The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

confirmed with the company that it may not be a Niantic-branded pair of glasses, but a reference design that Niantic is building with Qualcomm since 2019. Microsoft signs a $22B deal with the US Army. It seems that this test has been a success, and so now Microsoft has won now a bigger contract to carry on the project: $21.88B (!!)

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MARCH 28, 2019

In the third installment of our Blog series covering the new HoloLens 2, we take a deep dive and take a look at all the new features and specs which has the training and technology world buzzing. In our previous installments, we describe Microsofts newest HoloLens 2.0. With the HoloLens 2, Microsoft resolved this issue.

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Microsoft has been experimenting with taking this one step further, combining the real world with virtual reality (VR), allowing someone to take a normal walk yet wander around a completely different location. Microsoft Research will be in New Orleans at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

More info (Announcement link) More info (News on my blog) More info (Error in one of the screenshots). When I interviewed Facebook’s Sean Liu , he told me that 2019 was an inflection point for VR, and the data around us seems to confirm this statement. Image by Microsoft). I’m hyped, and you? Other relevant news. Image by MWC).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

And if you need some pieces of advice regarding how to professionally survive this quarantine, I have written a blog post on the topic you can read. This means mainly two things: Livestreams and blog posts where the companies make the announcements that they would have made during the event. invested in AR and VR companies.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 27, 2020

if compared to 2019. worldwide in 2019–2024 to reach $136.9 Sports events can’t have the audience anymore, and now NBA has partnered with Microsoft so that big screens next to NBA matches will show people connected with Microsoft Teams that will watch the match and comment it , to let the players feel less alone.

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Anand Tech

JULY 7, 2021

Intel announced Lakefield, its only Hybrid CPU on the market, in January 2019. Microsoft already has experience with this when dealing with Windows on Snapdragon devices using the Arm architecture, however it was a first for x86 and the first implementations were reportedly quite rough. Intel: Lakefield in 2020, Possible 5G on Foveros.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

This would have happened on May 2019, in the same period when Apple’s senior manager of prototype development Avi Bar-Zeev left the company. Microsoft has released this week a new video showing how the game will work. Microsoft is launching in two weeks a private beta for iOS users. Elon Musk will detail Neuralink soon.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

With a surprise move, Facebook has acquired Sanzaru Games, the company behind the best VR game of 2019, Asgard’s Wrath. Image by Microsoft). Microsoft has released more specifications for its upcoming XBOX Series X, and from these data is clearly possible to see that it will be compatible with VR headsets. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

With a long post on Magic Leap’s blog, in the end Rony Abovitz has admitted that the company is not going that well, and has announced a new course, that should eventually lead to Magic Leap 2. The blog post is full of the usual fluff: it could have been written in 10 lines instead of a big wall of text. Top news of the week.

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AR Insider

MARCH 5, 2020

On one hand, groups like Microsoft with their Hololens 2 have recognized the great need for three-dimensional representations of data in the medical field, but in many cases a doctor may not want to gear up to get access to that critical missing depth information. Real memory, late 2019 in a Looking Glass 8K. Fictional memory.

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Peter Graham

JULY 25, 2019

Ever since the launch of Firefox Reality by Mozilla last year the company has been gradually scaling up the project by adding new features and support of devices like Microsoft’s HoloLens 2. In 2019 Mozilla plans on rolling out support for the WebXR specification, multi-window browsing, bookmarks sync and SteamVR.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Now the pivot comes too little, too late: Microsoft is years ahead of its competitors in offering services for big companies (Azure is a fantastic solution in this sense), and Magic Leap is really behind in this. More info (JanusVR shuts down) More info (High Fidelity shuts down) More info (High Fidelity blog post about the future).

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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…). It will be a complicated year but united we will win.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

Plus it’s even weirder that HTC needed 2 years to bring it to the market (it was announced in 2019). Read about Microsoft’s Ignite conference. As I’ve reported to you last week, Microsoft’s latest Ignite conference, where Microsoft Mesh was announced, was a true marvel, an example of how a truly immersive keynote should be held.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

Stay tuned on my blog for updates about this new adventure of mine. nReal is one of the most interesting AR startups of 2019 and is offering very light and very cheap augmented reality trendy glasses that you can attach to your phone. But for now, let me do a recap of the best news of the past week in AR and VR! Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The total revenues on the Quest Store alone had been $1B since its foundation in 2019, and this shows that many people are enjoying Quest games. A report from Insider states that Microsoft may have canceled its plans for HoloLens 3. Please support this blog. Reality Labs had $2.3B Some updates on Meta products. Some XR fun.

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ARVR

MARCH 5, 2021

Furthermore, my involvement is primarily confined to one particular social VR platform, AltspaceVR, owned by Microsoft, making most of my experience the product of a niche within a niche within a niche. Microsoft has been very active in this area for years and their video on the history of flight simulation is a good introduction.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: Yeah, I was sort of a traditional newspaper and magazine journalist for a long time, and then, when the web came along and people started podcasting and blogging, I looked around and felt like it was less of a risk to go try something new than it was to stay at a newspaper. Alan: Have you been to the Microsoft campus?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: Yeah, I was sort of a traditional newspaper and magazine journalist for a long time, and then, when the web came along and people started podcasting and blogging, I looked around and felt like it was less of a risk to go try something new than it was to stay at a newspaper. Alan: Have you been to the Microsoft campus?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: Yeah, I was sort of a traditional newspaper and magazine journalist for a long time, and then, when the web came along and people started podcasting and blogging, I looked around and felt like it was less of a risk to go try something new than it was to stay at a newspaper. So we're still one of the last, larger independent tech blogs.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: Yeah, I was sort of a traditional newspaper and magazine journalist for a long time, and then, when the web came along and people started podcasting and blogging, I looked around and felt like it was less of a risk to go try something new than it was to stay at a newspaper. Alan: Have you been to the Microsoft campus?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

Having had the chance to play with it for some days , I can tell you that it is really an interesting product (I’ll write a review about it here on this blog, so register to my newsletter to not miss it!). I have to perform further analysis and then I’ll publish a blog post about that). I like the new Rift Core 2.0

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2, the company’s most recent smartglasses (or rather smart glass ), was only available to partner companies when it launched in May 2019. Now Google is allowing its third-party hardware vendors to sell the headset direct to developers. Image courtesy Google.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 22, 2020

Oculus has accompanied the Oculus For Business launch blog with a report by IDC highlighting how VR adoption (shipments of commercial headsets) in the enterprise sector has grown 92.5% year-over-year in 2019 and it is stated to grow by 70% in 2020. Worldwide spending on commercial VR is expected to grow to $7.1B, up from $4.5

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AR Insider

APRIL 15, 2020

NextVR failed to close a Series C investment in late 2018, leading to layoffs of 40% of their staff in January 2019. They showed an early version of the tech at Mobile World Congress in February 2019. These patents give Apple a strong IP defense against Microsoft as well as the MPEG consortium members. Still … $100m?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

This is why companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Meta are exploring similar technologies. I mean in 2019 the best game was Beat Saber, in 2020 Half-Life: Alyx, and in 2021 COOKING SIMULATOR… I don’t know how we can go more downwards than this… who will win in 2022? Microsoft Maquette gets discontinued. Metadonation.

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Road to VR

JUNE 14, 2018

Microsoft Stays Mum on Xbox VR. Image courtesy Microsoft. During Microsoft’s main E3 2018 presentation, Head of Xbox Phil Spencer talked briefly on stage about the future of the brand, mentioning ‘future “consoles”‘ in development, but there was once again no sign of VR support for Xbox One.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 22, 2023

See our blog here:… — Nick Clegg (@nickclegg) May 22, 2023 The case involved an alleged violation of Article 46(1) in the GDPR framework, where it continued transferring to the US following a major court ruling. Subsequently, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) imposed a $5 billion USD penalty in 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

In the meanwhile, its adoption is getting better, too: the popular Unity game engine promises the first implementations of OpenXR for the end of the year with a complete implementation coming in 2021, and Microsoft has already completely switched to an OpenXR runtime. All these pieces of news make us think of a positive future for OpenXR.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Today I am very happy to host on my blog Kura Technologies , one of the most interesting augmented reality startups out there. We started talking with other professionals in the field, and they always kept saying to us “If Microsoft can’t do it, how can you do it?”. But we were motivated, so we started studying the problem.

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Peter Graham

AUGUST 19, 2019

— Insomniac Games (@insomniacgames) August 19, 2019. “We’ve collaborated with Sony for more than 20 years — spanning all four PlayStation consoles, 20 total games and six franchises,” notes Ted Price, Insomniac Games’ Founder in a blog posting. .

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

More info (My predictions for OC6) More info (All Michael Abrash’s predictions in the Oculus Connects) More info (How to watch Oculus Connect 6 in streaming) More info (Official blog post on how to watch Oculus Connect 6) More info (Portal 2). CEOs means a lot for a company: think about how Microsoft has changed going from Ballmer to Nadella.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Today I host a new post by my friend and VR professional Rob Cole , who has already published many interesting posts on my blog, including a review of Pimax Sword controllers , a series of hack on how to modify the Valve Index , and his experiements in creating new innovative controllers for SteamVR. Header image by Rob Cole).

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

In actual fact, I've just recently started writing a series of guest posts for Vive on the Vive blog. You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. But I've been writing a series of blogs about my journey using and integrating the HTC Vive headsets at GESS.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

In actual fact, I've just recently started writing a series of guest posts for Vive on the Vive blog. You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. But I've been writing a series of blogs about my journey using and integrating the HTC Vive headsets at GESS.

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 8, 2019

2019 has been a big year for virtual reality (VR) hardware, with the launch of Oculus Quest, Oculus Rift S, HTC Vive Cosmos, HP Reverb and Valve Index, giving customers plenty of choices.

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