The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2022

If you are not going, well, expect to read some articles on mine about the hardware that I will try there, so you will feel as if you have been there, too… and I will also eat and review some delicious pasteis de nata for you :D. Apple MR headset may feature iris detection and legs tracking. More info (Report about Apple visor?—?Mac

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2022

Apple WWDC may reveal something about Apple’s upcoming headset. Today is the day of the Apple WWDC event and maybe we can have more info about its upcoming headse t. Anyway, it is more probable that we’ll have some software reveal that hints at Apple’s XR strategy. The Verge) More info (Predictions for Apple at WWDC?—?Bloomberg).

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Road to VR

JUNE 12, 2023

In this Guest Article, studio head Denny Unger shares his thoughts on Apple’s entrance into the space. Guest Article by Denny Unger Denny Unger is CEO and CCO at Cloudhead Games. So let’s get the obvious over first; Apple Vision Pro is Apple’s first generation attempt at AR glasses using a Mixed Reality VR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 15, 2022

As you’ve read in my other article written today , this is a special day for this blog… but it is also Monday, so I won’t skip writing a new amazing roundup of AR/VR news So, wishing you a happy Ferragosto (the name of today’s holiday in Italy), I leave you to the best XR news of the week! Apple MR headset may cost $2000+.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 14, 2024

More info Apple’s cheaper headset may cost $2000 According to the usual Marc Gurma n, Apple is working on a cheaper version of the Vision Pro, which may use cheaper materials, feature an A-series chipset, and ditch away the EyeSight display. In it, Karl details the compromises the Meta had to find when designing Orion.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 15, 2023

Spatial Hits Big at GDC 2023 In March, at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2023 in San Francisco, Spatial announced the platform’s new Unity Creator Toolkit is entering its beta stages. For example, Spatial’s Unity Creator Toolkit beta model powered the 2023 Metaverse Fashion Week on Spatial between 28 to 31 March.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

I have read countless of his articles, and reading that he’s without a job makes me sad. Apple is working on some sort of metaverse, and its headset is entering mass production. It has been a week of interesting rumors about the upcoming Apple MR headset. This is clearly the beginning of Apple’s entrance into the Metaverse.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 9, 2023

There is a lot of hype around the Apple Vision Pro. Video review I made a video of mine where I show you my full hands-on experience with the Quest Pro application that emulates the Apple Vision Pro menu and then give you my detailed opinion on it, highlighting the pros and cons. Eeeeh… not exactly. Let’s see why.

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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. That’s why this week we had a serious amount of articles that got shared that added no information about what we already know but got popular anyway. Useless news.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

I’ve written a dedicated news roundup article dedicated to Google I/O today, so I won’t go deep into details here and I invite you to read that post (linked here below) if you want to have the details about the news. More info (Ultraleap teasing a new device) More info (Maybe a new sensor is coming) Has Palmer Luckey tried the Apple headset?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 1, 2024

I’ve already dedicated two detailed articles to it, so I won’t use many words to talk about it for the third time here… also because I guess you already know what happened there. I think Apple had better focus on a cheaper Vision headset , because that one may give real benefits to the Apple MR ecosystem.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 4, 2023

I need to rush out this newsletter episode because otherwise tomorrow Apple launches its headset and no one will read my articles: everyone will be too busy reading “The top 5 features of the Apple headset” or “The 7 reasons why the Apple headset can revolutionize peeling potatoes”. But the big question is the “how”.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

(Some of them have been brainstormed with Lorenzo Cappannari with whom I wrote an article a few months ago and who I thank for the collaboration ). Huawei and Pico are rumored to be working on an Apple Vision Pro competitor). And they are entering it to dominate it.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 28, 2023

Today I want to take you on a journey on one of the coolest prototypes I’ve ever worked on, which is about creating Unity applications that can dynamically modify their logic at runtime depending on the user’s needs thanks to generative artificial intelligence. Cubes are easy to do. It got thousands of downloads.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

Apple already made hardware, so it already had the infrastructure to build it and just added XR people on top of this infrastracture, while Facebook could not). Apple AR headset may have been delayed to 2025. Yes, we have rumors about Apple XR devices even this week. Yes, Apple is working on XR glasses. It’s believable.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

So for today’s article, let me focus mainly on the non-CES-related news about AR and VR. New rumors on Apple and Meta devices. I know it may sound weird to you, but we have new rumors on Apple headsets and also about the future Meta Project Cambria and Quest 3. When will the “Metaverse is dead” articles come out?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

For whatever reason you may be reading this article, I wish you a lot of happiness. 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). A must-read article.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

It was too early for Unity, but they taught me about C++, C#, Java, OpenCV, OpenGL and other fancy development stuff. For who wasn’t doing AR at that time: Metaio had an amazing SDK for phone-based AR, but then it got acquired by Apple and it disappeared from the market. Since I loved gaming (who doesn’t love gaming?),

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AR Insider

JUNE 3, 2020

This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. Unity has had a very successful run in the last 10 years or so and is more specific in its purpose as an authoring tool, originally being a 3D game engine giving mostly indie developers a platform to build games for smartphones. by Andy Gstoll.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

Image by Apple). Apple has not announced any glasses at WWDC. Every year, we have the same ritual: we wait for an event by Apple, hoping to hear some news about an upcoming XR device, then nothing happens in this sense, we are disappointed and so we hope for a new reveal next year. Top news of the week. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 1, 2024

But the release of the Apple Vision Pro proved to Valve employees that people are fine with having an all-in-two device with two units connected by a cable. RecRoom without kids For us developers, there will be a dedicated Unity SDK at launch , with the Unreal one following a few months later.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The new DRIVE Thor superchip aimed at autonomous vehicles, which companies will be able to use from 2025 Omniverse Cloud , which lets companies use Omniverse completely via cloud rendering even on non-powerful machines A connector to let you use Omniverse with Unity. Rec Room announces Rec Room Studio. Some news on the metaverse.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

The rumors on the Apple Glasses are intensifying. It is not a secret that Apple is working on an XR device: the mystery is when it is going to release it and what it will actually be. The hype is rising, and Apple is playing with it. (My usual terrible image to wish you Happy Easter, if you celebrate it). Top news of the week.

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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

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

In this article, I’m going to tell you all the thoughts I had. The new “Autumn” of VR If you’ve read some of my articles this year, you know I’m defining this moment as an “Autumn” for virtual reality. They are Apple AR glasses!” I have this impression for a few reasons.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 22, 2024

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. Unity 6 is bringing many new features that are helping with cutting-edge technologies like XR and AI. It should cost 15000 yuan, which equates to circa $2100.

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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 14, 2023

I guess this line has been added to the keynote speech because Apple is going to announce its device very soon at WWDC (at least according to the rumors), and Google wanted to show that it’s part of the game, too. It lets you create geolocation-based augmented reality content by positioning it directly into a 3D version of Google Maps.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 14, 2021

This week we had another report from supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, that is said to very reliable in rumors about Apple (even if he only made wrong predictions about Apple Glasses, but this is none of my business). More info (Report by Kuo) More info (Report about Apple Glasses). Apple announces minor XR news at WWDC 2021.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

But there have been a few other cool things I’ve tried, and since I can not write an article for all of them, I want to summarize some other highlights from the event in this comprehensive article. Me trying the stylus by Senmag Robotics Then I was given a headset and a demo application, which seemed to me made in Unity, started.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Apple VR headset may feature a 3000PPI microOLED display. This week we had a new rumor about the XR headset Apple is working on. According to Korean publication The Elec, Apple has requested a sample of a display component for OLED displays that can arrive up to 3000PPI. Apple Event was not about AR, like, at all.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In this Guest Article, developer Thomas Van Bouwel explains his approach to designing an MR game that adapts to different environments. Guest Article by Thomas Van Bouwel Thomas is a Belgian-Brazilian VR developer currently based in Brussels. When it comes to MR platforms, an active discussion on data privacy is important too.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2023

I don’t have the time to write a full review now, but I hope to write this week at least a “first impression” article because many people are asking my opinion (thank you, really, for your trust!). But this article goes a bit more in detail about this topic. More info — Use Google Translate!

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Day two of the conference opens with Unity’s keynote. Unity is “just a game engine” like XR is “just a game.” Bar-Zeev is currently in consulting and advising but has done work for the likes of Apple, HoloLens, Second Life, Google Earth, and more. Later that day, Avi Bar-Zeev will present “What Makes AR Special?”.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 29, 2022

Next year sounds already to be very interesting, with the expected release of PSVR 2 and maybe also of the Apple headset…. Two interesting experiments from Shopify and Unity. The concept is pretty cool and you have to give it a look; Greg Madison from Unity has made a cool experiment with Shape XR. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

There are some interesting pieces of information about the glasses inside the article. First of all, it seems that the headset is not a new product, but that Apple has been working on it for 7 years. It seems anyway that for the first time ever at Apple, Cook has this time now given priority to the operations team.

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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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