The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2021

Today I have the pleasure of publishing an interview I had with Graham Atlee , a very smart guy that has developed the Triton Project, a DIY affordable AR headset with wide FOV and natural hands interactions! For the past 3 years I’ve been working on various AR/VR projects like Pumori.io Triton AR headset (Image by Graham Atlee).

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

This looks to be the year where we move beyond tentative experimentation into scalable deployment of immersive tech in the workplace. Timoni West, Director of XR Research Unity Labs says UX designers will have to adjust in order to meet the demand for these new kinds of experiences. Image Credit: WCCFTech, Unity, VR Visions Inc.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The past week has been a pretty interesting one for the tech world: between Microsoft Ignite, Unity Unite, and the OpenAI drama, there has been a lot to follow. Unity 6 takes back the original way of specifying engine versions and abandons the confusing one that bound a new Unity version to the year it was released.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

It quickly became apparent that the avatar was mirroring this person’s movements, and was projected into the room by AR. This is a moment that I’ll never forget, because it was the first time I considered writing about VR and AR. It was a glimpse of the interconnected metaverse of the future. Image Credit: Normal VR.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2024

As an example of a VPS solution, I will give you some details about Immersal , which is one of the leading companies for what concerns this technology. Disclaimer: this is a paid article built in collaboration with Immersal. If you are playing an AR experience in a room, they are the way to go. Why do we need VPS?

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 15, 2022

Popular real-time 3D (RT3D) engine Unity doubled down on its famed ease of use this week in a bid to enhance its toolkit with new key features to streamline the creation of immersive augmented, virtual, and mixed reality (AR/VR/MR) assets. Since 2021, Unity has purchased Ziva Dynamics, Parsec, SyncSketch, and W?t?

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VRScout

JANUARY 20, 2021

Fans of the long-running comedy franchise can, for the first time, immerse themselves in the world of Wallace & Gromit as they take on the role of an employee at the duos latest business endeavor, Spick and Spanners. The post Wallace & Gromit City-Scale AR Adventure Now Available On Smartphones appeared first on VRScout.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 29, 2024

This week, unity, a leading XR and RT3D content creation engine, unveiled a new partnership with 3D content streaming experts Vagon. The partnership will leverage Vagon’s AR/VR/MR streaming advancements to boost accessibility for XR immersive experiences and applications, covering a broad range of end devices.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

The nReal glasses are one of the most interesting AR gadgets of this year. They have been revealed at CES , and I have personally tried them in Beijing some months ago, and in my review , I hig h lighted how they are not only very light and trendy, but they can also provide very bright holograms.

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AR Insider

MAY 27, 2021

Four Myths About AR Advertising. I’ve been writing about it for over a year, and working on related products at Unity for much longer. From upper funnel to purchase, brands are increasingly turning to Augmented Reality to market their products and services online,” was the tale I spun a year ago. Mike Boland, AR Insider.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 30, 2021

This game has had a very long and interesting story (maybe one day I’ll write a long post about it), and it has lived various transitions, with the last one being from a passthrough AR game to a standard VR game. From HitMotion AR to HitMotion VR. It was an AR game that could be played on a VR headset , in 2019.

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AR Insider

MARCH 24, 2022

What are the biggest insights and observations in immersive tech & media this week? Welcome to Reality Bytes, featuring lightning-round video commentary from AR Insider partner, M7 Innovations. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 31, 2023

Today, companies from almost every industry are discovering the benefits of bringing immersive technologies into their operations. Unity, one of the world’s market-leading development platforms, is among the better-known solutions built to enable the creation of 3D, immersive content.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Google has revealed Android XR and it’s basically what the name implies: a full-blown version of Android that’s been adapted to run on XR headsets, supports the entire existing library of flat Android apps, and opens the door to “spatialized” versions of those apps, as well as completely immersive VR content.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 19, 2020

“Vantage” is AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. Authors’ opinions are their own. . Technology and Consumer Behavior are Trending Immersive. Increasingly, a significant and growing portion of the content created and shared on these networks is immersive. by Tony Parisi.

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Upload VR

MARCH 7, 2025

Meta will recommend that developers use the built-in OpenXR support of Unity and Unreal from next week. OpenXR is the open standard API for AR/VR/MR, supported by the vast majority of the industry. For Unity, the company says that version 1.14 What Is OpenXR? Meta writes. We also build libraries to support these new extensions.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 8, 2022

This Thursday, Enrique Tromp, the Co-Founder and CTO of VRMADA , took to his LinkedIn account to announce UltimateXR (extended reality), a free and open-source framework for creating enterprise-grade immersive training scenarios, collaboration environments, and interactive gaming experiences. VRMADA, Immersive Training for the Frontline.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 19, 2022

Auckland-based virtual reality (VR) Metaverse platform Many Worlds launched its bespoke immersive content creation tools on Friday last week, which provides a digital space to create custom avatars, virtual spaces, and interactive content. The company provides an immersive environment for users to play mini-games, join events, and socialise.

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ARPost

JULY 5, 2022

Job roles are opening up, and the youth and adults alike are becoming more and more interested in the immersive world that AR/VR brings. Immersive technology has yet to hit the mainstream market, but investments in the broad XR industry are already predicted to exceed a market value of $250 billion by 2028.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

These augmented reality devices are manufactured by Chinese company Realmax and are characterized by a very wide field of view. While many other AR glasses (like Nreal Light or HoloLens 2 ) have a Field Of View in the 50° ballpark, RealMax glasses have always had ones above 100° , for a more immersive augmented experience.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 12, 2021

But now, thanks to VR Expert , a company specialized in selling and lending AR and VR headsets, I have been able to test this device for a few days and report to you my impressions about it. Besides that, I also noticed the “screen door effect” for the first time on an AR headset. Anyway, 52° diagonal is still little.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

Nreal is for sure one of the most interesting AR startups on the market. It got the attention of all the press at CES 2019 revealing an AR glass that is light, fashionable, and affordable. Through the lenses of nReal glasses connected to my PC: all the text is easily readable, and also colors are very sharp.

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VRScout

JUNE 22, 2023

Available now on iOS & Android devices, The Heist of the Century uses Chat-GPT to immerse you in realistic interrogations powered by conversational artificial intelligence (AI). The CrimeTrip app was built using the Unity AR Foundation game engine. CrimeTrip is available to download for free on iOS and Android devices.

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ARPost

JULY 29, 2021

To make this happen, the luxury car company has partnered with some old ARPost favorites in AR and VR technology including Pico , Engage, and 8th Wall. The projects have also been enabled by companies we had yet to meet, including CRAFT, Antiloop, Govar, and We Are Jerry. An AR experience wasn’t enough for BMW. BMW’s Road to XR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2020

I want to start this year and this decade (that will be pervaded by immersive technologies) with an amazing tutorial about how you can get started with Oculus Quest hands tracking SDK and create in Unity fantastic VR experiences with natural interactions! Let’s create a new Unity 3D project, and call it TestQuestHands.

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Road to VR

JULY 23, 2021

Facebook announced today that an upcoming update to the Quest development SDK will include experimental support for a Passthrough API which will allow Unity developers to build AR experiences and features into apps on Quest 2.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 1, 2020

“We are especially excited by the introduction of depth awareness in the XR-3 through combined LiDAR and RGB video, enabling the most realistic mixed reality experiences ever seen. Varjo has pushed the boundaries of high-resolution mixed reality for professionals across various industries,” said AC Mahendran , Director, XR, Unity. “By

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Prominent sectors include industrial AR , social , gaming , and shopping. But existing alongside all of them is AR advertising. This includes paid/sponsored AR lenses that let consumers visualize products on “spaces & faces.”. Advertising is one of the most lucrative AR subsectors, on pace to reach $1.41

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ARPost

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Last Friday, December 17, The VR/AR Association held a one-day event dedicated to the metaverse and avatars as part of the Immerse Global Summit Series. How are we going to transport attributes from the physical world to the digital world?”. See Also: 2021 VR/AR Association Global Summit: Metaverse, Convergence, and Adoption.

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Road to VR

MAY 11, 2023

Google has announced an upcoming AR game, Space Invaders: World Defense , which is built as a showcase of the company’s latest AR tool. Over the last few years Google has been steadily working on its AR developer toolset, ARCore.

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Road to VR

JULY 21, 2021

Sketchfab , the platform that lets you view, share, and download 3D models via traditional monitors and AR/VR headsets, today announced its been acquired by Unreal Engine creators Epic Games. Sketchfab says it will continue to support other game engines, Unity included.

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VRScout

JUNE 18, 2020

The ability to seamlessly integrate real-world promotional content into an interactive game experience—whether it be an in-game billboard, commercial, or cutscene—offers advertisers the chance to showcase specific products and services in a less intrusive manner that doesn’t break the players immersion. Image Credit: Admix.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 12, 2023

While some scepticism still arises around the widespread adoption of XR in its many forms, it appears clear that as generational factors, device optimization, and innovation acceleration progress, as should widespread immersive technology adoption. Developers can also use the platform to design AR experiences for physical locations.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The US Army is experimenting with AR goggles on dogs. The prize for the weirdest news of the week goes to a piece of news from Business Insider that details an experiment by an entrepreneur that loves dogs about creating sort of AR glasses for dogs. It seems that after 3–4 weeks of training, the dog gets used to using AR.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 27, 2021

Because AR’s inherent function is to enhance the physical world, its relevance is often tied to specific locations. This is a foundational principle of the AR cloud. For this reason, one of AR’s competitive battlegrounds will be in augmenting the world in location-relevant ways. XR Talks: AR is All About Location, Part III.

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ARPost

APRIL 17, 2023

After the COVID-19 pandemic made most event organizers cancel their live AR/VR events or host them virtually, in the past year more and more live events are making a comeback. Even the immersive industry needs a real-life environment to discover gadgets and try AR/VR content.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 15, 2021

AR startup Rokid today unveiled a new AR headset called Rokid Vision 2, which incorporates waveguide optics into an impressively slim package. Waveguides and birdbath optics are the two most common near-field display technologies currently in use in AR headsets. AR is still in its infancy, and both have their drawbacks.

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