XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 15, 2023

Spatial Hits Big at GDC 2023 In March, at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2023 in San Francisco, Spatial announced the platform’s new Unity Creator Toolkit is entering its beta stages. For example, Spatial’s Unity Creator Toolkit beta model powered the 2023 Metaverse Fashion Week on Spatial between 28 to 31 March.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Some days ago, Alex Kipman shared on social media this video to rise the hype for the upcoming launch. And as you can see from the video, it is not that much (just some evocative images and sounds). The trailer. Not that this was necessary, since we were already incredibly hyped. View post on imgur.com. Image by Reddit). Resolution.

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ARPost

APRIL 13, 2020

We didn’t have to shake the tree very hard to find someone that we were excited to talk to but we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to talk with the good folks at Unity. What Is Unity? The name “ Unity ” probably sounds familiar to you. Unity is the platform that makes this world a reality. More Buzz Around Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 6, 2024

But this should surprise no one: all the previous expensive AR/MR headsets that have been initially targeted at consumers, like Magic Leap or HoloLens, ended up being used mostly in enterprise sectors. More info Unity 6 introduces new features for XR developers The new version of Unity, called Unity 6, is currently in preview.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

In spite of the fact we’re joking around and playing Angry Birds on Magic Leap, the whole thing feels very grown up, in the sense that these guys are in this for the long haul, and so, they reckon, is the business of making Mixed Reality. If we do get a sneak peek at the HoloLens 2.0

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2021

These can easily be covered by watching some Youtube videos on it and a little bit of experimenting. With Pumori.io , I had created 6 Unity apps that demo UI/UX concepts on the Project North Star headset. In terms of software, the North Star uses Unity to render its AR graphics while the Triton uses Three.js. . Yes, Three.js

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 28, 2023

Today I want to take you on a journey on one of the coolest prototypes I’ve ever worked on, which is about creating Unity applications that can dynamically modify their logic at runtime depending on the user’s needs thanks to generative artificial intelligence. Something so cool I could try and fail big. And then I had an idea.

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Road to VR

JULY 23, 2021

Facebook announced today that an upcoming update to the Quest development SDK will include experimental support for a Passthrough API which will allow Unity developers to build AR experiences and features into apps on Quest 2.

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JUNE 3, 2022

AWE day two started off with back-to-back keynotes from mixed reality display maker Magic Leap and AR commerce solution Avataar. A Look at the Magic Leap 2. Magic Leap’s Head of Product Management, Jade Meskill, presented “Magic Leap 2 and the Augmented Enterprise.”

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2024

This is a video showing Augmented Reality with 2D markers in 2008 using a Nokia N95 phone. If I show you a video recorded with a phone moving in front of this wall, you just see full white in every frame, so you have no idea about how the phone is moving. When I say that markers are an old technology, I really mean it!

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

He has joined Rony Abovitz at Magic Leap and now he’s there, trying to build the MagicVerse as the SVP of Creative Strategy of the Florida company. You can also skim through the written questions and click on the link to enjoy the video version of only the questions you are most interested in. Magic Leap glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

The idea of Leap Motion is going against the current trend of augmented reality glasses, that is mostly based on expensive devices that have closed ecosystems (e.g. HoloLens or Magic Leap One ), but to create a headset that is: Affordable; Completely open, both from a software and hardware standpoint. Reference Design Issues.

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ARPost

JULY 13, 2022

If you’ve played any video games at all – particularly open-world RPGs – you know that getting NPCs right can be hard. Other members of the e-board have backgrounds including Magic Leap and Sony. You might also have heard the theory that the metaverse will be too big to be entirely populated by human agents.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

If we talk about compatible devices, we all have a smartphone that can do AR, we all have watched on some social media short video selfies with some AR effects on. This commercial video about Google Glasses led me to immersive realities. Magic Leap will meet its fate. Duck Face, Magic Leap One, and me.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Magic Leap’s first developer conference, L.E.A.P. The company is livestreaming its keynote today, which will feature a number Magic Leap partners including speakers from Weta Workshop, AT&T, Unity, Epic Games, and ILMxLAB. Timoni West – Director, XR Research, Unity Technologies.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 9, 2021

In an unhinged rant worthy of Rudy Guiliani, Cramer explained the metaverse is made by Unity, before correcting himself and crediting Nvidia instead. If you really want to understand the putative metaverse, listen to this conversation with Viacom/CBS futurist Ted Schilowitz and Magic Leap founder Rony Abovitz.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

When Magic Leap One was revealed, Rony Abovitz stated he was already working on Magic Leap Two and Three, for instance; Facebook believes a lot in having avatars that truly represent ourselves in XR , and it is a field in which they will invest a lot. More info (HCI of the future) More info (AI for videos).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Some days ago, I published on Youtube the video of my unboxing of the Realmax Qian glasses. RealMax Qian Video Review. I have prepared a cool video review about the RealMax Qian , talking about how it is in all its aspects, and showing some through-the-lenses footage. Are you ready to discover more about Realmax Qian?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

It’s been 2 hours full of cool insights and you can watch all of them in the video here below: if you have the time, I assure you you won’t regret watching it! If you don’t have 2 hours, don’t worry, here below I have extracted the most interesting tidbits of the videos for you to enjoy! PRNewsfoto/BadVR).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

NReal Light Devkit Video Review. For everyone of you that doesn’t want to read thousands of words, I’ve prepared a very nice review video about this device. The NRSDK is Nreal’s SDK that lets you develop applications using the popular Unity game engine. Are you ready? Nreal glasses and the Oreo.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 22, 2021

The Worlds are built on various platforms — everything from VR and Unity, to browser-based spatial video chat and Zoom. No, it is not Magic Leap’s while. With Black Rock City, for example, we create the container space and the community shows up to bring their dreams into reality.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Dave Rhodes, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Digital Twins for Unity , delivered a keynote speech at the massive immersive tech event on Monday morning. These entities leveraged real-time 3D (RT3D) content, with Unity leading the industry as a RT3D content creation platform. PHOTO: XR Today.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

Someone has already received it and has already shared on the social media videos of the Air Link in action. On the client side, the system will become compatible with iOS devices, and a Magic Leap client has also been developed. NVIDIA DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) will be natively supported for HDRP in Unity 2021.2.

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Road to VR

APRIL 16, 2018

Researchers at The Human Computer Interaction Lab at Hasso-Plattner-Institut in Potsdam, Germany, published a video recently showing a novel solution to the problem of wearable haptics for augmented reality. The researchers say their system “adds physical forces while keeping the users’ hands free to interact unencumbered.”

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

But this is no animated video and I’m not watching this on a screen. Check out this short “flattie” video showcasing the 1st WXR Pitch Showcase, held in VR. Each female founder has been paired with complementary women leaders from companies such as Google, Magic Leap, Norwest Venture Partners, and Warner Bros.,

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

While Meta noted that the developer community may have access to passthrough video in early 2025, the move has not been implemented. Moreover, the Samsung headset comes as other leading XR technology firms, including Qualcomm, Sony, XREAL, and Magic Leap, are championing the AndriodXR OS.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2021

and also why the $2+B investment in Magic Leap was not enough to bring it to success. Unity releases free guide on mobile development optimization. Unity has just released a free guide that teaches you how to optimize your game so that it can run smoothly on mobile devices. Brickit is the dream app for all LEGO fans.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Tilt Five launch video. The idea behind Tilt Five is creating a pair of glasses that are not general-purpose ones, like HoloLens or Magic Leap : Jeri knows the technology is not ready yet. For a comparison, the upcoming Magic Leap 2 has a 22% maximum efficiency … it’s like a quarter of it!

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

A video that got popular this week has a bit shocked me: in it, you can see a user pointing its Lidar-powered iPad towards some objects and in like 2 seconds being able to reconstruct an exact clone of that 3D object, fully meshed and textured. Someone has made a WebAR exporter for Unity. This is so cool!

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

Rony Abovitz steps down from Magic Leap CEO. This was a very good thing and attracted many people to Magic Leap. I hope that Magic Leap will benefit from it and will recover pretty soon. Road To VR) More info (Qualcomm’s Wi-fi 6 chips?—?Upload Upload VR). In the end, it has happened. CR Deck Mk.1”

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

And I think talking with her was worth the wait: as you can hear in the video embedded here below, she’s incredibly smart, passionate, and has amazing technical knowledge. Video interview With Kura’s Kelly Peng. I’ve set the time marks in the video so that you can select exactly the questions that you would like to listen to.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 12, 2021

HoloLens 2 Video Review. Here you are my massive video review of the HoloLens 2 (featuring almost 1 hour of content) with many examples of interactions and mixed reality videos! If you prefer videos to walls of texts, this is what you should watch in this article: A HoloLens 2 Video Review just for you!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

They will serve to sell Meta’s vision about augmented reality , so I also imagine some R&D demos that show cool things that these AR glasses can do and that could be reshared by the press or by the community in some viral video snippets. Or Boz that goes on stage and says that his favorite game on the Meta Store is The Unity Cube.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

As pointed out in one of the Unity Developers’ blog posts , aside from the exponential rise of development businesses, we’re also seeing more developer tools, such as the Unity and Unreal engines, becoming more accessible.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 30, 2019

Vive Video 6 DOF Lite is now available. The one that caught more my attention is the official release of the “Vive Video 6 DOF Lite” mode. You know that 360 videos are nice, but one of the main annoyance is that if you try to move your head, the visuals actually remain fixed. nReal answers to Magic Leap.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

There is a lot at stakes, because if these two companies won’t settle (and I think that they are just firing big shots before finding an agreement), Unreal Engine developers won’t be able to develop properly for Apple XR devices, and they will have all to migrate to Unity. Intel Labs can now transform a video in a 3D scene.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Spend one minute and watch the two videos below , where I play as a magician and show you the results of my crazy experiments. In this article, researchers made a ball disappear in a video made against a completely white wall. Notice that there is no post-processing in the parts seen from inside the headset. Similar is not enough.

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