The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2024

The time has finally come: on the last day of 2023, Praydog has released to the world his first version of UEVR, a universal VR mod for all games made with Unreal Engine. It means that you can take whatever game made in Unreal Engine for flatscreen, apply this universal mod, and immediately transform it into a VR game!

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Apple Vision Pro 2 may come in 2026 The rumors about the Apple Vision Pro 2 continue. It seems that most of the rumors are aligning on the launch of an Apple Vision Pro 2 in 2026–2027. What a time to be alive! Matt Miesnieks said that the rumor aligns with some things he heard.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 6, 2017

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney thinks Apple’s upcoming iOS 11 update, arriving this fall, will be a huge boost to the emerging AR industry. With both Unity and Unreal integrating with ARKit for iOS, the two major tools for creating virtual worlds are now available to developers for building apps on hundreds of millions of Apple handhelds.

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ARPost

APRIL 27, 2022

In this blog, we will cover some highly popular software development tools used for AR app development. Apple ARKit. In June 2017, Apple launched its own AR development kit, ARKit , while launching iOS11. or newer, Unity for iOS and Android, and Unreal Engine. Criteria For Selecting the Best AR SDK. Pricing : Free.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

You can imagine that after it has been released through two official blog posts, an enormous backlash from the community started to happen. Apple threatens future support in Unreal Engine. All Apple software, SDKs, APIs, and developer tools ?—?Pre-release So far for the announcement by Facebook. The same on Twitter.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The drama about Unity’s new pricing models has set the whole game development community on fire, while we had an unexpected leak about the Pico 5 and some updates on the Apple Vision Pro. Some people are migrating to Unreal Engine or Godot. It’s been kind of a crazy week! Others have even threatened the safety of the employees.

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Ryan Schultz

APRIL 28, 2024

Many people are already talking about the death of the Apple Vision Pro…what’s the real story? This report ignited no shortage of opinions on the matter, both pro and con, with some even going so far as to say that the Apple Vision Pro was “dead.” And the Apple Vision Pro memes were in abundance.

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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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Road to VR

APRIL 17, 2024

The standard has been in development since April 2017 and over time has become supported by virtually every major hardware, platform, and engine company in the VR industry, including key AR players—but notably, not Apple. More details about Local Floor functionality and its value to developers are available in this blog post.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 1, 2022

Genius also provides aspherical lenses for the PSVR 2 device, and Ming-Chi Kuo states that Genius is working with other extended reality (XR) clients, including Apple. In February, Sony unveiled the core details of its PSVR 2 headset in a blog post. Additionally, Goertek, SDC, and MediaTalk supply XR components for the PSVR 2 headset.

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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

APRIL 10, 2023

More info (Twitter post that describes the excitement around this project) More info (Official launch blog post) Other relevant news (Image by Google) Chrome ships WebGPU Chrome , the most popular browser around, has just implemented WebGPU. This research, taken further, could bring many interesting innovations in the AR field.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Brad Lynch) Bloomberg got a preview of the Quest 3 Last week I predicted that Meta could have given us a glimpse of the Quest 3 during the Gaming Showcase on June, 1st, so that to create attention around its device before the announcement of the Apple headset.

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EON Reality

JULY 17, 2024

Unreal Engine Unreal Engine by Epic Games is another powerhouse in the AR development arena. Known for its high-fidelity graphics and performance, Unreal Engine is preferred for projects that require photorealistic visuals and complex simulations. High-Quality Graphics : Superior rendering capabilities for realistic visuals.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

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. There are some interesting pieces of information about the glasses inside the article.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

As pointed out in one of the Unity Developers’ blog posts , aside from the exponential rise of development businesses, we’re also seeing more developer tools, such as the Unity and Unreal engines, becoming more accessible.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

Of course, Epic is completely against Apple and its vision of its own walled garden. Epic also announced a few interesting things, like a tool to record facial animations for MetaHumans that run on an iPhone; and Fab, the Unreal version of the Unity Asset Store, where the developers can find many tools and multimedia elements put on sale.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

So, for instance, you record a video of a person from a low position and then see how it looks from a higher position Apple has just published a patent about showing invisible things on mixed reality glasses. Bonelab is coming on Thursday. More info (Multiplayer Horizon Worlds home) More info (Meta Quest runtime v44).

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AR Insider

MAY 24, 2021

Epic tried to establish that Apple is an “essential utility,” meaning infrastructure that can be uncompetitively withheld, like a bridge, but it just wasn’t landing. On the more comical side of the news, Unreal is suing Chinese smartglasses maker Nreal because the brand names are too similar and will cause confusion.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2023

He also envisions that a first version of the Samsung MR device will still be made to enhance the smartphone experience, while the visor-based approach, like the one proposed by Apple with the Vision Pro, is more something for the long term. I mean, if Apple CEO finds this device useful, I think it’s a hell of an endorsement.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The company has not posted real photos or footage from the glasses, just a promo video with an accompanying blog post detailed some of their characteristics. Apple VR headset may feature a 3000PPI microOLED display. This week we had a new rumor about the XR headset Apple is working on. Apple Event was not about AR, like, at all.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 28, 2024

If they keep building the device, when Apple halts production, there may be enough units in the warehouses to keep the sales happening until the next version of the headset is released. This headset may be priced around $2000, and according to this last report from The Information, Apple plans to sell around 4 million units of them.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 1, 2021

However, I would like to go into this debate in one of my next blog articles, as otherwise, it would go beyond the scope of this article. Large companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Valve, Epic Games, Roblox as well as smaller startups are working on creating products for the Metaverse as we speak.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

If I had to choose the most common question I’ve received in these 4 years on the blog, social media, and Quora, I would surely pick “How do I get started with virtual reality?” The blog & social media. From it, ARKit has born, I guess. Also reading books helped me in improving my writing skills.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

One-year price performance for MSFT as of 2/3/20 Apple Inc. AAPL) As we previously detailed in depth, Apple has been discreetly working on a number of AR/VR products for several years now and is planning to release its own AR smart glass and AR/VR hybrid headset.

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Cats and VR

OCTOBER 31, 2016

We're grateful for the incredibly robust development tools of Oculus, NVIDIA, Apple, Epic and other partners that have enabled us to create Obduction.” Details on how to view the screenshots can be found on the NVIDIA GeForce blog: [link]. Obduction players can now immerse themselves in VR on Oculus Rift, or on a traditional monitor.

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Building the Metaverse

JANUARY 18, 2023

For people who couldn’t realize their creativity in a sandbox or walled-garden — platforms like Unreal and Unity enable the creation of real-time, immersive worlds that simulate reality. Image from Unreal Engine 5.1 is a good example of something that probably never would have been funded by a traditional game publisher.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

Apple glasses are coming in 2021–2022 and they are incredibly sleek. Apple glasses are coming. The glasses are expected to run a new operating system, rOS (or reality OS), and Apple is exploring touch panels, voice activation, and head gestures as a means of control. Apple is really good at selling stuff.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Yes, it is less than the 5% of Unreal, but until yesterday we only paid per seat, not both per seat and per revenue sharing. Some developers I know are already switching to Godot or Unreal because they say that Unity can’t be trusted anymore. of our revenues with Unity. And this 2.5% As an entrepreneur, I understand.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

Abi Bar-Zeev knows that too, and he has written an interesting blog post predicting how Facebook will behave in the upcoming years. Acquiring it, Epic secures a great source of assets for the developers using its Unreal Engine, and also the connection with many talents. This is not a blog, this is a metaverse Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 17, 2023

More info News worth a mention (Image by Meta) Meta CTO talks about the Quest 3 launch Andrew Bosworth has spoken about the launch of the Quest 3, stating that actually, Meta has not changed its plans for the launch because of the upcoming announcement of the Apple Vision Pro. But I hope this is going to happen relatively soon.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 14, 2020

And while Unreal Engine already supports OpenXR, Unity is a bit lagging, but support is coming in 2021. And it could finally make us reach a point where an app built for a device will work on all devices , making the life of us developers easier… …until Apple arrives with a competing standard, of course. Donate to this blog!

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

And it also makes me super-happy that no one is about Facebook and Apple… I was getting pretty bored in writing newsletters only about these two companies! Last week I told you about MetaHumans creator, the tool to create realistic humanoid avatars in Unreal Engine. Among the top 5 news I have chosen, only 1 is about VR.

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Ryan Schultz

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Question: how hard is it to move from Unity to, say, Unreal, or Godot? Unity is a part of so much software development work (it’s even said to be a part of the upcoming Apple Vision Pro VR/AR headset !), Sansar’s in-house engine looks pretty good right now, eh? Is it an impossible task? For an existing game?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2021

We were all expecting this since AR and VR are a bit in a transitional moment and the biggest brands (like Facebook and Apple) have their events through which they’ll announce their new devices, but for me, this lack of news was worse than the expected. Read more about this news on Google Blog. The evolution of CREAL glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

My friend Nicolas Esposito of Enter Reality has released Project Rigel, his solution to provide full-body tracking and motion capture for Unreal Engine. Since IKinema has been acquired by Apple, this indie project could be a nice substitute for all developers that want an affordable full-body motion capture solution. Funny link. /r/Oculus

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

But this has not been the case: with a brief post on its blog, Sony has announced that there will be a “next-generation” VR device that will work with PS5, but that it will simply not be released this year. More info (Blog article about new Oculus For Business) More info (Official page of Oculus For Business with consumer Quests).

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