The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 7, 2024

More info Google and Samsung are working on smartglasses According to The Information, Google and Samsung are not only working together on a mixed reality headset but also on a pair of smartglasses (a la Ray-Ban Meta) powered by Gemini AI. Please donate to the Red Cross to handle the current humanitarian situation in Ukraine.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Qualcomm shut it down to focus on Snapdragon Spaces Learn more News from partners (and friends) Distance Technologies got a €10M investment Distance Technology, the glass-free AR startup founded by two of the co-founders of Varjo, just got €10M investment from Google Ventures. Big kudos to the team and good luck for the future!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

More info (Leaked pictures of Quest 3s shell) More info (Quest 3s passed FCC certification) Samsung MR headset is close, but the endgame may be AR glasses It’s not a secret that Samsung is working with Google and Qualcomm on a new mixed reality headset that could rival Apple Vision Pro and that should be released this year.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Senior Unity Developer Join our Unity team and be at the forefront of innovation in the global VR video streaming ecosystem. If you’re passionate about fine-tuning Unity components and creating groundbreaking VR experiences, we want you to be a part of our team, shaping the future of immersive technology.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The new DRIVE Thor superchip aimed at autonomous vehicles, which companies will be able to use from 2025 Omniverse Cloud , which lets companies use Omniverse completely via cloud rendering even on non-powerful machines A connector to let you use Omniverse with Unity. Image by Google). Meta and Google announce layoffs.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2023

More info — Use Google Translate! 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. Please donate to the Red Cross to handle the current humanitarian situation in Ukraine.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

If this partnership is exclusive, Meta has just got a huge edge over its competitors like Samsung or Google. Senior Unity Developer Join our Unity team and be at the forefront of innovation in the global mobile-AR industry. Please donate to the Red Cross to handle the current humanitarian situation in Ukraine.

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DECEMBER 26, 2023

More info Quest Pro can now track your tongue In version 60 of its SDKs for Unity and native code, Meta has added the functionality of detecting how much you are pulling out your tongue. More info Google has to open its operating system to more stores As part of a settlement with the U.S. I will leave you the link to do that below.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

T he use of the Exynos chips makes me think even more that this is an old device : Samsung has recently announced that it is going to build its headset with Google and Qualcomm, so it is impossible that the to-be-released device doesn’t have a Qualcomm chip. I will leave you the link to do that below. appeared first on The Ghost Howls.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Google Starline starts real-world testing. Google Starline, the booth for realistic remote one-on-one meetings, has started being deployed in “early access” inside some selected companies. My bet is that we’ll see it soon in the Google Graveyard, but I hope to be wrong. This is pretty disappointing. Some news on content.

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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

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The reasons behind the layoffs are well-known: the competition with TikTok hurting Meta’s revenues; Apple’s new privacy rules on iOS have reduced the effectiveness of the ads business; the conflict in Ukraine and the inflation have led to bad economic conditions. Mindport helps you in building your Unity VR experiences. Brian Peiris.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2022

Google and Waymo evolve NERF to cope with cities. Well, this week Waymo and Google have presented their work with Block Nerf, a variant of Nerf that is meant for large environments like cities. Unity has partnered with Insomniac to build a metaverse for immersive live performances. Meta has been warned. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 8, 2023

Zapbox features a 100° FOV and is going to launch with a Unity SDK to create content for it. And so on… Geoffrey Hinton, one of the godfathers of modern artificial intelligence, has left Google to speak out about the dangers of AI. Please donate to the Red Cross to handle the current humanitarian situation in Ukraine.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Please donate to the Red Cross to handle the current humanitarian situation in Ukraine. And now here you are the link to donate: Support The Red Cross in Ukraine. So many exciting things are happening and I’m thankful to you all for the support you are giving me. I will leave you the link to do that below. Header image by Meta).

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ARVR

AUGUST 16, 2021

Unity and Unreal Engine are the most popular choices and do not add to the game app development cost all by themselves, but if your requirements turn out to be too complex for the engine you are currently using, and you need to change to something else, this will cause expenses to go up. On the Google Play Store, this number is 477,877.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

It is a terrible moment for tech companies: after Meta and Unity, also Snap stock has lost -30% of its value after the CEO has announced that the company won’t be able to reach its estimated earnings goals. Google Imagen is an impressive AI system able to create images just from text descriptions. Other news. Learn more. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

There will be a new launcher, improved graphics, improved in-game camera, production-ready Unity SDK for the creators, improved full-body VR, and much more. The purpose of the group is of course the one of fighting the duopoly of Apple Maps/Google Maps. First of all, the Web3 VR platform has announced version 3.0

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

Luckily there is AR that is still strong, and we can hope to wear Google AR glasses soon… ah no, they are dead too. Please donate to the Red Cross to handle the current humanitarian situation in Ukraine. Ah no, not even that because also Twitter is dead. Now it’s called X and aims at becoming the Western WeChat.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This may be one of the potential names for either the upcoming mixed reality headset that Samsung is developing with Google or the name of future AR glasses. Please donate to the Red Cross to handle the current humanitarian situation in Ukraine. Now Microsoft is discontinuing them , putting another nail in the coffin of the HoloLens.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 28, 2021

Unity CEO predicts in 2030 XR headsets will be as popular as gaming consoles. Unity CEO John Riccitiello has made new predictions on AR and VR , and this time he talked about the projections for XR headsets in 2030. Icosa Gallery is the new Google Poly. More info (ENGAGE raises $10M) More info (VRChat raises $80M). Learn more.

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JUNE 19, 2023

We all joked about Samsung waiting for the Apple Vision Pro announcement to copy it, but according to some rumors, this is exactly what is happening. I will leave you the link to donate for these two causes below. appeared first on The Ghost Howls.

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JULY 3, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Google) Google killed its AR glasses Project Iris Do you remember the name Project Iris? Various reports indicated it as the internal codename in Google for a project meant to build augmented reality glasses. It was our hope for Google entering the AR race together with Meta and Apple.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

That’s why we rejoiced when Apple launched its headset: while Google and Microsoft can discard new technologies pretty easily, Apple is slower at deciding to take a step, but when it makes it, it commits to it. Furthermore, he decided that Unity Personal will remain free and the funding ceiling to use it will double from $100k to $200k.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Its huge investments are also attracting all the other major tech companies to enter the metaverse field, and Apple and Google will surely release some XR devices in the upcoming years because of that. We can object to lots of things about Meta, and you can also say that it is doing the right things but for the wrong reason (i.e.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 10, 2024

Yes, we knew about Google’s Deepmind, yes we all got the news about the OpenAI foundation, but when ChatGPT came out, the tech world was shaken by surprise. The conflict in Ukraine has created new economic problems in Europe, and inflation has skyrocketed at a certain point. And our field, too. licensing).

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APRIL 13, 2017

While the program was principally incubated by Crytek, students working in VR First labs tend use Unity (48%), followed by Unreal (20%) and then CRYENGINE (14%). LLC Technology Companies Development Center, Ukraine. image courtesy VR First. Graz University of Technology, Austria. HTW Berlin, Germany. Ilia State University, Georgia.

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