industry 4.0 Are you familiar with this term? Alan: Actually, I am. It can be sent. Gabriel: That’s right.

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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. The Qualcomm XR2 reference design has been a great innovation for XR in general (Image by Qualcomm).

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 26, 2019

They refer to something called a digital twin. And even the ability to just do an Amazon Go-like transaction is actually a spatial transaction. In the Internet of Things sort of industry 4.0 Are you familiar with this term? Alan: Actually, I am. All of the--. It can be sent. Gabriel: That's right.

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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. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

YouTuber Bradley Lynch (Sadly Its Bradley) did painstaking research, confirmed by Ars Technica using contacts at Valve, of a new Valve VR system referred to as “Deckard”. This fee had included a suite of useful reference hardware to build tracked objects with, which could also be disassembled and reused to build prototypes. .

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Hand tracking is necessary because the removal of the tracking ring gives fewer IR reference points about the controller to the tracking algorithm, especially in some poses. And yes, there is also my Unity Cube. You can purchase it on the Meta website or on authorized resellers like Amazon.

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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 essentially a “Unity Asset Store” for the metaverse?—?designed Earlier, I referred to composable creativity?—?whether This is what composability is all about: creativity?—?with

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

Unluckily, in the last 12 months it has happened to me that on two platforms I tried to make a reference to another competitor platform in the environment (a little reference), and I was asked to remove it otherwise my experience would have been removed. Epic has implemented it, and Unity is doing that too.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

If you have watched Rick&Morty, you get the reference (Image from Reddit). For more news on Project Aria you can refer to this official blog post by Facebook. I’m a developer, where is Unity, where is Visual Studio? I’m not so convinced about this theory, though. Privacy in AR.

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