Road to VR

AUGUST 1, 2019

A flurry of new job listings for Apple’s secretive ‘Technology Development Group’ suggests that the company has reached a new phase of turning its years of AR/VR R&D into actual upcoming products. However, Apple only barely dipped its toe into VR , but in recent years has become publicly silent on the subject.

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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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Road to VR

JULY 31, 2023

Apple Vision Pro is coming next year, not only making for the Fruit Company’s much awaited first XR headset, but also spurring a resurgence in public interest (and likely investment) in the XR space. Apple has a tendency to undervalue gaming initially, though perhaps reluctantly, eventually acknowledges its importance.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 4, 2016

These facts have me considering jumping ship from Apple seriously for the first time since 2007. While I’m deeply embedded in the Apple ecosystem, Pixel tempts me more than ever before to consider leaving Apple behind completely. Just how embedded am I with Apple? Just how embedded am I with Apple?

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

There are so periods during the evolution of a tech with a certain group of leaders, who change over time. Render of the possible upcoming Apple device (Image by Antonio DeRosa). Apple is proposing itself to be the next competitor of Meta. But it has a problem: it doesn’t really know how the Apple device will be.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The game is apparently based on the book series rather than the recent Apple TV adaptation, if that has any impact on your decision to purchase. During your mission, you uncover a secret that could “change the course of history.” During your mission, you uncover a secret that could “change the course of history.”

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Upload VR

MAY 20, 2024

Walkabout Mini Golf's developers are planning a retro Las Vegas course inspired by Elvis Presley. Mighty Coconut is planning to release a course in 2025 inspired by Elvis Presley's connection to the original man-made escape from reality in the Nevada desert.

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Upload VR

JULY 3, 2024

A startup says it will sell 6DoF tracked VR controllers for Apple Vision Pro called Surreal Touch. Surreal Interactive was founded by Zhenfei Yang, who has eight years of experience with SLAM computer vision technology and tells UploadVR he formerly led DJI's entire robot computer vision group.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

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. Some people think that to get started in AR and VR, you should follow an expensive course that teaches you everything, that leads you to know VR. Influencer.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

The game is composed of levels, and levels are grouped by environments where they happen. the beach, the museum, the city, etc… When you win all the levels of an environment, you can take a selfie (of course using bats) and this photo gets saved in that diorama. Of course, I never felt truly “present” in that world.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Furthermore, in February, this device has the possibility of coming after the announcement of the Apple headset, which, while not focusing on games, may have the ability to steal the spotlight from all the other XR headsets on the market. I’m in the group of people that thinks at $549, it is fair.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 1, 2018

On Friday, a report on CNET shook a bit the XR community revealing that Apple is working on an AR/VR headset for 2020. An article that has become pretty popular, since every time that Apple makes something in an industry, it for sure changes all the market dynamics. Let’s take point 1: Apple is working on an AR/VR headset.

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Road to VR

APRIL 5, 2024

After an eight hour flight, I can say that Apple has largely nailed the Vision Pro use-case of movie watching on a plane. This whole thing really only works well because Apple has done a few things to make sure the use-case is not just theoretical, but actually considered from end-to-end. And of course there’s battery life.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Meta already teased some details in June before the Apple Event, and over these weeks we had all the information revealed through leaks and rumors. Of course, the big selling point for Meta is the mixed reality support, with high-resolution cameras and a depth sensor to perform environment scanning. This is a very needed upgrade.

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ARPost

JULY 18, 2023

There’s quite a bit to unpack here, including the EC approach, the 4-point plan that they recently published, and – of course – what they mean by Web 4.0. Apple currently holds so much power that they could say ‘This is the way we’re going to go.’ The European Commission is already setting out to tackle Web 4.0.

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Road to VR

MARCH 1, 2024

Luckily, Apple has a great track record of improving products for years through software updates, and Vision Pro isn’t likely to be an exception. Apple first announced Vision Pro to the world on June 5th, 2023, at its annual WWDC event. Multiple Users Image courtesy Apple I get it, Apple.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 18, 2024

Today, at NVIDIA GTC 2024, company CEO Jensen Huang announced that the firm’s enterprise-ready digital twin and immersive content creation hub Omniverse is debuting on Apple’s Vision Pro. And US customers can, of course, leverage Omniverse cloud renders on the Vision Pro. ounces, which justifies its price.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 12, 2021

Some weeks ago, a group of 12 indie development studios decided to launch the first bundle dedicated to App Lab experiences for Oculus Quest. I saw that everybody was waiting for the App Lab approvals to come through : the developers, of course, but also the journalists and the players! How was the idea born?

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Road to VR

JUNE 4, 2024

Luckily, Apple has a great track record of improving products for years through software updates, and Vision Pro isn’t likely to be an exception. Apple first revealed Vision Pro to the world on June 5th, 2023, at its annual WWDC event. Multiple Users Image courtesy Apple I get it, Apple.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Of course, existing WMR users can still use the devices if they do not upgrade to a version of Windows that does not have the software anymore. And that “ As of Nov. 1, 2026 for consumers and Nov. It means that there is time for the few people who still use Windows Mixed Reality to upgrade to a newer and better headset.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

We’re a long ways off from that and it won’t happen with the first generation Apple Vision Pro. I can only begin to imagine the possibilities and Apple is currently feeding developers kits at $3,500 each to build what’s in their imaginations. This is usually done to restore their sight to what others have at 20/20.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 8, 2022

It was not the briefest event Apple has ever held; that distinction goes to 2021's 50-minute unintentional self-parody. Gone were the themes of the past: no hymn to California ; no 420 references ; barely any zooming in, out or around the dystopian Apple spaceship. You might wonder who needs that many simultaneous streams.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 18, 2022

Ready Player One is the most relevant of the group because the novel was very popular and the movie about it is very recent. And APPLE IS ENTERING THE FIELD. Apple is going to change everything, don’t forget that. Are replicants the metaverse? That’s why you must create confusion, so everything is correct.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Many analyst estimates put the Vive ahead of the Rift in total sales, though in the consumer space, Oculus’ aggressive price cutting has allowed the headset to gain significant ground over the course of the last few months. SEE ALSO Apple and Valve Have Worked Together for Nearly a Year to Bring VR to MacOS.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Marvel's What If On Apple Vision Pro shows a path forward for embodying VR superpowers based on hand tracking, while Ace Virtual Shooting put a handset in my home last week for target shooting with the equivalent weight of a firearm. Of course, Camouflaj doesn't have to make a superhero VR game next, and they could make anything.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

A WebVR Community Group to decide on WebVR standards was formed by Mozilla, Google, Samsung, Facebook, Intel, Microsoft and other major tech players, with Apple recently joining the community in July this year. Google , Oculus and Samsung Internet also published their WebVR and open-source developer resources. . ” Browsers. “The

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Apple is having delays in the manufacturing of its XR headset. According to new ultra-reliable rumors (#sarcasm), the AR/VR headset that Apple is working on has a too complex design (whatever it means), so it will have production delays. It is an original approach, but I have to discover more details before saying my opinion about it.

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ARPost

AUGUST 1, 2023

Of course, developers are also interested in “success metrics” for their experiences. We focus more on non-consumer-focused use cases like focus groups,” said Bevilacqua. “We Goldman cited the Apple Vision Pro, which uses a combination of eye tracking and hand-tracking to go completely controller-free.

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TechCrunch VR

APRIL 16, 2022

Last week, I talked about Apple and crypto. This week, we’re talking about Apple clashing with Meta over their metaverse taxes. It goes to show that while they seek to use Apple’s platform for free, they happily take from the creators and small businesses that use their own.”.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 2, 2024

I guess the competition imposed by Apple and Google forced Meta to speed up the process to ensure to have a richer ecosystem in which its developers are happy (and so do not migrate to other platforms). But of course, these companies do not want these applications to become public: they were meant to be used just with a small group of people.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Image by Khronos Group). Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. These may be upcoming features or possible features Oculus is experimenting with a selected group of beta testers.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2023

After having announced some of the features and the price just before the launch of the Apple Vision Pro, now the company formerly known as Facebook is already working towards the launch of the device. Best Buy has already published the page about Quest 3, marked as “Coming Soon”.

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Upload VR

MAY 17, 2024

This enables ultra high resolution headsets with relatively slim designs - and of course OLED's signature infinite contrast. micro-OLED displays from Sony are used in Apple Vision Pro. For Apple Vision Pro's lenses, this loss is on the order of 90%. Sony's (Apple Vision Pro) LG's Size 1.41 Currently 2.5K

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 2, 2021

How many stages have I spoken on, in front of groups of hundreds and even thousands of people with barely any black people in the audience. Yes, of course. One of the biggest hurdles is that many groups have vastly different understandings of ethical standards. Welcome to Silicon Valley. Accessibility is a major concern.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 12, 2025

A lot of corporate skill development happens through online classes and courses meaning team members miss out on valuable feedback. In some cases, courses are forgotten about entirely leading to low completion rates. Boosting Engagement with Interactivity and Gamification Engagement often suffers in traditional training environments.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

What an exciting week for technology, with the Facebook Connect, PS5 price announcement, Apple event and the release of RTX30 graphics cards! Even Apple uses modified ARM chips. And anyway the Quest is not sold officially in China (but you can find it on Taobao of course :D), so they have to care less about its competition.

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TechCrunch VR

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

This week, we’re talking about something that’s a little bit more impactful on the current state of the web — Apple’s NeuralHash kerfuffle. In the past month, Apple did something it generally has done an exceptional job avoiding — the company made what seemed to be an entirely unforced error.

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