Road to VR

JUNE 2, 2018

If you’re outside the countries above, remember that many Europe-based Amazons deliver outside their official area of service, including many countries in the EU not listed above. Dixons (including Currys and PC World ). Shop Direct. Germany Store Availability. MediaMarkt. France Store Availability. Other Countries.

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VRScout

JULY 29, 2020

FORM’s AR smart goggles are available now for $199 at formswim.com and on Amazon in the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Australia and Japan. You can download the free companion app via the Apple App Store and Google Play. Image Credit: FORM.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2023

More info (Quest v55 performance boost) More info (Quest Pro getting better eye tracking) More info (The new taskbar capabilities of the Quest runtime) Hexa brings 3D visualization to Amazon pages Amazon has partnered with the startup Hexa to add 3D capabilities to its store pages. appeared first on The Ghost Howls.

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Road to VR

MARCH 15, 2022

Still, over the years getting a Quest or Rift in Russia wasn’t like buying one in Germany or Mexico (both unsupported regions), where you can simply login to Amazon and purchase with one click.

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Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2019

Large online retailers such as Amazon US , Best Buy , Target , Walmart and NewEgg are all sold out of the $80 full set, which includes Nintendo Labo software, VR headset, Wind Pedal, Camera, Elephant, Bird, and Blaster. If you can’t wait, Italy’s Amazon.it and the UK’s Amazon.co.uk Image courtesy Nintendo.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

I’m back to Italy after my trip to Helsinki! But things on the consumers’ side may not be going as well: according to some data scrapped from Amazon, the Quest 2 outsold the Quest 3 by a factor of 3:1 in the last 30 days. Is snow following me? Anyway, let’s have a look at the most relevant XR news of the past week! THREE TO ONE.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Amazon has for sure some servers in the region, so the streaming was happening from a close location. I wonder if I launched the same application from my city here in Italy, if I would have the same results. Even worse if I was not in a city but in the country side.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Probably I should tell you that I was busy with VR projects, but the truth is that I have been celebrating a lot lately, especially the recent victory of Italy in the Euro 2020 soccer championship. Amazon Lumberyard becomes opensource. Amazon has launched some years ago its 3D engine called Lumberyard, derived from Crytek’s Cryengine.

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Mashable VR

JUNE 20, 2022

First launched in March 2021 (but not entirely as a new streaming service, we'll get to that), Paramount+ will also debut in Asia by launching in South Korea in June, with Italy, Germany, France, Switzerland, and Austria set for late 2022, and India in 2023 in partnership with Viacom 18. The global expansion of the service outside the U.S.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Quest Pro is available from the Meta Store online in the USA, UK, Canada, Ireland, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan.

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Everything VR & AR

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

We discuss their latest project, Caliban Below, an immersive VR experience set in 1680 in Northern Italy where you, Caliban, have to learn why you’ve been trapped in a dream. Snow White and the Huntsman, and the upcoming film Alita: Battle Angel and Amazon Studios series Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan. Caliban Below is available now on Steam.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

After a few days where we thought we were all living in a big oven, here in Italy we’re having the first taste of Autumn, with the temperatures going down and a lot of rain falling from the sky. Another leak regarded the release date: an Amazon listing put the availability date of the Quest 3 starting from October, 10th.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2022

It’s curious that actually in Italy we celebrate this in March… but who cares, whenever is the day, it’s always good to celebrate our daddies I’ll be very upfront with you: this week in XR has been very boring, so you won’t find super-news here below, but there are some interesting things that have happened in our ecosystem anyway.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Win Amazon gift card at Omnopolis The Ithilien gaming region of the Omnopolis grid is hosting a Hi/Low game contest in which one player with the highest score will win a $25 Amazon gift card. The rest can win in-game tokens. The game has been ongoing since August but will conclude at 11 p.m.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 24, 2018

The HTC Vive Pro page on Amazon US. Of course, these are US prices : here in Italy, the headset only costs €879 and all other bundles are more expensive because of taxes (damn taxes). Today, finally, we have all the pricing info that we need. Thanks to Road To VR , we know the price of the full bundle of the Vive Pro headset: $1399.

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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. You can read the interview by clicking the links here below! Interview in Italian Interview in English. Some XR fun. Here you are some cool memes about the new Facebook login policy!

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The damn coronavirus continues to impact all our lives: the fact that many countries are applying restrictions on flights to and from Italy is, for example, creating various nuisances to my job. Coronavirus impacts headsets production and kills F8 and GDC. Do you want to read a good book on AR/VR? More info Buy it now!

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

with Amazon Prime. Regarding the design, I personally like the design that makes the headset look faceted like a crystal , even if I don’t like that much the combination of black and violet colors… here in Italy, these are usually the colors of funerals, so they don’t make it that happy. So, some features have to be sacrificed.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2021

Amazon acquires Umbra. Amazon has just acquired the Finnish company Umbra. The management of this digital map of the world is very complicated, and the acquisition of Umbra can be useful exactly for this, representing an important piece of the AR Cloud puzzle for Amazon. More info (Use Google Translate).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

Oculus Quest 2 has disappeared from all Amazon EU websites. Kudos to Shachar Weis for discovering this: he told me about this news, and I have verified that it has disappeared completely from Amazon Italy and Amazon France, while some Redditors confirmed that the same holds for Amazon UK.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 17, 2017

On the Kitely Market, like on Amazon, different versions of the same product — different colors of a dress, for example, or different permission options — are grouped together into one listing. Craft , which is based in Italy, is celebrating with a party and building competition. Image courtesy Craft.).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This week, the company has announced it is going to hire additional 10,000 people to help in developing the m verse , and all these new hires will happen in the Europen Union , and in particular, inside Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, the Netherlands and Ireland . Amazon Glow is a video projector for kids.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The book can be bought on Amazon , by the way. Basically, I was one of the participants in the European Innovation Academy in Turin (Italy) in 2016. Even if it was Holiday in Italy, and I was sure one was going to care at all. Tommaso on Stage as a keynote speaker. He is always very energetic.

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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). The answer is not so trivial.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2019

Is that VR event in the mountains of Italy really a good opportunity? Here on my blog I am experimenting with different income sources (Patreon, Adsense, Amazon Affiliate, Sponsored Posts, etc…). Probably not, from your experience, you should know that 99% of the cases, he wants to ask you to outsource your work.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

If you will be in Italy, please come visiting me! Image from Amazon). Here you are the Eventbrite page ) I can’t wait to see who will win the VR Awards tomorrow ! Having been one of the judges, I’m curious to see which companies will get the awards! The hype is rising…. More info (Boneworks launch date) More info (Boneworks on Quest).

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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. 5G will be the future, but not the present.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2018

And not only online on Oculus website, but also on Amazon and Best Buy supermarkets : before the conference, lots of people started posting on Reddit the pictures of the Go being already inside Best Buy shopping centers. ” Actually, Go immediately became available during the conference.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 2, 2023

Replacing parts required a person from Italy to hop on a plane and fly on-site to help with the repairs. .” The solutions have boosted productivity, eliminated unnecessary travel costs, and slashed equipment downtimes. He continued, “A company I consulted in the past used large-scale printers for billboards.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2020

If you don’t have enough of this stuff, Amazon is your friend. There are lots of grants around, and here we can participate in some research grants offered by Italy or European Union. Doing business in Italy is very hard now, but there are countries, for instance in Africa, that have not been much affected by the outbreak yet.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 28, 2019

and this is good from one side, but stressful on others… much thanks to air conditioning to make me survive in that oven that is Italy in these days!). Amazon Prime Video comes to Oculus mobile devices. Amazon streaming services come to VR. Amazon has selected some cool VR experiences like “Invasion!”

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2024

Unluckily, probably I won’t be able to get the Apple Vision Pro, first of all, because I’m in Italy, and second because it would be a pretty hefty investment for me to buy a Vision Pro and a Mac to develop for it. There is one datum that impressed me in the analysis: VR is still very concentrated in the US.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 25, 2022

The game should be called Assassin’s Creed Nexus and feature 16 missions including the most famous assassins: the first leaked one has been Ezio who will perform a mission in Italy, but there should be also Ezio, Kassandra, Connor, and Haytham. Image by Amazon). Amazon may be working on an XR device.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

I’m still here in the US for some days after having attended AWE, planning to meet some interesting people before heading back to Italy. Until now my trip has been amazing, and I have met so many cool people of the community and have tried so many XR devices! You can read some of my hands-on articles on my blog (e.g.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Today is a special day in Italy when families prepare the Christmas Tree, so I decided to publish a very special post that is a big gift to the whole XR community. Amazon sold me a moulded nylon grip for an AR-15 airsoft rifle… it was time to start work building my first development “Mule”. Why had they settled on this shape?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2020

It’s the day in which in Italy we prepare the Christmas tree and I send an enormous hug to all my family. That said, let me tell you the most important XR news of the last week. Top news of the week. Image by Respawn Entertainment). Medal Of Honor is close to launch but it won’t be the new Alyx.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2020

A final mention goes to the fact that now it is summer and here in Italy it is quite hot. bHaptics devices are already available through bHaptics website or through official resellers like Amazon. Luckily, if you find the right fit this doesn’t happen. My HTC Vive with installed in the TACTAL facemask. Price and availability.

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