The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Or maybe “relaxed” is not the right word to use, considering the little drama on Microsoft’s headsets. Top news of the week (Image by HP) Microsoft officially drops support for its Mixed Reality headsets Microsoft has just released the infamous Windows 11, version 24H2 update. I think this speaks a lot.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In October, Igloo Vision , a major provider of immersive collaborative spaces, refurbished its demo centre in London to provide five novel immersive spaces for its Hoxton-based showroom. What a FANTASTIC day yesterday opening our newly refurbed London demo centre Missed out & want to see if for yourself?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 14, 2024

With the same money, I think they could have made a more impressive demo with exotic waveguide materials that didn’t seem so far off in the future. The same element can so be compatible both with Unreal Engine, and Unity, but also Roblox and Minecraft.

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OCTOBER 20, 2016

Building on the momentum set into motion by the inaugural event, Unity Technologies is hosting Vision VR/AR Summit Asia in Beijing. Unity revealed that representatives from Google, Samsung Gear VR, PTC Vuforia, Sony PlayStation VR, and Microsoft HoloLens will be on hand to discuss new developments in their individual technologies.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 9, 2023

Microsoft has picked volumetric video company Arcturus as its primary marketing partner for its Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture Studios (MRCS) solution provider. Arcturus’s Dimension Studio Arcturus will also provide licence and expertise support for studios seeking to partner with Microsoft’s MRCS network.

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ARPost

MAY 12, 2022

Immediately following Inbar’s welcome address is the Unity keynote by Unity Technologies CEO John Riccitiello. As one of the leading tools for 3D content creation, Unity is also one of the engines driving XR content and experiences. Panel Discussions. The team will be discussing “The Road from 3D Graphics to Metaverse.”

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

SAP shapes the future of work with Unity. That’s changing with the SAP Extended Reality Cloud (XR Cloud), which is based on Unity’s platform and enables the development of mixed reality applications. To make it easier for Unity developers to integrate SAP data into Unity, SAP recently launched the Unity Integration Toolkit.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 13, 2022

The Unity real-time development platform has become one of the industry-standard choices for the creation of powerful XR experiences over the years. Countless companies have built powerful games and training environments within Unity, specifically designed to work within the extended reality landscape.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

For larger companies looking to connect their entire team with HoloLens 2 headsets, Microsoft is offering a package that includes Dynamic 365 Remote Assist on each MR headset at the cost of $125 per user – per month. If you’re a developer working on your own, Microsoft offers the HoloLens 2 Development Edition.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

IVAS is the modified HoloLens that Microsoft is experimenting with the US Army and thanks to this partnership it could show better and more useful data to its soldiers. 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

JUNE 26, 2023

But there’s even more: Unity has already published a page about how it is possible to build for the Quest 3 using not only the XR Interaction Toolkit, but also AR Foundation. Unity page also confirms that the headset will provide plane detection, so you will be able for instance to detect the walls and the desks in your room.

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Cats and VR

JULY 15, 2016

A team of developers with a Hololens dev kit were able to create a demo showcasing Pokemon GO as a Hololens App. The build was created in Unity with the HoloLens SDK" "For now the Pokémon are randomly generated within a mapped environment. David Robustelli, Head of Digital at CapitolaVR posted the above video and had this to say. "We

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The Youtuber Tyriell Wood has been able to have a short demo of the headset during Meta Connect and he summarized his impressions saying that the headset exists, works, and is very promising, but it is also still a prototype and needs a lot of polish. There are more than 10 apps that are already compatible with it, like Figmin XR and Osso VR.

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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. Nano-tech wants to be the Nanite of Unity. See Unity running on Quest. Learn more. This is mind-blowing!

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 31, 2024

Apple has said significant companies like Microsoft and Disney will be producing apps for the system, but there isn’t much information about these apps on Apple’s site so far. Apple also works with Microsoft on solutions like Teams for the Apple Vision Pro.

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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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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Case in point: KennyWdev and Joshua Liew’s imagined AR battle system for Microsoft HoloLens, aptly named PokéLens. The PokéLens tech demo was recorded with the headset’s on-board HD video camera, allowing for a full capture of both the real and virtual environment.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 10, 2022

As this article was being written, Varjo further expanded its cloud with Unreal and Unity engine integrations. At first, we were just building for the phone and porting to the glasses,” Lens Creator Alex Bradt told me when I got to demo Snap’s Spectacles at AWE. CloudXR From NVIDIA. See Also: Is 2022 the Year for Consumer AR Glasses?

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VRScout

JANUARY 2, 2017

The Meta 2 has officially begun shipping , Vuforia recently announced native integration on the Unity platform , and Occipital’s Bridge lets iOS users taste this cutting-edge tech while we (anxiously) await formal announcements from Apple after years of speculation.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Following its debut, Igloo Vision began rolling the product out to end users, including Microsoft, Nike, and AtkinsRéalis. This demo revealed how users can incorporate Meta Quest headsets into the immersive space via the company’s Connec2 XR collaborative platform: the 360 Cylinder used six BenQ projectors and an IMPI media player.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

I am a bit sad no one gave an award to The Unity Cube , though… I would have loved to get a “Worst Application Award 2021” from Road To VR…. The result is that many big brands are canceling their presence at CES: Google, Intel, Microsoft, Meta, Lenovo, and many others, have decided not to go , and maybe provide their news virtually.

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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. “The Look no further!

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FEBRUARY 24, 2019

In many ways they’re your typical tech company – my demos are delivered in the familiar blueprint of a trendy open-plan office with exposed brick walls, which sits above a sushi restaurant – but it’s got a different vibe from a lot of similar start-ups.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 24, 2016

This project uses Kinect depth cameras to the fuse virtual and the real to produce real-time mixed reality footage with no green screens required, all using Microsoft’s depth camera Kinect. No mean feat. You can read in detail all about the project over at the team’s YouTube channel here.

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VRScout

APRIL 28, 2022

In a compilation video released by the research team, you can see a person wearing a Microsoft Hololens mixed reality headset extinguishing an AR fire using a real-world fire extinguisher. During one demo, the team showed how they could control someone’s hand as they played guitar.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

This event, sponsored by market-leading vendors like Unity and Qualcomm, provides attendees with a unique opportunity to discover the latest cutting-edge technologies in the immersive space. Participants can even register to take part in workshops, tutorials, demonstrations and more.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

0:00 / 0:07 1× It's an ideal app to come to Vision Pro, and the company partnered with Alfa Romeo to create a demo 'Jig' showing a C43 Formula 1 car at true scale and visualizing the airflow over it. Competition For Magic Leap, Microsoft, And Varjo? Of course, Vision Pro has yet to launch and we've only spent a brief time with it.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

On Quest, there are some nice demos and games with MR features, but nothing more. When I tried to use ChatGPT to create Unity scripts, it managed to write something good, but often I had to correct it. Probably they have calculated that this is the right moment to enter, the very beginning of the road to mainstream adoption.

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JANUARY 5, 2017

Considering how quickly VR is becoming a part of productivity apps and being integrated into engines like Unity, for example, there may be a valid purpose to utilize workstations that support headsets like the Vive and Rift. The device had been running the demo pretty much non-stop for the past few hours and didn’t seem too hot.

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JUNE 19, 2017

I am standing in a virtual living room rendered via Unity. The talent comes from the likes of Microsoft and Nokia. My experience in that Unity-based living room and other demos, using what Varjo is calling the “20/20” prototype, shows that they are working in the right direction. It’s a glimpse of VR’s future.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

On the server-side, it is being integrated with Microsoft Azure, and it is also coming in the future for Google Cloud and Tencent Cloud. NVIDIA DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) will be natively supported for HDRP in Unity 2021.2. Shariiing VR helps you in providing demos in VR. HTC is going to launch its headset on May, 11th.

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VRScout

APRIL 13, 2018

Katie Kelly, Head of Engagement, AltspaceVR / Microsoft. In addition to Friday’s keynotes, for those of you who purchase the Pro Pass you’ll benefit from access to the full expo, shorter demo lines and an exclusive lineup of professional and developer programming. Hugo Swart, Senior Director of XR Product Management, Qualcomm.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Attendees can engage with industry visionaries, participate in product demos, and collaborate with like-minded professionals with fantastic networking opportunities. Unity shared how digital twins were helping its customers unlock new levels of innovation.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The following MobiDev demo demonstrates how ARCore object detection features for a virtual user manua work. Unity AR Foundation is a helpful framework for cross-platform augmented reality app development. Despite not being able to take full advantage of each device, Unity AR Foundation is still fairly powerful.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

Or that Microsoft is working on a new reference design that fixes the issues of the first one? This makes us clearly understand that gamers are still not really into VR, and confirms the thesis by Microsoft that is not adding VR to Xbox. Unity changes how it handles XR Plugins. Some info on content.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

Furthermore, Microsoft 365 apps such as Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint, will be connected with Omniverse Project Mellon has been unveiled. And the 100 most important managers of the company just had a dedicated demo of it in Cupertino. Of course, Epic is completely against Apple and its vision of its own walled garden.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

At this moment both the lenses and the unit are already functional, and the company has a demo that showcases the system working together. I have seen the demo via a Zoom call and CNET’s Scott Stein saw it live and we came out both impressed by it. Unity talked about PlayStation VR 2 at GDC. News worth a mention.

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