The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Google) Google announces important AI and XR news at Google I/O This Google I/O has seen immersive realities back to the menu. But to summarize, the most important XR-related tidbits have been: Google confirmed that is still working with Qualcomm and Samsung to build an XR headset.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 25, 2021

How many XR headsets is Apple working on, and when can we get our hands one them? Finally, why in the name of the geek gods is Google shutting down Poly? Google’s own Tilt Brush, an important content creation tool, relies on Poly. Tilt Brush co-creator Patrick Hackett just left Google, too. Not a good sign.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

In the interview with me, he talked about many topics, like the rumors he heard on Apple Glasses, on the Oculus Quest 2 , the America vs China war, XR entrepreneurship, Tesla, and more! If you don’t have 2 hours, don’t worry, here below I have extracted the most interesting tidbits of the videos for you to enjoy!

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 14, 2023

Last week, Google delivered its most important event of the year, the Google I/O. Of course, AI has been the star of the show , with the public release of Google Bard and the announcement of a new language model, but there have been also interesting pieces of news about XR.

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Next Reality AR

JUNE 7, 2021

Mobile augmented reality for iOS via ARKit, but Apple is borrowing a few pages from Google's playbook and bringing AR directly to iOS 15. Don't Miss: Apple's AR Spaces in Updated Clips App Uses iPhone & iPad LiDAR to Give You New AR Video Powers Live Text will enable iPhone users to point their capture.

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Road to VR

APRIL 25, 2024

This puts Meta in an entirely new position as a platform holder, as it now seems the company is trying to beat Google at its own game. Apple vs. Microsoft. Apple vs. Google. And you know what, it just might win. It’s a tale as old as time.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 29, 2020

Google is going to buy North. A report says tha t Alphabet, the company behind Google, is in the last stages of the acquisition of North, the Canadian startup that makes the Focals smartglasses. Google adds depth APIs to ARCore. Apple adds spatial audio to AirPods. Other relevant news. Image by North).

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Road to VR

AUGUST 28, 2024

In a post on X, Meta CTO Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth says the company is happy to do the “heavy lifting” on bringing Apple’s media streaming to Quest— if Apple will allow it. I always wanted to get Apple AirPlay support on Meta Quest, but it was said that Apple wouldn’t cooperate.

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Road to VR

MAY 19, 2020

We know that Apple has been developing an AR headset since at least 2017, but outside of what we gathered from files hidden in iOS 13.1 The report maintains that Apple is set to deliver a stereoscopic AR headset (dual displays) in a glasses form-factor which is said to rely on an iPhone for all data processing.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Samsung’s 2023 Unpacked event was all about the company’s Galaxy S23 hardware, although at the end of its hour-long presentation the South Korean tech giant announced it was working with Qualcomm and Google to develop an XR device. Samsung was one of the first truly massive tech companies to develop VR hardware.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2024

After the announcement of the release date of the Apple Vision Pro, the whole community is just waiting for its preorders to open up this Friday. The headset will be sold in physical stores and on the Apple website. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says that Apple has only 60–80K units available at this time , so most likely they’ll go sold out.

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Road to VR

MAY 15, 2024

Google today announced it’s starting a pilot program that will soon allow select partners to create AR content and display it within Google Maps. Because compared to Meta and Apple, Google still seems unable to commit to a coherent XR strategy.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2022

And if you want to discover how to prepare for the job interview with me… well, Joma Tech has made a great video on the topic you can’t miss: [link]. Google starts testing its AR glasses in the wild. Google has announced that it is going to start to test the prototypes of its AR glasses in the wild. Top news of the week.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 31, 2017

HypeVR is developing volumetric video tech which we called “ a glimpse at the future of VR video ,” when we got to see it back in January. Volumetric video is that which contains spatial data and allows users to physically move around inside of it, similar to real-time rendered VR games. Image courtesy HypeVR.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 13, 2023

According to a report from The Information , ByteDance subsidiary Pico Interactive is pulling the release of its next consumer-focused standalone headset in effort to no longer compete directly with Meta Quest, instead positioning its next device to compete with Apple’s $3,500 Vision Pro mixed reality headset.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2021

A new week has passed by, and it has been a quite good one for me: I’ve been featured again on Authority Magazine and I’ve launched a new series of videos on my Youtube channel where I answer the questions of the community. Apple way be working on a VR headset. More info (Use Google Translate). Happy Monday everyone!

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AR Insider

MAY 24, 2021

This week, we dive into Snap’s new AR Spectacles, Google I/O takeaways and Digilens’ new reference frames. Starline promises telepresence technology to reimage video conferencing as we’ve never seen. Starline promises telepresence technology to reimage video conferencing as we’ve never seen. More from AR Insider….

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 6, 2024

Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Half of Fortune 100 companies are using Apple Vision Pro Apple CEO Tim Cook has answered the doom posts of the past week that revealed that Vision Pro’s sales plummeted after its launch by stating that more than half of Fortune 100 companies have bought an Apple XR headset and are experimenting with it.

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Next Reality AR

MAY 19, 2021

For most mainstream users, LiDAR sensors for precision depth sensing remain the exclusive domain of Apple iPhones and iPads, but Google is helping Android device makers close the depth gap on the software side via its ARCore toolkit.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Apple MR headset may feature iris detection and legs tracking. A new week, a new set of rumors about the Apple headset. Ahah I love the nonsense of the rumors about Apple! More info (Report about Apple visor?—?Mac Mac Rumors) More info (Report about Apple visor?—?Upload Google Starline starts real-world testing.

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Next Reality AR

JULY 6, 2021

The Chromecast TV streaming lineup from Google is one of the more popular products in the category, primarily due to its low price tag and broad app support. With more than 430,000 reviews on the App Store, Chromecast has even found fans of those in the Apple ecosystem. Ambient Mode (formerly known as Backdrop.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 8, 2020

As shown in the Google Glass era, cultural receptivity and comfort levels for face-worn hardware (with a camera, no less) will be a years-long uphill climb. But history tells us if anyone can accomplish that feat of mainstreaming emerging tech – or at least catalyze the process – it’s Apple. Apple of My Eye.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The hype for the Apple Pro is starting to deflate and it is possible to see that from some cues: for instance, there are more critics of the headset and fewer articles are talking about it. The new headset should also incorporate somehow the operating system of LG TVs, maybe to stream videos from the most popular platforms.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 27, 2024

Google Project Starline finally looks like it’s going to be rolling out to workplaces worldwide, potentially transforming the way we meet and collaborate in the future of work. So, what is Google Project Starline, and what makes it different from the current solutions available? What is Google Project Starline?

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 22, 2024

Zuck’s genius move before Google I/O I was kinda shocked reading this piece of news, but I was also quite happy because I’m all in for open platforms, and seeing finally Meta breaking the walls of its walled garden is for me a good thing. And with the operating system comes also Meta’s store.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

The first huge leak we had this week was a full unboxing video of the device. This time was not some hotel employees finding some random Quest boxes, but a n anonymous guy uploading the unboxing video on Reddit. The video was later republished by “VR Panda” on Twitter.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Samsung has partnered with Google to make an XR headset, although the South Korean tech giant hasn’t tipped its hand on what to expect just yet. That’s a patently Apple recipe though that Samsung may not be able to easily replicate. The question is: what can Samsung bring to the table that Apple and Meta can’t?

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

XR Talks is a series that features the best presentations and educational videos from the XR universe. It includes embedded video, narrative analysis and top takeaways. In that way, Google is well-positioned because the spatial web will need to be parsed and indexed, similar to what Google has done for 20 years on the 2D web.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 1, 2024

It is a multimodal LLM, able also to work with audio and video Ray-Ban Meta will have more AI capabilities : they can do live translations, read text, decode QR codes, and remind you of things (e.g. 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

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Just after Facebook has launched Ray-Ban Stories smartglasses developed in collaboration with Luxottica and just before Apple Event, Xiaomi has entered the smartglasses field with its own product , just announced on its blog. And the video looks like a concept video … no one has seen these glasses and there are no real photos around.

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Road to VR

MAY 16, 2024

Apple announced it’s introducing a host of accessibility features to Vision Pro, which is set to include Live Captions for the deaf or hard of hearing. Provided Apple decides to push such a feature in the near-future, it could mean face-to-face conversations will soon have subtitles, like you might see on TV or in video games.

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AR Insider

MAY 21, 2021

That could be wayfinding with Google Live View , geospatial gaming experiences from Niantic, or location-specific social AR experiences like Snap’s Local Lenses. We’re featuring the video and takeaways for this week’s XR Talks, starting in Part I with an analyst presentation from AR Insder’s own Mike Boland.

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ARPost

JULY 21, 2023

Apple’s entrance into the XR space via their announcement of the Apple Vision Pro was one of the most anticipated events in recent XR history. Years of Watching Apple Neso Brands is an investment company specializing in tech-augmented eyewear. Somehow I’ve been following it for the last seven years,” said Almeida.

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Road to VR

MARCH 4, 2024

A report from The Information last week alleged Meta and Google held talks in effort to bring Android XR to Quest. Google abandoned Daydream after less than 2 years, while Meta grew Oculus (now Quest) to tens of millions scale,” explains Heaney. million apps built for iPhone in addition to 1,000+ visionOS native apps.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2023

After having seen the teaser of the Quest 3 and especially the announcement of the Apple Vision Pro (about which you can read my opinion here ), I’m always more convinced that we have entered into a new phase of XR history. Google joined forces with Samsung (and Qualcomm) to release a new headset soon.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 28, 2021

They used videos with fake CGI effects to convey the concept of what we will be able to do in the metaverse. A frame of one of the videos shown by Zuck. And it has thrown down the gauntlet to its competitors, starting from Apple. It was made on purpose to challenge Apple.

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VRScout

JUNE 28, 2021

A new video offers a closer look at the 2021 Cadillac Escalade’s AR-powered GPS navigation system. In a video provided by the company, actor Lamman Rucker ( Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married, Meet the Browns ) guides us through the capabilities of the luxury SUVs AR HUD. Image Credit: Cadillac.

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