The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

It was too early for Unity, but they taught me about C++, C#, Java, OpenCV, OpenGL and other fancy development stuff. 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. Since I loved gaming (who doesn’t love gaming?),

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AR Insider

JULY 9, 2021

Specifically, LoopMe’s Christina Park cites her company’s survey data that show that almost 20 percent of consumers are more likely to pay attention to interactive ads, and 40% find AR try-ons useful. Game engines such as Unity have driven these prices down in terms of 3D creation and application.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 30, 2023

This week, Apple dropped VisionOS, a set of XR design tools to entice immersive content creators to start designing for its upcoming headset before its release. On the other hand, Unity is introducing tools that leverage AI to simplify XR content creation processes. ” Apple Launches Vision Pro SDK, but What Do Audiences Think?

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 11, 2024

In the State of XR 2024 report, respondents exclaimed their preferences for two major vendors: Meta at 56% and Apple at 38%. Of its respondents, XR Today found that 31% favour Epic Games and 25% favour Unity, two fantastic RT3D engines for building the next generation of workplace applications. Take part in the next XR Today survey.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 5, 2017

Unity Technologies and Epic Games are in a grudge match for the hearts and minds of game developers. I interviewed both John Riccitiello, CEO of San Francisco-based Unity, and Tim Sweeney, CEO of Raleigh, N.C.-based The Unity-based games reached a billion new devices since GDC 2016. Ditto with Google and ditto with Microsoft.”.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

As pointed out in one of the Unity Developers’ blog posts , aside from the exponential rise of development businesses, we’re also seeing more developer tools, such as the Unity and Unreal engines, becoming more accessible. According to a PwC report , businesses are likely to become “metaverse power users.”

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AR Insider

MARCH 20, 2020

Confidence signals include Brand spending on sponsored lenses and indicators for Apple’s eventual AR glasses. Apple’s AR Fate. Starting with the first prediction, the thing on everyone’s mind is the if and when of Apple’s rumored AR glasses. Apple’s Quick Look is evolving in the same direction.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JUNE 21, 2022

Last Tuesday, China Daily interviewed the CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC). During the brief chat, Tim Cook favourably spoke about the potential of augmented reality (AR) on Apple devices. For example, Unity runs its humanities fundraiser and awards showcase. Where is Apple’s AR Headset?

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ARVR

JUNE 29, 2020

The Smart-Accessory Revolution A Pew Research Center survey conducted at the beginning of 2013 showed that only 51% of adults in the United States owned a smartphone, 6 years after the launch of the 1st-generation Apple iPhone. Build your first HoloLens 2 Application with Unity and MRTK 2.3.0 Trending AR VR Articles: 1.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2020

The biggest news of the week is the one that you can see in the above graph: i n the Steam Hardware Survey for April, it is possible to see a big spike of connected headsets. More info (Steam Hardware Survey) More info (Facebook’s revenues for Q1 2020) More info (Quest and Rift S stock, updated) More info (SuperData’s report).

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ARVR

AUGUST 28, 2020

Creating remote MR productions VR for rehabilitation of cognitive and psychological disorders (Source: Kurt Othmer, Youtube) A recent survey has narrowed down to the fact that every minute of the day, there is a vehicle related accident. If you are a game developer in unity or even just a beginner do give VR development a try!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 4, 2025

And it promises to have also some features that surpass the Apple Vision Pro (I hope not the price!). From this quick look, it seems a mix between Android and the interface of the Apple Vision Pro. There is a Unity SDK, so it is also possible to create a VR game (e.g. Take the survey before it closes, on January 14.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 7, 2024

According to the Steam hardware survey, Windows Mixed Reality headsets are still used by 50–80,000 people today. It’s not clear what the effects of this strategy change will be: for now, Apple seems still interested in providing a cheaper Vision Pro and also in investigating the release of smartglasses.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Apple VR headset may feature a 3000PPI microOLED display. This week we had a new rumor about the XR headset Apple is working on. According to Korean publication The Elec, Apple has requested a sample of a display component for OLED displays that can arrive up to 3000PPI. Apple Event was not about AR, like, at all.

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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

APRIL 3, 2025

Eventually, that company was acquired by Apple and became the foundation for the ARKit team , so that was a nice closure. Of course, we all know Unity, but there’s a whole set of new tools that have been developed to help game developers make their games better. We felt we needed to get together and have some event.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

More info Apple Vision Pro may have a very slow start The same Ming-Chi Kuo, who probably woke up with a lot of pessimism that day, has also expressed doubts about the widespread success of the Apple Vision Pro. This would mean that Apple’s XR offering should rely for 3 years on a very expensive headset with very low sales.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2023

We all joked about Samsung waiting for the Apple Vision Pro announcement to copy it, but according to some rumors, this is exactly what is happening. Learn more (Trailer) Fill SlashData’s survey and win prizes Also this year I’m supporting the survey about XR that SlashData is carrying on.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The first one is the usual SteamVR hardware survey. Apart from highlighting that the Rift S is expanding its size and that the Valve Index is now selling well, the survey shows that VR users on Steam are continuously growing. Unity now supports Vulkan for Oculus Quest. Vuforia won’t drop Unity support. Image by Oculus).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 19, 2021

This is confirmed also by a previous prediction by the CEO of Unity, which foresees that in 2030 VR headsets will be as popular as gaming console: that is mainstream, but still not as TV, for instance. Or of a hybrid AR/VR headset like the Lynx or like the rumored Apple visor? billion in content revenue by 2025?—?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

One day Apple will come out and say a new feature. And doing activations so we can import any Unity scene. So maybe gaze control, where they look at something and it triggers something else, or even like a survey at the end saying, “How was your experience? And then Google came out with a new feature. Rate it from 1 to 5.”

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

One day Apple will come out and say a new feature. And doing activations so we can import any Unity scene. So maybe gaze control, where they look at something and it triggers something else, or even like a survey at the end saying, “How was your experience? And then Google came out with a new feature. Rate it from 1 to 5.”

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Internal iOS 13 code seems to point at Apple AR glasses. It is not a secret that Apple is working on a pair of AR glasses (even if someone still thinks that the project has been abandoned). What we don’t know is what Apple is creating and when it will be released. So, it is not something for the present, but more for the future.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

One day Apple will come out and say a new feature. And doing activations so we can import any Unity scene. So maybe gaze control, where they look at something and it triggers something else, or even like a survey at the end saying, "How was your experience? And then Google came out with a new feature. Rate it from 1 to 5."

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

people walking around), so I don't have an apples-to-apples comparison against Santa Cruz. This is Oculus’s answer to Steam Hardware & Software Survey. The SDK offers native APIs, but also supports popular game engines like Unity and Unreal 4. Can’t wait to buy a Santa Cruz!

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Apple headset may be very lightweight. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

The newest Steam Hardware Survey shows how Rift S has now more or less 8% of the market. Strategy Analytics highlights in his survey that mobile headsets like Daydream, Gear VR and Cardboard are continuously losing importance and revenue shares. In the end, XRDC has made a very interesting survey among XR devs.

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