The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

This will be a newsletter written on the road: I’ve prepared the material in Italy, I’m currently writing these words from the Frankfurt airport (Germany), I will keep writing on the plane across the ocean and I will finalize everything in Sunnyvale (California, USA). Meta really wants to fight Apple on his own territory.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JUNE 7, 2023

Apple Inc has reportedly bought out US headset manufacturer Mira following its Vision Quest headset debut on Monday, a Verge report revealed on Tuesday. According to the Verge report, Apple acquired roughly 11 Mira employees. In the post, Taft said: “Excited for Mira’s next chapter, at Apple :).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

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. Regarding Apple, the super-reliable analysts have stated that the headset may feature three displays because just two are for losers. Other relevant news.

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TechCrunch VR

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Their approach is different than what Microsoft or Google has built but Facebook highlights a shared central challenge: dealing with Apple. Facebook’s service will launch on the desktop web and Android, but not iOS due to what Facebook frames as usability restrictions outlined in Apple’s App Store terms and conditions.

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TechPrior

APRIL 10, 2020

Apple has always been at the forefront for all kinds of augmented reality innovations and has always had ambitious plans for the future of AR and VR. As a part of its next promising venture, Apple is in the process of acquiring NextVR; a California based VR company. Apple is expected to acquire NextVR for around $100 million.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

billion in 2019, with many billions more being invested in R&D by the likes of Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and many more. A company still in stealth, but with founder pedigree from Apple. Since the launch, they’ve created augmented reality experiences for COVID-19 and California wildfire news stories.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Moreover, audience interest from enterprise end-users and consumers is strong, with rumours of new devices from Microsoft, Apple, and Meta all prevailing. The FTC argued in the US District Court for the Northern District of California that Meta’s acquisition of Within violated anticompetitive conduct.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 23, 2024

” ARway Collaborates with Apple ARway is currently working with various XR device leaders to leverage its unique immersive wayfinding platform for a broad range of use cases. Speaking on its work with Apple, CEO Gappelberg also added: The long awaited Apple AR glasses are here!

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Tech Trends VR

JUNE 5, 2020

While we have early devices that give us a taste, like Microsoft HoloLens, these big and expensive devices haven’t yet made their way onto consumers’ faces. The inclination of big firms like Tesla, Apple, and Facebook towards Spatial Computing. The book also introduces what this all means culturally, both pro and con.

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Mashable VR

MAY 5, 2022

It's not exactly a giant extended middle finger pointed Apple's way, but it's not not that, either. After an extended absence , Fortnite is back on Apple devices, and Epic Games has Microsoft to thank. From there, sign into your Microsoft account (or create one) and choose Fortnite. What happened between Apple and Epic?

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

There’s a lot of buzz around this year because, while AWE never took a break, the conference went online last year and this time it’s live and in-person in Santa Clara California. The company has since teased hardware and a collaboration with Microsoft Mesh , so their AWE appearance could mean anything.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 11, 2022

ShapesXR will offer creative content developers a new suite of tools capable of building immersive experiences for any app on MR headsets from Meta, Pico Interactive, Apple, and others. The features will enhance collaborative efforts and creativity using Meta’s long-awaited mixed reality (MR) headset. Her comments come.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

Hello everyone from San Jose, California! Apple may unveil RealityOS at WWDC. At the upcoming WWDC, Apple may unveil its operating system for XR glasses, dubbed RealityOS. Most probably, it won’t also unveil the glasses, but it may just talk about upcoming features for Apple XR developers. or no reason?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 12, 2022

The San Jose, California-based company’s chips are used for bionic visualisations in augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) kit and offer multi-sensor interfaces, high resolution and frame rate displays as well as enhancement technologies. MicroLED firm VueReal earned $14.4

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 1, 2019

At an event in San Jose, California, Facebook introduced its plan for augmented reality glasses, where users will be able to pull up a visual display on top of what’s actually in front of them. Microsoft won the PC era and now has a tablet business, while Apple and Google have the dominant mobile operating systems.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Next year, Apple will debut the Vision Pro following years of hype, and Microsoft will also start rolling out its industrial Metaverse services. Snap Earns $20m Grant The state of California has granted Snap Inc. $20 The XR market may be experiencing a quiet before the storm.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

At the very first event in Steve Jobs Theater at its new headquarters, Apple Inc. According to Bloomberg, the iPhone X, Apple’s most expensive phone ever , was one of three new models Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook showed off during an event at the company’s new $5 billion headquarters in Cupertino, California, on Tuesday.

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AR Insider

MARCH 5, 2020

The first killer app of the Apple II personal computer was VisiCalc?—?a Visualizing drone scans of the California wildfires, flying through point-cloud sets from the ocean floor, and being able to understand Lidar scans in an instant are all real applications that leverage holographic displays today. Fast forward to the 1980s.

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TechCrunch VR

DECEMBER 8, 2020

He believed China would have its own augmented and virtual reality giants, just as how the domestic smartphone industry birthed global leaders like Huawei, Oppo and Xiaomi that rival Apple today. ’ However, China has the mass production and supply chain capabilities necessary for taking things from ‘one to n.'”

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

left, plays the new video game “Eagle Flight VR” during an Ubisoft news conference before the start of the E3 Gaming Conference on June 13, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. In 2016, Microsoft began shipping a developer edition of its mixed reality HoloLens system, priced at $3,000.

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EON Reality

JULY 30, 2021

EON Reality knows this is the only way to bring millions — if not billions — of high-quality XR spaces and experiences to the global citizens of the knowledge metaverse, which is why the California-based company has already laid the technological groundwork to make it a possibility.

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NVidia VR

MARCH 18, 2024

Named for David Harold Blackwell — a University of California, Berkeley mathematician specializing in game theory and statistics, and the first Black scholar inducted into the National Academy of Sciences — the new architecture succeeds the NVIDIA Hopper architecture, launched two years ago.

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VRScout

MAY 7, 2017

More than 4,000 people attended the event at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California, and more than 3 million worldwide watched the keynote via Facebook Live. Apple WWDC : June 5-9, 2017. F8 2017 was held on April 18th and 19th 2017. Google I/O : May 17-19, 2017.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

From Rift to Apple Watch to Snap Spectacles, the trend is toward wearable computing. Meta is working on an AR headset, which puts them in the same league as Microsoft and Magic Leap. The challenge facing today’s developers is to recognize that the paradigm for personal technology is shifting.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 29, 2019

I gave a presentation of the first idea of a videodisc of the “ Plastico ” at a private conference held at Apple Computer in 1986 (my talk was published in 1998 here ). By the summer of 2018, we were ready to unveil our work to the general public through the stores of Apple, Microsoft, Oculus, and Vive.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. ” After he gave his TED Talk on it, there’s interest from Apple, and Google ended up buying his company. Our guest today, Jacob, has also been a partner at Samsung NEXT.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. ” After he gave his TED Talk on it, there’s interest from Apple, and Google ended up buying his company. Our guest today, Jacob, has also been a partner at Samsung NEXT.

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VRScout

JUNE 4, 2019

Last month, Microsoft celebrated the 10th anniversary of Minecraft with the reveal of Minecraft Earth , an upcoming Pokemon Go-like AR mobile game that brings all the crafting, exploration, and adventure of the original PC game to the real world. Image Credit: Apple. Image Credit: Apple.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. After he gave his TED Talk on it, there's interest from Apple, and Google ended up buying his company. They are a passionate team of 3D designers, VR and AR experts based in New York and San Francisco.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Facebook is investing billions for hardware creation, and it is going to move 4,000 employes working on AR hardware in a new venue just built in California. The company is also working on its own VR telepresence and meeting system , which could make all Facebook people work together even if they are far away the one from the others.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Today's guest is Kevin Kunze , an award-winning interactive filmmaker based out of Berkeley, California. And we put this kind of like Apple-esque music over it, and made this cute little commercial and it never saw the light of day. We're interviewing the governor, Gavin Newsom, governor of California. And Will.i.am

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Anecdotally, the name refers to-- it was actually the name of a remote keynote presentation that myself and my friend Luke Reece delivered in 2013, I believe, to the University of Southern California from here in Dubai using the Nearpod platform. I do a lot with Apple technology. I mean, I was a distinguished educator.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Anecdotally, the name refers to-- it was actually the name of a remote keynote presentation that myself and my friend Luke Reece delivered in 2013, I believe, to the University of Southern California from here in Dubai using the Nearpod platform. I do a lot with Apple technology. I mean, I was a distinguished educator.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Anecdotally, the name refers to-- it was actually the name of a remote keynote presentation that myself and my friend Luke Reece delivered in 2013, I believe, to the University of Southern California from here in Dubai using the Nearpod platform. I do a lot with Apple technology. I mean, I was a distinguished educator.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

It will be held at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California on September, 25–26th. The company is now a very close partner for Microsoft and has already in mind more than 300 scenarios where MR can be applied to improve its production , that thanks to this is expected to grow fast in the upcoming years.

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ARVR

JUNE 30, 2020

California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 In response to the Cambridge Analytica scandal and GDPR, California lawmakers enacted the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, which provides consumers greater control over how their personal information is collected, stored, and sold. GDPR, Europe’s data privacy and security law.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And so Apple bought them shortly thereafter. So SPACES was acquired quietly by Apple this year. And Apple also earlier this year acquired NextVR, which-- that company has all the licensing rights to real-time capture in 360 of NASCAR, and NBA, and all of the other sports. Apple's a $1.7-trillion Golf, I think. everything.

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