The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

You can imagine that after it has been released through two official blog posts, an enormous backlash from the community started to happen. I think his world domination plans are going as expected. Apple threatens future support in Unreal Engine. So far for the announcement by Facebook. The same on Twitter. Other relevant news.

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MARCH 19, 2018

Following the surprise release of Magic Leap's SDK on Monday, March 19, Unity, Unreal Engine, and Mozilla followed up by announcing official partnerships with the company. "We We are proud to partner with Magic Leap to integrate the Magic Leap platform with Unity," Unity announced on its official blog.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

If I had to choose the most common question I’ve received in these 4 years on the blog, social media, and Quora, I would surely pick “How do I get started with virtual reality?” Immotionar and the first contact with AR and VR. Some people even ask if I can become their mentor. From it, ARKit has born, I guess.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 24, 2022

I’m curious to see how this will compete with the Quest Pro, because every one of these devices has its own strong points : for instance, Pico 4 Enterprise is more affordable, but Meta Quest Pro has a much better passthrough AR. As usual, these are all speculations, so let’s see what will actually happen. Other relevant news.

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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. I believe this is truly the start of the mainstream VR and AR revolution that we at Epic have been striving for, and building for, over the course of many years.

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VRScout

MAY 19, 2016

Riding the wave of excitement over Google’s new VR platform, Daydream, Epic Games CTO Kim Libreri announced on the Google I/O stage today that the gaming giant has brought support for Daydream to Unreal Engine 4. In a collaboration with Hardsuit Labs on the plugin, Epic Games has made Unreal Engine 4 support for Daydream available now.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Resonance Audio aims to make VR and AR development easier across mobile and desktop platforms. The new Resonance Audio SDK consolidates these efforts, working ‘at scale’ across mobile and desktop platforms, which should simplify development workflows for spatial audio in any VR/AR game or experience. update earlier this year.

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AR Insider

MAY 24, 2021

This week, we dive into Snap’s new AR Spectacles, Google I/O takeaways and Digilens’ new reference frames. version of Specs, its AR glasses, which are now in the hands of select developers. Specs have received a significant upgrade and can now actually show users AR. We were not confused.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 11, 2025

When I started writing these weekly summaries of AR/VR news I couldnt imagine I would have continued for such a long time. Thank you to all of you, my readers, for having kept reading these posts of mine and giving me the strength to keep writing them by telling them they are useful for you. THIS IS MY 400TH ROUNDUP OF XR NEWS.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 6, 2024

One of my biggest highlights has been that my article about Social AR has been featured in the famous New World Notes blog that I usually read… I’ve felt very honored about this! In my opinion, it will be the latter: Apple’s goal is still winning the AR race among the masses. This week has been quite cool for me.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Vindevogel adds that the growth of VR in the context of LBE is due in part to how VR and AR are capable of providing users with more exciting ways to bring their vision to life, making the technology suitable for visitor attractions. “It Thus, it’s likely that we’ll see more AR apps making use of AI tech in the future. “

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

You know that I have a big passion for Brain-Computer Interfaces, a passion that has grown even more when I understood they are a perfect match with AR and VR (I have even dedicated a long article in the past about this). OpenBCI has also watched our customers integrate our existing products into AR and VR headsets for years.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2022

This week, Xiaomi actual unveiled the real hardware that should make that vision become real: dubbed Mijia AR Glasses , these glasses have a nice set of features. Anyway, if you are in China and you want to look ??, More info (Mijia AR Glasses?—?Road Road To VR) More info (Mijia AR Glasses?—?Input Have fun with them.

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Road to VR

APRIL 17, 2024

Facilitated by the standards body Khronos Group, OpenXR is a royalty-free standard that aims to standardize the development of VR and AR applications, making for a more interoperable ecosystem. More details about Local Floor functionality and its value to developers are available in this blog post.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

Object tracking : Hyperion allows the Leap Motion Controller 2 camera to track AR Markers (also known as fiducial markers) enabling tracking of any object. But it is thanks to research projects like this that in the next years, we will arrive at having AR glasses we can wear every day. I will leave you the link to do that below.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

Many countries are locking down because of the coronavirus, so I hope you all stay safe, healthy and will be able to keep in touch with the people you love. And if you need some pieces of advice regarding how to professionally survive this quarantine, I have written a blog post on the topic you can read. Who knows….

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

My speech will be about AR and BCI. A bit like Apple, whose upgrades to ARKit show its creation of an AR framework aimed at the future more than the present (because phone AR is good only to add features to 2D apps), Facebook updating the Quest gives us a hint of what we can expect in the upcoming years. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

More info (Samsung prototype headset leaked — Upload VR) More info (Samsung prototype headset leaked — XR Daily News) Other relevant news (Image by Meta Reality Labs) Meta’s first AR glasses will be just for internal use A new report by The Information talks about the AR glasses that Meta is building.

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Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2018

Along with the updates to their tracking technology, Leap Motion is also releasing improvements to their developer tools, including newly updated Unity and Unreal Engine integrations, and deprecating some older APIs. The company details the developer-level changes on their blog here. Updated Tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

I wonder if this will have any consequences… More info News worth a mention (Image by Xiaomi) AR and VR were great at MWC XR analyst Anshel Sag wrote a great article highlighting all the most important hardware showcased at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. You can discover more on the dedicated Linkedin post that I’m sharing below.

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ARPost

JUNE 22, 2022

Unlocking New Capabilities by Merging the Real and the Unreal. With the integration of Unity’s real-time 3D platform, ArcGIS Map SDK lets its users not only envisage and evaluate, but also manage geographical facts and figures for any digital twin model constructed,” said Dave Rhodes, SVP of Digital Twins at Unity, in a blog post.

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ARPost

APRIL 10, 2023

As a neuro-ophthalmologist, I use the eye as a window to the brain,” said michineMD Medical Director Professor Mathias Abegg in a blog post announcing the partnership. The complete exhibit also uses AR technology and virtual production to replicate activities like surfing.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 7, 2017

Stereolabs is a leading provider of depth and motion sensing solutions for autonomous robotics and VR/AR. Now with their ZED depth sensor, Stereolabs provides a means for machines to see depth the way humans do, for applications in autonomous navigation, AR/VR and more. www.catsandvr.com/blog/. www.catsandvr.com/blog/.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

For instance, the piece video on China Daily where Tim Cook says “I am incredibly excited about AR […] stay tuned and you’ll see what we have to offer” has become viral and everyone is talking about it, while actually, it doesn’t convey any info. NVIDIA Blog). Useless news. Some others, like Niantic, will probably join soon.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

One-year price performance for MSFT, AAPL, GOOGL, SNE, and NVDA According to the latest report from Statista , the global augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) markets are rapidly growing and are forecast to reach a total of $72.8 It is clear that Apple working diligently to become a big player in the AR/VR space.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

OpenXR has arrived at the first version of the standard, and now it has been implemented by all the major vendors : Microsoft has implemented it for HoloLens and WMR; Oculus for Rift and Quest; Valve has implemented it in SteamVR; etc… Talking about game engines, Unreal Engine now already offers it, while Unity is still lagging behind.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 4, 2017

According to a blog post today penned by Oculus’ VP of Content Jason Rubin, the closure of Story Studio is happening so that the team can focus on its established pattern of investing in the work of outside studios. Story Studio is also the creator of Quill — a VR artistic creation platform similar to Google’s Tilt Brush.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Yes, it is less than the 5% of Unreal, but until yesterday we only paid per seat, not both per seat and per revenue sharing. There are also some conspiracy theories about all this being a deliberate move to be acquired or that the initial nonsensical conditions were announced just to make people accept better these new ones.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2022

If it is true, it confirms that Apple has no mainstream plans for this device, and it will bet on true AR glasses for the mainstream. Anyway, we’ll see… these are all speculations. Unreal Engine 5 has brought two interesting features with its release: Lumen and Nanite. Nano-tech wants to be the Nanite of Unity. Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2020

WebXR is a technology with enormous potential, but at the moment it offers far worse tools to develop for it than standalone VR , where we all use Unity and Unreal Engine. I have the one of this blog) , or use Glitch , or install a LAMP/WAMP server on your machine (in this case, don’t forget the SSL certificates).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 17, 2023

Lucovsky was before working on a similar effort at Meta, where he was developing an operating system for AR glasses, but he left after one of the many scandals of that company. left Google because of “the recent changes in AR leadership and Google’s unstable commitment and vision”. But I hope this is going to happen relatively soon.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

Epic also announced a few interesting things, like a tool to record facial animations for MetaHumans that run on an iPhone; and Fab, the Unreal version of the Unity Asset Store, where the developers can find many tools and multimedia elements put on sale. Of course, Epic is completely against Apple and its vision of its own walled garden.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 1, 2021

AR brings digital content and information into the real world. For example, people are able to try on clothes digitally or take guitar lessons in a shared 3D space, without leaving their apartment. The “virtual reality world” that is made out of VR & AR should be a place of social interactions. Trending AR VR Articles: 1.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The move gives Unity platform developers new tools to build, publish, operate, and monetize mobile gaming content, including immersive applications like augmented reality (AR) services. Read the blog for more details. Additionally, the merger helps developers grow their applications across various channels and devices.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In this blog post, we will go over the key steps you need to take in order to create your own farming and life simulation game. Use a game engine: Another option is to use a game engine such as Unity, Unreal Engine, or Godot to build your game. Step 5: Promote and Market Your Game Finally, you need to promote and market your game.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 21, 2018

Ryder used to be the Editor of Dark Horse Comics, and we’ve talked about a graphic novel, comics and a weekly blog that has already been started. He has been working with Unreal for 20 years and was part of the Paragon and Fortnite development teams. He was part of the design process for several of Unreal’s core features.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

Of course the star of the event has been AI, and Microsoft has even announced an AI copilot for Windows 11… More info (Microsoft Mesh with Teams) More info (Windows 11 AI-powered copilot) Nreal rebrands as XREAL Chinese AR glasses manufacturer Nreal has just rebranded to XREAL to avoid confusion with other brands, like Unreal.

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