Upload VR

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Competition For Magic Leap, Microsoft, And Varjo? Targeting enterprise customers and applications will put Vision Pro in direct competition with the existing trifecta of enterprise AR headsets: Magic Leap 2 , Microsoft's HoloLens 2 , and Varjo's XR-3 series.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

Of course, I’m also a bit envious (I’ve not been invited), but I’m mostly happy for them and I can’t wait to read their impressions about the headset. In the meanwhile, Microsoft is working on a 1.1 But still, there have been some interesting announcements about Microsoft Mesh. version featuring a new low-light camera, and a 1.2

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Of course, after the announcement, a lot of questions started coming to my mind , especially regarding the use of these new graphics cards with regard to VR and AR. Of course, they haven’t revealed to me any secrets, but it has been interesting reading some details anyway. RTX games use the Microsoft DX12 DXR ray tracing API.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

Ok, of course, I’m kidding, but, you know, the possibility of saying the wrong name is so high that my proposal actually starts making sense… Top news of the week (Image by HTC Vive) HTC reveals inside-out-tracked Tracker With a totally unexpected move, HTC has revealed a new kind of Tracker.

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Upload VR

MAY 17, 2024

Aided by the UEVR mod, the ceaseless work of Team Beef and the formal announcement of Flat2VR Studios, an assortment of high-selling Unreal Engine games are basically seeing robust VR support turned on inside the titles many people already own. The biggest trend in VR gaming of 2024, though, is the blurrying line between flat content and VR.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Through the master course Content Strategy at the FH Joanneum and the course on Web 3.0 Large companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Valve, Epic Games, Roblox as well as smaller startups are working on creating products for the Metaverse as we speak. by Teodora Petkova, my interest in this topic was aroused.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Unreal Engine 4 is also an industry standard although it has a steeper learning curve than Unity. The best place to start when interested in developing augmented and virtual reality experiences are the several free and paid online courses, tutorials and certification programs. Both are free to download and try.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

With the Oculus Quest headset, Aptiv has been able to reduce in-person training times significantly, with most courses now only taking between 4 hours and 2 days. Microsoft HoloLens and GE. HTV VIVE, Unreal, and Nowa Era. GE Healthcare handles the process for manufacturing most of its complicated medical equipment in China.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

I’m trying to keep expectations in place not because I want to be negative about VR (I’m a strong believer in the tech), but because in the past I’ve already seen that trend of setting unrealistic expectations and then writing “VR is dead” the day after when the market of course haven’t reached those results.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The incumbents like Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft or Snap already own global social graphs, but perhaps looking to unseat them could be the multiplayer gaming behemoths like Sony, Activision Blizzard or EA, or 3D-specific ideas like Aura’s “avatar as a service”.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

Of course, it is not the best VR experience, and of course, it is terrible for gaming, but in the enterprise, it has still value and will probably have for at least one-two years. In its personal crusade against Microsoft, optics expert Karl Guttag has listed in 4 articles all the defects of the HoloLens 2.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Of course, this doesn’t mean that VR is mainstream yet, because we have to verify what have been the actual sales numbers and also what will be the retention of these new users in 3–6 months. All the above cues are proof that Quest 2 sold well this Christmas. Some shower of realisms on the Metaverse. Two crazy and cool inventions.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

Of course, there would be privacy concerns in enabling the passthrough to everyone, and yes, the current world vision is mediocre (black&white and distorted). Of course, Oculus Connect 7 is the one that interests us the most. Basically, projects that give value to the device and to Microsoft in general. Why does this matter?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2018

In the entertainment area of Gamescom, NVIDIA has put some RTX graphics cards on the desks of some booth of partner companies , like ASUS and Microsoft. While at Microsoft booth there was a premium RTX 2080 Ti , that I’ve been able to take in my hands so to make a video where you can see it from all angles. Really cool stuff.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

New info on Microsoft abandoning the Hololens 3. Last week we all heard the news about Microsoft abandoning the HoloLens 3, and the denial of it by Alex Kipman and Microsoft itself. Of course, this can’t substitute the training with a physical instructor, but it is great to teach you the basics of this life-saving technique.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2022

In my opinion, Magic Leap 2 is a superior device to HoloLens 2 (see my hands-on here ), so I think that with these prices, it can have good success in the enterprise market, starting to gain shares with regard to Microsoft. Unreal Engine 5 has brought two interesting features with its release: Lumen and Nanite. Some news on content.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

Of course, its FOV was restricted because there are not in the market displays with so many pixels and such a big size For HDR there was Starburst, an HMD able to deliver 20,000 nits , much more than the 1,000 ones of a commercial HDR TV. These scholarships will be offered by XR Bootcamp, which already offers high-quality courses about XR.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

All the 3 major VR runtimes (Oculus, SteamVR, Microsoft) are now compatible with OpenXR , and this means that on the runtime layer on PC, now OpenXR has been fully integrated. This means that if you develop an experience using OpenXR, you can run it on Oculus, SteamVR, and Microsoft runtimes with no modification.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

With the next generation of Playstation set to hit shelves this holiday season, the big news in the gaming circuit is the revelation of Unreal Engine 5. Unreal Engine manager Marc Petit explains the many other use cases this technology promises. Today, we're speaking with Marc Petit, general manager of Unreal Engine at Epic Games.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

With the next generation of Playstation set to hit shelves this holiday season, the big news in the gaming circuit is the revelation of Unreal Engine 5. Unreal Engine manager Marc Petit explains the many other use cases this technology promises. Today, we're speaking with Marc Petit, general manager of Unreal Engine at Epic Games.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. Microsoft Flight Simulator is adding VR support, but…. Microsoft Flight Simulator is launching on August, 18th, without support for virtual reality.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Of course, in addition to serving as technological showcases, games are one of the most popular forms of modern entertainment and can be a great way to unwind when we can't face another spreadsheet or Zoom meeting. However, other cloud services continued to grow, including Nvidia's GeForce Now and Microsoft's Xbox Cloud Gaming.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Although, the US Army hit a roadblock in August when it slashed funding towards developing a Microsoft-powered XR training solution. Other options include: Unreal MegaGrants: Epic Games have its funding initiative designed to support developers in the technology world. During 2022 the media giant already experimented with XR content.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

With the next generation of Playstation set to hit shelves this holiday season, the big news in the gaming circuit is the revelation of Unreal Engine 5. Unreal Engine manager Marc Petit explains the many other use cases this technology promises. Today, we're speaking with Marc Petit, general manager of Unreal Engine at Epic Games.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 28, 2023

This aligns it with the prices for competing solutions like the Apple Vision Pro and Microsoft HoloLens 2. Of course, companies looking to leverage the most advanced passthrough features will need to pay a little more. Users can access over 100 third-party applications and engines, including Unreal Engine and Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 8, 2019

nReal has been sued by Epic Games for the name too similar to Unreal and by Magic Leap that claims that nReal CEO Chi Xu has stolen the technology of the American company while working there. Of course, they appear a bit bigger than regular sunglasses , since they have to contain all the electronics and the lenses for the optics.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

And once you decide to sell a premium product, of course, the price becomes super-high and unaffordable for all normal people. Of course, indies won’t be super-happy of this decision, but unluckily this is how business works. The SDK offers native APIs, but also supports popular game engines like Unity and Unreal 4.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

I’m a man, so of course, I don’t cry, but “a friend of mine” had his eyes become very wet while watching it. I’m of course referring to the Dead and Buried demo showcased at OC5. I’m also adding a bonus video that shows you that you can use Microsoft Maquette to create immersive movie storyboards in an easy way. Great post.

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HaptX

MARCH 6, 2018

“I’ve known people in the game industry who have backgrounds in ethnomusicology, physics, history, and of course, geography. When one finds out that she worked at Microsoft in the early days of Encarta Encyclopedia and World Atlas , it starts to make sense. Her time working at Microsoft led her to the IGDA.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Of course as usually happens in every important event, the company has made various important announcements and statements and I think that is important that you get to know them. It is a work in progress, of course… so we have to give ML time. None of these features are particularly impressive or innovative (e.g.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

He wanted to write on my blog his opinion on this device to inform the community and of course I accepted, because I’m more than happy to host another one of his super-detailed articles. You can take very long flights in Microsoft Flight Simulator or some very long driving sessions when racing “24 Heures du Mans”.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Of course, all the community is interested in them, because they could mean a revolution in augmented reality, that is currently based on devices that have a tiny FOV window, or that have a wide FOV but unsatisfying quality of the visuals. But we were motivated, so we started studying the problem. The official computational unit runs Android.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

We can deploy to a vast of platforms using game engines like Unity, Unreal Engine, the more recent Godot engine or any of the other engines out there, which have all started to add VR features”. You may be saying “Come on!

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

During the launch, the following details were laid out by Jio: Focus on collaboration Product weight of 75 grams ‘Personalized’ audio features Support for over 25 applications A few other details emerged during the course of the event too. It is connected to your phone via USB-C Smartphones have become processing powerhouses.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

And then, of course, a lot of kitchen brochures and such are 3D. Of course, moving 3D data between different applications has always been hard. And the nice thing about Khronos -- now I'm in there, so of course I'm a little bit partial in this -- but it's a group where anyone can join and everybody has an equal vote.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

And then, of course, a lot of kitchen brochures and such are 3D. Of course, moving 3D data between different applications has always been hard. And the nice thing about Khronos -- now I'm in there, so of course I'm a little bit partial in this -- but it's a group where anyone can join and everybody has an equal vote.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

So you don’t know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. Alan: So how do you then get people to learn how to do Unreal and Unity without teaching them? And then, of course, you need to manage. So the traditional way to do it is to use Unreal or Unity. And then, of course, Disney+ comes along out of nowhere.

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