The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2023

I’m back in Italy! More info (First hardware leak about Apple headset) More info (New software leak about RealityOS) News worth a mention (Image by Microsoft) Microsoft Teams to integrate 3D avatars Microsoft is finally integrating Microsoft Teams with Microsoft Mesh , as it was promised some time ago.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2023

More info News worth a mention (Image by Microsoft) Xbox executives are still not interested in XR Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty has reiterated the fact that Xbox is not interested in implementing VR because it’s too niche. Hexa seems working exactly towards this: converting the photos of retail websites to 3D models.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Microsoft and Wurth. Wurth Italia, a leading distributor of fastening products in Italy, decided to implement this innovative new technology as a way of enhancing customer experience in all sales activities.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

After a few days where we thought we were all living in a big oven, here in Italy we’re having the first taste of Autumn, with the temperatures going down and a lot of rain falling from the sky. Since MRTK was used especially for AR applications, it is natural that these three giants of augmented reality are interested in keeping it alive.

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EON Reality

MARCH 21, 2019

Taking part in #EONExperienceFest2019 will be guests, speakers, and workshop hosts from a huge array of leading lights including IBM, Microsoft, HP Enterprise, the University of Bologna, the United National Industrial Development Association (UNIDO), Festo Didactic, and many more. revolution. and Classroom 3.0.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2021

Furthermore, the comparison with Microsoft doesn’t hold well: Microsoft was a software company that just didn’t have high standards, so it made products with many bugs. I’m proud to announce to you that Awe Nite is back in Italy, exactly in the beautiful city of Florence.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 22, 2022

I’m back in Italy, but I have left a piece of my heart in Austin, where I had an unforgettable experience both on the personal and professional side at SXSW (you can read more about my experience here ). Microsoft IVAS program is not doing great. I thank everyone that made my days so awesome, and I hope to meet you again soon!

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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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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 4, 2023

More info Microsoft releases MRTK 3 Notwithstanding the fact that most of the team behind it has been laid off, Microsoft has announced that Microsoft Mixed Reality Toolkit 3 (MRTK3) will reach General Availability (GA) in Q3 of this calendar year. I will leave you the link to donate for these two causes below.

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EON Reality

MARCH 25, 2019

Taking part in #EONExperienceFest2019 will be guests, speakers, and workshop hosts from a huge array of leading lights including IBM, Microsoft, HP Enterprise, the University of Bologna, the United National Industrial Development Association (UNIDO), Festo Didactic, and many more. revolution. “EON

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 28, 2023

Anyway, in these two weeks, even with some difficulties, I’ve managed to work quite at the same pace that I had in Italy , and we are going full speed ahead in improving the platform (some news about it is coming very soon…). While still in Italy, I verified that Microsoft Teams, Unity, and Github were accessible from China.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

Today in Italy it should be the day when we go pic-nicking… but given the fact that we are in lockdown, I’ll just eat a lot at home While I send you a lot of good vibes, let’s see together what have been the best pieces of AR/VR news of this week, that has been incredibly interesting! (My Microsoft signs a $22B deal with the US Army.

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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. Microsoft releases Azure Remote Rendering. supports VR. 3D artists rejoice!

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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. HoloLens 2 is now being used by the Army.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 19, 2020

Because Spatial is hardware-agnostic every colleague doesn’t need to have a Magic Leap 1, they can join a meeting from a Microsoft HoloLens, Oculus Quest, Android/iPhone mobile device or desktop (just without the fancy spatial computing). Or they can return the entire package with no further fees or obligation.

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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). Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). Sounded good.

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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 . Microsoft X-Rings is a controllers that can change its shape.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 17, 2023

I’m currently at the Schipol airport in Amsterdam, waiting for the connecting flight that will take me back to Italy. Let’s say we are back to standard levels of energy The current tech landscape is not in its best moment ever : all the big companies (Meta, Microsoft, etc…) are laying off people.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 27, 2020

We had to adapt to a new way of living, and even in the regions where now the virus is under control (like here in Italy), all the industries that made business by many people collecting together (e.g. The coronavirus has lead us to a “new normal”, where things are all different from before. News worth a mention. Image by Tweak Town).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 19, 2018

And you’ve read everything in the title of this article: $800 (€879 here in Italy) for having only the new headset , the “upgrade-kit” that you can use with your existing base stations and controllers. This toaster is enough for the vast majority of VR users (Image credit: Microsoft).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

That’s why even Microsoft took Epic’s stances : Microsoft uses UE4 to develop some products also for Apple devices, and this decision hurts also its business. More info (Apple threatens Epic) More info (Microsoft files an official support for Epic). Let’s see what will happen… and in the meantime let’s eat lots of popcorns.

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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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EON Reality

MARCH 28, 2019

Thursday maintained the high-level momentum with featured the likes of Microsoft, Samsung, University of Bologna (UNIBO), HP, and Festo Didactic. Wednesday held presentations from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Toyota Industries, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), IBM, Lenovo, and more.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

Image by Microsoft). 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”. More info (Official Nreal website with purchase link) More info (Post on Vodafone DE blog). News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

All the other major companies (Samsung, Huawei, etc…) are working on AR and Apple for sure can’t stop experimenting with if it doesn’t want to miss the next communication platform as Microsoft did with Windows Phone. Microsoft has released this week a new video showing how the game will work. 5G is coming to Italy.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 7, 2019

I’m in Italy again and here in these days, it is damn hot and wet. Microsoft is shipping Azure Kinect. Microsoft is finally shipping its Azure Kinect devkits. As promised, Microsoft has released the documentation on its website. I’m hoping to attend a VR event in the North Pole, so that I can feel some cold again.

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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. Facebook and Microsoft publish two interesting research projects for VR. The modality to ask for the adapters is not clear yet, though.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The damn coronavirus continues to impact all our lives: the fact that many countries are applying restrictions on flights to and from Italy is, for example, creating various nuisances to my job. Image by Microsoft). Coronavirus impacts headsets production and kills F8 and GDC. News worth a mention. XBOX Series X will be VR ready.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

Another busy week has passed by, and here in Italy we just got the news that lockdown measures will start to loosen from next week, but the road to go out as we wish is still long. We’re looking for a Unity dev for a freelance gig lasting 1–2 months, ideally from Italy or a nearby country (for easier management).

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Bernard Marr

MAY 31, 2023

For example, Microsoft has admitted that it monitors and reads conversations between Bing and its users. An early public version of Microsoft’s ChatGPT-powered Bing was briefly pulled offline when it was found that it was occasionally sharing details of private conversations with other users.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Microsoft initially began selling HoloLens 2 to enterprise customers back in late 2019, but a broader rollout has taken quite some time. HoloLens 2 is Microsoft’s enterprise-focused AR headset which the company initially launched late last year with limited availability to select partners. ” Image courtesy Microsoft.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

Kudos to Shachar Weis for discovering this: he told me about this news, and I have verified that it has disappeared completely from Amazon Italy and Amazon France, while some Redditors confirmed that the same holds for Amazon UK. An article by Microsoft Design details how some designers have created an AR cube with very natural interactions.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

It’s hot and the drought is creating some issues here in northern Italy. The Metaverse Standards Forum has already gathered many important players of the XR sector like Unity, Unreal Engine, Meta, Microsoft, Lamina 1, NVIDIA, and even other relevant companies like IKEA and Adobe. Top news of the week. Image by Meta).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

The company switched to an enterprise model , but apart from a rebranding and an assistance service it is not clear what it actually means, especially if compared with the enormous enterprise offering that Microsoft is giving with HoloLens (Azure services, integration with Teams, etc…).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

Or better, I can imagine who can be the names and they are all the big monoliths: Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon , etc… Only companies of this size could afford selling a good headset under cost and at the same time attract enough developers to publish VR games on their own new stores. OpenXR will finally be implemented.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

HP and Microsoft have a long track in offering enterprise hardware, so this headset may battle HTC on his own land (B2B). I’ve established a friendship with a company here in Italy that distributes HoloLens 2 , preferably in Italy but also worldwide. News from partners (and friends). Contact me.

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