The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 12, 2023

For now, the best gift that I can give to you is telling you what have been the best pieces of news of the week in XR… Top news of the week (Image by Upload) Upload had its usual cool gaming showcase Upload , with the sponsorship of Perp Games, has just had its usual Winter Gaming Showcase. Great job, Upload friends!

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

So (a bit late) here you are a list of some of the most relevant XR trends to follow in 2024, with some predictions of what to expect next. Some of them have been brainstormed with Lorenzo Cappannari with whom I wrote an article a few months ago and who I thank for the collaboration ).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

I’m happy to be back to my Pasta-land, but I have to admit that I had such a good time in the Slush-land that I’m a bit sad I’m not there anymore. Is snow following me? Anyway, let’s have a look at the most relevant XR news of the past week! Lone Echo).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

So, as you can expect, a big part of this newsletter will be about Apple’s device, but actually there are also a few interesting pieces of news that regard other products and other companies. Wearing a headset is cool, this is what Apple is pushing also with its latest trailer. I sincerely hope so.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 6, 2023

Well, good for you that are going to read this text Top news of the week (Image by Brad Lynch) Meta’s XR roadmap unveiled The Verge’s Alex Heath has been able to gather information about an internal meeting that happened at Meta, in which the management informed the employees about the roadmap of the upcoming XR devices.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

In any case, in whatever reality I am, I am typing on a keyboard the best XR news of the week. The piece of news that made people hope for a close release is the recent radio certification that Valve has obtained in Korea for its new unknown hardware device.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2023

And I’m sure that the support from all of you will make me feel better even sooner Top news of the week (Image by Meta) Meta to lay off people and focus more on AI It’s been a tough week for Meta. More info Some news about PSVR 2 sales and its connection to PC This week we had a few interesting pieces of news about the PSVR 2.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2024

There will be a lot about Apple in this newsletter, but don’t miss also the other important news, and the giveaway of keys for the amazing game Retropolis 2! Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Apple opens the preorders of the Vision Pro On January, 19th 2024, Apple opened the preorders for the Vision Pro, its first XR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 29, 2024

One of the reasons for such low performances of Sony’s headset is the lack of content, and in fact, in the classifications of the most sold games on PSVR 2, there are mostly old games in the first places, showing how there has not been a proper injection of many new good pieces of content for this console.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by VRTUOLUO) A leak shows a prototype of the Samsung XR headset We finally have a leak of the Samsung headset that makes us see something about it. But the news of the day is that Meta should assemble only around 1000 units and keep the glasses for internal usage and demos.

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Ryan Schultz

APRIL 28, 2024

It turns out that there’s likely a good reason for the sudden silence around the product: the Apple Vision Pro simply isn’t selling. First, there has been no shortage of pushback on the claims made in the original Medium article written by Apple industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. But it makes for a good attention grabber!

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 2, 2022

I’m doing my best to work, and I don’t want you to miss this appointment with my news roundup, so I’ve prepared it the same… I just warn you that my usual commentaries will be shorter this time. Top news of the week. Other relevant news. News worth a mention. Some articles on the metaverse. Send me hugs.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2023

Welcome to another roundup of AR/VR news of the week! I’m still writing from China, and this week I spent the Chinese New Year here… it was an interesting experience, and if you lost my funny story about it, you can still have a look at it in my dedicated post. This is bad news for our ecosystem.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Google) Samsung XR headset may have been delayed The new rumor in town is that Samsung has delayed its upcoming headset that it is building in partnership with Google and Qualcomm. This is very good to hear. Kudos to this guy, which has also released opensource how to recreate this device.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 23, 2023

I am starting today a new section of the newsletter dedicated to sponsored content! Top news of the week (Image by Pico) Pico is NOT shutting down The drama of the week was all about Pico. The news was shared also among Western social VR accounts: I discovered it on Cix Liv’s Twitter/X feed, for instance.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 20, 2022

I just left a very fun rooftop party just to write an article for you, and I hope you appreciate that! In this article, you are going to discover with me some cool information about the Pico 4 Enterprise, the enterprise version of the Pico 4. Ok, so the serious part of the article ends here. Specifications. Display Type : 2.56?

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

I’m traveling to the US to attend AWE, but this is not stopping me from telling you what are the most relevant XR news of the week! But before, please read (and share around) my latest article which is about a crazy experiment I did with mixed reality and generative AI… I’m sure you will love it! So let’s dig into them.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

Top news of the week. Every year, we have the same ritual: we wait for an event by Apple, hoping to hear some news about an upcoming XR device, then nothing happens in this sense, we are disappointed and so we hope for a new reveal next year. Other relevant news. This is anyway good news. Image by Apple).

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The speed at which artificial intelligence (AI) evolves and integrates into our lives is only going to increase in 2024. Hopefully, 2024 will see us making headway towards solving some of the thorny issues around this technology. In 2024, we will see continued focus on mitigating these problems and remaining vigilant for new ones.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The hype for the Apple Pro is starting to deflate and it is possible to see that from some cues: for instance, there are more critics of the headset and fewer articles are talking about it. Honestly, I’m glad about that, I was getting bored from reading only articles about it. It’s free, so you have no excuses not to attend!

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Upload VR

MAY 15, 2022

Reuters first reported earlier this week that Meta’s Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth broke the news to Reality Labs staff in a weekly Q&A session, according to a summary of his comments viewed by Reuters, with more specific changes to be announced within the week. billion from $2.4 billion in Q1 2021. .”

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Let’s start this week with a bunch of cool news about the past week in AR and VR! Top news of the week. The best news of the week has not been the release of a new fantastic VR headset or AR glass, but of a technology that will make a new generation of XR headsets possible: I’m talking about the XR2 chipset by Qualcomm.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Meta) Meta may be working on a very cheap Quest and very expensive Quest Pro 2 Thanks to Twitter user Lunayian , I got to read an article written by a Korean magazine with some very interesting rumors about Meta. Per se, this is a piece of news no one cares about. Who is as excited as me?

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Road to VR

JANUARY 15, 2024

Meta Quest has the biggest standalone VR game library to date and if you’re brand new to the world of VR it might be difficult to know where to start. In this article we’re giving our recommendations of the best Quest 2 and Quest 3 games you’ll find across the whole library. Why This List?

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

When Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft, which invested more than $10B in OpenAI, discovered the news, he got furious The reasons for this operation are not clear: rumors said it was a mix of the board claiming that Altman was not totally honest with it , and the fact that under Altman’s lead, OpenAI was running too fast towards commercialization.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In this crazy rollercoaster that is life, a new week has started, and it is so time for me to write my roundup of the best news of the week. iFixit published a new episode of its teardown of the headset, in which analyzes its display. I guess we will all go to hell, guys.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Before delving into the news, I just want to tell you that I feel great because an article of mine has been published on Variety , in its VIP+ section. Top news of the week (Image by Meta) Meta launched Quest 3 The main piece of news of the week is of course the launch of the Meta Quest 3 at the Meta Connect.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

Top news of the week. It’s good that anyway Zuck didn’t want to hype anyone about these devices and claimed that they are for “the next years”, with some of them even projected for the second part of the decade. Other relevant news. We have lots of non-news about Apple’s XR efforts. Useless news. Image by Meta).

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Upload VR

APRIL 28, 2024

In early 2024, Watson released CitraVR on Github. The ones I asked gave vague answers about my just not being a good fit. Well, I initially had trouble making good on that promise to get those resumes to Oculus. Cops were bad news, and any interaction with cops meant having expensive lawyers. I don’t really know why.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Well, after that article, I discovered that the CTO of MeLeap , the company behind HADO, is one of my readers! :O If you do not move or simply walk slowly around the arena, you will lose against any professional team, who are all in good physical shape. Keep up the good work! I was even using AR with the old PlayStation Vita.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I read the articles that you write, and they’re very insightful. So about 11 years ago, I joined VentureBeat, and it had been started two years earlier by Matt Marshall, who was a venture capital writer for the Mercury News and an early blogger as well. But now we pretty much cover the gamut of tech news and game news.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I read the articles that you write, and they’re very insightful. So about 11 years ago, I joined VentureBeat, and it had been started two years earlier by Matt Marshall, who was a venture capital writer for the Mercury News and an early blogger as well. But now we pretty much cover the gamut of tech news and game news.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2024

These days I’m experimenting with the development of mixed reality applications , and on Quest I’ve so been playing around with environment understanding, seeing the good and the bad of Meta’s approach on this topic. The good news is that Meta knows about all of this and it is already working in solving this issue.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

It’s been good to dream about the metaverse, but now we can all get back to frying potatoes at McDonald’s and binge on Twitter during the free time. The good thing is that the device is loaned for free (so developers don’t have to pay $3499 to have it) and that Apple is providing support for it. This week VR is dead again.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I read the articles that you write, and they're very insightful. So about 11 years ago, I joined VentureBeat, and it had been started two years earlier by Matt Marshall, who was a venture capital writer for the Mercury News and an early blogger as well. But now we pretty much cover the gamut of tech news and game news.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

He wanted to write on my blog his opinion on this device to inform the community and of course I accepted, because I’m more than happy to host another one of his super-detailed articles. There is now a good chance we could see something towards the end of this year, with a potential release to consumers in 2024.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I read the articles that you write, and they’re very insightful. So about 11 years ago, I joined VentureBeat, and it had been started two years earlier by Matt Marshall, who was a venture capital writer for the Mercury News and an early blogger as well. But now we pretty much cover the gamut of tech news and game news.

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