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. All Apple software, SDKs, APIs, and developer tools ?—?Pre-release 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

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

OCTOBER 16, 2021

I hope that a future software update can make the Pico Neo 3 Pro improve in this sense. Vive Focus 3 has an expensive cooling system that can keep the Snapdragon XR2 cold enough to perform its operations at the best temperatures (Image by HTC Vive). Production quality. The documentation of the SDK needs some polish, though.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The company is performing various layoffs and also merging part of the Pico software divisions together with their Bytedance counterparts. The book is coming in March, 2024, but can already be preordered on Amazon. SteamVR 2.0 is now live for everyone. This is for sure going to be something interesting to read.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2018

Eye tracking is, in my opinion, a technology that will disrupt completely the VR ecosystem , exactly as room-scale did with the first HTC Vive. FOV: >110° (adapted to HTC Vive). We are striving to collaborate with many content enterprises for developing software including eye-tracking function. Isn’t it a cool device?

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2021

This week has been pretty crazy: It all started with Facebook approving my silly The Unity Cube application (an application with just a cube) on App Lab. 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. Not much, honestly.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

2020 has been a good year for the sales of VR devices : Half-Life Alyx and the launch of the Quest 2 have created a big spike in the sales of VR hardware and software. I expect all these trends to continue in 2021, for a year that will see the growth of the technology on all its sides (software and hardware).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

Before leaving you to the best news of the week, I would like to highlight two notable things about my work: My crazy trolling game “The Unity Cube” has been featured in a video by Upload VR! Image by HTC Vive). HTC Vive Air is a design concept for a fitness-focused VR headset. Amazon is opening its AR Beauty Salon.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Disclaimer: HTC provided three of their Vive Tracker 3.0 What is an HTC Vive Tracker? Whilst the first part of this article looked at the history of the HTC Vive Tracker and its three different versions, the second part will focus on some practical experiments with the latest HTC Vive Tracker 3.0. HTC Vive Tracker 3.0

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The company got more than $10M of investment over the years, including important support from HTC Vive, which uses its spaces to organize the virtual events to launch its XR hardware. Keep in mind that the software has been released yesterday, so it’s still in the early stages (I will come back to this at the end of the article).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

A final stats: AR/MR headset hardware and consumer software are set to earn a combined $6.7B Amazon promises “single-digit latency” XR streaming. Amazon has announced some weeks ago “Wavelength”, a new offering of its AWS services, that should provide “single-digit latency” over 5G networks. by 2023 , 45% of all XR revenue.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This is a huge problem for Meta, which subsidizes hardware with software sales. 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. And as you can imagine, the leaks come from him, always him: Brad Lynch.

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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 Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2023

NVIDIA announced on Tuesday at the SIGGRAPH 2023 it had expanded its CloudXR software developer kit (SDK) to deliver more scalable, customisable extended reality (XR) experiences for enterprises and developers. This included adopters of the Omniverse such as Amazon, Deutsche Bahn, and others.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Oculus and HTC had been holding details surrounding Rift and Vive launch windows close to the chest, probably because they had delays to announce and need to nail down new plans. First, HTC delays the Vive until April 2016, with plans to show an updated developer kit at CES in January. In December, these plans become known. April 2016.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. It has the ability to create a cross platform code where users can create their projects in either JavaScript, Unity, Xamarin, and Cordova. It has applications in training and educational use cases.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Apple Vision Pro is a very impressive fusion of hardware and software, but it's by no means perfect. Read on for my breakdown of the Vision Pro hardware and software and the experience they enable. Could this be an unintentional tradeoff of the darkened glass frontplate, or is it solvable with software tweaks?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Of course, Microsoft and Amazon are observing the situation: in my opinion, Microsoft will wait a bit , considering its focus on AR enterprise with HoloLens, while Amazon could improve its already existing offering of glasses connected with Alexa. But I would be happy to be surprised and see that Magic Leap can thrive again.

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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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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Some time ago, it had already released the public specifications for the headset , and so many 3rd party vendors had been able to design and sell their viewers, but now even all the software has been released on GitHub. That is, all the software layer of Cardboard is public domain now. Image from Amazon). The hype is rising….

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

The software suffers because the budget is taken from that. 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. We're not talking, "we designed it better with a new software."

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

The software suffers because the budget is taken from that. 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. We're not talking, "we designed it better with a new software."

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

The software suffers because the budget is taken from that. 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. We're not talking, "we designed it better with a new software."

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

The software suffers because the budget is taken from that. 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. We're not talking, "we designed it better with a new software."

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

You still see it on the hardware, software, and interaction side. On the software side, that’s another thing. HTC did something with Batman; that Game of Thrones thing; some of the demos that Magic Leap had really. 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

You still see it on the hardware, software, and interaction side. On the software side, that’s another thing. HTC did something with Batman; that Game of Thrones thing; some of the demos that Magic Leap had really. We did stuff with HTC Vive at GTC — our first foveated rendering in the world with them.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2020

So, keep a VR (and/or) AR headset at home so that you can keep working on XR software even during the lockdown. 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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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Then you needed software, and the software didn’t exist yet, so you had to make it. Michael: And this is why I’ve been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building — there’s VRTK for Unity… there’s just all these tools. Amazon Sumerian.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Then you needed software, and the software didn’t exist yet, so you had to make it. Michael: And this is why I’ve been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building — there’s VRTK for Unity… there’s just all these tools. Amazon Sumerian.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In a side event happening after AWE, HTC has announced a bunch of updates of Vive Focus 3 that have the potential of revolutionizing the Location Based Entertainment in VR (LBEVR o LBVR) sector. Unity has bought Weta Digital for 1.6B. Unity has just bought Weta Digital for 1.6B. Top news of the week.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Then you needed software, and the software didn't exist yet, so you had to make it. Michael: And this is why I've been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building -- there's VRTK for Unity. Amazon Sumerian. Unity is always my top one. combine that with a computer.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

People had not been wrong about hardware being expensive and difficult to develop; console manufacturers often claw back hardware costs through software sales, when they own the storefronts and take a cut of everything sold digitally (often 30%). . Image by Rob Cole). I considered the Valve Index controllers a very reasonable price at £129.50

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

Raj is a 25-year veteran of the semiconductor and software industry with Intel Corp. I think one of the key things was, as I’m sitting here in my office and watching UPS deliver the package I ordered yesterday from Amazon. We know that; the highest fidelity is attached to the PC. Days on days on days. I know this is important.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

Raj is a 25-year veteran of the semiconductor and software industry with Intel Corp. I think one of the key things was, as I’m sitting here in my office and watching UPS deliver the package I ordered yesterday from Amazon. We know that; the highest fidelity is attached to the PC. Days on days on days. I know this is important.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

Raj is a 25-year veteran of the semiconductor and software industry with Intel Corp. I think one of the key things was, as I'm sitting here in my office and watching UPS deliver the package I ordered yesterday from Amazon. Alan: Today's guest is Raj Puran, director of client XR Business Development and Partnerships at Intel.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Top news of the week. It is very cool. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2020

The facial interface TACTAL made my HTC Vive more heavy on the front , and being quite thick and rigid, also made the headset slightly more uncomfortable and reduced my field of view. My HTC Vive with installed in the TACTAL facemask. Pray for my life… PC (HTC Vive). TACTOSY bracelet installed on my arm. Oh, they shot me!

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