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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Road to VR

JUNE 21, 2023

Apple Vision Pro has brought new ideas to the table about how XR apps should be designed, controlled, and built. In this Guest Article, Sterling Crispin offers up a concise guide for what first-time XR developers should keep in mind as they approach app development for Apple Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2022

Apple WWDC may reveal something about Apple’s upcoming headset. Today is the day of the Apple WWDC event and maybe we can have more info about its upcoming headse t. Anyway, it is more probable that we’ll have some software reveal that hints at Apple’s XR strategy. Other relevant news. Image from the web).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 15, 2022

New connectors are in development and finally also popular software like Unity and Blender will be able to connect with Omniverse. Apple MR headset may cost $2000+. The rumors about the Apple headset have started to intensify and converge on what they suggest. Tools to supercharge graphics workflows with machine learning.

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ARPost

JULY 4, 2023

Sponsored content Sponsored by VR Vision The recent introduction of Apple’s Vision Pro has ignited a fresh wave of excitement in the extended reality landscape, with industry experts and enthusiasts alike anticipating a surge in the growth and evolution of the XR industry. See Also: Is Apple Vision Pro Ready for Mainstream Use?

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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 Other relevant news. Image from the web).

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 1, 2025

In the premium headset space, Apple is revolutionizing sectors with spatial computing systems like the Vision Pro, while Varjo offers some of the worlds best VR and MR solutions for training, design, visualization, and simulation. Exceptional Software: HTC also creates software solutions for enterprise use cases.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Back at WWDC 2017 Apple finally embraced VR, announcing that it had been working with Valve to bring SteamVR and the HTC Vive to MacOS , along with a number of other announcements about how the company would support VR as part of its ecosystem. SEE ALSO Report: Apple Acquired VR Headset Startup Vrvana for $30 Million.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

In an official release made by computer-vision developers ManoMotion , the Swedish software company revealed plans to bring its gestural interaction technology to Apple’s popular augmented reality platform, ARKit. ManoMotion will support Unity iOS initially with Native iOS integration coming in a later update.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The drama about Unity’s new pricing models has set the whole game development community on fire, while we had an unexpected leak about the Pico 5 and some updates on the Apple Vision Pro. In the case of Unity Personal, the thresholds are 200,000 downloads and 200,000 in revenues, and the fee is $0.20 per install. And this $0.2

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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2017

At Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference today, the company made a major shift in their embrace of virtual reality with several new VR announcements during the event’s opening keynote. Today marks a major shift in Apple’s public support for virtual reality. Photo courtesy Apple.

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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2017

Apple has finally made a commitment to VR, announcing on stage today at Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2017 that not only will they offer an external GPU developer kit for MacBooks capable of meeting the graphical demands of VR, but that both the new 27-inch iMac and the iMac Pro will be VR-ready out of the box. image courtesy TIME.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2025

NVIDIA also announced that its cloud streaming service Geforce Now is coming to Quest, Pico, and Apple Vision Pro, so MR users will be able to play flatscreen games on a giant virtual screen in front of them. Sony, instead, announced XYN, a new line of software and hardware XR products dedicated to creatives.

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Upload VR

MARCH 14, 2025

While headsets like Quest 3 use cameras to let you see the real world, until now only the system software got raw access to these cameras. Meta software engineer Roberto Coviello's QuestCameraKit samples. A limitation here, however, is that Unity's WebCamTexture API only supports one camera at a time, not both.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 18, 2025

Then the management of the camera will happen through the functionalities exposed by Camera2 in Android and WebCamTexture in Unity, which are the ones developers have always used with smartphones. This means that Samsung wont go all-in with hand tracking like Apple did. I wonder if they will ever open it up to other developers.

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ARPost

APRIL 27, 2022

An AR software development kit or AR SDK is the key to AR app development. In this blog, we will cover some highly popular software development tools used for AR app development. Unity support – It is an important parameter for any AR development app. Unity is unarguably the most powerful and prevalent game engine worldwide.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 15, 2023

We plan to continue maintaining the system software with critical bug fixes and security patches until 2024. Some selected developers have received the Apple headset. Could this really be the year of the Apple headset? Unity adds OpenXR hand integration package. We won’t be delivering new features to Quest 1.

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Road to VR

JUNE 21, 2018

Earlier this month at Apple’s annual WWDC conference, the company introduced their latest operating system, macOS Mojave (10.14). SEE ALSO Oculus Mum on Rift Support for MacOS as Apple and Valve Forge Ahead. ski visualizes below: Image courtesy Apple. Image courtesy Apple. In short, Gasi?ski

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Road to VR

AUGUST 29, 2017

In an answer to Apple’s recently released ARKit , a developer tool used for making augmented reality apps and games that run on newer iPad and iPhones, Google today released a preview of a new Android-compatible software development kit (SDK) called ARCore.

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Road to VR

JULY 1, 2017

With Apple’s increasing interest in VR on Mac , the company is adding essential features to its new Metal 2 graphics API to support high performance VR on MacOS. ” SEE ALSO Apple and Valve Have Worked Together for Nearly a Year to Bring VR to MacOS. Single-pass Stereo.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

Apple glasses are coming in 2021–2022 and they are incredibly sleek. Apple glasses are coming. The glasses are expected to run a new operating system, rOS (or reality OS), and Apple is exploring touch panels, voice activation, and head gestures as a means of control. Apple is really good at selling stuff.

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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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ARPost

JUNE 3, 2022

However, Meskill also had a lot to say about the software, including one potentially unforeseen change. Demos on the AWE floor included more intimate recordings and video calls with loved ones, as well as a game built for 2D but ported in through a Unity SDK. We see that as a necessary stepping stone to the metaverse.”. “The

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Upload VR

JUNE 21, 2023

Apple released the software development kit for its upcoming visionOS platform that drives the Vision Pro headset. The new software tools in the SDK for "Apple's first spatial computer" rely on eye, hand and voice input, and Apple says it is accepting applications for developer kits starting next month.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

We have lots of non-news about Apple’s XR efforts. The hype around Apple glasses is huge , and everything that gets shared about Apple and XR gets many views. We already knew that Tim likes AR and “what we have to offer” may also be a potato with an Apple brand costing $400. Other relevant news. Image by The Information).

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Next Reality AR

JUNE 14, 2018

Unity has updated its ARKit plugin to enable access to the new augmented reality superpowers of the toolkit. Apple announced exciting news for AR developers last week at WWDC, including ARKit 2. With developers chomping at the bit to play with ARKit 2.0, The updated plugin is available now for developers via Bitbucket.

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ARPost

JUNE 8, 2023

Both Apple and Meta revealed highly anticipated headsets in the last seven days. The headset has been relatively easy to speculate on, seeing as it is the fourth iteration of flagship headsets in a familiar and built-out hardware and software ecosystem. Apple Vision Pro starts at $3,499.” But, could it replace a Meta Quest?

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VRScout

JUNE 5, 2017

Apple is jumping firmly into the world of augmented reality. Craig Federighi, senior vice president of software engineering, claimed that with ARKit, it’s now “overnight, the largest AR platform in the world,” because of how many people own iOS devices. Apple also mentioned AR apps from IKEA and Lego.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The company is performing various layoffs and also merging part of the Pico software divisions together with their Bytedance counterparts. More info Some news about Apple Vision Pro The news and rumors about Vision Pro never end. There are rumors also about Apple thinking about using the Vision Pro for health and fitness.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Speaking on the Unity integrations, Ivan Rajkovic, CEO of SpectreXR, noted: We’re excited to expand hand-tracking support for OctoXR and enable even more Unity developers to create immersive and engaging interactive VR/AR experiences. Unity itself is a highly accessible graphics engine ready for a range of developers.

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Road to VR

JULY 3, 2017

Now that Apple is being open about their interest in VR the company is publicly listing new job postings for a number of roles seeking candidates with VR expertise. See Also: Apple Adds VR Rendering Essentials to MacOS via Metal 2. ” Both roles are part of Apple’s CoreMedia team within their Interactive Media Group (IMG).

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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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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 29, 2020

With rumors of upcoming Apple glasses surging, and the investment made in Magic Leap that until now has been unfruitful, for sure Google is looking for an alternative to build its AR strategy. Apple adds spatial audio to AirPods. Brick after brick, Apple is building its full AR ecosystem in front of our eyes. More info.

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AR Insider

JUNE 3, 2020

Legacy CAD (Computer-Aided Design) software applications have been used by product designers, architects, and engineers for decades running on desktop computers with endless storage and processing power. We all like free tools and the good news is that there is lots of free authoring software out there.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 14, 2021

This week we had another report from supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, that is said to very reliable in rumors about Apple (even if he only made wrong predictions about Apple Glasses, but this is none of my business). More info (Report by Kuo) More info (Report about Apple Glasses). Apple announces minor XR news at WWDC 2021.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

The rumors on the Apple Glasses are intensifying. It is not a secret that Apple is working on an XR device: the mystery is when it is going to release it and what it will actually be. The hype is rising, and Apple is playing with it. (My usual terrible image to wish you Happy Easter, if you celebrate it). Top news of the week.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 2, 2024

Effective May 15, 2024, Unity is introducing Matthew Bromberg as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer, President, and member of the Unity Board of Directors as the firm moves towards deploying its engine as an enterprise-grade RT3D design and collaboration – namely for game development and creating XR applications.

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