VRScout

AUGUST 3, 2017

The New Zealand native is responsible for some of the medium’s most technologically groundbreaking work, including the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit franchises. On stage demo at Apple’s WWDC. In addition, Jackson had actual actors act out the scenes and then use motion capture technology to record their performances.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

I remember many people laughing at me when we of New Technology Walkers released a fitness game for the Vive Focus Plus ( HitMotion: Reloaded ) because they said it was a big and overpriced headset. Apple threatens future support in Unreal Engine. All Apple software, SDKs, APIs, and developer tools ?—?Pre-release

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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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ARPost

APRIL 27, 2022

Although most people still consider AR as an entertainment technology, we can see its practical implementations in various industries like e-commerce, healthcare, architecture , training, and many others. Apple ARKit. In June 2017, Apple launched its own AR development kit, ARKit , while launching iOS11. Pricing : Free.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 6, 2017

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney thinks Apple’s upcoming iOS 11 update, arriving this fall, will be a huge boost to the emerging AR industry. It’s the most definitive event marking the move to high-end technology that will power a new generation of world-class experiences transcending games and storytelling.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2024

The time has finally come: on the last day of 2023, Praydog has released to the world his first version of UEVR, a universal VR mod for all games made with Unreal Engine. It means that you can take whatever game made in Unreal Engine for flatscreen, apply this universal mod, and immediately transform it into a VR game!

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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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Road to VR

JUNE 8, 2017

Showcased at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference this week, ARKit is a new core technology for iOS 11, due to launch this Fall, soon to enable augmented reality features on hundreds of millions of iPhones and iPads. The post 4 Dev Demos Showing Off Apple’s New ARKit Tracking appeared first on Road to VR.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Recent technological advancements have pushed the envelope of what modern technologies are capable of. Furthermore, these innovations have greatly changed the way users interact with such technologies. Unfortunately, such beliefs stem from a misunderstanding of the technology and how it works.

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Charlie Fink

MAY 16, 2020

You, too, can host a million person party thanks to Epic Games Unreal Engine. Apple rumors? Yes, please!

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Apple Vision Pro 2 may come in 2026 The rumors about the Apple Vision Pro 2 continue. It seems that most of the rumors are aligning on the launch of an Apple Vision Pro 2 in 2026–2027. What a time to be alive! Matt Miesnieks said that the rumor aligns with some things he heard.

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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. Some people are migrating to Unreal Engine or Godot. Last but not least, now the Apple Watch supports a “double tap” gesture … but not on the screen.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Brad Lynch) Bloomberg got a preview of the Quest 3 Last week I predicted that Meta could have given us a glimpse of the Quest 3 during the Gaming Showcase on June, 1st, so that to create attention around its device before the announcement of the Apple headset.

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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

APRIL 10, 2023

It has developed a proprietar y High-Performance Quantum Dot (HPQD) technology to make very small, very bright, very efficient RGB pixels. And Apple Reality Pro, expected to come at $3000 or more, is improbable that is going to change this trend. It seems like an interesting technology, and I would love to try it.

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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. Epic’s Unreal Engine 4 started out in the high end, and it has moved lower through pricing tactics and revisions that enable it to be the foundation of mobile games. More people build an Apple with Unity than anyone else.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Facebook keeps working to become a leader in immersive technologies. This week we had a bunch of news, that seem quite unrelated, that show us how Facebook is working on its plan to become the dominant force in future technologies. Apple is working on Micro-OLED displays. Another week, another rumor about Apple’s XR efforts.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Facebook has always had the problem of distribution of its hardware (Apple has its stores, for instance, Facebook has not), and with this partnership, it immediately has the opportunity to showcase this and its future devices in all glasses shops thanks to Luxottica. Apple Event is tomorrow 14th September. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

We had at the same time the Game Developer Conference (the GDC) and the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) by NVIDIA, so we had lots of announcements about 3D technology in general and also about XR. And notwithstanding this new technology, it manages to also be smaller than the traditional Tracker.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

More info At SIGGRAPH there was much attention toward VR and AI SIGGRAPH has always been a very relevant event for all of us in the 3D space, and this year VR and AI were among the most relevant technologies showcased there. Given the recent litigation between Apple and Epic, this was not something to be taken for granted.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 26, 2020

We believe that the easier it is to create 3D and XR experiences, the more prolific this technology will become. With the One App, creators have access to the full power of ARCore and ARKit for the best possible AR experiences. ( Apple Store ) ( Play Store ). billion devices. You can try it here (Image by MetaVRse).

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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

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Today I am very happy to host on my blog Kura Technologies , one of the most interesting augmented reality startups out there. Will a little startup be able to beat the big behemoths like Apple and Facebook? One of the first public renders of Kura AR glasses (Image by Kura Technologies). What is Kura’s story?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

First of all, it seems that the headset is not a new product, but that Apple has been working on it for 7 years. It seems anyway that for the first time ever at Apple, Cook has this time now given priority to the operations team. There are some interesting pieces of information about the glasses inside the article.

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AR Insider

MAY 24, 2021

Starline promises telepresence technology to reimage video conferencing as we’ve never seen. Epic tried to establish that Apple is an “essential utility,” meaning infrastructure that can be uncompetitively withheld, like a bridge, but it just wasn’t landing. Barra says he’s moving into the healthcare technology space.

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VRScout

MARCH 3, 2020

Castle Smurthenstein (Image Credit: Apple II Bits ). In a similar fashion as to what Unreal Engine offers to round up users, these above-mentioned platforms are free to use but come at the cost of royalties or in-game purchases. Image Credit: Twitch Inc.).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Surreal Controllers Surreal Interactive announced a few months ago the Surreal Touch, the first (3d-party) controllers for Apple Vision Pro. via ALVR), but the company also plans to release an SDK for interested developers who want to release a native title for Apple Vision Pro that should work using controllers.

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Road to VR

APRIL 17, 2024

The standard has been in development since April 2017 and over time has become supported by virtually every major hardware, platform, and engine company in the VR industry, including key AR players—but notably, not Apple. The original vendor extension has been adopted natively in Unity, Unreal, and recently by NVIDIA Omniverse.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 10, 2022

As this article was being written, Varjo further expanded its cloud with Unreal and Unity engine integrations. While almost all non-Apple mobile devices run Android, it is also the backbone of many XR headsets.). CloudXR From NVIDIA. XR streaming is already a reality on other cloud platforms.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2021

This has not been the most interesting week in AR, VR, but I think that in the next times we’ll see some shots fired: in some days there will be the F8, the official shipment of the Vive Pro 2, then the Apple WWDC conference! Unreal Engine 5 gets released in Early Access. I hope for some juicy news… and you? Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2021

The pandemic has hit also one of the most important technological expo of the year, the CES, that this year was held digitally. My bet is that, given the talent of these people, they won’t even arrive at this stage, and will be bought by some major headset manufacturer , like Apple or Facebook. The evolution of CREAL glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2023

More info (Quest 3 approved by FCC) More info (Touch Plus approved by FCC) More info (Pico Neo 3 Link approved by FCC) Meta shows interesting prototypes at SIGGRAPH Meta loves to show off some of its R&D work to the community , even if it is related to technologies that may never see the light.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 6, 2017

Roundup of VR & AR Announcements from WWDC 1) Apple announces VR Ready Computers Thanks to Apple updating Metal, their graphics API, to Metal 2, in their new macOS called macOS High Sierra, VR is coming to Mac. 4) Apple announces ARKit Apple announced its augmented reality platform, ARKit for iPhone and iPad.

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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! Image by Kura Technologies). Last week I told you about MetaHumans creator, the tool to create realistic humanoid avatars in Unreal Engine. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The technology can be so powerful, but it must be used the right way. Facebook acquires Scape Technologies. With a surprise move, Facebook has acquired UK startup Scape Technologies , ramping up the AR Cloud Wars. Let’s see how Apple and Google will answer. I really hope so. Valve teases SteamVR 2.0. is coming.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

So, for instance, you record a video of a person from a low position and then see how it looks from a higher position Apple has just published a patent about showing invisible things on mixed reality glasses. The same concept could work with a Wi-Fi sensor, so you could see the strength of the Wi-Fi waves around you.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Until now, building even a simple app for Quest headsets required using a full-fledged game engine like Unity, Unreal, or Godot. With Spatial SDK, Meta Quest devices become another form factor in your mobile development process, rather than a completely new technology stack." 0:00 / 1:07 1× Meta Spatial SDK.

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