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

OCTOBER 16, 2023

More info John Riccitiello steps down from its role as Unity CEO The last chapter of the drama about Unity’s pricing change is that John Riccitiello has left his role of CEO at the company. Meta refused to answer any questions, and this makes me think that the game may have been abandoned or at least been in an uncertain situation.

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VRScout

AUGUST 29, 2017

Taking much of what they learned and built already with Tango since 2014, Google’s ARCore doesn’t require any additional hardware and works with Java/OpenGL, Unity and Unreal. And if you own a Pixel or Samsung S8, running 7.0 Nougat and above, ARCore is ready to run on your device starting today. So what’s possible with ARCore?

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 31, 2024

The real-time 3D engines powering AR/VR/MR applications, like Unreal and Unity, found fame and traction as gaming development tools. For example, Unity is a critical component of the workplace-focused Vision Pro. The gamification trap… XR is always linked to gaming, whether business like it or not.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 24, 2025

Conversely, REMOSHOTs content creation platform leverages the famed Unity and Unreal Engine frameworks to deliver RT3D XR solutions for firms such as the National Medical Center, the National Fire Agency, and the National Police Agency. For example, in 2022, South Koreas Ministry of ICT, Science, and Future Planning pledged roughly $186.7

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Road to VR

APRIL 12, 2017

Elizabeth McSheery, business developer at PhaseSpace, says that while these examples are mostly used in demonstration environments, PhaseSpace is “looking towards allowing customers to purchase access to these games when they gain access to our API SDK that makes our system work easily with the Unity game engine.”.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Small startups can’t compete with big companies, so usually, startups produce expensive headsets at a smaller scale to survive : see VRgineers or Varjo as an example. Stanford and Samsung create a super-high-resolution display. Simple WebXR” aims at bringing WebXR to Unity. And it has now a free demo, so you can try it now!

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 5, 2017

You can see those examples in action below. The SDK is already functional with the Unity engine, and support for Samsung’s Galaxy phones is also planned for the near future. It can recognize more than 30 gestures users make with their hands, allowing for controller-free navigation of experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

Samsung has also teased to be interested in releasing a new AR/VR standalone device. The only exception to this rule seems to be the Samsung Odyssey+, that offers features somewhat comparable to the ones of the Vive Pro, but costs only $500. Samsung will do the same. You just turn them on and they work. Mobile headsets.

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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…). For example, we invited senior executives from HUAWEI, JBD, HTC, Alibaba, iQIYI, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and so on.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

More info (Example n.1 1 of post about this on Reddit) More info (Example n.2 2 of post about this on Reddit) More info (Example n.3 Then, you can create MR applications, and so code in Unity and at the same time see the preview of your 3D game in 3D in front of you. Unity releases the XR Interaction Toolkit.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

An older, but interesting example of marker-based AR is the PlayStation 3 Wonderbook, a gaming ‘peripheral’ that allows players to view a spell book on their screen. For example, an app that can digitally change the color of your couch could be considered superimposition AR. This technique is useful for cause-and-effect demonstrations.

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2016

Apelab has developed a series of a Spatial Story platform on top of Unity in order to handle this type of gaze-triggered, interactive narrative. Emilie says that in some Unity scenes that there are over 150 different triggers and both subtle local agency flavorings of control, but also decisions that send you off into different scenes.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 22, 2023

For example, firms like Walmart and Ikea have smartphone applications for customers to position new furniture items in their homes or try on clothes. Google now supports numerous Android smartphones such as Asus, Lenovo, LG, Moto, Motorola, OnePlus, Samsung, Sony, Vivo, Infinix, Tecno, Sharp, and Xiaomi. operating system or later.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

Two examples are 0Glasses and Am Glasses : they try offering a similar product at a cheaper price (e.g. Samsung AR glasses. Probably the true surprise of the whole show has been Samsung, that during its press conference has teased some AR glasses. Ok Samsung, you have our attention. but we know zero about it.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 4, 2017

The HoloLens, for example, is Microsoft’s AR platform while the HP and Acer headsets are their VR platform (although they refer to them as “Immersive” headsets in documentation, but whatever, they’re clearly VR headsets.) Right off the bat let’s clarify that verbiage.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Samsung starts off the month debuting its VR Internet browser for Gear VR, becoming the first to offer a VR browser. A series of announcements from Amazon, Crytek, Epic Games and Unity Technologies showcase an evolution among their respective game engines into VR world creation toolsets. December 2015.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Alon Or-bach (Samsung Electronics), Kaye Mason (Google). It’s not often you get both Oculus and Valve together days, let alone Google and Samsung, with bonus helpings of Epic Games, Owlchemy Labs, and Sensics. Liz Mercuri (Unity). Friday, March 3rd, 10:45am – 11:15am. Room 2005, West Hall.

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VRWorld

MAY 27, 2016

Just in time for E3 2016, WorldViz will bring support for Unreal Engine 4 and Unity 5 on most popular devices such as Google Daydream VR, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, and Sony PlayStation VR. meters i.e. 26,910 sq. feet are covered with a single device.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 1, 2023

Explaining further, he added, “Not to be outdone, the Google-Samsung-Qualcomm power trio is cooking a comeback of their very famous mega Android partnership with a new XR headset. In his talks, the icon discussed the progress of the platform, citing examples from his book ‘Snow Crash.’

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Peter Graham

JANUARY 28, 2020

Likewise, the VR presentation on the Microsoft booth at the education show was muted – rather than the bewildering array of Windows MR headsets seen two years ago, the company promoted the virtual learning systems on only one provider, with the Samsung Odyssey on display giving an example of the education content. Image credit: KWP.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Sure Quest 3 will dynamically adjust its exposure when you get near a bright light source, so that for example screens are temporarily visible, but Vision Pro doesn't have to. It's an example of how Apple Vision Pro was optimized for stationary seated use, not active movement. footage from Apple) The Shared Space is the default.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Moreover, Apple is also pushing its Vision Pro SDK to support its first-party and Unity-supported third-party immersive applications, again in a bid to create a sophisticated piece of hardware with a system-selling lineup of integrated applications and hardware. It felt like I was part of the app.”

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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. It’s exactly the same use case as the IKEA couch example, but it’s a different industry, and the ROI is much, much faster. firm investing in AR solutions.

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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. It’s exactly the same use case as the IKEA couch example, but it’s a different industry, and the ROI is much, much faster. firm investing in AR solutions.

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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.

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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.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

We were so blessed to find literally the man that wrote the book on Unity [chuckles] Joe Hocking, to join the team. Alan: But would an example of that be? And he, with the new phones -- the iPhone 12, and the iPad, and the Samsung Galaxy S20 and up -- they all have infrared scanners on them now. And Lewis Gardner on our CMS.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

We were so blessed to find literally the man that wrote the book on Unity [chuckles] Joe Hocking, to join the team. Alan: But would an example of that be? And he, with the new phones -- the iPhone 12, and the iPad, and the Samsung Galaxy S20 and up -- they all have infrared scanners on them now. John: Exactly.

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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. It’s exactly the same use case as the IKEA couch example, but it’s a different industry, and the ROI is much, much faster. firm investing in AR solutions.

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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

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

In 2015 my girlfriend came with a Cardboard and with no experience with Unity I created my first 360 photo which I’ve shown to my manger. For example, creating and processing 360 videos creates a lot of data. Of course, I can give you some examples but I can’t give all my secrets away.;). No headphones were used.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

We were so blessed to find literally the man that wrote the book on Unity [chuckles] Joe Hocking, to join the team. Alan: But would an example of that be? And he, with the new phones -- the iPhone 12, and the iPad, and the Samsung Galaxy S20 and up -- they all have infrared scanners on them now. John: Exactly.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Samsung, Nokia entered with their OZO, Jaunt — which recently just got sold to Verizon — they had their Jaunt One camera. Well, I mean, just in the past couple of years, we’ve seen things that like for example, like if you look at production and pre-production, there’s a growing number of use cases for 360 there.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Samsung, Nokia entered with their OZO, Jaunt — which recently just got sold to Verizon — they had their Jaunt One camera. Well, I mean, just in the past couple of years, we’ve seen things that like for example, like if you look at production and pre-production, there’s a growing number of use cases for 360 there.

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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 for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Samsung, Nokia entered with their OZO, Jaunt -- which recently just got sold to Verizon -- they had their Jaunt One camera. Well, I mean, just in the past couple of years, we've seen things that like for example, like if you look at production and pre-production, there's a growing number of use cases for 360 there. Alan: Very cool.

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