ARPost

JANUARY 12, 2022

You may not be able to travel to Italy to see it in person, but thanks to detailed VR museum tours organized by Musei Vaticani, you can see each fresco in crisp detail. To make it more accessible to the general public, The British Museum partnered with Google Arts & Culture.

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Road to VR

MARCH 17, 2021

A message uncovered by IGN Italy when plugging in a pair of wireless headphones into an Xbox Series X/S caused a stir in the VR community, as it seemingly alluded to some level of VR support baked into Xbox consoles. Microsoft says however that the error message was inaccurate, and that VR for Xbox is still not a happening.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 28, 2023

There is not only the problem of the timezone but also the unknown of the internet connection and the inability of reaching Western websites like Google. While still in Italy, I verified that Microsoft Teams, Unity, and Github were accessible from China.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

As I said a few months ago , we are in the middle of a paradigm change: the cycle that started with the Quest is arriving at an end, and a new cycle driven by new technologies (mixed reality headsets) and new players (Apple, Google) is starting. Google and Samsung Prototype of the Samsung XR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Furthermore, the showcase of such a device by Meta has surely created some anxiety in its competitors : Apple, Google, etc… may act cool on the outside, but for sure on the inside are trying to get information about Orion, and are working hard to build something better than that. That’s why I’m very cautious about it.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

I’m back in Italy! Just the time to eat some homemade pasta and I got a cold, which mixed with the jet lag of the trip from China, means that I’m truly having some great days But nothing can stop me from writing the roundup of the best AR/VR news of the week for you, my lovely readers! But now some data about it is starting to be found.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Google) Samsung XR headset may have been delayed The new rumor in town is that Samsung has delayed its upcoming headset that it is building in partnership with Google and Qualcomm. It’s been another interesting week in immersive realities, so let’s see what happened in our field in the past few days!

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Upload VR

JUNE 18, 2024

The pitch of Xreal Beam Pro isn't to replace your existing phone, it's to act as a dedicated compute puck for your smart glasses - one that supports all the media and gaming apps already present on the Google Play Store. Xreal's Nebula app launching & positioning system. In South Korea preorders will open on July 1.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 16, 2024

You know, I’ve been in the VR field for a long time, and I’ve been able to play wonderful games like Half-Life: Alyx or amazing demos like Google’s Welcome To Lightfields. Just to make a comparison, in Italy renting a house is like 5 times cheaper than in San Francisco, so it’s hard to compare the price of things.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

I’m currently in Beijing and today I’m taking the plane to get back to Italy. Here in Italy, I have no idea where to buy any smartglasses, but I’ve seen many shops selling Ray-Ban Meta. If this partnership is exclusive, Meta has just got a huge edge over its competitors like Samsung or Google. These are my last hours in China.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JUNE 18, 2024

Today at AWE 2024, XREAL Beam Pro, an Android-based mobile device that allows users to access Google Play Store services as spatial AR applications access through smart glasses, will be unveiled. XREAL is debuting Beam Pro in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, Czech Republic, China, and Japan.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2023

So the next 2–3 weeks are going to be crazy for me, so sorry if I will make the comments on the newsletter a bit shorter than usual. On the personal side, I’m a bit devasted by the flood that happened in central Italy.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 1, 2024

It was also the week when I returned to Italy, and eating my mother’s pasta again made me excited, too. The past week was the week of the Meta Connect, with all its amazing announcements that made all of us excited. Next year, I should eat my mother’s pasta while watching the Meta Connect to have double excitement!

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Road to VR

AUGUST 29, 2016

Like Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ (2004), Jesus VR was filmed in Matera, Italy under the direction of Passion executive producer Enzo Sisti. ” Jesus VR will be available Christmas 2016 on all major VR platforms including Google Cardboard, Samsung Gear VR, Oculus Rift, PlayStation VR, and the HTC Vive.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2021

Google AR Cloud Streaming. Google has partnered with FCA (Fiat Chrysler Automobiles… do you know that Fiat is from my city in Italy?) In this version, the Jeep has 4K textures and tens of millions of polygons, and it gets rendered on Google servers and streamed very fast to your smartphone. Pollen Robotics.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2021

More info (Use Google Translate). The decision comes after the dismissal of Google Poly, a service deeply used by Wave, which would require the company to invest time and money to find and integrate a substitute. I’m proud to announce to you that Awe Nite is back in Italy, exactly in the beautiful city of Florence. Some XR fun.

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Mashable VR

JUNE 28, 2022

Described in detail by Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) , the Hermit spyware (it was dubbed Hermit by security firm Lookout , which first reported its discovery) is part of a dangerous and sophisticated malware attack that's actively being used in the wild. SEE ALSO: Google warns of 'hermit spyware' infecting Android and iOS devices.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 3, 2023

Yes, Google Cardboards. According to a fast research I did on Google, Xbox One sold more than 50M units, and the total number of monthly ACTIVE Xbox users, including the ones on Game Pass, is around 120 million. Retention is: the more people use a product every day/week, the more that product is relevant.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 16, 2016

Furthermore, the game has now been localized for Spain, Germany, Italy and France, with more localizations to be made in the coming months. You can also now watch a new 360 degree video for the game above, which helps to capture some of the immersion that VR provides when viewed through a Google Cardboard unit. Read more here.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

On the other side, this is massive for Apple, that mixing the data of Apple Maps together with all these point clouds detected by the rear cameras when in use, will be able to create an AR Cloud ecosystem probably even before Facebook, Microsoft, and Google. Let’s see if Facebook will be a worthier opponent than Google. Image by Acer).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

As a long-time AR enthusiast, and one of the first to have tried Google Glass in Italy, I have to admit that I will consider AR mainstream only when it will be on glasses that we will wear all day , when we’ll live in a completely shared mixed reality world (the AR Cloud). The answer is not so trivial.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

When a journalist of IGN Italy was trying to install the new Xbox Wireless Headset on the platform, he was greeted with an Italian message saying “The VR goggle must be updated”. Google halves its revenues on the Play Store. (Image by Microsoft). Xbox VR support has been leaked, or maybe not.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Let’s see how Apple and Google will answer. Google Glass 2 is now available for direct purchase. If you are in an industrial environment where a smartglass can improve the productivity of your company, you may be interested in knowing that now Google Glass 2 is available for direct purchases for $999. Learn more. Some XR fun.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2022

Today, while I’m packing my stuff up to go back to Italy, I want to tell you a few words about my experience there, and if I think it has been worth going. I was not so sure I wanted to go, because from Italy to Austin is a long trip, but I decided to try this new adventure… and well, I’m more than happy of having done that.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2020

As for me, I’ve been flooded by worldwide requests asking how I am here in Italy. The coronavirus outbreak is getting worse here in Northern Italy. We have more difficulties in going to Milan, that is the economical heart of Italy, and now a red zone with all its region. and fostering the creation of Virtual ones.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2018

Maybe reading these lines you have in your head the same thought that came into mine when going to Lenqiy website: “But… ahem… Space Draw is a clone of Google Tilt Brush and Space Block is a clone of Google Blocks… ehm… why have you developed them??” Then I asked if he had questions for me.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This week, the company has announced it is going to hire additional 10,000 people to help in developing the m verse , and all these new hires will happen in the Europen Union , and in particular, inside Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, the Netherlands and Ireland . NVIDIA CloudXR is now available on Google Cloud.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

This startup just exited from stealth mode, is like Google Maps but for the interior of shopping centers, offices, and other closed environments. More info (Google Lens) More info (AR copy to Photoshop) More info (VROOM). It can be very important for indoor navigation, or to let you explore a shopping center before going there.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 22, 2023

More info (AI-powered Ray-Ban Meta — Road To VR) More info (AI-powered Ray-Ban Meta — Upload VR) More info (TikTok influencers are using Meta smartglasses) The Samsung headset may be revealed soon According to a new rumor, the XR headset that Samsung is building with Google and Qualcomm may be revealed at the beginning of the new year.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The Verge started referring to them as the new “Glassholes”, the term that was invented to describe people wearing Google Glass in public, when that device was popular. I understand the fun of doing stuff with passthrough: when the Vive Focus came out, I did some stuff like that, too. There are many other examples of that.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 6, 2018

I’m back in Italy. If you don’t know who Charlie Fink is, well, open Google and start looking for some of his online posts. My vacation in China has finished and I’m in my home country again. He is an awesome writer and regularly writes amazing posts on Forbes regarding AR and VR. “This book is out of date.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 19, 2021

It’s a nice summer day here in Italy, and I hope things for all of you are going well. On a separate news, Facebook has hired Joshua To, a previous key AR/VR director from Google who worked on AR/VR projects like Lens and Daydream and that will help FRL in its AR efforts. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

I think I’ll miss the joys of summer (and all the trophies that Italy has won), but at least I’ll be able to enjoy again some delicious hot chocolate Before leaving you to the news of the week, I’m happy to announce to you that I’ve been selected as a speaker for AWE US 2021 ! This one is the last AR/VR news roundup for this summer!

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Coronavirus is back in Italy and from yesterday we’re having new restrictions like a night curfew, some kind of shops closed, etc… I hope that you and the people you love are safe. These will be complicated weeks, and I hope that we’ll be able to go through them together.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 4, 2017

Google and Sony both have intellectual property around waveguide designs similar in nature. Essilor is the world’s largest lens manufacturer, and recently merged with Luxottica of Italy, the world’s largest eye-frames company. Near-eye Optics Basics. Lumus has more recently been the OEM supplier to both Daqri and Atheer.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Someone invokes saviors like Google and Amazon, but even if they managed to succeed, they are other data-harvesting companies , so in any case, we are f**ked. You can read the interview by clicking the links here below! Interview in Italian Interview in English. Some XR fun. Here you are some cool memes about the new Facebook login policy!

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 2, 2023

This is due to several “false starts” with Google Glass , Microsoft HoloLens2, and Magic Leap, although the companies remain potential customers. Replacing parts required a person from Italy to hop on a plane and fly on-site to help with the repairs. Those days are totally gone and will never come back.

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