The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Actually, AWE oversees the organization of many events all over the world (for instance, I support the great Cecilia Lascialfari in organizing her AWE Nite Florence events), but the big event in California, together with the ones in Shanghai and Munich, is probably the most important one of the association.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 3, 2017

The California-based company recently started shipping its first development kit for a device that doesn’t follow the user’s eyes, but instead reads facial motion in the mouth, chin and cheeks and replicates them on a VR avatar. Developer kits cost $349 and also come with a Unity plugin SDK.

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AR Insider

APRIL 12, 2021

Let’s dive in… Apple says Epic’s Fortnite lawsuit is a marketing stunt to revive ‘flagging interest’ in the game. The trial begins next month in California. The Unity Cube is an experiment from developer Tony “SkarredGhost” Vitillo to test the limits of what Oculus will allow into the App Lab program.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Then production hit a lull for around two months as we waited to hear back from Oculus,” wrote Brenda Chen, a 2017 Oculus Launch Pad Sponsorship Recipient and the director of adventure game Chrysalis. Once we found out that we had been awarded the grant, we started working again and were in production for around six months.

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AllThingsVR

JULY 19, 2016

Funding Roundup: Unity Raises $181M, Matterport Acquires Virtual Walkthrough, ScopeAR Raises $2M, Pixie Raises $18.5M Unity Technologies announced that it has closed a $181 million Series C round of funding led by DFJ Growth. AR has been seen as a more distant opportunity than virtual reality, which has been boosted by gaming.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2019

I’m a VR game developer and one of the original Oculus Rift Kickstarter backers. The SDK’s have also matured somewhat and been integrated into game engines, which saved a fair a bit of boilerplate work, streamlining the whole process. It’s like being inside of Unity engine with your friends.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 5, 2023

Even when talking about games, the first mention was to Apple Arcade games you can play on a giant screen. It will have tools for building for it, and aside from the usual Apple tools, developers can use Unity to create content for it. This is something we were expecting from the rumors, but it reminds us a lot of the Gear VR.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In the US District Court for the Northern District of California, the FTC argued that Meta’s purchase of Within was breaching anticompetitive conduct. He explained how Meta focuses on gaming, social interaction productivity, and other use cases. Internal Response from Meta. ” Can Meta Survive without its VR Pioneer?

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VRScout

AUGUST 1, 2016

Unity’s most recent update makes the cross-platform game engine even more equally optimized, so with only one API you can simply build for multiple platforms with hardware-specific tweaks held to a minimum. Already supporting the Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, HTC Vive, and PSVR – Unity will now support Google Daydream.

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Bernard Marr

AUGUST 8, 2022

in Game Design. The metaverse concept emerged from the world of computer and video gaming, which has been creating vast, interactive, multi-user environments for decades. Many of the emergent metaverse experiences – such as Roblox, Fortnite, and The Sandbox – came about due to gaming and game-related technology.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The San Diego, California-based firm has become synonymous with delivering XR solutions capable of untethering head-mounted displays (HMDs) from PC. VR has gone through a rapid transition from a primarily consumer-focused, tethered device for gaming and entertainment, to standalone headsets in similar verticals.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Late last Friday night, over 1,000 undergraduates from across the country poured into California Memorial Stadium for Cal Hacks , a 36-hour coding spree put on by Major League Hacking. Another virtual piano demo built in Unity. Mini-game Mania. An old-fashioned text-based game built with C++ and compatible with Leap Motion.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 22, 2017

In the US, for example, the state of New Jersey has introduced similar online gambling regulation, while a number of other states, including California, are considering similar licensing. It’s a game-changer. It was built with Unity 5, using Chromium to emulate web-based games inside. Virtual casino.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2023

CloudXR Client Extensions will also offer a key plugin for Unity Editor, providing developers with bespoke CloudXR applications. This connected the world’s largest “design, computer-aided design (CAD), and simulation tool ecosystems such as Autodesk, Siemens, Adobe, PTC, and Epic Games.”

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

The Venture Reality Fund has looked at over 5,000 startups in the space and invested in 40, including Beat Games, acquired by Facebook, and Rec Room, the first VR software Unicorn. While at Zynga, he co-created the game FarmVille and served as the CTO of Zynga Japan. She has Masters in Economics, University of California, Berkeley.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 4, 2023

Hello everyone from Sunnyvale, California! For sure the headset won’t be only about games, but Apple is going to propose it as an extension of existing Apple devices. In general, the Quest ecosystem is going to get games with better graphical quality soon. There will be physics combat and a progression system.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 19, 2021

For this project, codenamed Steno, they partnered with the University of California San Francisco’s Chang Lab, who performed some experiments implanting electrodes into the brain of patients to let them type sentences just by thinking about them. of the devices used on the gaming platform. Facebook totals now 60.2%

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 26, 2023

AWE US It’s again the time of the year when I attend the Augmented World Expo (AWE) in Santa Clara, California. I’m already feeling the air being electric in the ecosystem… My highlight from last year was chasing the Unity CEO and making this horrible photo with him I have great plans for this AWE.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

A Horizon game is coming for this new headset, and some rumors talk also about Half-Life: Alyx potentially be available in the future; HTC has announced the Vive Wrist Tracker, a 6 DOF tracker for the Vive Focus 3. I attended AWE in California ), now many events are coming back to the digital format for safety reasons.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 24, 2020

We just worked with Unity, building augmented reality projects. I think it’s a high quality game engine character, but it’s not like talking to an actual person. Obviously, for hard skills and for fun and games and commercial stuff, that’s a very different story. And I can’t say which one yet, TBD.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 24, 2020

We just worked with Unity, building augmented reality projects. I think it’s a high quality game engine character, but it’s not like talking to an actual person. Obviously, for hard skills and for fun and games and commercial stuff, that’s a very different story. And I can’t say which one yet, TBD.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

The Upload Summer Showcase brought news about VR games. Like last year, also this year the Upload Summer Showcase has brought some interesting news about VR games. As usual, this event hasn’t delivered any mind-blowing announcements, but a big series of small news about VR games. Meta launches its Roblox competitor.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 24, 2020

We just worked with Unity, building augmented reality projects. I think it's a high quality game engine character, but it's not like talking to an actual person. Obviously, for hard skills and for fun and games and commercial stuff, that's a very different story. And I can't say which one yet, TBD. Cortney: No. Cortney: Yeah.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

Hello everyone from San Jose, California! This week we had anyway the confirmation that Fast Travel Games is working on two titles for this headset. And Sony will give a “Sneak peek” of PSVR 2 games at its upcoming State Of Play event on June 2nd at 3 PM PT. We don’t know much about this upcoming content, though.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Facebook is investing billions for hardware creation, and it is going to move 4,000 employes working on AR hardware in a new venue just built in California. It seems that the latest version creates some stuttering while playing VR games , and this is creating discomfort for some users and making the devices unusable for others.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Kura is a little startup in California that is working on a pair of lightweight AR glasses. While Kura aims at making us dream with the headset of the future, another company , TiltFive, has its feet very grounded on Earth and is going to release an AR headset focused on a single purpose (tabletop gaming), but very well suited on it.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 10, 2017

I swung by the Prologue offices in Venice, California to learn more about their plans for branching into a whole new type of design — a VR platform known as Spatialand. Unity’s Carte Blanche is imagined as a card-based system of organization, but this intuitive interface is still on the drawing board.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Hello everyone from Palo Alto, California! Together with the area update, this means for instance that two teams of four people can play inside a warehouse a laser tag game in VR. This could offer multiplayer colocated games with the same quality of PCVR games. You can read some of my hands-on articles on my blog (e.g.

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Road to VR

APRIL 22, 2025

Standalone headsets like Quest join the likes of PC VR & PSVR 2 as primarily gaming-focused devices. The event is being held in Long Beach, California from June 10th to 12th, and it’s expected to host more than 6,000 attendees, 300 exhibitors, 400 speakers, and a 150,000 sqft expo floor.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. But now expanding that, that whole gaming idea and bringing it into retail. And they launched this year, I believe, Harry Potter, which is a cool game. So here you have these two massive game engines driving the content creation.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. But now expanding that, that whole gaming idea and bringing it into retail. And they launched this year, I believe, Harry Potter, which is a cool game. So here you have these two massive game engines driving the content creation.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. But now expanding that, that whole gaming idea and bringing it into retail. And they launched this year, I believe, Harry Potter, which is a cool game. So here you have these two massive game engines driving the content creation.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 25, 2023

Attorney generals from eight states—California, Colorado, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Virginia—have joined the litigation. California’s AG Rob Bonta said that the company’s advertising practices had “stifled creativity in a space where innovation is crucial.” billion USD deal.

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