The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

But I hope you’ll enjoy this newsletter coming from the world of the undead anyway… Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Apple starts accepting applications for Vision Pro devkits Apple has started accepting applications from interested developers to get a Vision Pro to develop XR experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

These are the improvements it applied: Changes in prices will start with the next Unity 2023 LTS, so existing applications will not be affected, at least while the use previous Unity versions Unity Personal will still be free (now up to 200K of revenues) and applications made with it will be subject to no fee at all.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

Some of the news coming from there have been: NVIDIA announced new Grace Hopper chips to empower AI algorithms on server machines , and AI workbench to allow everyone to play around with AI models. This is how we learn to do proper content for what is going to be the next trend in XR.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Like Meta's Horizon Hyperscape Demo and Gracia , Varjo Teleport uses Gaussian splatting, leveraging advances in machine learning to "train" the output based on image views of the scene. Captured scenes can also be exported as a PLY file for use in other software, which means they could even be converted to use in Unity or Unreal.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 28, 2024

The Apple Vision Pro Developer Kit, Apple’s collection of tools designed to support app development, has been available for a while now. In fact, Apple opened the program for applications long before the spatial computing headset ever hit the market. What is the Apple Vision Pro Developer Kit?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

Of course for some ad-based tech companies, the current economic situation is not the only problem, but there is another big one which is Apple and its new privacy features embedded into iOS. The same luck has not happened to employees at Niantic at Unity. Especially Apple, which everyone is waiting for. Other relevant news.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Leading into the new year with firms like Microsoft and Apple promising to change how the world works with immersive solutions. The OEP digital twin solution leverages the Unity RT3D development engine to deliver a robust solution ready for a smooth presentation.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The new DRIVE Thor superchip aimed at autonomous vehicles, which companies will be able to use from 2025 Omniverse Cloud , which lets companies use Omniverse completely via cloud rendering even on non-powerful machines A connector to let you use Omniverse with Unity. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Although spatial technology has existed for some time, companies like Apple have spawned new interest. This requires the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms. Tools like the Apple Vision Pro, combined with a collaboration tool like Microsoft Teams, link the real world to digital content.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 4, 2020

T he biggest advancement in AR in 2020 was arguably Apple’s iPhone LiDAR camera. LiDAR has mostly been touted by Apple as enhancing iPhone photography — a big competitive differentiator and marketing focus for smartphone players these days. In fact, it was featured in Apple’s keynote to unveil the new camera.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 19, 2024

Now, however, countless companies and developers are beginning to embrace this model, including Varjo (with Varjo Teleport ), Unity, and Unreal. Adobe, Apple, Google, and Meta are incorporating the technique into their enterprise apps. We’ve already mentioned Unity and Unreal, for instance. How Does Gaussian Splatting Work?

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 15, 2024

Since Apple’s VisionOS kit focuses on mixed reality, I’ll leave that solution out. Apple ARKit Apple’s ARKit is one of the most popular augmented reality kits available, particularly for developers focusing on mobile AR apps. Let’s dive into the options.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

ManoMotion, a computer-vision and machine learning company, today announced they’re integrated their company’s smartphone-based gesture control with Apple’s augmented reality developer tool ARKit , making it possible to bring basic hand-tracking into AR with only the use of the smartphone’s onboard processors and camera.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 19, 2024

However, there’s actually a significant symbiotic relationship between extended reality, AI solutions, and machine learning. The best generative AI software should work seamlessly with the tools your teams already use, from content creation and development platforms like Unity and Unreal , to metaverse as a service platforms.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

I think the battle with Apple has just begun. Mozilla updates its Unity WebVR exporter. Two years ago, I reviewed on this blog a Unity plugin that Mozilla had released in beta to let you create WebVR experiences from your Unity projects. Why does this matter? This prevents many developers from creating WebXR apps.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

We also examine his company’s Nex Playground mocap gaming solutions, its Unity-based motion developer kit (MDK), and its partnership with Sky Live. This took place around the release of Apple’s A12 Bionic chip. Apple had also released CoreML, which basically simplified how machine learning models ran on mobile devices.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The Apple Vision Pro alone includes 23 different sensors. Many vendors , from Meta, to Microsoft, and Unity, offer these solutions. Advanced AI and machine learning algorithms can rapidly identify and mitigate potential threats in immersive spaces. They’ll use spatial mapping tools to collect information about spaces.

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ARVR

AUGUST 11, 2020

My thoughts As someone who knows Android Development, Unity Development, and AR/VR Development, I believe the capabilities of this device will be enhanced with Machine Learning integration using libraries like Firebase MLKit or OpenCV. I didn’t find anything on how to launch an application in the Vuzix App Store in the docs.

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VRWorld

JULY 19, 2017

The vision of the company is to create stretchable clothing with built-in electronics that detect user’s movement, all while being a piece of clothing which can be worn comfortably with machine washability just as regular shirt could do. ” Future plans include expanding to Apple’s operating systems (both iOS and macOS ).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

If you want to experiment with XR cloud rendering , you won’t need to buy a powerful workstation and experiment with the settings anymore: you just buy a dedicated EC2 machine on AWS supplied by NVIDIA and everything is ready out of the box. You activate the machine, pay for its usage and you can have cloud rendering. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

It showed what is its vision for the long-term future: AR glasses that are intelligent enough to learn about your behavior and to examine the context you are in so that to be able to already provide you suggestions about what they can do to help you. Learn more. Learn more (XR Collaboration) Learn more (Unity College).

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

It has the ability to create a cross platform code where users can create their projects in either JavaScript, Unity, Xamarin, and Cordova. ARKit  — ARKit is one of the powerful AR SDK released by Apple on 2017 to build AR solutions using iOS devices. Types of AR Following are the types of AR. It can run on AR/VR hardwares.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 31, 2017

This is combined with eye-tracking technology from German firm SMI, which may have just been acquired by Apple. According to Neurable, this works using machine learning to interpret “your brain activity in real time to afford virtual powers of telekinesis.”

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 4, 2024

The Levan Center of Innovation claims its facility can meet these goals based on a team of on-site experts and through the cameras and machine learning software technology it’s leveraging from Sony.

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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! Learn more (Tweet about the event / 1) Learn more (Tweet about the event / 2). Among the top 5 news I have chosen, only 1 is about VR.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Unity support for OpenXR is still in early beta , and so it’s not reliable yet to develop an OpenXR-compliant application in Unity. We Unity developers have still to use the current Unity tools that make us develop once, but then build for every different platform (like the ones I describe in this article ). Learn more.

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ARVR

JUNE 16, 2020

Prototyping for AR - WWDC 2018 - Videos - Apple Developer Low Fi Prototyping for AR With the new goal in mind, I started with my camera and paper. Build your first HoloLens 2 Application with Unity and MRTK 2.3.0 Learning How to Edit 3D Models The interactions in our demo were fairly simple?—?we What file types can you use?

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ARVR

JUNE 12, 2020

Humans are the best survival machines…yet! I am able to continue learning yoga and even be more dedicated to my practice now because my commute to the studio is cut down and I cannot give myself any more excuses now to be regular with my practice!! Build your first HoloLens 2 Application with Unity and MRTK 2.3.0 Cool right?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

Sentences like “With eye-tracking (ET) and a few well-placed sensors, they’ll learn our unconscious reactions to anything we see. Holoride has now announced that it is working with Unity and Pico to release its Elastic SDK and offer devkits to let developers create experiences for the Holoride store , that will also be powered by blockchain.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Using machine learning and some ideas “stolen” from speech recognition algorithms, the system was able to transform the movement of the fingers in actual keystrokes, and it worked almost as if there was a physical keyboard. Simple WebXR” aims at bringing WebXR to Unity. Learn more. Learn more and register.

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Building the Metaverse

JANUARY 18, 2023

An example of this is how it can be used to dream of virtual machines and text adventure games. 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. How many virtual machines? exaflops (10¹⁸) 1.5

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2020

At the same time, Apple having always mediocre graphics cards on its laptops and its closed ecosystem have not helped much either in keeping this VR support alive. Not to mention the fact that Apple has always said that it is not interested in VR, but only in AR. More info (Preview facilities in Unity) More info (Dynamic FFR).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Will a little startup be able to beat the big behemoths like Apple and Facebook? I’ve studied at important universities like UC Berkeley, and I’ve worked on many technical projects (for work or personal interest) in electronics, optics, brain-machine interface , natural language processing, etc…. What is Kura’s story?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The world received a gift three years ago, in the form of AR technology from the likes of Google and Apple - ARKit and ARCore. But at any rate, what we realized was when Google and Apple gave this gift of AR to the world just three summers ago, saying they were all-in with AR, meaning that the hardware was going to work, it was like, wow.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The world received a gift three years ago, in the form of AR technology from the likes of Google and Apple - ARKit and ARCore. But at any rate, what we realized was when Google and Apple gave this gift of AR to the world just three summers ago, saying they were all-in with AR, meaning that the hardware was going to work, it was like, wow.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 15, 2024

I’ve learned a lot this year and a half working on VRROOM, so I feel the need to tell you about the story of our project and the important lessons that I’ve learned along the road. Let’s start from the real beginning… Should you really build a platform?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Allen discussed the benefits of immersive learning platforms, citing a company study on the return on investment (ROI) for clients via VR training. Regarding upskilling challenges across multiple verticals, Allen discussed the costs and expenses of creating immersive learning experiences. Oberon Technologies.

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