The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Facebook already had full control of my Oculus and Facebook accounts, so it had already my XR data. That’s why Avi Bar-Zeev in a tweet on this topic talked about “the illusion of control” of our data : actually, Facebook already had it all. Zuckerberg wrote in a letter some years ago that he wants full control of the XR platform.

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ARPost

JANUARY 17, 2023

AR glasses typically use a combination of waveguide lenses and a tiny projector called a light engine. See Also: Introducing Holography as the Next Tech Milestone in Perfecting AR Glasses. Most waveguide AR projects still reproduce a flat image. These are the issues addressed by the new technology from Dispelix and VividQ.

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VRScout

APRIL 17, 2018

The Vive Pro gets new SDK tools unlocking advanced AR capabilities. Announced last week via an official update to the Vive developer blog , Vive Pro developers now have full control of the headset’s front-facing stereo cameras to develop their own mixed reality experiences. The Vive Pro is one hell of a VR headset.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 17, 2019

It looks like Magic Leap could be gearing up to jump into the world of mobile AR, as the company recently published a job listing for a senior software engineer who will be tasked with building “a cross-platform framework that enables large scale shared AR experiences between mobile devices (iOS, Android) and Magic Leap devices.”

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VRScout

OCTOBER 25, 2019

At over $1.5M, the Kickstarter is on track to set a record for the most-funded AR platform. These games were (and still are) the incubators for concepts that have gone on to define game design, and helped shape how we as a society have come to understand what makes an experience fun. and Unreal Engine 4. .

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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

MARCH 19, 2018

Today Magic Leap has launched the Lumin SDK, the toolkit which allows developers to build AR experiences for Lumin OS, the operating system that powers the Magic Leap One headset. 6DOF hand controller (Totem) tracking. Use of Unreal Engine 4’s desktop and mobile forward rendering paths. Eye tracking. Gesture and hand tracking.

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ARPost

JUNE 22, 2020

“We are proud to be delivering the technology that is pushing industrial training applications to their furthest reaches – even to space,” Varjo CEO and co-founder, Niko Eiden, said in a release shared with ARPost. Boeing also made the experience using 3D scans of the Starliner console on Unreal Engine. Building the Experience.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Varjo Technologies today announced its new user interface, code-named ‘Varjo Workspace’, which is designed to seamlessly let professionals use their Windows computer applications and 3D software tools with the company’s recently announced developer-focused AR/VR headset, Varjo XR-1. ” Image courtesy Varjo Technologies.

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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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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 21, 2024

Unity vs Unreal: Which is the best option for companies creating content for extended reality ? Both companies are well-known for their innovative approach to supporting the production of augmented, mixed, and virtual reality solutions. However, each option has its own unique pros and cons to consider.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 22, 2022

Epic Games, the parent company of the popular real-time 3D (RT3D) development suite Unreal Engine 5, recently released MetaHuman, a framework for creating highly realistic digital human avatars. The platform also supports augmented reality (AR) projects due to its ARKit integration, which helps further immersive content opportunities.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Today we hear from Nick Whiting, Technical Director of VR & AR at Epic Games. Whiting oversees the development of the award-winning Unreal Engine 4’s virtual reality efforts. Epic’s Unreal Engine 4 is one of the leading tools for VR game development. Nick Whiting. Oculus’ Head of Content, Jason Rubin.

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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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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

MAY 19, 2021

Talking about the actual implementation, are there any libraries and plugins already available for Unity/UE4 that can give indie studios accessibility solutions already ready out-of-the-box? Here you are some: Open XR: [link] UI Accessibility Plugin (Unity): [link] Set Color Deficiency Type (Unreal Engine): [link].

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ARVR

JULY 22, 2020

Training Professionals: Take Control of Your VR Content [link] Many training professionals want direct control over their virtual reality (VR) training content. From what I have seen, there are three types of development processes for VR training. You cede direct control over your content to the developers.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The app allows you to build complex VR and AR experiences without the need for any coding knowledge. ShapesXR is game engine-friendly, allowing you to easily export your projects to popular platforms such as Unity and Unreal Engine.

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Road to VR

JULY 29, 2019

OpenXR, a widely supported initiative which aims to streamline AR/VR development across headsets and platforms, has reached its 1.0 It’s a major milestone, according to Khronos Group which has overseen development of the standard by a consortium of many of the biggest names in the AR/VR sector. release today.

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VRScout

MARCH 19, 2018

Edgar Martín-Blas, CEO of Virtual Voyagers , told VRScout he’s been excited about the capabilities of eye-tracking, hand-tracking, nine hand gesture recognition, and “the possibility of controlling the content with a mobile app.”. Anyone can access the Magic Leap Creator Portal and sign-up for free.

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ARPost

JULY 13, 2022

There’s also a special panel of controls for experimental features including audible pauses and expressive movement. Users adjust these both to input information about the “character” that they are creating and to set how the character will act and “feel” in interactions with real people. They call this model “Bring Your Own Avatar.”.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

In a recent live-stream, Lynx founder Stan Larroque shared progress on the company’s upcoming MR headset which is being designed with AR-passthrough and VR capabilities in mind. It was also said that the company is evaluating controllers from Finch as a potential controller solution.

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Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2018

.” The upgraded tracking and improved developer tools are available in beta today on Windows , alongside three new demos to try it out for yourself. Founded in 2010, Leap Motion released its initial product (today called the ‘ Leap Motion Controller ‘) in 2012, a desktop-focused peripheral which offered markerless hand-tracking.

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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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Road to VR

JULY 24, 2019

Despite securing $280 million from Japan’s largest telecom earlier this summer, we’ve heard surprisingly little from the multi-billion dollar AR startup of late regarding its flagship headset, Magic Leap One. With Overture, you can pause and play a track, adjust the volume, skip to the next song, and perform other basic controls.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 31, 2024

The real-time 3D engines powering AR/VR/MR applications, like Unreal and Unity, found fame and traction as gaming development tools. Now, these services are leveraged to create enterprise solutions. Now, devices are merely becoming more mainstream and sophisticated.

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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.

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Road to VR

JULY 11, 2018

Speaking during a developer livestream today, Magic Leap’s Alan Kimball, part of the company’s developer relations team, offered the first details on what developers can expect in terms of the power and performance on the AR headset. The headset also has a 6DOF controller, but it isn’t shown in this demo.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

The AR startup is in big troubles : after having overhyped its device for years and having collected billions of investments, it just delivered a HoloLens clone. invested in AR and VR companies. A new interesting AR project is thriving on Kickstarter. Vicon can now track your body in AR. Who knows….

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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. This means you can run the most complex VR and AR experiences from a remote server across 5G and Wi-Fi networks to any device, while embracing the freedom to move—no wires, no limits.”. CloudXR From NVIDIA.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

For VR and AR, well, summer is seldom the right moment to have many great news, so this week hasn’t been that exciting. But here you are anyway the things that you should know from the last 7 days! Jio launches its AR glasses. They should come with more than 25 compatible AR applications. A very interesting read.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2022

Now Holodeck is being substituted by NVIDIA Omniverse , NVIDIA’s platform for 3D design collaboration and world simulation, but the vision is always the same: working with other people to build and interact with AR and VR scenes. On the lowest layer, you have the tools with which you make a scene (Blender, Unreal Engine, 3ds Max, etc…).

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VRScout

JUNE 9, 2017

Apple finally talks about VR while taking a (very solid) swing at AR, Walmart will use virtual reality to train employees, you can grow better weed with AR + AI, and Q1 VR headset sales…. Apple, humble as always, announced that their ARKit made iOS the largest AR platform in the world…overnight. APPLE ACTUALLY TALKS ABOUT VR.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Haptic feedback comes in many hardware forms, such as gloves or controllers. Haptics Studio and SDK leverage Unity and Unreal RT3D engines for creating AR/VR/MR content; Meta’s tools allow developers to integrate haptic experiences into Quest applications. What is Haptics Studio by Meta?

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The umbrella term that covers all of the various technologies that enhance our senses, whether they’re providing additional information about the actual world or creating totally unreal, virtually simulated worlds for us to experience. It includes Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR) technologies.

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2016

As the publisher of Unreal Engine 4, Epic Games is at the forefront of developers creating new worlds in VR, and we recently sat down with the man driving their VR efforts: Nick Whiting, Epic’s Technical Director of VR/AR. VRSCOUT: Who are you and what do you do? . I oversee all things VR and AR for Epic Games.

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