The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2021

Image by HTC Vive). HTC is teasing a new headset. HTC is teasing a new piece of hardware again, and this time most probably it will be a VR headset. HTC loves playing with the words, so “get down to business” can be a reference to the fact that it is a “business headset”. Top news of the week. Not much, honestly.

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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. China is launching real name identification in games. On Reddit, the news has had an insane amount of upvotes (more than 10K) with all negative comments.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

This was a bit the philosophy of Google Daydream View, that was the first headset employing this kind of materials. Comparison of the speakers solutions in the Oculus Quest (left) and HTC Vive Focus Plus (right). The Quest can be acquired in China from Amazon US , or from various resellers on Taobao. Final considerations.

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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. The rise of enterprise.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

It is not on sale on US HP Store and will be on Amazon US next month. HTC Vive is supporting 6 experience showcased there, among which shines Inory , that accompanies the viewer on a spiritual journey. My review of Google Hand tracking library. The company has now solved all the issues and the headset can return on the market.

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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). Or is it just a talk about glasses?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2022

This is the current SteamVR controller pricing in GBP (shipping to UK) at the time the article was written: HTC Vive controller (2018) single £193 includes free shipping and tax HTC Vive controller (2018) pair £386.00 Ltd was founded by Robin Weng and associates in Shanghai, China in 2015. Image provided by Rob Cole).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Image by Google). Google completely opensources Cardboard. With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard. Google affirms that Cardboard has been a huge success to introduce people into VR, and more than 15 million headsets have been distributed. Image from Amazon).

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Road to VR

MARCH 31, 2018

You can pre-order Lenovo Mirage Solo on Amazon for $400 with a release date of May 6th. Based on Google’s Daydream Android VR ecosystem, the headset’s biggest claim to fame is its 6 degrees of freedom (6DoF) tracking, which allows for room-scale positional tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2019

The phrase “Early adopters always pay” has been proven right once again, but as active support is being provided (albeit slowly at times and with different results) and Valve’s manufacturing partners in the USA and China improve their Quality Assurance, we can move forward.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Alan: Well, the problem with that is you need to make sure that everybody’s synchronized, because if my company bought Oculus Go headsets for training and then my supplier comes along, goes, “Hey, we just made this training in VR, but it only works on the HTC Vive.” Alan: I’m going to Google it here. What is it.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Alan: Well, the problem with that is you need to make sure that everybody’s synchronized, because if my company bought Oculus Go headsets for training and then my supplier comes along, goes, “Hey, we just made this training in VR, but it only works on the HTC Vive.” Alan: I’m going to Google it here. What is it.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Alan: Well, the problem with that is you need to make sure that everybody's synchronized, because if my company bought Oculus Go headsets for training and then my supplier comes along, goes, "Hey, we just made this training in VR, but it only works on the HTC Vive." Alan: I'm going to Google it here. Google Pixel came out.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

They’re much more distributable than the standard Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, which has to be hooked up to a PC. We tried to making a Google Cardboard thing,” and they made a little marketing kitschy thing. It’s frustrating to have companies say, you know, “we tried VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

They’re much more distributable than the standard Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, which has to be hooked up to a PC. We tried to making a Google Cardboard thing,” and they made a little marketing kitschy thing. It’s frustrating to have companies say, you know, “we tried VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

They're much more distributable than the standard Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, which has to be hooked up to a PC. We tried to making a Google Cardboard thing," and they made a little marketing kitschy thing. It's frustrating to have companies say, you know, "we tried VR. So I think marketing/retail is really the big use case for AR.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

HTC did something with Batman; that Game of Thrones thing; some of the demos that Magic Leap had really. ” We went to China, we had ChinaJoy, and I said, “let’s do one side of the thing with the DK1.” We did stuff with HTC Vive at GTC — our first foveated rendering in the world with them.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

HTC did something with Batman; that Game of Thrones thing; some of the demos that Magic Leap had really. ” We went to China, we had ChinaJoy, and I said, “let’s do one side of the thing with the DK1.” We did stuff with HTC Vive at GTC — our first foveated rendering in the world with them.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The tracking system leaves something to be desired, with two sensors that track only 180 degrees of motion (as opposed to the laser-powered Lighthouse tracking system from the HTC Vive, which tracks in full 360 degrees). GOOGLE DAYDREAM SCORES NETFLIX AND HBO APPS. HTC VIVE LAUNCHES VIVE STUDIOS. MAGIC LEAP’S CONTROVERSY.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

Xiaomi and Oculus are strong partners for the Oculus Go, that is being manufactured by Xiaomi and sold in the west by Oculus and in China by Xiaomi itself, with the name Mi VR. The fact that Xiaomi doesn’t believe in the project anymore, and that in China the device has not sold well are for sure not good news for Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2020

We Italians are where China was some weeks ago, and where probably some other countries will be in some days/weeks , when the disease will become more widespread. If you don’t have enough of this stuff, Amazon is your friend. Also now there will be interesting events in VR, like HTC’s VEC that will happen inside ENGAGE.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2020

I have dedicated a complete article to the Oculus For Business program, but if you want a TL;DR I can tell you that while the device is better than all the other devices out there in the market, I would prefer a headset from Pico or HTC for B2B. Amazon) and offline (e.g. The enterprise 256GB version costs $799. Best Buy) stores.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

Google unveils Starline communication solution. At Google I/O, Google has announced Project Starline, an interesting project it has worked on for five years. I find Starlight an AMAZING project on the research side , and I think that all these technologies Google has developed for it may be re-used in other XR projects.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Amazon Sumerian. One of their announcements the other day was this amazing ability to create 3D objects and 3D products, and then have the back end to source and serve them up for programmatic ads on Facebook, on Google. HTC VIVE sold a couple million. 3D on Web is really becoming prevalent as well. PlayStation is gonna be 4.5-million

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Amazon Sumerian. One of their announcements the other day was this amazing ability to create 3D objects and 3D products, and then have the back end to source and serve them up for programmatic ads on Facebook, on Google. HTC VIVE sold a couple million. 3D on Web is really becoming prevalent as well. PlayStation is gonna be 4.5-million

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Amazon Sumerian. One of their announcements the other day was this amazing ability to create 3D objects and 3D products, and then have the back end to source and serve them up for programmatic ads on Facebook, on Google. HTC VIVE sold a couple million. there's just all these tools. 3D on Web is really becoming prevalent as well.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

I’ve used Google search to find all the pages with references to Del Mar in the Oculus website, and all the docs are identical to the previous versions. In the meantime, even HTC that was safe until now is having troubles in manufacturing the external tracking faceplate , whose release date will be delayed. Yes, Android, Google.

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