The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Top news of the week Meta is shipping the Quest 3 The news of the week is of course that Meta is shipping its new Quest 3 headset and its many accessories. More info Samsung Galaxy Ring may have been delayed Samsung Galaxy Ring, t he smart ring that could also be used to interact with Samsung XR glasses, has been delayed.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 13, 2020

When it comes to developing virtual reality (VR) videogames there are two primary engines studios use, either Epic Games’ Unreal Engine or Unity by Unity Technologies. Unity’s HDRP targets high-end PCs and consoles, allowing creators to build high-definition and photorealistic visuals. With package version 7.2.0

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The success of the Ray-Ban Meta has triggered the smartglasses hype: when I was at CES, I saw many startups launching their AI-powered smartglasses and we have heard rumors of all the major brands (including Apple and Samsung) working on their own smartglasses devices, too. The results are of course favorable to the new model.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2023

You can access it at this link: [link] ) Top news of the week (Image by Microsoft) Microsoft kills Windows Mixed Reality Microsoft has decided to pull the plug on the Windows Mixed Reality platform , the one of the WMR headsets by Acer, Asus, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung which were the first to introduce inside-out tracking in the VR ecosystem.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 15, 2025

But according to a report from The Korea Economic Daily, Samsung and Google ditched the previous plans and now they are not working anymore on a clone of the Ray-Ban Meta, but directly on glasses featuring a display and cameras, coupled with some AI elements baked in. It is an application that starts with the Made with Unity logo.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2019

Instead, it is not for people wanting: An affordable device ( Rift S is much better in this sense); A portable device ( Oculus Quest or Vive Focus Plus are the way to go); A super-big screen resolution ( Varjo VR-1 or HP Reverb are better in this sense); An easy-to-use headset (again, Rift S or WMR devices like the Samsung Odyssey are better).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

This trend will continue in 2021 : the new LiDAR sensor, which is rumored to be installed in all future iPhones, will for sure be copied also by Android phones (Samsung?) There are vaiours solutions to also export Unity XR projects to the web (Image by Mozilla). and I can expect more realistic filters with depth occlusion to come soon.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 22, 2023

Google now supports numerous Android smartphones such as Asus, Lenovo, LG, Moto, Motorola, OnePlus, Samsung, Sony, Vivo, Infinix, Tecno, Sharp, and Xiaomi. The Unity-powered platform also offers visualisations of over 2,500 cities in 49 nations containing “comprehensive 3D geo datasets.” operating system or later.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 14, 2018

Of course, if you need more features, you have to go for an expensive HoloLens. Supported phones: Samsung: S8, S8 plus, Note 8, S9, S9 plus, Huawei: Mate 10, Mate 10 Pro, P20, P20 pro. Unity-based SDK supporting Windows and Android. Top view of the device (Image by DreamWorld). PC: 2 x USB 3.0 + 1 x HDMI 1.4. HTC: 10, U11.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). Of course, Mister President Alvin Graylin will be there, too (Image from VRTUOLUO) Why should people attend this event?

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 27, 2024

For instance, earlier this year, Google introduced updates to the Geospatial Creator platform that allows users to create and adjust anchors at scale within the Unity Editor using C#. Of course, there’s no guarantee that Google is working on a new set of AR glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

This week in XR hasn’t had any explosive news, but it was interesting nonetheless: in particular we had cool info on AR glasses, with some news from Kura, Lynx, and Samsung. Samsung AR glasses concept has been leaked. Popular Twitter leaker WalkingCat has leaked two trailer videos about two AR glasses by Samsung.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

Image by Samsung, taken from Upload VR). Samsung may launch a next-gen Samsung Odyssey. A recent filing at the Chinese IP offices makes us speculate on a new PC VR headset in the works by Samsung. But of course, I hope for a full reveal . Unity changes how it handles XR Plugins. Top news of the week.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

So with this LiDAR that Apple is pushing pretty hard -- I'm pretty sure Google is going to follow suit pretty quickly, probably one year behind, and then they're going to have LiDAR on their top end phones, probably coming to Samsung -- but try-on is going to be made really possible, try-on of suits. Ben: Well, let's see.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

So with this LiDAR that Apple is pushing pretty hard -- I'm pretty sure Google is going to follow suit pretty quickly, probably one year behind, and then they're going to have LiDAR on their top end phones, probably coming to Samsung -- but try-on is going to be made really possible, try-on of suits. Ben: Well, let's see.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

So with this LiDAR that Apple is pushing pretty hard -- I'm pretty sure Google is going to follow suit pretty quickly, probably one year behind, and then they're going to have LiDAR on their top end phones, probably coming to Samsung -- but try-on is going to be made really possible, try-on of suits. Ben: Well, let's see.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

First of all, Google has to keep the work on the headset very secret also internally , because Samsung is afraid that Google will steal its expertise to build a competing product. Samsung can be the first partner also on this line of products. That’s fantastic news for all Unity XR developers!

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 14, 2023

Of course, AI has been the star of the show , with the public release of Google Bard and the announcement of a new language model, but there have been also interesting pieces of news about XR. It is already integrated into Unity and Adobe Aero , so content creators can use it within the tools they already use today to develop AR content.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

He’s built AR system prototypes for Samsung, and had long executive and technical careers in mobile software infrastructure before jumping into AR back in 2009. Because people go, “of course, that’s the way it’s supposed to work. Of course, my rabbit should hide behind the couch.”

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

He’s built AR system prototypes for Samsung, and had long executive and technical careers in mobile software infrastructure before jumping into AR back in 2009. Because people go, “of course, that’s the way it’s supposed to work. Of course, my rabbit should hide behind the couch.”

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 23, 2019

So, it’s more like a Dropbox use case, if you will, for all the phases of product development, where a 3D artist needs to iterate with his colleagues and coworkers — and of course, none of them have 3D software to open any of the 3D designs. It was pretty mindblowing to hear that stat, and so of course we use that a lot.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 7, 2024

As a tech guy, of course, I’m all in for retro compatibility, and I would still love to sometimes attach my Oculus DK2 to my laptop and remember the good old times playing Tuscany. We don’t have much information about them, but Samsung trademarked the name “Samsung Glasses” some time ago, so this may be a possible name.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

You’ve done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. And in that way, we have an SDK for Android, an SDK for iOS, and then also an SDK for Unity, which you can use to deploy cross-platform that will allow you to interpret and read data from the sensors to do things like recognize gestures. Shake, negative.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

You’ve done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. And in that way, we have an SDK for Android, an SDK for iOS, and then also an SDK for Unity, which you can use to deploy cross-platform that will allow you to interpret and read data from the sensors to do things like recognize gestures. Shake, negative.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

But to summarize, the most important XR-related tidbits have been: Google confirmed that is still working with Qualcomm and Samsung to build an XR headset. The opinionated post about the death of the metaverse has been shared everywhere in the community, and of course, has hit the already ruined reputation of the metaverse.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Of course, they have been leaked as well , so now we can all sleep during Meta’s event. If this partnership is exclusive, Meta has just got a huge edge over its competitors like Samsung or Google. So the headset by Samsung may be released later than March. A Creator Platform for next-gen to ‘Socialize.’

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

The main one regards the 4 devices we were waiting for this year , which in our opinion should have changed everything: Quest 3, Apple Vision Pro, Google-Samsung Headset, and PSVR 2. The Unity Beta to develop for the Vision Pro is still not available, so many devs like me can’t even play with the emulator.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

He’s built AR system prototypes for Samsung, and had long executive and technical careers in mobile software infrastructure before jumping into AR back in 2009. Because people go, “of course, that’s the way it’s supposed to work. Of course, my rabbit should hide behind the couch.”

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 23, 2019

So, it's more like a Dropbox use case, if you will, for all the phases of product development, where a 3D artist needs to iterate with his colleagues and coworkers -- and of course, none of them have 3D software to open any of the 3D designs. It was pretty mindblowing to hear that stat, and so of course we use that a lot. Alban: Yep.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The drama about Unity’s new pricing models has set the whole game development community on fire, while we had an unexpected leak about the Pico 5 and some updates on the Apple Vision Pro. In the case of Unity Personal, the thresholds are 200,000 downloads and 200,000 in revenues, and the fee is $0.20 per install. And this $0.2

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 23, 2019

So, it’s more like a Dropbox use case, if you will, for all the phases of product development, where a 3D artist needs to iterate with his colleagues and coworkers — and of course, none of them have 3D software to open any of the 3D designs. It was pretty mindblowing to hear that stat, and so of course we use that a lot.

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Instinctively Real Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Instinctively Real Media TrailblaXR interview with Soren Klit Lambaek, Adjunct Lecturer: Why VIA University College in Denmark is taking a focused approach to XR and real-time software applications.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

You've done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. And in that way, we have an SDK for Android, an SDK for iOS, and then also an SDK for Unity, which you can use to deploy cross-platform that will allow you to interpret and read data from the sensors to do things like recognize gestures. Michael: Glad you liked it.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Of course, it is completely based on hand tracking… and on the classical Owlchemy humor Sony Pictures Virtual Reality and XR Games announced Starship Troopers: Continuum , an online multiplayer shooter that brings you into the world of the popular movie. with downloadable courses priced at $1.99

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

Let’s see: Google is still working with Qualcomm and Samsung on a mixed-reality headset. At first, we had good news: Unity finally revealed its first two AI tools: Muse, which lets you create assets (textures, animations, code) directly in the editor using textual queries. Muse looks a lot like ChatGPT integrated inside Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

Anyway, with the end of the life of Quest 2, this cycle finished and a new one started with Quest 3, Apple Vision Pro, Google and Samsung announcing their own headset, and other companies chasing them (e.g. with Xiaomi, Oppo, Samsung, etc…) to convince hardware manufacturers to create headsets powered by Android XR.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

And then, of course, there is SuperData , that someone has already renamed “SuperGuess”, that has released its estimates of VR sales for Q4 2019. Interviewed by OnMSFT, CD PROJEKT Red’s John Mamais has answered many questions about the upcoming game, and of course, he has talked also about VR. Samsung Odyssey+ is now at $230.

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