The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

So you can look at a broken vase and ask the glasses how to fix it. More info News worth a mention Information leaks on Vive’s inside-out Tracker There is a new leak about the inside-out tracked Vive Tracker that HTC teased a few months ago. This is incredibly cool and useful, but comes also with some privacy strings attached.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2020

Finding a compromise is the key, but it is exactly like when you want to have a shower and try to have warm water… usually, you just obtain it too cold or too hot, and almost never how you want it to be. My HTC Vive with installed in the TACTAL facemask. Pray for my life… PC (HTC Vive). Test on applications.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

After having tried the headset for some days, having written what it is and what are its features, the comparison between it and the Vive Focus Plus , having taught people how to start developing with it , I think tha t I’m ready to let you know my impressions on the first 6 DOF standalone headset by Facebook.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The only company not much affected by it is HTC, that manufacturers its headsets in Taiwan and not in Mainland China. HTC Vive releases Cosmos Elite, two models of Vive Pro Eye and creates some confusion. For sure you remember the recent launch of a full line of Vive Cosmos headsets , all with customized faceplates.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

First of all, analyzing the source codes, many developers could understand how to create a VR viewer. The news would be incredible: Apple is a company that knows how to create something usable and cool to see, while Valve has a long expertise in experimenting with AR and VR. Image from Amazon). This is a great piece of news.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

I mean, we have not even agreed if it is “the” metaverse or “a” metaverse (I believe in the former, btw)… how can we produce and how can we bring to success something that we don’t even know what it is? No one has an idea on how to build it. HTC Vive Wrist Tracker (Image by HTC).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

More info (How to pre-load Half-Life: Alyx) More info (Leaked review of Half-Life: Alyx) More info (Suggestions on how to stream the game) More info (Valve Index on top of Steam charts) More info (Oculus Rift S soldout) More info (Vive Cosmos Elite gives Alyx for free) More info (Vive Cosmos Elite review) More info (Gabe Newell talks BCI).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2020

Since some of you risk being in the same situation I am in some days, I just want to give you some pieces of advice on how to prepare for the lockdown and make your VR business survive these harsh times. If you don’t have enough of this stuff, Amazon is your friend. Think about how to do business. VR is better than TV.

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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. Currently, it works only for static environments, but the researchers are studying how to make these scenes interactive, for instance for photorealistic VR games.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The HTC Vive Cosmos may release soon for €799. We all know that the Vive Cosmos should release very soon since HTC revealed me that the release date would have been in Q3 2019 and Q3 ends at the end of the month. It is highly probable that an HLVR game will be developed in the Source game engine, so a Unity game is not a possibility.

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VRWorld

JULY 12, 2017

“As the hype cycle goes through its process, we make sure our content addresses the most important issues in how to ride the wave, build business, reach customers and realize the massive potential that the industry and technology holds.” Tony Parisi, Global Head of VR/AR, Unity Technologies.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

HTC Vive is at the second place; Oculus Quest, even if it is so new, has already gathered a lot of interest from developers; Gaming is still the most popular content developed in XR, but now there is also interest in other kinds of applications , like entertainment (e.g. Amazon thinks using AR for its delivery agents. That is huge.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Instagram has a very popular creation tool called SparkAR , which can be easily used by all creators without knowing how to code, and has seen a spike in usage in 2020. There are vaiours solutions to also export Unity XR projects to the web (Image by Mozilla). million AR effects on Facebook and Instagram.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

HTC has actually released that for the Vive Focus Plus … Well, according to the god John Carmack , it is something about which the company has discussed a lot and has also experimented a lot. Why not wireless? Why hasn’t Oculus gone for the jackpot releasing a fully wireless streaming solution? Hand tracking on Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

I’m sure this thing will change as soon as developers will learn how to suck every last bit of computational power from the device. This kind of seamless interface is great and it is exactly the same one that HTC already offers with the Vive Focus Plus and Viveport Streaming and that I’ve tried and appreciated.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

And that means that every time you go to use Vision Pro you have to consciously think about how to best position this 353 gram anchor, around double the weight of a typical smartphone, and how to keep the cable out of the way of your left arm. At a comfortable viewing size, the legibility feels somewhere between a 1440p and 4K monitor.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Throwing thousands away on an attempt unlikely to succeed was starting to look like a grim reality, I didn’t want to be another one of those stories… Old hardware joke: How to make one million dollars? Why not try something different, how about a gun grip? Why had they settled on this shape? The Guncube.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

If these Facebook features proved to be popular, more developers would use them, and finally, Facebook could have more power on the VR development tools , after the failed acquisition of Unity. affiliate link) More info (Quest on Amazon?—?affiliate affiliate link) More info (Pimax 5K+ on Amazon?—?affiliate affiliate link).

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

I started working on VR versions of things, so they could reach in and grab the cables that they would have to unplug and plug in, essentially saving the IT techs time on the phone by training the employees as how to run their cafés. Amazon Sumerian. Unity is always my top one. Michael: It would depend on your use case.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

I started working on VR versions of things, so they could reach in and grab the cables that they would have to unplug and plug in, essentially saving the IT techs time on the phone by training the employees as how to run their cafés. Amazon Sumerian. Unity is always my top one. Michael: It would depend on your use case.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

I started working on VR versions of things, so they could reach in and grab the cables that they would have to unplug and plug in, essentially saving the IT techs time on the phone by training the employees as how to run their cafés. Amazon Sumerian. Unity is always my top one. there's just all these tools. Is it marketing?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

This got some press, because HTC VIVE released a press release with Bell, saying that their latest helicopter was created 10 times faster using VR, and you guys were the company doing that. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. I mean, I was making notes, here. Time is the ultimate measurement of ROI.".

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

This got some press, because HTC VIVE released a press release with Bell, saying that their latest helicopter was created 10 times faster using VR, and you guys were the company doing that. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. I mean, I was making notes, here. Time is the ultimate measurement of ROI.".

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

This got some press, because HTC VIVE released a press release with Bell, saying that their latest helicopter was created 10 times faster using VR, and you guys were the company doing that. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. I mean, I was making notes, here. Time is the ultimate measurement of ROI.".

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

This got some press, because HTC VIVE released a press release with Bell, saying that their latest helicopter was created 10 times faster using VR, and you guys were the company doing that. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. I mean, I was making notes, here. Time is the ultimate measurement of ROI.".

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

I remember years ago — I think it was probably, I want to say about five years ago — we had a Unity session in our office, where we did Unity development basics, and we invited a lot of companies from the area in Austin to come to our office, and we would run a Unity training session around 2D/3D asset development.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

I remember years ago — I think it was probably, I want to say about five years ago — we had a Unity session in our office, where we did Unity development basics, and we invited a lot of companies from the area in Austin to come to our office, and we would run a Unity training session around 2D/3D asset development.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

I remember years ago -- I think it was probably, I want to say about five years ago -- we had a Unity session in our office, where we did Unity development basics, and we invited a lot of companies from the area in Austin to come to our office, and we would run a Unity training session around 2D/3D asset development.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

And I feel like there’s going to be this great convergence at some point in terms of figuring out how to engage people within a story to help teach them these different concepts. We’ve got AR platforms being hosted by Amazon, by Facebook, by Snapchat, where you can develop your own AR lenses. But once the WebXR 2.0

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

Now you’re finally starting to see that point where the technology exists; we know it works, we know how to make it — let’s start telling proper stories again. HTC did something with Batman; that Game of Thrones thing; some of the demos that Magic Leap had really. Okay, we’re good. So we did that.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

Now you’re finally starting to see that point where the technology exists; we know it works, we know how to make it — let’s start telling proper stories again. HTC did something with Batman; that Game of Thrones thing; some of the demos that Magic Leap had really. Okay, we’re good. So we did that.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

And I feel like there's going to be this great convergence at some point in terms of figuring out how to engage people within a story to help teach them these different concepts. We've got AR platforms being hosted by Amazon, by Facebook, by Snapchat, where you can develop your own AR lenses. Anybody can do this, not just developers.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

And I feel like there’s going to be this great convergence at some point in terms of figuring out how to engage people within a story to help teach them these different concepts. We’ve got AR platforms being hosted by Amazon, by Facebook, by Snapchat, where you can develop your own AR lenses. But once the WebXR 2.0

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