Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

That’s the consensus that seems to emerge from “Top 2020 Trends: Enterprise AR & VR” a report published today by Unity Technologies, where 15 industry experts (yours truly among them) outlined how Mixed Reality (or XR depending on what flavor acronym you favor) will supercharge and transform the world of work.

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ARPost

MARCH 26, 2020

The three-day event featured videos and special blog posts. On Tuesday, a post went live on the VIVE blog detailing what their digital GDC alternative offerings will look like. While Facebook’s blog did a good job of fielding comments on the videos and blog posts, it didn’t offer any live content.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Unity Technologies has reportedly backtracked on the controversial fees it introduced last week, triggering a public outcry from the developer community. Many Unity developers have slammed the new fees as unfair, prompting the San Francisco-based firm to rescind its announcement partially.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

A new cycle of XR The Apple Vision Pro launch has been a disruptive moment for our industry (Image by Apple) As I said in a popular post a few months ago , I think we have entered a new cycle for immersive realities. Especially Apple and Google, which are the dominant players in the smartphone industry, are both launching headsets this year.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

The same luck has not happened to employees at Niantic at Unity. Unity, instead, is firing 4% of its employees, and this may seem weird considering that in the last months it has proceeded to hundred-millions-dollars acquisitions. NVIDIA and Siemens partnered for the “Industrial Metaverse”. Other relevant news. More info?—?NVIDIA

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Road to VR

AUGUST 6, 2017

The company says the new VR rendering technique can be easily added to Unity-based projects, and that it “shouldn’t be hard to integrate with Unreal and other engines.” ” The VR industry has a vested interest in finding ways to make VR rendering more efficient. Image courtesy Oculus. Image courtesy Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 22, 2024

I have already started playing with this little toy, and I will write my impressions very soon on this blog (probably Friday or Monday). More info (Vive Focus Vision hands-on) More info (Vive Focus Vision teardown) Unity launches Unity 6 Unity has finally launched its new version: Unity 6. What about you?

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Virtual reality is transforming industries and has so much to offer in terms of exposing people to new experiences they otherwise wouldn’t be able to enjoy. Furthermore, developments in the VR industry are improving existing technology. Thus, in the future, VR users are less likely to encounter such issues.

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VRScout

JANUARY 2, 2021

I got many critics of the last concert, but a lot of people thanked me for the blog piece I wrote. As well as leading the development of this concert and many other prominent events such as Venice VR Expanded , Vitillo is a well-known figure in the virtual community thanks to his blog The Ghost Howls.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2022

There have been many announcements at the event: no one of them has been game-changing for the industry, but they overall show where the XR ecosystem is headed. More info (Galea on Road To VR) More info (Galea on my blog The Ghost Howls). Pimax and Skyworth announce new VR headsets. Funny link. Tonight at WWDC Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Developers can already access a preview of the development environment for native, Unity, WebXR. I think the report is right in expecting a non-bright 2025 for XR and in forecasting a rebound in 202627, but honestly, I perceive that since 2023 the industry is slowly growing instead of shrinking (e.g.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

DISCLAIMER: Before starting, I would like to acknowledge you that since some weeks Niels Bogerd has become a Patron of this blog. Concept picture of SenseGlove used in industrial settings for VR training. Experimenting with different force-feedback haptics inside Unity: rigid object, bendable object, breakable object.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 15, 2022

As you’ve read in my other article written today , this is a special day for this blog… but it is also Monday, so I won’t skip writing a new amazing roundup of AR/VR news So, wishing you a happy Ferragosto (the name of today’s holiday in Italy), I leave you to the best XR news of the week! Top news of the week. Image by NVIDIA). Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Who We Are Push the boundaries of the virtual reality industry with us as we create a cross-platform, VR video streaming metaverse. Senior Unity Developer Join our Unity team and be at the forefront of innovation in the global VR video streaming ecosystem. SteamVR 2.0 is now live for everyone.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 3, 2017

According to a blog from the company, the first development kits will be going out to a “small number” of partners, while remaining customers will be notified on a one-by-one basis. Developer kits cost $349 and also come with a Unity plugin SDK. Shipments begin a little later than the original estimation of October 2016.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 3, 2017

Recently Oculus announced via their blog that they’ve added native MR support to their flagship PC VR headset, the Oculus Rift. There are also additional guides for those wanting to integrate mixed reality support into Unity , Unreal , and native. Tagged with: mixed reality Facebook Twitter Reddit More.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

Magic Leap has launched the SDK for the device’s Lumin OS , with support for Unity and Unreal engines. Epic Games have detailed Unreal Engine’s support for the Magic Leap One Creator Edition on their blog, which confirms some significant hardware features of the device, including eye tracking, hand tracking, and room scanning.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 29, 2021

But the interest in the industry is high and we will share more and exciting details in the course of next year! Following this announcement, we partnered with Unity and Audi and for a US roadshow that brought us from Los Angeles to San Francisco. A while ago you announced a partnership with Pico and Unity. holoride trailer.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Discovery : a “small number” of Pre-Discovery concepts are approved by executive review to proceed to the Discovery phase, where “a few” employees examine the practicalities of industrial design and cost. More info New info about Meta Orion Orion is the device of the moment and many people in the industry are talking about it.

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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

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Who We Are Push the boundaries of the virtual reality industry with us as we create a cross-platform, VR video streaming metaverse. You’ll be instrumental in coordinating various teams, understanding market trends, and driving the overall vision to ensure that we stay on the cutting edge of the VR industry.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2022

It gathers people from the tech industry, from movies, from music, all in the same place for 10 days. At SXSW there are relevant personalities from the tech industry, plus people from most of the major tech companies. There are people from various industries. SXSW Logo (Image by SXSW). There was a keynote by Neal Stephenson.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 29, 2018

We worked with key industry players and academia on the right algorithm (BVH) and then developed the right hardware to accelerate that algorithm (RT Cores). You can refer to this Microsoft blog post , with a final link to the SDK and tutorials on Github to have more info about it. What about Unity, instead?

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

According to Vermeulen, this basis of thought is why VR hasn’t caught on the way many industry veterans had anticipated. In a blog post entitled Prototyping future AR in VR , Vermeulen breaks down the VR headset he uses to create his unique AR experiences. I just want to augment my world.”.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 4, 2025

But the fact that such an important smartphone company wants to enter the mixed reality industry is an amazing sign for us all. There is a Unity SDK, so it is also possible to create a VR game (e.g. Unluckily we have literally zero information about this new headset. for fitness) that integrates them!

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

This means that Facebook is completely adopting the OpenXR standard and this is amazing news for all of us in the industry. Abi Bar-Zeev knows that too, and he has written an interesting blog post predicting how Facebook will behave in the upcoming years. Disclaimer: Jake, the CEO of HaptX, is a Patron of this blog) Learn more.

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Peter Graham

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

While it might seem daunting, Oculus and Unity want to make that process a little easier. Now you can’t just go in cold having never even looked at Unity (a game engine by the way). If you don’t then Unity suggests some introductory courses first, such as an intro to Unity course and an intro to VR tutorial.

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Cats and VR

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Sumerian supports importing FBX, OBJ, and coming soon Unity projects. Thank you Tara Walker for providing info via your blog post Some of these features are: Editor: A web-based editor for constructing 3D scenes, importing assets, scripting interactions and special effects, with cross-platform publishing.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

My trip is going well and this week I will start writing on my blog about my XR experiences here in the Red Country, while on my X/Twitter channel, you will be able to see some landscape and food pictures! I’m writing this newsletter across Hangzhou and Qingdao, which are two cities I personally love here in China!

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 29, 2022

The two companies will collaborate to bring augmented reality to the fashion industry, and I’m dreaming of Gentle Monster designing beautiful AR glasses that people will want to wear in the streets. Two interesting experiments from Shopify and Unity. Let’s hope this happens. The metaverse is a trillion dollar opportunity! Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 15, 2023

I t has a rugged industrial and enterprise construction, and it is designed to work hands-free with voice and gaze recognition. Unity adds OpenXR hand integration package. Unity has just released the XR Hands package, currently in preview, that aims at making developers integrate hand tracking into their applications via OpenXR.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Experience with 3D content creation is a plus, and you’ll have the opportunity to learn and work with AR design. Senior Unity Developer Join our Unity team and be at the forefront of innovation in the global mobile-AR industry.

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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. The entire community is rioting , and many important people in the industry have also poured gasoline on the fire. So far for the announcement by Facebook. The same on Twitter. Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Experience with 3D content creation is a plus, and you’ll have the opportunity to learn and work with AR design. Senior Unity Developer Join our Unity team and be at the forefront of innovation in the global mobile-AR industry. Funny link This is too funny to watch!

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

They also talk about the current difficulties of using Unity to develop for the Vision Pro. More info (How Puzzling Places was ported to the Apple Vision Pro) New apps get released to the Vision Pro every week : Job Simulator and Vacation Simulator have been announced for it (I teased this on my blog a few weeks ago).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

Mozilla updates its Unity WebVR exporter. Two years ago, I reviewed on this blog a Unity plugin that Mozilla had released in beta to let you create WebVR experiences from your Unity projects. Thanks to this exporter, every Unity developer can create a WebXR experience by just building the Unity project for HTML5!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Microsoft) Microsoft lays off 10,000 employees and shuts down its mixed reality projects This is seriously a bad period for the tech industry in general, and of course also for mixed reality. 10,000 employees will lose their job before March : this is a human tragedy on its own.

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