The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The success of the Ray-Ban Meta has triggered the smartglasses hype: when I was at CES, I saw many startups launching their AI-powered smartglasses and we have heard rumors of all the major brands (including Apple and Samsung) working on their own smartglasses devices, too. But as usual, I warn you to be careful of the hype.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Apple is set to debut its Vision Pro mixed reality (MR) headset in March next year, Bloomberg reported on Monday. Apple successfully built its own processors, but the company’s in-house technologies team has a lot more to design, including cameras and screens.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2023

There is a small tab (visible in the image above) that starts a simple Unity-based application, with a series of white and green dots that must be followed by the user. The real challenge lies in transmitting these high-resolution images through the display’s optics without any loss of clarity or introduction of aberrations.

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VRWorld

JUNE 8, 2016

Seebright supports both Apple iOS and Google’s Android, with the Seebright SDK featuring an emulator that works on both platforms. Most importantly, the SDK comes with support for Unity Engine and Unreal Engine – you can build and test your own application almost immediately. But that’s not all.

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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”. How is Apple going to sell this headset?

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